The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

was CHOSEN yesterday by the State Floral So
ciety, as the flower of California. A most ap-
propriate choice, 1t would seem, the California
poppy being of deep golden or orange hue.
and flower that grows wild in great profusion
in every Part Of the state. 1t typites at once
the orange groves of Southern and gold mines
OF central and Northern California.
A COMPANY of counterfeiters of Turkish money
were arres.ed in Tifis in July. Among them
were several Russian priests and ona Arab; the
rest were all Russian traders, Their case was
heard IN the criminal court of Tffis in No
veIuber. Five of the counterfeters were sen.
tenced TO Imprisonment and hard labor for
eight to fifteen years respectively; the others,
and among them the two priests will be sent TO
Siberia Three of the accused were found not
guilty.
IL AUGUST last wonderful occurrence hap
pened in the house Of certain NJ Florof in
Moscow. The image of the Holy Virgin ap-
peared there; sweet odorS filled the house at
her appearance. Crowds of people soon
gathered in and around the house 10 see the APP
paratlon, and many Of the devout deposited
their gifts at the threshold. The secular and
church authorities were informed Of the wonder.
AT the instance of the former investi obligations
were made. and it was discovered that Mrs.
Florof herself had enacted the miracle. She
was called to account for the deception but she
pleaded that her object was not to deceive the
peope, but to regain the affections of her
husband. which had markedly cooled off toward
her. On Nov. IL she was sentenced to imprison-
ment for three weeks, during which she will
have to practice religious penance.
THERE are about 800 hands employed at the
mint of Yeddo, Japan, says the New York
Evening TELEGRAM. When the men enter in
the morning they are made to divest themselves
OF their own clothes and put on others belong
ing to the mint. AT the end OF days work
gong sounds when the somewhat curious spec
tacle is presented of 300 men springing from
the ground, on which they have been seated.
throwing off their clothes and rushing naked
tlTOuR. L end q
through the following ordeal, in order TO prove
that they have no silver on them: Their back
hair is pulled down and examined; they wash
their hands and hold them up to view; they
drink water and then halloo, and, lastly, they
run TO thu other end of the yard clearing two
or three hurdles on their way. After this per
formance they are allowed to go to their lodg
ingS.
IRWIN WRIGHT and Mrs. Mary Quaigg were
married in Quincy, Ill. Subsequently it was
learned that Mrs. Wright's former husband was
living and that she had never been divorced
from him, and she arrested After her
arrest she cooly confessed that she had been
married four times. Some years ago at Water
loo, Ia, she had married man named Lewis.
SIZE thinks he is dead but is not certain Then
she married man named Reeder, who died in
the Adams county poorhouse. Her next huS-
band was George W. Quaigg, whom she mar
ried in Palmyra, No., about four years ago. She
lefthim, and six weeks ago married Wright.
Mrs. Wright, or whatever her name may be. is
about IS years old and rather prepossessing.
After telling the story of her numerous mar
riages she declared that George Quaigg had
also been married four times. ana had never
been divorced from any of his wives, Quaigg was
arrested and after much questioning admitted
that he had married four different women and
had never received divorce from any of them.
He married a woman at Nevada. Mo, whose
maiden name he will not reveal. Afterward he
married Miss Martha Comes at Palmyra, Mo-.
and later the woman arrested. Quaigg declared
that Wright knew the woman was his wife
locked up
THE big rowing tank at the Yale gymnasium
has been largely reconstructed of late in max
ing changes by the way of experiment for the
tank which is TO be built in the new gymnasium
on Elm street. Heretofore the water in the tank
has swept backward in return currents when
forced against the end by the action of the oar,
the course did not allow the water to flow
about each side in a single current. This has
been great detriment to the men In practice,
for the currents have been irregular and par
tlcularly strong at the stroke end 1t is believed
that by the recent Improvements the difficulty
has been largely overcome, so that the tank in
the new gymnasium will probably be con-
Structed largely on the principle of this tank as
it is at present arranged First false bottom
has been put in the tank to make the water
shalower and lessen its volume, so that there
will be less resistance to the race and quicker
strokes can be taken. By this false bottom the
water is made six inches sha1lower at one end
and eight inches shallower at the other end,
with gradual incline SO as TO regulate or coun-
teract the currents that are caused by rowing
The curves at the end of the tank have been
changed so that instead Of allowing the water
on each side to separate and form two cur
rents, there is only one current on each side.
Capt Perkins of Harvard visited the campus
last week for the purpose of examining the inn
provements on the tank Similar changes will
will be made at Harvard.
WE TAKE our snowstorms at distance-and
to most persons that is one of the most attrac-
tive features of this climate, writes visitor to
Albuquerque. n. M. True, a little seighing now
and then is relished by the most of Inen-and
some women-but that condition of the ele-
ments which renders sleghlng practicable is
not relishe1 as regular thing by many per-
sons. and as between country that Is lce-oound
all winter and one in which the sun shines every
day and the cir is warm enough 10 permit peo-
pie to live out OF doors with comfort and with
out vouminouS wraps and furs, large ma
jority of mankind would vote in favor of the
latter. It used to be necessary to have severe
weather in the winter in order to make our Ice
for the summer, but that is NO longer required,
and the invention of the apparatus for the
manufacture of ice removed the last argument
in favor of cold weather, and leaves frost as
one of those conditions of nature which we
have outgrown. The point above referred to
had a good illustration in the weather as 1t was
experienced at albuquerque yesterday.
When our people first ventured out
of doors in the morning furious snow
storm was raging in the Sanda mountains, and
although this wintry demonstration by the ele-
Inents was in full view and the clouds could be
seen rolling in terrific grandeur like waves
upon a trouble ed a, and every rift in the float
ing vapor revealed gimpses Of the mountain
side clad in mantle of wintry white, yet the
atmosphere that prevailed in the town the
while made December literally as pleasant as
May, and by O'Clock, when the sun had
climbed above the mist and was bathing the
valley ia a flood of efulgent light mellowed by
the breath of spring, visitors might have been
seen az al the hotels sitting on the balconies on
the sunny sides enjoying tho delicious atmos
phere that surrounded them and admiring the
Wild reyelry Of the elements that was gong on
la the mountains. A snowstorm, when you are
30 situated that You have 70 be on the stage
and take part Ia the performance, Is generally
an unpopular drama but wien you are 80
fortunate as TO be a part Of the audience and
Eing's breatl. tn spectacle baeenes delightful
M the extreme aud grandiy beautiful
".Broma'. Bronchial Troehes are sx.