The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


/ IL formerly was said D. H Barnes OF
] Phoenix. Ariz., 70 the Washington Post,
I and the men who used 10 be engaged ln
/ the occupation Of selling dry holes by
J the Jl1icicus distribution OF q little pay
I ing quartz have gone into other lines.
I one Of the most remunerative OF these
/ lines is in Arizona Probably no O-ler
| state OF territory wants frst-class min
/ eraA springs more than Arizona. L
] seemingly mas everything else in abUll-
] anct- nut It's springs do not compare with
! those Of NeW Mexico. Lately several fine
| medicinal springs have been discovered.
I one OF these I was Avited 10 invest in.
/ dnQs accompanied bV several others who
| were interested, / went to the spring. II
/ was supposed 10 be as me as Hunyadi
l waller. II tasted like Hunyadi water. We
look some OF * away and an analysis
] showed 70 De Dt the same properties as
| Hunyam water, and We were about TO
Y close the trade when the chemist began
making inquiries, the result being that he
assured us such a spring in such a place
| was impossible. We took him with us and
| an investigation showed that the spring
consisted Of a buried barrel OF genuine
I HuhE ADJ water, pipe from the bottom
| OF the spring carrying the water into
dnOtner barrel, so il would not be lost
| ana a force pump. hidden in a cave con-
/ veniently located for the purpose. 1t was
sHreHdly arranged. and had not the chem
| lest been geolOgisc too. we would have
| pald a good price for the spring. Several
DDS"
One of the most elaborate newspaper
hoaxes ever printed appeared in Paris. and
! the peculiar thing about il was the large
snare or credence with which it was re-
| celVed, not only by the Parisians them
serves but by the people OF France gem
| eIaIy, The story, in brief says the Lon
don Mail. was that the Queen of Eng
| land had been dead for IS wears but that
| nef death had been kept a profound Sc
/ -, anu was known 10 only few per-
sons IN the British empirel The story re-
! Iated with circumstantial detail that
| queen Victoria passed away quite sud-
| denly IN the fan Of 1878 but that for state
| reasons IL was deemed best to keen her
| demise a profound secret Accordingly. a
| woman IN humble circumstances of about
| the same age as the Queen, TO whom she
| pore a striking resemblance, was discov-
cred and installed in the place Of the dead
! sovereign. whose body was secretly bur
| lea IN a vault beneath one of the royal res
| ldehces- The woman who was to imperson-
| ate the dead queen was carefully coached
| IN the part she was to play, and in order
! 70 lessen the risk of detection il was pub
| Hcly given out that the sovereign would
/ pass the winter abroad. as she had deter
mined TO live in retirement for a number
| or months. In the seclusiOn Of a little for
| eign town the impersonator of ROYALTY
| was most assiduously trained in her part
| ana, being woman of wonderful clever
| ness and discretion. she has been able to
! continue the deception this dav The story
| was naturally not long in travelling across
| the English channel to London. where
those who heard it regarded the matter as
one OF the best jokes of the season.
-"One deplorable result Of excessive
meat-eating in England" says Mrs. Err
nest Hart in her work entitled ''Diet in
sickness and Health sis the ill-temper
| which is a chronic moral cOmDlafnt
| among US. In no country 1 believe Is
| nome rendered so unhappy and life made
SO miserable by. the ill-temper of those
VINO VINO are Obliged to live together as in
england To everybody who reads these
| INES examples will occur of homes which
| are rendered quite unnecessarily unhaDpv
When they might be happy. by the mo-
| roseness and rudeness of the head of the
| family, by the peevishness of the wife
| or Dy the quarreling Of the younger mem
| bers. If we compare domestic life and
| manners in England with those of other
| countries where meat does not form such
an integral article of diet, a notable i'm
| pIoVemeht VIII be remarked. In less meat
| eatlng France urbanity is the rule of the
| nome; IN nsh and relocating japan harsh
| words are unknown, and an exquisite no.
| Hteness 70 one another prevails even
among children who play together in the
| street. In japan never heard rude an
| cry words spoken by any but Englishmen
l. am strongly of the opinion that the
| al-temper OF the English is caused in
great measure by too abundant meat
| dietary, combined with sedentarv Hfa
! The half-oXydized products of albumen
| tormurates and uric acid. which circulat-
ing IN the blood, produce both mental and
| moral disturbances"
A queer present has just been made
| 70 me President of the French republic
! by M. Paul Robiquet. It is a miniature
OF a me ebony coffin of Napoleon I, about
| hIth or the size of the real one and
| made of the same wood. NJ Robiuuet is
! me grandson OF Eduard lie Marchand an
! old waterloo officer. who was charged bv
| Louis Philippe TO construct this coffin for
! the prisoner of St. Helena This singular
! grit has been placed in a glass case in the
| Musee q. Artlllerie by the side of the mold
lngs OF the emperor's face and hand.
1t is possibly too late to cure the
affectation of giving a Teutonic twist 70
the pronunciation of those good old Saxon
| words either and neither, in whose origin
/ al there was no suspicion of an 81 for
| fashion seems to have decreed. notwitb-
! standing, that they shall be i-ther and
| tlnue to be with these who aspire 10
| keep pace with the popular whirl, until
! the turn of the wheel shall bring the
correct form on top again. That oft
| mooted question may then be considered
| out OF court for the present comments
| a writer in the Critic But there are
| Two other words that seem to be going
| the same road, and alike in onDosition
| 10 all authority, concerning which I wish
| 10 make few remarks l mean the
| words evil and devil which have a close
relation to each other in more ways than
/ one. Many of our clergymen have adorf
| ed Tor these words the pronuncia tion Of
evil and devil, and am sorry YOU
! say that the devil has so got the unner
| hand that the evil is on the increase
until what is in the beginning only
| clerical amectatiOn now bids fair iibe
l-ther and ni-ther, to assume the nro-
portions of popular fashion Time was
| when the stage virtually set the standard
| IN the pronunciation of the LANGUAGE
but in these latter days of dramatic De,
| Seneracy, when slip-shod English and inn
| perfect enunciation seem to be the r,IIo
behind the footlights, the pulpit exerts
an equal If not the greater, influence
| It behooves every clergyman. then to
look carefully to his rhetorical wavs
| lest he teach ortheopic heterodoxv Will
| preaching the soundest of theological ortb-
| odoXy. Now, the words in question have
| been pronounced ever since the Fn@iisb
! language came into being, simplv ell
and devil, with the accent on the frst
| syllable; and no amount of njsnro1,,,7t
citation can make the one any VlorHo
| or add any terrors to the other. If ON
| elergymen will only bear in mind that .fbo
evil that men do lives after them " tb 49,
will look more carefully in future r. +boty !
| orthoepy and hesitate ere they fr[- Ie ~
| improve on the good old-fashioned a.. 20 |