The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-10
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work says the Washington Star. During
the last year TWO treasury notes CT MS
workmanship. for 500 each, have turned
up. Both were executed IN his usual
artistic style. being done wholly with pen
and brush Nobody would hesitate 70
take them. no clew has even been found
TO the Identity of this extraordinary Grim
maj. who seems 10 pursue his lad purely
Tor the sake OF recreation IL cannot
possibly pay as an industry de seems
10 produce two notes regularly every
year. usually for Sl0J, and they must take
pretty nearly all his time.
George s. Spriggs, a mechanic for the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, his tr1encS
think, is one Of the strongest men in the
world, says a Baltimore special in the
Chicago Inter Ocean. Unaided he moved
for several feet UP a slight incline OF
track freight car which. with its con
tents. weighed 5000 pounds. This IS
thought 10 be the worlds record, as the
heaviest car known TO have been previous
~ moved by single-man power weighed,
with its contents 5000 pounds This was
IN San Francisco several years ago.
Sprigss first attempt was on freight
car weighing, with its contents, 1900
pounds This he moved eight feet, and II
seemed easy. Then he waited a short
time to gather his strength. and went for
the huge car Of the record-breakine
weight. He strained and tugged. finally
starting II and moving il the required
eight feet
There is a girl named Marguerite Bou-
yenval at Thenelles, in the North of
+ ante near SAINT quentin. VINO IL re-
ported to have been asleep for the past
eleven years, says the London Telegraph.
good deal OF doubt has been throw n on
this phenomenal slumbering case not only
in Paris. but also in Thenelles and its
vicinity where there are two camps. one
OF the believers and the other of those
who maintain that the so-called sleeping
beauty rises AT night and has good sup
per. The matter has been investigated
by Il Partisan, who has seen the girl and
found her as lean as skeleton and as
~ hut sci Tfrrar, TIsV
mother injects milk, peptOne and some
times wine through broken tooth in the
girls mouth. Marguerite BouyenVal made
away with a baby eleven years ago and
the gendarmes were sent to her house.
The girl was so frightened that she had an
attack OF hysteria, which lasted several
hours. at the end Of which she fell into
trance. The doubts thrown on the con-
tinuatiOn of the trance have evidently been
caused by the fact that the mother of
the sleeping girl has made a good deal
tor, who has observed the case during
the eleven years, informed the investt-
gator from Paris that Marguerite Bou-
YenVal had really been asleep during the
whole time Occasionally she had hyS-
terical cries, but did not awake after
them. Other doctors have also agreed as
to the genuineness Of the phenomenon.
and the sleeping girl of Thenelles re-
mains a human mystery.
Edward II. Douglass, a Cleveland sing
or, who has been in Dresden, Germany
since his arrival i'll Germany has been
trying to marry Miss Helen Nocl of Ores
dCn says the Chicago Times He hopes
to become "a Benedict W thin year or
two if all goes well. Everything was
fixed for. the wedding in August. Mr..
Douglass went to the authorities and de-
manded a license. He was asked for his
certificate of birth and was turned away
with the instruction that he must get
this before a license could be Issued. He
sent home for certificate OF ms birth.
In ~ mi IA received
went to the city authorities of Dresden,
gave them the certificate of birth and
asked for a license, they simply smiled
and wanted to know whether he had
ever been baptiZed2 He had. All, then, he
must have certificate to prove it. Mr..
Douglass sent to America for a certin-
cate of baptism, and in course of time
II came to hand and was turned over to
the Dresden authorities. That was very
good but again the license was refused.
The bans must be published in church
for two weeks. This was done and again
Mr.. Douglass went for his license. lie
didn't get it. Instead he was blandly
asked whether notice of his intended
marriage had been published in his nome
newspapers. 1t had not. He was told
that this was necessary formally ana
a copy of the paper must be mailed to
the Dresden authorities. That notice ap-
peared in a Cleveland paper recently and
was mailed to Mr.. Douglas.
The moon has been worshipped among
nearly all the nations of the world from
time immemorial; indeed, her cult has
been asserted to be much Older established
than sun worship, says the New York Ad-
vertiser. Samoyedes and the people of
BorneO adore her yet, and the Caribs come
from their homes at new moon, and raise
great cry in her honor. Swart Nubians
relOiced in the new moons rising, just as
did the cultured Greeks. who pictured her
as wild huntress, more girl than woman,
with cold breast unSunned by love for
any man, mortal or demi-god, and sweet,
cold lips that have never kissed any mouth
but Endymion's, asleep on the mountains.
Moslems clap their hands at the sight of
the new moon; the Finnish girl, Christian
though she be, drops a curtsey and d word
of greeting to Kun, as his silver mask
shines whitley over her; the Peruvian
peasant hurries home out of the cold
moonshine, afraid of the stern eyes of
Mama Quilla; and the Egyptian fellah
lounges across the sands where the
SphinXs shadow lies black at his feet,
with a prayer on his lips or in his heart to
J Troth-Troth, the Master of Wisdom, the
Lord of the Ibis, in whose absence the fair
land OF khem has been brought down very
low. Swabian girls still refuse to spin by
moonlight, lest they should anger Her, -
they say vaguely; and in Germany children
firmly believe in Horsel or Holda, whose
boat is in the moon. whose flower is the
fax, and whose delight it is to reward in
dUstrious little maidens Dante makes the
man in the moon Cain; in Egypt he is
Horus, held TO the breast of Isis, his
mother and the moon; in France he is
Judas; and in some parts of England the
I fancy obtains that he Is man who broke
the sabbath by gathering sticks from a
neighbours forest. In Rantum the man in
the moon is a giant, who, at flowing tide,
stoops to pour water on the earth, and at
ebb tide stands upright, in order that the
waters may subside. Devonshre folk say
that the figure to be seen in the moon is
that of a dog. Other people say that it is
( Endymion, or Isaac, bearing on his back
a burden of wood for his own sacrifice on
Mount Moriah. Danes fancied that the
moon is g cheese, made from the milk that
has run out from the Milky Way. Pearls
and all other white stones. except dia-
monds, are in sympathy with the moon
according TO the Rosicrucians, and should
be worn on Mondays. A curious eastern
fancy is that the figure in the moon is
that of the pattern wife, Ina, who weaves
the clouds into white CLOTH and who, after
the lapse of many years, sent her mortal
husband back to earth by the rainbow
bridge, in order that death might not de-
file her heavenly home. The cat and the
panther are both connected with the moon
in some vague and occult fashion; indeed
in Australia, the moon is represented as a
native cat and also in Egypt. In China
the Celestials say that there is a frog in
the moon, a metamorphosed beauty, called
Change.
PRICES BAKING POWDER.