The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-17
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in the time OF Henry VII. the dinner
/ hour Of the court was at II in the morn
ing. In CromWelns time thay dined at
| p. m. In 1910 Pope complained of Lady
I Suffolk's dining 80 late as p. m. Only
Z n the early years OF this century did the
I dinner hour approach o'clock
Dear" in the affectiOnate sense. Is
| the old English deere. old High German
costly Dear men" were distinguished
men. i came TO be used in personal adj
dress Tor esteemed" valued" rather
than loved; but il gradually came to be
used IN the affectiOnate sense. The or
binary polite form Of Dear Sir dates
from the seventeenth century.
The sounds an elephant makes are lu-
dlcrously disprOportionate 10 its size. By
stroklng an elephants lip in a certain
manner you can make il purr like a huge
grimalkln till the earth shakes beneath
sour teeJ; When It Is afraid or angry IL
slueaks Ike an unOiled hinge. But when
II suddenly jumps aside like flea you
imagine Tor moment that the ultimate
terrestrial cataclysIn has gone of.
-Strabismus, or cross eyes" are now
safely and almost painlessly corrected
says the Philadelphia Record. The desired
result may be obtaired by the wearing of
proper spectacles in carly youth; but If the
evil Is not then corrected an operation. la
ter on. viii be necessary. The removal Of
cataract from the eyes is one of the
most delicate operations performed by the
OcullSt. A cataract IS formed by the lens
OF the eye becoming Opaque so as to ap-
pear grayish or otherwise, when it shuts
out the light from the optic nerve. The
oculist Of to-day cuts into the bali of the
eye and removes the darkened lens, and
the Optician supplies the defect by artifi-
cial lenses that make good the sight The
demand for glass eyes is increasing as the
character md quality of the eyes improve.
Cnsightly eyeballs are now removed in
part, leaving enough of the muscles to rO-
tate the glass shell that is placed over
them. Where the work is properly done
| the pOssessor of the glass eye can move IL
about with all the naturalnesS of a real
optic, and in many cases II is very difficult
10 tell the manufactured article from the
genuine. All the wild stories about substi-
! tuting rabbits eyes for human eyes or the
statements 10 the erect that oculists can
take eyes from their sockets, wipe them on
a coarse towel and restore them unimpair-
ed to the happy patient. are ali moonshine,
and anyone who is called upon to listen to
| any such tales is perfectly justified If. I'M
/ der such circumstances, he should wink
! the other eye.
Young billiard players have little con-
| ception how poorly the game used to be
played twenty-five years ago." said a cue
handler to the New York Sun. 1T Is
scarcely too much TO say that an average
player of to-day could beat most of the
champions of my boyhood. A run of 100
| points, with the aid of the push shot, in
a four ball game was considered large
You may think that the table being larger
made the game more difficult 1t did
perhaps, for long shots, but not for nurs-
ing. The pockets were liable to spoil a run
as a fellow often hOled his own bail de-
spite his best calculations but in the
course of time the corner pockets became
the means of making enormous runs. 1t
was only a knack to wedge two balls in
one Of them, on which a player could
sort of thing, probably. which caused the
carom TO be substituted for the pocket
game. l have given up the game because
l play so poorly yet in days of pockets
used to double discount and sometimes
grand discount the average players at
that time. l was an infant phenomenon,
and played what was considered a good
game when l was boy of 10: at IS l used
generally to have a crowd of spectators
around the table when l played In a pub
for funny enough. lack of practice does
not seem to make much difference in my
game; and yet as l have said, l have
given up playing because I play so poorly
compared with the average player"
The beehive everywhere represented as
the emblem of industry, as for instance
in pictures on the covers of savings bank
books, is the old fashioned round, sugar
loaf structure made of twisted straw; but
as matter of fact there are very few
such hives now IN use except in Germany
and Austria, and even there, says the
New York sun, the modern beehive is
taking their places. The modern beehive
IS made of boards, and is square with some
notifications in shape and style, it is not
nearly so picturesque as the old fashioned
hive. A gentleman farmer in New jersey,
desiring to get two of the old fashioned
hives to set up in his place, commissioned
New York dealer in beekeepers' supplies
to buy them. The dealer communicated
with many bee farmers in his search, and
finally found one hive on Long Island.
The gentleman had meanwhile found one
himself, so that he had his desire Deal
ers in beekeepers' supplies sell everything
required, including bees in the season.
one can buy colony of bees or any num-
Der of bees, just as he can dry goods or
shoes. Queen bees are sent from here all
over the country. They are shipped by
mail in little boxes called queen cages.
There IS in each cage space for the queen
bee and for number of worker bees. In
one end of the cage is placed sufficient
store of candy for food to last the bees
on their journey. Queen bees are fire.
quently sent from here to Australia in this
manner. and 50 per cent. of them reach
their destination alive after journey of
forty-fiVe days.
Kisses may be conveniently divided into
two classes-those which belong to and
are intimately associated with the warm
er passions of the heart, and those which
| are purely conventional, says the Medical
Press Circular. In view of the exacting de-
mands OF modern sanitary principles. in
neither case is the habit desirable or even
permissible. Nevertheless it Is only a
waste of labor for medical mentors 20
protest against the habit, so far as the
first order of kisses is concerned Mi
crobes, however pathogenic, will be iq-
nored under these circumstances, and such
VIII be the case until time is no more
y IN lSsISNls HONtNtFt TO the second
riety of kisses, the matter is different
For the most part, the habit is practiced
upon children, both girls and boys Among
themselves, too, kissing. to a large extent
prevails. But the facility with which
dfphtheria, measles whooping cough and
scarlet fever are transmitted in early life
renders the habit one which common sense
will show to be open to grave objections
However essential conventional kisses
may be regarded as a means of demon
strating friendship and politeness. par-
ents should, nevertheless, we think CON
slider in this matter the welfare of their
children first. Our condemnation of
kisses may, for practical purposes. be re-
stricted to the Objectionable but com
mon practice of kissing on the mouth
Among grown-up people it is unbecoming
to say the least, while toward and hatveen
children the practice is open to the grav-
est suspicion Children can be trained with
the greatest ease to offer the cheek or the
forehead for the proffered caress and ~
eIude the attempt to contaminate the lips
The incubation period of all the diseases
mentioned may, or may not be infective
IN the ordinary acceptation of the term
Upon this matter our KNOWLEDGE so far
is by no means certain, while on the 9th
er hand. recent investigation would seem
TO indicate that the infection of svn,otia
diseases IN patients is of very much Iongar
duration than used formerly TO he s51D
DOSGd enduring up