The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Washington is most curious. Nearly hundred
years ago Yankee captain kidnapped a stroll
ing troop Of musicians on the shores of the Bay
OF Naples and brought them to this country
From this handful Of Italians the band was
developed. The descendants OF these stolen
Italians are now among the wealthiest people of
washington; Some of them are prominent
lawyers, and others have their names connected
with the bestknown hotels and largest real
estate offices in the capital city
WHILE dredging for scollops in the river the
Hudson brothers brought up queer little fish
ABOUT as large around as q silver dollar The
f1sh, which closely resembles a soup, is almost
entirely red in color and looks like fish that
belongs 10 southern waters. Toe most striking
thing about it is it's eyes, which shine ike dia-
mondS and which, upon a close examination
s 9uIge from the head and seem ready to burst
tortn from their sockets. The nape fms are
marked like butterfly wing and at the tip
are Jet black, and above of ariegated shades of
red, white and black.
SOME TINE SINCE a young lady OF Province
town, Mass, while out rowing in dory with
lazy friend saw some fisherman taking a
school of mackerel with a seine Rowing their
ooat TO the seine to get better vi W. and look
ing over the side Of the boat with her hand on
the gunwale. valuable gold ring slipped from
her finger and fell into the seine among the
hsh. There were some fifteen barrels of
mackerel in the seine, which were bail-d out
and taken in dories to the canning factory
Upon unloading the dories in the second one
TESTED by actual results, it is found that Hhe
fogies who contended that women have little
aptitude for mathematics are right although
they have been laughed out of court The slJpe-
rlority of women in modern languages is not
glarlngly obvious; in classics they are found in
1erlor to men, while it appears very doubtful
whether any considerable number will hold
their own in medicine. Finally. experience
fully confirms the opinion held bv sensible
people, that ordinary degrees and good, though
nall a.
of all industrious women with fair mental
powers.
WHERE dotgarnets come from?r was asked
OF traveller for an eastern jewelry firm Gar
nets? Why they are as cheap as dirt in the
raw. You can buy all of the rough garuets Won
want Tor ~ and 20 cents a pound The cutting
is what makes them valuable. The majority of
them are found in the archean or granite
formation, and in porphyritic formations. You
ma tin and you'll find garnets When those
three Cornlshmen brought seven tons of pure
cassitrite ore from Cornwall to salt a fake tin
mine in the Black Hills they did not forget the
garnets. They shot the earth full OF tin ore
and garnetS with ShotgunS and realized abo,,t
4240,O0O on the DEAL
WAS amused to see in the room where the
ladies left their wraps at the Stanley reception
in the Aldine, New York. a large photograph of
Mrs. O'Shea framed and hanging on the wall
don't suppose for moment that the owner of
the room had the faintest idea of who the por-
known it if hadn't been told only the day be-
fore. 1t is one of the best known of all the
fancy photographs that are sold in the shops
You have probably seen it dozen times. 1t
represents young woman with wealth of
golden halr, resting her head on her bare arms
and looking out upon the world through large
and supposedly blue eyes.
PLINY mentions that, according to the histo
rians of Alexander expedition, oysters a foot
IN diameter were found in the Indian seas, and
Sir James E. Tennent was unexpectedly enabled
to corrOborate the correctness Of this sfatamant
for at Kottler, near Trincomalee, enormous
specimens OF edible oysters were brought to
the rest house. One measured more than II
inches IN length by half as many in width. But
tnlS extraordinary measurement is beaten by
the oysters or Port Lincoln In South Australia
which are the largest edible ones In the world
Iney are as large as a dinner plate. and much
tne same shape. They are sometimes more
than foot across the shell, and the oyster fits
his habltation so well that he does not leave
much margin. 1t is a new sensation when a
friend asks you to lunch at Adelaide to have
one oyster fried in butter, or eggs and bread
crumbs, set before you; but it is q very pleasant
experience, for the flavor and delic icy of the
FORT Lincoln mammoths are proverbial even in
that land of luxuries.
PROMINENT people sometimes have hard
time when they appear in print The wife of
Justice Field, for instance, wrote brief piece
on the best way of preparing turkey for the
Thanksgiving day feast, in which she suggested
tnat the turkey should be fed on Champagne or
sherry and Walnuts few days before Killing
Since the appearance of this Unfortunate sug-
gestion she has, according 10 her own state
ment, received letters from all over the coun-
try-from California to Mane-from women
VINO, suppose, are good in their way, abusing
me like a pickpocket for my cruelty" Mrs
Field has been charged with making a harmful
original suggestion, but her receipt is not a new
one. 1t was an old custom in certain parts of
New England to feed the turkey on brandy
This was done Tor several days and from it
grew the other custom of making the gobbler
gloriously drunk, In which condition he was
killed In the start the turkey was fed on brandy
because this impaired fine flavor to the meat
but the efforts of the gobbler to maintain his
dignity when drunk afforded intense amuse-
ment in the barnyard, and thus inaugurated
species OF amusement upon which public senti-
ment frowned.
A colored woman, bent nearly double with 80
years and heavy bundle, was seen 60 board a
Cincinnati mail line packet. Approaching the
clerk of the boat she slowly united knot in the
corner of her red bandanna handk rchief and
produced enough cash to purchase q deck ticket
for Cincinnati. The wrinked and feeble old
negress is tue heroine of a romance In ante
belium days she was slave aud was owned by
planter near Ashevlle, n. c.. At an early age
she was married to slave of the same master
BY him she had several children. Over half
century ago her husband was torn from her and
her children and was sold to another planter
The woman C )ntinued to work on the North
Carolina plantation, and in short
time was married again. Her whole
family was then put the block and
sold to a Virginia man. When the eman.
cpation proclamation was promulgated the
family took advantage of their freedom and
journeyed northward, finally taking up their
home in Louisville. The husband died after the
close of the war, and the children one by one
left their mother to seek their fortunes The
mother toed and labored to make a livelihood
She found nothing of her first husband until
about month ago. when one of her sons found
that the old man was living at Newport XIV.
The old negress journeyed tbither and found
the husband of her youth. He also had been
married second time, and had several chill
dren by his second wife. The latter was dead.
however, and the reunited couple decided to
again live together. the woman returned to
Louisville, disposed of her effects and yester
day completed the romance of fifty years by re-
turning to her husband.
The PROCESS of manufacture of ivory balls is
very simple. but 1t requires great skill The
block of ivory is placed on an iron chuck, and
one-half the ball is urned. Then the cutting is
reversed. After the second half has been
turned the ball is hung up for few months in
a net to dry. The ball is kept free from any
draught, as ivory cracks when exposed to
either a hot or cold current. When thoroughly
seasoned. the balls are turned so as to produce
perfect sphere. and here is where the skill