The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-27

rivers and bays are doing their best to
help along the era of democratic good
times
The rising generation of the new wo-
man is rapidly coming to the front in the
west Last week the girls at the high
school in Pontiac. Mich, organized foot
ball team, and about the same time the
girls in the Helena, Mont, high scool or
gained a military company.
An actual case of death from a brok-
en- heart is reported from Hoxton, near
London A cab-driver's wife, after laugh
ing hilariously, suddenly fell to the floor
limp and lfeless. A post norton exami-
nation showed that her heart, either from
excitement or too heavy a dinner, had lit
terally burst in two.
The board of supervisors of San Fran
cisco recently decided that the extreme
night OF a hre-proof building should be
placed at $50 feet, and only on STREETS 100
feet or more in width may buildings of
that hight be erected. on narrower
streeLs no building may now be erected
10 a greater hight than 100 feet.
The trial of Jabez Spencer Balfour will
begin before Justice Bruce in London on
the 18th of this month. He will be de-
Iended by Mr.. John OConnor The in
prlatlOn or money as a director of several
companies, and with obtaining money
under false pretenses. The trial will last
a month, and will be a cause celebre in
English criminal records.
-Apropos of the statement that a man
OF kent has in his possession the head
OF oliver Cromwell, and that Mr. Hamo
Ihornycroft has been studying it far the
engaged, a statement made by the Lon
don correspondent of the Manchester
Evening News may be quoted: 81 have"
ne says, "a dim recollection of being
present at rural fair long ago, and a
snowman offered as his staple attraction
me skuI Of the renowned Oliver Crom-
well PAID my twopence, but a hyper-
critical visitor standing by drew the AT
tsntlon OF the peripatetic gentleman to the
OBVIOUS fact that the skull pertained to
rather small child. That's all right >
was the indignant retort this is Oliver
OronlWelIs skull when he was a boy!"
cine Oldest and most important of the
SSnlhese newspapers, the Picking Gazette
oates from the eighth century saws the
Baltimore Sun. 1t is a kind Of Bulletin
OF laws and official organ, publishing
me details relative to every movement
Wen as the official DEGREES and the re.
ports sent by officials and record of the
sIIungs or the tribunals. These conmu-
nIcations are furnished to the Gazette's
editor by the functionaries of the PAL
ace ;they are set up with an infinite care
and are printed only after having been
They are not published. consequently,
I'LL two or three days after having been
communicated to the editor, who, mean
while, keeps publishing a. daily unofficial
edition of the Gazette The paper is sold
IN the streets of Picking by newsvenders
ana criers; The subscription price Of the
d
the unofficial edition SO. There is a man
uscript addition which costs Sc monthly.
The destruction of the birds-of-para-
disc for adjoining women's hats reaches
alarming proportions when one realizes
that one London firm alone sold 60 900
sprays of these plumes during last sea-
son, says the Chicago News. The herons
or Florida are said to be suffering terri
bly, at present from this heartless prac-
tlce of woman, lovely woman" Mrs.
l1dmunds Phillips, vice president of one
M Of he fnV l,a
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals writes
The dorsal and other plumes of certain
species of herons, known in trade as 0s-
preys or egrets, or lin French) aigrettes,
are it is well known, obtained in their
full beauty only in the breeding season.
1t rs the nuptian plumage which is torn
from the parent birds, whose bodies are
flung aside dead or alive, as may be, in
fostering heaps, while the young ones are
left to .starve, uttering loud and piteous
cries Extensive heronries in Florida
and elsewhere have @been &utterly de-
stroyed in this manner, and exact statis-
tics have been recorded by American and
authority of Prof. Newton, who has sug-
gested that the wearers of an ornament
obtained at such a murderous cost should
be tarred as well as feathered.
AT Allahabad, in the northwest prov
inces Of India. a religious fair is held
periodically on the dry part of the bed Of
the Ganges, to which natives of all castles
and from all parts of India travel in Or
der, by bathing in the sacred river, to OBJ
tain release from sins, or to cure disease.
Thousands upon thousands of Hindus
(says st. PaulS) make this long and
weary pilgrimage, and during the hight
of this gathering, the city teens with ma
tives of all conditions. Some make vow
to measure the whole length of their pill
grimage hundreds of miles, perhaps, by
the length of their bodies. This they eff
feet by lying fiat on the ground, making
a mark where their head comes, rising
and toeing this mark and then lying
down again, and so on until they arrive
at their destination. Others carry
weights, others gall their flesh with
chains. Indeed the means adopted for
Standardization are countless. The
bathing is conducted on remarkable lines.
The sacred river itself is by no means in
viting Within few yards of the. de-
voices, who are drinking of the holy
stream or bathing in it, vultures may be
seen preying on human corpses that float
down. Yet this very water is taken away
by men in various vessels suspended
from long poles decorated with tiny fiags,
annas and even rupees, for a single drop,
so deep and strong is the Hindu's faith
in the water of this sacred river.
All of the long legged birds of the
tauquan, and there gatherings will be
found not only more interesting but far
less enervating than even the charity ball
at the metropolis. There is one feature
especially worth attention, and that is
that they dance quite as often and quite
as 6nerS6llCally aLIer fnaIlnS as they do
before. 1t is unorthodoX to deny that
these antics are due to the anxiety of the
males to win males. We have been
told often that the females look on while
the males perform before them and then
make choice of the mOst-what? Who
knows? What is claimed is that the males
are chosen after these exhibitions. The
fact is, however, that these exhibitions
are kept up by the males until long after
the incubation of the eggs has begun.
Moreover the females have been known to
h flaf
call hen party-something after the fash
ion of women at a sewing bee, perhaps
and have little dance of their own. It
has never been asserted that this hen par
~ had anything to do with the survival
of the fitteSt, but 1t is as much a part of
bird life as the dancing of the males.
There is the little bird called cock of
the rock that regularly resorts to one
convenient place in its neighborhood to
dance. More curious, still, is the fact
that the birds of this species, male and
female, form rings around the dancer.
for but one dances at a time, and when
one bird has exhausted itself another stems
int and ThaVr