The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-22

II is expected that the property in Eng
land, which Will pay duty to the chancel-
lot OF the eXchequer, will fall little short
Of f3,000,000.
There was a picturesque scene recent
~ in the chapel of Val-de-Cirace, at Paris.
when the sword of Napoleon I, beaueath-
eel by the late Baron Larrey. was placed
on the altar during mass, after which il
was formally handed over to the museum
OF the historic military hospital. The
sword was given by the emperor to the
baron father, who had lost his own.
Baron Larrey left his property and the
Mile. Dodu, the Florence Nightingale of
France.
American tourists who invade Europe
at this season of the year can rest as
sured that they will find plenty Of ac-
cOmmodations there. at least in Switzer-
land. Recent statistics show that in 1894
mat country possessed 1887 totels and
pensions or boarding houses, contain
ing 5000 beds, and representing capital
OF oil, lJO,OJJ francs, which affords, on an
average a revenue of per cent The
wages of the 26.Sl0 servants employed i'm
those hotels amounted only TO 1915, $50
francs. As to the tourists who passed
through Switzerland in that same year 3
per cent. were Germans , per cent Eng
lish. per cent. French. and per cent.
Americans.
The mature giraffe and the full-grown
gorilla are the most difficult wild animals
to capture. 1t is generally believed that
neither has ever been captured full grown
and alive. The giraffe will keep up the
chase till it drops. which usually happens
after hard run of about seven miles;
but if Il is not shot then il will recover
its wind and be off again. AS IL weighs
more than ton and is strong in pro-
portion 1t cannot be tied up and carried
away. The gorilla will fight to the death
against any odds rather than yield it's
liberty and its young can only be cap
tured with very great danger and diff
Guilty, as the whole colony WILL if warned,
Immediately, come to its defense.
What to do with the army of stray
cats is a problem that Washington City
will be called upon TO solve before a
great while. The city is overrun with
tramp cats and they make the nights
zen has hled a complaint with the dis
trict authorities. This citizen suggests
that some humane method of putting the
cats TO death should be adopted by the
city. The government is largely respon~
sible for the plaques. A few years ago
the treasury building became overrun
with rats After every way of extermi-
mating them failed, several hundred cats
, were turned loose in the vaults. The
rats soon disappeared, but the cats in
creased rapidly and became great nVl-
sance, not only in the treasury building,
but throughout the city.
in France there exists an order of
merit, founded by the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals of which
the members are dogs who have distin-
gulshed themselves by deeds of bravery.
Il tastefully designed collar of honor is
awarded to the nominees of the order.
Among the animals already decorated in
this way one of the most celebrated is
Bacchus. a large bulldog, whose specially
is to stop runaway horses by jumping up
and selling them by the bride. Bacchus
master resides in the Rue Biscornet. 1t
is calculated that the intelligent animal
has already saved the lives of eight per-
sons, if not more, in this way. Pautand,
another bulldog, received a collar in 1887
for saving his mistress from the attack
of footpad; and Turk, splendid New
foundland, has had a similar honor for
saving three young children from drown
ing on different occasions.
of European nations the Greeks have
been longest settled in their present ter
ritory. The bulk of the present inhabit-
ants of Greece are the descendants of the
people whose manners and customs are
described in the poems of Homer The
Iliad and the Odyssey were certainly in
existence eight centuries before Christ
and they are probably older. They pic
ture a state of society of still higher an
tquity, so that the nations who are de-
scribed as engaged in the siege of Troy
must have hour1Shed at least three thou
sand years ago. But these peoples are
represented as having sailed across to
Troy from the shores of Greece, some
from the peninsula now called the Morea,
others from the region lying north of
the Cor.nthian gulf. Even at this ancient
period the Greeks described themselves
as Autochthones Sprung from the earth),
which merely means that their origin
dated back to a remote antiquity. Wheth-
er they really fought a war with the Tro-
jams is not material 1t is certain that
Homer'S poems are nearly thirty centuries
old, and that the Greeks were living in
Greece before his time. No other existing
European nation can claim such an early
origin.
It is curious" says a Maine lawyer,
| according to the Lewiston Journal, chow
prevalent the notion is chat person can
not testify as a witness in court to any
thing seen through glass. What would
you do with all the folks who wear spec
tacles and see everything through the
glass% asked a Maine judge not long
ago, referring to this notion. If the glass
| through which an act or event was Sem
| was wavy so as to distort the appearance
| of objects, that fact might nowadays
| raise a doubt as to the reliability of the
evidence, but could not exclude it, The
| prevailing notion doubtless, had its rise
| in very ancient days, when all the glass
| in use for windows was very much warn
| ed and blurred. Such glass may be seen,
| single pane of 1t, in the office of the
| little hotel in Cambridge village, framed
and kept as a relic. Where such ma
| terial was in use 1t is little wonder that
| witness was prevented from testifyine
| as to what he saw through it. 1t was
! in common use in England at the time
| OF the settlement of New England ana
naturally in the early homes of this con-
| tinent it was the best that could be had
| But such a rule where modern glass is
in common use would be nonsense"
Our own loved state of Missouri is
full of caverns, great and small, says
the st. Louis Republic, but there is not.
| if we have been rightly informed, a
| single specimen of that freakish kind
| of subterranean cavity known to the
| cleaners of oddities as the ice cave
| within the boundaries of the state I|p
| IN Iowa, however, near a little place
| called DEBORAH, in Winneshiek county.
| they have a typical ice cave, said to be
the finest specimen of that class of cav
| erns to be found anywhere in the Mis-
| sissippi valley. 1t has been shown for
upward of fifty years and was first SCI
entificaIly described by the White geologi-
cal surveying party in 1860 To this Iowa
| oddly the evaporation theory of ice
| caves is especially applicable The walls
and the roofs are very near the suriace,
| the latter being at no place more than
| twenty-five feet below the level of the
| surroundings. One fact which goes a
| long way toward establishing the truth
| of the rapid-evaporaton theory as APP
| piled to ice caves in general is that where
| the walls Of Winneshiek's natural ice
! houses are the thinnest the accumulation