The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Humane Society that women give up the
use of the side saddle and set astride when
riding horsebac is meeting with marked
opposition. The most powerful, if not the
principal objection, is that no dress which
could be devised for the innovation would
be as becoming as that row in use.
The city of Copenhagen, Denmark, is
overrun with rats, and is trying to ex-
terminate the pests by Offering a small
bounty on each rat killed. In the first
week 6,094 rodents were officially record
ed as having been slaughtered; the num-
Der grew to 6,6lG in the second week, and
to 6.7S0 in the third. When the number
shall have reached 10000 per week it is
thought that some impression will have
been made on the army of rats. Meanwhile
rat catching is a popular and lucrative
sport with the youth of the town.
"A queer case of cannibalism is report
ed as having recently taken place in the
Solomon Islands, says the London Daily
Mail. The Jeanette took from Noumea
kanaka who had acted as orderly to the
immigration office there. and was on his
honeymoon with his wife, intending to land
a Aoba, where his wife's tribe live He
however made the mistake of disembark-
ing among the wrong tribe, and was at
once seized by the natives. overpowered
killed and eaten. The widow was provid-
ed by the tribe with a second husband.
DR.. Dabbs Of shanklin, medical prac-
titoner, dramatist, editor and friend Of
Tennyson is not enamored of modern ilu-
minants. says the Yves minister Gazette.
He plumps for candles. Winter early
morning work, day after day" he writes,
makes me (and is making mel consider
the question of eye-wearineSS and proper
and bearable and untiring L ght On the
whole, plump for candles. I am sure the
incandescent is too hot TO be a all near
one, and-even though we have it not-I
never found the electric light good enough
not as a quality. l mean And candles
now are both cheap and good"
1t may not be generally known that the
by-products of fruit stones are Of consid-
cradle value says the Chicago News. The
pits of peaches apricots, nectarines.
plums and prunes, which have heretofore
been thrown away or used for fuel have
market value This is specially true of
the peach and apricot pits. There is now
a strong demand for them at IS to $40
ton, delivered in San Francisco. The kerr
mel is OF course what is sought. From
the kernel of the apricot Turkish nut
candy IS made which has almost dis
placed the almond. The same substance
is used for the adulteration of CHINA
mon, ailspice and nutmeg. Prussic acid
and essence and oil of almonds are made
from the peach and prune pits and these
favors are used in many ways The pits
are cracked in San Francisco and the kerr
nels are then sent East.
AT the excavations now in progress
at the Roman Forum, over thirty 'styM,'
or bone pens have come out of the mud
Of $500 years" says Bblia. '"They are in
perfect condition. Near by was found the
tholus, or store-pit, which was used as
the corn-bin of the Pontifices. Into il the
corn was emptied from the jars in which
it arrived A clerk must have stood by
keeping tally of the number of Jars re
ceived and emptied therein. Occasionally,
looking over the edge to see the cavity fill
ing up with grain the stylus he used TO put
behind his ear, being smooth bone slipped
and fell and buried itself in the wheat I'M
til to-day. There was also found here a
black bone tabella, or writing tablet, Xix
inches by four in size, somewhat worn
down at one corner by the thumb of the
holder, and still showing scratches where
the wax once spread upon it had been PEN
etrated by the scrap point of the stylus.
The specimens of the stylus are very beau
tiful; some are short and stubby; others
long and graceful; others have been favor
ties with their owners, others scarcely
used at all
Do great men grow old? AT first thought,
says the st. Louis Globe-Democrat, with
Byron, Schiller, Mozart and Raphael in the
minds eye, one would be promp ed to say
no, and yet nearly half of the worlds lead
ers reach the Scriplural age of three score
and ten. Motke reached the age of 81;
Henophon, So, Wellington, SO; Bernadotte,
so; Butcher, Is; Dschingis Khan, Y; lilly,
Y; Marlborough. p; Marius II; Timur, IS;
Themistocles, 60; Hannibal, So; Napoleon,
81; Alexander the Great, 80. Among scien-
lists and the learned men, Humboldt lived
to be 50; Newton, "a; Plato, 81; Kaut, 70;
GaTlileo, rs; Copernicus, 70; Linuaus, 20;
Leibniz 70; Socrates, IS; Aristotle, g. He
gel, 81; Descartes, SO; Spinoza, A. In the
ranks of statesmen, Ia leyrand died at 81;
Bismarck al SO; Augustus rs; Disraei, 70;
Frederick the Great, "a; Charles the Great,
II; Washington, g.; Cicero, SO; Cromwell,
50; Richeleu, 81; Caesar, So; Alfred the
Great 80; Pitt, Al; MIribeau. AZ. Poets and
writer's Sived TO these ages: Sophocles, so;
Voltaire 81; Goethe, 80; Victor Hugo, SO;
Corneille, rs; Herodotus, 76; Euripides, "A;
Thucydides, 20; Petrarch, 20; Rabelais 20;
Aeschylus, SO; Cervantes, 6S; Milton, Is;
Scott, 81; Racine, 50; Horace. 81; Dickens,
81; Dante. IS; Shakespeare, 81 Virgil 81;
Moliere, 81; Schiller, As; Byron, Sc. Painters
reached these ages: Titan, SO; Michael
Angelo, SO; Rubens. SO; Rembrandt, 63;
Nefasquez, 81; Holbein, 81; Van Dyck, AZ;
Corregio, 40s Raphael. 81. The founders of
religion enjoyed these leases of life: Con-
fucius, II; Luther, &c; Mahomet g.; Calvin,
81; while among musicians Haydn died al
II; Handel, 70; Spohr, 70; Palestrina, 20;
Bach, 60; Beethoven, IS; Schumann, Al;
Weber, SO; Chopin SO; Mendelssohn, So;
Mozart, 80; Schubert, 81. This table con-
tains SO celebrities, of whom 10 died before
the age of 20, 81 fell short of 90 and only 10
failed to reach the half century mark. 1t
also is to be noticed that the musicians
make the poorest showing on the score of
longevity.
-Ndolasses or brown sugar takes the
place of syrup in the drinks of Porto Rico
and Manila says the Chicago News. They
give a peculiar flavor much liked by the
natives, but which is not always appreci-
ated by others. Rice wine is not unknown
there, although in no great demand Null
ed, it Is quite a favorite in the Philip
pines, where under a warm sun, its intox-
icating effects are fully appreciated. A
gun barrel is generally used by the ma
tives in preparing the mulled portion, a
superstition prevailing that the drink thus