The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IT is said to be English to never wash straw
berries, but TO roll them carefully in towel I'M
til 1.-The grit disappears.
THE electric arc lights in the United States
now number nearly 100000; and the incandes
cents number over 900 900.
A GLASGOW firm has just finished brass wire
for the Glasgow exhibition sixty five miles long,
and a copper wire Ill miles long.
The National telephone company of Scotland
has several submarine cables of seven, eight
and nine miles in length, which give perfect
satisfaction.
| In CHINA there are over 400 species of plants
used for food and in the world probably ten
| times that number. Sawdust in Sweden is used
in bread and found digestible.
THE population of Canada is less than that OF
| the state of New York; and yet while New York
has debt of only about 100000, Canada has
debt of nearly $780, 100000
MATTHEW w SEDMAN, an eccentric old man
who died at Terre Haute, Ind, last week, was
buried in a coffin which for twenty-five years he
had kept in his bedroom. The monument over
his grave was erected according to his orders
fully thirty years ago.
In ONE APARTMENT of Windsor CASTLE called
the Gold room, there is stored away gold plate
to the value of $4,000 900. One piece alone,
salver of gold is worth $4,000 and there is a
gold candelabrum in the room valued at fully as
much. 1t is 50 heavy to require the COM
blned strength of two men to lift it.
A BIDDEFoRD (ME.) MAN while washing the
outside of his own windows with the hose
thought he would do neighbory kindness for
the lady who lived in the tenement overhead.
He meant well, but as the deceptive scenic
screens failed to show him that the windows
were wide open, the effect was not just what he
expected.
Eruu TSNN-tr -OfG NJ had S,,cf haaT, soft
out doors by her mother when she was heard to
scream. Running Quietly, her mother saw a
rooster pecking at her head and the blood run
ming down over her face She found three large
holes dented into her head, made by his spurs,
and thinks he would have killed the child if she
had not rescued her
AT Jeffersonville Ind, while Louis Lyttle and
others were fishing in the Ohio the other even
ing, Lyttle hooked monster catfish. 1t
dragged him into the river, but he held on to
the line, the fish taking him up stream, to the
utter establishment of the lockers on. Lytte
escaped drowning by being dragged against
pile of drift wood after an exciting run of a
quarter of a mile. Three men then tried to
drag the fish ashore, but failed. Charles Muir
ply was drowned by fish in a similar manner
week ago.
The curious discovery is reported from France
that good old wine is differently affected by
bottles of different manufacture. 1t is said that
wines kept in so-called Rouen bottles improve.
while many other bottles seem to impart the
harsh flavor of new wine. The chemist Pegot
attributes the changes which wine kept long in
bottles undergoes to the action of the ingredi-
ents used in the preparation of the glass. 1t ap-
pears That an undue admiXture of lime and
magneSia, which are often substituted for soda
and potash on account of their cheapness, acts
injuriously upon the wine. In those bottles in
which the wine actually improves the proper
ton OF lime is found not to exceed IS or 20 per
cent.
THE new criminal code of Italy, just promul-
gated, abolishes the death penalty for murder
or any serious crime. 1t substitutes therefor
imprisonment for life. The first ten years is to
be IN solitary confinement at hard labor. At the
end OF that period if the convict has conducted
himself we'll he can thereafter work among his
associate convictS, but is still condemned to re
main silent. For continued good behavior he
IS to be rewarded by permission to speak occa
sionally. In case of duelling the court has first
TO determine whether all laws of honor have
been complied with, and then the penalty is six
months imprisonment for mere fighting For
death five years Imprisonment; seconds in the
first case to have three months, in the second
case two months and a half.
A NATURAL soap well has been discovered
sixty eight miles west of Buffalo Gap, Oak The
soap is SKINNED from boiling spring and
hardens by exposure to the air. 1t is like soft
clay, aud can be gathered with shovel and il
supposed to be mixture of akal borax and
the ubricating oil found in many parts of
Wyoming sample has been tested by promi-
nent Chicago soap manufacturer, and he re
ported the discovery worth the full weight of
the manufactured article. Parties surrounding
the springs have used the natural article as
axle grease, by adding little of the oil discov-
cred there, and it is pronounced the finest ma
terial ever used for that purpose The soan
will wash in the hardest Of water and leave the
hands much softer than the ordinary article
The supply is supposed to be inexhauStible
'IN ZUEI LAND the woman makes the first adj
vances looking toward marriage The woman
raises the family She transmits the name.
She sends to the youth she chooses a basket of
meal or peaches and if he is inclined toward
her he forthwith makes present OF primary
consideration, consisting of a pair of moccasins
of whole deerskin, beautifully dressed and
snowy white. That signifies that she is pro.
vlded WITH shoes for life. The skin is placed
over the foot and then rolled around the leg
and strapped down with delicate thongs You
can always tell newly married Zuni woman
by the large roll of deerskin, and by the small
silver buttons that adorn the leggings When
ever the foot-piece wears out it is cut off and
the roll is replaced. When the women become
old the roll is small. The only sanctificatiOn of
the marriage is the formal adoption of the
young man after the acceptance of the bundle
lie Is then the stepson of the girls father"
JOHN BLACK and Darius Hetrick, of Polk
township, Pa, recently erected a bear pen IN
the forest near their home with a view to catch
ing some of the 'varmints'' which they knew
to inhabt those parts. They went to see what
success they had met with and when thev
came within sight of the pen they saw three cute
little cubs playing about and concluded that
the mother was captured. Upon approaching
nearer the cubs ran away, but, as they had
suspected, the old one was inside. Retilrnin O.
home they procured some food for the old bear
and went back again to feed her and if nossihle
catch the cubs. They we're not there. The
next step was to cut hole in the cage large
enough to admit the cubs but too small to per
init the escape of their maternal narent
Every day they fed the old bear and examined
the cage to see if the cubs had returned After
several days they found two baby bruins inside
and proceeded to shut off their avenue of es
cape. The next day they went out with
wagon, and placing the cage containing the
bears thereon, hauled the whole family home
where they have been on exhibition.
RECENT NUMBER of the Pekn Gazette CON
tains a memorial to the emperor from the
Chinese resident at Lhassa, stating that GER
tain Tibetan official, who is called the nomen-
han Of Interior Tibet, reported to him that he
had found three young boys of remarkable in
telhgence and strangeness, into one of whom
beyond doubt the spirit of the late Lama of
Teshulumbo lone of the two supreme pontiffs1
had passed Hereupon the resident sent a re-
port TO Pekn ask ng that the ceremony of
selecting one of these three children might Inc
permitted BY the time the authority arrived
the momentum with the children had reached
LhasSa, and lucky day was chosen for fine
ceremony. The golden vase in which the lots
are cast was brought and placed before the
image OF the emperor. Prayers were chanted
before the assembled Llmas, and the children