The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

EarmIngdale, Ne, are crazy on the subject of
monkeys. There are none Of the Simian animals
ABOUT the mousse yet the Stevens profess to see
them everywhere.
AT AUGUSTA. NE, some boys playing in a
sandoank unearthed huge skull of some ex-
tinct animal The skull is represented as being
Tour feet long and the huge Jaws carry teeth
SIX and seven inches long, which are decidedly
ugly looking. 2 ~
A BROOKLYN GIRL, who is an heiress but
whose property is in care of trust company.
applet to the president for money with which
TO buy sealskin sacque He refused on the
ground that it was luxury. The girl then ap-
pLed 70 the supreme court througha lawyer for
PERMISSION and it was granted. and in less than
Two hours the young lady was wearing the best
one she could find. -Gf ~ -.
FEW MONTHS AGO London Cub advertised
for secretary. Six hundred Candidates ap-
piled. The list included graduates of Oxford
and Cambridge, barristers, doctors, school
masters, solicitors, architects, and whole regi-
ment made up from all arms of her majesty
per annum. This looks as If there were good
many gentlemen who thought the professions
played OUT
The TRANSLATION OF legal documents from
English into Spanish is quite an important bus
mess In st. Louis There is also much CORE
spondence relating TO mines that must be trans
lated. A firm recently received q letter order
strangely mixed. One of the items called for
certain number of "Monqua Rinches." IL took
some time for the clerk to guess that monkey
wrenches were wanted, but the guess was cor
rect.
A REMARKABLE STORY comes from Maine to
the effect that man who employed two intox-
icated orsmen to take him across a lake was
landed on an island instead of on the main
shore. 'Ail his shouts when he discovered
where he was, were of no avail, and it was sew
a nj al ha
In cottage which he broke into, some crack
| erS, onions and potatoes but these didn't last
long; At last, by raising his coat as signal on
tall tree, he attracted attention from the
mainland and was rescued"
| GOOD STORY is told about young Rockland
| (Me) couple recently married They were
| plentifully beshowered with rice as they left
for the noon train after the wedding, but OF the
| cars they assumed the airs of an old married
| couple, hoping to escape detection. They got
out at the union station, Portland and as it was
| raining the groom spread the protecting folds
| OF his new umbrella over his bride. AS the
umbrella went up two quarts of rice which had
| been carefully stored within came down. The
| hurrying throng saw the rice, the blushing
couple, and caught on"
In New GRANADA grows a plant which is
ocally known as the link plant and scien-
tifically as coridrta thym1oIia. Its juice serves,
without the slightest preparation, as ink At
first the writing appears red but in few hours
1t assumes a deep black hue 1t is worthy of
note that steel pens are entirely unframed by
this fluid, which is free from the corrosive
properties of ordinary ink. Several sheets of
manuscript, written with this ink became
soaked with sea water on their Journey to
Europe, but, when dried, the writing was found
TO be still perfectly clear.
EVERYTHING in the country of the River Chai
in Central Asia, is described by Gabrial Bouva-
lot as covered with salt It is seen in the wallis
houses II ha0 he Of tba
and the water one drinks is very salt. TraveA
ing Saltpeter makers go in summer from place
to place wherever they can find material to
work upon. Their mode of operation is rough
and-ready one. Holes in the earth serve as
watts ana boilers, and below these are placed
ovens Abundance of brushwood supplies ma
ter1als for the fires. One workman makes
about fifty pounds per days, worth a penny a
pound
FOR SIX MONTHS OR MORE workmen at the
quarry on Lay avenue, st. Louis, have been
finding human bones. They are found at a
depth of more than 100 feet, under a deposit of
limestone 10 feet deep. There are evidences of
either a waterway that one time existed on the
surface of the earth, or it may have been a sub.
terranean river. At any rate, there is every in
dication of ditch or water course of some
kind, which has been filled with clay, in which
the bones are found 1t may be that these
bones were placed where they are found long
before the limestone was formed over the water
race the people belonged, are interesting ques-
lions for psychologists.
AT MINNEAPOLIS an electric light wire. passine
down in front of a store, got out of place and
| formed a connection with large iron plate in
the sidewalk. A number of pedestrians stepped
| upon the walk and received shocks. Those in
| side the store noticed the trouble after some
| time, but they did not dare cross the steps
| leading to the walk. Finally they secured the
attention of a passer-by long enough to bring
an electrician. In the meantime the fun pro.
N " STE fha
| and with scream she threw her bundles gave
| jump and fell insensibe. A dog was the next
victim, and with disguised yelp he whirled
about to grasp his supposed assailant This
electric wire had transmitted its power to the
| stone slab. The fortunate individuals who wore
| rubber shoes passed over the stone unshocked
| At last a rubber-coated, rubber-mittened cleo
| trician mounted ladder and turned the current
| into its own channel.
| In L GARDEN of Berlin a canary bird was
found bearing on its neck small note The
| address was unusual, "Au den lieben Gott',-
| To the good Lord. The finder broke the seal
and found sincere message, in accordance
with the direction. 1t was written by a lady
an inmate of private lunatic asylum The
| unfortunate one. pleading for relief from her
sad situation, asked speedy death. She COM
planned that the misrule and self-will of rude
| female attendant was the cause of her suffer
ing. All explanations to her relatives were vain
because this attendant attributed her COM
| plalnlngs to diseased mind, and punished her
| The benevolent individual who found the note
| determined to investigate the matter The
| lady'S name was subscribed in full so that her
! friends were easily found. She was removed to
| another Institution. In a few months the best
| wishes OF her friends were gratified. she was
| fully restored.
| THE CONSUMPTION Of rice is Increasing in tn s
| country from year to year, says the Philadel
| phia Inquirer. and there is growing apr cia-
| ton of this valuable article of food Almost
| half the people in the world practically live
| upon it, as everyone knows in spite of the fact
| That it yields the lowest proportion of muscle
| producing food of any of the cereals Our
| supply is principally drawn from the Carolinas
| and louisiana some Japan and Java rice being
| imported. Carolina rice is preferred to any
| foreign rice, being thought even better than the
| beautiful Japan rice, which at present com
| mands about the same price. The Chinese here
| invariably buy Carolina rice and won't have
| foreign rice at any price. They import for
| themselves, however, small quantities of a
| glutinous rice they call mai, or "old man
| rice" which they use for making kind of
pudding at one of their festivals Rice. in com
mon with oats, wheat, peas and beans contains
about IA per cent. OF water, but it also has 70
per cent of starch, which causes it to rank
highest as fat producing food.
YALE STUDENTS are to present frog opera. :"
The cast will require seventy-fve people. The
music was written by Burton E. Leavitt, a Yale
freshman. The incident to be commemorated
is historic. Windham county historians agree
that the frog scare took place one sultry night
in June, 1854. The Windhamites were awakened