The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


THE assignees of a suspended Missouri bank
found only a solitary nickel in the vaults when
they assembled to count the cash assets.
JOHN l.. SULLIVAN could perlse carefully the
newspapers of his native land without ever
finding his name printed inaccurately. WhaI
| better test of fame could there be-
IL answer TO an examination question high
school scholar of Auburn, Me-, wrote: Anglo
Saxon was the first man who wrote the alpha
bet He wrote it in Greek first then came 10
America and taught IL to the nation.
A Los ANGELES, CAL, WOMAN. who was al
dicted TO smoking cigarettes in bed, went TO
sleep with one in her mouth, dropped it, and SET
her clothes on fire She was burned horribly
and was dead when the flames were eAUih-
guished
THE average annual wages received in the
German sewing machine factories are: Men,
Sl7S, women. $50 The price of -four, meat
potatoes, groceries, fuel and light is as mgn,
and in most cases higher, in Germany IMAM Ill
this country.
ONE of the promising trotters of Texas is
Dude H., with record of 2:27 He is black
broncho, and was formerly used in herding cat
tie, and is a converted PAGER. The cowboy that
rode him saw that occasionally he trotted wen,
so he had him trained.
AT recent meeting of learned men in Berlin
it was said as fact, that when bee has filled
his cell with honey and has completed the lid
he adds drop of formc acid, which he gets
from the poison bag connected with the Sung
To do this, he perforates the lid with MS SUNG
The acid preserves the honey.
PHILADELPHIA ARCHITECT who had two plates
of glass, each fourteen by sixteen feet made by
a Pittsburg manufacturer, is said to have direct
ed the latter TO send them by river to New Or
leans, and thence to Philadelphia by sea, as the
dimensions of the plates prevent their being
|, mt f he
the route
A DETROIT POLICE OFFICER, capt. Burger,
asked one of the female Salvationists who ma
nipulates a tambourine at the meetings with
startling acoustic effect, question the other
evening and received pretty pat answers ''Dld
You ever know a level headed person to JOIN the
Salvation Armyy' wei" SAID the woman,
"cranks have souls.
AFTER Jan Messrs. Harper & Brothers will
cease the publication of the series known as the
Franklin Square Library in the broadsde form.
They will not give up the publication OF books
at cheap prices, but experience, they say, has
demonstrated that the public taste demands
better quality of book, something of more
permanent as well as slightly form
HALF CENTURY AGO Capt. Jonathan Greene
was the most skillful gambler in the United
states He is now q resident of Philadelphia,
and claims to be the only man living who was
in the battle of San Jacinto in 1886. capt.
Greene renowned gambling forty-five years
ago wrote four books against that vice. and now
he asks for aims in consideration of his having
refrained from winning fortune at cards.
THE scientific activity of the age is shown in
the fact that the twelve principal chemical So
cietes of the world have an aggregate member
shin of over g. 600. nearly all of these members
being active contributors to the advancement of
chemical science and publishing their results
mostly in periodicals especially devoted to
SuCb subjects Excluding transactions OF
cieties and journals Of physics and pharmacy,
these chemical periodicals issue annually about
10000 pages.
THE interesting fact is stated that so indie
structible by wear or decay is the African teak
wood that vessels built of il have lasted 100
years, to be then only broken up because OF
their poor sailing qualities from faulty models.
The wood in fact, is one of the most remarkable
known. on account of its very great weight,
hardness and durability, its weight varying
from forty-two to fifty-two pounds per cubic
foot; it works easily, but on account OF the
large quantity of slick contained in it the tools
employed are quickly worn away. Ii al o con
tains an oil which prevents spikes and other
iron work with which it is in contact from
ruStlng.
In the recent National Convention of BARRIERS
at Buffalo the question of substituting some
other sign for the redand- white striped barber
pole was discussed. and it has been engaging
the attention of gentlemen of the tonsorial pro
fession ever since II is said that in early times
BARRIERS served the public in the capacity of sur
geonS also, and that the pole symbolized an arm
wound with ribbon previous to the letting of
blood. 1t was George II. of England, who de
creed that henceforth the trade of the barber
should be foreign to and independent of the
practice of surgery" Despite the fact that the
striped pole is the symbol Of blood-letting, it
seems to be the opinion of conservative BARRIERS
generally that no other sign would be so
effective.