The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Mrs. ANNA CLorz Of st. Paul, Mimi, was run
over and killed by the cars there one day last
| week, and while they were preparing her for
| burial S35, 900 in greenbacks was found sewed
into her clothing. She has no known heirs
Ex-SHERIFF BURROUGHS of Vesper, N " an
enthusiastic stock breeder. has a mare of u !
usual intelligence. 1t is reported that the mare,
having partially pulled off one of her shoes the
/ ether day. jumped the fence and went to the
| SHOP of the village blacksmith, half a mile
| away The smith tried two or three times to
| drive her away, but each time she returned,
and he finally discovered and reset the dis
placed shoe, THE mare went contentediy back
| TO the pasture, scaled the fence and reioined
! the herd
| AT the head of Holy Cross creek, near Lead
vile, Col, aud in the almost inaccessible defiles
| OF Mount Shasta, CAL there are hundreds of
| square feet of ground continually covered with
snow ai red as blood. In The polar regions red
and scarlet snow Is a familiar sight bu: the two
, places named above are the only spots within
| the limits OF the United States where it is
| known to exist The phenomenon is due to the
| presence of minute animalculae in the snow
| How the little midgets ever got there is cues
| ton that has never been satisfactorily an
swered.
IT is stated that the Salvation Army has
grand total of 2.s74 CORPS or societies, 1896 out
posts. and BAG persons or officers wholly en-
| gagged in the work, with %. 069 non-commis-
stoned officers and bandsmen. 1t holds vested
property OF the value of &644, 61S. and the value
| OF It's trades effects, stock, machinery etc. is
8i3O000 more. The total circulation OF it's liter
allure of all descriptions is 1900. 600 copies.
| This literature is issued in fifteen languages.
The army breaches in twenty.nine languages
and it occupies thirty-four countries or colonies
The sum raised annually from all sources is
f750.000
In COMPARING the animal and the vegetable
kingdoms, Lnnaeus denominates seed the eggs
of plants. The fecundity of certain species of
plants Is simply marvellous. single sunfiower
will produce from 1900 to 1900 seeds in one
summer; the poppy, g. 900. One plant of the
cat stan Will produce two to five spikes each
containing an average of 1900 seeds. One root
or the East Indian elecampane will throw out
thirty stalks, each having seed vessel contain
ing 1900 seeds, or a total of 10000 seeds from
single root in one summer Ray, the English
scientist, says that it takes OLE tobacco seeds
to weigh one grain and that single plant will
produce 10000 seeds The same author esti-
mates the annual seed product of the spleen
wort to be upward of 200, 600
The QUEEN has accepted the dedication of the
Fac-Simile of the Original Manuscript of the
Book of Common Prayer" the well known
Annexed Book preserved in the House of
Lords library, now being reproduced from pho
tographs taken within that building, and to be
| published early next year. The book was signed
! by the Convocation on Dec. %, 1851. and was
confirmed by the Act of Uniformity to which
royal assent was given in 1862. The manuscript
| deposited in an ancient tower near the Chapter
| House Of Westminster Abbey Every page as
| Autographed h as been compared mlnutely.w it'll
| the original. The reproduction is said to be
! faithful copy of the original showing the
| characteristic flaws and erasures as we'll all
| signs of age and injury that the manuscript
| now exhibits.
THERE are but few readers who have not
either in reading or conversation, heard New
| Jersey referred to as SPAIN" and her people
| \ fOralQOerS n
can readily give reasons for this oddity OF ex-
pre- sion, the majority, even though they may
| be Jerseymen, find that it is a question not
easily answered. The taunt, which was
| originally good humored railery, originated in
| this way: Jos phi Bonaparte, the eldest
| brother of Napoleon l., came to America in tn
second decade of the present century and occu-
pied the place called Point Breeze, near Bor-
| dentown, y. ]. He was an ex-klng of
Spain, but. disciaimipg all regal rank, he lived
there for several years, endearing himself to his
neighbors by his charity and good nature In
| 1917, after Joseph had made his mark es
| scientist and had been elected member of MANY
| learned ms buttons, the legislature of New
| Jersey passed an act allowing him, as an alien
to purchase and hold real estate within the state
| From that time forward all who opposed the
| passage OF the bill spoke of New Jersey as
Bonaparte's Kingdom of New Spain" and
| those who favored the bill as "his maiesty's
| subjects and as foreigners"
! IT HAS BEEN recently stated that prize
| offered some years ago for the discovery of
| some means whereby the inexperienced might
| at once determine whether in a given case death
| ha or had not occurred, was won by a physi-
clan who had discovered that il a light were
| placed behind the hand of the supposed dead
| person a scarlet tint would be apparent where
| the fingers touched each other II life was not
| extinct: and that if re glow was visible
death had taken place, says the New York
| Telegram, DIR. W. B. Richardson has
written essay in which he states
| that, although this test has its value, it
is not by any means to be trusted
as an unfailng indication of life or death He
| gives the case of person in a state of syncope
| to whom the test was most carefully applied
| Not the faintest sign of red coloration between
the fingers could be traced yet the recovery of
the syncoye was compete. and was effected
without any artificial aid. DIR. Richardson re-
| CARDS it as good test, but is of opinion that
more certain proofs are: The pulsation; the
| respiratory murmur; pressure on veins; the
electric test for muscular irritability; the am
| monia hypodermic tast; coaguiation of blood in
! the veins; rigor mortis and decomposition.
| ONE of the most troublesome questions to
contend with travelling in China is that of
money As is well-known, the Chinese have no
other currency than the copper cash, about
| 1900 of which are worth at Peking a Chinese
| ounce OF pure silver, called by foreigners a
'tael OF sycee.' Silver is naturally used in
commercial transactions but as bullion only
and by weight, so every one has to have a set OF
! small scales The Inconvenience that this
weighing entails would be comparatively small
| were all the scales throughout the Empire uni
| FORM but such is not the case. They differ CON
siderably from one town to another aud even
| In the same locality. Thus, at PeSng there is
government standard maritime customs
standard and commercial standard The
same diversity is found all over the empire,
| and the consequent complications and even
serious loss IN excnange are continual
| yexation. Nor isit possibie to escape this loss
by carrying copper cash with one for putting
aside their excessive weight, Their is not even a
standard cash in China Those used at T'eutsin
| are not used at Peking those at Picking are not
current, except at a discount, at T'aiyuan.
| Here bought very debased kind of cash
| giving one Large cash for four of them; a
hundred miles further south these small cash
| were at par, and even, in a few cases, ae a
slight premium over the intrinsicaly more
| valuable large one. The Mongols Tibetans
and Turkestanese have never consented to use
the Chinese copper cash, although it is the
| standard money of the realm. The first named
| people nse silver ingots or brick tea the others
/ have a silver currancv of thar