The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-14
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A few years ago a new idea was intro
duced into horticulture, known as wild
gardens, says Meehans Monthly. This
simply means that certain flowers were to
be permitted to grow wild, so as to initiate
similar collections of beauty found in
state of nature. These wild gardens were
OF some extent, and would not be pracu-
cable in limited areas; but much could be
done by allowing one or two spicies of
plants to become, in measure, wild. For
instance, one may have a group of
some half-dozen trees, or perhaps Jess; and
plant snowdrops, crocuses, daffodils. lilies
OF the valley, or any similar plant that
could take care of itself in partial shade.
ana leave them there to their own devices
from year to year. Little permanent
groups of this kind, suffered to take on
a natural character, add very much TO
the pleasures of gardening.
"A peculiar form of insurance, common
enough in England. but almost or quite
unknown in this country, is illustrated by
reports of recent transactions in London
There many persons who have invested
large sums in renting windows along the
route OF the great June procession have
minimized their risk by taking out poll
cles on the life of the queen, saws an ex-
change. large number of such insur-
ances have been effected at Lloyd's at the
rate of guineas per cent for three
months. Double this percentage is the
quotation for risks" which guarantee the
insurer from loss through the abandon
ment of the procession from any cause
whatever; and as much as 20 guiueas per
cent. premium has been paid on sums vary
ing from three to ten thousand pounds
against the risk of the route being chang
ed. so much business has been done in this
connection that nearly all except the most
speculative underwriters will not touch
any more. The lives of the royal family
are anxiously watched by members of
Lloyd's, and it is said that an unforeseen
accident to any one of the royal house
would create something like panic among
those whose financial position is, in their
own metaphor, "A1 at Llod's."
The German DIR. Dryadust seems 10 be
always on the lookout for some excuse
for celebrating a literary centenary, says
the New York Evening Post. The very
latest of these festive and learned ami
versaries, according to the Munich
'Neueste Nachrichten," was held in
memory of the death of Baron Munchau-
sen, which occurred on Feb %, 1897. Many
reader of the fictitious adventures of the
famous hero of the 'Munchhausenaid'
(Which was first published in English at
Oxford during the lifetime of this prince
of all liars) have no conception that the
hero was a real person. Baron Hierony-
mus Karl Friedrich Won Munchausen was
a Hanoverian nobleman, subject of our
first three Georges; he was born in 1920
and died in 1877. He took service in
Russian cavalry regiment, but retired in
old age to his ancestral estate at BoIen-
werder, in Hanover, where he became no.
torious for the magnificent lies about his
military adventures with which he used
naiObhnrc a
bic board. collection of these stories
entitled Vademecum fur lustige Leute,
was published at Berlin in 1871, without
the baron's permission. The English
work, Baron Munchausen's Narrative of
His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns
in Russia was an expansion and improve
ment of the Berlin collection.
-tSince the arrest of the leader of the
band of Jews who congregated in one of
the public parks last week for religious
| services, people who are versed in Mosaic
lore have been asked about the origin of
the custom, which appeared to those who
read about it like ancient sun worship
says the New York Tribune. The Rev
DR.. Max Schlessinger OF Albany, in COM
| menting on the occurrence, says; Our
dear Russian brothers are hyper-orthodox.
According to the Talmud (Berachoth p
$50 he who happens to. see the sun when
after twenty-eight years, he has completed
| his circuit, and at the spring solstice (the
morning of the 4th day of Nisson) begins
| a new course, shall say a certain very
| short benediction. 1t is the same precept
which demands of every Jew to praise God
| for everything striking and extraordinary
for instance, the trees in their blossom,
| the ocean, the rainbow, a wise man, a
king, a friend whom he has not seen for
some time, etc. There are no services
w eli &c
| there is for the temperance of the new
moon, nor were these Russians bound to
| go out of their way to see the sun in his
| solstice. The only excuse they may find is
| in a remark of the Talmud, that it Is
| meritorious work to calculate and watch
the movements of the sun, moon and
| stars"
All the possible vagaries of human
| folly are destined to find illustration in
the present Illinois legislature, says the
| New York Times. The last specimen is
| the introduction and vehement advocacy
| of bill Offering a bounty of 10 cents for
every crow killed within the states boun-
| daries. This is a law that will go well
with the legislature, planned or enacted
against department stores. against the
| public ownership of Chicagos streets, al
| leys and boulevards, and repeating the civ
| II service regulations which are wedding
the thieves and incompetents from state
and municipal departments. AS every
! body with even a little ornithological
| knowledge is aware, the only really bad
thing about the crow is his reputation
Like most terrestrial creatures, he has
a vice or two. but he has virtues enough
| to balance them, and perhaps enough to
| tip the scales in his favor. The crow is
handsome bird and as intelligent as he
| is good-lookng. He destroys little young
corn, and he robs the nests OF other birds
when they are careless enough to let him
| do so. but he kills a multitude of grubs
and thus more than justfies his existence.
| He would seem to be especially necessary
| just now in Illinois. With four vehement
| candidates for every office, there must be
lot OF men to whom custom will soon
| make crow meat palatable. Lack of other
sustenance is likely to make them soon re-
greet his determination.
BY the use of a stereoptlcon. Mrs Re-
SAINT has shown New York audience
what thought looks like and has explain
ed the whole system of thinking saws the
Chicago Record. '"The astral matter
she averred, lis the particular kind of
| matter which responds to all vibra lions
When vibrations are set I'm in Tho hrp,,r