The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-17
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! II was nrst produced - years ago ulItI
1 the poets own direction. by the Eliza
] bethan Stage Society. whose aim Is 10
represent Shakespeare's plays under as
/ nearly as possible the same stage condi-
/ tions as existed in his day.
! Electric cars have been prohibited on
/ the road from Berlin 10 Charlottenburg;
/ They would have passed by the Imperial
/ showed that the current for the railroad
/ strongly affected all the apparatus in the
| building so as 70 make delicate scientinc
/ observations and experiments impossible
| Since the earthquake in Florence there
/ is hardly a street in the ancient town that
| does not contain one or more lighted
/ shrines holding figures OF the Madonna
! and saints. In some streets there are as
| many as four or five OF these shrines,
| with garlands Of evergreens and flowers
! around them and rows of burning candles
| before the images.
| "A curious use for a husband is reported
/ from Clerkenwell. near London, where
| Mr.. Lamb and his wife keep a small shop,
| says the New York World For fourteen
/ years the firm has avoided paying taxes
by the Wifes sending the husband TO
/ Jail 10 serve out tho legal time for unpaid
| taxes, while she remains at the store at
tending TO business.
The term bankrupt originated in con-
/ nection with the money changers of Italy.
| They sat in the market places with their
/ money displayed on a bench Cor banca as
/ ii was called. before them. When one of
| these financial gentlement failed his banco
| Tor BENCH was said to be broken and he
I was styled a TDdncOfOLtO,
! The modern bank inherits its name from
| the unimposing money bench (banc9 of
| medieval Italy.
| A young New Jersey electrician pro-
| poses soon to make light without heat;
| he claims TO have discovered the secret of
/ the freely. He expects one of these days
/ TO sell sticks of light about the size of
| stick OF candy that will burn for forty
| eight hours. They will be sort of stor-
| age battery and a man can carry them
around in his waistcoaf pocket. At night
oil knnN f- hsa fz 70
light.
| Sterling signifies money of the legalized
| standard Of coinage of Great Britain and
| Ireland. The term, according to one theo-
| ~, is a corruption of Easterling-a per-
! son from North Germany, on the conti-
| nent of Europe, and therefore from the
| east in geographical relation to England
| The Easterlings were Ingenious artisans
who came to England in the reign of Henry
| III. to refine the silver money and the
| coin they produced was called moneta-
easterlingorum-the money of the Easter
| lings.
| italian wine merchants have reason to
| congratulate themselves on the introduce
| tion of the electrical process for the aging
| Of wines in the wine producing provinces
OF Italy The process is said to render
| bouquet and body of the vintage and the
suggestion has been made that II might
rection of faults frequently apparent in
California wines arising from the rich
ness of the soil on which the grapes have
| been grown.
Thirteen pieces Of old money were re-
Gently found under the fluted stone pillars
which for so many years have stood at the
entrance of the fremont house, Boston 5
famous old hostelry. Among them was a
1O-cent American coin. with the date 1923
upon it: coppers bearing the dates of 1926,
1922 and 1923: an English half-penny of
1878; two Spanish coins with the inscrip-
ton "Georgios Ill, ID. c. Rex, 1870" a
copper piece of 1892, "Georgios Ill, Rex
one sou of 1850. and a Nova Scotian coin
| of 1914.
"A substitute for rubber has been dis
covered by f. Desprez of Paris,
says Information. Sawdust. zinc dust and
other cheap substances may, 1t is said,
be Incorporated with gutta percha to form
a cheap rubber; the mixture is conglomer-
ated by pressure under heat. As a base OF
| the product to replace india rubber and
gutta percha, Mr.. lie Brocquy proposes to
employ the composition used for printers
rollers, mixture OF glue glycerine and
molasses, which IS afterward covered with
canvas. ordinary rubber or other material
suitable for protecting 1t against heat OF
mechanical action.
The iron cross, FURNISHED with gold
which is over one of the entrances to the
: Harvard College library Gore HalD was
at the time of the l745 siege of Louis.
burg taken from Catholic chapel there
and brought to Massachusetts as one OF
the spells Of the victory. In 1877 justin
Winsor, the librarian of Harvard College
library. found 1t in the cellar of the libra
position which 1t now occupies. The fact
that an entrance to one of the main build.
ings of the oldest and most distinguished
college in once Puritan MASSACHUSETTS
} should be thus adorned with a religion:
symbol which Is usually TO be found only
on Roman Catholic buildings on Anglican
| churches of an extreme type, argues relig
ious liberality in these days which would
} make some of the anti-Catholic crusader.
t who took part in the Louisburg expedi
! ton lift their voices in stern rebuke Of
the degeneracy OF their countrymen.
The lady bird, so quantity marked tha'
: it is hard to find two of them just alike
is one of the gardeners best friends, We
, hundreds of them are killed because PEG
! pie in their ignorance don't know Wha
a helper they have in this pretty, buxon
little insect. says the New York Tribune
5 A few days ago the writer visited a frienC
who has garden fun of oil sorts of flow
. ers, and back of these there is a kitchen
l garden, with rows of currants and rasp
berry bushes. The leaves of both thest
!, shrubs were covered with blight or lie,
! that were as green as the leaves on which
{ they lived and thrived. Hunting about tn,
, bushes were lot of lady birds. The wo
: | man in her ignorance was killing thes-
: right and left, thinking they were doing
! | all the damage, and when told they wert
I her best friends, was incredulous. A few
, minutes careful watching, however, show
ed the small bug busy eating the smalle
J green pest. Small yellow pyramids show
4 ed where she had laid her eggs, which ii
i | a day or two would hatch The woman saw
and believed. and in the future the lad,
|. her patch of flowers and fruit. Anothe
insect that is forever being killed OWNS
, to the Ignorance of the general publ
S is the dragon fly. also known as the nee
I dlecase. He is one of the most useful in
: | sectS of this climate. In his larval stat
1 | he subsists almost entirely on those small
S squirming threads which can be seel
n darting about in any still water, ant
I which hatch out into the sweet singing
7 | mosquito. AS soon as the dragon fl
e leaves his watery nursing ground, an,
n climbing some friendly reed
e throws away the old shell AM
| flies away, he is helping maj
again. His quarry now is the house fly
Not long ago the writer saw one of thes
insects knocked down in a veranda, wher
| he had been doing yeoman's service, an,
the children and women seemed delighted
although they shrank back from tn
poor wounded dragon fly. The,
: all thought he had an awful
. sting at the end of his long body
a cruel injustice. When the writer tool
. the insect w there was general wonder
; ment, which was increased when q cap
a.