The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-31
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The will OF woman who ently
died at Bayonne. n. J.. contain pc
culiar provision. It explicitly bird that
the body of the deceased be dated
and the ashes scattered upon i hus-
palu grave. Inc wish expressh the
viii, however, was not carried OF the
heirs.
That the mustache is still regld as
part and parcel of the unifornA the
British army is shown by the circJirst
issued by the Secretary OF State kyar
to the various commanding general an
ing upon them to take the necessaAe lens
to secure the enforcement of the ms
regulations requiring officers to brn
their upper lip with hirsute grow
What is known as the humane he
man club consists of a club which, kle
elastic enough to avoid fracture, within
Tor the time. 1t is made of a hickoryke
and covered with an elastic ENVELOPE
soft India rubber. The surface cah
made either polished or not, as des1
The club was tried on animals and onl
davers before it was offered to the trd
and since then it has been recommend
by many police superintendent, and \
considered effective. safe. humane al
nearly indestructible.
The present army Of the pope is con1
posed of five bodies, the Noble Guard, uni
der the command of Prince Altieri. conf
sisting of about 50 young men, the SwlsA
Guard, numbering 100 young men; the Pal
atine Guard, numbering about 100 privates
and II officers; the Gendarmes, numbering
100 men, and the iremen, who are class ed
as soldiers, partly because they are in a
state of chronic feud with the Swiss
Guard. The pontifcal army has also an
official newspaper, published weekly, ed
tied by ex-pont.fical officers, under the
patronage of the so-called minister of the
army, and entitled La Fedelta Cattolica
Catholic Loyalty. 1t publishes deaths,
promotions, changes, but, of course, for
twenty-six years has not been able to rec
ord acts of valor.
The Dunkards, or Thinkers, OF whom
the new governor of Kansas is a repre-
sentative, belong to a sect founded in I7US
at Schwarzenau, Germany, by Alexander
Mack and seven others, who rejected the
doctrines of paedo- baptism, says the New
York Tribune. The name is a nickname,
derived from the German Tunker-uo dip;
members of the sect styling themselves
Brethren. Persecution drove the founders
to Holland, and between I719 and 1923 they
all emigrated thence to America They
are found in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Vir-
ginia, Ohio and Indiana, and it is apparent
that some have found their way further
west, but their numbers, all told, are not
great. Their church discipline is nearly
the same as that of other Baptists, eXcep
that every brother is allowed to exhort.
Men found apt to teach are ordained min
listers, and the oldest teachers bishops
The Dunkards affect great pla.nness OF
speech and dress, like the Quakers. Meth
a % at he Hr-l,N 70 I,rr- g..
merly they took no interest. They cele-
brate the taking of the sacrament with
love feasts, washing of feet, the kiss OF
charity and the right hand of fellowship
anoint the sick with oil for recovery, and
practise complete immersion, with laying
on Of hands and prayer even while the
person baptized is in the water.
Miss Kingsley, who returned to Eng
land in the fall of 1895. after a journey OF
nearly a year in the Cameroons, collect
ing fishes, relates stories of thrilling ad.
/ ventures, particularly among the FanSwe
cannibals, living between the Ogowe and
Rembwe rivers, says the Popular Science
Monthly. These people are always at Tal
with one another and are one of the few
tribes in Africa that eat their own dead
AS her little band of three Fangwe "ele,
plant men" and four Djuma men ap.
preached each Fangwe town, il was found
to be in a state of defense, and the leader
of the band invariably fell into some traI
which the inhabitants had laid outside tins
town for the enemy. At almost every
town the Fangwe stopped the expedition
and wanted to eat the Fangwe elepnan
men, who were of a hostile section. Miss
Kingsley had guaranteed the elephant
men safety, and sometimes by persuasion
sometimes by threats of punishment, anC
] sometimes by little present, they were
saved. Not one burial place was found il
1 the country, but pieces of human bedle.
are kept in most of the native mud hut:
/ just as civilized people keep eatables il
/ their larders. The Adjumas, on the othel
! hand, bury their dead in the forest. Mis-
I Kingsley climbed the Cameroons Peak
4 Is, 200 feet high. At an altitude near 1000
! feet, she came across the great crater
! There are about seventy craters in tn
! Cameroons mountains and from the larg
/ est of these the peak shoots up aImos
perpendicularly on the sea side; hence /
! has to be reached from the other side. In
| land from the Cameroons the Rubi noun
tains are inhabited up to about 1000 feet
! and Miss Kingsley found shelter in nativ
/ huts. In the higher ascent she had t,
! sleep on the ground in the open air, AM
was frequently drenched by the he1v'
rains, but suffered no injury to healtl
thereby.
The longer one lives, says The Lady
the more convinced one becomes that tn
expression of the face is not, as a gen
eral rule, a safe guide to the thoughts o
! to the condition of feeling prevailing a
the moment. The habitual state of tn
mind does, of course, impress itself per
manenuy on the countenance. Do we no
all know the gloomy downward lines tina
mark the pessim4st and the peevish wo
man, the dear little wrinkles round tn
eyes of the CHEEKY soul who Is Away
breaking into smiles, the thick eyebrows
ruftied at their starting point, that ind
( cate Jealousy, and the deep double lin
between the brows of the bad-tempere
man? Provided we be sufficiently up
In the science of physlognomy to distin
/ guish, for instance, between the signs o
temper and fineness or will (for indee
many of these facial indications resembl
each other closely, while signifying total
/ ly different attributes), we can form a fai
estimate of the disposition of a friend O
acquaintance; but when we come to tn
mood of the moment, our conclusions
| based on evidence which is misleading
are usually quite erroneous. Some peopl
poor thing. - have faces that ar
gifted with but little mobility; they ar
commonly said to have very little ex