The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

m pretoria for completely in the Jameson
raid, states that three days after his
arrival in the gold reef city he was fined
q shillings for laughing at policeman.
The belief that the shalIower parts Of
the bottom OF the Eastern Atlantic are
parts OF a submerged continent once join
ed TO the mainland seems 20 be growing.
Seeming evidence in support Of Piato.s
story OF lost Atlantis has recently null
tpiied a hundredfold.
The HaSkawati is the Oriental story
teller, the man who. beyond all others. re-
lieves the monotOny of Oriental life says
the Hartford Times. He sits in the center
OF a large crowd, weaving stories with sub
tie plots and startling surprises using pa
thos and passion and pungent wit and al
ways interspersing his narratives with ia
mlliar incidents, and laying on local color,
TO give an appearance of reality TO the
widest fancies. The Arabian Hakkawat
generally tells his stories a night when
the weird and wonderful are most effec-
tive. lie has always a fire, arranged in or
der to light up his cOuntenance with a rId-
Gy glow, so that the movements and con-
tortions of mobile face may add support
to the narrative. He sometimes proceeds
slowly. STUN bling and correcting himself
as Lord Beaconsfield used to do. as If his
one great desire was to stick to the literal
truth. Without any apparent effort to
please, the HakkaWati keeps his finger
on the pulse of his audience. Should they
show signs of WEAKNESS, he makes them
smile by pleasantly, and as the Arab holds
lIdl smiles ana tears are IN the same
khury," or wallet, he brings something of
great seriousness on the heels of the fun.
and works himself into a white heat oil
passion over 1t, the veins rising like cords
on his forehead. and his whole frame con-
Vulsed and throbbing, the rapt audience
following, in full sympathy with every
mood.
There has lately been added to the
collection of plants at the Botanic Gar
dens. at Madras, India, a specimen of a
strange tree. 1t is in size scarcely more
than a bush, says Public Opinion, but
others of its species are known to have
attained in their habitat in the Hima-
layas, Burma and the Malacca peninsula,
ff IN Of arg g f59 rom
strong railing which bears the sign:
dangerous! All persons are forbidden
tree It is, therefore. a forbidden tree
in the midst Of the garden, but no one
to be sburning f tree This name enH Is a
misnomer, for the tree Stings rather than
burns Beneath the leaves are stings
comparable to those nettles which, when
touched, pierce the skin and secrete a
fluid which certainly has a burning eff
feet. The sting leaves no outward sign.
times for months, and is especially keen
on damp days or when the place which
has been wounded is plunged in water.
The natives in the parts of Burmah where
this tree grows are in such terror of it
that they fly in haste when they perceive
the peculiar odor which it exhales. If
they happen to touch it they fall on the
ground and roll over and over on the
earth with shrieks Dogs touched by it
yelp and run, biting and tearing the part
of their bodies that has been touched.
A horse which had come in contact with
a burning tree" ran like a mad thing,
biting everything and everybody that il
could reach. A missionary at Mandalay,
who investigated a leaf of the plant with
his fore-hnger, suffered agony for sew
eral weeks and for ten months felt &C.
casional darling pains in his finger
Winter cycling has done one good thing
for women it has revolutionized their
ideas in regard to underwear. says the
New York Sun. The countryman who
came to town and remarked on seeing
nothing on the bed set aside for him by
his rich host but one light blanket and
darned! / alters told Nancy that half the
woman folks died of freezing, and now
they want to freeze me, too" was not
so very far wrong. For many years ply
sicians and dress-reformers have contend
ed that the majority of women hurt their
health by not dressing warmly enough, and
now they are saylhg mat the bicycle is
rapidly changing this bad habit. This is
especially true of those women who make
a practice of riding in cold weather. The
dress adopted by the average woman is a
lightweight, but all-wool union suit,
wooden stockings, heavy wooden tights and
sweater, in addition to the cycling suit
winch Is maze OF winter material. Cloth
ed In this way they should suffer very lit
tie from the cold. The wind we find quite
annoying said one girl, land the mud
quite impossible but outside of those two
elements, the day can't come cold enough
to keep rapid spin from being healthful,
| inVigorating and charming" Men have
always been more sensible than women in
the matter of underwear, and this Is prob
ably due to the fact that convention in
dress with them does not find warm fan
nels in the way They claim that the
pa MAJ rsr.ac
for winter cycling is a heavy sweater
However all this may be, one thing is
certain, that winter cycling is here and
the wheel people, no matter whether they
spin around in a well-heated academy or
drink in the icy air in the park, are all
unanimous in thinking and saying that
it has come to stay.
Probably most people consider honey
as the equal in value for food of any sweet
sauce-no better, no worse, says the Al
bany Cultivator. All should know that it
possesses one great superiority-ease of di-
geSton. The nectar of flowers is almost
wholly cane sugar. The secretions added
by the bees change this to grape sugar
and so prepare it that it is almost ready
| for assimilation without any effort on the
| part of the stomach in fact, Prof A J.
| Cook once styled honey 'digested nectar"
| 1t will be readily seen that honey is a
| very desirable food for those with weak
| ened digestive powers. If a person is very
| tired, too exhausted to eat" it is as
act almost like magic. Almost no eff
fort is required to make it ready for as
sanitation. Persons suffering from some
| forms of kidney trouble will find that
honey is a much more beneficial food for
them than is cane sugar. In eating comb
honey, many strive to eject every particle
of wax, fearing that, as wax is indigesti-
bic, nightmare and other troublesome con
sequences will follow an indulgence in
warm biscuit and honey. 1t is true that
bread is more easily digested than warm
biscuit as the latter is inclined to pack
IN chewing but 1t may surprise some to
know that comb honey is an aid to diges-
ton of hot bread or biscuit. The phiios-
ophy of the matter is that the flakes of
wax prevent the packing while the
honey readily dissolves out, leaving pas
sage for the gastric juice to enter the
mass of food. The flakes of wax are in
dlgestible that is true, but when warmed
are perfectly smooth and soft, and will
not inJure the most delicate membrane:
in fact they act as a gentle stimuIant
and are beneficial in some forms of ALI
mentary difficulties. The unpleasant syrnp-
toms from which some suffer after eating
money may often be removed by drinking
little milk