The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t is comforting to know. says an ex-
change, that the ex-Queen of the Hawai-
ian Islands is not having such bad time
OF II after all. 1t may not be pleasant TO
be depOsed. but IL should certainly prove
more entertaining to wander around Eu-
TO be living amid troubles. and worries
on her rebelliOus little island. We learn
that Queen LiliuOkalani has caused a site
between TOrbOle and Malcesine on Lake
Garda, TO be purchased, on which she in
tends to have a villa erected as her winter
residence She has also purchased the Cas-
tel di Panel. in the Province Of Udine, as
summer residence Likewise it is an
nOunced that her Hawaiian majesty will
arrive in Austria in the autumn of next
year. after making a long stay in London.
Which all goes TO show that the queen is
taking her misfortune philosophically.
"A private orphan asylum in Courbe-
vote, near Paris, which was kept by an
old Miss Dusert de CouTsieres, seems 10
have been used by the woman for her
own selfish purposes. Being eVicted from
the premises because she owed 1000 francs
rent, she disappeared with sixty of her
little wards. An investigation revealed
the fact that she sent out these children
every day upon begging tours through
Paris, pocketing all the proceeds and bod
lily furnishing those who did not bring suf-
ncient returns. great number of alb
auctions have been traced to this female
monster, and she is now being held re-
sponsible for the disappearance of three
VI AlCI uNNlt NdIuS, winch she Will not &C
count for This discovery speaks volumes
against the French custom of leaving all
sorts of charitable institutions in the
hand sof private persons subventioning
them on behalf of the government from
FUNDS appropriated for the purpose.
The Chinese calendar for 1896 is nearly
ready for distribution, and if you haven I
seen one 1t is worth while visiting China
town and getting an explanation of its
scope and purpose, says the New York
Mail and Express. The ordinary English
and American calendar giving the days
of the week and the days of the month,
ends its usefulness with that service. The
Chlnaman demands a little more. He
must not only have the dates, but a di-
ffesctory: Inc calendar for 1896 will show
the name and address of eyry Chinese
merchant in New York and San Fran
cisco. 1t will also give the dates of the
various feast days Throughout the year
the feast of the red dog and the worship
ful stcrk, the feast of the seventeen moons
and the feast of the golden sharks and all
the rest of them. Then. If YOU wish 10
know the virtues of any of the merchants
OF Chinatown you will find them recorded
| in the calendar. The names are classified
by location instead of being alphabetic-
any arranged as in our calendars, some
| thing, by the way that would
| be impossible with the complex
| characters of the Chinese written
language Last years calendar had
/ picture in the upper left hand cor
! ner showing an army led by a mounted
/ officer carrying a banner much larger
] man HIS LOTSe OF nlinSelI. IN the right
| hand corner was a Chinese idea of a
/ bridge spanning river and boats plying
| Up and down There is no perspective.
! The design for the 1896 picture has not
not yet been disclosed.
Lake Morat in Switzerland. has a
| queer habit of turning red about two or
| three times every ten years saws the
| New York Sun. 1t is a pretty lake. like
/ most of the sheets of water in that pic
/ turesque country, and its peculiar freak
! IS attributed to a disposition to celebrate
the slaughter of the Burgundians urSl or
] Charles the Bold on June q, 1476 But
/ the French say that ii bushes for the
/ conduct of the Swiss who in that battle
| gave the Burgundians no quarter. This
/ SINISTER appearance when the setting sun
| Illuminated its waves. This phenomenon,
| 81 course has its legend. The old fisher,
| men of the lake, who catch enormous fish
/ called silures, that weigh between % and
! forty Kilograms, say, when they see the
| waters of the lake reddening that ii is
me blood OF the Burgundians. As mat
| ter OF fact, some of the bodies of the Bur
| gundians killed in the battle were thrown
! into the lake. while others were tossed
into a grave filed with quicklime. This
| historical recollection angered the Bur-
! gundian soldiers Of the victorious armies
! OF the republic in 1898 so much that they
destroyed the monument raised in honor
| OF their compatriots who fell heroicallv
! IN that battle, and Henri Martin very JUST
| ly reproached them for that piece of van
dalism: 1t would hardly do to attribute
| the reddening of the waters of the lake
| TO the blood of the soldiers of Charles the
| Bold. The coloring is due simply to the
| presence in large quantities of little aqua
| tic plants called by naturalists oscilla-
! toria rubescens. The curious thing about
! 1t, is that Lake Morag is the only lake
IN which this curious growth is devel-
| oped, and this popularity is beginning to
! interest scientific men.
| The degree of progress shown bv the
! artlnclal limbs now constructed is aston
lshlng, says the New York Herald. Time
! was when the man who lost leg carried
the advertisement of his calamity contin-
ually about with him in the shape of a
crutch or starr or peg Now that is all
zone away and the cripple moves undis-
\ the streets with two artificial legs and
| the lack of their natural Instruments OF
motion is not detected by the ordinary OBJ
| server Whlle those who have but one ar
| tihcial leg often defy close scrutiny. To
accomplish such results the MANNED must
! purchase the most approved devices and
| must devote some care to the cultiva tion
| OF the 'knack' of swinging the contriy-
ance, put these pains in the end are a
/ triumph, though caution must be used
! not 10 put the best leg foremost too
! prominently. A universal motion at the
ankle joint has been introduced with
/ good results, for the peculiar comDrehen
| siveness of the natural movement Of the
ankle has always offered tremendous diff
hculties to the maker. For long time
! only one joint was used at the ankle but
/ second is now used, and the result is
/ most satisfactory. BY the use of springs
| ana CORDS at the knee also it is possible
for the wearer of an artificial leg to sit
without the annoyance of a protruding
! leg, which has always been a cause of
/ difficulty. The mechanical skill shown
| III the manufacture of hands and arms IS
no less ingenious, for they are so well
! constructed as to be for use as well Is
| for ornament One maker seems to "a
/ gard the latter as the primary attrac-
1 ton, however, for he says: II make
| them so that the hand can be detached
/ and hook, ring or any instrument sIIita.
! bic to the wearer's business can he at
/ tached, and the hand can be Kent neat
! ana clean for dress purposes The arms
/ now made can be moved forward or hack
while the fingers of the hand are made
/ so that they can be opened or shut Nv
! such adjustments the wearer is ena bIed
/ to perform many feats which one voI1Id
! suppose to be impossible for the manned
| BY one movement of the arm the fingers
are made to open, while by another thev
are made to close, in which position tbey
] are retained firmly by spring, giving a
| firm clasp. Violinist who lost his ri9bt
arm was fitted so skillfully that he Was
! enabled to play again with something Of
| his former ability, and one man veil
| known in New York, has two artif afai
| legs, yet he attends balls, and is nv no
means a wall flower" though he shuns