The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LADY FORESTER Of London is a practical
philanthropist. Each week she sends to the
factory girls of London upward OF 1000 lunches
Of flowers gathered by the servants on her
estate
A CONSCIENCE WAVE is sweeping over the land
The secretary Of the treasury has Just received
a letter containing four 2-cent stamps. which
the writer says is the amount, with interest. of
Two stamps which he used twice.
An INDIAN BOY was wading in the Feather
river, in California, near the Golden Gate mine
Thursday, when a large fish carried off the
great toe on his left foot. The little boy wants
70 die, just because his companions i'll call him
'Nine-toed Jimmy"
Swimming BATHS are becoming popular addi-
tons to English schools. The school board
contends that it is quite as important for a boy
to learn to swim as for girl TO learn the art of
cookery, and claims that the swimming bath
adds to the comfort of the scholars and assists
In the work of education.
A swINDLER sold a Clinton county, Michigan,
farmer recipe for making his wheat weigh
twice as much as it ought to, and signed con-
tract to divide the money gained by the extra
weight with the scientific swindle. Tae con
tract eventually turned up as pronissory
note ana the farmer paid $500 for it-and
didn't advertise the matter with brass band
either.
The SALT INDUSTRY In Southern Kansas Is as
summing majestic proportions. 1t is said that
the salt taken up at Wellington, in thatstate is
the purest in the world. A dozen great salt
plants are already in operation and others will
soon be established In few. years all the
salt used for ordinary purposes west Of the
MISSISSIPPI river will probably, be supplied by
Kansas.
The most profitable book eyer printed, at
least in this country, was Tebster's Spelling
BOOK. More than $4,000 900 copies of this pro
ductlon have been issued. ana could DR.. Webster
ana ms heirs have enjoyed the royalties from
u they would have found it more valuable than
the cave of Monte Cristo.a Yet DR.. Webster
wrote 1t that he might procure the means 10
support himself while engaged in other work.
notably his dictionary, which was really an
elaboration of the spelling book.
A SMALL BOY at Marshall, IL, has voiced
sentiment which would be a good thing for gen
eral adoption. He was a Terry tough urchin.
and, together with his little brother got SO bad
that the townspeople decided to send him to a
reform school, so he was arrested on an old
charge OF theft and advised to plead guilty
The little fellow stoutly maintained his inno-
cence of this particular crime, and while ac-
knowledging that he ought to go to the reform
school, declined 70 plead guilty to something
ne had not done. He won the sympathy of
both the spectators and the court, and was
finally discharged
The GREAT BEAR RIVER canal in Utah for
the construction of which S., 100000 has been
provided, is expected to be one of the most ex-
ten slve irrigation works in America To get
the river along the side hill along Bear river
canyon and out on to the plain near plymouth
will necesstate moving go, 900 cubic yards of
solid rock, 10000 cubic yards of loose rock
1,528, 900 cubic yards of EARTH and digging 200
feet OF tunnel. This canal will rrigate 100000
acres in Salt Lake valley and 5000 900 on Bear
river, increasing the value of the land to $50
per acre, while fencing, building and tillage are
expected to double this valuation in few
years. Bear lake is in Southeastern Idaho
Tne reservoir for this canal covers $50 square
mile. and the canal will secure the Irrigation
Of territory extending to Ogden.
A NEWLY APPOINTED JUSTICE OF THE PEACE in
Fairhaven, Vt, was asked what he would ASK to
marry forlorn-looking couple that had ep-
peared to him from the backwoods The J. P
thought he could perform the ceremony for so
cents. The man allowed that he might raise
that sum. After the ceremony was performed
the justice called for the fee. After consider
able fumbling in the pockets of his overalls the
bridegroom thought he had either lost the so
cents or left it ito hum" The j. P. having no
desire to lose so large prize as so cents calmly
informed the rustic youth that he was ''unmar-
ried." A bystander came to the rescue of the
young man and loaned him so cents, which was
handed to his honor; The justice then re-
ried, and that they were at liberty to resume
their journey
A RECENT VISITOR to one of the Punjaub iails
was amazed to find remarkably large number
of old men among the prisoners almost one
convict in five having gray beard. The jailer
being asked for an explanation replied: at is
common practice when theft is brought
home to a man by the police for him to get an
old father uncle to take the blame on him
self, or he puts up young brother to do So
Before the court they make full and circum-
stantial confession. They are convicted and
the real thieves get off, and it is for the family
benefit that this should be So sturdy young
man is able to do more for the family support
by honest labor or by thieving than an old man
or boy The old man has lost many of the
In tincts and appettes which make liberty so
dear to the young man. He cannot be put to
any very hard labor, and will be well fed and
well looked after while he is in Jail. If a boy
confesses he will probably escape with fog
ging The conviction OF an old man or a boy,
will look quite as well in the police returns as
that of an able bodied young man So long as
they get their conviction, the police don't
trouble themselves very much about the
matter"
The OLDEST SPECIMENS OF COMBS preserved in
the British Museum belong to the period of the
second Egyptian dynasty; they are made of
wood, with coarse teeth rather wide apart:
where there is only a single row. there is a
rough attempt to carve the back into a sem
blance of a sacred animsl such as the Cow of
Athor or the Goddess of Beauty. The forma-
ton of one specimen, in bone, six pronged and
rudely cut at the edges, suggests that it was
worn as ornament for the hair. From that
time to the middle ages there is no evidence to
show that decorative combs were in USE The
Greeks were especially fastdous in the arran ge-
ment of their hair, and the Spartans whose
general habits were more severe, were no whit
behind them in the care lavished upon it, calling
/ it, very shrewdly, the cheapest of ornaments
and before proceeding to battle, the combing
and dressing of their locks pactook of all the
solemnity of religious rite. Before the battle
of Thermopyle, Leonidas and his followers were
| discovered by the Persian spy in the perform
ance of this act. That 1t was in some way asso-
| ciated with preparati n for the worship of the
gods among the Romans also is evidenced by
the presence of combs the cista or cylirdrical
vase with a coveredG I'D, which contained the
articles used during the rites of Ceres and
Bacchus. -
In BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND they have Just had
genuine lion hunta TIE animal WASH I in open
country, though, but in a sewer, whittier it had
escaped from a circus How to capture the
| beast, without alarming people, was difficult
question to solve, but finally it was decided to
place cage at ths; sewers mouth and then
chase the lion into it,. AlEthis was to be done
at midnight, and two men attached to the
circus volunteered to do the chasing Armed
with revSlver and q dark lantern they de-
scended through rnAnhole, and almost inme-
diately heard the lions roar but the fugitive
being a good distance. OFF, they assembled and
| proceeded to manhole further inland; but
here, again, they were On the wrong sidepf the
| lion, and it was not. until they cameto where a
branch sewer emptied that they got. fairly on
| its track It was then determined TO trap il ON
the spot instead of driving it to the outlet, and