The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

consent of the Bavarian government has
not yet been obtained Most of the parts
win be taken probably by the persons who
acted them in 1890. The managers count
on a very large attendance from visitors
to the Paris exhibition.
A recent experience at Islington, Eng
land, shows that milkmen need watching
every day in the week. of 30 samples of
milk collected on weekdays all were gem
uine, whereas of those collected on Sun
day 60 per cent. were adulterated, the
milkmen apparently fancying that the in
spectors We're taking their Sunday rest.
Just prior to the November shower of
meteors tbe enterprising District Messen-
ger and Theater Ticket Company of Lon
don extensively advertised that it had ar
| ranged, in the event of the meteor showers
taking place late a night and being visi-
| bic, TO arouse from their slunlbers all those
who might desire TO witness the display
Another town in Michigan has gone out
of existence in the last few days. 1t is
! Sights, in Grand Traverse county. The
mill and charcoal kilns. the main support
! of the place, have been closed, together
! with the company's store All the men en-
| ployed there have scattered and most of
the houses have been sold for lumber and
are being torn down.
-Alt-Srelitz, a city of Mecklenburg, IS
the first city on the European continent to
be lighted throughout with acetylane gas.
! Since the first day of November this gas
| has been used in all public street lamps,
! and wherever coal gas was previously used
in private residences acetylane gas is now
! being used. The light is bright, and so far
very satisfactory in every respect.
German courts have just decided that
the place where newspaper editor shall
be tried for libel must be the place where
the publication office of the newspaper
! IS situated, and not any place where the
newspaper may chance to be sold. The
point was decided by the refusal of a Ber-
lin court TO assume jurisdiction in The
| case of an alleged libel printed in a Bres-
lau newspaper.
Sir Francis Grenfell, the newly APP
pointed Governor of Malta, who lost a
favorile nephew in the charge of the Ian
! GERS at the battle of Omdurman, has sue
| ceeded in recovering the dead soldiers
watch. 1t was pierced by an Arab spear,
but the hands were left untouched, and
gave $50 as the exact time of the young
officers death. Sir Francis has had the
watch mounted on a block of crystal,
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table.
The Chester county ,.alnnshouse gives
shelter TO three interesting characters, viz:
A man who twenty-five years ago was
worth 100000, but largely by reason of his
generous nature lost it all; Salie Ebert,
one of the last of the Lenape tribe of In
dams that were numerous in Chester coun-
ty years ago, and Rebecca Thomas, col
| Orad said To ba 102 wears old nd WhO
says she remembers seeing the town of
Havre de Grace, Md, burned by the
British as she stood on the porch of her
masters house.
The devils are at it again! This time
says the Philadelphia Press, it is in Rus
STA. Before the Court of Vladicaucase
Mohammedan moNah was recently
charged with torturing a woman under
the pretense of driving out the evil spirits
which inhabited her 1t was testified thar
last January the afflicted person suffered
from a series of epileptic fits. Her hus-
band came to thea conclusion that there
was a devil to pay and called in the mol
lah He went seriously to work, made
huge wood fire, stripped his patient threw
her upon a bed of red-hot ashes. Of
course, she was nearly killed, The mollah
said, as an excuse, that he had been act
ing under the husbands directions He
had first asked her to name the devils, that
in itself being sufficient for a cure. AS
she refused, she was burnt merely to
overcome the spirits obStinacy. When
the names were finally given they were
written on a piece of paper and burnt,
after which they had troubled the patient
no longer Anyhow, it was not the wo-
man who suffered, but the devils. The
headmau of the village deposed that such
cases and methods were common enough,
but the court found the mollah guilty.
| nevertheless. He was deposed of his civil
rights and given a years Imprisonment.
The hand of science is truly ruthless
says an exchange. Not content with
the glittering spo,ls 1t has already
reaped and the pretty fancies it
has laid bare, it has now set its
mark upon the delicate art of lying
This accomplishment, which a deuded
public has for so many centuries pad
and applauded as a thing to be perfected
only by infinite study and pains. has at
last been declared a mere disease, a dis
gusting congestion of certain molecules
of the brain. Al least that is what Dr.
Thomas P. WEIGH of st. Louis calls it.
I'VE often hear of people who suddenly
develop a propensity for lying that is
startling" he says. "a peculiar feature
is that the individual has nothing to ac-
complish and absolutely no excuse for
disregarding The truth. That man should
consult a physician. He should be treat
ed carefully. The base of his trouble is
the nerves Rest and tonic with good
nursing, would restore these, and gradu-
ally the brain would become healthy and
the afiliction disappear. Criminal traits
in parents are known to descend to chill
dren. So with lying. In a girl this may
be overcome by the wise counsels Of the
mother but I believe a boy who is so
afflicted will in a great majority of cases
be much what his father is"
-Thespian superstitions are proverbial
but they are scarcely less so than those
of gamblers, says the Philadelphia Press.
Certainly, they are not half so fantastic.
Your "old hand" wants the cards dealt to
him with the grain of the table; he will
walk around his chair for luck; but he
vii. never allow an onlooker to touch thai
chair. and. although he will advance
| money he will never lend a chin while