The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
a warning has been sounded in the way
in which books from a circulating lib
rary should be handled. II is conveyed
Ia suggestion. Don't wet the nneeFs
10 turn the leaves Of sucn books 4 ne
authorities among the Circulating M
raries al. Dresden have been conuuctiAs
a series Of experiments 10 determine IT
books in general use become nletl. uiIl
Tor the com Tnunication - injection soil
ed leaves were rubbed frSr with dry m
Z gers and then with wet ones. anu ene re-
suits micrOscopically examined 30 MI
7 crObes, or few were found on lie ory
nngers. but many on the others
Many young women are under the i'm
preston that when they arrive at the age
OF 20 they viii be old. and that those over
that age are not able 10 do much, says the
I markedly active old women 10 dispEoEe
I this idea. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher IS
- anu Is aolg 70 write enter talIlhg IT. -
+ Giles. Mrs. Isabella Hooker is past - ana
I works as usual, and her sister. Harriet
] Beecher Stowe, although afflicted men
+ tally Is still active otherwise at -. Amelia
Barr, who is about 20, continues writing
/ books that are very popular, and Marion
I Hariand has been travelling in the Orient
getting material for an eastern novel
+ Grace Greenwood is another old woman,
! who does considerable writing and enter
tains at her home in Washington. Among
/ the women sunraglsts who have labore@
. long for their cause are Elizabeth Cady
T Stanton, aged 70: Miss Susan g. Anthony,
/ aged "A, and Matilda Jocely Gaga who IS
over three score and ten. Mrs. John Drew
is % and the success of her theatrical
. company depends largely upon her clever
dancing. Mrs. Gilbert IS "a, Mrs. p +.
Bowers nearly 40 and Maggie Mitchell is
/ over 81. In New York several Of the So
ciety leaders are over 20, and they are as
bright and agreeable as the bellies. These
who are taking an active part IN So
ciety and work.
a noted medical writer lkens the brain
to vast library, and each idea, or name,
or incident, to the volumes composing it.
The memory, he says, acts as librarian and
tucks away each volume in some peculiar
niche OF its own. Now, when we call on
Z Librarian Memory for one of these vol
umes he usually knows where il Is. and
hands il to us instanter; but occasionally
he like other oficeholders forgets mis- du-
ties. We call on him suddenly. waking him
from his nap, perhaps, and he cannot re-
member where he put the name of smith
or Jones, or the little fact regarding the
tariff or Agamemnou wives, or some
thing or other Sometimes he fnds il after
I moments search and sometimes not for
days But he keeps up a still hunt for the
! missing volume, even while YOU forget al
/ about il; and some time when you are
/ least expecting H. presto! there IS the
very thing you were trying TO remember.
! For instance. somebody asked the writer
f Of this paragraph the other day, suddenly
/ for the name OF d lady and her daughter
staying at one of the beaches near Boston.
! The name was perfectly familiar one be
I ing that of an acquaintance; but with the
question 1t suddenly vanished. II was i'm
7 possible 10 answer. Librarian Memory was
asked for II three or four times during the
evening, but il eluded his efforts com
pletely. and for day or two the event was
forgotten. Finally. coming down town on
an electric car, with the mind absorbed in
other things. the little librarian joggled
our elbow Here he is. Smithson. volume
Al 523 shelf Pr" he whispered. As usual
when one ceases TO want he thing IL
turns up. An. II one could only change Ii
brarians when the old one shows signs of
weakening.
One of the most remarkable phenomena
connected with the religious life of Rus
STA, writes a CORE spondent in that coun-
try 10 the New York Observer. is the per-
retual sprouting forth OF new ana srange
scots from the parent stem of the orthodox
faith. The other day | was speaking to
an OlhCial from province on the middle
+ olga who assured me that within the
past i've years over ninety scots have APP
peared in the TWO river provinces Of Sa-
mara and Saraton. Most of these profess
most noXious and unsaVOry views. and
live in state Of absolute proiisacy.
+ Sometimes when their acts are more than
usually obscene or atroclous. the ponce
+ sweep down on them and disappear with
their leaders, but as rule they have
/ fairly good time and suffer little molesta-
ton. Why? Because people protesting
/ these views are, in the eyes of the authori-
ties hurtful only TO themselves and their
own limited circle. They are not thinking
people. They are not tuQulring If the
I things that be are the things that ought
+ to be- They take no interest in true re-
lgiOn. They are not concerned with the
/ affairs of the empire. They pay their
church dues all the same and profess al
+ legiance to the orthodox church. 1t is
sad to think what different fate is melted
out to the StundistS. W ny are they perse-
/ Cuted and the others spared? Not because
they are heretcs, but because they are
thinking men, because they claim free
3 Tf
openly that the Russian church and state
are full of rottenness and need reforming,
/ because they are filled with zeal TO tighten
that hyperhorean darkness breeding so
somber and black over their country.
Weakness appeals powerfully to the
friendly protection of the strong. and
( even among brutes-at least the nobler
/ kinds-the appeal is not often in vain,
says the Pittsburg Dispatch. In the GU
rious relations between monster and mid
/ get we not unfTequently see the fable of
the lion and the mouse repeated without
J words. There is nothing by any means I'M
/ common or incredible in the stories which
! have been reported about the children OF
a mahout being cared for by the ma
hout'S elephant. The whole family of the
mahOut become, as il We're, parasites to
! the elephant, by whom they earn their liv-
ing. l have seen a baby placed by it's
mother systematically under the ele-
plants care, and within reach of its
/ trunk, while the mother went TO fetch
/ water or to get wood or material to cook
the family dinner. No jackal or wolf
would be likely to pick up and carry off
baby who was thus cOnfided to the care
of an elephant; but most people who have
lived a life in the jungle know how very
possible it is for jackal or wolf to
carry off a baby when lying in a hut
when the mothers back is turned. The
/ children thus brought UP in the compan-
ionship of an elephant become familiar
with him, and take all kinds of liberties
( with him, which the elephant seems to
/ endure on the. principle that it does not
( hurt him, while it amuses the child. You
! see q little naked black child, about two
/ feet high, standing on the elephants bare
back and taking it down to the water to
/ battle, shouting all the time in the most
/ unbecoming terms of native abusive Ian
! guage. On arriving at the water the ele-
1 plant ostensibly in obedience to the
/ chld's command, lies down and enjoys
/ himself, just leaving g, part of his body,
4 like a small island, above water on which
/ the small child stands and yells and
yels all the more if he has several com
/ panions of his own age, also in charge of
/ their elephants, all wallowing in the water
IL IL.