The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ employ white waiter girls when the weather
becomes cooler, the first hotel in the south to
] employ white female help.
The sentence Pack my box with five dozen
| liquor jugs has been found to contain all the
letters of the alphabet as well as important in
/ structlons 20 the servants.
The Fiji Islands mission has 27,097 church
members and l01, 100 atten1 ants in public wor-
| ship. Fifty years ago there was not a christian
| on the islands; now there is not a heather.
MAMMOTH loaf of bread two feet square and
one foot thick, Weighing fifty pounds was re-
! Gently received at the white house. II came as
a gift to the President from a yeast manufac-
turer and baker.
TRADE aARKs were known in ancient Babylon;
China had them as early as 1000 B. c.; they were
authorized in England in 1900; Gutenberg the
inventor of printing, is said to have had law
suit over his trade mark
JOHN RAYMOND of Athol. Mass, has gathered
from his hens 5000 eggs so far this year and
raised 45o chickens, and his wife. besides at
tending to an extensive dairy business has sold
sixty canary birds of her own raising
WILLIAM HIT OF St Joseph, Mo, was advised
to take sponge bath in alcohol and dry him
self with artificial heat 70 cure rheumatism He
took the bath and stood by a stove. The alco-
hol took fire and Hit will probably die.
THE salt works at Saltair, Utah, cover 900
acres, The watts are fifteen feet above the sur
| face of the lake and are filed bv means of a
huge rope driven at high speed, which lifts
| the brine ia steady stream at the rate of
| l5,OtO gallons minute.
THE telephone has played an important part
| in the maneuvers of the Swedish feet. There
| Is telephone post on board each We ssel, and
when lyme at anchor they can telephone to one
another by means of insulated conductors,
which are run down the anchor chains and sub
merged.
IT HAS BEEN computed as an Illustration Ct
the great cheapening of ocean freights which
| has taken place in recent years. that sheet OF
note paper will develop sufficient power, when
| burned in connection with the triple expansion
| engine, TO carry ton a mile in an Atlantic
| steamer
| W. B. JENNINGS of Marshall, Tex, has dscov-
cred very effective aud simple means of got
ting rid of reaches, 1t is simply to put toad
in any room infested with them. Last summer
large toad got into the postoffice ana
mainsd there over night Aftarward the offic,
| when they reappeared. Another toad was
| placed in the room and the reaches again dis.
| appeared.
| EIGHT THOUSAND POUNDS of human hair,
valued at $3.50, appear in the trade returns of
| Canton, and 1t could be wished that IL did not
SAYS the English consul there fos as the ma,
jority comes from the heads OF beggars crimi-
nails and dead persons, 1t is not pleasant to
think of it's being worn by the ladies' az home
even although It goes through long processes of
publication before it is made up into the W gs
chignons, waterfalls, etc.
THE suicide Of gunner at the Royal Marine
Artillery Barracks at Portsmouth throws much
light an the epidemic of INSTRUMENTATION, which
seems injecting the whole English service AL
though the coroner's jury returned verdict of
sdIclde during temporary insanity. IL was clear
ly case of suicide from overwork. The man
was employed in the shoemekers shop in the
barracks. and, with extra drills, had to toll
terribly fourteen hours day.
ANY PATRIOTIC and unsophisticated couple
that will stand up in cotton baggiaz in tue fair
grounds of the Piedmont exposition, at Atlanta,
during alliance week, and there be welded for
better or for worse, will receive 500. The
second couple that fancies this sort of a we'd
ding will get $50. If two other couples can be
round wiling to be married In the same way
they Will be given ample opportunity to do So
The antitrust cotton baggng takes form in the
south IN more ways than oIis, a1d this will not
De the first weddings OF the kind.
A MAINE MAN says the golden rod is respc nsi-
BILE for many of the cases Of influenza so preva-
lent this month A while ago his little daughter
gathered large bunch and put 1t 10 q vase in
the parlor. Two sleeping apartments are on
the same floor and the doors are frequently left
open at night: Two days after the flowers had
oeen carried into the homo several members OF
the family began to sneeze, complain of sore
throat and feei greatly depressed but not for
several days did they find out the cause of their
illness. 1t is said that the flowers give off an
imperceptible powder-like substance which is
taken into tue lungs by the deeper causing an
irritation. 1t also irrtates the throat, produces
violent sneezing, makes the limbs feel as though
burdened by some heavy weight and depresses
person TO such an extent that he is inclined to
suicide.
AN AMUSING and absolutely true story is run
ming the rounds of the press in South America
says Laoouchere in his Truth, and it is one
which is peculiarly characteristic of British
pluck and lnsouciance. While the government
and lnsurgent forces we're facs to face in the
recent Argentine abortive revolution pouring
deadly volleys OF bullets into each Others ranks
an English tourist and his wife, arrayed in the
traditional equipment of puggarees etc
quietly pushed their way through Gen. Roca's
troops, and taxing their stand in the very front
coolly leveed their field glasses to survey the
fight with the same sang fold with which thew
would have witnessed a sham combat at home
Gen: Roca, WHO has since become minister of
the interior, was struck by their coura ge and
lnveterate love of sightseeing at whatever risk
that turning to an aide-de-camp, he remarked
No wonder the English are the ruling race ;;
This incident occurred in the Gale Levalle at
Buenos Ayres.
In his recently published Trials of a Conn
try Parson" DR.. Jessup tells some amusing an
ecdotes picked up in Already AS thus. aft js |
very shocking to a sensitive person to hear the
way in which the old people speak of their dad
wives or husbands exactly as If they'd been |
Iva SSS Va uOSo. IhOy are always proud OF lay- |
ing oe9n married more than once. 'You didn't
think. miss, as I'd had f1ve wives now. did Won,
An. but have. though-leastways buried five |
on EN- in the cnurchyard, that l did-and tree
on EN- bewties: On another occasion plav- |
tully suggested: Don't you mix up your b,is- |
bands now aud then, Mrs. Page when YOU talk |
ABOUT them! We'll. to tell you the truth, sir |
really du! But my third husband he was |
man. don t mix him up. He got killed 6ght
lng-youve heard tell of that make no donht,
The others warn't nothing to him. He'd bei
mixed them up quick enough il they'd inter |
fered wi him. Lawk hal He'd a made moth. |
ing of themr" -0
The population of France has been steadily
decreasing, or at least, its rate of increase has
been steadily diminishing. and the dwindling |
process has gone on continuously over n lonoer
perlo ! than is supposed. The loss is double for
II Is both relative and actual. In the ten wears
from l'O to 17e0 in a population of 900 the
number OF children born was So In the fol,
lowing decade 1t was 81, and then il sank "a az
20 "a 70 TIL in the decade of 1870 to 1850 IL was
onIy "a. OF course there were special causas
OF TINS decllne-e. & the co-Prussian war
and the poverty which followed the injury 70
the national credit But still for q century the
descent has been constant The details 81 the
annual Increase OF POPULATE n are in rnanv wavs
surprising. England which might he eyynactSs
TO head the list, is second. The German non,,
latlon Increases at the rate of ID to the O0G. |
the English at ~; next. but at a long interval 10
Austria, and then follows Italy; Hunoarv and
sweden are the same. and last on rba fsr =: