The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Korea has a cold wind cave from
which wintry blast continually blows.
"A rug Is feet square. containing 255
stitches TO the inch, has been sold in
London for 5000.
William schaener Of LinfeId, Pa. has
made a walking stick which contains
1854 pieces
Easter Sunday will not again occur
as early as It did last year (March %
The first map Of America bearing an
authentic date is that found in SOlinus'
'-Polyhistor." It is by Apianus, and bears
date Of 1920.
ferred 70 in nearly every country in the
world by an expression. equivalent to,
The devil is beating his wife"
There are only four days each year
in which sun and clock time exactly cor
respond April 10 was one of those days.
The other three are June IA, Sept.1 and
Dec. "a
-Plny is authority for the statement
that Zoroaster once lived 30 years on
nothing but cheese, and that that diet
made him insensible TO the advances of
old age.
AT a spot on the highway. near Avon.
y. Y, where a man was killed over 20
years ago. three plants of an unknown
species are said to annually spring up
and bloom.
in Lincolnshire, England. it is the cur
of Lincoln College, oxford, died while at
tempting TO initiate the Saviors miracu-
lous fast of 40 days.
1t is said that when the pope writes
| his name his right hand trembles so
much that he is obliged to hold his wrist
with the left hand. The trembling he at
| tributs not to old age, but to the effects
Of fever. which attacked him while he
was Bishop of Perugia, over twenty-five
years ago.
Gen. Rafael Reyes, who commanded
the government troops who put down the
insurrectiOn in Colombia, is a man of ac-
ton, with a keen, dark face, a love of
adventure and a wealth of experience in
| revolutions. A regiment of Indians, at
tracted by his magnetism, served with
him in the rebellion of 1885.
The French sculptor, Jules Boulleau.
| died in Paris the other day al the age Of
| 40. In the opinion of many, he was at the
| head of the younger French sculptors.
| Among his best known works is the statue
/ of Joan of Arc at Chinon, near Tours. At
| the time of his death he had about fin
/ ished the monument to the memory OF
/ President Carnot for the city of Nolay.
| The Hindoos who are probably more
/ terribly exposed to the raVageS or pOiS-
1 onous serpents than any other people
/ in the world, declare that no VenomOuS
/ creature of that class will bite or other
! wise injure babies. When the women go
/ 10 the cane and cotton fields they always
! take their children with them, and do not
/ hesitate to deposit the little innocents
on grassy plots adjoining, even when it
! IS
! with cobras and blood snakes. English
| observation in India appears to bear out
/ the Hindoos' assertion, that babies are
/ snake-prOof The reason assigned is that
| the serpent is the wisest of Gods crea-
| lures and that it knows better than to
bite one utterly sinless.
We do not propose says the st. Louis
| Republic to enter into a scientific dis
| cussiOn on the subject of rattles as a
| guide to a rattlesnake's age, but simply
wish to record the fact that it is claimed
that a representative Of that SPECIES has
| been found in Oregon having hfey-four
4 rattles land a button" The largest one
| that the writer remembers of having been
| killed in the south had but twenty-six
rattles, and he was thought to be an old
| timer. The story concerning this oregon
| snake of many rattles and undOubted age
is published in the Eastern Oregonian.
| The snake was killed by Mr.. Darnell,
who proudly exhibited the extraordinary
string of rattles as priceless trophy.
One of the Holsters queer feats is
| that of purposely amputating his enor-
nous and almost useless claws in time of
| real or fancied danger. He breads thun-
! der above all things, and when the peals
| are uncommonly loud or frequent he
! deity drops his claws and takes to deep
| water with all possible speed. 1t is also
| said that anything irritating will cause
a similar exhibition of this peculiar power.
| Boys who are acquainted with this curious
fact in natural history often frequent
/ the FISH stalls of the larger cities, and
with straws tickle the imprisoned Holsters
dAillA Ality nave eAlicS VI 3
| been through a threshing machine Lob
| sters thus deprived of their limbs soon
grow others, a faculty possessed by but
| few living creatures.
The contraction wiz" is a curious in
| stance of the universally of arbitrary
| signs. There are few writers who do not
| appreciate the fact that the little con-
traction may be used in good form
| writing of all kinds, but there are proba-
| bly, even fewer persons who have any idea
of its origin. 1t is a corruption of the
4 word videlicet, tho terminal letter of
| which was formerly made in the shape of
| a p" but was never intended to repre-
sent that letter being simply used as a
! mark or sign or abbreviation. II is now
always written and expressed a S p" and
will doubtless continue TO be so used as
long as written language exists. 1t is,
| however, as we have said one of the
many arbitrary modes of expression used
by the masses, who never give thought
as TO their origin.