The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-04-22
COl0rcd Eggs Older Than
Easter Festival.
The Unspeakable Turk Was
Originally a Tartar.
About People Of Giant Stature.
Worthless Tea TO BE Barred.


Easter Is a custom that is older than the
Easter festival itself In all oriental my
thology the egg is tho symbol OF liic' inc
mysterious appearance of u living creature
from the apparently inert matter contained
within the shell being 50 uneXplain
able, on any principle OF
science. that the Hindoos regard the
Matching of every egg as direct
interposition of divine power In tho
carly DAYS of Christianity great many
Pagan supcrstitions We're cngraltcu on
che new system. The Saturnnlla oil ltphc
became the Christmas midwinter festival
The spring holidays of the gods Of the
wood and the field were transformed into
Easter. The sending of eggs as presents
In the spring, was a common pfacllCe
long before the time of Christ Nnong
the Persians, the Hindoos, the Egyptians
ard the Jews, the egg being regarded hs
cmblematic of the resurrection of nature
from state of apparent death. Many, II
not most, of the early Christians were
Jews and retained the practice. colorihg
the egg red in allusion To tho cruclliXion.
The unspeakable Turk who is just now
engaged in waging war on the valiant
Greeks was originally a Tartar, with
nose as fat as tnat OF the Hun, SO dro&ued
by western Europeans in tho fourth cen
tury. roceding chin and squlnt eyes but
amalganation with the nations he has
conquered has elevated his nose, straight
ened his eyes and brought his chin into a
lrominonce somewhat moro becoming than
liz was before. The Selluk Turks first
appeared i'm history as n tribe of IartalS
about A. ID. 161 when they conquered
part of Armenia ever since called lur-
comania. 4 hey had emigrated from Tur-
kestan being pressed forward by the
f,il, In, tbnir tiplr
occupation OF Armenia their oncronch-
ments on Asia Minor began and steadily
continued for several hundred years.
They first came into Europe in 1850. "a
large force of Turks cross ing the Bos-
phorus as mcrccnarIes employed by the
emperor Botoniates to assist him in u
contest with rival for a throne From
that time until the close of the seventeenth
century their advance into Europe was
steady. After their repulse beforc the
walls of Vienna in 1858 by John Sobieski
of. Poland, the wave of Turkish aggression
began to recede and sirce then the Turk
ish power has been on the decline.
The Cardiff giant, about which an in
1tirer asks Information, was a fraud and
fake. lt was pretended that 10 was n
fossil u prehistoric man that had been
dug somewhere, bnt such was not the
fact and the imposture was after time
admitted by those VINO had pcrpetrated 10.
Well authenticated giants there have
lesn, however. There H. one on record In
Germany, a woman named Marianne
Wehde who was eight feet three inches
In height This was little more than
the famous Chinese giant Chang, who
was not quite eight feet two inches
Chang was, however, the more remark
able because he belonged To "a small race
1T Is little wonder that his own country
men feared him "a god. There is "A
skeleton I'm Trinity College, Dublin which
il eight feet six inches long There Is one
at the College of Physicians, London,
that Is eight feet long and there is one at
Bonn eight feet two inches long. In
earh Of these cases, of course, the whole
body would be little longer.
In 1870 and 1871 there travelled with the
show of p Il. Barnum one Colonel Goshen,
"a fine looking man, seven feet four inches
tall, and in 1872 Mr.. Barnum had with his
show Captain Bates, who was seven feet
eight inches high, and his wife, known as
Ann Swan, who was giant also. Those
who went 20 the side shows sometimes
saw four brothers, known us the four
Texans, who were about seven feet tall
each. Bishop Berkeley who wrote West
ward the star of empire takes its way"
once tried to make giant He thought
TO start with, SO he got one and reared
him on such food as he thought most
favorable to great stature. The orphan
died at the height of seven feet eight
inches and at the age of twenty years.
Though many giants are well formed they
are much more frequently so than dwarfs
lit Is noticed that their heads are dspro-
portionately small As rule, also giants
are unhealthy and die young
According TO n tea expert there have been
imported into this country annually ahout
ten million pounds of ten that was not
fit for consumption This so-called tea is
such as Is sold at auction nc from five o.
eight cents "A pound and Is bought Ivy re-
tailers at that price and is sold again for
from % TO 30 cents pound Undcr the
new law, however this worthless stuff will
be shut out though the price of good tea
TO the consumer Will probably not be adj
vanccd at all. The best teas in the world
come TO the United States. but heretofore
the retailers have dealt I'm them only 10 n
limited extent, preferring to buy teas nj
from eight 10 ten cents a pound and mako
an enormous profit ratlrr than 10 buy a
fine grade at from % 60 30 cents and make
n good profit The choicest grades of
Congou tea, commonly called English
breakfast green tea, Ool0ng tea. and Japan
tea received by this country every season
10 not cost, laid down, over 20 cents a
pound. IL these teas were rctailcd for -
cents pound tho consumers OF the
United States could drink the choicest
teas grown for that moderate price A
pound of good full strength tea will make
about 80 cups.
The tea best adapted 10 the climate of
this country, the same authority says, is
IOrmosn Oolong Ii is grown i'm the
Island OF Formosa, the soil Of which Is
new as compared with the rest of China,
having been cultivated for tea only about
twenty-five years. Hereafter green teas
will b. found 10 be free from the Injurious
- asy to Take
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