The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In Burmese schools making the lads
shout Is the approved method Of element
airy instruction. The Burmese education
lists argue that so long as a boy is shout
ing his mind is occupied. When he is ST.
lent he IS certain TO be scheming mischief.
Therefore the best shouters are the best
pupils.
Out of 24 different lines of electric
railway in Europe, 172 lines are operated
by the overhead trolley, have the I'M
dersround trolley, S the third-rall system,
Is storage or accumulation cars, and 3 lines
a mixed system of overhead trolley and
accumulators al certain points in the line.
The break is caused by the restrictions
against trolleys in a few European cities.
In the earlier ages dancing was ad-
vocated as a cure for sickness. Lycurgus
brought back from India and Egypt to
Lacedemonia notions of medico-religiOus
dances and enacted that the Spartan youth
should be brought up gracefully and sym
merically In Greece, Socrates com
manded dancing with a view of educat-
ing the mind and body, for he looked on
it as a health-giving device.
AS to the character of the first instru-
ment for throwing missiles, and just when
it was invented, says a writer in LippIn-
colts, we have no certain knowledge, but
read in Genesis X. 8 that "Nimrod was a
mighty hunter before the Lord" and sure
iy the skill that has kept his name in re-
membrance for thousands of years must
have been gained by the use of some surer
weapon than the clubs or stone knives of
primitive man. Without doubt man early
learned how much execution can be done
by a well-aimed stone and attempts to
hurl 1t with greater force and accuracy
probably led 10 the invention of the sling
one of the simplest as wen as most for
midable of these early weapons. II was
long one of the principal instruments of
war among the ancients, and the story of
David and Goliath is a good Illustration of
what could be done by one skilled in its
use. This skill however could be acquir-
ed only by early and careful training. In
the Baearic Islands, it is said, in ancient
times the parents suspended the dinner of
their boys upon poles, and required them
10 bring it down with sings before they
We're allowed to eat.
Many people believe that the sover-
eign's eldest son is born Prince of Wales,
but this is not the case. He is by birth
Duke of Cornwall, and is Immediately af-
terward created Prince of Wales. In point
of fact, the present Prince of Wales was
not invested with this title until just
month after his BIRTH the patent being
dated Dec s, 1871. The charter styles him
Prince of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, Duke of Cornwall,
Duke of Saxony, Earl of Carrick, Baron
Renfrew, Lord of the Isle and Great Stew
ard of Scotland and then proceeds to con-
fer On him the titles of Prince of Wales
and Earl of Chester. When the Princes
name appears in the London Gazette nova
days, in connection with any military ap-
pointment. he can only be correctly des-
cribed as follows: Field Marshal His Roy
al Hghness Albert Edward Prince of
Wales and Duke of Cornwall. K. G., K. T.,
X. p, G. c. BIG. c. s. l., G. c. M. G.,
G. c. 1. E, G.. c. V. o., Colonel Tenth
Hussars, Colonel-in-Field First Life
Guards, Gordon HighEanders, and Royal
Horse Guards, Personal Aide-de-Camp to
| the Queen"
The Philadelphia Ledger says: THE
announcement that a patent on diphtheria
antitoxin has been granted by the United
| States patent Office has created great as
| constituent in medical circles. 1t had come
| to be looked upon like quinine OF morphia,
| which any one who chose could manufac-
| ture, and which every physician could use
at his pleasure. 1t has called forth many
| earnest protests, many claiming that Prof.
/ Emil Behring, the patentee, was not the
/ first to use the serum. The patent question
! Is not likely to interfere with its use, for
1 its value is now so well established in the
! treatment of diphtheria that it will be pre-
!
/ dent of the H. K. milford Company, of
/ Philadelphia, who are the largest produc-
| ers of antitoXin in this country, said to
/ Ledger reporter on Saturday that there
was no probability that the patent could
be sustained. The patent office rejected
/ Behring's application five times, the last
| rejection by the special examiner being
dated March 10, 1888 Four days later the
1 board of appeals allowed the claim be-
cause the process referred to has been in
| strumental in very much reducing the
mortality from diptheria.'
A strike recently occurred among the
| peasants in the Western districts of the
| Cherson province of Russia The disturb
/ ance was investigated by the police and
| the rather extraordinary reasons for the
| outbreak were ascertained 1t seems that
! a picture of the present Car was recently
! sent TO all communal councils in Russia,
| including of course, those in Cherson. AS
] the picture only presented side view of
| the Gar, only one ear was visible. This
| led the peasants TO believe that the Gear
| possessed only one ear, and the boss of
| the other they thus accounted for: When
| Alexander III. died, say these PEASANTS,
| his widow and Old adviser began to con-
! fer together, afterward inviting Nicholas
| II. to join them. AS soon as Car Nicholas
entered the room he declared that all
| land In Russia must be equally divided
! among the peasants. One OF mis- cOunCia-
/ lors replied: LAS sure as YOU cannot see
| your own ear you won't divide the land.
| The Gar thereupon Immediately cut off
| one ear, and remarked, LAS surely as l
now see my ear I win divide the land"
| The peasants of ChersOn were so convinc-
| ed of the truth of this legend that they
| firmly believed that strike against the
| landowners would be followed by the in
| tervention of the Car in their behalf and
| diversion Of the land among themselves.
in September, 1885, Gabriel Daniel
| Fahrenheit died in Holland, probably at
Amsterdam, in which city he had settled
| many years previously, and where he
| found more suitable scope for his scien-
tifc researches than at Dantzig, the great
! seaport in Northeast Germany, where he
was born on May H. 1868. Till just before
the seventeenth century men could esti-
mate the temperature by their personal
| feelings only, but several attempts were
! then made to measure the degree of heat
/ 11I 49, k,.1,. tint, ,fvfN Of