The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT lN44IAGl lJllld GCAIALESSeQ Sass A4'NH
been formed into paving blocks and this
pavement has stood a years test 30 well
that a large industry has sprung up Tor
their manufacture. The grass used Is
what has grown on salt marshes.
A minute piece of steel was drawn
from the eye of man in New York the
other day by the use of a powerful mag
net the newiy-invented device for per
forming such operations. DR.. Parker. who
used the instrument says the piece of
steel was imbedded in such a way that
its removal by other means would have
neen Impossible. The sight of the eye will
probably be saved though the patient will
be in the hospital some time, owing 10 the
strain on the eyeball before the steel be-
gan TO yie-d to the magnets attraction.
An ornithologist says that the green
finch is The earliest riser, as it pipes as
early at 1880 o'clock in the morning, she
blaczcap beginning at 230 O'Clock 1t is
nearly 4 O'Clock and the sun is well above
the horizon before the first real songster
appears in the person of the blackbird. He
is heard half an nour before the thrush
and lie Chirp of the robin begins about
| the same lcngth of time before that of the
| wren. Finally, the house sparrow and the
| tomtit occupy the last place on the list.
| The investigation has altogether ruined
| the lark's reputation for early rising. That
| much celebrated bird is quite a sluggard,
as it does not rise until long after the
| chaftinches, linnets and a number of
! hedgerow birds have been up and about.
THE band of the Twentieth Kansas"
! says the Kansas City journal. "is ar
ranging to go on a tour of the state with
| programme of martial airs and Philip
| pine pieces as soon a it returns from the
| war. This band has not been a camp
| roosting organization by any means. It
! gets out on The firing line and plays "A
! Hot Time whenever it has a chance, and
when not playing the boys have engaged
| themselves in soldier duties at the front
| Up to this time the band has lost one
! killed and three wounded and proper
| tionately this is as much casualty as has
been suffered by any company in the reg
iment. The tour is happy sugges lion,
and it is sure to be tremendously sue
cessful"
A pretty story is current just now at
| Vienna about Archduchess Valerie. young
est daughter of the Emperor 1t seems
that when travelling the other day from
| Linz TO Vienna she noticed on the plat
form at Linz a 14-year-old schoolboy cry
ing bitterly. She had the conductor bring
| the lad to her compartment, and finding
that he was proceeding to Vienna to at
| tend his fathers funeral. she insisted on
his travelling with her, paying the differ
| ence in his fare. as he had only a third
class ticket. During the trip she devot-
| ed herself to the task of comforting him.
| telling the boy amongst other things
that she, too, had suffered much from the
loss of a fondly loved parent who had died
suddenly and Unexpectedly in a foreign
land. It was only when the boy reached
Vienna, and was leaving the train that he
discovered that the kind lady was Arch
duchess Valerie.
The restrictions placed by the Belgian
government upon the liberty of a parent to
give his child what name he will, assume
greater proportions than might be mag
| med at first thought, says the Chicago
Record The Belgian law, emphasized by
the recent ministerial circular prevents
US from giving any of the real old Anglo
Saxon names to our children or from Civ
ing, as a second name, any other family
name. such as that of the mother or IA
vorite uncle or aunt Such good old names
as Howard, Horace, Harold. Ethel, Maud
Eric, Ralph, Doris Dorothy, Gladys auC
hundreds Of others too numerous to men
ton, are strictly prohibited. The name
given a child must be that of a Roman
Catholic saint any other will be refused
by the registrar, who is instructed by the
law himself TO give the child a name from
the Roman calendar English residents II
! ! Belgium nave appealed to the home GOV
eminent for protection.
A great and noteworthy change ma
, come over Rotten Row in London. A few
a years ago the only Arab horse to be seer
r | on that famous drive was a lovely ANNA
ridden by Wilfred Blunt, to whom belong
, the credit of starting in England at hi
country seat, Crabbet Park, the first stu,
farm of the finest kind of pure-bred Ara
horses in England. Then when Lord Rob
eTts came back from India he was FIRE
. quenuy seen in the park on his beautiful
, Arab charger that has carried him throug
/, so many campaigns, and which on stat
+ occasions wears round its neck a gol
. medal and chain presented to it by III
: | Queen. This year the row is full of Ara
horses. Almost everybody seems to b
making use of them for park riding, an
f in the place of the dock-tailed hackney
n the row is full of long-tailed dainty Arabs
:, with fine, slender limbs small fetlocks
n thin names and graceful, elastic actor
n The row certainly looks more pictureSqu
{ since its invasion by these beautiful barbs
A discussion is in progress in one C
q the magazines on the subject of horsesho
4 magic says the Chicago News 1t is a sui
q ject which seems TO be of perennial in
n terest mainly because it touches that lii
:, tie substratum of superstitious belief
Il which is inherent in most of us; thong
q being a materialstic people in a materia
IS site age and having put away from oui
l. selves childish things we none of us cor
, fess to it. AS a matter of fact, however
IS we are always, either literally or meta
n phorcally, turning over our money whe
d we see new moon or picking up a rust
n horseshoe as a harbinger of luck. But til
point that never seems to be reached i
d these magazine discussions is the circun
stance that, iniually and intrinsicall!
horseshoe magic has nothing to do wit
2. horseshoes. 1t existed long before horse
:, were ever shOd and it has left traces
its presence in places where horses hay
Is never been known. In comparatively moC
lie ern times the horseshoe over the door
lie mailed TO the Intel with the points upper
- most, be it noted-has been chiefly regard
- ed as protection against witchcraft, a b,
- lief which has survived in its modife
lie 'luck-bringing' form to the present da,
IS But the horseshoe-shaped mark has bee
D. a mystic symbol from immemorial da1