The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OF returns was begun, in 1851.
The big theater hat was foreshadOwed
in the eighteenth century. On a ticket 70
a performance Of f1anders Messiah
printed in London more than a hundred
years ago this notice was added. Gen
uemen are requested 10 come without
swords and ladies without their hoops.
"A ROckland (Me) man has a unique
theory TO account for the warmer winters
in his immediate vicinity. He says that
so much granite has been moved south
from the quaTries of the north that the
world has been tipped thereby toward the
sun.
The decoration OF the congressional
library which is to be when completed
kind in the world, viii be begun next sum
mer. says the New York Tribune. Those
in charge of the building have commits
stoned a number OF artists TO submit de-
signs. Blashfield of New York has been
commissioned to paint a picture in the
crown OF the dome and another on the
crown OF the lantern. La Fargo has been
commissioned 10 make two mural paint
ings, and Nedder viii do the work on the
walls in the main entrance hall.
in Hungary a man may marry at the
age OF Is, the girl at Is; in Spain, Portugal
and Greece the respective ages are only II
for the man % and y for the prospective
bride. In France he must be IS, and she
IS. Russia the laws vary between is
and % for the men and 10 and 10 for the
women. In Switzerland the various can
tons have different laws, and the mini
mum ages for marrying are Is and 20 years
Tor the men and from IL to II for girls.
In Austria and Germany men seldom
marry If under q although the law al
lows it at 1S). Girls may wed at IS in these
countries. In Egypt boys of IL are often
married, and brides Of 10 and u are not
scarce by any means. But India carries
of the palm. Here marriages are closed
in infancy, and girl of is sometimes
married to a groom of u or years.
An editorial in the New York Herald.
evidently from the hand of a naval officer,
on the conditions of modern Sea-hghts.
declares that all the naval experts Of the
world are lat sea" in regard to how to
win naval battles with the new ships and
guns. This writer says: Given two
equally matched fleets. the elements that
viii give victory are: thorough, in
grained, dyed-in-the-wOol determination
to get at the other fellow and lick him ,
the capacity to take more killing than the
other fellow, and finally, luek-that ele-
ment which scientific men say is non-ex-
iStent except as an unexplained cause,
but which the everyday world is alive
reverse, as if it could be evolved on de-
mand according to strictly scientific
formula"
AT last it has been made known that
the death of Emin Pasha was due solely
to the pride of a petty African chieftain,
who wished to show his more powerful
neighbors that he was not afraid to take
the life of a white man. The first de-
tailed account of the murder of perhaps
the most picturesque figure among eX-
plorers is written for the February Cen
fury by r. Dorsey MOhun, United States
huns sergeant, who was a member of
Stanley's Emin relief expedition, discov-
cred two of the assassins. Mr.. Mohun ar
rested them and very ingeniously ex-
lracted full confessions from them,
which ne has given in their own graphic
language. Both were hanged just a year
after they had cut off ENNIS head
In one of the recent battles between
the chinese and Japanese a touching
incident is recorded, says the Queen. A
little japanese bugler fell mortally wound
ed, but, making a dying effort, he raised
his bugle once more to his lips, and with
his last breath sounded a loud Charge"
and passed beyond the din of battle. The
boy is already the hero of the street bal
lads, and his ken" or canton is proud of
him. Every natioal event in Japan is sig
nailed by the publication of street bal
lads or of the 'uta," a short epigramatic
poem of thirty-one syllables. Every step
in the war with China is thus celebrated.
and in those "uta" the point usually lies
IN some sarcastic pun on Chinese names.
Thus one published Immediately after the
battle Of Ping Yang reads thus in English:
1T is far better to die at once than 10
suffer indelible shame in old age" But
in Japanese the words also imply China $
disgrace, and the name of the Viceroy
Ii Hung Chang.
Among the condiments alcohol must
be reckoned. says the New Science Re
view. 1t is a pluralist continent, how
ever and-it goes without sayings a
dangerous condiment in more senses than
one. A good deal that has been said about
alcohol might be urged against other
condiments. Mustard, for example If
largely mixed with water and freely taken,
produces vomiting and occasionally in
hammation of the mites final mucous mem
brane. salt, even under circumstances
Whcn not counterbalanced by Vegeta BILE
Juices, induces disease of hideous type
In respect of alcohols, the result Of their
employment depends on the quantity and
quality taken Alcohol given quickly in
large doses is a deadly poison Diluted al
cohol taken slowly and repeatedly during
the day irritateS the mucus membra ne
Of the stomach and secondarily the neigh
boring organs, and does violence to the
delicate tissues. The nearer the fluid 1t
to absolute" alcohol, the more injurious
1t Is likely to prove. But the combina tons
of alcohol with other substances-besides
water-mOdifes it's effect in some instances
for the better, in others for the worse.
IN N looking through a pair of spectacles,
the glasses of which are tinted with one
metal, the world seems of a fire tint with
another metal the world seems cold and
chastity. frozen and dead InfinitesirnaI
quantities of added matter, so to speak
entirely alter the properties OF the man.
The domain of the infinitely minute is a
broad one. 1t was lately stated at a
sclentlhc meeting that single drop of
ether thrown on the floor of the labra-
tory would entirely prevent the success
OF experiments illustrative of certain
door of a photographers developing
room will ruin his freshly taken plates
Il ears nave their functional duty to aC-
complish, like every other fluid of the
body, and the lachrymal gland is not
placed behind the eye simply to fill space
or give expression to emotion saws the
Philadelphia Times. The chief chemical
properties of tears consist of phosphate of
lime and soda. making them very salty
but never bitter Their action on the eve
is very beneficial, and here consists their
prescribed duty to the body washing
thoroughly that sensitive organ which
allows no foreign fluid to do the same
work. Nothing cleanses the eye like a
good, salty shower bath, and medical
art has followed natures law in this re-
spect,. advocating the invigorating solu-
ton for any distressed condition of the
optics. Tears do not weaken the sight
but improve 1t. They act as a tonic to the
muscular vision, keeping the eye soft and
limpid. and 1t will be noticed that women
in whose eyes sympathetic tears gather
quickly have brighter. tendeFer orbs than
others. When the pupils are hard and
cold the world attributes il to ones dispo-
stion. which is a mere figure of speech
implying the lack of balmy tears that are
to the corneas what salve is TO the skin
or nourishment to the blood. The effect of
the tears on the skin about the eyes, how
ever. is intensely irritating and inhaming
They keep the epidermis in dark puffy
condition. and in legends only do weeping
women preserve the beauty of their great
white lids. The reason some women weep
more easily than others, and all more read
lily than the sterner sex, has not its diff
ference in the strength 0f the tear oil md