The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The new marriage law in Argentine
provides that every male from the age of
20 to 80 shall pay tax until he marries,
and shall pay it once a month. There is
also a provision to the effect that young
unmarried persons of either sex who shall,
w..--out sufficient reason, reject the ad-
dresses of those who may aspire to their
hands and who continue contumaciously
unmarried shall pay 80 piastres for the
benefit of the young pef son, male or fe-
male, who has been so refused.
Shakespeare made some great blum
ders in his time. Though universally be-
lieved to know all things, he has in quite
a number of instances made mistakes
in details. He introduced cannon into a
period of $50 years before cannon were in
vented. He speaks OF printing done in the
time of Henry II; of clocks in the time OF
Julius Caesar. Hector quotes Aristotle and
Coriolanus refers to Alexande A billiard
table is introduced into Cleopatra's palace;
Bohemia has a sea coast and Delphos is
made out to be an island.
If the find of a Colorado silver miner,
made some half dozen years ago, be taken
into account, there is but little doubt
that the human race existed on this CONT
nent as long ago as the time when the
silver veins were in process of formation
feet below the surface a number of human
bones were found imbedded in the silver
bearing ore. When taken out over 800
worth of the ore still chung to the bones.
An arrowhead made of tempered copper
and four inches long, was also found with
the remains.
The longest way around is sometimes
the shortest way. Some years ago two
English ships were repairing telegraph
cable near Bombay. The two ships were
but half a mile apart; one of them hold
ing the shore end of the cable in close
communication with Bombay, the other
having the sea end, which was connected
with Alden. 1t became necessary for
the two ships to communicate with each
other. This was done by one of them
telegraphing to Bombay and thence
around to Alden, and the other from Alden
around to Bombay. Thus as a speedy
means of sending messages a half mile
they were sent around by route nearly
1000 miles in length.
How many have time and again heard
the tabled story of Bluebeard, and how
few believe that such a creature ever ex-
listed. Yet the tale is founded upon well
verified facts. The Blue Beard" of the
story was Giles de LaveI Lord of Retz, and
other baronies and lordships in Brittany
ABOUT the Iln6 or tndrleS VII. he bore
the reputation of being both the wealthiest
and wickedest man of his day. On Dec
q, 1440, he was burned alive for having
murdered several wives and not less than
100 children. Before he was taken to the
stake he boosted of his horrible crimes
and said he had committed enough Of
them to condemn to death ten thousand
men.
"A French theater finding business
rather bad about 100 years ago announc-
ed the following effects as for sale: A
sea, consisting of twelve waves the
twelfth of which is larger than the 9TH
ers, and little damaged. A dozen and
a half clouds, edged with black and in
good repair; rainbow, somewhat faded ;
beautiful snowstorm of flakes of au-
verSne paper; three bottle of lightning
a setting sun, worth little, and a new
moon, rather DID, Othelo's handkerchief
and a Pasha's mustache; complete re-
past, consisting of four cardboard en-
trees, cardboard pie and fowl of the
same material several oak bottles and a
wax dessert, etc, etc.
Mr.. T. L. Williams, in a note in the
Journal of Botany, points out certain facts
about bumblebees which will be of interest
to some humans. He says that these in
sects Otter get drunk. Their intoxicating
tipple is the honey produced by the crowd
ed flowers of the capitulate heads of Ger
tain compostae and dipsasaetae. When
the stage of intoxication is reached it is
indicated by rolling on the back, strik-
ing the legs wildly in the air and general
helplessness. The bees rapidly recovered
from the effects, and in most cases were
eager to repeat the debauch; but one in
dividual which had been shut up in a vas
culum with copious supplies of centaurea
scabloSa manifested the next morning a
praiSeWorthy remorse and disgust raising
its head and forelegs a. high as il could
above the plants, then hurrying away as
soon as released. The most dissolute spe-
cies is the neuter of bombus lapiderius. The
remorse probably indicates the presence of
the headache, which in the highest animal
OF all Is so provocative of good resolutions.
Nearly all the kings and queens of Eu-
rope are descended from two sisters,
daughters of Duke Louis Rudolph, of
Brunswick-Wo lfenbuettel, who died in
1875, and his wife, Christine Louisa, who
departed this life in 1747. The elder of the
sisters, Princess Elizabeth Christine, sub
sequent to her conversion to the Catholic
| church, married the prince, who after
wards became Emperor Charles VI of Ger
many. Through her daughter, Marie
| Theresa, she became the ancestor of the
house of Hashurg-Lothrigin, Tuscany,
Sicily and Modena, and through the mar
riiages of female descendants the reigning
families of Portugal, Brazil and Italy,
Saxony, the present reigning families of
Spain and Bavaria, the Spanish Bourbons
and all of the Orleans family. These de-
scendants number, all told, nearly 400 The
second sister, Princess Antoinette Amalie,
married her cousin, Duke Ferdinand II of
nswick+Bevern. They had three
daughters and one son. One of the girls
is the ancestor of the present royal house
of Prussia, while through the marriages
of other female descendants she is one Of
the progenitors of the reigning families of
Russia Meckenburg- Schwerin, Baden
and the Netherlands. A second girl is the
ancestor of the entire house of Coburg,
and through it the ruling families of Eng
land, Belgium, Portugal and Hesse-D Darn
stadt. The third girl is the ancestor of
the present reigning houses of Denmark,
Hostein-G lucksburg, Hesse-Cassel and
Greece. The line of the son, the house Of
Brunswick, became extinct in 1889
The determining factor in sex has al
ways been the subject of controversy,
SAYS the London Lancet, but up to the