The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


be young woman who is employed in news
paper office at Santa Barbara.
NORFOLK, VA, claims the distinction of being
the worlds greatest peanut market. 1t disposes
every year of 2000,O 900 busheIof peanuts most
of which are grown in Virginia.
THE public library of san Francisco has
among its books one containing the Lords
prayer in S14 different dialects 1t was COM
piled by A. Amer and published in Vienna in
| 1874.
THERE is newspaper museum at AiX-la-
Chapele containing files ofspecimens of more
| than H. 600 newspapers, hal the full press of
the world Among them is the forty sixth num-
| Der OF the Terds Democrat, published at Hous-
ton in 1864 on wall paper.
MONTHLY periodical, devoted to the religious
interests OF Cinnamon in this country, has been
started in New York, as an adjunct to Chinese
Sabbath school work. 1t is elited by Guy Maine,
| an educated Chinaman, andhalf of the paper is
| printed in English and half il Chinese.
LEMON was picked at Los Angeles, Cal, the
other day, that weighed three and three-fourth
| pounds, was 615 inches long and inches in
| diameter. The tree on which it grew had but
| half dozen lemons on ITS branches, but the
| weight of the fruit bent them almost to the
| ground.
IT has been figured out by statistical officer
that there are 81 criminals to every 1000 bach
elors, and only II criminals 20 every 1000 mar
RED men. From this showing he argues that
| matrlmony restraints men from crime. and
ought, therefore, to be encouraged by legisla-
| ton and otherwise.
IT is reported that it has been found unproht-
able to ship from the East to the West all the
printed material used by the Postal Depart
| ment, when the paper can be bought and the
| printing done in st. Louis and Chicago quite as
well. SO branches OF the Government Printing
Offce are to be established in these cities
Two great musical festivals are announced to
come off this year, The German Singers
| League which consists of nearly "a 900 men,
| beers, will have its fourth meeting at Vienna,
| Austria. AT Copenhagen, Denmark, a great
musical festival will be celebrated in May.
None but Scandinavian music will be per-
| formed.
NEWS comes from Berlin that sixteen young
men OF the University, some of them Ameri-
| cans, some English and some Scotch have
| formed themselves into an international total
| abstinence society. An American, j. Warren
Forbes, of New Mexico, is President. Prof.
Bunge's pamphlet, die Alkohol Frage,' is
Their hand book Of temperance doctrine.
TOURIST who is travelling in India writes
home that he was astonshed by the precocity
! of the Hindoo children. Many of them are skill
| tul workmen at an age when other children are
| learning the alphabet. One of the most expert
| carvers in wood he saw, was a boy of z, and
many of the handsomest and most costly rugs
| and carpets are woven by children not yet in
| their teens.
| THE Emperor William was not without humor,
and loved quiet joke. 1t is told that once at a
| hunt the huntsmen laid twenty-eight head of
| game before him. which they said that he had
| Killed He smiled and quoted: There are more
| things In heaven and earth than are dreamt of
| in your philosophy" Adding: For is it not
miracle that should have killed twenty-eight
head while l had only twenty-f1v cartridgesS''
THE BABY son of an officer at Perleberg, Prus-
STA, was put to bed by his nurse who gave him
| his whip to play with until she returned Dur
| ing her absence the child tried to hit the kero-
Sene lamp with his whip and succeeded in
knocking it down and breaking it, The bed
clothes were abaze in moment, and before
the nurse answered his cries the poor boy was
burned so dreadfully that ne died few hours
after.
AT CENTRALIA, w. T., an Indian saw store
keeper measuring out some coal oil, and re-
marked that he knew where there was heaps"
of that stuff, and stated that when the Indians
wanted to make q fire quickly they poured the
oil on their kindling wood. An exploring party
was organized, and with the Indian as guide
they proceeded to a spot in ChehaS county
where spring was spouting oil from the earth.
1t was estimated that the yield was two barrels
an hour, and indications of oil were observed
for some distance around the spring
APRIL 1, 1877, a Chicago clerk named Camp
was taking stroll along Dearborn avenue,
NIcu u SetltSIldH ITOul dIOGHeT establishment
met him and proceeded to mop the pavement
with Mr.. Camp. According to Camps state
ment Solomon in all his glory never wore finer
clothes. He was arrayed in ''One coat, one pair
of breeches one cravat, one shirt and one hat
of great value-to wit: of the value of 5000"
Camp is now suing for $4,000 damages-S5, 600
for injuries to himself and s. 600 for the demoli
ton of his extravaganza costume.
THE youngest soldier of the late war is bobbing
up in all parts of the country. He is in Maine
now. Rev. A. c. White, of Augusta. a member
of the g. A. R. post in that city, enlisted as a
drummer boy in Company D. Sixty-fourth Ohio
regiment, and was mustered into the United
States service by apt. Forsyth (now Gen For
period of three years Mr.. White was then
lad of years and month. lie served with
his regiment three years and four months and
was mustered out of the service before he was
Il years old.
c. BENDER, Of Venango Crawford county,
Pennsylvania, runs -four store, furniture
store, livery stable, hay scales, wagon shop.
handle shop, coal yard, justice of the peace
office, besides being school director, bookkeeper
for two lodges, leader of a choir and janitor of
| church On these facts being made known
through the local paper Mr. Bender wrote TO
the editor to inform him that he hadn't got il
all, and seemed hurt because the correspond
ent ommtted to state that this man Of many
callings was also manager and trustee of the
village cemetery, and was about to build a
poultry house if he could get trusted for the
lumber
THE best water is that which has gone deepest
in the earth, where there is the highest pres
sure, atmospheric and teuric. Continued and
intensified filtration has refined it; but it is here
and not in its open air exposure, before or after
that the water gets effective oxidation. The re
markabe fact that water absorbs oxygen in
something like geometrical ratio to the in
crease of pressure, coupled with the other
equally important fact that under a certain
pressure and temperature organic germs cease
to exist both these conditions protracted for
the water for long detention in the depth of
the earth to secure the rarest refinement and
also vitalization of the element.
THE prevalence of deep SHOWS in many parts
of Europe during the past winter has set practi
cal men thinking of better means of protection
against this great obstruction to traffic. And
the question of defending lines of railway
against snowdrifts mas been raised in Austria |
and Hungary. rose hedge is now said 10 he |
the most effective defense. More than a mile
Of one of the Hungarian railways has been this |
winter kept clear of drifts by rose hedge |
about 618 feet thick, although this section |
Of the line had always in previous years been |
liableto be blocked In Brittany the lines run |
between small fruit gardens, with innumerable |
pear and apple trees trained espalier fashion |
at the sides, and the practical cultivation Of |
fruit trees Is adopted along the high roads in |