The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-12
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end that the church shall not remarry
divorced persons.
Visitors to the Court of Russia are
allowed to kiss the hand of the Empress.
Queen Victoria is less generous in granting
this privilege, and only very distinguished
persons are supposed to enjoy it. AS for
anything so democratic as shaking hands,
perish the thought! This is reserved for
relatives only.
"A large number of coins have recently
been found on Humanity Sands, York
shire, close to place known as the Gap.
This was a favorite spot for landing or
embarking in days when men wished to
enter or leave England unobserVed. Near
ly all the coins so discovered are of per-
iod when the country was disturbed, being
of the reigns Of Edward II, Elizabeth,
James 1, Charles I, and William III.
"A suit at Oklahoma City has brought
out a most curious train of circumstances.
A woman secured a divorce from her hus
band, together with a large amount of
alimony. The divorced husband then en-
tered into an agreement with cookbook
ing young man in the neighborhood where
by the young man was to pay court to
the woman, marry her, get control of ali
vorced husband. The young man carried
out his agreement to the letter, and then
fed the country. The suit is now brought
by the woman to recover the property of
which she had been defrauded by the con-
sDiracy.
when COLI Richard 1. Dodge says
the Kansas City Journal. was in com
mand of one of the Southern Kansas forts
many years ago, he was astonished one
day to receive a delegation of Indians who
complained to him of the quality of the
soap issued to them by the government.
Thinking it would be impossible to make
soap too bad for an Indian, Dodge investi-
galed, with the result of finding that the
tribe had been eating their soap allow
ance and didn't like the taste. All of which
is brought TO memory by a letter from one
of the Kansas boys in the Philippines. HI
says that many of the soldiers have bought
monkeys, which they keep about the bar
racks, and adds that they are an awful
nuisance, because they steal and eat the
soap"
Prof. William 2. Ripley says, in The
Popular Science Monthly: Suppose two
groups of one hundred infants each-one
Jewish, one of average American parent
age (MasSachusettS)-to be born on the
same day. In spite of all the disparity OF
social conditions in favor of the latter,
the chances, determined by statistical
means, are that one-half of the American
will die within forty-seven years, while
the first half of the Jews will not sue
cumb to disease or accident before the
expiration of seventy-one years. The death
rate Is really but little over half of the
average American population. This holds
good in infancy as in old age. Lombroso
has put it in another way: OF 1000 Jews
born 217 die before the age of seven years;
while 453 Christians-more than twice as
many-are Likely to die within the same
period"
The Queen of Roumania has presented
to the Church of Curtea dArgesch. the
Oldest in the kingdom, a manuscript copy
of the Evangelium used in the Eastern
Church, written and illuminated by her
self on thirty sheets of parchment. Each
sheet has a border of massive silver
daintily engraved, and all are bound to-
gether In a gold hinge of curious work.
manship. This gorgeous document lies I'M
der glass dome, which is surmounted by
a golden cross and crown. and is inclosed
in a case of carved wood designed by Lee
comte oe Nouy, the leading architect of
Vienna. From the corners of this canopy
dangle four lamps of gold, set with prec-
ious stones An inscription states that the
work of Queen Elizabeth's own hands
which were busy upon it for six year, and
that it Is intended as a memorial to her
little daughter, Princess Marie, who died in
childhood.
According to our dispatches from Cam
bridge says the Baltimore Sun, Dorches-
ter is entitled to the proud distinction of
being the greatest muskrat producing
county of Maryland Two hundred and
fifty thousand muskrats in one year is
the record, and no other county can APP
proach it, This increase in muskrat pro-
duction is most timely. Not only is there
profit in the peltries, but the flesh of the
muskrat is said to be by some of the local
epicures an excellent substitute for dia-
mond-back terrapin. When any of the
necessaries of life become scarce some
substitute is quickly discovered and Just
as soon as the price of diamond backs
reached $50 a dozen it was found that the
muskrat was a good substitute Indeed
in the hands of a skillful cook, it is said
it can be made to masquerade as the cost
ly and altogether silk-stockinged reptile
1t is apparent that no limit can be placed
upon the resources of the Eastern Shores.
1t is always equal to the occasion.
in the Scientific American. Prof. Hol-
uen gives some interesting observations on
the migrations of insects Once in the San
Gabriel Valley of California he saw a
fight of yellow butterflies, which passed
continuously for three or four days to the
northeast. For sixteen square miles the
column moved and one could not look
out doors without seeing the fiuttering bits
of yellow in the air. Yellow butterflies
are famous for their mysterious migra-
tons, and sometimes out at sea they will
cover the decks and riggings of ships
Fire brigades manned" by women
are not uncommon in England. There is
one at Girton College, where the students
have their own brigade and appliances.
Several of the hospitals have separate
brigades Of the nurses and of the male
attendants, and the nurses are said to be
much quicker than the men. At Hollo-
way College there is a brigade, formed of
the girl students. capable of getting the
engine at work in less than a minute. Sew
eral establishments in London having
large corps of women employed have fire
companies among the employees
1t is good to be ambitious in these DAYS.
but it requires brave man to look for