The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


emus and 1913 native dogs.
IT is denied that the Rev Alexander Fownes
Luttrel, who died recently at the age of 90
years, was the Oldest American clergyman in
England. Archdeacon Philpot is SO, and the
Rev. Bartholomew Edwards 30 years of age.
THE FRENCH MINT will soon replace the copper
sous with nickels. Singularly enough the five
and ten centime pieces will be perforated in the
center after the manner of Chinese coin. This
enables them to be strung and counted or
handled with great ease.
THE old Waldron house, revolutionary land
mark at Stony Point, n. Y, was destroyed by
fire few days ago. 1t was built in 1867 by
Jacob Waldron, one of the first settlers of the
section His dust, with that of ten children, lies
in the family burial plot near the ruins OF his
old home.
A MAN in London who owned two cats desired
to get rid Of them by drowning them. He
placed them in bag, in company with brick
bat, and dropped them into deep water. Three
months after, one of the cats returned home,
looking very wretched. The bag must have
burst almost as soon as it was put in the water.
Mrs. Ed WAGNER, near Siglersville, Pa,
heard the bay Of hounds and, looking out. saw
that two of them had got de er az bay in the
meadow: She seized her us lands rife, and
prepared to shoot; and then fearing that she
might Kill one of dogs, put down the gun, got
the butcher knife. and went out and cut the
deer's throat
In CALIFORNIA turkeys are raised in fiocks
numbering several thousand. They are placed
in charge of herder. who drives them as he
would q flock of sheep. They range over miles
81 territory in day. and live almost entirely by
foraging. When the grain is cut and harvested
the turkeys are turned into the immense wheat
and barley fields and the birds do the cleaning,
and become fat and ready for market at very
little cost.
Txrur
reservoir of oil, in order to support bodies in
the water, s based on the recent eases of sue
cessful experience with oil in overcoming the
power of waves, and thus saving life and prop
erty from destruction, The reservoir in this
case is provided with an outlet, by means of
which the oil may escape automatically, no
matter on which side the float, or buoy, may be
turned when thrown into the water, or to which
it may be impeed by the waves when once in
the water Thus by means of the escaping oil,
the surrounding water Is expected to become
sufficiently calm to enable the float to be dis
covered at farther distance than 1t otherwise
could be. and calm space secured around the
float for the preservation or life.
THE winter has no terror for the the regular
army even in the far northwest. Uncle Sam is
so open-handed with nothing to his soldiers as
with stoves They are always TO be had for the
asking, and sometimes without. Some years
ago, when the Fifteenth infantry was ordered
to take possession of a deserted fort in New
Mexico 10 the heat of summer, not a keg of
nails could be procured from department head
quarters to help repair the barracks, but 100
stoves, at all times useless in that climate came
promptly to hand. The one difficulty the gov
eminent is meeting in providing winter supplies
for it's troops in Dakota and Montana is to find
some substitute for the buffalo robe, which has
now disappeared from the market. Tests are
now beng made of various turs, in combination
with stout canvas. with view of replacing it.
AN OFFICIAL REPORT made to the Dutch Indian
government, on the origin and character of the
memorable volcanic outbreak in the Sunda
straits, estimates that the amount of elected
matter from Krakatoa must have been at least
ten cubic miles. or a sufficient quantity to make
q respectable range of hills about 1000 feet
higher than the surrounding plain. The We
locity of election is stated to have been con-
siderably greater than that of the heaviest rfied
ordnance, aud the elected material must have
reached hight Of thirty miles, or six times the
hight of the highest mountain in the world
The noise of the explosions was heard over
one-fourteenth of the earth's surface, and a
great atmospheric wave starting from Kra-
katoa as its center, spread itself around the
world. describing the whole circumference in
some &c hours. The mass of floating pumice
found after the outburst on the surface of the
sea has drifted in the direction of America.
WHO would ever think that Joe jefferson was
once almost dead with consumption? Certainly
no one that has seen him lately in that lively
dance that the curtain falls on in the Cricket
on the Hearth" When Jefferson was a young
actor playing Asa Trenchard nobody ever
thought he would live out his engagement with
the company, for he was not only narrow
chested, hollow eyed and consumptiye but he
had bad cough and woebegone expression
that was pitlful to contemplate. Everybody
about the stage liked him and, apprehensive of
his early demise, accorded him every attention
conductive TO comfort. On the advice of
hapless Mr.. Macbeth he one day ordered a bottle
sale and pill-box bonfire, and cutting loose
from a chain of doctors and druggists, lost
himself among the highlands of the Hudson
and began at once to get we'll Between cold
water outdoor exercise, nine hours of sleep
and a diet fit for an abnegated monk, Mr.. Jeffer-
son is to-day fine specimen of physical and
mental vigor. He has lived to bury the very
friends VINO were most anxious about his
future to see three generations come upon the
boards, and has not only watched his children
mature, but lives over again his youth with a
4year-old son.
THIS is the time of year when fond parents,
eager for new devices for keeping the young
sters amused in the long winter evenings at
home. visit the toy stores and look over the
annual array of new parlor games. world of
inventive ingenuity is expended in the produc-
ton of educational card games and it is not too
much to say that Young America is indebted
for much of its rapidly acquired knowledge of
things in general, and of historical, geographi-
cal, and literary things in particular, to the de-
signers of these home pastimes. The latest
thing in this line of games that amuse and edu-
cate at the same time Is Just now claiming
marked attention in the Boston toy stores. IL
is called THE Game of Politics, or the Race for
the Presidency AS its name implies it is
based upon the contest which every four years
decides who shall occupy the white house. IL
is played with a pack OF 4S numerical cards,
whose faces are worth all the way from 1000 up
to 10 900 votes. The IS states have 10 be carried
one after the other by skillful play, the correct
number of each states electoral vote being
scored for the side that plays the majority
card for it. Those who have played it pro-
nounce it a decided hit, and the fact that IL is
appearing quite numerousy in Boston parlors
shows that it is catching on" One merit it
certainly hast IS a purely American game
and instructs young players in many vital
points touching the government OF their coun-
try TO which they are not, as rule, well
posted. CuriouSly enough though il is a close
parody of our political system, it is the inven-
ton of one of the DISTINGUISHED sex Mrs j w.
Clarke, wife of the leader writer of the Boston
Globe is its author. Who, after this, will say
that ladies' don't understand politics?
Boston grocerymen have a novel and curious
system of Keeping accounts with their custo-
mers by which the pass book, as a substitute
for the ancient method, money books, is en-
ployed, the leaves Of which are made of imta-
ton bank notes representing all the way from
1c to 81. Some OF the books contain So and
others s5 $40. SIS and even $50 Instead
of running an account with customer, the
grocer gives him a book, and for every arti-
Gle the purchaser buys he pays in this fiat
money, which OF course is only good at the es-
adjustment whence it is issued N he invests
in 75c worth OF -four tea and sugar he tears
out like amount in money checks and hands
them over. Thus making each transaction, as
10 farss aab oh is mn IN her ha