The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-24
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line haiSer is having new uniforms
and liveries prepared for his Palestine
journey. His own body-guard win have a
uhiIorm OF cocoa-iber linen, with facings
OF blue cloth, embroidered in gold. The
Empress bodyguard win be attired in the
same manner, but the faeings will be red.
embroidered in silver. The helmets will
pear the star of the Emperor's Guard.
The servants will also wear cocoa-fiber
linen liveries, with English caps, and they
VIII be grit with belts of pale green
leather, from which will hang a revolver
and drinking flask
1t is by no means universally known
that the Prince of Wales was not only
born Duke of Cornwall in the peerage of
England, but also Duke of Rothesay Earl
OF Carrick and Baron of Renfrew, in that
OF Scotland, and that his office of great
steward of Scotland which was also his
birthright, precedes his titles, and in point
OF antiquity is superior to his principally
or wales, of which he is strictly speak
ing, the tributary sovereign by personal
creation, otherwise the Welsh were sadly.
bamboozled by King Edward l. The first
steward was born Walter Fitz-Alan and
was created by Great StuartLAnglice
Steward-of Scotland in 1157, to him and
his heirs, and hence their subsequent sur
name.
perimenting with new system for keep
ing open the channel of the river, which.
if successful, will take the place. to a
large extent, of the very expensive sys-
tenn of revetments, and may be adopted
on all large rivers having treacherous cur
rents and shifting channels. Revetments
are made of willow mattresses, and cost
about 81 foot. The bank heads to be
substituted are built of stone. They are
placed at the bends of the river to keep
the current from cutting away the soil
The expectation is that the water will
cut into the bank below the bankhead
only to certain distance, and then strike
out across the river again. The bank
heads are from 600 to 900 feet in length.
and the stretch of river bank between
them is from 5000 to 5000, feet. Several of
them have been placed and the results
thus far noted have been very encourag-
ing.
The belgrade Odyek reports from Mon
astir, Macedonia, an extraordinary sight.
which fills the superstitious population of
that country with all sorts of forebodings
Myriads of storks inhabit the extensive
marshes stretching along the Vardar riv-
er. On the 10th of August last the ripa-
rian peasants saw quite cloud of storks
rising in the air to meet a band of eagles
The birds Immediately began to fight
fiercely, and the battle lasted all the day.
The air was resounding with the clapper-
ing of storks and the shrill cries of the
eagles. Feathers descended slowly like
clouds, broken from time to time with the
bodies of killed or wounded birds To-
wards sunset the storks retired leaving
the victorious eagles, still hercely exeit-
ed, circling in the air above The fields
between the villages of Krivogoshtan and
Gradsko, on the Uskub-Salonica Railroad.
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The peasants counted more than thous-
and fallen storks. The Macedonians in
terpret this singular occurrence as an
omen of a great war imminent, in which
the Turks, who are very fond of storks,
will be defeated by Christian armies bear
ing eagles in their banners
The Russians, who are widely regard
ed as class as inveterate .tipplers, are
now charged with the invention of a new
means of satisfying the thirst for stimu-
lating forms of alcohol, says the Wash
ington Star Ether is said to be so widely
used by the Russian peasants in certain
districts that the atmosphere is thickly
impregnated with the fumes of this VIOLA
tile liquid on market days, when the peo-
pie assemble in large numbers The vice
is said also to have spread across the Dor
der and 10 have become so prevalent in
Lithuanian Prussia as to cause the gov
eminent much alarm. Heavy excise rates
are believed to be the cause of the spread
of the new habit the ether being more
cheaply obtainable than the ordinary de-
coctions of alcoholic drinks. The vice
spreads even to the children, who are re-
ported as often attending school decidedly
under the influence of the ether their
mothers having given it TO them in guam
titles to counterfeit the pains incidental to
the minor ailments of childhood The at
n Ia is
directed to this evil, and steps may be
taken to deprive the peasants of their free
access to ether, which is medically re-
garded as far too dangerous in its power
and it's effects to be recklessly used.
in his lecture before the Lowell Insti-
tute, says the New York Tribune. Prof
Michael Foster ingeniously contrasted the
nutrition of the brain with that of the
body-a phenomenon so interesting TO
pyschologists-by showing that while in all
other parts of the body new cells, new
units, are continually made anew, this is
not the case with the BRAIN the tale of
units being early in life, almost at birth
and settled once for all. But though no
new units are formed, and no new brain
substance is ever made after this the
growth ard the power of regeneration, on
the other hand, far exceed the other ele-
ments; new extensions of the same old unit
So Oh tlAiOuSHOul ME, anu THESE, being
largely dependent on the previous work of
the brain, supply the physical basis of ed
ucation Concerning the two distinct sets
of nerve fibers. whose work it is to carry
nerve Impulses to and from the central
nervous system, Prof. Foster holds that
while the exact nature of the molecular
changes taking place during such trans
ference is in dispute, enough is known to
prevent psychologists from always assum
ing that the process of artificial stimula-
ton of nerve fbers outside the body is
identical with what took place when i'm
pulses were passing through those fbers
in the living organism The brain itself
began as piece of skin whose cells at
first resembled very closely the cells of the
outer epidermis.
"A peculiar surgical operation was per-
formed in Monroe, La, recently, says the
New Orleans Picayune. Capt Myatt OF
that place was a member of the Thirty
first Louisiana Regiment, and was IN
Vicksburg a. the time of the siege, where
he va1 ,s,,s.