The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


at Memphis. Tenn, have made estimates on the
cotton crop of lss9- 30 which range from 6,575.
O0) bales 10 10000 bales, averaging 1l4S,i74
bales.
BURGLARS recently broke into house in Lon
don. but obtained little booty for their pains.
A newspaper, in giving IA account OF the affair,
spoke of much valuable property they over
looked Acting on this hint t1e rascals paid
second visit. ami mads a great haul. They LETT
a note expressing their Obligations 10 the news
paper reporter.
THREE-sToRY WAGON was captured at Mar
tinsville Nd, a few days since. The first story
under the running gear was a chicken coop OF
live chickens, the second sandwiched between
the first and J1ird, and hidden from view was
devoted to 'mOOnshine" spirits; the third was
laden with tobacco and fod er for sale at figures
much above the market prices
THE SAHARA DESERT is said TO be growing.
The fertile strip of Egypt is less than 1t was
within historic times and the sands are invad-
ing Tunis. French scientific commissioner
reports to his government that thu whole
southern part Of Iunls is gradually becoming
desiccats ID The commissioner, Z. Blanc, can
not suggest any measure for saving the oasis or
the desert from extinction. Sufficient water
cannot be obtained by any means to support
vegetation.
AN INTERESTING CASE has been concluded
before the Austrian court Of appeal. At the
4uucTdi oL Lle crown prince Uue OF
HorItz, IN Bohemia, called together the town
council to pass vote of coincidence with the
imperial house After having addressed the
town councillors the mayor asked them to rise
as an expression of their grief All rose except
one council Tor, who remained seated. This was
regarde as an Otfense to a member of the
imperial family, and it has been punished with
two months Imprisonment,
IT Is REPORTED from Japan that it is in con-
temptation to erect bronze statue on an open
space Immediately outside of the imperial pal
ace in Toxic, and artists we're invited to send in
designs. One of the latter represented the en-
perOr seated on his favOrite charger. the horse
beng so placed that its feet should rest on
either side Of the entrance bridge. This is said
TO have been much admired by the officials of
the imperial household; but when it was sub
mltte1 to the emperor it was Immediately
vetoed, on the ground that it was not in accord
ance with the principles of hospitality and
polIteneSs that foreign princes and persona ges
of distinction, who came to visit him, should
have to pass under the feet of a horse bestrid-
den by him.
KISSING under the mistletoe" has been thus
explained by Notes and Queries correspond
ent: "One would suppose, from the part played
by the mistletoe in Scandinavian mythology,
that this custom was common TO all northern
peoples. Badu was slain by a mistletoe dart
at the instigation of Loki. and in repair lton for
the injury the plant was afterward dedic ltei to
his mother, Frigg, so long as it did NOT touch
from the ceilings of thu houses and the kiss
given under it signifies that it is no longer an
lnstru ment of mischief. TIE fetes held in COM
memoration of the sacred mistletoe survived in
some parts of France into the sixteenth cent
ury. The plant was credited with many tails
manic properties, and Its festival attracted i'm
mense gatherings of people,
SEVERAL THOUSAND GYPsIEs of Croatia recent
ly held an opsn-air indignation meeting at Orda
to pro est against the measures to put a stop to
their wanderings, the authoriti having even
threatened, il necessary, to set fire TO their en-
campments. The orators warmly defended the
time honored privileges of the race, especially
the free va1abond life inherited from their fore
fathers from time immemoral The meeting
was unanimous as to the necessity of appealing
to some protector to intercede for them. The
majority looked to the Ban of Croatia Count
hheun- Hedervdary; but there was a rong
minority IN favor of applying to the Archduke
Joseph, the king of the Hungarian gypses,
while few of the more radical orators recon-
mended emigration en- masSe from Croatia to
Bosnia and Herzegovina This suggestion was
rejected on show of hands, whereupon a free
fight ensued between the Banites and JoSephites
and there was no decision.
A NEW SUBSTITUTE for coffee may turn up in a
berry known as ''gaertnera." The British
consul at Reunion says that at one time he re-
ceved many letters from merchants in England
asking for information respecting a shrub then
called "muSSa enda, the discovery of which il
had been said in some commercial Journals
would deal severe blow to the coffee and
chicory trade. About two years ago a runor
was spread that the berry of this shrub could
De adYantageouSly employed as a substitute for
coffee and chicOry. 1t grows to about ten feet
HIGH has very few leaves and its branches ara
VIDE apart. The berries do not grow all along
the branches, as Is the case with coffee, but IN
punches at their extremities. At present it is
only met with in the mountains where it grows
will. 1t might 90 produced on an extensive
scale; but with its inferiority in fragrance and
an ha~g3Ir -. Il
The FOLLOWING STORY of a monkeys heroism
is told by an Indian paper: "a large ourang-
outang was very much attached to his master
and to the baby boy, who was the pet of the
whole family. One day fire suddenly broke
out in the house, and everybody was running
here and there to put it out, while the little boy
in his nursery was almost forgotten and whan
they thought of him the staircase was all in
names. What could be done? AS they were
looking up and wondering, a large hairy hand
ana arm opened the window, and presently the
monkey appeared with the baby in his arms
and carefully climbed down over the porch and
brought the child safely to his nurse Nobody
else could have done it, for man cannot climb
Ike monkey, and IS not nearly so strong You
may imagine now the faithful creature was
praised and petted after that This is a tr1le
story, and the child who was saved was the
young Marquis of Kildare
PROF. HADDoN, the English naturalist. who
has just spent some months on the islands south
of New Guinea, says there will never again he
so good time as now to study the natives and
make a1thropological collections as the
Papuans there are dying out fast, and are still
more rapidly discardlng their native arts, pre-
ferring TO buy the merchandise that the whites
bring among them. Recent travellers in tine
Congo basin say the Introduction of European'
manufactures is playing the mischief with ma
tive handiworK. DR.. Wolf observed this fact
far south of the Congo and said that in some
places the natives, who have acquired foreign
Jack-knives and other hardware, are likely to
forget the art of iron working Mr. Hore of
Lake Tanganyika. deprecates the importation
of any merchandise that will ruin native indus
tries. There seems to be tendency in some
savage lands to accept the white man as a yalu-
able agent for the promotion of laziness.
BEAR HUNTING is attended with extraordinary
success in Austria and Hungary this year. The
aristocratic hunting club in Hungary basged
twenty bears and one wolf in the SzolnolI coin
try; turee bears were killed near the Adelsberg
Grotto; Count Windsch Graetz shct anotner in
the Tyrol, and in the Sonnenthal beyond Triente
two bears were killed Here it is the custom to
Tie lamb to tree stump in a forest clearing
and che hunters remain concealed on the lee
ward side that the bear may not scent them
During one of the last bear hunts in flnnearv a
young lawyer missed the bear who then at
aA N Inn and NMl