The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The greatest classical scholar in the
House of Commons Is Prof Jebb, who
now enjoys the distinction of being the
single living NJ. P. to whom Tennyson ad-
dressed verses. The House of Commons
has many excellent classical scholars
among others Mr.. Purvis of Peterborough
who carefully keeps up his Latin and
Greek.
The French republic, says the London
Mail, does not appear to be very generous
in the matter of allowances to the mon
archs it has dethroned. King Behanzin
of DahOmey, and Queen RanaValona of
Madagascar are the best paid, but they
only get t40 a month each, which is no
great sum for a royalty retired from bust
ness. Ham Nghi, eX-King of AMMAN, lives
near Algiers on a small pension, and de-
lights in music and painting; but though
his financial position is far from regal it
is better than that of poor Dinah Salifon,
King Of the Nalons, who, after being ac-
corded in 1885 a beggarly income of $50 a
year. has had that sum cut down to $50
since 1893
The origin of the term "bue blood" is
most suggestive, says the Chicago Times
Herald. After the black Moors were
driven out of Spain, the aristocracy of
Spain was held to consist of those who
fore the Moorish conquest. These people
were whittier than those who had been
mixed with Moorish blood. The veins up
on their white hands were blue, while the
blood of the masses, contaminated by the
Moorish infusion, showed black upon their
hands and faces. So the white Spaniards
of the old race came to declare that their
blood was blue" while that of the COM
mon people was black. The phrase pass
ed to France, where it had no such signifi-
canoe, and was, in fact, quite arbitrary
and thence it came to England and Amer
lea.
-Skeptical looks have greeted a story
told by scion of a Canadian family
about a razor which has been used by
four generations of the family, and dur
ing all that time has not required honing
says the New York Sun. But history
comes to the rescue of what had been
supposed fiction in the report of an expe-
dition recently made up the valley of the
Gauley river by President j. p. Hale of
the West Virginia Antiquarian Society,
who found and secured for his society,
In addition to some interesting Indian rel
les, ''the razor with which Matthias Van
Bibber, one of the earliest settlers of the
Kanawha valley used to shave himself
The information is added that the razor
is more than a century and a quarter old,
and as nothing is said by the old noun
taineer of whom it Yves purchased about
it having been honed there is nothing to
show that it is not a worthy companion
piece to the wonderful Canadian shaving
iron.
Under the old Norman Kings of Eng.
| land it was a far graver offense to kill Il
deer than to kill a man. Some of tho
northwestern states are now endeavorins
to protect deer and other game by extreme
measures, and the officers are having all
they can do to enforce the laws. In Wis
| consin the killing of deer is permitted only
from Nov. l to Nov. 20. In order to hunt
then a resident of the state must pay 81
| for license and non-residents must pay
| $50. One person is permitted to ship no
more than two deer outside the state. The
| license has two coupons on it, and one
of these must be presented TO the rail-
road agent with each carcass shipped Ev-
cry safeguard is taken to prevent a vio-
| lation of the law and each license bears
| an elaborate description of the person TAX
| ing it. In Michigan the game laws are
| equally strict, and in the Dakotas a
| license to shoot prairie chickens costs $25.
| In some parts of Michigan farmers COM
| plain that deer destroy their crops.
! In commenting on the automatic hot
water supply now furnished in certain
| parts of London by dropping a penny in
/ a slot machine attached to a lamppost
! the London Telegraph suggested that food
| may soon be furnished in the same way.
! Whereupon a correspondent writes: 'It
| may interest some of your readers to know
| that the problem is already solved and
| that in the exhibition grounds at Brus-
sells there is a cafe which provides hot
! and cold luncheons entirely by the auto
matte method, and can say from expert
| ence that they are very good. By placing
| a or wi
| potatoes, can be procured, hot and well
| cooked; another franc will produce a half
| bottle of wine; half a franc will supply
a plate of cold meat, with salad and roll,
| and nickel of ten confines will extract
| piece of bread and butter and cheese or
a 'brioche' Besides all this, a nickel will
draw an excellent glass of hook from one
! of the two large vessels in the center of
the cafe"
According to news received in Europe
from Toxic, a good deal of uneasiness
prevails in Japan with regard to the gen
| eral election, which Is to take place i'm.
mediately after the new year, says the
! New York Tribune. Lively times are ex>
pected, and the soshi. or samurai, as the
! former two-sworded petty mobiles and
| their retainers are called have already
begun, as usual. to advertise their ser
| vices at the usual fixed rates their
! charges being regulated according to
| whether parliamentary candidate mere
| ly wishes his opponents annoyed and hust-
| led or desires their blood to be spilled
At the last general election there were
| twenty-five people killed around the hust,
! ings in the Tochi Ken alone. Politics in
Japan is difficult to follow. Parties are
in nebulous state, uniting, dividing and
forming new sections with a facility and
a frequency quite bewildering to the
| American mind. In the seven years tina,
have elapsed since the last general cleo
ton there have been no less than seventy
new parties formed, most of which have
! private rather than public ends in view.
while it IS notorious that a judicious dis.
| tribution of the coin of the realm win
| purchase the votes of any section in par,
| lament co..
The attention of the powerful Aborig-
| ines Protective Society in London has
| been called to a new curse that is now
| being forced upon the natives in South
| Africa. Liquor, of the most fiery and
| poisonous description, specially distilled
for native consumption, has long consti-
| tuted a serious obstacle in the way of
| those who desire TO ciViliZa tba ESaHr opa