The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! on the Western prairieS for whom nothing is yet
done There are 10000 Indians of school age,
but when every school is packed TO it's utmost
! only 1000 can be accommodated. This includes
/ government schools, Roman Catholic schools
and az, SO that those under mission teachers
! would be far less a number than 1900.
HENRY EBERLE, of Philadelphia, an eccentric
man, died recently, leaving a will in which his
| executors are cautioned to use every dollar that
! his estate will yield in decorating his tomb Mr..
| Eberles wife died some years ago, and a codicil
| was appended to the will which provided for a
granite covering for his entire lot in Cedar Hill
| cemetery, to be two feet in thickness, with mar
| bic pillars supporting canopy, under which are
TO be placed the busts Of himself and wife.
| JOEL WILCOX, All eccentric pioneer resident
| of Milwaukee, who died recently was very
| fond of animals, and was especially attached TO
| his horses At the approach of the winter he
said to nephew, who owns farm near Mil
| walrlIee: Jim. take my horses out to your
place and take good care of them over winter
| If | die, shoot them when spring comes and
| give them decent burial. l don't want to have
| them abused" He died before spring and in
accordance with his wish, his pet steeds were
| shot and buried
DAVID WHITCoMB left the American Board
S25 900; Massachusetts Home Missionary Soci-
| ETY. S25, 900 Amherst College $4,000; American
| Home Missionary Society, of New York, $4,000,
! of which 5000 is to be used in work among the
negroes, Indians and Chinese in this country;
Carlton College, Mortified Mimi, Sl4, 900; Doane
College, Nebraska SIS, 900; American College
and Educational Society 81, 1000; Congregational
Union, $1,000 and the Worcester City Mission
airy Society, $1,000
ACCORDING to an educational journal, flame
may be produced by snow in the following man
ner: When small piece of potassium, the size
of grain of corn, is dropped into tumberful
of water some of the oxygen Of the water
| leaves its hydrogen, owing to the intense heat
which the chemical action produces, and com
| blneS with the metallic potassium causing
violet blush flame. When the piece of potas-
SUM is placed on the wick of coal oil or alec
hol lamp the flame produced by touching the
| potassium with a bit of snow, or ice, or a drop
| of water will infame it.
An AKRON MAN, who drives a fine team of
horses, recently gave his family, his hostler and
his hired girl strict orders to see that the barn
was securely locked each evening 1t happened
| that this careful lege lord came home with his
SteedS one evening and while he was in the barn
unhit ching, some member of his family noticed
| that the front doors of the barn were open.
| A regular ague chill struck the spinal column of
| the person VINO made the discovery and he at
once, cautiously and quietly, proceeded to the
| barn. closed the doors and locked up for the
night. The husband did not show up until the
hired man went out to feed the horses in the
| morning. Duplicate keys have now been pro
vided.
| FEB. II was the Chinese New Years day-the
beginning of their firth year The event was
celebrated in New York with various ceremo-
| MES and illumination of Chinese temples. After
additions to wash off the outward Mns of the old
year the Cinnamon began cooking and prepar-
ing their first feast of fruits and vegetables for
the sole benefit of joss. Immediately after this
ceremony the celebrants began to do the annual
"kOtO, or prOStTatiOnS before joss. and confess
their sins with prayers bought at the rate of 12c
yard. These were written by an eloquent
amateur Buddhist for the benefit of his wicked
brethren in New York. 1t is said that about ten
yards of these would enable an ordinary fantan
player to enter into "NrVana," while a store
keeper would require twenty.
The husband of woman in Sheffield. Eng,
having got out of work few months ago went
to Australia and on his way out made the &C
quaintance of a woman who formed a great at
tachment for him. Finding that he was already
married, she suggested that possibly his wife
left at home would sell him to her, and he
jOkingly advised her to write and ask She
did write and the wife not only wrote that she
was willing, but named her price $500 The
figure was too high, and, after a little bargain
ing, 500 was accepted. The money was sent,
and with it document. drawn up in legal FORM
setting forth that for the sum named the wife
reiinquished all future claim to the husband.
This was signed by the wife and sent back to
Australia. The latest report is that the man
and the woman have since been married.
CURIOUS EXAMPLE of the rapid growth of the
catalpa tree is to be seen in Independence
square Philadelphia. Several years ago labels
bearing the scientific and common names of the
trees were affixed to all the trees in the square
The labels are rectangular metallic plates each
attached to staple driven into the tree from
which 1t was suspended AS the trees have in
creased in 2irth the staple has been gradually
buried and the plates tilted up. Many of them
are at an angle approaching the horizontal. but
the plate on a cataipa tree is buried an inch or
more under the bark, and is firmly fixed in that
position. The aStOniShment of the archa1oOgiSt
of one of the future centuries who in seeking
for traces of the cradle Of liberty, comes upon
tree with its scientific name embedded in its
trunk may be imagined In the meantime the
purpose of the labelling is being totally defeated
by nature
THE crew of the bark Abyssnia, which arrived
in Philadelphia the other day from the Philli-
pine Islands, state that when their vessel was
sailing along near the Island of Xulla Bessey in
latitude 14o g. south, longitude 1869 80 east. a
white object was discovered fastened TO a mast
in small boat. The little craft was permitted
to come alongside, when il was found that it was
manned by three enormous savage giants of an
unknown race, who endeavorei to talk to the
people on the bark by signs, but failed the maize
their object known. The three savages were very
tall and their arms were thick as an ordinary
man S leg, upon which the muscles stood ont
like great cords. Their boat was a dug-out
canoe, and their garments consisted of short
tar staned shirts that only rea he'd h their
waists. Their bodies and mouths were painted
a deep brown. AS none of the crew could IN
ucISIdlu lHci BOHi tno savage giants
departed.
SPEAKING of the names given to our new men
of war, Boston newspaper says that with one
exception, the Petrol, the names have a good
Revolutionary ring; but superstitious old salts
will take exception to two or three of them
There was a Yorktown, a SOop-of-war which
was wrecked at Cape de Verde fifty years ago
The only Philadelphia which bore any import
ant part in the deeds of the navy was the fligate
or that name, which in the war with Tripoli
ran aground and was surrendered and wa Sllh
sequently cut out and destroyed BY Decatur and
his gallant companions. A Philadelphia small
steamer, bought into the service in the rebel
lion sunk by a torpedo The old Concord
a sloop-of-war, was wrecked on the coast of
Africa in 1S4S. Bennington is a new name in
the navy. There was a Petrol in the service in
the rebellion She was captured by the Confed
crates. The old man-of warsmen say that Dayv
Jones has his mark on every one of the vessels
except the Bennington and the San Francisco
SOME Of the natural woods of California and
Oregon are coming into extensive use, both at
home and abroad, for interior finish, the most
valuable for this purpose being the redwood. the
white cedar, the laurel, and the sycamore.
The redwood takes the lead in this line taline,
good polish. and, for general use wear and
staying qualities, is alleged to have no superior
in any forest in the world. The laurel is smooth
firm. beautifully figured, and altogether a most
desirable wood. The value Of the sycamore rs
an ornamental wood has only quite recently he.
come generally known its grain being much
like that Of the Eastarn birch. having waving
lines close tORpt and MS iS frtff fo,,,I, -