The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-01
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l. iA'7 AiAAaAeANAE llASN DcEdAHE NoAhlIOl III
the British army at The beginning Of the
present century. The Hussars adopted It,
and not long afterWard the Lancers. 1t was
not until the beginning Of the Russian war
that the infantry adopted the mustache.
" hiskers disappeared after 1870, and at
present the mustache has come under the
Queens regulations for all branches of the
service. So much so, indeed, that only a
year ago the authorities at the Horse
Guards learned with Indignation that
young officers in certain regiments did not
sufficiently cultivate the growth of mus
taches by emitting 10 shave the upper lip
IN consequence of which general officers
commanding have now instructions to sup
press such irregularities by any means that
they may think necessary"
The London Daily News gives the fol-
lowing statistics In connection with the let
ter Of the Gar 1--WE are near the end
of The century, and this is a record of the
number of years devoted to warfare by
each of the great European powers. The
gravity OF the campaigns is not taken into
account; It is simply a ques lion of the
shutting or the opening of TIE Temple Of
Janus. The power that has been most con-
stantly at war has been Turkeys years
of II, as against 50 of peace. One is rather
surprised to ind that the second on the
list is Spain, and a good second, too, with
u years Ol NdIldTE. not counting DeI idSt
fatal campaign. Then come France with n
years, Russia With a. and Italy with 90
before We reach our own country with 81
Germany, not counting Prussia follows
with Il, Sweden with 10, and Denmark with
g. There has been more warfare, at least
less continuance peace, than one would,
at tirsI hand, believe.
The Montreal Star says: A curious &C
count from an eastern point of view is
given by Mr.. Grose, who has just return
ed from a tour of exploration in the Can
adian northwest, concerning the law of
cache A man going along wishes to
| leave, say his coat behind for reasons of
personal comfort. He hangs it on a tree.
and it win be there for him if he does not
return for a week. Similarly the ownership
of a suspended gun or rifle is respected. MIR.
| GroSe says that man would be safe in
hanging his gold watch and chain on "a
tree with the assurance that it would be
there when he returned to claim il. a
cache of provisions is subject - a slight
modification in respect to the rule of in
volatility. A hungry Indian discovering
such viii make fire in front of it, to
make it apparent that there is no secrecy
intended in connection with his visit. He
viii then take from the cache sufficient
food for his immediate needs, and pass on,
without touching anything more.
About a year ago." remarks a gossip,
according to the Philadelphia Record
''the congregation of one of our very well
| known churches, uptown, adopted, after
long and serious debate, the individual
communion cups. The older members
strenuously disapproved of the innova-
ton, and one even went so far as to say
that "the Lord knew all about microbes
but when he was on earth the large cup
was used" However, the younger mem
| bers, led by an aspiring young physician
| triUmphed, and the tiny cups made their
appearance. Last Sunday happened to
be communion day, and now comes the
tragic part of the tale, but it occurs not
in public. The cups were collected, the
few drips of wine left in them empded
into a pan, and, horror of horrors the
drops collectively poured back into the
bottle, microbes and all The question
| is, can this be plan by which the old
| folks continue to have their own way and
exchange their microbes, or is it simply
| economy?
Here is interesting testimony that power
to stir emotion, not the sentiment 1t ex-
presses, is the one thing needful in a war
song, says a French writer. The Mar
seillalse," it appears, was sung through
out Europe almost as soon as it was
! known in France; sung, too during the
period of universal rage against the
French, indifferently by Liberalists, Mon
archists and Absolutists. One may smile
! to hear that it was played daily by the
| Prussians during the siege of Paris in
! full hearing of French regiments under
| strict orders to attract in no way the at
tention of the enemy" A more surpris-
| ing tribute to the hymn is the certainty
that it was sung without alteration In the
| little army of French emigrants T9D,
/ u7ac landed n the aOhn In the thPatpTS
of Moscow, and has been translated by
Hemal Bey, the greatest modern poet of
the Turks! After this it goes without
saying that the "Marseillaise." or some
adaptation of it, is found among the ma
! tional songs of almost every country in
| Europe, notably of England, Belgium,
Italy, Savoy, Greece and Spain.
No man is a hero 10 his own valet, and
not every literary world reformer is an
inspired evangelist to his own son, says
the London Truth. Count Tolstoi is evil
IDENTIFY among the prophets who have little
honor among those of their own house
/ hold, for his son has lately published, IN
der the TolsIoiesque title, The Prelude
of Chopin a counterblast to the anti
| connubial doctrine inculcated in tie IA
nous "Kreutzer Sonata The younger
| Tolstoi comes boldly forward as the apos-
| tie of universal matrinony, and maintains
/ that every boy should find himself a wife
as soon as he arrives at a marriage lble
/ age, it being the duty of his parents or
nearest friends to provide him with the
wherewithel 10 support her ana any en-
! suing family. This rather startling theo-
ry seems worth the attention of the femi-
! nine philosophers who recently exercised
their minds and pens on the subject of the
modern marriage market" To whatever
extent it may commend itself to them, it
| is hardly likely to secure the enthusiastic
/ adhesion of parents and guardians.
in one of the tanks at the aquarium
| there are number of moonfishes, from
/ local waters, and number of striped
grunts from Bermuda, says the New York
| Sun The largest of the moontishes has
met with some mishap that has resulted
| in starring its eyes from their natural
! position; not an unusual thing to happen
/ 10 a fish. When this moonhsh was re-
/ ceived at the aquarium both of its eyes
] were more or less protruding from their
! sockets; one of then has now receded to