The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In one OF the splendid rooms Of the
palace Of Potsdam one of the decorations
/ is the figure of a large spider wrought in
| gold. says an exchange. A tradition as
| picturesque and interesting as that tod
/ of David of Israel and Robert Bruce at
| taches 10 this piece of work. 1t commem-
| crates an incident in the life of Frederick
| William. the granduncle of the present
| Emperor of Germany. An attempt had
| been made to poison him in a cup of
/ chocolate BY chance a spider fell into
| the cup, and for this reason the bever-
| age was given to a dog who. Immediately
/ upon taking it, died. The cook was af-
| terward hanged, and the golden spider
in the Potsdam palace immortahzes the
! incident.
-Thibet is a wonderful country. and
wonderful are the stories told about it.
| According to one author-who has been
| there, whether he has seen these strange
| things or not-there is a plant that flies
| says the Pittsburg Dispatch. IL looks like
/ dog, is tortoise-shell colored and very
| tame, but is so very curious that lions
1 and elephants are frightened when they
see it. There is also kind of black don
| key, which fights tigers, while on the icy
| peaks of the Himalayas grows what is
called a SNOW maggot," resembling a
silkworm in appearance, though unlike
| it, weighing about a pound. 1t is excel
| lent to eat. but too much of it will make
| one bleed at the nose. Some distance from
! the capital city there is a convent in a
| hill, near which is great hole full of
white clay that is good to eat. AS fast as
| the clay is eaten more takes It's place. Be
| hind the convent is large lake, and evil
| doors who go near always tumble into it.
| There are other wonders in the country,
! but enough for one day are mentioned
| above.
! The statement has been made so often
that the first disciples were "unlearned
and ignorant men" that it has become the
conventional opinion. There is hardly a
| shred of evidence to support it, says the
| Boston Watchman. The charge that Peter
| and John were "umearned and ignorant
| rests wholly upon the opinion OF the San
hedrim whose judgment upon this matter
was with reference to their own peculiar
| standards AS a matter of fact, all of the
| twelve were men far above the average,
| even judged by the most modern stand
ards, and two of them had genius. From
| the pen of one of the early disciples came
| that supreme work in the literature of the
race, 1.-The Gospel According to John"
| and the man who was chosen as the pre-
| eminent representative to the Gentle
world of the new faith enjoyed such SUI
| perb endowment and training that, simply
| as man, Saul of Tarsus stands among the
| half dozen greatest men of human his
tory.
| The old proof-reader was holding forth
upon the question of typographical errors
and their occasional influence on posterity,
says the Philadelphia Record. ''The word
hoodlum' is an instance of this he said,
as he knocked the ashes out of his pipe.
"Out in San Francisco twenty-five years
ago there was a notorious character
named Muldoon, who was the leader of
gang of young ruffians. They were a ter
ror to the community, and about as tough
a lot of citizens as you could find on the
coast. A reporter who had been assigned
to a story in which they had figured, I'M
dertoOk to coin a word designating the
| gang. He reversed the name of the leader,
and referred to them as 'Noodlums. The
compositor mistook the n for an h, and as
hoodlums the word passed the proof-read-
er. And now 'hoodlum is a recognized
word, and will probably survive. Another
instance which l recall shows how even
an actress may accept as inevitable the
error of a compositor. You may not know
that Ada Rehan's real name is Ada Gre
han, but such is the case. On the occa-
sion of her first appearance in q speaking
part, when she was accorded the dignity
of having her name on the play bill, the
printer divided it up as Ada c. Rehan, and
as Ada Rehan she has ever since been
known.
There have recently died in Paris two
important personages, a wealthy cat and
an illustrious dog, says the New York
Post. The former rejoiced in the name of
Bis and was the lucky possessor of a for
tune of 10000 francs, which had been will
ed him by his former owner, a widow
named LelieVere. This sum was depos-
tied with the city, which used the income
it brought for the maintenance of the cat
which was boarded out with a certain
janitress in Paris. The latter was under
contract with the city to care properly
for the animal and to provide him daily
with SO confines worth of liver and 20
confines worth of milk" In spite of this
sumptuous fare, Bis went the way of all
flesh, and now his wealth will go, accord
ing to his mistress will to enrich some
municipal schools. The facts concerning
Bis were well known in Paris. but still
more celebrated, and just 50, was Sultan
the Newfoundland dog which was the
property of Didier, the editor at whose
death he had passed into the keeping of
the Comtesse Foucher de Carei Sultan
had been the recipient of a collar from
the French Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals Sin acknowfed gment
of his courage and his devotion toward
human beings" He had arrested a thief
captured murderer, saved a child from
drowning and drawn a would-be-suicide
|
ell had brought him to her estates near
Corbeil, where he had recently prevented
some burg ars from entering the castle
His devotion was the cause of his death
for shortly afterward he was found dead
in the gardens. He had been poisoned
probably by the wretches with whose ne
farious designs he had interfered
"A learned German. says the Pittsburg
Dispatch who has devoted himself to
the study of physiology, an
thropology and allied sciences
makes the rather startling assertion
that mustaches are becoming commoner
among women in the present day than in
the past. He tells US that in Constantine
pie among the unveiled women that are
to be met with one out of ten possesses. an
unmis taxable covering of down on the up-
per lip. In the capital of Spain, ag1in
the proportions of ladies with masculine
characteristic is said TO be quite equal
to that observable on the Golden Horn
An American medical man states that in