The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-26
TRIMS OF INTEREST.

preacher, living at Union Springs. y. Y. has
visited in her lifetime $4,000 persons, and nearly
twice as many SICK persons In and out or poor
houses, on battletields, etc.
JUsT as the collection plate was about TO b
passed around at recent religious services at
church at Darlington. Hartford county. Mary
land, there was clap Of thunder, and ~
stated that the congregation left the oulloins
In hurry.
GLAss-covERED WINTER GARDEN OF near
100 feet in length is TO be built for King Charles
at the palace in Stuttgart, and TO be connected
directly with his apartments LOUIS IL Ol
Bavaria had one on the roof or bis palace VIII
quarter mile course for trottlng, the horses
being taken up and down BY derricxs. But Ne
was eccentric.
AN AFRICAN CHIEF sent for physician to pre-
scribe for his wife. The doctor thought she
needed a medicine made of the fat around a
mans heart The chief asseuted and knoc ed
the doctor er with a club. then gave TIE tat
OF bis heart to the SICK lady, and the fanny
dl1ed on the rest OF him But tAe auInorltioS 20
now hold him for murder. Thus says the Nalal
, Mercury
MANY AMUSING STORIES used 20 be told of
James Car.yle's manner of snubbing curious
tourists for nothing was more offensive to him
than to b. spoKen of as the brother OF the great
Carlyle Il am James Carlyle. ne would say,
in a manner that iniicated now competent ne
felt TO stand in his own shoes, ard how lnnlg
nant he felt at the idea of being hOnored by nls
relationship 10 any body.
IvAREcExr LECTURE a professor of languages,
in commenting on the difficulties foreigners had
to overcome Lefore they could master our Ian
guase. made mention of the following phlolog-
ical ODDITIES: The letter changes lover into
c over. makes crow crowd makes eyed
keyed, changes son into song, transforms a
pear into pearl. changes a hoe into shoe, t
makes Dough bought, and W makes omen
women.
The COLOR used to denote mourning has often
been changed, and even to-day countries differ
widely 10 Rome males wore black for mourn
in, while the women Indicated their grief by
wearing white garments. In Turkey, at the
present day, the mourning hue IS violet: IN
China, white; in Egypt. yellow; IN Ethiopia,
brown; in Len Ion and America, black The
mourning color in Spain was white until
changed by the laws of 1893.
Mr.. ACKoM. living in Van Vert county, Ohio,
brought queer freak to town. Mr.. Ackom is a
breeder of thoroughbred Poland China hogs
In litter of pigs, farrowed recently, was one
which very nearly reSembled an elephant. II
had enormous ears, a long trunk and one tuSk.
1t was the color of an elephant, and its feet
turned up in peculiar way. The trunk started
from the forehead. and extended out and down
over the mouth. 1t is one of those peculiar
freaks which occasionally occur in the animal
world.
THE ONLY STATE that has been absolutely
uniform in its congressional representation is
Rhode Island. 1t had two members under the
first census and the same number ever since.
1t is bound to remain In the same category
another ten years. Its population in 1880 was
276 531 and it is now BPS. 900. This is variation
which precludes change, wha ever basis of rep
resentation may be adopted. Delaware has
always had just one, except that under the
thi d census it had two. These are the only
constant quantities in the entire category.
HERE is story about Secretary Blaine and
the now famous cottage at Mosquito Point,
Cape May, the truth of which is vouched for by
a gentleman to whom Mr.. Curtis related the in
cdent: One evening during Mr.. Blaine's visit
to the President he and William Z. Curtis the
walking on the beach. Suddenly Mr.. Blaine
stopped, looked at the cottage a few moments,
and exclaimed, with peculiar nile on his face:
Curtis If ever anybody gives me a cottage like
That, I'll either decline it or go drown myself"
The CAMERA that does the work for the
royues gallery is concealed. The prisoner hangs
his head, and refuses to look up when asked to
do so. or shuts his eyes and distorts his face
The photographer makes feint with his camera
in sight taxes out the pate and eXclaims, "Oh,
pshaw That is spoifedw or words to that
effect and walks hurriedy out of the room.
The prisoner raises his head at once and looks
pleasant. He has outwittei the photographer
Then the concealed camera gets in its fine work.
and the rogue is still more surprised and plea sed
at being told that he can go.
II Is ASSERTED that the smallest screws
known are those used in the production of
watches Thus, the fourth jewel wheel screw
comes very near being invisible to the naked
eye, looking, when viewed by person of ordi-
nary gift of eyesight like small speck of dust
With glass it is seen to be small but perfect
screw, with threads so fine that it would take
go of them to wind around the little speck of
sfrCfo Of hale TIL
minute mechanical atoms are but the forty-one
thousandth of an inch in diameter and less than
the ten thouSandth of IN inch in len 9Th. A lady S
thimble of the ordinary size, say No Z, would
hold 100000 of these little tut useful specks of
brass.
The STARTLING ANNOUNCEMENT is made that
the Andes are slowly sinking into the earth's
crust. AS proof of this La Gazette GeoQrdpl iote
says that Quito was 1886 feet above the level of
the sea 1745; in 1900 it was only $50: in 1881
9,567, having sunk 20 feet during the 55 years
following l745 and but feet during the 81
years which interviewed between 1900 and 1881
In 1868 the city's level had been reduced to 9 500
feet abovethe level of the Pacific. To sum M
the total, we find that Ecuador's capital has
sunk IS feet in 122 years. Antisana's farm, the
highest inhabited spot on the Andes 1900 feet
higher than Quito, the highest city on the
globe), is said by the same authority to be 21S
feet lower than it was in l74a
AT THE OCEAN GROVE IN. j. camp meeting
ground, where the ministers in charge have
forbidden all entertainments dancing bathing
and such worldly enjoyments an amusing Incl
dent occurred the other day. An express
wagon, laden with merchandise from the
freight station, was making its way into the
grove. Just as the driver had reached the
gates one of the wheels of the wagon gave way
and down went the wagon, load and all Among
the goods that we're spilled promiscuously over
the ground was a good-sized tea chest, which
the driver naturally supposed was filed with
rare old "Oolong" or Young Hyson." Imag-
inc his surprise and CONSERVATION to ind that
the chest, which had burGt open In its downfall
contained nice five-galon demiiohn. Orders
we're forthwith issued from Headquarters that
all goods entering the grove must henceforth
be vigorously searched to prevent the Inner a.
ton of contraband material.
Mrs. ANNIE Pope of Toronto, whose case uas
recently referred to in this column, has free
bath ahead OF her, with trimmings. She has
been committed for trial as common scold
the punishment for which is the Cuckinp- stool
The charge upon which Mrs. Pope will be triad
Is sometnlnS imposing, and may be held I'D as
warning example. It sets forth that 8 q Ne
"a common and turbulent broier and sower If
dlscord among her quiet and honest neighbors
so That she has become public nuisance To har
nelghborhood by her scolding ouarrelin1 In
citing Strites, controversies, quar1els and dis
putes among her Majesty's liege peonIe
against the peace of cur Lady the
Queen her crown and dignity. to the
common nuisance of diverse of her
majesty's liege subjects" If the punishment
for this otfense were commensurate with tha
length of the statement of it, Instead of t tne,
ducking-stool the Toronto lady wonld he on
ChOred out in midstream for tbra.. ,,,ool-z"4.