The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-19
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70 the present day. with represe ntd riOns
OF the temple of Jerusalem. the scenes
Of the life of Christ. Pagan and CHRIS
tan Rome. Constanunople, and the lives
OF the saints.
OF all the queer things the very latest
IS q company formed TO supplv residents
of seaside resorts with cool air This lat
est corporation is composed of Philadel-
phlans, and its first move is being made
az Atlantic City II seems strange that
II should be so, but almost every one
VINO has spent any length Of time during
the summer at the seashore knows. says
the Philadelphia Times that even when
tnere IS stim cool breeze blowing along
the ocean front it is dun and sitting a
rev blocks away When a land breeze
prev ais II is much worse. The new COM
pany proposes TO have a pumping station
some distance out TO force the sea air
IN pipes TO hotels and cottages Pipes are
now being laid and the coming summer
VIII see the project in full operation. In
stead OF saying. Turn on the heat" a
man IN 2. hotel room viii go to the Office
and complain that he hasn't enough fresh
Sdlt ar m MS room and the porter viii
immediately connect him with the Allan
tic ocean.
The large red flying squirrel is inter
esung. but not beautiful. says the Spec
l1tof- II Is wholly nocturnal, and like
most nocturnal animals. is extremely
suriy and spiteful # disturbed in the day
uine. IL IS as large as a cat, with face
IKE a rabbits. It's cOlOring is extremely
brilliant tor a mammal, and in general
appearance IL resembles some curious
monster in Chinese painting. The fur
IS a rich and deep chestnut on its back
light chestnut below its head white, and
Its eyes dull pale gray. The wide para
chute membrane between its legs is COW
cred with fur, and its tail is long. thickly
turred and round. This squirrel does not
ny, in the proper sense of the word
but in the forest its parachute membrane
answers its purpose almost equally as
Well as wings. 1t runs with a wonderful
agility up the trunk of the tree and to
me end OF a branch, and then takes
a nying leap. with its limbs extended to
the utmost, and the wide flesh membrane
stretched This aerial slide" carries it
forward and downward to a horizontal
distance Of perhaps forty or fifty yards.
ana II IS noticed that, as in the case of
blrdS when making use of their powers
OF descent with fixed pinions, the SPUR
rel throws itself upward. and ascends
slshtly at the close of the flight" perch
ing on the bough il aims at with all the
hghtness Of pigeon descending from a
tower to some point upon the roof below.
=" Why do Indians paint their faces?"
1 have asked that question OF hundreds of
red men and have received but one an
sWer, says a writer in the St. Louis Globe
Democrat of all the tribes that ! have
visited, but one has a legend accounting
for the hideous decorations that are to
be seen on the faces of Indians under all
ceremonial circumstances. 1 was sitting
at a camp fire in a village of Jicarilla
Apaches one night listening to the stories
and legends that were being told, when l
propounded the old question again,
ldlclly expecting even the usual expression
of ignorance that hides so many of the
thoughts of the Indians. TO my surprise,
however, / received the answer that /
least expected. An old fellow who had
sat all evening listening to the stories
without changing his attitude grunted
and Strengthened up as he heard the ques-
ton. Proceeding with all due solemnity
ne told the following legend: Long ago,
when men were weak and animals were
big and strong, a chief of the red men who
lived in these mountains went out to get
a. d Hg NnnN
walking all day he saw deer and shot
at il, but the arrow was turned aside and
wounded a mountain lion, which was also
after the deer When the lion felt the
sting of the arrow he jumped up and
bounded after the man, who ran for his
life He was almost exhausted and when
he felt his strength giving way he fell
to the ground, calling on the big bear,
who, you know, is the grandfather of all
men, to save him. The big bear heard the
call and saw that to save the man he had
and sprinkled his blood over the man.
Now, you know no animal Will eat of the
bear or taste of his blood, so when the lion
reached the man he smelled the blood and
turned away, but as he did so his foot
scraped the face of the man, leaving the
marks of the claws on the bloody face.
When the man found that he was unin-
jured he was so thankful that he left the
blood to dry on his face and never washed
it at all, but left it until it peeled off.
Where the claws of the lion scraped it
off there were mass that turned brown
in the sun, and where the blood staid on
it was lighter. lou know now all men
paint their faces that way with blood and
scrape it off in streaks when they hunt or
go to war
All real English oaths are built on the
canonical model, but few of them sur
ViVe, says the London Standard. The
churchman did his cursing i'm methodi-
cal and detailed fashion. beginning by
invoking the damnatory influence of all
the heavenly powers, he first consigned
his victim TO misery n12gSe. Then he
began with details, and cursed him ac-
cord,ng to place and time. May he be
damned wherever he be, whether in the
house or stable, the garden or the field OF
the highway, or in the path, or i'm the
wood, or in the water, or in the church
Next in time and circumstances, May he
be cursed in living, in dying, in eating
and drinking, in being hungry, in being
thirsty, in fasting, in sleeping, in waking
in standing in sitting, in lying, in work
ing and in resting" Then came personal
details, May he be cursed in the hair
of his head, in his temples in his fore
head, in his ears, in his eyes" and so
on through his heart, liver lungs and
kidneys, right down to his toe-nails-all
which curse was to take effect unless the
cursee repented and made satisfaction
When the common people took to cursing
they followed afar off this excellent
model, and here still turks among them
a disposition a. odd times to treat with
less than respect one another's eyes
Oaths strictly on canonical model held tho
admiration of seafaring men down to a
late peflOQ. OnlNeT my LlmDerS'
one of them; and Capt Marryat's saii-
ors, who vowed by their own and other
peoples liver and lungs, were followers of
the ancient school, Savage peoples have
little skill in cursing. To curse with ef-
feet requires some definite notion of
hades. Most of the quasi-civilized ma
tives of Asia eXecrate, however. with
much ease and f1uency. The Japanese are
a singular exception, and it is a high
tribute to the gentleness of their manners
that their language should contain no
swearing words" According to Sir Ed
win Arnold, the severest word one Jap
can apply to another without dipping
into English is fellow" and high con-
demnation is found in the words "There,
there" Hindoos on the oher hand
curse with fearful ease and fullness, and
quite throw the accommodating priest
into the shade. For not only do they
curse the immediate subject of their
wrath in all parts but all his an
cestors back to Adam by both the male
and female line. The Norsemen had
heaven, of a. kind, in their mythology but
no hades. Therefore, they could consign
their enemies to nothing worse than OBJ
livion; but in the Sagas they do wonder
full amount of cursing, all to take effect
on earth
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