The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A very peculiar custom is prevalent
in Lithuania. On the occasion of the
celebration of a marriage, the mother of
the bride, in the presence of numerous
witnesses, administers to her daughter a
vigorous box on the ears In case of
dispute between the husband and wife
at any later period, this blow may be
cited as plea for divorce, she con-
tending that she was constrained to en-
ter the bonds of matrimony by physical
force.
We have heard of the bicycle face and
the bicycle back. and now we are threat
ened with the bicycle leg, says the Phil
adelphia Record. This latter affection,
according to young society woman who
is addicted to the wheeling habit attacks
female riders exclusively probably be-
cause their muscles are more vulnerable
than mans. Il noticed it first in dane
ing, she said, land many of my friends
who ride complain of the same feeling
After ride in the afternoon, the muscles
Of my legs seem to Aemain stiff all the
evening, ana dancing is the hardest kind
of work Ny legs don't seem to act right
at all, and l know am not getting awk-
ward. l used to be considered a pretty
good dancer, but since I've been riding
bicycle, I'm no longer in it. The men
don't ask me to dance like they used to
when 1 divided waltzes into halves and
quarters, and I'm afraid that shall either
have to give up the wheel or be content
to become wall flower
The craft of the Ladrone Islanders are
so swift that they are called Flying Proas,
says ST. Nicholas. They are long and
very narrow, and alike at both ends-dou-
defenders among sailing craft, for by
simply shifting the sail, bow and stern
az
engines of a ferryboat. Thus the proa is
not obliged to ''gO about" The same side
IS always to leeward, and this is flat so
that she can be sailed very close. The
Wlndward side is rounded, and, to pre-
vent the proa from capsizing on account
or the extreme narrowness of BEAM an
out-rigger, to which a hollow. boat-shap-
ed log is attached, extends from this side
so that the proa is a catamaran, with one
nun much smaller than the other In sail
ing her a man sits in each end, steering
with a paddle when the end in which he
SITS happens to be the stern. No iron is
used an the construction of the proa. The
sues are made separately and sewed to-
gether at the ends with bark.
The advanced, or advancing. woman
of st. Louis, according to the New York
Times, are to have a billiard room of
their own, with the incidental accountant
ments of bowling alley place in which
10 READ the papers, and a mysterious
something or something's rather vaguely
described as "other features" All this
is to be provided as a strictly business
venture by man who has hitherto sought
only the patronage of masculine PLAYERS
OF the scientific game and to his new es-
tapnshment he proposes to admit any wo.
man, whether alone or accompanied Inv q
husband brother. or sweetheart. Nothing
is said about friends or mere acquaint-
ances, but it is probable that thew. foo
VIII be allowed to enter when properly
introduced and protesting an inclination
TO assume in proper time one or the other
OF the nearer and dearer relationships
The experiment has as yet been tried in
only one place-Vienna. There it is said 10
nave worked well, and st. Louis is watch
ing with interest to see what the develop
ments will be on American SOIL
When bullet has passed into a mans
brain the chances are that its track will
have collapsed before the services of a
surgeon are available. The brain is soft
made up of many sections of gray matter
Joined together in manner not unlike the
parts OF a sponge and separated by hun
dFedS OF tiny canals. The slightest devil
ation OF probe in the hands of an opera
tor from its proper course, and the probe
enters the brain matter: 1t NAV need
only the slightest puncturing to cause in
slant death or impair the brain For wears
mere mas lain the greatest danger in brain
surgery. A new probe is now invented
with a spherical top, mounted upon a slen-
der shaft, to diminish friction A tinv
scale is fastened upon the handle, record
ing In fractions of an ounce the exact
of force being exerted. 1t is con-
trolled by spring, moved by the stem of
the probe. 1t is said that a probe tin
quarter of an inch in diameter needs from
two and one-haif to three ounces weight tn
penetrate, and from one and three-fourths
TO two ounces to pass between convolu-
tons. The precise amount of force being
known 1t follows that, with this instrument
the surgeon could see whether he was in
the bullets track or penetrating brain it's
sue.
A statement that had somewhat wide
circulation in this country not long ago
was to the effect that the pope. while
examining the vatican records, had said
TO Dom Gasquet, the librarian: Publish
everything of interest - everything.
whether it tends to the discredit or the
credit of the ecclesiastical authorities FOR
you may be sure that if the gospels had
been written in our day the treacherv of
Judas and the denial of ST. Peter would
have been suppressed for fear of scandal
4NAiAS Ntah tOuStlGIceS. a COrreSDOn0-
ent of the Catholic Standard and Times.
writing from Rome. says that this re-
port contains five mistakes, which ne thus
corrects: There is no such thing as the
vatican records" Leo XIII never invest1-
gated them; neither did Dom Gasouet.
Dom Gasquet is not "the librarian or "a
librarian" of or in the vatican; Dom Gas
quet denies that he heard the pope saw
any such thing. The lamentations ere
suthciently thoroughgoing, so thorough
that one almost forgets to wonder what
would have been said if the subject mem
toned had come up for consideration I'M
der the conditions detailed Into that.
perhaps unfortunately, the correspondent
does not enter.
An important, perhaps momentous.
change in land ownership is taking place
in Russia, says the New York Times The
nobility are gradually disposng Of their
real estate, and it is falling into new
hands. In 1S9S-the latest year for which
the complete statistics are obtainable-ti-
tied proprietorS sold real estate to the
amount Of 55OO.00O acres, and bought only
100000, showing a decrease in their hold
ings of 100000 acres. all in European Rus
STA. This land is now ouynod nts ,,nrao.,..