The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-12
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During the last plague in Canton 10000
Chinese died, while of the foreigners, in
their clean quarters, not one was carried
of. Rats were said to have been the chief
means of carrying the contagion.
"A real marquis. who has since been
certified to be sane, went the other day to
Trinity church, in Paris, dressed as a van
driver wearing a blouse, and interrupted
the service by clapping his hands and
cracking a whip. When demonstrated with
by the officials this eccentric nobleman
said that the church being national prop
erty, everyone had the right to do what
he pleased in it. He was then promptly
turned out, and he has now brought an
action or damages against the cure of the
church.
Washing windows is the best exercise
for woman to develop the upper part of
her body, according to the Baltimore
American. Miss E. Marguerite Lindley.
who has made the health of women her
life study, says this with all gravity, but
admits that there is some difficulty in do
ing it at all times. There are periods in a
Woman's existence when she finds all her
windows in so spotless, shining a condition
that it would be downright wicked to wash
them. Then it is that she must seek some
other method of improving her physical
state.
Some of the Dutch delicacies seem ex-
traordinary to us. The Dutch people eat
pickles as the French eat peppermints,
says the Chicago Daily News. All about
the streets are little booths, where are
displayed picked cucumbers, beets, on
ions and other vegetables swimming in
vinegar and cut into ttbits for the con-
venience of the passers-by, who are very
fond of stopping for an instant and set
ting their teeth on edge for trifling ex-
penditure Diminutive eels sailed and
stepped in vinegar, are sold on the cor
ners by divers old women. 1t is probable
the grave little babies cry for the sour
morsels as American children long for
sweetmeats.
The ancients, in order to enjoy the
scent of roses at meals, had an abundance
of the fragrant petals rained down on
upon the guests. Heliogabalus, in his fol-
ly, carried the matter so far that the cloud
of blossoms he ordered shaken down over
one of his banquets actually suffocated
some of his friends, says the Chicago
Daily News. The Romans, during their
meals, reclined on cushions stuffed with
rose leaves or made a couch of the leaves
themselves. The floor, too, was strewn
with the lovely blossoms. Cleopatra, at
an enormous expense, procured roses for
a feast which she prepared for Antony;
they were laid two cubits thick on the
floor of the banquet room and nets were
then spread over the fragrant bed to give
an elastic footing.
&C. r. Perry of Herrick, Pa, has
been fattening a twenty-pound swapping
turtle all winter in a barrel of sour milk,
says the New York Press. On Sunday his
turtleship was taken out of the barrel
and allowed to wander about the yard
Early on Tuesday morning Perry was
aroused by the noise of a scuffie in the
yard Repairing there, he found the turtle
hanging to the nose of a big fox, which
had been stealing from the memories in
the vicinity for month B'rer Fox was
near the fence endeavoring to get over.
but his efforts were blocked by the turtle
Eventually the fox reached the next yard
but Farmer Perry followed and shot him
dead. The turtle all the time retained his
hold and refused to let go until the fox's
nose was cut off. Then it crawled back to
its home, carrying the nose with it as a
trophy.
OF all French institutions, perhaps
only one of any national Importance is a
monument to the consulate, says the New
York Times. That one is the Legion of
Honor, which Napoleon organized while
that most transitional of governments
to French instincts, has survived all the
changes through which France has pass
ed since that time, and its bit of red rib
bon is still considered a sufficient reward
| for most important services to the state.
| Napoleon III bestowed the decoration so
| widely and with so little regard for the
| character of the men whom he made
chevaliers that for a while the order fell
| into some disrepute. Toward the close of
| that unfortunate monarch's reign there
| We're about 5000 civil members, besides
all those who had been decorated as SOL
| diers To restore the prestige of the order,
| an act was passed in 1872 providing that
| only one new chevalier should be nomi-
mated for every two vacancies caused by
death. The effect has been to reduce the
| number of civil knights to 10000, but re-
cent ministries have found the awarding
of the few favors of this sort at their dis
| position created for them vastly more en-
| emies than friends. The Melne cabinet
| has solved the difficulty, for itself, at
least by introducing and securing the
| passage of a law repeating the act of 1872,
and substituting for it one fixing the num-
Der of civil knights permanently at H.
| 900. There was a long debate in the cham
Der of deputies on this bill. and the So
| cialists opposed il fiercely. but the meas
ure finally passed by a vote of S44 to 124.
Europe is suffering just now from the
individuality, rather than from the policy,
of the German emperor, says the London
Spectator. He is displaying a character
with which it is most difficult for diplo-
matists to deal, and which is not entire
~ consistent with his earlier career. The
habit of ruling, and the success, or rather
the absence of resistance, which in inter
nal affairs has so far distinguished MS
reign. have developed the emperors pecu-
liarities in a most marked degree He had
always a sufficient belief in himself as he
showed in his dismissal of Prince Bis
marck, but of late This belief has become
exaggerated into a confidence scarcely to
be distinguished from presumption. lie
| seems capable Of thanking God for a great
harvest. and sending Him the Order or
the Red Eagle in acknowledgment Even
his own subjects, who were at first dis
posed by tradition and habit Of mind 10