The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


East St Louis capitalists, says ST. Louis
Star-Sayings. 10 incorporate a company
WIN a capital stock OF about $4,000 for
me purpose OF manufacturing metal
American nags- The recent law which COM
pes eaen schcolhouse in the state OF Hin
Ols 10 display an American flag while the
school Is IN session has caused very large
demand for the flags. The material from
which the present dags are MANUFACTURED
IS not very durable. and one only lasts
a rev weeks, and after about a week s
use the nag becomes so dirty that IL has
more OF an appearance Of black flaE than
II docs OF the stars and stripes. The men
VINO are endeaNorinS 10 organize the new
company propose TO manufacture their
nags out OF sheet iron or some other dur
aoie material The stars and stripes viii
De painted on the metal and whenever the
fags become dirty the dirt can be washed
OF.
"A writer in L'Eleveur states that a
dog and cat belonging TO the same mas
ter We're the best Of friends in the world
5nd spent their time frOicking together
me cay while playing as usual. the cat
41eu suddenly, falling at the dogs feet
The latter. at first did not realize what
haq happened, bur continued his plav
puIlns, pushing and caressing his com
panion, out with evident astOnishmen; at
her inertness. After some time he appear
ca 70 understand the situation and his
grlet found vent in prolonged bowls.
Presently he was seized with the idea OF
Durylng the cat He pulled her into the
garden, where he soon dug hole with his
companion. He then reflled the hole
win 0lrt, and, stretching himself out on
1ie grave, resumed his mournful bowling.
me iqea OF burying the cat was ex-
ITaordinary. Whence came the thought?
~oulu ~ pc imitation. or, which IS a bet
yer explanation, did the dog have a vague
ldea o. concealng the event, which might
possibly be imputed 10 him? But. then it
would seem unreasonable for him to call
aLlenuon 10 the fact by installing himself
on lne grave and bowling. However even
human criminals are sometimes equally
inconsistent. II is difficult TO form an ex-
act idea of what gave rise to the dogs
conduct in this case.
Charles Dudley Warner. in the Edit
or's Study" of Harper's Magazine. speaks
Or Helen Kellar, and IN effect remarks
that original sin" doesn't seem 10 he in
herent- knowledge of evil hasn't vet come
20 tnls girl deaf-mute, now 10 years old.
she is what her infancy promised Great
amlabllity and sweetness of disposition
nave Deen preserved in her intellectual
development, anc 1 believe she is the
purest MINDED human being ever in ex-
lStence. she has never known or drought
any evil. She does not suspect il In
others; The world TO her is what her own
mind is. And this opens the way
70 what, after all. is the radical question
m this case-the educational question. In
an ner eaucat.on Helen has been put Ii
communication with the best minds with
the best literature She has known no
other, Her mind has neither been made
eneminate by the weak and silly Utera-
turc, nor has it been vit!ated bv fbet
which is suggestive of baseness In con-
sequence her mind is not only vigorous
out II is pure. She is in love with noble
Things, with noble thoughts, and with
the characters of noble men and women
II Is not a possible condition for most of
US in the world, but. nevertheless the ex-
pertinent of her education is very sug-
geSuVe. IF children in the family and In
tne public schools were fed with only
treated with as much care in regard TO
me things sown in them as our wheat
fields, what a result we should have!
The last number of the New Bulletin
(English) contains some particulars Of
very interesting problem, which some
years ago was submitted by the treasury
10 the Kew authorities. The question
was: Does natural sugar occur in to-
bacco, and in the Investigation of this
point some striking facts have been
ties We're, of course, chiefly interested
from fiscal point of view, the duty on
tobacco (other than cigars being As cd,
except in the case of "sweetened" to-
bacco, which is charged at As led, but
cigarettes made of the SWeetened article
are not allowed TO be imported at all. Be
fore tbs Investigation it was generally
admitted that tobacco did not contain
more than trace of saccharine matter
on the advice of Prof. Church, DR.. Hugo
Miller was called in, the latter making
thorough examination of the question
Commercial samples of bright Virginia to-
bacco, undoubtedly free from adultera-
IS
lo2 per cent. Of saccharine matter. Sun
dried leaves of nicotiana tabacum, grown
at Kew, contained SO per cent, and those
or the sames pecieS grown at EWell rail-
Way station as much as 8 per cent DIR.
Miller finds the sacchar.ne matter to be
OFFICIALLY inactive when tested by the po-
lariscope He is of the opinion that
neltner cane sugar nor glucose is present
in the saccharine matter, but that 1t IS
composed of at least three sugar-like sub
stances, probably hitherto unknown
In an archipelago in the Bay of Bengal.
says the Chicago Record, there exists a
race. of savage dwarfs. Sailors call them
little niggers," because the average hight
of the men is feet 10 inches, the women
reaching a stature of feet inches The
oldest thing about these little people is
that they look like babies all their lives
II is only lately that these dwarfs of the
Andaman islands have known how to build
nres. There is volcano on one of these
Islands, and from this they have procured
tresh supplies of fire when necessary, but
they know how to keep w-sumbering
embers sufficiently alive not to compe1
them often to visit the volcano. The thing
which has excited their curiosity most
Of anything introduced by the whites Is
me :. Irlctl9n match. Formerly the dwarfs
OF the Andamans were accustomed to muir
der all strangers who reached their shores
Even now sailors wrecked in the Bay of
Bengal would probably be massacred II
is believed the inVeterate hostility of the
Little Niggers" arose originally from the
cruel practices of the Malays, Burmese
get edible birds nests and sea cucumbers
and who used to capture the little natives
and sell them for slaves. There are sew
eral shades of color among them ranging
from bronze to shiny black. Their hair is
extremely frizzled, growing in spiral tufts
1t is fine and seldom becomes more than
two or three inches long. Most of The
women shave their heads once a week
leaving only two narrow strips of hair
from the crown to the nape of the neck.
Many of the men do the same though
the style is different They leave a match
like skull cap on the crown of their
heads. The most remarkable custom Of
these little people is wearing necklaces
OF human bones. When child dies il is
buried only to be dug up again, The
father carries the body TO the nearest
creek and removes the flesh from the
bones with, the, greatest care. carrying
them and the skull back to his hut. 'Tbe
mother, after painting the latter with a
yellow pigment, hangs it around her neck
Infants skulls being fragile are protected
by covering of string. For few DAYS
the mother will spend all her time string
ing the bits of bone into necklaces. 10 ba
distributed among her friends a. memen-
toes. These are supposed to ward off dis
ease Teeth are also strung as necklaces
every native of the Andaman islands wear
ing chain Of some sort made of human