The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

DURnse her voyage Of rs days from Calcutta
to New York the Timandra ran through four
hurricanes. Oil bags hung over the bows, sides
and stern saved the ship, as Capt. Mowatt
| verify believes.
A VERMONT FARMER claims TO have a hen that
regularly lays eggs any six of which will out
weigh an average dozen from neighboring
farms. II is when they are like these that
eggs is eggs"-and. possibly, exaggerated
also.
ARrEsIAS WELLS have developed such an
abundant supply Of water in the Des--t Of
Sahara that French engineers confident OF
being able 70 extend their railroad to distance
of weeks journey from Algeria right through
the desert.
AN INGENIOUS PHOTOGRAPHER possesses q
camera which he boasts cost him but 81 20, IS
cents of which went for a broken-down opera
glass. from which he got his lens. HIS outnt
OF working tools comprised saws for 2 cents,
hammers Tor Is, auger stocks for ., DTS Tor lu'
and iackplanes for IS.
MAN has been arrested in Pittsburg for pass
ing counterfeit money. search of his home
in Allegheny discovered veritable mint There
was a magnificent electric battery for silver ana
golt-plating. besides table MARKED by year
use for cooling hot dimes, quarters nickes ana
dollars The heavy dollar plates were perfect
A number of people, since the arrest md
they posses silver dollars nearly but not quite
genuine.
A CIScINNATI firm of tailors recently adver-
tised for young man to learn the trade.
Among the answers received was the following
from an Indiana town: Dear Sirs-I am a
young man. 10 years of age and weigh $50
pounds, and am feet 10 inches in hight, have
brown hair and eyes and am light completed.
belong to no church, but am not a proclaimed
man. stand in first-class society, and am out
of employment, l will give you a few refer
ences." Then follows a list OF about 100 names
of citizens, ranging in importance from mayor
TO the official draym
A PATIENT formerly confined in the hospital
for the insane in Hartford Conn, seemed fond
of reading, and in taking up a newspaper it was
noticed that he was reading aloud without hest
tation, whether the paper was sidewise or bot
tom side up. As a further test of his powers
one of the attendants held a newspaper spread
out before him, keeping 1t continually turning
around; still, with wonderful ease, the lunatic
continued to read uninterruptedly. To test him
still further a reel was procured ami the paper
spread out and alta .hed to the arms the whole
then placed before the patient. No matter how
rapidly the reel turned the wonderful
creature would read article after article aloud
without seeming to be disturbed in the Last.
We have never heard whether the singular phe-
nomenon was continued. even whether the
patient is still living or not.
SENATOR PLATT of Connecticut is the only
senator who deigns to sit in the outer room Of
the Senate restaurant and eat his luncheon with
the committee clerks and strangt rs says the
New York sun. Perhaps he does not like the
mingled doors of the stuffy room In which the
senators eat baked apples and custard the two
| dehcacies most sought by the senators. Or
perhaps he is queer in his luncheon as he is in
reading. He certainly takes curious freaks in
| his choice of mental pabulum. A short time
| ago he wanted to know everything there was
/ to know about earthworms, and he got from
| the library or bought no end of books and
| pamphlets on the subject. Probably there is
not bugman in the United States who can dis
| count Senator Platt on the earthworm racket.
| Next he started on Dickens and reread every
story written by the great novelist. Having
finished Dickens he turned his attention to de-
tectives stories. Paper covers have no terrors
| for him. NeW York Weekly stories and all he
swallows with equal enjoyment.
THE NUMBER of pension claims already fled
under the new dependent pension law has
reached 445,01S, and they are increasing at the
| rate of about IS 900 week. The entire num-
Der of claims will not fall short of 100000, and
| they may 20 above ,000 AS yet none of the
new cases have been taken up nor will they be
until the new force of 400 CLERKS shall be Sc
cured. The old clerks are being promoted and
the new appointments come by way of the civil
service commission. All these new people have
to be trained to the work. The greatest delay
in adjusting the claims will be due to the time
taken In getting the reports of the examinations
| by the local examining boards. The new law
will put at least so, 100000 in the pockets OF
those doctors all over the country Who are
lucky enough TO be members OF the local boards
| About onethird OF these doctors are democrats,
1t being the custom to appoint two republicans
and one democrat on a board The claim agents
will make about s., 900 900 out of the new bill
the fee being $40 with So for postage and severa
odd silver quarters for afndavits.
WHILE in England, the Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbo
visited the smallest church in England at Mas
Dale Head. And the parsons wife gave hin
| some facts about the church which DR.. Abbot
labels important if true, such as that the agt
of the church is unknown, that it's endowmem
| fund is shillings and bottle of wine and
| loaf of bread for the communion, which carries
back the age of the church, she opines, to the
year 1000 at least; that the entire population Of
| the parish is fifty-two men, women and chill
dren, and the average attendance tifty-two; tina
the wears wife is organist and bell-ringer. anC
sweeps anG dusts and performs in general al
the Levitical functions of the temple, which il
| 42x16 feet in size; that the wears salary
stipend, they call it's E65 1925, paid out o.
the missionary funds of the established church
that the previous Wears have been drinking
men and no honor to their cloth; and that the
| total contributions of the worshippers in tn;
| parish amounted for the three years OF tn.
present wears charge to less than shilngs.