The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TAvEESs may be traced 10 the thirteenth
century. According to Spelnan, in the reign
q King Edward III. only three taverns were
allowed IN London. Taverns were licensed in
England in i152-
Mrs WILSON REID who lives near SIMPSONS
Mills. Oregon, was dressing a grouse for her
husbands dinner one day last week. It's crop
held a nice gold nugget worth s. So HUBBY
ate tAs bird. but malam bought pair Of nice
shoes.
DR. ScHLUNK's DISCOVERY that the fats in
cocoanut oil make very satisfactory substi-
tute for butter seems TO be the beyinning OF a
new ana important industry. Already at
Mannneim large factory has been established
winch produces daily about 5000 Kilograms of
the new butter substitute, which is retailed at n
price equivalent 70 y cents per pound. The
nuts are obtained from the South sea and
CoII islands and also from Africa, Arabia,
and South America.
THE Oxford University Press has lust issued
some remarkably tiny prayer books. the small
est probably. that have ever been printed in En-
glanc. SO small are they that they can easily
De carried IN the wastcoat pocket. yet so clearly
and well printed that the type is easily Iegible
When 1t is added that the Finger PRAYER book
IS In weight less than an ounce, only one inch
brOad, three and a-half long, and not half an
inch IN thickness 1t will be perceived that these
typographical curIosities are really unique.
DURING the Paris exhibition the Compaguie
Generale des Omnibus started no less than ten
new lines OF buses, ending all of them at the
champ de Mars. IL is now found that ont of
these new lines four continue to receive such of
popular support that it has been resolved to
keep them running. The other six, however.
nave oeen all suppressed. During the year just
ended It IS stated that the Paris General ON
nous Company will be able to show net profit
OF at least $4,000 The total receipts were at
least 81, 200,0 90.
NORWICH, Conn, has still quaint custom
nowhere else observed, perhaps. The festivi-
ties of Thanksgiving day always have wound
up with barrel bonfires ali over the town A
LOFTY pole being erected, barrels are strung
upon II and arranged around it in a pyramdal
FORM, with single tarred barrel at the top.
IheSe barrels are filed with straw making
tnem as prime conductors OF fire as the shaft
OF modern hotel elevator. At dark the fires
are lighted, and the barrels, which the town
boys have begged or stolen, are soon con-
sumed.
A SHORT TIME AGO two or three little girls who
had been placed under the care of the Shakers
In Gloucester, Me-, became tired of their irk-
some life and determined to leave it. So. each
taking her most precious possessions (which in
one instance, was tiny ring, a re ic of baby
hoOd, and bar of perfumed soap, they started
10 run away, and got far as Raymond,
where they were found by some of the citizens
Trying TO construct house of bOughs to SieeD
in. They were taken in and sheltered for the
night, the Shakers going for them the next
day
THE CURIOUS FACT is brought out in the re-
port of the registrar general of the births,
deaths, and marriages in England" says the
London Daily News, that the marriages of
1888 bore precisely the same proportion to the
population as they did in 1857 In both wears
142 persons were married TO every 600 livinl,
Inc same popularity has not been observed
since 1865, when the marriage rate was IL per
l,OOo, exactly the same as in 1865. 1t will be
seen Uhat the marriage rate has gone down con-
Slderably in those twenty-five We ars 1t was a
traction lower-namely. 14.1-n 1886, but since
the rate began to be recorded it has never been
SO low as in the three years 1885, 1857 ana 1855"
In THE UKRAINE, RUSSIA, the maiden is the
one that does all the counting. When she falls
In love with man she goes to his house and
tells him the state of her feelings If he recipro-
Gates all is well and formal marriage is dulv
arranged. If, however, he is unwilling. she re
mains there, hoping to coax him into a better
mind. The poor fellow cannot treat her with
the least dscourtesy, or turn her out. for her
trends would be sure to avenge the insult His
best chance, therefore, if he is really deter
mined that he won't is to leave his home and
stay away as long as she is in it. This is GER
tainly a very peculiar way of turning a man
out of house and home. On the Isthmus of
Daren either sex can do the counting with the
natural result that almost everybody gets mar
rled. There is not quite the same chance where
or bashful swain
On LITTLE RIVER, near OsceoIa,. La, Robert
Warren, lumberman, lost his way in the
woods. He thought he heard human voice.
and halloaed to attract attention. His shout
was answered. aud the cries came nearer and
nearer. Then he discovered that it was pan
Their that had been yelling. Being unarmed he
climbed a tree and remained in it for an hour
The panther finally left. When he thought the
coast clear Warren descended, and pur-
sued his way, and when he again haloaed to
attract attention the panther returned this
time accompanied by his mate. Up a saplng
he again went, armed with a stout club and
determined TO sell his life as dearly as possible
In the meantime the boys in camp had become
alarmed at his absence and had started out to
search for him. They had reached a point
within quarter of mile of where he was freed
when they caught the sound Of his call for help.
and as an answering signal, fired off a gun,
which had the effect of frightening off the pan
theirs.