The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT Athens. Greece, there Is now pub
lished weekly fourpage newspaper which
IS written in verse-eyen the advertise
ments- And It is said to be a careful lit
erary work throughout The pages are
ten inches by eight inches. arranged in
double columns, and often contain comic
pictures. The editors name is George
SOuris.
"A letter received by the London Truth
respecting the sale Of official rank IN
light on the question sOm It says t hsM
when the celestial government sells its
orders and decorations it gives no dxety
OF tenure The wearer Of the brass but
tom; the blue glass, or the pheasant
feather is a mere tenant at will. BY a
mere stroke of the official pen his in,
sigma may be cOnfscated-like poor L;
Hung Chang's peacock feathers and vel
low Jacket-and unless he is prepared to
buy tnem back again he TelapseS into a
mere undecorated nobody.
The evolution Of the negligee shirt, %
says the Philadelphia Record. lis a re-
mark2ble bit Of history. Years ago they,
indeed, deserved their name. When first
outing purposes, and were made of fan
mel The only way in which they could
be put on or taken off was by lacing
ana unlacing a sort Of shoestring afair
down the front. Then buttons were sub
s1tuted and finally they were made Of
calico, cheviot and madras instead of fan
mel With each step in the line of orna-
mentatiOn they deteriOrated in comfort,
until now the so-called negligee shirt L.
really less comfortable and more stiff
looking than the ordinary white one.
1t has often been asserted, saws the
Hartford Times, that abnormal longevity
is more common among the Russians than
any otner european nation. From an OH
! clal report coilated from local registers,
/ Il now appears the government of Kieff
| takes the first place in this respect. Dur
ing last year, II is officially stated there
were fourteen centenarian deaths regis
/ tered in that government. In the city OF
KEN one man died aged 10 years, while
/ within the suburban circle two women
/ died aged respectively lO2 and l0i years.
/ In Breditcheff two men reached the ages
/ OF lOl and ia years, respectively. In
| Nassilkof another patriarch died in his
/ n5th year. In the same district there
/ died a Jewess aged l05; in Svenigorodka,
/ a man of ITO years; in Tarashscha another
| of ll5; in Uman two men aged respect
/ lively 1906 and 102 years; in Radomytzel a
/ Jew aged 101 and a Christian aged 103;
I and lastly a man of l05 years died at
TcherkaSSy. Here are fourteen persons,
/ dying within the same year, and within
1 the limits of one district, whose united
/ ages amount to 1883 years. According to
the SaratOn journals, there Is still living
/ in the government an ancient veteran of
/ the First Napoleon's army, formerly Lieut..
/ Savin, and since 1872 known as Nicolai
| AlexandrOvitch Savin, who has celebrated
! l26 birthdays.
The fate of the unfortunate beacon
strtctor who was swallowed inadvertent-
/ ly by his friend and fellow snake in the
! geological Gardens last October will be
/ fresh in the minds of all, says the Lon
| don Telegraph. 1t was lying leisurely
| eating pigeon which had been given it
| for supper when the other, which had
| despatched its bird rather hurriedly and
/ then forgotten that it had supped hap
1 pened to turn its head to its companion
/ and found the hind part of the dove still
/ sticking out of is jaws. Rashly conclud-
! ing that this must have been meant fSr
/ him, he commenced swallowing the bird.
/ The other declined to let go, and the re-
suit was that, as the long snake failed to
! discover where the pigeon ended and the
! boa began, he went on eating, until at
/ last, when too late, he found that he had
| consumed as supper not only two birds
! but his friend and companion as well.
/ The terrible deed seems to have preyed
| on his wind considerably For a time he
| lay motionless and PROSTATE with grief.
! Then he tried to regain come of his form
| er cheerfuiness. but without avail. and
! after gradually pining away since last
| October has now expired. The end was
| not due to the other disagreeing with him
/ internally. On the contrary he proved to
| be easily digested.
| Symbolism sets forth the expression
| of something in nature-ideas which may
| al first seem entirely foreign to the pic
| ture, yet which convey to the spiritual
| sense, when developed, meaning of spir-
/ itual importance. says the Philadelphia
! Press. In the present age of materialism
! the language of symbolism Is important
/ for those who are able to discover hidden
! meanings can convey to others that which
| shall strengthen the belief of men in spir-
] ftual realities. The meaning of symbols
| a
| strange country. They show that when
! the mind is unfolded it can see the same
| ideas The circle, the cube and square and
| other plain figures are universal symbols
! They show that the ancients possessed a
/ knowledge OF geometry. Plato said thai
! God geOmetriZes the form of crosses in
| the southern heavens. The human figure
| is in the shape OF a cross. Our word EaS-
| ter is derived from the Teutonic word
! Ostera-The Goddess of Morning. A
| feast was instituted 10 commemorate her
~ Ara~f - fah
| Oster monat. The egg is a universal sym
| Dol and typifies eternity, infinitude, regen.
| GRAFTON and rejuvenation. The boat, OF
| ark, was used to symbolic the preserva-
| ton of the seed of life, while the dove
| sent out was the symbol of new life
Among the Egyptians the Scarabeus, OF
| sacred beetle, was a symbol of rebirth
| resurrection and eternal life.
Wooden houses are becoming quite the
| fashion, among the royal personages OF
| Europe, says the Westminster Gazette
| and the Prince of Wales is taking an ac-
| tive interest in an Anglo-Norwegian COM
! pany that has been formed to bring into
| fashion in England wooden houses Of the
| same kind that are so popular in Norway
| where there are in existence churches
| public buildings and houses made of wood
! that are in some cases over 200 years OF
| age. The Prince of Wales is having a
| number of picturesque wooden lodges and
| houses erected on his estate at Sandring-
| ham. The summer residence of King Leo
| pold of Belgium at Ostend, is constructed
I
| shooting lodges, or rather chateaux OF
| Emperor William at Hubertusstock; EN-
! peror Francis Joseph at Murzesteg: OF
Gar Nicholas at Spala and at Bieiovitz,
! and of Queen Marguerite and King Hum
| bert of Italy, in the Alpine regions of
| Piedmont, where they are accustomed to
| pass several weeks every summer The
! greater part of Mar Lodge, where the
! Duke Of Fife and his royal wife, the eld-
/ est daughter of the Prince of Wales are
accustomed to entertain so largely every
! autumn during the deer-stalking season
| IS built entirely of wood; and the kings of
| SaXony, Wurtemberg, Denmark, and. of
! course, of Sweden, have each, not one.
! but number of roomy and picturesque
| forest and mountain hunting chateaux
! constructed of undressed wood The adj
vantage about such houses is that they
| can be easily transported from one pIac
| to another, and can be quickly put To-
| gether, much in the same way as a Chi
| nese puzzle. Accustomd as one is to find
| them here in America, they have. until
| now been quite the exception in Europe-
| save in Scandinavia, and it is only at pres,
! ent That they are coming into fashion.
| thanks to the example of royalty.
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