The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-13
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of yellow fever and the other is slowly
recovering from the same sickness.
Hi Beung PAX of Korea, who has just
entered Roanoke College, Salem, Va, as
a student, is said to be bright and in
| telligent. Another Korean, Surh Beung
Kiu, is in the junior class Of the same
! college.
1T is a curious fact that in the earliest
Latin monuments the letter is found,
after which, says the Washington Star,
! for hundreds Of years, it was disused, and
in the time of Cicero was again brought
! into the alphabet as an invention.
Prof. julius stockhausen, of Frank
| fort-on-the-Main, a leading German in
structor in singing, who on his recent
| 10Th birthday anniversary was pre-
scented with the sum of $1,000 marks, I'M
| derwent an operation on the left eye on
Sept. 9, and is now doing well, in spite
| OF his advanced age.
Mr.. Hiram Maxim, in a recent letter
to the London Times" according to the
| Scientific American, thinks that Prof
| Langley was more sensible in making a
| small (hyipg) machine and projecting it
| from boat, so that it would not be smash
| ed when it fell into the water, than he
| himself was in building one twelve times
|
ground. Every fall would involve three
months time and 5000 for repairs
"A new outdoor game has been invented
by the young Countess of Warwick. Tt
is called, lawn billiards." and is des-
| tined to prove a formidable rival to ten
MS at garden parties. The lawn is laid
| out like an immense billiard table, The
balls are similar to croquet balls, but
are made of celluloid and are hollow;
| the cues are short-handled mallets, and
| the cushions are banks of sod. The game
| is said to be interesting, but difficult
Japan possesses a remarkable time
piece. 1t is contained in a frame three
feet wide and five feet long, representing
MONDAY landscape of great beauty
| The foreground is a mass of blossom; in
the rear is seen a hill, gradual in ascent,
| from which apparently flows a crystal
| cascade, whence a thread-like stream me-
| anders. In the sky a golden sun turns on
a silver wire, striking the hours on a
| silver gong as it passes. Each hour is
marked on frame by a creeping tor
tolse, which serves the place of a hand.
A lovely bird MARBLES at the close of each
hour, and mouse scampers from its hid
ing place and is soon lost to view.
The red hat of cardinal costs him
more money than kings pay for any ex-
| the
| New York Times. Before accepting it.
| the grateful prelate must make offerings
| TO the propaganda and to his tltular church
at Rome, and pay fees to a long list of
| officials, ranging from chamberlains of
the vatican down to the cooks and sweep
ers and the soldiers of the Swiss Guards
| Indeed, the new cardinal has to pay fees
at every step from the moment of his
creation to the occasion of his receiving
| the red hat in public consistory, and when
all is over and done finds himself out or
pocket to the extent of $500, at least. If
the cardinal is without means to defray
the cost of his elevation, and if he is to
| reside at Rome, the vatican is ready to
make him loan, to be repaid in INSTALL
ments out of his yearly allowances.
"A new discovery has been made which
will interest the fair sex, as it is de-
voted to bicycling. French scientist
claims that ladies' hands deteFiorate
both in the color of the skin and in their
shape, under the influence of bicycling
| The change in the hand is so typical that
| physicians have observed it and desig-
mated the affection by the name of obi
cycle hand" Its appearance is decidedly
| homely. The particular characteristics
of the bicycle hand" are: The curvature
of the hand becomes fiat, the same as
! fiat foot. 1t extends in width to the
| Sides becomes clumsy, unsteady and
dency to curve inward. The cause of
this change is the consequence of the
strong grasp on the handle bars. Ladies
who value the fine lines and the softness
of their hands will therefore have to
look out.
An old custom was revived by the Nez
Perces Indians and their visitors during
the celebration of the last Fourth of July,
says the Portland Oregonian. The ma
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| people, and there are designing mothers
among the aborigines as well as in the
different classes of civilized society. The
| young bucks OF the Nez Perces tribe are
regarded somewhat like the scions of no.
bility in matrimonial circles. The maid
ems from all visiting tribes were brought
| TO Lapwai to find husbands. The Gus
toms of the tribes, which were revived for
the occasion, were more effective than the
Boston mans way. The marriage maid
ems were by common accord quartered in
| a selected spot in the valley of the Lap
wal. At an appointed hour the young
men who wanted wives to share their
annuities, their homesteads and the af-
fections of their hearts appeared in pro-
cession on the hallowed camp ground.
The hour was midnight and the scene was
in grove of trees made fragrant by the
wild flowers, and every heart danced to
the music of the ripping waters. The
young men marched forth, and none but
candidates for matrimony Joined the
march. They were dressed in their
brightest colors and each carried a white
willow cane. AS they approached the
tents they chanted an Indian chorus that
was doleful as the song OF the owl, and
! kept time by beating upon the tents with
! their canes The drumming was deafen-
| ing to the distant spectator. and must
| have been distracting to the waiting
maidens in the tents. At last the singing
and the drumming had the desired effect
The maiden came forth, after delay
| just long enough to satisfy that universal
| passion of the mind of a woman to drive
lover mad with doubt There were
more men than maidens The former
| kept up the march and the music without
| The maidens countermarched on the line
| of the same circle, each selecting a hus-
band from the line. The chosen ones
| FASTENED to follow their brides away into
the darkness. The unfortunate suitors
were left to despair.
Awarded
Highest HOnorS-WOrld'S Fair.