The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Kennebec Journal tells OF man
who has fox and a hound that are boon
companions. When both animals We're in
the pup stage they were placed together,
and have enjoyed a year of each otner
society IN peace ana harmony They sleep
together ana play with each other muCh
after the manner Of Two troilcsOme pups
The fox has perfect freedom of action,
coming and gong at VIII, but ne aaWays
returns at night 10 share the dog bed
A dispatch from Parkersburg, w. Va,
says: About three months ago at Har-
mon, ". Va, Jay Lentz, foreman in the
mines of the Great Western Company,
was caught under a fall of slate in The
mines. His skull was crushed, and Or.
Il. c. Hartman and two other surgeons
gave him up 10 die. A piece of his brain
was broken away from the main body
of the brain structure, and the skull COW
ering it was broken away. After few
days the doctors decided 10 take heroic
measures. The shattered brain was cut
away neatly and dressed. A healthy year.
ling calf was tied down, her Skull cut
away and a lobe of brain removed and
fitted into the cavity in Lentz's head. The
wound was dressed and trephined and the
results awaited. The calfs head was fix
ed up with half brain IN it, Both the
miner and the calf have progressed sat
isfactorily and the man is nearly as vel
a before the operation, though his men,
tai Vigor is not entirely restored. The
calf stands as though asleep, ill started,
when it moves, till interrupted, in direct
line. l. will not eat til its jaws are
started. then its jaws must be stopped
by force, Jas 1t continues chewing when
food is removed.
In Pearson's w. l. Alden writes
amusngly of shying horses. He says;
THE mortal terror Of newspapers to
which even the most intelligent horse
is a prey is certainly a mystery If
horse meets a torn newspaper lying in
the middle of the road he is seized with
a conviction that it is on the point of
tearing him to pieces, and accordingly
he falls into a spaSm of terror. | presume
that the scientific explanation of this fact
Is that the prehistoric horse was severely
abused by the newspapers of the time
and that his descendants have thus in
herited horror of newspapers. But, ike
most scientific explanations of familiar
mysteries, this would not be worth nOuc-
ing. Why should the prehistoric news
papers have insulted the horse? Did the
cave men lose their money on horse races
and then write abusive letters to the news
papers, pointing Qua the untrustworthy
character OF the horse? 1t is very doubt
ful If they did anything or the sort. chief
ly for the reason that newspapers did not
exist in prehistoric times. To come back
to the horse and his fear of newspapers.
1t may be said that the newspaper terri
fies him because it moves in the wind
and he thinks IL is alive. But the leaves
of trees moves in the wind and the human
body moves with or without wind under
the very hOOfs of the horse, yet the horse
is not afraid of a stray newspaper because
it may be blown across his path. More
over, he is as much afraid of newspaper
that does not move as he is of ono which
Is in motion The true exhibition of a
horses fear of a newspaper is that in the
code of equine etiquette it Is considered
good form 70 appear 10 be afraid OF news
papers. All animals have their ideas as
to what is good form and cling tenaciOusly
10 them. The dog does not bark at very
young children, because It Is contrary to
aVliglE Inn TO to dr. Er,I
is an intleXible stickler for good FORM
plays with half-dead mouse merely be-
cause playing with half-dead mice is con-
sidered among all cats of good breeding
to be the correct thing to do. The horse |
knowing that if he did not pretend to be
frightened nearly out of his life by a
newspaper he would be regarded by all
other horses as an ignorant and il-bred
beast SHES whenever newspaper flut-
ters into his PATH
Some weeks ago, says the New York
Times, one of our readers noticed in this
column a brief reference to the 'casket
girls of New Orleans, and wrote to us,
asking who and what those girls We're
Now the Times is wont to answer prompt
iy al such appeals for information, either
by giving the lntorma uon sought or by
frankly confessing inability to do so, but
this particulars question: it must be con-
lessed, was Intentionally miSlaid and for
gotten, in the hope that the perils involv-
hope was vain, for our reader still has
the problem on his mind, and has written |
again on the subject, as he says that he |
is not only reader, but constant reader |
of the Times and appeals thus supported |
cannot be ignored, however embarrassing |
the consequences may be. Our hesitancy |
to discuss the caSket girls is due TO the |
fact that, to be popular with or even safe
from, the present Inhabitants of New Or |
leans, one must declare that the name was |
applied to certain young women of good |
gentle
regulations, who early in the last century
were sent over from France in order that |
me soiqlers then engaged in founding a |
colony beside the great river might not be |
wireless ana dlsconsolate. That's what |
the emlnently respectable and iustifabIv |
proud descendants of the resulting mar |
riageS maintain, and they are prone to acr |
lmpuIsiVely when another version OF the |
happenings OF those early days is presented |
sun, there is another version, and as it |
happens the other version is that invar, |
ably adopted by such historians profess |
sional and amateur, as have no especially |
tender regard for the feelings of the Gre |
ole arlstOcracy. According to these IN |
kindly chroniclers. the casket girls were |
collected from the prisons and reforms !
torres OF France, and eXiled on the theory |
that their presence might be DrOft hle 70 |
the Eveless Eden of Louisiana and thsiS |
absence would certainly benefit France |
whether they were good bad or only So |
80 me sir4S came, several invoices of
them, each bearing box containing her
modest beiongings-hence files a la cas-
sette'-and they were distributed among
the co4onists, some say by lot some nv,
auction To one of them Manon Tescanfy
the able provost gave immortal fame ana
10 ms exquisite narrative we refer ou~
correspondent for further details Tba
book is well worth reading, but if he is
wise, wise ne VIII be careful, when In New Or
leans, IN choosing people with WHOM, 70
discuss her adventures "
Dispatches from Cairo report that the
Holy Carpet" once the property of Mo-
manned, and long guarded with plous care
in the Egyptian capital, has fallen into
the hands of Bedouins who attacked a
caravan car van OF Egyptian pilgrims while on
the desert march between Mecca ana NJ
a 1I The carpet is usually carried 70
Miealna every year on the great animal
plgrimage from Egypt and is then re -stS,,'
ca ca 70 IT'S Keepers, says the New York SIM
IL IL IS one OF the most famous relics Of ~
Prophet, and the sacrilegious acf Of ne
desert nomads will arouse much fealin me
P ts, LARRY IN North Africa. Mecca AZ,
tracts the faithful from the enfira NJ
Mammalian world, but by far tba l. W. No