The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

odd marriage notice which appeared IN
the Stockton News: Miss Della HIS
is married Her husband is a travelling
man of considerable means and she does
not have 10 labor, not even to make her
own bed. Her husband Is some years Old
er than she is and weighs 256 pounds. Their
home is in Louisville. KY. They were
married in Kansas City. Miss HIS
friends here will all rejoice"
1T is not the easiest thing in the
worlo to be admitted to the bar in Cuba
SAYS the Boston Traveller. THE indis-
pensable requisite is a diploma from the
| University of Havana, which is nigh
| class law university. There are Two ways
| OF obtaining this. The applicant must
! either take the five-year course or else ne
| must undergo an examination by the uni
| versity the same as given to graduates.
This diploma, under the old law, cost 500
! in gold, and besides this the lawyer must
pay 800 year for the right to practice.
| The fee of $500 has recently been abolished
| by order of Gen. Brooke"
Chinese customs and comestibles are
so very queer that we never fail to find
! Chinese blil-of-fare an interesting docu-
ment. Three cyclists in the land of the
Dragon Fly recently attended a fuH-dress
| Chinese dinner, with chop sticks in place
| OF forks and spoons, festive Cinnamon
! clad in purple, blue and green jackets over
| their gayest frocks, and a menu of which
| they have given the benefit to the public
! in Travel The meal was of the usual
| Chinese topsy-rurvy order. Ii began with
! sweets and ended with soup. First, there
was served a liquid like warm cherry, to-
| gether with little jam dumplngs and a
! oil aaIla5 almond tea
! Then we sat down to twelve dishes ar
| ranged on the tabies-sugar-cane, cherries
shrimps, dates, cuttle-fish, oranges, slices
| of preserved duck, preserved walnuts, and
so on, every one helping himself by means
of chopsticks, and washing all down with
draughts of hot Vine Then we came to
the more serious part of the entertain
| ment-sharks fins, jellyfish, sea s.uss,
| wild duck. mushrooms, lotus nuts, picked
pigeons eggs, duck and pork, rice float
ing in candied water and birds nest soup.
| When we had rested ten minutes from
our labors, bucket of hot, plain rice was
| placed in the center of the table. and
everybody filed himself up according to
Individual capacity. 1t was a nice even
ing"
When the Romans invaded Britain and
settled in many quarters, says Good
| w OIuS they uSCQ Silicali NleJ AHAil'9' SO--]
open like a shell, others covered, with
only a small hole left to allow of the lamp
being filed with oil. Open clay cups with
two hollows were also common, one hoi-
low being provided for the wick, the ca
pillary attraction drawing the oil from
the other. Many beautiful bronze lamps
are discovered in these ancient Roman
camps, illustrating by these simple domes-
tic articles the perfection to which art had
been carried when nothing was considered
too ordinary to be beautiful. DR.. Hill Bur
Ton referring to the beauty of design and
decoration on the corlmonest articles of
Roman manufacture, says: "They afford
traces of decoration sufficient to show an
elevation in the ornamenting of common
articles which the pottery of the present
day is only now reaching, and that rather
by slavish imitation than by original
DEVELOPMENT" The same historian also
records that "a good many terra Gotta
candelabra or lamps have been found OF
that peculiar form which has in a man.
ner become canonical through its match
less grace and simplicity, and has hence
ever since it existed in its purity, been
contorted into ornamental service" The
origin of the cruise has been found among
Roman antiquities, and, strange to relate
this simple lamp appears to have been
adopted wherever the Roman settled with
his conquering legions-France, Italy and
Northern Africa producing them, with
little variation from the Roman original.
When the convalescent is apt 10 grow
irritated over the exorbitant size of his
druggists bill, says an exchange, let him
remember that his prescriptions may have
contained some grains of metallic gallium
and that metallic galium costs 100000 a
pound. A pound aYOirdupois contains
about 1900 grains and, according to the
druggists ratio, single grain will cost
something over $14. Needless to say, how
ever, metallic gal.ium is not generally
common drug. 1t is kept only in lin
tied quantities in the drug stores and i,
a mineral drug discovered by a German
chemist and is unobtainable in this coun-
try. Probably the most expensive drugs
always on hand in the drug store are the
alkaloids and the salts of alkaloids from
vegetable drugs. Cornutlne citrate sell!
at 81 per grain, curarine at 80 cents mus.
caTine nitrate at 40 cents. The interest
ing history of drugs shows that the mos
insignificant weeds and flowers often fur
nish matter for the most powerfully eff
fective medicines. Modern drug lists ar,
compiled by the leading chemists of Eu
rope and America and the annual dis
coveries of chemists all over the world are
considered. Even the connections of tho
old medicine man are taken into account
and the remedies of the Chinese and Other
Orientals In Europe 1900 species o.
plants are gathered and used for selling
purposes. One-tenth of these have ar
agreeable perfume and enter largely int
the manufacture of soaps and perfumes
White flowers are the commonest bios
SONS employed in the manufacture %
drugs, the number reaching 1924, a good,
list.
The traveller who consistently follow:
his nose gets into many strange coun
tries says the Philadelphia Press. .Amons
exclusive fields of adventure Thibet ha.
long stood first; but the only man who
has succeeded in penetrating the sacred
land of the Samas is becoming as prevail
ent as the first man up San Juan hill
Now II has fallen to the lot of an Euro
pean woman to explore the wids of Chin
csc Thibet and to record its wonders
The mere fatignue of travel were appall.
ing; the main features, beyond wear,