The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-16
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| laying their eggs. The females come 10
sugar, over-ripe fruit, and other food
| equally with the males, but the latter
| alone seem 10 be attracted by pure water
| That the males drink more than is neces-
sary has been shown beyond question, and
| certain moths have been observed almost
| motionless for over an hour engaged in
| sucking up and discharging moisture al
most continuously. So marked is this ten
| dency that naturalists are questioning if
| this habit has not actually degenerated
| into vice, as no other explanation seems
to serve
After the fail of Khartoum in 1885 an
enormous quantity of stores had to be de-
| stroyed, owing to the want of transport
! Among them were about a million rounds
| of ammunition, which was ordered to be
| thrown into the Nile. The duty of SUI
perintending its destruction fell to Gen.
| Sir Herbert Kitchener, and when IT was
| finished he found to his dismay that the
| contents of two of the boxes thrown into
| the river were not ammunition, but 10000
| gold sovereigns apiece about $1,000 in ALL
| 1t is hardly probable that any attempt will
| be made to recover the lost treasure when
| the expeditionary forces reach the spot
| for after a lapse of thirteen years it must
! be buried beyond all hope of recovery in
the mud of which the bed of the Nile is
/ composed.
| Paris a bombardment is not such ter
rible thing after all The editor of the
| Debats has collected some official statis
/ tics to prove this. In 1S70-71 the lombard
ment of Belfort lasted seventy-lhree days,
| during which 99,453 projectiles fell within
| the city, and there were only sixty victims
| killed or fatally wounded. AT Strasburg,
| during the siege of thirty-eight days, the
! Germans fired upon the city, mostly at
| rUh
for 800 victims. Finally, at Paris, the bonn
| bardment did not last longer than twenty
! three days, and only 10000 siege shells
were thrown, killing or wounding 1G per-
| sons. And the French editor adds: THE
| few dozen of cannon shots fired on the
| Cuban coast or at Puerto Rico have as
suredly made more noise Than HARM
cat Malaga" says a correspondent of
the London Spectator, they never well
come you when you come or speed you
when you go. They are Indifferent which
| you do. You may pay your bill to the day
| if you like or leave 1t If you had rather
wait Nobody will touch a coin or a val
liable if you leave it on your table, but if
you lose a pencil or an eyeglass no one will
| ever find tit Is too much trouble Never
hope 10 have letters forwarded for you
| will see them no more, and few register
ed parcels escape the post entire. A year
/
send a telegram, and went to the princi-
pal office. Malaga is fourth or fifth in i'm
| portance among Spanish towns. The Of
flee was only open twice a day, for an
hour OF two at a time Not a clerk could
speak anything but Spanish, so had to
go back 10 the hotel for the interpreter to
translate my message. When 1 returned
with it I wanted a note of % pesetas
(rancs) changed. All the clerks al all
the pigeonholes were very kind and civil,
and smoked cigarettes While they looked
for change. But the whole office could
not muster it, so I was left 10 pay next
time"
An English paper describes a Milton
relic which seems to be authentic 1t
is a little tortoise-shell case, some four
inches long, one and one-half broad, and
half an inch deep or thick, containing tab
let's, three ivory leaves, and a pair of di-
Vders. At the bottom, which is of steel.
there is a nearly circular raised part, when
was used by the poet for sealing his let
tiers. On one of the tablets is written the
date '1727,' and that was the date when
! Miltons third wife died On another tab
let can be read: Mr.. Richard Lovekin. -
There is paper accompanying the tor
| toisC-shell case, an affidavit written and
signed by Lovekin in 1742, which describes
the tortoise-shen case infinitely, and how
it came into his possession: "Given me
by my aunt, Mrs. Milton, widow of the
poet Milton, some time before her death
who informed me that the cases
belonged TO her deceased husband Mr.. Mil
ton" The history of the tortose-shel
case is, then, that it once belonged tc
Elizabeth Minshail sometimes spelled
MinshulD, who was Miltons third wife
Milton died in 1914, and then Mrs. Milton
went to Wisteston a village not far from
Nauturch. Elizabeth was the poets
Betty"
The flag of our country is generally
conceded to be one of the most beautiful
banners in the world, and the fact that
there is something inherently attractive
in it's assemblage of stars and stripes is
shown by the frequency with which it has
been copied in the standards of other ma
lions, says the St Louis Globe-Democrat
The flag of Uruguay has white and blue
stripes with white field and gilt sun
for an emblem; that of Salvador the same
number of stripes, white and blue, with
red field and nine white stars. Nicaragua
has five stripes the two outer at the tor
and bottom of the flag being blue, the
two inner white and the middle one red
The flags of Liberia and the Hawaiian
Islands are exactly alike, each having
eleven alternate red and white stripes
with a blue field and single white star
The Greek naval flag has nine white ano
blue stripes, with blue field and white
cross. The Orange Free State has sever
, alternate white and yellow stripes with g
field of red, white and blue, and SeVera
of the Spanish-American states have ban.
ners which bear a resemblance more Oh
? less close to our national ensign. The
first Cuban flag had three stripes, the
top and bottom being blue and the middle
/ stripe white, the field being red with
white star The authorized Cuban has
at present has five alternate blue anc
white stripes with a red field and white
? star.
"A physician proffers some advice to per.
sons about to start on their annual triI
10 the seaside, says an exchange He
says that each man ought to learn fol
t himself the length of time it is advisa blt
for him to stay in the water when bath
ing Many people stay in half an hour
when they should not be more than five
minutes less he