The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-13
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a French physician declaes that dys-
pepsia is often caused by sap. He says
it distends the stomach andbrevents the
digestion Of the solids that ae eaten after
the soup.
-Locusts are an article offood in parts
of Africa, Arabia and Persi. of such i'm
portance that the ArIce Of provisions is
influenced by the qSantity of the dried
insects on hand.
Vast quantities ofNho!sehair, which
is chiefly used for uphoAttring furniture.
comes to this country froA Siberia. 1t is
taken froHa the names andEales of horses
ridden by Cossacks.
1t is said that rustics MO live on
bread and. milk diet nearly sways have
thick hair TO an advanced age,while peo-
pie who lunch and dine on neat rarely
have thick hair after %.
The health of pig is indicaed by its
tail. When the tail hangs loosely the pig
is not well, and its food should bechang-
ed. When the tail is tightly coihd the
animal is healthy happy and frisRr.
The supersdtious idea of ''spillingsalt''
being unlucky took its rise from one of
the original painting in the Italian school
of the Last Supper, in which Judas Issa-
riot is represented as having knocked over
a salt ce&ar
The man-faced crabs, which swarm in
the inland seas of Japan, are queer crea-
lures. The body is only about an inch in
length. but it is crowned with a mead
which has a face which closely resembles
that of a Chinese cOolie
The French government has invited
fifty countries to take. part in the exni5i-
ton of 1900. OF these forty-nine have an
swered accepting, and six have not yet
replied. Among these latter is Brazil, who
scored such brilliant successes with her
exhibits at Paris In 1889 and Chicago in
1898.
Col. George Washington Farnum of
Clinton, Conn.,, aged 81, has painted the
ceiling of his kitchen with the flag of rs
and the names of the thirteen states and
the following epigram: These are tne
states that created the flag that bore the
bird that whipped the back of George the
Third"
Not long ago vote was taken in the
Canton of soleure. Switzerland, on the
question of parish church organist One
man only took the trouble to go to the
polls Finding himself there alone, he re-
marked: "Vox populi, vox Del. am the
vox populi and L elect myself to the
place." And it was so!
The Phoenix was the name of the first
fire company in England, and it was es-
tablshed in 1852. AT that time in the
towns squirts- or syringes were used for
eXtinguishing fire. and their length cid
not exceed two or three feet, with pipes
of leather. Water-tight seamless hose was
first made in Bethnal Green in 172O.
Queer begging advertisements are Of
ten found in the German newspapers. The
Basler Nachrichten recently printed this:
"A man on the road to religious convic-
ton seeks for the money necessary to I'M
dertake a penitential and prayerful jour
ney to the Holy Land. Offerings under
heading Christian Love to be addressed to
the Office of this paper
The term BLACK Guard" is said to be
derived from a number of dirty and tat
tered boys, who attend the Horse Guards
and parade in st. James park, to black
the boots and shoes of the soldiers, or to
do any other dirty offices. These boys,
from their constant attendance about the
time of guard mounting were nick-named
''the Black Guards"
The lion and unicorn were adopted as
the supporters of the kingdom in 1903, at
the time of the union of the crowns of
England and Scotland, under King James
l. Queen Elizabeth's supporters were, on
the right a lion crowned, on the left a red
dragon. The reason of the unicorn being
substituted for the dragon was because
| James is supporters, as King of Scot
land, were two unicorns.
The Esquimau language, which is
spoken at the extreme north of this hem
isphere, is also found in the north of Asia.
The people have been called orarlans-that
is, jewellers on the shore" They inhabit
narrow strip of country around the
margin of Greenland and to the west of
Baffin's bay, around all the great islands
and down the coast shore of Hudson paw
and about the bays and straits TO the
north; then to the west around Alaska
and still further along the arctic shores
of the Eastern continent. They thus ex-
tend along the winding island and main
land coast for more than 10000 miles. in
habiting a narrow fringe of country by
the sea and obtaining their livelihood
therefrom. More than 10000 miles of coast
land are occupied by a people who speak
one language. But in New Foundland
there are tribes which speak another
tongue, mixed with the Esquimau, while
on the southwest coast tire are other
tribes speaking mixed tongues; and the
same is true of tribes inha biting the north
ern coast of Asia. If we call all these
tongues Esquemau, then the principal
tongue is still homogeneous and a COM
mon medium for the communication of
tribes occupying, as have said, more
than 10000 miles of the most difficult coast
known to mankind. While there is in
communication, ii is infrequent because
of the difficulties and perils of arctic navi-
cation. Thus, in all that stretch of coun-
try, there is but one language
-Brudenell Carter, the authority on the
eye-sight of children, says that sight
should not be regarded as a power or fac
ulty which may be trusted to take care of
itself, but thai it should be systematically
trained by the aid of appropriate objects
and its quality should be tested from time
to time. says the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat. The habit of seeing as much as
possible, of earnest visual attention to the
details of the environment will certainly
have the affaet Of irpraa sfper 49, .a.s....1