The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ president ROBERTS OF Tue GcunSylNdDlh Idti-
road started life as track hand thirty years
ago The combined salaries he receives now
I amount to $4,000 YEAR
/ TIE AUsrRo- HUNGARIAN convict who is con-
demned to die stands on the ground with rope
around his neck, and at given signal he is
pulled off his legs to remain struggling IN the
/ air until he is strangled-
| ANEW KIND OF LANCE has been introduced
into the German cavalry regiments It's pecui-
/ iarity lies in the fact that it is constructed
wholly of steel, the necessary hgntness oelng
| secured by making the shaft hollow
| EXPERIENCE has shown that an electric street
1 car can be comfortably heated by the expendl-
ture of one horse power Of electrical energy
The electrical heaters do not reduce Ine seaIlnG
capacity of the car, which is kept clear OF coal
dust and cinders.
IL certain British regiments pet has become
quite an institution as in the case of the South
Wales Borderers, whose eilded horned goat is
| familiar to many as it marches proudly along at
/ the head of the regiment, under the guidance OF
| pair of drummer boys.
I AN INTERESTING FACT just ascertained by gov
eminent observers is that at the extremities OF
| Long Island sound the tide begins to flow IN
| ward near the bottom one and one-nah hours
before it begins to flow in the same direction at
\ the surface of the water.
| The Heligolander has a singular dislike TO
being a soldier. either on land or sea. In the
course of five years. in spite Of tempting high
| pay only four islanders have entered the British
| navy, and one OF the s., stricken with hOmeSlck-
| ness, soon left the service
The chief industry of Zanzibar and Pemba is
| Glove growing. The tree was introduced in 1880,
and the harvest OF the present year is expected
TO be 100000 pounds, and an average local
value OF 10 cents pound ten-year-old tree
is capable of yielding tTenty pounds of cloves:
| trees of twenty years often yield upward OF lOO
pounds.
THE LIVERPOOL AGENTS of a steamship com
| pany wrote to one of the compsnys captains
| lately to kindly make SISTER lgnatius,' who
was 10 be one of his passengers for New York,
| as comfortable as possible. When she came
| aboard he recognized IN the nuns habit none
| other than the lrrepreSsible Nine. Dlss DeBar,
/ the spook artist
| IT Is PROPOSED to put the newspaper report
ers of Brussels (Belgiunl) in uniform and a
| semi military costume with handsome frogged
| tunic is suggested as the proper thing. The de-
| STABILITY of the uniform was first made appar-
| ent at the Stanley reception. wnen they were
| hustled about like ordinary mortals because
/ their identity was not known.
WRITER in the st. Louis Globe Democrat
reports that he has solved the problem of keep
ing pantaloons in shape. His plan is to have a
| separate pair of suspenders for each pair of
pants and hang the garments by the supporters
| on two pegs about as far apart as a mans
shoulders. Try his, he says, and you will
| notice that the pants will never bag at the
| knees
IT is STATED that the English war department
] have now definitely decided to have a per-
manent balloon depot at Lidsing. near Chat
| ham. The proposal is an important one for the
district as, in the first place, it means an ex-
| pendture of $4,000 or $4,000 upon buildings,
| and asterward the maintenance of a. st If
4 * no
| commenced at an early date.
| THERE are some very much disguised real
estate investors in Chicago. They are those
| who bou hit land near Jackson park aG fancy
prices, thinking it settled that the worlds fair
would be located there. Some of them paid
$500 to $500 Per front foot for property that
| five months ago would not have brought QUE
sixth of that, and unless the fair should, after
| ALL go to Jackson PARK not few of them will
| be ruined
DEXTER NE, MAN scratched a match on a
convenient pane of glass, and to his surpr1sd it
| lighted readily as though the glass had been
| sand paper. To those who have been accus-
| toned to seeing people search for a rough
surface on which to scratch a match, it would
| be rather startling. Not only ordinary matches
| but even the safety matches. usually unlight-
| able except on the box in which they come, can
| be lit on glass.
| PERsIA's FAvoRIrE NEWSPAPER is a weekly
|
| and called the Akhtdr IS ar. which talks quite
| Independently about Persian affairs. Aga
| Neral aauir has been the editor for sixteen
| years, and as his publication is on neut, a.
ground the occasional disposition of the Shah
| to act IN his stead doesn't bother him at all
| Lately the Akhtdr has berated English inter
| lnetdling in Persian matters, and evinces friend
| ship for Russia.
A WORM that feeds on steel has been discov
cred by Belgian scientists. 1t is said to be two
| centimeters in length and about the size of
| common knitting needle. IL is of light gray
color, and on the head it carries TWO little sacs
or glands filed with a most powerful corrosive
| secretion, which is elected every ten minutes
| when the worm is lying undiSturbed- The LIQUID
| when squirted upon iron, renders that meta
| soft and spongy and the color of rust when it i
| easily and greedily devoured by the little in
sect
THE PHILOSOPHY of fighting and running ava,
| receives a fresh illustration A Kansas Cit,
sewing machine agent upon discovering hors
| thief making off with stolen rig on Tuesday
took a farmer into his vehicle, and giving chas,
came up with the thief trying to trade the
| stolen rig to another farmer, and, though hav
| ing no arms, he and his companion called upoI
the thief to surrender. Instead of doing SO, tht
thief covered them with revolver, robbed
| them and drove off in the sewing machine
| agent two-horSe vehicle.
NJ. PozDNEEF, a professor of Oriental Ian
guages at the University oil St. Petersburg, ha.
| discovered in the national library of Paris q
| Manchu manuscript which is probably the most
| ancient known. 1t consist of 161 leaves of Chi
| nese papyrus, contained in four portfolios OF
| yellow silk, circumstance which has led schol.
airs TO believe that it belonged to an imperial Ii.
| brary. The heading on the title page has been
| interpreted to mean Book OF Words and
| Phrases, compiled by order and during the
| sixth year Of the reign Of the present Ming
| dynasty"
"a PATHETIC STORY" says the Boston Tran.
script, lis told in connection with the death of
John Boyle O'Reilly, showing what hold he
| acquired on the affection of those who knew
| him. Some years ago he took into his employ
as secretary an orphan who was without rela-
| tives in that part of the country This Young
man became afflicted with consumption. and
| through the efforts of Mr. O'Reilly was given
a bed at the city hospital When he heard
| of his benafactors death he mournfully ex.
claimed, Then have nothing to live for and
on Tuesday he died"
| In SOME HOSPITALS in Europe it is customary
| to allow visitors to converse on certain days by
| means of a telephone in waiting room with
| patients in the wards, and this arrangement
| has been found to work admirably, as it not
| infrequently happens that the nervous state OF
the patient or the possibility of infection of the
| visitor, renders closer communication mad.
vlsabe. 1t is now suggested by New York
| physician that telephones So placed on tn
islands in the bay used for infectious diseases
so that the patients can be cheered by occa
| sional oral communication with their friends.
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