The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A PUBLIC CLOCK is to be erected in Phila1el-
phia that will take one year 10 place ia the
tower. The minuts hand is 10 be twelve feet
and the hour hand nine feet in length; the bell
weigh 20, 900 pounds; a steam engine viii be
placed IL the tower to wind up the clock.
TIE weather department took the trouble to
make q comparison, during August, of the
actual weather that occurred and the kind
Prof" D woe arranged for in advance. The
report says that the Hackensack prophets
predictions were worse than average guessing
the result being below what might have been
obtained by compiling list from the toss Of a
coin.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. when gentleman began
the culture of bees. he suffered severely from
stlugs. but they have now lost their force. For
several years past they have caused only
slight and rather plsaSurabe sensation. and
that lasts only for few minutes, But this
thorough incubation against bee poison leaves
him as susceptible as ever 70 the sting of the
wasp.
CALIFORNIA BRANDY. which sells il that state
at from 80 to As cents gallon. is shipped TO
Germany in large quantities, where it sells for
10 to 50 cents gallon, the cost Of rranspoTta-
ton being not NOR than cents. There the
brandy is stored until the dealers are ready TO
sell. The cost of storage amounts to / cent a
gallon per year, while the internal revenue tax
IS not required TO be paid until the final sales
are made.
shown conclusively by the fact that while
France is only twice as large as Colorado, yet
by taking care of her foreSts she was able in
1887 to export besides meeting the home needs
of IS 21S903 people, SCI, 800, i5S in value of the
products of the forest, or nearly as much as the
United States, with fifteen times the area out
side of Alaska. the exports of the United States
In 1881 being S22,S81,7o7.
AxoNG the many things sold by Schwab,
breckenridge 6 Co., the well-known auction
GERS of Baltimore, recently. was a tombstone
three feet high. having the following nscrip-
ton: "Camsadel, wife of Lewis Paugh. and
daughter of L. and 4. E. Burton died Nav 49,
1873, aged 10 years months 81 days. Farewell
dear daughter, for thou art gone; Sweet may
thy slumbers be. The grave admits of no re-
| turn; In vain mourn for thee" 1t was
| bought by Miss Florence CaSwell for SIS.
| TIE libraries Of the Geman empire are as
follows Berlin Imperial library 1884 vol
umes; Berlin university, 49, 792; Bonn uni
versity; 2l9.OS6; Bresl8u. 263. 636; Goettingen
~, 81; Greifswald 1872 1S3: Halle IS6 I46: Kisl
| Munster academy, g. 600; Braunsbsrg, 1900;
| Dusseldorf, 10. 532; Wiesbaden. s. ,9l2; Erfurt
| 1897 Besides the million and odd volumes
| here enumerated the high schools and educa-
tioual institutions possess several hundred
| thousand books and manuscripts
RIVERSIDE, the banner orange growing town
in Southern California, is, perhaps, the richest
town in the country. if the average wealth be
accurately estimated. OF 500 persons, 2j6 are
assessed for more than 81 600 each which rep
reSelts $1,000 Of value. So one out of every
| twenty persons in Riverside has more than
Sl2OOJ in property. This is due to the fact that
taree-quarters OF the people in the town own
| their places; and even if they have only five
acres in oranges, this small grove will support
| family well as the average yield will be worth
500 per aci every year.
ALTHOUGH Sir Edwin Arnold is as far of as
any man ever was from the Yankee. he has of
/ late had the advantage of Yankee ways of
| advertising himself and his productions, Awhile
| ago the statement went forth that he was to
| receive 100000 for the poem he had written
i entitled Light of the World" Many doubted
| the accuracy OF the report and their doubts
were reasonable, for it is now admitted that
! the poem has been declined at SIS. 900 in Eng
| land, though it is said this latter sum has been
| agreed TO be paid for it in this country 1t Is
| suggested that toe report of the reported wish
| OF Sir Edwin to marry a japanese lady. to the
| great disgust of os sister is an advertising
scheme quite no to tne YANKEE standard.
Tbs well known photographer. Anscheutz, of
LISA, has for some years been experimenting
with photographs OF the flight OF cannon balls
/ from the moment of their projection to tier
| striking the target or object aimed at, Two
| years ago, in September, 1888, h. succeeded in
! obtaining highly interesting results; IN May of
this year, however. the acme of perfection was
reecSed. HIS plates were submitted 70 the ex-
| pert, DIR. Koenig Of the Berlin university, who
1 was perfectly aole TO make therefrou she de-
| sired practical calculations. He established the
/ fact that the projectile thus photographed had
| a velocity of 400 meters per second and that
the duration of the light thrown on the photo
graphic plates did not exceed the ten-thousandth
/ part of q second,
! Mas NARY YxEz McCAsg, aged IS whose sen.
sational murder Of Max Stein in Mexico in 1889
will be recalled by the public writes a patsetic
| letter to the Philadelphia Times from a Nsxlcen
/ prison at Matamoras asking financial aid 70
make defense in the court. She recites her
wrongs at the hands OF Stein at some length,
| alleging that be followed her from place. n
place, at one time provoking her hus-
band TO a quarrel and then ahoosir7
him Mrs McCaoe writes: On Sunday nigat,
! Stein on the plaza, where he again renewed mis-
| threats. In my despair, and driven to the last
| resort and in defense of that most dear TO a
woman heart-my virtue and my honor-wita
I a torty-tlve Colts pistol sent bullet through
MS vilianous heart and forever sealed the IDs
| OF my detamer and would-0e ravister. Stein
broke Up orr home, tried to kill M husband
/ murdered my baby. DETAINED nv honor ans All
tempted TO outrage me, aud in defense Of nv
honor shot him am now lying ia a Mexican
I prison My husband IS cripple aad fuancialIv
ruined, aud have not dollar on earth /
/ appeal 70 every true American for aid -
WHAT won't We carry $ you ask, - said the
superintendent OF of one of the great express
companies to a New York Tribune raro-ta-
! we VIII carry anything that is loose at both
| enos ana Is not too big 70 go inside a railway
| al AAOW al express agent out ives. ,yhO
got al order once 10 Snip mans BODY that bad
IAN IL the grave for months He promptly ha5
II dug up, Theoretically sealed and forwarded
| WIN the undertakers Dill and the exprass
| charges, c. o. D. Children are fre11entlv san-
by express. They must have frs class passen.
! ger tickets, OF course. bat our agant looks
| after them, sees that they are fed and
qeavers them to the local agent at their
destination. TAe local agent gets the
proper receipts for the caild from its acoraiitad
| guardians, a1d not TIL then do We surrender the
cnarse. WHAT was the most remzrksh ie con-
| slgnmeat 1 ever saw shipped by an EXPRESS
company! Vel, let me think I have seen
sons curious things our line but the ore
that beat them all. beth for trouble and pitifnl
ness, consisted OF the dead bodies of a man aud
MS vile, who had been killed by q cyclone out
Weso, the wnoie family of their children. ali
! young, from tn baby up to a i0-year-old girl.
accompanying them home again to England
Lhey had been sent for by relatives there as
Iuey nad none IN this country. tell you that
! it all right" 80 l. "-~H