The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-25
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found on the under side of the leaves is a
valuable article of commerce; manila
hemp is made from the stems and of this
hemp are made mats, plated work, and
lace flour. The fruit TO be sold for dessert
is ripened by the dry warmth of faring
gas-Jets an the storage places in which it
is kept, and immense care has 70 be taken
to prevent softening or cver-ripening. The
| island of Jamaica yields great crops of
this useful and money-making fruit.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat tells
a story of a woman who had no idea of
money. 1t happened one day that her
eyes fell upon magnificent ring and she
coveted it. 1t cost 1000 But what was
$1,000 10 her in comparison with the ring?
OF course her husband consented to the
purchase What else could a dutiful af-
fectonate husband do? But he tried has
method of educating his wife concerning
| theg reat price of the ring. He instructed
his banker to send her the 81 COO in small
| pieces-pennies, dimes, quarters. In came
the money, bagful after bagful. She never
| had such an idea of 81 coo before. When
the money was piled before her it alarmed
her; the price of the ring went up a hun
| dredtold and was considered at once an
| extravaganza which she of her own OPP
| ton abandoned.
The story of Peter, the Wild boy is
told on the brass erected to his memory in
| the parish church of Northchurch, Hert-
fordshire, Eng. The celebrated DR.. Arbuth-
not made a special study of Peter, but
| failed to make anything of him, and when
| the novelty of his appearance had worn
off and he had been induced to wear the
| garb of civilization, he was pensioned off
and sent to the village of Northchurch
But he retained his vagabond habits and
gave his guardian much trouble by wan
deIing off to distant counties. AS he could
not speak or make himself understood of
strangers, this propensity for straying
brought him into trouble, and he was
sometimes arrested as an obstinate beg
gar who would not give an account of
himself. Thus it was that a brass collar
engraved with his name and address, was
fitted to his neck. He is said to have been
fond of music, and he used to dance to ex-
press his delight at the sound of musical
instruments. His tombstone is slim stand
ing near the doorway of NoFthchurch
Church. When he died he was Y years
old
The London Daily News gives the fol-
lowing as verbatim copy of PATHS bap-
tism certificate: In the city and prov
ince of Madrid on April 8, 1913, I, Don
Joseph LOsada, parish priest of st. Louis
solemnly baptized a girl born at o'clock
in the afternoon of Feb 10 of this year,
the legitimate child of Salvador Patti,
Sicily, and of Catharine Chiesa, born in
Rome The paternal grandparents were
Peter Patti and Conception Marine, and
the maternal were Jean Chiesa, born at
Venice, and Louisa Caselli, born at Ma
rino, in the pontifical states. The child
bears the name of -Adela Jeanne Marie.
There assisted at the baptism as godfath-
er Joseph Sinico born a Venice, profess
sor of music, and godmother, his wife,
Rosa Monara Sinico born at Cremona, in
| Lombardy, to whom | have explained the
duties they have contracted by this act;
and as witnesses, Julien Huezal and Cast
mir Garcia, born at Madrid sacristans of
| this perish. In testimony whereof | have
| written, signed and delivered the present
certificate. April 8, 1913. Joseph Losada.
Sarah Bernhard, the Chicago News
says was asked a day or two ago by the
Figaro what her ideal was at twenty and
whether it had been realized. 1t is the
| sort of question to put to successful me-
diocrity and the Figaro has asked it in
| turn of all the important personages in
| France. To the second clause all said
| either YES or NO" and it is clear that
| what they call their ideal is no more
| than that enthusiasm of youth that re-
! suits from ineXperience. Not so Sarah.
| Here is what she replied, this woman
| with a half century behind her. MY
| ideal, [ pursue it forever and through
| everything. l shall pursue it until my
| last hour, and l feel that at the supreme
| moment 1 shall have the persuasion that
! it is to be attained over yonder'' This of
| Sarah's is a veritable ideal-an altar flame
| that always burns. 1t is the still unat-
! tanned and therefore forever attainable,
| and it explains why there are never any
| obstacles in her path and why her name
| has been printed so often that all the
! times extended would belt the earth twice
round. She says that people that vail
over lost ideals have never had any,
Mr.. Louis Robinson, the scientist, thinks
the human race owes to the neglected evo-
| luton of it's scent the ascendeney which
1t holds over the rest of the animal crea-
ton. If man, he argues in his early earth
walking career had developed his olfac-
| tory powers to the same extent as did
| the rest of creeping things ne would stin
| be grubbing about roots like a badger or
| yelping along a trail like pack of jack
| ais. Because primitive man failed to per-
! feet himself in following his nose he had
TO resort to his wits to gain living; and
from that day to this a certain section
of the community has continued to live
! on its wits. 1t was a good thing the an
cient neglected to train his nose in the
way he should go. Where the dog or the
| wolf galfops bhndly without thought
along the tainted line left by the feet of
his quarry, the primeval hunter had, from
the first" declares Mr.. Louis Robinson
| mot only to learn to notice each displaced
| or shifted stone. or shaken deWdrop, but
| had also-from these and a thousand other
| data-to infer what had passed that way,
when it had passed, and often in the case
of one wounded animal in herd, how 1T
| had passed, and whether it was sufficiently
| disabled to make pursuit a profitable spec
| ulation. AS far as l can see, this faculty.
| engendered and necessitated by olfactory
| shortcomings, formed the basis of much
| of our Wanted reasoning power
! There is wonderfully peopled stretch
of country lying between Canton and Man
dalay. The tribes are little known and
| have curious customs. Among them are
| the Bhamos, and the women are said to
| be pleasant and to make happy wives.
| Some of the tribes have moonlight dances
| in the spring around a tree they call the
| devil stick. There betrothals are made. If
] q girl wishes to n c,a