The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

: q rTIET.-
known as Blue Beard" was written BY
a French author. The original OF the
character Of Blue Beard was a mar
shal OF France, who lived IN Brittany
and who was charged with numbering
several wives and over 100 children. Be
ing convicted Of sOrcery, he was burn
and beard was in its inky glossness,
which in a certain light appeared in an
indigo unge, and so won him the APPEL
latlon which has rendered him immortal.
One fiourishing American Industry
which the pressure Of hard times has deep
" injured Is locomotive building, says
in the United States in which locomotive
building Is carried on so extensively as
10 be an important local industry. These
are Philadelphia, Paterson, Schenectady,
Piutsburg and Troy In each of these
cities there is al least one large locomotive
works, the total number in the United
states being Thirteen. In 1888 which was
good year in the business on cccount
OF the extra traffic caused by the Worlds
Fair, 2,oll locomotives were built in the
United States, In 1894 the total number
fell TO 695. Of which eighty-three were
built for use in other countries Three
big concerns filed no orders whatever in
1894 In 1890 the total number built was
1900; in 1891. 2.165; in 1892, 2,0l2. The rail-
road companies Of the United States have
now greatly diminished volume of bust
ness, and some of the large systems are
sailing so close to the financial wind that
they are buying no new equipment. With
a practical cessation of railroad building
has come the decrease in the orders for
locomotives. though THE foreign trade
keeps up fairly well. the United States
exporting locomotives TO several of the
South and Central American countries.
"A practical invention by veterinary
surgeon Is now successfully applied at
Berlin. He manufactures horseshOes of
paper imPregnated with oil or turpentine
to make ii waterproof After being sat
Urated, il is glued together in thin layers
with a cement which does not become
brittle when drying, and consists of a
tfIrnanHfiTn
ed chalk, linseed oil and lacquer These
horseshOes are made in various thick
nesses. The holes, admitting the nails by
which the shoe is fastened to the hOof.
are stamped through the paper when
moist; 1t is then subjected TO very
| strong pressure, under a hydraulic press,
and, when dry, can be filed and planet
/ to fit the hoof snugly. The inventor has
| also attempted to make these horseshocs
! of paper pulp, adding chalk, sand turpen-
| tine, linseed oil in such quantities that
| the material is impermeable to moisture.
/ This composition possesses the necessary
! elasticity and toughness for the purpose;
/ it can be pressed in mOulds and dried
/ afterward, or cut out of blocks of the
mass and placed under strong pressure.
/ The shoes made by pasting together pa
/ per sheets are preferable, as they are
| stronger than those made of the COM
/ pressed material. These shoes can be
| fastened to the horses hOof either by
/ nails, as usual, or be cemented with
/ glue consisting of gum ammonia, one
part, and guttapercha two parts. The
.
/ for the new shoe is the impossibility of
the horse slipping on slippery roads.
The fear of death in the abstract is
| natural instinct and, being natural Is
! doubtless a wholesome one, says the Nine
| teenth Century. And this being so, con-
/ slant realization OF IT is scarcely to be de-
/ sired. i is much to be questioned whether,
| to use the imagery of the hymn, the man
, to whose consciousness it was nightly
/ pitched a days march nearer to his grave
would be useful canpatgner. But in
/ nHraff #1Nn#
| will be so. The gtosy is told that a priest
| who, under sentence of death in days when
| the penalty was more common than now,
! obtained the privilege o. preaching TO his
| fellow ccmvicts in Ike case. 1t is a scene
| which is repeated in a thousand different
| places every Sunday morning, but it is
| hundred to one that the situation does
| not strike either preacher or people UNI
! pleasantly and you will find each going
/ home to dinner cheerfully as If he carried
| a special exemption in his pocket 1T is
! best so. Not to climb a hill till you come
| TO it is homely maxim, but 1t is aston
! ishing how much. carried out, 1T exempli-
ies life. You imagine lit to be an alp that
Is barring your way, and when you reach
| the spot it turns out to be a gently rising
| rounding country before making a fresh
! start. And so with death. Formidable as
1t appears from distance the more one
| looks into <the subject the more certain
| It becomes that mankind, when brought
| to a practical acquaintance with il, have
agreed in some blind way to recognize in
/
been so unremitting in their efforts to
| ward off something altogether different
| from the terrible and hostile force which
| they have been accustomed 70 CONSIDER
| it. I'VE fall on guard. and. after all, it
is friend who comes to meet us"
All real English oatns are built on the
! canonical model, but few of them survive,
| says the London Standard The church
| man did his cUrsing in a methodical and
| detailed fashion. Beginning by invoking
the damnatory influence Of all the heav-
a11xv mi he re
| to misery en- masse. Then he began with
| details and cursed him according to place
and time, May ne be damned wherever
he be, whether in the house or stable, the
| garden or the field or the highway, or in
the path, or in the wood, or in the water,
| or in the church" Next in time and cir
| cumstances, May he be cursed in iiv-
ing, in dying, in eating and drinking, IN
| being hungry, in being thirsty. in fasting,
! in sleeping, in walking, in standing, in
| sitting, in lying, in working, and in rest
| ing" Then came personal details, May
| he be cursed in the hair of his head, in his
| temples, in his forehead in his ears, in his
! eyes" and so on through his heart. liver
| lungs, and kidneys. right down to his toe
nails-al which curse was 20 take effect
| unless the curSee repented and made sat
| istaction. When the co mmon people took
| to cursing they followed afar off this
excellent model, and there still turks
| among them disposition at odd times to
| treat with less than respect one another's
| eyes. Oaths strictly on the canonical model
held the admiration of seafaring men
| bers," was one of them, and Capt MARI
| yats sailors, who vowed by their own
| and at other peoples liver and lungs
were followers of the ancient school. Saw
age people have little skill in curs.ng
! To curse with effect requires some definite
| notion of hades Most of the quasi-civilized
natives of Asia execrate, however, with
much ease and fluency. The Japanese are
a singular exception and ct is a high
tribute to the gentleness of their manners
| that their language should contain no
| swearing words" According to Sir Ed
win Arnold, the severest word one Jap
/ can apply to another without dipping
| into English) is fellow" and high con-
| demnation is found in the words there
/ there" Hindus, on the other hand, curse
with fearful ease and fullness, and quite
| throw the accommodating priest into
| the shade. For not only do they curse the
/ immediate subject of their wrath in all
| his parts, but all his ancestors back to
| Adam by both the male and female line
| The Norsemen had heaven, of kind in
| their mythology, but no hades. Therefore
! they could conSsgn their enemies to moth
/ ing worse than oblivion; but in the Sagas
! they do wonderful amount of cursing,
| all to take effect on earth"
1