The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THERE is large farm in Mississippi on which
there is only one old whip. and that is not used
The owner will not permit the whip to be used
on any of the stock and the farm does well,
and the animals work with will without feel
ing the lash
The BARN OWL, when she has Young brings
mouse to her nest about every twelve minutes;
and as she is actively employed both at evening
and dawn, and as both male and female hunt
forty mice day is low computation for the
total capture
A WEALTHY CITIZEN of Montreal tried to board
moving train at South Berwick. Me-, the
other day, and found himself in q very danger
our position between two cars. A train hand
hand VINO rescued him has been promised a
check for $1,000.
SICK LADY in Palmyra, Me-, recently re-
ce1ved from relative in Boston two bottles
one containing whisky and the other brandy,
and not person in the neighborhood could tell
which was which. until some one found an old
lady who had worked in her youth in a hotel,
where she had acquired the desired knowledge.
Ten YEARS AGO. on an excursion, the scholars
OF female institute in Stettin found few
ears of wheat very full, and preserved them
with the discrimination to devoid them to a
good purpose They were sowed. Snd the crop
sowed aSal1, and so ou until now, after ten
years, there was enough to sell. and to secure
by the proceeds n bell for mission church in
gong out with the next ship.
THE TOTAL GAIN of petroleum in the world is
annually 1000O, 0OO, 900 pounds, and the half of
this is produced in the United States The re-
glon of the Caspian sea produces about / $50 h.
UJU,OO0 pounds. though the oil flows so freely
that many wells have been closed. One hun
dted and SiXtyt million pounds come from
Gaticia. Poland, 81, C00.010 from Burmah, aud
12.Ol0,c00 from Canada The Burmah and Can
ada wells are newly opened. though the basin OF
the Mackenzie river is held the richest petro-
leum neld of the world,
OSE of the many careless habits of bathers at
Atlantic City. is the wearing of valuable Jew
elry in the surf and the evil results of this in
comprehensive practice are daily illustrated
says the New York World, by the familiar cry
heard on the beach: 20, my, | have lost my
ring! Men and women with a fondnesS for
lewery, and particularly for display, wear rings
while bathing in the surf that in some cases
reach hundreds of dollars in value. and make
the excuse that they can't get them off. Salt
water IS powerful contracting agent, and
hence II is that the rings dropped in the surf in
a single season would make a formidable dis
ply for the windows of a Broa2way jewelry
store.
THE ORDER OF FREEMAsoNRY is said to have
been established by Solomon at the time of
building his temple. The order has been de-
rived from many sources. but II t till about IL
did the second stage of its history begin in Lon
don, which is, in fact the home of Masonry as
Tow taught The first lodge in the United
States was or anzed in 1929, and was then
under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of
England the emblem of the order in most
common use is the square and the compass
worL by members of tue Blue Lodge. Besides
tn there are several designs worn by more ad-
vanced members, among them a keystone for
the ChapLer degree and Maltese cross for the
commandery. There are also hundreds of men
entitled to wear the Consistory, or thirty
second degree badge. The general design of
this emblem is a cross on which rests a crowned
/ headed es.ysle
smooth triangle on the breast.
CAMPHoR is made in Japan in this way: After
tree is felled to the earth it is cut into chips.
which are laid in q tub over a large iron pot
partly file with water and placed over a
Slow fire. Through holes in the bottom of the
tub steam slowly rises and heating the chips
generates oil of camphor. OF course the tub
with the CHIPS has a close fitting cover From
this cover a bamboo pipe leads to a succession
of oth4r tubs with bamboo connec-
tons, aud the last of these tubs is
divided into two compartments, one above
the other the dividing floor being perforated
with small holes to allow the water and oil to
pass TO the lower compartment This lower
compartment is supplied with a layer of straw
which catches and holds the camphor CRYSTALS
that are being deposited as the liquid passes to
the cooling process The camphor is next
separated from the straw, packed in wooden
tubs aud is ready for the market The oil is
used by the natives for Illuminating and other
purposes.
claim the distinction of being remnants Of the
original tower the building OF which caused the
confusion OF tongues. full account of this
remarkable semi historical event may be found
in Genesis xi. The first of the tlree ruins
above mentioned is the eel brated Nimrud's
Tower, near Akkuckef; the second on the east
bank of the Euphrltes river, i've miles above
the modern city of Hillah; third the conical
mound known as Birs Nimrud, six miles and
half southwest OF the city last named above
all in Babyonia. Biblical scholars tnrow the
weight of their opinions in favor of Birs MIN.
rud as being the. site of the proposed
heaven-penetrating shaft. The ruins at this
point, whica consist mainly of kiln-bricks huge
stones and vitrified mortar, almost hidden from
sigHt 10y sands. The accumu.ations of Centuries
are l9S feet in hight and nearly 500 yards in,
circumference, Sir r. K Porter, who has gwen
much study to the Birs Nimrud ruins, believes
It's vltrlf1ed appearance to be the results of mn
merouS lightning strokes, conclusions whrh
taken i'll connection with the tradition thar Ihe
tower was destroyed by fire frC m heaven, forms
an interesting subject for thought. Porter a!so
says that, with the exception of natural accs-
mutation and decay, the tower is. in his estimA,
ton almost in the exact condition as left at the
time OF the confusion
WHEN one man speaks of mo Mans Land"
we generally presume that he refers to that
little neck of land in the Indian Territory living
between Colorado and Kansas on the north
and Texas on the south. But SUCH is not
always the case The original mo Mans
Land is little tongue of land extending a
few miles south OF the Mason and Dixon line.
between the states of Maryland and Delaware
Every now and then somebody starts the
story that TINS tract is, properly speaking.
part of no state, literally out of the juris-
dction OF the United States: that it is one of
the leftover pieces Of the whole country.
wherein no one owns the ground upon which
he lives. On the maps the ground IS credited
to Pennsylvania, but. according to these
same authorities, the claim is a ghadowy one
This triangular bit Of territory was marked off
in a curious way. The eastern boundary on
Maryland was early determ led but the south
eTn boundary OF Pennsylvania was long a mat
ter of dispute. Finally Mason and Dixon began
their work at the eastern boundary OF Mary.
land, and proceeded westward, while tie
northern boundary Of Delaware was declared 10
be "a semi-circle. whose center was New astle
Ia surveying the senl-circIe IL was found that
the circumference did not touch the boundary
Of Maryland a. It's junction ith the Pennsyi-
vanla line thus giving rise 20 this triangular BIZ
Of land. which has been discarded by tie three
states and only allowed % attach itSel 4 "a Penn