The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-23

| similar QencacleS, ana the petty tneItS
cost him in the aggregate many hundreds
of dollars. He has offered $500 to be dis
| tributed among the ten drivers who shall
| succeed in collecting the greatest number
of bottles in proportion to the number
which each shah distribute during this
| year.
Bald heads are healthy according to
the statement of a Spruce street Dhysi-
| clan who has gained a reputation in the
| study of bacteriology, says the Philadel-
| phia Record. "A smooth shaven face" he
| said, during the course of conversation
| yesterday, sis a mark of cleanliness, for
| all hirsute adornments are apt to breed
| bacilh of the most dangerous character.
| Down in the foreign quarters of the city,
| where long boards are worn and the ia
| cilities for keeping clean are not The best,
| even if the people showed any disposition
| in that way, l am firmly convinced that
| much disease is caused by whiskers. Even
| the hair of the head, although of a diff
| ferent character is apt TO breed disease
| germs. 1t is a theory of mine that bald
| headed and smooth-faced men are less IL
| able TO sickness than others, and expect
| to collect some statistics to bear me out"
| The overseers of nine forestry stations
in the dukedom of Lippe have made an
| examination of trees struck by lightning
| throughout an area of As 600 acres, in ~
der to ascertain for the German govern
| ment the susceptibility of various trees
| to lightning, and it's effects and occur
| renee in general. AS a result of their OBJ
servations it was found the oak tree was
| by far the most liable to lightning, in
| spite of the fact that they were not as
| frequent as other trees in the forest The
| percentages of the various species were
| given as follows: Beech, 70 per cent. :
oak, II; pines, 10, and frs, 6. During the
| several years through which these obser-
vations were made. c75 trees were struck
| by lightning, and of these 159, or So per
cent. were oaks, So or 81 per cent, frs
q, or per cent, beeches. and 20 or Z
per cent, pines, the other varieties dam
aged being still less in number.
The Philadelphia Record says: John
Diamond, who is stopping at the Hotel
| Walton, is a much travelled man. There
are few habitable portions of the globe
| that he has not Travelled, and he has met
with many strange adventures, He re-
calls with more than usual gusto his So
journ in the Transvaal, in South Africa.
| During this visit, which terminated about
| six months ago, Mr.. hammond came in
contact with Paul Kruger, President of
the Republic several times. His descrip-
| ton of the willy old statesman is some
what different from the ones usually pub
| lished. Mr.. Diamond declares that kru-
ger is worth at least $100 600, and this
| immense fortune ne is said to have ac-
! cumulated by exercising the autocratic
| power he possesses. For instance, he owns
a railroad, and all shippers must pay 10
cents a ton per mile. Hauling by any
other vehicle is punishable by imprison-
| ment and fine. Whenever the Supreme
Court renders a decision that is not pleas
ing to Dom Paul he calmly reverses it,
and appoints new judges, without taking
the trouble to notify the offending judges.
| Mr. Diamond declares that there is not
an American citizen in the Transvaal who
! does r OF wish heart ly to see TIL British
win"
Last night, says a writer in the New
| York Tribune, 1 was at a stag dinner.
where the company at large was asked
from what source the days of the week
derived their names, and only one man out
of the twelve present could answer the
question: and he was the man who asked
it, and he got one day wrong at that, for
I've since looked the matter up. Sunday
and Monday are simple enough, and in
themselves suggest their derivation from
the sun and moon, but with Tuesday We
come to the ancient gods of our forbears,
the Engels, that hardy race that displacI
ed the BritOn and gave their name to the
English people Tuesday was named for
Twd, their god of death; Wednesday for
Odin, Wooden or Wotan, who occupied in
their mythology a position analogous to
that of Jupiter on Mt, Olympus; Thurs
day for Thor, the god of air and storm
and rain; Friday for Freia or Freya the
god of peace, and Saturday possibly for
Saeterr, an obscure god of their mythol-
ogy, but more probably it takes lis name
for Saturn. 1t would seem as though al
most any one you would ask would know
the derivation of these words of daily
use, but I'll wager that not one person
l,aY,I t~o1 oil
It's like the surprise the Bible gives one
not familiar with it, by the idioms and
phrases they will come across when read
ing its pages that are familiar and colo
quail in the language they use, but which
are uttered without the slightest knoWl-
edge of whence they came on the part OF
either speaker or listener.
BY studying on a map of Brazil, saws
a writer in Ainslees you can see that
the Para river extends almost due west.
south of the Island Of Marajo to net
work of narrow streams, known as the
Passes, which connect the Para with the
Amazon These numerous channels are
from 70 to $50 yards in width, and some
of them are navigable for vessels of IS to
20 feet draft These Passes are interesting
enough to those traversing them in small
craft, but to the officers and sailors Of
such steamers as the United States ship
Nsi4AlliiS toil lilty are lTeDlN so. AL night
there is little to arrest the attention other
than the weird, dark shapes of the banks,
which ever seem close aboard. The land
being low and fiat and the trees near the
waters edge it SO ms a if the ship has
forsaken her natural element and is run
ming overland on invisible wheels When
daylight comes in sudden burst of light
like the unheralded flash of the theater's
illumination, there is revealed on each
side OF the narrow channel the forest
solid wall exposing to view a panorama
of overhangng vines. of creepers and fol-
iage and branches brilliant with the null
titudinous hues of tropical vegetation
| There is a strange chattering of animal
life and whirr of winged insects. The
discordant cries of myriad parrots echo
from the trees There is human life, too
Here and there uncovered in the Jungle
can be seen little wooden huts, with
matched roofs and sides open to the
cooling winds. These are the homes of
the rubber gatherers, who labor day in
and day out collecting the milky sap of
| the HeVea brasilienSts This rt,hbar 20 ~