The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

England, are arranged TO cease on the death Of
the Prince of Wales The lease-holders. there
fore. view with alarm any illness of the prince.
The life Of Queen Victoria is also identified with
several leases in various parts OF England
A NEosHo. KAN COUNTY FARMER sent this
mixed order TO a Chanute merchant: send me
a sack Of -four, five pounds Of COTE aud one
pound Of tea MY wife gave birth to a big baby
boy last night. also five pounds of corn starch.
screwdriver and f1ytrap. IL weighed ten
pounds and straw hat"
In soxE WARDS, for infections diseases, in
European hospitals. telephones have been'placed
to enable the patients to converse with their
friends. when closer communication would he
inadviSaole. The c1eering effect OF CONVERSE
ton has been noticed in the speedy convales-
cence OF most OF the patients.
In ENGLAND and other parts OF Europe, horss
shoes are now in use. made Of cowhide instead
OF iron. The shoe is composed Of three thick
nesses of the hide which Is pressed into a steel
mold and afterward treated by a chemical
preparation. TIE sloe is quite smooth on the
outside surfacs, no calks being nee ed. as the
Sooe adheres firmly on polished pavements. IL
is claimed this shoe is nucn lighter than the
IRON one. lasts longer, and that the hoofs of
horses wearing them never split.
The SIANEsE METHOD of computing time was
before April l. 1889, based on lunar reckoning,
each day being referred to as such a day of the
waXlnS, or such day of the waning, moon,
anu edcH year Dei0E one or a cycle OF twelve
years derive from the Chinese), each of which
bore the name of one of the consultations of
Tue zodiac. According to this system it was
most difficult and tedious to calculate the cor
responding European date. Assistant Consul
Beckett says the Siamese year, as now reck-
oned, contains Twelve months, like the European
year with corresponding leap years and num-
Der OF days in each month the only difference
otlng that the Siamese year commences on
April l. Each month is now called after one
OF the consultations in the Copernican system.
some religious journals printing a para
graph to the effect that the late Prof. Hitch
cock of tbs city held that tobacco was known
10 the aucfents and that its name derived
from Bacchus, the god of wine, says the New
York Tribune. The weed was offered to BAG
chus as votive Offering, an as the datjve case
or Bacchus in Greek is ITO Baecho," the mar
cote gradually got that name OF course, any
scholar will at once see that DIR. Hitchcock was
too good Grecian to have fathered such an
absurd etymology. AS a matter OF fact, the
late President Hitchcock of Amherst made
the suggestion In question as bit of pleasantly
IN humorous book which he once published.
The ancients didn't have the good for -,
mean, of course, the ancients didn't indulge in
the vice of using tobacco. though they probably
would II they had known about it. For the an
clients were rare old boys in their time, and
we're up to all the mischief that was going.
THE WOMAN with a maid in public, says the
New York Sun, seems to feel that she is some
what out of gear with the republican simplicity
ana general unpretentions character of society
IN New York: Apparently she is perpetually
asking herself: Nv hat sh Ill do with it?" and
the male on her part seems equally Ill at ease
In England and on tue C )ntin, n the lady goes
In a nrst-clasS carriage and the maid steps
naturally in the place that ! as been assigned
for her In the thru class compartment la tue
stages the mistress seats herself in side while the
maid sits on the roof with the other maids, aad
IN the restaurants, dry doods shops, aud else
where there arr always places and provisions
for slowing away ladies' maids until ey a @
needed. But lady's maid taken about pub
lcly In this town is about awkward as a man
servant. They do cot seem to fit into the social
structure anywhere. This is not because Ameri-
can women are unaocustomed to the possession
OF maid servants by any means. In the south
every young woman of any importance has an
OLD or young personal servant, and it is remark
able to mark the affection which many ladies
lavish on these attendants They pat their
hands, link arms with them and make all sorts
OF confidential disclosures. The maids, having
been associated with their mistresses all their
lives, are usually models of fidelity.
A TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT of the Vfelo-
most of Moscow gives a lengthy and highly
interesting description of the Baltic provinces
of Russia, and shows By various illustrations
how the people. all along the sea coast submit to
the Outstanding process with great difficulty.
In Mtau, he says, you cannot find coach
driver, a hotel waiter, or even a policeman who
speaks Russian. All sign boards and posters in
the streets are in German. At the hotel in
as foreigner" In Riga the luminosity against
all that is Russian becomes clearly apparent,
though there is a strong Russian element there
The police is Russian and attends to its duties
in a most exemplary manner; the courts and
municipal officers, although compelled by law
to write all official documents in Russian, use
the German language with marked preference.
In business circles German is used almost ex-
clusively. About three years ago law was
enacted that the inscriptions on their sign
boards and posters should be in Russian. The
people comply with this law because they can
not help themselves. But, as il to spite it,
there is not single inscription in correct and
grammatical Russian. If you want to understand
what these Inscriptions mean, you must read
them in the German translation. The only
province in which the people yield to the Rus
sianizing influence is that of Reve There the
Russian traveller feels that he is in his native
land, He understands what the people saw To
him and can make himself understood by them,
But even there the people among themselves
have decided prediction for the German Ian
guage and usages.
AN English paper says: Usually we look to
America for the biggest things on earth, but,
strange to say, although the Americans are the
most extensive users of electricity, the most
powerful artificial light in existence ia the
property of the English government. and it is
to be found in the Isle of Wight. The lamp re-
ferred to is that of the lighthouse of lSt Cathe-
rine's Point, where there is also powerful fog
horn. The plant has three engines of s. horse
power each Two of these are used for working
the dyn amos, and the other for the fog horn
The current Is conducted by wires across a road
direct from the dynamos to the lamps there
being no accumulators. The light is obtained
from carbon lamp of special pattern The
ordinary light is equal 10 1000 600 candles
but a light of 6,000. 900 candle DO ser can be
and has been obtained. 1t is impossible for any
one who has not seen it to imagine the wonderful
brilliancy of the light, but some idea may be
formed from the fact that it can be distinctly
seen forty-five miles away, and that at the
Needles, fourteen miles distant it is quite easy
to read very fine print by means of the redec-
ton. On one side of the lamp room IA a
quantity of very thick glass for repairing the
windows broken, not by storms so much as by
wild ducks and sea birds which are attracted by
the light. A singular feature of the lighthouse
tower is Dlummet and line hanging from the
ceiling OF lower chamber, the plunlInet point
ing to a spot on the floor. This il for tho pllr-
pose of enabling the man in charge to tell when
the tower is out of the perpendicular This
lighthouse was built on an, under cliff formed
by the gigantic landsliD which occurred in 1899
and some portions of this cliff still slipping
THE college of Brasenose, in Oxford, has lust
recovered relic OF the highest interest. saws
the New York Post. This is no less than the
original brazen nose-the palladium of the col
lege one might almost call it-from which most
likely, the name of the college is derived. IL is
a bronze knocker, in the shape of a lions mask
carrying 10 its mouth an iron ring and NAV
perhaps date from the twelfth century. Gf |
any rate, it has been absent from Oxford for ;
500 wears or more In the wear 1894 there Nc |