The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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doors. and the other not to be bested, held
services on the steps, policeman being present
to preserve order.
1 MISSISSIPPI has now, according TO one Of its
newspapers. 439 saw mills, 20 shingle mills, 13s
planning mills, IL logging railroads, IS dry kiln
plants 30 mills using thanksgiving machines and
| % wholesale lumber dealers.
CRAB that climbs cocoanut trees is the bir0o
tdtis, or robber crab, of the Tanning island. 1t
CRACKS the nuts with its claws and wakes fat on
the milky elixir found therein. A fine specimen
mas lately been added to the shell fish collection
] III the state museum of California
THREE SISTERS (all under Is years Of age), in
Missouri, weigh together S3 pounds. Lydia. l3
years Old IS t1e heaviest, tipping the beam at
90 pounds. Two of the trio have six fingers
on each hand and the same number of toes
size.
RARE BIRD was shot at Dundee, Ind, by
Austin Doa, a farmer The bird is snow white
and stands seven feet high. The remarkable
TACT that it weighs less that four pounds has ex-
cICeu n little interest. For want of the proper
maine the people have appropriately dubbed it
tAe phantom heron"
OUT at Minneapolis Mimi, Ernest Hoppe flew
INTO passion because his 12-pe 4r-old son had
let a lot OF thirty sheep out of a pen
tnat they might go drink Hoppe chained the
=
Iered, took the lad to a smithy and STRUCK off
the cnalns AT last accounts Hoppe himself was
standing chained to post.
PATRIOTIC GERMANS are hard at work weed
ing out words of French extraction from their
vocabulary. Among them is a tobacconist of
Dusseldorf who wishing to Danish the word
g'ffe from the German dictionary, offered
lrlZeS Tor substitutes that should be tnorou hly
leutonlc Two of the wor Is offered are said to
nave been gttHlStehge burning stalk and
9JfhudeIt poison tubes.
ONE of the places where Brooklyn people like
to go on Sunday afternoons is the sidewalk in
| Franklin avenue before the beautiful gardens
| OF Editor Stone ofAthe Journal Of Commerce,
| On the afternoons of pleasant SUNDAYS the head
| gardener brings out the treasures of the hot
| house and places them the sidewalk rail
ing. Ottentimes Mr. Stone stands near by and
| talks about his favorite flowers.
The annexed paragraph is from the New
| London Comm Telegraph: 1T is claimed that
| the piece of wood over the entrance between
| the Aborn hall building and II STAGE & Ander-
son S, ON Bank street, has grown two inches
| since 1t was nailed in Its place. 1t is rather
| hard to believe such thing possible. but the
| appearance of the wood indicates that it must
| nave grown or That the buildings on both sides
exert strong pressure on it. Two years ago
| the wood did not touch the wall by over an
lnch.H
| DESCRIPTIONS of the new postal cards, which
| are soon to be issued by the department, show
that the cards themselves will be beauti IS.
| There will be three sizes when the contracts
| have been filled. The first of these will he
| much larger than the one now in use and will
| be the one used mainly by business men. It's
| size viii be- sufficient to admit of the printing of
business card at the top an still allow pl enty
| or room for the message below. The second
| Will be of about the same size as the present
| card, and will be for brief motto IS and the Ike
For the ladies, who are beginning to look much
more favorably upon these mediums Of com
munication, there will be a still smaller one,
finer in quality and more aesthetic in appear
ance. The old buff color gives way in the three
sizes to whittier shade, which everybody will
welcome
NJ. VAMBERY writes to the St. James Gazette
as follows: Dervish is Persian word, and its
derivation, or rather composition is still the
OBJECT OF controversy Some say hat it is de-
rived from deruiS-namely, one who lies at the
door; while others believe that it is corruption
from deT-D&Sh or deT-biSh-namely, one who is
in advance head, chieftain; and, con ider-
ing that the derYsh is looked upon as a spiritual
chief in the eyes of the lower classes of the
Moslem world, consider this latter derivation
more probable, and consequently adhere TO it.
DervlsheS, or members of a sacred brotherhood
have always enjoyed great consideration in the
eyes of the lower classes in the east, and
although not acknowledged by orthodoxy thew
have been at all times the leaders of the masses
by whom they are blndly followed and ven
Grated. AS is generally known, all monkish
OF the Koran, and are even expressly pro-
hibited by Islam. But, in spite of all TIL s. they
sprang up very early in Persia and, having
spread from the asl-named country to the rest
OF the MOhammedlu world, the Persian word
has neen generally adopted and is now current
In the City of Mexico the income from the
taxation Of liquors and the license on saloons
is very large indeed. Every liquor and puloue
shop pays a monthly license. PulQue is the
common or C cap beverage of the hot Country
corresponding to the malt beer of the United
States 1t is purely vegetable" being ex-
tractel from the maguey pla It, a species of H..
cactus century plaut. In addition t. the
license fees on saloons, octro!, or entry tax.
is collected on all pulque coming within the
city limits. For tle fiscal year just lded this
gate tax amounted to the sum Of $500 600 or
more than $1,000 day. This is from ths pull
que alone-th9 beer of MeXicO-Which is retailnd
at cent for an ordinary glass or three cents
for large schooner. Add to this the tax on
alcoholic bevera eS. and also the license fees
paid by each saloon, of which there are thou-
sands, and some idea may be formed of hat
the city real IS annually from the liquor traffic
The City of Mexico has population tlat possi-
bly, dos not exceed 250,000 yet the amount
paid into the city treasury by liquor dealers
alone cannot fall short of $500 900 a wear The
pulque shops o Jen at O'clock in the morning
and close at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and pC t
one of them mas back door
BRADY, once the most famous photographer
in the world, has just been in New York on a
short visit. His home is now in Washington
He has become an exceedingly handsome OLD
man, as he was before al exceedingly handsome
young one. His is the arStocratic delicatelv
outlined aguIn -noSed style of beauty but he
used to have a muscle THAI his Irish name sug-
gested more tIan his face, and there is a very
fair remnant of it left HIS curling hair is quite
white now and 50 is his long dropping mus
taChe. Brady in his prime began a collection
of local, national and universal celebrities
which shortly after the breaking out OF or civil
war he removed to Washington whence he sent
with every great army corps his rep eSenta-
lives to preserve in tOrial form records of the
great battles and portraits Of the men who
figured IN them. He made vast and invalu-
able collection ar d. if you notice, lar e mum
Der of the pictures accompanying magazine
articles about that time are still drawn from
this source. Brady is a brilliant talker and is
full of vastly entertaining "reminiscences for ne
used to be brought in contact with everybody
worth knowing in the country, and his personal
qualities are 50 attractive tnat his famous
sltterS cultivated his acquaintance far more
than is usual in such cases Now, when he
comes to New York, there are only a very few
old cronies that he hobnobs with.
A rather TALL somewhat stoop-shouldered
man, with a light mustache and exceptionally
bright eyes, got out of a cab In Broadway
jam, about two weeks ago, and made his wav
INTO the Equitable building where he met a
rather heavy, Stal ~art-looking man with a let
black muStache AMI i'm perlal, says tue New
York star Tley were brothers. but nobody
that did not know them would recognize the
fact. They bear an historical name. One was
John c. Calhoun, gran iSon of the famous
statesman, and the other Patrick Calhoun, or
as he is Familiarity known, Pat" Calhoun
Pat Calhoun merged into prominence afraSb