The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-25
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during the game the offender walked
across the field close to second base and
delayed the game fully five minutes.
The high military authorities In Pc
kin have unanimously recommended the
building Of a number of hugh forts en-
circling -Pekin to be armed and fortified
AFTER the latest western pattern. This
plan IS said to have been suggested by
certain ex-off1csT IN the French army.
Capt S L. Hinde. who read a paper
before the British Association the other
day on cannloals, says that all the races
OF the Congo basin in Africa practice can
n1balism, and that while il Is preVented
IN some portions by the white civilization.
IN otner parts OF the basin il Is on the in
crease.
The Sakio Maru, the japanese vessel
Whlch was converted into an armed CRUZ
ser, was injured 50 greatly at the battle
OF the 1aiu that she is now quite unfit
for service. The government has it under
consideration to buy the vessel and retain
her in some port as a memorial of the
great naval battle.
At Frascati, near Rome, there is a
bachelors union which recently protested
against the overdressing and the general
conduct of the girls Of that town, and
resolved to boycott those who did not
need the warning, and to do all they could
70 prevent them from marrying. Where
upon the girls of Frascati marched to the
club room, forced their way in, tore up
the circulars and drove out the bachelors
with clubs.
1t is a physical impossibiIitv for man
TO kill himself by holding his breath, saws
Tit Bits. individuals diner greatly in the
length of time they can hold their breath,
ana what practice and determined effort
combined with natural great lung capaci-
~, can do in this direction is shown by
the long periods for which champion div
erS can remain under water If man
succeeded in continuing to hold his breath
IN spite Of the physical discomfort in
which he had placed himself, the result
would simply be TO induce a state of coma
When this state was reached nature
would reassert herself, and the breathing
functions would again resume full activi-
", preventing a fatal issue in spite of
their owners desire.
In nearly every country in the world
there Is superstition to the effect that a
serpent head must be mashed to a Jelly
or else its companion will seek out its
dead comrade and restore il to life by
means or certain grasses, leaves or herbs,
says the St Louis Republic This fancy
appears to come to us from remote antiq-
uity. In the NEUROLOGICAL story of Poly
laos, we find it related in a curious form.
Glaucus, the son of Minos. the Cretan
KING, was snothered in a cask of honey.
With the help of Apollo, Polyidos located
the body (the whereabouts of which was
previously unknown, and the stern old
king then shut him up with the corpse,
telling him that if he could discover that
which was hidden, he was soothsayer
enough to bring mis- son to life. While in
the dungeon with the corpse a dragon APP
preached the body. Poyidos killed the
reptile, but within the hour was surprised
to see second dragon creep forward and
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| grass on the back of its dead companion.
Polyidos took hint from the wise SER
| pent and with the same blade of grass re-
suscitated the honey-smothered youth.
The same story appears in different forms
| in the folklore of all nations. You can
| find it in THE Three Snake Leaves" in
| Grimms Tales in the Breton legend
| of Sir Elidoc;" in the Hindu story of
Pane Phul Rance" and also in the Chi
nese and Japanese fairy stories.
English women who possess jewelry to
n NJ -
/ place it in any box or safe, but hide il
away in the most curious places, only
| known to themselves, says the jewelers.
| Review. But most of these ladies have
| small safes-often of very old and imper-
| feet type-in conspicuous position In
| their dining rooms, and they rely upon
| the fact that thieves would probably ran
| sack these and never think of looking for
| jewels rich and rare in an old pin cusn-
/ ion or stuffy looking footstOol where Z.
| certain great lady of title, recently deaG,
| used to hide diamonds to the value or
| 100000 The husband of another lady who
had jewels worth large fortune told me
| that the lady at one time kept her jewels
| in large bottle of blue glass labeled
poison" which was kept in an obscure
| cupboard. A beautiful countess, who is
| still alive, used to hide quantity of jew
| elry in the lining OF an. old hatbOX of her
husbands. One day in her absence her
| husband was rummaging about and gave
| this article and a number of other dilapi-
| dated things to one of the servants to get
| rid of at once. The box was sold to an old
| clothes man before the countess knew
| anything of the transaction, but in this
| case, fortunately, the box and it's contents
| We're recovered. The jewel cases which
| rich people travel about with are nova
| days more often than not mere blinds,
| the supposed contents being very carefu.-
| ly disposed elsewhere.
| 1T would surprise most people," said
| West End boctmaker to the jewelers. Re
| view ito know of the huge sums which
| some of the rich aristocracy spend on
| shoes, and especially on slippers. Only
| the other day a countess, whose name is
| familiar to every one, had a pair of slip
| pers made, which were decorated in pic
| ture pattern, like a pair of worked slip
| pers, with precious stones, these being
| largely rubies, emeralds and diamonds
| The result was exceedingly beautiful, but
| the cost was over t4,500 There is one ac-
| complished workman in London whose
| sole occupation is that of mounting fancy
| slippers with jewels. The present DOwa-
| ger Countess of X some years ago had
| made-her husband was then alive and
| gave the order-a pair of slippers, in which
| she was 70 appear as ClnHeTella at a fancy
| dress ball, given by the Duke of Manches-
| ter The slippers were one mass of dia-
| monds, the value of the stones being con-
| siderably over $4,000, while the cost of
| mounting them was upward of $50. A
| South American gentleman not long since
! presented to a foreign singer, then in
| London, pair of slippers ornamented
with two butterflies of different patterns
| in precious stones, the cost being nearly
$4,000. But, in reality, 1t is quite a com
| mon thing for slippers ornamented in gold
| threads and jewels and valued at from
one to a thousand guineas, to be supplied /;
| and many brides on their honeymoons
| are furnished with even ordinary boots,
| shoes and slippers to the value of goo
| or So"
The socalled fireeating magicians have
long piled their trade in defiance of all
| eXplications of chemists and physicians
A clever prestidigitator, Mr.. De We're, de-
| scribed recently in La Nature how the
trick, for suEh it is, is done 1t is
| very simple of practice, but it necessitates
| an apparatus which must be very careful
| ly and neatly constructed. The fire-eat-
ers usually give their performances on
a raised platform, which hides the source
| of the fire, while it seems only to lift
| the operator a trife higher from the floor
| of the scene, and it is ordinarily covered
| with a handsome red carpet. 1t contains
| in the hollow space beneath its bags of
| rubber filled with ordinary illuminating
| gas and compressed. by weights
! The fireater has beneath the sole of
his foot an ingenious little appara tus
ending in a tube, which fits exactly into
another tube coming up through the plat
! form from underneath, and forming a
| tight connection when he steps upon if:
very fine rubber tubes, of the same color
| of the magicians dress, which is usually
a diabolical scarlet red, run up along his
| body and along the arms to the farthest