The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-03

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precious luxury, silver strainers were
used, into which the exhausted leaves
were put when they had been well water
ed and drained. They were afterward
eaten with sugar on bread and butter
This fact is recorded by Sir Walter Scott
in "St. Romans Well"
With its 492 bones and its sixty ar
teries. the human body is a wonderful
pieck of mechanism, but it is simple COM
pared with that of the carp. This fish
has no fewer than 1853 bones, 1870 veins
and ninety nine muscles. Every time IL
breathes it moves all its bones and mus
Giles.
There IS a bill before the Legislature
of Mississippi blouse bill No. ASP. by Mr..
Kyle making an appropriation to remove
the remains and monument of ex-Secre-
tary of State Lynch from the white GEM
etery of Jackson to the colored cemetery.
Lynch was a colored man and carpet-bag
politician, and his costly monument in
the white cemetery is a constant offense
to the whites who own lots there. The
projected removal is right, and the bill
should pass without delay.
The Empress of Russia has the most
beautiful sapphire in the world. and she
also possesses a wonderful collection OF
turquoises thought it is not equal to that
of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, who in
deed, is said to have the finest collection
that exists, says an exchange. One of the
most valuable and interesting of gems is
the sapphire and it is only less costly
than the diamond and the ruby. Dark
indigo-hued stones and the pale blue ones
are beautiful, but the most priced tint of
all is a lovely corn-fiower blue. Tur-
uuoises of remarkable beauty are becom-
ing more and more rare. The character
e tI,;e 4 4 To Re in fp~ iC
believed to have some sore of sympathy
for it's wearer. 1t is said TO grow paler
if it's owner becomes i'll, and 10 lose its
beauty entirely if worn by person of
muddy complexion. Probably these SEN
sitive turquoises come from the Arabian
mines, which have not a good maine
among jewelers., on account of the liability
of the stones to change color. Persia has
the most famous turquoise mines in the
world which have been worked no less
than eight centuries. These pretty stones,
however, are to be found in many parts
of the world, including SaXony.
A dispatch from Hagerstown, Ind,
says: Some excellently preserved masto-
don bones have been discovered in this
vicinity Several years ago workmen dig
ging a ditch found the remains of a mas
todon, but the nature of the animal was
not known to them. The only reason they
size of the bones. All that were found
were divided among the party of work.
men, who took them to their homes and
have since permitted nearly all of them
to become lost or destroyed. Henry
Gwinn, farmer near here, made a cir
chlar opening in a vertebra and placed
therein a clock with face eight inches
across. The clock needed repairing and
he brought 1t into town, where the unique
frame attracted much attention. The YER
zebra is one of the largest specimens ever
discovered. 1t is eght cen inches from the
spinous process to the lower edge of the
centrum and sixteen inches between the
transverse processes. Mr.. Gwinn also has
a rib from the same animal more than
four feet long. Parts of two other masto-
don skeletons have been found within a
few miles of this place. From the two the
splendid skeleton in Earlham college was
constructed, said to be one of the finest
in the world.
There has always been a mystery sur
rounding the personality of the famous
Osman Dlgna, whose capture has a,
length conclusively proved that that ia,
nous lieutenant first of the Mahdi and
afterward Of the Khalifa was not a pure
ly mythical person, as some humorists
professed to believe But the mystery "a
to his origin still remains to be solved |
l notice, writes a correspondent of the
Paris Messenger, that the story as to his
being a renegade Frenchman has been
revived; but much more strange and cir |
cumstantial story is set out with every
appearance of solemnity. in a French bio.
graphical dictionary. Scotsmen are fond
of discovering that all really great men. |
If they do not hail directly from north of
the Tweed, have at least some Scottish
blood in their veins. but l am not sure |
that they will be ready to welcome Osrnan
Dgna as "brither Scot" The story is |
that a Scottish engineer who was follow. |
ing his occupation in France married a |
young Frenchwoman and soon afterward
took his wife TO the Red sea littoral. There
a child was born, and the Scottish engi- |
neer died. The young widow consoiet
herself by marrying a rich Arab slave
trader, whose headquarters were at Sun. |
kin. Her child by her first husband was
brought up by his stepfather as an Arab. |
and himself when he grew to be a man. !
became noted slave trader If Osman
has shown none OF the Scottish virtue OF
courage since he became a soldier of tho
Mahdi he has certainly given convincing
proof of the possession of an abundant
supply of another characteristic Scottish
viItue-eaution. l