The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

chanism operates from the drivers seat.
ATTRACTIVE YOUNG WOMEN were employed to
| pass the contribution boxes on a recent Sunday
| at Roc6land, Me-, and the receipts proved the
/ experiment well worth permanent adoption.
| PEOPLE do not appear to take as mnch stock
/ in lightning rods as they formerly did. There
are now only three lgntaing rod factories in the
| country against ninety-three few years ago.
THE Texas census bureau has estimated re-
turns showing the population Of Texas in Jan
| uary, 1897, TO have been, in round numbers
. 925 600 an increase of 2jIs per cent since 1880
THE PLAN of removing the state capital from
Augusta is a prominent subject OF gossip
| among Maine Legislators. 1t is said that liz
| senators and representatives favor Portland as
a seat OF government.
| FEWER passenger conductors have been dis
charged from the Missouri Pacific road, it is
said, than from any other railroad in the west.
| Many Of the conductors in the roads service
have been with it from the start.
THE mineral production of the United States
for the year 1888 is estimated at $3.50 900 900,
more than ever before. This is more than the
! product of any other country, and more than
| that of all European countries combined.
| A COUPLE OF LADS the other day dived from
the schoolship st. Mary into the Hudson, and
then INDUCED in 4 swim The water was ice
cold, but the boys didn't mind that and on
/
! THE London bankers clearing house trans
actions for the year 1883 amounted TO &G,9i2,-
| 172 600 an increase of IA per cent. over the pre-
vlous year, and surprising by upward Of 10 per
| cent. the largest amount previously recorded,
| that of the year 1881.
A PLYMOUTH. Macs, SPECIAL to the New York
| World says: Howard NJ Fay, peddler of ex-
tracts. has received nearly $4,000 from the es-
| tate of a New Orleans business man, recently
| deceased, to whom his father lent 5000 thirty
years ago. The debtors will provided that the
amount be repaid with compound interest.
4 MAN who got lost in the bush in South Aus
tralia resorted to an ingenious expedient for
| escaping from his dilemma. After wandering
about for four days he decided to cut telegraph
| line and camp on the spot His plan worked.
| The telegraph repatrers were sent out along the
| line to discover the cause of the interruption,
| and came upon the wanderer in time to save his
| life
ALPS CLIMBERS have been active of late. On
| Dec. 20 and 30 two South Germans assembled the
Zug Spite, peak in the Bavarian Alps more
! than 5000 feet high. They returned straight to
! the Eib Lake on Dec. 81. The weather on the
| mountains good. and the outlook clear and
fine. The descent, especially the latter half Of
! it, was, however, very difficult, owing TO the
| snow. On the same days some Americans
| assembled a peak about GOJ0 feet high, near
| Berchtesgaden, in Bavaria.
THE PROMOTERS of the movement in favor of
! smoke abatement in London will rejoice to hear
| of In, comparative failure of the experiment
tried in the House of Commons of sitting the
air through layers of cotton wool as it IS
! pumped through the ventilatng chambers into
the house Although the atmosphere Of The
| House Of Commons compared favor3by with
| that OF the House OF Lords. the constant open
| ing and shutting of doors permitted the fog 20
! enter. The members, therefore, vii, be driver
| to the conclusion that, if they determine TO
| legislate in a clear atmosphere, they must pro-
| vide for the prevention Of fog in the whole Of
| London, as well as in the legislative chamber
itself
THERE are two ways of splitting a piece Of
paper One is to lay the sheet Of paper on a
p ece Of glass, soak it thoroughly with water
| and then press it smoothly all over the glass.
| W it'll e little care the under half of the sheet
| can be pealed of, leaving the upper half on the
glass Let this dry aud il will come of the glass
| very easily: Of course the glass must be per
fectly clean. The second way is better one
but it requires some good practice. Paste a
piece OF cloth or strong paper on each side of
the sheet to be split. When it IS thoroughly
! dried pull t1e two pieces OF ClOth apart SlQ-
denly and violently. The paste can then be
sOftened with water and the two halves of the
sheet easily taken off the cloths.
PRIVATE weather observers in Massachusetts,
and Connecticut have been examining their
records to find parallel for the current winter.
One observer in Milton unnecessarily hunted
| OaCK forty years. y windsor, Conn, man S
memory takrS him to the winter OF 1916 IS,
VI Ch he says exceptionally mid. Dan
deliuns were in bloom all winter pond lily
leaves took the place Of ice in the poads while
! the boys lOugel IN vain for skating and went
| harefootel GA sunny days. The following sum
mcr was fully as memorable. there being snow
| storms which killed all the crops ont of ground
| The corn was twice destroyed. Snow squalls
were not iafrequent that season, and in the
| autumn the harvest made a poor showing.
FARwrNGToN, Me, has an unnatural curiosity
in the line of stinginess. A young Ia ~ went
into dentist office a few days ago and had
her teeth examined The doctor reporte them
badly decayed, but said that with quite a sum
| of money he could put them in good shape.
| The Young lady departed, saying she would re-
| port to her husband and call again in a few
days. She did So and on her second call she
| was accompanied by her father, the latter tell
ing the dentist to 20 ahead and he would pay
the bill. Thinking the dentist might wonder
| why he was paying the bill the father eN-
planned that the husband had said his wife's
teeth decayed before he married her and he was
not going to pay for fixing them up; her father
| ought To do IT.
1T Is AMUSING to watch a stranger on one of
the street cars in Valparaiso" said Bishop H.
c. Riley Of Santiago. Chill, who recently arrived
in New York, as he was speaking OF the Gus
toms Of his native country the other day. The
| stranger first gaZes a i around for the Couduc-
tor, and then a look of surprise steals over his
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down the aisle and collecting the fares The
fact is that in the recent wars in which Chill
has been engaged all of the able-bod,ed men,
inc uding the cor conductors, Eers pressed into
| service. The conductors places had to be sup
piled by girls. They made themselves so popu-
lar, that. although the men have si1ce been
| mustered out of service, the girls have con
tinued to hold their positions as conductors
AMAS in Ansona, Conn., owns and lives In a
house that overlooks a large clock. Unfortu-
nately however. the man thinks he cannot see
the clock from his chamber window as a brick
| chimney iuteTyenes. To obyGte this and have
| the pleasure Of looking to see the time of day
| or night while IN bed for the clock has an lllu
minated daA be one day bored hole through
the walls of his bedroom, close to the head of
his bed, inserted piece Of 2-iuch gas pipe with
a glass IN the outer end and now all he has to
do Is to place bis eye at the inner opening and
| he has a focus upon the clock without leaving
his bed His friends asked him, when this was
| completed, why he did not have a clock in his
| room instead Of being to so much trouble.
| And for the first time it dawned upon him that
il would have been as well,
A DISPATCH from St. Louis says that Preller's
ghost holds high carnival in the room in which
Maxwell committed the murder Several per
sons who occupied the chamber declare thai
they heard friShtful noises andgroaus. A guest
who had the room for two nights thus tells his
experience: "rhe first night was awakened by
\ rappings. They were Just as plain posi-
| BILE Then the bureau drawers would oper
open aud close. Raps would sound all along the
the walls aud ceiling. ! rushed down to the
night clerk ami complained and he then told
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