The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I where a nov IS CERT steadily employed grinding
coffee he is often asked whether Il Is going 10
rain or not and on mornings OF half hoiidays
anxious CLERKS often Look at and even touch
[ ground cJffee.
! TIE FAMOUS cLEPsYDLA. or water clock, at
! Canton, China, that has been keeping time for
/ SEQ years without loss OF irregularity, is an
| affecting monument, as viewed by r weren't or
! sentimental tourist. To the cold eve OF reason
| it is orIy clumsy arrangemeut OF four s,one
| Jars placed one above another. and arranged
| with troughs from which the water runs drop
! by drop from one pot to another. In the lowest
1 and smallest Jar wooden float supports a brass
| rod that is lined and marked with Chinese chap
/ acters and as the brass rod rises through the
cover of the jar the course OF the hours is seen.
In this temple Of the water clock. perched high
/ on the city val. the priest sells time candles
| that record the pass-ge of the hours as they
/ burn.
| A GOOD STORY reaches the London Woman
| from the somewhat out-of-the- way region of
/ Petauna Early last week all was going
/ merrIly at very interesting wedding in the
| town until I bridegroom was called upon to
| produce the wedding ring. In vain he felt in
bis trousers pocket TOR the missing trifie. Moth
| ing could be found except a hole, through which
the ring had evidently fallen into the high boot
which is affected by young men of that county.
What was he to DO? Take your boot off, - said
| the parsOn. The suspense and silence were
painful. The organist, at the priests hi Id NJ,
| struck up voluntary" The young man. sit
ting on the altar rails, removed his boot the
which led the worthy divine TO remark: Young
man, it is time you were married. "
An INTERESTING Roman monument says the
| London Ne1rs Vienna correspondent, is being
unearthed by order of the Roumanian govern
| neIt. Prof Tociiescu watches over the excava-
| lions. The ruin is called Adam Kiissi by the
people OF the neighborhood, which is situated
about two hours journey from Rossaya and
! fifteen hours from the sea- Field Marshal
Moltk fl ST described the monument in hi let
| Turkey q ho h-anfifDl
| stones have teen carried off by tie peasants of
| those parts and used a. tombstones in the
c1urchyards. The ruin contained numerous
| interesting and welsculptured iefs which
| have been placed in the museum az Bucharest.
| 1t Is believed that the monument was erected in
honor OF great victory gained by the Romans
| over Barbarians north of the Danube There is
| one inscription which points to Traian, but
| there are many proofs that the monumen
dates from later period.
THE JARDIN DEs PLANrEs, says the London
Times Paris correspondent, has lately added to
its show of wild beasts two magnificent speci
mems of the white Siberian bear. They have
received temporary lodgings in a cage usually
tenanted by lion. bear pit is being
dug, whittier they will be removed as soon as it
is ready. The collection OF wild beasts now
consists of nine bears three hyenas. an ocelut
black panther. two Abyssinian lions, four
royal tiger and five panthers besides a score or
so of sma Ter animals The Jardin des PlaEtes
boasts of the first cedars brought to Europe
of natural history newly rebuilt and endowed
by the state, and is, VITA the Louvre, one Of the
most interesting Sights Of Paris. Il is quite
free to the public. Buffotuwssat one time the
director of it, and so ssasyM Ghevreul quite re-
Gently. The latter died in q little house ad Join
ing the museum of antediiuyian skeletons.
IT HAS BEEN ASSERTED bSep Psychologists that
married couples. after. aESine together for
number of years, and having thoughts and oc
equations in common, 'becelie not only like
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that they also begin to tegenble one another in
facial appearance. With view to the eluci-
dation of this point, the Geneva Photographic
Society has taken a number or pictures of hus-
bands and wives. which are SAID to give the fol-
| lowing results: OF the ssventy-eight couples
| photographed, twenty four were found to re-
| semble one another to a greater degree than if
| they had borne the relationship Of brother and
| sister; while in thirty cases the resemblance
was as great as If they stood in that relation
| ship. We are inclined to think that the results
| arrived at cannot be considered as reliable un-
| less the investigation was conducted in a GER
tain way II the photographs were handed to
| an artist who was accustomed to the study of
| tne human lace, and he, without knowing the
| originals, succeeded in pairing the husbands
and wives by their likeness to one another, and
| did so correctly, the experiment would be most
| significant. But if they were already psired,
| the desire to find likeness between them
would most surely give rise to a false issue.
Mrs. Rosa HoLUB is one of the celebrities of
the hour. She is tie wife of Explorer Emil
| Holub, and she pluckily accompanied him in his
| recent march from the Zambesi river to the
| country of tine fierce Observation-Disclosures She
| was a quick-Witted Vienna girl very fond of
| stories of African exploration. She also had
| fine turn for science. Her father the head
| of the great Vienna Exposition. With his bride
| of a week, a So, 900 outfit and five men DR..
| Holub set out on his African expedition. Being
| q medical man he had great power over the ma
| tives He wrought Hundreds OF cures, and his
sai ida caused MN t. seeNlto be "a wizard TINS
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| servceable dress of stout, dark cloth. Soc
| wore white felt hat with a wide brim, and
genera carried a sutfsliade. Often for miles at
| time her trusty gun was slung over her shout,
| der, for Mrs. HOlub was a good shot and killed
| many animals. She prepared specimens aud
helped along in hundred ways; She was re
garded as very great curiosity, but seemed TO
| make far more of sensation among the women
| than among the men Once the natives, under
! the pretense of ferryinS The eXi lorers across
the Luenge river, set them on an island IN the
| expectation that hunger would cause them to
| swim The stream, which was at that point
thick with man eating crocodies As foe King
| Nlambo, he gave them poisoned milk. Trey
| fought many battles. Once their camp wa
| piundered, and all their ammunition, save 40
cartridges, was stolen: Then they bur lei
| southwark toward civilization. Mrs. Hoiubs
| feet were fearfully liberated. Her husband cut
up his clothing to bind her wounds. 1t was a
| hard march: but pluck won, aud now the ex-
plorer's bride is the heroine of all the Danubian
| region. ,2
81 NEVER hear any one say that John she7-
man is a cold man. - said Christopher l.. Magee
| of Pittsburg recently, "hut think of an Incl
| dent that happened few years ago The time
| was midwinter, and the thermometer had been
down out of sight for several days. was
| was q pa ,Senger on the niglt express leaving
| Philadelphia for the west, over the T nnsylvania
| roa1, and expected to wake up in the morning
| ia FittSburg. There was some delay, however.
| and when morning came we had only got as far
| as Altoona. When retired the night before
| the car was in was the car of tue rain
| out motto d while was a'hing that private
| car ha been added somewhere along the route
| Don Cameron was $ anding on the outsi lie plat
| form. aud as soon as ne saw me he invited me
| into mis- car for breakfast. / found half dozen
| senators and members in the car including
| John Sherman. 1t was bitter cold in Philadel-
| phia, but il was great deal colder up on top of
| the mountains. and although ali the heating
appliances of the car were in full operation
we sat around with our overcoats on, and
| we're then ly comfortable. A few miles
| outside of Altoona the train came to a tull stop
again. and 4 brak sman went back to put out
danger Signals He came into our car shiverinc.
with cold. Cam ron asked him TO take drink
of WHISKY. but the man refused, saving he
him. and while he was drinking 1t Mr. sherman
spokeup, y on are not going out dressed as YOU
are?' said Mr. Sherman. The brakeman was
| without overcoat He wore a sack suit
mttens and a cloth cap that was pulled down
over his ears Yes, sir he said. answering Mr..
Sherman's question. You won't be warm