The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

in the course of excavating for a drain
on some property near Mas. County Kill
dare. Ireland, an interesting find of some
remains of the wild horse (equus caballus)
was made. The remains consisted of the
occipital part of one skull and the poste-
rior part of another They were forward
ed to DR.. Scharff, who decided that they
evidently belonged to horses Of very
small stature, and are similar to the re-
mains of the wild horse discovered in Shan
non Cave and other Pleistocene deposits,
and known to have inhabited ireland as
contemporaries of the Irish elk. The re-
mains We're found resting on the gravel be-
meath the bog.
Some very interesting particulars con-
corning the circulation of Pilgrims Pro-
gress'' are given in the preface of new
edition of that famous book published by
Messrs. Chambers. II appears that 100,-
coo copies of the work were sold during the
authors life. II was printed at Boston,
Mass, in 1881, and Dutch translation was
issued in Amsterdam in 1882. This last,
and a subsequent edition of a superior
character, issued in 1855, were illustrated
by Dutch engravers, then the leaders of
the art of engraving in Europe. THE
Pilgrims Progress" was translated into
Welsh, Walloon French, German, Polish
be met with in Asia, in Hebrew, Arabic
and other languages; in India, in Hondu-
stani, and many dialects. 1t has also been
translated for readers in Assam, Burma,
Borneo, West and Central Africa, the
South Sea Islands, and for some tribes OF
American Indians. Since then it has
been translated into no fewer than eighty
four languages and dialects, the versions
in Japanese and the Canton vernacular be-
ad raj frat tod Nv orf-
lists who have adapted the scenery and Gus
toms to those of their own country.
4 regret to say that vegetaranism Is
fighting diet. writes G.. B. Shaw In the
London Vegetarian. Ninety-nine per cent.
of the worlds fighting has been done on
farinaceouS food. In Trafalgar square /
found it impossible to run away as fast as
the meat eaters did. Panic is a carniv-
orous speciality. If the army were fed en-
a hardy, healthy, fleshless diet We should
hear no more of the disgust of our colored
troops and of the Afridis and FuzzyWuz-
zies at the cowardice of Tommy Atkins.
1 am myself congenitally timid, but as a
vegetarian l can generally conceal my
tremors; whereas in my unregenerate days,
when 1 ate my fellow creatures, was as
patent a coward as Peter the Great. The
recent spread of fre-eating fiction and
lingo war worShip-a sort of thing that
only interests the pusilanimous-is due to
the spread of meat eating. Compare the
Tipperary peasant of the potatoes-and-
buttermilk days with the modern gentle
man VINO gorges himself with murdered
COW. The Tipperary man never read
bloody-minded novels or cheered patriotic
music hall tableaux, but he fought 1eck-
lessly and wantonly. Your carnivorous
gentleman is afraid of observation-disclosures
ing DOCTORS dogs, disease, death and truth
telling.
Dreadful as is the loss of more than
$50 lives on the Maine, this fatality is not
| the worst in the naval annals of the Unit
ed States, says the New York Press. By
far the greatest loss of life from one
American vessels and probably unsurpass-
| ed in the history of the world, was when,
at the close of the civil war the Mississip-
pi steamer Sultana blew up her boilers
| near Memphis and hurled 1,500 Union SOL
! diers to death. The Sultana piled between
New Orleans and ST. Louis. On April %,
| 1865, she touched at Vicksburg on her trip
| up the river, and took on board 800 Union
| soldiers, who had beer prisoners at Column
| bia, Libby, Andersonville and other
| Southern prisons, and who had either been
| EXCHANGED or freed by the flight of their
! jaiers. The soldiers were from the West,
and there were several cases of 100 or SO
| belonging to one regiment. When eight
miles above Memphis. at 1 o'clock in the
morning of the 9th, one of the Sultana' 5
boilers exploded, killing hundreds of the
sleeping soldiers and throwing hundreds
more into the river The boat was laden
| heavily when she left Memphis, and the
soldiers were sleeping anywhere they could
| lie down, even on the tops of the cabins
| and pilot house. Occasionally here and
there in the North to-day can be found a
survivor of that awful night.
Sir James Sawyer who has lately
been discoursing on longevity to the mem
bers of the Acock's Green Institute Biz
mingham, rightly insisted on "a sufficien-
| cy of sleep" as one of the things needful
to make a mans days long in the land,
! says the British Medical Journal. But
what is a "sufficiency?' Sir James de-
| fines it as one-third of the twenty-four
hours. For what Matthew Arnold called
| the average sensual man. that is to
| say, the man of normal physiological
needs and cravings, this amount is proba-
| bly, not too much. But some of the great
est workers of our day have done with
much less than eight hours sleep. DR..
| James Legge, professor of Chinese in the
! University of oxford, who has just died,
| at the age of 81, was, it is said, in the
habit of rising at 3 a. m, and allowed
himself only five hours of sleep. Brunei,
| the famous engineer, for a considerable
! part of his life worked nearly twenty
| four hours a day. Friends and assistants
| have left il on record that he hardly ever
went to bed, and yet never seemed tired
| or out of spirits After working through
a great part of the night he slept in his
armchair for two or three hours and at
early dawn he was ready for the work of
the day. Sir George A. Elliott, afterward
| Lord Heathfield who was in command