The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-16
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corners on Fifth avenue every day for
twenty-five years. 1t is believed that both
have accumulated fortunes.
The Soudan expedition, while engaged
in laying the new Nile railway, has seen
some remarkable mirages. From a dis
lance the men appeared to be working
into beautiful lake and on all sides
were 10 be seen beautifully wooded hills,
ships and cascades.
The humming of telegraph wires is a
phenomenon which has not been salts
factoriy explained Il is not caused by
wind, for it is heard during perfect Gains.
1t has been conjectured that changes of
temperature, which tighten or loosen the
wires, probably produce the sound.
When the Sultan of Turkey attends the
Friday midday prayer at the mosque, in
Constantinople, the garrison of $4,000 men
are stationed along the route in such a
way that he shall be safely guarded from
the moment he leaves his palace until he
IS on his carpet in the sacred edifice.
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun. a Scotch
writer, who died in 1716 wrote to the
Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes,
and others: II once knew a very wise
man that believed that if a man were. per-
A4ANNNN W A1idhC al lit DdliduS OF Il nation
he need not care who should make the
laws of a nation"
california permits girls of over 10 to
wed without parental consent. In the
District of Columbia, Florida. MARYLAND.
Michigan, Minnesota, South Carolina and
South Dakota girls over is may marry
without parents consent. Kentucky does
not permit her daughters to choose for
roc = 1oe,
until they are q.
-Ihlrty-four years ago, a picturesque
scene was enactedin the Danish capital. A
deputation of Greeks stood before the old
King of Denmark and asked that they
might offer the crown of their country to
his great nephew, Prince George. For an
answer the old man turned to the youth,
eade him take a seat at his side and sa-
luted him as his brother-sovereign.
On June 49, 1913, the play now known
as king Henry VIII" was played at the
Globe theater, probably during the cele-
bratlon that followed the wedding of the
Prlncess Elizabeth The theater caught fire
from wadding used in some small guns on
the stage and was burned to the ground.
The guns had been fired in the festivities
That took place in the last act.
Probably few people know that there Is
a choice side to every cemetery. Thus. in
some parts of the world, the eastern por-
ton, without regard TO its situation. is
always deemed the most desirable. This
preference arises from the old tradition
mat our Lord will appear from the East.
1t IS also believed that the dead in the
eastern portion will be first to rise: then
those in the southern, western and north
ern, IN order. In England it was once
the custom to bury felons and other bad
characters on the north side of the church.
The custom of laying the dead in a certain
direction is responsible for the Welsh des-
ignation for the east wind: 1.-THE wind of
the dead mems feet
The literature of the present day is
summed up by w. D. Howells in this way:
Woodworking now is an entirely different
thing from what it was even a few years
ago. 1t is no longer a story that we want
to read, but a strong and suggestive de-
lineation of character or a portrayal of
life. Look at the books that have sue
ceedcd best in recent years-"Tess The
Christian Barrie's delicious works, the
stories of lola, Anna Karenina,' and all
of the creations of the titanic mind of Toll
stoi They are not novels according to the
old traditions. They wildly portray
certain kind of life, or sketch in enduring
lineaments the picture of certain types
The modern reader no longer looks at the
end of a book to see if they live happily
forever We read novels now for the
matter in them and since we do not care
so much for the story, we can read them
twice and thrice if they are worthy, just
as we do books on history or philosophy"
Few persons in the South are aware of
the fact that the hooking bird is found on
ly in the South, says writer in the Carroll
ton (Afa.) News. Mason and Dixon's line
is the north boundary line of its home, and
it is seen in the North only in captivity. 1t
is by far the sweetest singer of the feath-
cred tribe. Switzerland may rejoice in
the tuneful linnets; la belle France glory
in her soft-throated orioles; the Mediter-
ranean isles exult in their lquid-voiced
songsters; but our dear southland eXceis
them all in the possession of the heaven
voiced mocldng bird. I was told once of
a young man who lost his mind because of
the death of his betrothed a few months
before their wedding day. The girls was
not unlike dozens of other girls of the
same community, except that she had a
gloriously rich voice of peculiar sweet
ness During the weeks of their betrothal
the young man, an ardent lover of music
would insist at every visit on song after
song. When she became i'll and could sing
no more for him he would wander out into
the woods to listen to the birds. She died
one day while he was away in the woods
1t happened on that day he had been
thrown into transports of delight with the
sublime music of a hooking bird When
the bird had ceased he wandered back to
the home of his betrothed, to learn that
her spirit had departed during his alb
sence. That was eleven years ago yet
that young man finds his love again when
ever he hears the song of a hooking bird.
He believes her spirit visited him that
day in the woods in the form of the mock
ing bird that has sung so sweetly.
-Generalarzt Dr. Scholer publishes in the
Centralblatt zu Gesundheitspfege a collec-
ton of Hints for Smokers" which are
founded, as the doctor states, uDon his
professional observations for many yeara
of the mouth, teeth, stomach, lungs. heart
and skin of the devotees of tobacco. The
first and foremost rule is never to smoke
before breakfast, nor, as rule when the
stomach is empty; this custom is the worst
possible foe to digestion. Never smoke
during any exertion of great physical en-
ergy, as dancing running, cycling, noun.
of rowing, and especially if
in contest. Never follow the bad Gus.