The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-01
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kind has been found in New England,
this time in Wnliamstown. Mass. He
claims that his wonderful cures have been
affected BY his two big toes and three
Latin words, the meaning Of which he
carefully guards
A farmer near PatchOgue, Long Island,
has a tame crow, which. while it has per-
feet freedom. seldom goes far from the
doOryard, says the New York Tribune
The crow was captured while quite young.
and is thoroughly dOmesticated. 1t rOosts
az night with the hens I'm the henhouse-
With the initiative instincts Of its kind, it
has learned 10 reproduce exactly the cack-
ling of the hens, so that strangers passing
often stop and look upward with amaze
ment at what seems to be the cackling
OF a hen flying about in the air.
"A Frankfort man who operates a
small chicken-farm in his backyard has
a curiosity in the shape OF cannibalistic
hen, says the Philadelphia Record. For
some time past he has noticed that this
particular hen has been suffering from
what he considered the continued persecu-
ton Of rats Every morning when the
chicken farmer went to the little box in the
corner of the yard, where the hen was
accustomed to lay her eggs, he found
nothing but broken shells. The fact that
rats should cOnfine their depredatiOns to
this one nest struck him as peculiar, and
his suspicious being aroused, he decided
to watch the hen. One morning recently,
he caught the cannibalistic bird in the
very act He saw her jump down from
her nest and strut around, clucking proud
~. A moment later she jumped on the
edge or the box again and made several
vicious dabs with her bill at something in
the nest. Then she ate that something,
and having finished. scurried away. Upon
a closer investigation he found she had
eaten her own egg.
king Prempeh of Ashanti never saw
the sea until the other day, when, as a
prisoner of the English, he was brought
down to the coast and embarked on the
warship that had been designated to take
him to the place of exile, where he must
spend the rest of his life. The beach was
crowded with a dense throng of natives,
who shouted and sang, and made a tre-
mendous din, when Prempeh and his COM
panions came in sight. The expression on
the Kings face when he first beheld the
ocean was one of blank establishment, not
unmiXed with alarm, but he soon recoV-
cred himself and talked Volubly in the fare
well interview which he had before en-
barking. A detachment of the West York
shire battalion entered a surf boat, and
Prempeh was placed in their midst. The
chief Interpreter followed closely in the
wake or the boat conveying the king,
whose every movement was plainly Visi-
bic. His novel surroundings evidently made
great impression upon PremDeh, and
when the RacOOn was reached and boarded
he was quite lost in wonder. Long before
the Racoon started many of the Ashanti
prisoners, most of whom had preserved a
most stolid demeanOr on coming on board,
were painfully seasick.
Russian princesses are rated as the
most jewel-loving women in the world,
and have the reputation of owning the
rareSt gems. If one chooses to follow the
lead of present fashions in jeWelry, the
Russian princess will no longer be enVied,
but rather outdone, by her western rival.
the American, according to Vogue. Dia-
InondS are to be seen on every familiar
article. AS for the standard ornaments,
brooches, bracelets, necklaces, earrings,
the stones selected for them in many cases
equal crown jewels. Watch chains, mum
chains, lorgnettes, opera glasses, sleeve
links, buckles, clasps, garter fastenings.
mountings for fans, card cases, riding
whips, umbrellas, perfume bottles, prayer
books, and even thinbles and coin purses
are not considered fine enough unless in
crusted with small diamonds. AS for
watches, the cases are ablaze. The cor
sage, to which these wonderfully brilliant
examples of gay enamelings, sparkling
with gems of every color, are pinned, re-
ceives an unwonted illumination. Nothing
more beautiful can be imagined than this
bijou watch swinging by lovely linked jew
els, with pin above, the perfection Of
beauty and workmanship, adding itself to
the whole like some royal decoration.
Pearls outrank diamonds for the throat
in full evening dress. No one may hold up
her head without at least one string, while
five, seven or nine strings are quite COM
mon
The founder of the Vendome column in
Paris met with financial ruin in his con-
decided to erect that notable column, en-
tered into a contract with an iron founder.
He knew nothing whatever of modelling
or casting in bronze. The government
agreed to supply him with cannons captur-
ed from the Russians and AuStrianS dur
ing the campaign of 1906, in quantities
sufficient to found the monument. The
contractor knowing nothing of the phe-
nomepa which the fusion of bronze Of
fers, found when twO-thirds of the column
was completed that he had used up all
haH DIV
en- to him to complete the monument,
and he was responsible for the entire
amount Finding himself face to face with
bankruptcy, he melted up his scorae and
mixed the metal with cheap refuse, which
he purchased and so completed the found
ing: The castings, however, were found
to be so full of flaws that he work was
stopped and the founder ruined. The
holdings of the different parts of the bas-
reliefs were so badly executed that the
chiselerS who repaired the defects TemoV-
ed no less than seventy tons of bronze.
They received for their labor $4,000, to
which was added the seventy tons of
bronze, which became their perquisites.
The whole transaction was very French.
To hear of suffering from heat in the
arctic regions sounds incredible to those
who have never been there, says an eX-
change Lieut.. Glider relates the expert
ence of his party from this cause While
one summer in King Williams land and
declares that probably nowhere on earth
! is the traveller more annoyed by acute
SunDurn imam IN the Iflgld zone. The heat
of ordinary exercise compels him to throw
back the hood of his fur coat, and by thus
! exposing the head not only his entire face
becomes blistered but-especially if he is
! fashionable enough to wear his hair thin
on the top of his head-his entire scalp is
affected about as severely as if a bucket of
scalding water had been poured upon him.
! At later period Lieut.. Schwatka's entire
party, while upon a sledge journey from
Marble Island to Camp DAILY, were so Sc
verely burned that not only their faces,
! hni do
| nearly twice their size. And a fine look
ing party they were Some had faces so
swollen that their eyes were completely
| closed on awakening from Sleep When
one was fortunate enough to be able to
| see the others, he could not refrain from
! laughing. All dignity was lost. Even the
august commander of the party was a
| laughing stock and, though he knew why
they laughed at each other. he could not
understand why he should excite such
mirth. Pretty soon he saw himself in a
mirror and found that when he tried IN