The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-08
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which, at night, will be lighted
According 10 Stewart Cullin, the cura-
tor OF the Museum OF Archaeology OF the
University Of Pennsylvania, foot ball ORR
ginated with those beginners Of every
thing, the Chinese. Mr.. Cullin Is making
an exhaustive study OF games, ancient ana
modern, and has curious and ancient
drawing, showing a person IN the dress
OF prime minister playing foot ball with
kuge, or noble, and two of their cham
berlains. The time is somewhere IN the
tenth or eleventh century, but long before
then the game was cultivated as an ex-
ercise suitable for the training of soldiers;
About the eighth century il was introduced
into Japan, where it became very popu,
lar. From these two countries II spread
over the entire world.
The electric candle is in great re-
quest in England for the lighting anu
decoration of dining and other tables
An ingenious device for lighting the
candle is provided by placing small pads
under the tablecloth, and taking the cur
rent from them by means of two PIN
points in the base of the candlestick. The
candles. Of course, are extinguished on
being taken from the table, and are re-
| lighted when they are replaced in the
proper position. They are so arranged
that the bulb and glass imitation of
wax candle can be removed, when the
candlestck can be used for any ordin-
airy candle. When used with shades Of
colored silk the electric candle makes one
/ of the prettiest additions to dinner
table that it is possible TO imagine.
There are three principal drinks in
Mexico, and they are strictly national in
their character, though many Americans
learn to adopt them after a long stay,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer. Mescal and
| tequilla are kindred spirits. The first i'm
preston produced by either of them upon
the novice who has just partaken is that
tOrch-hght procession has Just marched
down his throat and he can almost hear
the band play. Pulque is yeasty stun
that produces stupOr. and is avoided by
those who expect to make a night of it.
Here you can get the tamale upon its
native heath The American article ig
a mild connection of chicken and corn
meal, slightly seasoned with red pepper
to give it a faint zest, but the Mexican
variety Is compounded Of pork, meal
and ground pods of the Mexican chill,
and is as robust in size and flavor as
Patagonian-
Mock bees and spiders! A writer in
the London Daily News shows that some
flowers form a striking exception to the
rule of cross-fertilizaton. The bee apd
fly orchids, for example which would be
much more commonly seen on our English
chalk downs but for the ravages of greedy
collectors, fertilize themselves. and do not
want to be bothered by buzzing bees and
| flies. So a cunning device has been re-
sorted TO- No bee will enter flower in
! which another bee is already at work;
| therefore, to protect the entrance, the lip
/ is enlarged into a process exactly re-
| sembling the headquarters of a bee Qn
| the hy-orchid il resembles a large hy).
/ To the spider-orchids, another British
/ species, IL seems to have occurred how
a still more trying shock might be ad-
I
/ some insects, so il displays in its orihce
/ the likeness of large spider
"A writer in the Leisure Hour, relating
| his experiences in the Argentine Repub-
| lie, refers to railways being submerged
! by dust locusts, graSshoppers, etc, in the
/ following paragl aph: The manager OF
one of the chief railways told me that his
| line was covered one summer by a dust
/ storm in one place TO a hight of a
| meter, and that, as rain followed, the
/ dust hardened 10 mud, requiring a number
| of naVvies to work hard digging it away
| And this reminds me that locust-flights
/ often stop trains by falling on the lines,
| which their slippery little bodies soon
| make greasy. A plague Of grasshoppers
| was witnessed by an acquaintance who
! had crossed from the other side"-viz,
| Chite. After leaving Mendoza some dis
/ tanoe, the train pulled up and found that
/ grasshoppers had fallen on the ground
/ and rails in so great quantity il was inn
! possible to proceed. A number of pas
| sengers were obliged to help some men
| from a neighboring station to brush the
/ insects OF for mile or so, before the
/ train could go on.
DIR. william Hotchkiss, alleged to have
/ reached the age of 40 years, died sud
denly at st. Louis Thursday of heart dis
/ had always been known as the
1 color Doctor" In his peculiar practice
| of medicine he termed his patients mem
/ bers of his "circles," and claimed to treat
/ them by a magnetic process. A letter
| received from his old home in Dinwiddie
! county, Virginia, over year ago, says
| there for number of years, finally drift
! ing west DR.. Hotchkiss possessed many
/ striking peculiarities, among them being
/ a natural aversion to water. He is said
! by those nearest to him, not to have taken
/ a bath for over twenty-five years, but he
/ secured himself with dry sand. He be-
/ lieved diseases were caused by the plus
/ or minus rays of light, which the system
| absorbed in different quantities, and that
the rays contained different prismatic
! colorS constituting the component parts
/ OF the human organism. In order to carry
| out this scheme he adorned himself with
! Vari-colored strips of rags and ribbon to
| Keep himself in sympathy with his
! patients, each of whom he presented with
1 strip of cloth of some particular color
4 TO wear while undergoing treatment"
he claimed to have discovered the elixir
| vitae. At regular intervals he stood over
| a smoking brazier and allowed the smoke
TO enveiop his body and saturate his
| scanty clothing
Did you ever see a man on a CHINA
mon drunk?' asked L. j. Cartwright, a
lumberman of Knoxville, of the ST. Louis
/ GloDe-Democrat If you should witness
| case you would never want to see an
other few months ago 1 had three
! young men getting out pipe slaves down
/ in the Tennessee mountains and they con-
| eluded to have a little foot on pay day.
! Ihey went to nearby town. but failed
/ to get the needed article. In fact they
! could get nothing whatever of a stimulat-
| ing nature but essence of cinnamon This
| essence comes in little 15-cent walls, and
! is, OF course, put up for favoring. The
boys bought a couple of dozen of these
walls and began drinking the essence
straight. When they got, back to camp
they were in a very bad fix They were
noisy and violent, and reeled and stag
gered about helplessly. One of the boys. a
/ quiet, modest fellow, who was never
known to make any sort of a demonstra-
ton, danced and sang like wild man.
| They all yelled like demons and acted like
so many lunatics on a tear 1t was a
shocking sight. They were pale as death.
and their eyes were set like a cats ewes
To move their sight they moved their
heads. They had no control over their
minds or voices. They were deathly sick
but their stomachs could not throw off the
horrible dose they had taken, and thus for
three hours the young men raVed and
danced and suffered. How they suffered
no words can tell. 1t took them three days
to get over it. When they got Straight
ened up again they said the one experi-
ment was enough-no more cinnamon
DRINKS for them. think they meant it, -
The wine merchants of Washington are
in the dumps. The social season. is ar
an end, and the sales of champagne have
fallen to zero. Notwithstanding the hard
osmes the consumption Of champagne
in Washington, says the Chicago Times
Herald, during the past season was enor-
nous. A wine merchant tells me it is
a source OF constant wonder to him what
Incomes 10 dc h. all.