The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-10
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editor Of the diary of Gov. Thomas Hutch
inson, published in Boston some ten years
ago. He was in his S7th year, having been
born in England in November, 1919 He
lived in very picturesque and unique
! mouse at Sidmouth, called the Old Chan
| eel, which he built from the ruins of an
! ancient church that had been pulled down.
| He was local antiquary of reputation
and gentleman of great kindness of
! heart. He was bachelor and the last of
| his generation.
Nearly everybody knows what fools
| cap paper is, but there are probably few
| people who know just how it came to
bear that name" said a large wholesale
stationer in New York to writer for
| the Washington Post "In order to in
| crease his revenues, Charles l of England
granted certain privileges amounting to
| monopolies, and among these was the
| manufacture of writing paper, the exclu-
| sive right of which was sold to certain
| parties, who grew wealthy and enriched
| the government at the expense of those
| who were obliged to use such paper At
| that time all English paper bore the royal
| coat of arms In water marks. But when
| the parliament under Cromwell came into
power it made sport of this law in every
| possible manner, and, among other indig-
mites to the memory of Charles, 1t was
ordered that the royal arms be removed
from the paper, and that FOOLS cap and
| bells should be used as a substitute. When
the Rump parliament was prorogued these
were also removed; but paper of the size
of the parliamentary journals, which is
usually seventeen by fourteen inches, still
bears the name of foolscap in England
In this country foolscap was used largely
by lawyers, writers and other professional
men for copying purposes until a few
years after the civil war, when a smaller
single sheet of paper, known as legal cap,
was introduced. Then came the typewrit-
ing machines, requiring the manufacture
of a paper of suitable size for copying.
and to-day there is a very little demand
for toolscap outside of a few school rooms
In battle the movements of bees are so
rapid that it is difficult to follow them
through all their evolutions. but the plan
OF battle seems to be very simple saws
the London Mail. Two bees from the hive
are sent to kill one intruder and the latter
always tries to force an entrance, even at
the risk of its life Once inside, ii makes
room for others of its companions to en-
ter, and then, gathering up it's abdomen
in as small space as possible it assumes
une defensive. Two of the hive bees
pounce upon it, and, seizing it fiercely they
seek to find vulnerable point between
the rings of its body to sting it to DEATH
The attacking bee just as determinedIy
struggles to cover every unprotected spot.
IL SuhlClSAt Tune can De gained ana the at
lacking swarm is large enough to force
an entrance, the badly maued bees that
have not been stung to death will sudden
~ assume the offensive and pursue the
tactics of their enemies. Should the bat
tie go against the attacking body, the bal
ance OF the swarm flies away to seek safe
ty, ana the dead carcasses of their COM
panions are thrown contemptuously out
of the hive. But in the event of an oppo-
site termination of the struggle the poor
inhabitants are slaughtered. When their
| fate has been practically decided, many of
| them turn traitors to their cause, and in
order to save their own lives they Join the
| forces of the attacking party and display
| great Vigor in killing their former COM
| panions. But there is honest patriotism
| even among bees. In every hive there are
| some who fight to the last and prolong the
| struggle.
The main source of the amber supply
is the sea coast of the Baltic ocean, saws
| Harper's Round Table. 1t is fossil gum.
| originally the emulation of a species of
confer now extinct. This grew in luxu-
| RANT profusion hundreds of thousands of
! years ago on the marshy coasts of North
ern Europe, when the climate was much
| warmer than it is to-day The natural
| history of amber Is thus explained. The
! immense forests of amber pine underwent
| their natural downfall and decay. The
| resin VI the WOOD accumulated IN large
| quantities In Dogs and ponds and in the
soil Of the forest. Where the coast was
| slowly sinking, the sea by and by covered
| the land, and the amber, which had been
! gradually hardening, was at last deposited
| at the ocean bottom. But in higher re-
! gions the pines continued to flourish, and
| SO amber would still continue to be washed
! down to the shore, and deposited in the
! later formed green sand, and the still later
| formed stratum of Ignite or brown coal
| The gum became fossilized by its long bu-
! rial underground. More than 200 speci-
| mems of extinct life, animal and vegetable,
| have been found imbedded In amber spe-
'cimens, including insects, reptiles, plants,
| leaves, shells, fruit, ETC., which had been
| caught in the liquid gum and entombed
| there for all time. Some of these speci-
mems are so curlously beautiful as to be
almost priceless, and one English collector
has a cabinet of them which is valued at
f1O0 900. One piece embalms a lizard about
eight inches long, a little jewelled monster
| perfect in list form and coloring, which
| has no like in anything existing now. In
deed, in many instances science Is able
| solely through this medium, to study details
| of animal life which persisted from the
earth many hundred thousand of years
ago. There are flies preserved with wings
poised as if for fight, where the prismatic
sheen glowing throw the yellow sepulchre
| is as brilliant as if they We're floating alive
in the sunshine.
DR. Prince A. Morrow, writing in the
North American Review on 'Leprosy and
Hawaiian Annexation" says: 1.-The act
i've cause of leprosy is a specific micro
organism, the bacillus leprae. The period
of incubation varies from few minutes
to several years. Two principal types or
forms of leprosy that are recognized as
the brunt of the disease, is determined to-
ward the skin or toward the peripheral
nervous system. The first form is term
| ed tubercular; the second, anaesthetic, or
nerve leprosy. In the first form infiltra-
tons occur in the skin. forming nodules
or tubercles, which are especially promi-
nent about the forehead, cheeks and ears;
later, these nodules break down, forming
ulceratng sores; often they occasion pic
lures of horrible deformity The tubercu-
lar form is the most severe and rapidly
fatal; the average duration of life Is from
five to ten years In the anaesthetic form
the nutrition of the skin is interfered with
| from implication of the nerves, leading to
contractions and deformities of the mem
hers not infreQuently there is marked mn