The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Sir William Petty predicted that in the nine
teenth century London would contain 1000 90
inhabitants. II is computed that before the
end Of the century the metropolis proper viii
hold its :, 10000.
Town in England. skiddaw, Cumberland.
stands unique as a township of one house and
oae solitary male iuhabitant This man is de-
prived OF his vote because OF the fact that there
| are no ov=rseers 10 make out a voters list. aud
no church or public building on which to publish
/ one, if made.
THERE are 2l,OlO, 600 acres Of unsurveyed land
/ in the state OF Washington, and much of that
| great extent o. country is almost impsnetrAble
| being covered with magnificent growth OF the
/ finest kind of timber. Surveyors have literally
/ to cut their way every foot, because of the
/ thick under 5rusl.
! NISE-rEsTHs of the raisins sold in this coun-
try are made in California, and yet California
! raisnmakers ship all their best goods to New
York and have them boxed and marked as if
they came from Spain. They claim that the
/ public looks with more favor on imported
raisins and for this reason they are obliged to
| go TO ali this trouble.
THERE was deal of doubieness," says the
Lewiston CNe) Journal about that double
welding at Thomaston this week; the brides
fathers were first cousins; the brides had at
tended the ThomaStOn schools and normal
school together. and they will now live together
az Hotel Paxton. Omaha; the gentlemen are in
business together ana have been very success
full"
The REPORT that the Swiss had become tired
OF William Tell and his apple seems to have
been somewhat premature. The people of the
| canton Uri have just resolved to erect to bis
memory a bronze statue seven feet high on the
open square before the city hall in Altorf Tel
Will be represented as standing alone in bold,
determined, defiant posture with the cross
! bow in the hand
AN IMPORTANT innovation has been introduced
| in the shape of a machine for preparing molds
for casting. The machine is designed to pro-
duce complete mold at one operation and
| thus to replace skilled hand labor in making
| molds from pattern plates. It is claimed that
| lad can operate the machine with the assist
ance OF laborer, and is able to ram and mold
as many as 1000 boxes per day
Mss KATE FIELD in her newspaper wonders
not why so many supreme court justices have
| died Of late. but. rather, why any member of
| the court should be left alive. She attributes
I the fatality among them to the fact that the
court lows no recess for lunch, the result
oeing that the judges snatch bites as best they
can, and go home so hungry that they are ready
TO swallow everything put before them at din
ner. IL Is great pity. she adds, that there is
no chair In school or college De Heated to the
science of living. She might have added.
further, that with a return to war tariff the
science OF living is daily be 'oming mora diff
cult to understand. and tat the real problem
VIII soon be not when to eat. but how to get
| food enough.
! AN incident Of the battle Of Waterloo, heard
from the great duke himself, was told by Lord
| Shaftesbury. the phanthropist, to the late Sir
| George Burns, in whose biography it is given
oy Edwin Holder. At one moment in the bat
tie TIE Duke OF wellington was left alone his
| aldesde-camp having been dispatched with
| messages. gentleman in plain clothes rode
up to MIN and said: Can be of any use, sir?"
| Inc duke looked at him ard Instantly said
| Yes; take that pencil note to the commanding
| officer (pointing 70 regiment in the heat of
/ the engagement. The note was taken and de-
| llvered, its bearer galloping through the thick
! OF the hight TO execute its commission After
the battle the duke made every inquiry, but
never could find out to whom lie was indebted
FOR this brave service h told Lord Skates
bury that ne considered this one of the most
gallant deeds that la ever come under his no
tce, seeing that it was done without prospect Of
honor or reward.
| DR.. AL LABoULBENE, at the meeting of the
French chronological Society, held on March
IL, 1889 gave a short abstract of paper pub
nshed In 1888 by an Austrian physician Dr.
| Ierc who seems to have made extended ex.
| periments for number of years Dr. Terc
asserts that person stuns by bees acquires
thereby relative immunity from the conse-
| quences Of subsequent stinEs in other words
that the virus of the bee sting acts Ii 9 vac
clnal incubation against its own poison The
| immunity lasts six months, sometimes less
| probably according to the number of stings lu-
flcted on person Persons suffering from
acute rheumatism require a large number of
but as soon as by incubation Of a sufficient
amount of virus they have acquired immunity
against its effect they villas long as this I'M
| munity laStS-be freq from rheumatic attacks
DR.. Laboulbene suggests that, in the interest Of
medical science it would be we'll to thoroughly
| test these assertions.
ALTHOUGH monk, the late Dr. Chrysanthos
| JOAN les, Bishop of Kitten, who died in Cyprus
the other day d not spend his life in the clois-
! ter de devoted it TO the improvement of ee-
! cd Sptl IL
but scanty resources, he did much work quietly
| and well. In years of drought when the peas
ants through the failure of the crops were re-
! duced to the verge of starvation, Papa Chry-
santhos," as he was affectionately called was
foremost in his efforts to alleviate their distress
| by d stributing free gifts of wheat and or
| gan1zinR relief funds. Unanimously elected by
Che people to the vacant See of Kyrenia in Nav.
| 1850, the day of bis conservation was the occa-
| sion OF great rejoicings, and his sudden death
| has caused deep and universal mourning When
| bishop of KyrenIa he had no episcopal residence.
! but hired suite of apartments in monastery
in the center OF bis diocese for himself his arch
| economy which he prac iced enabled him to de-
vote considerable portion of his income to the
poor and for educational purpo ses.
A Pail Mall Gazette interviewer thus quotes
Henry Irving: What is natural on the stage is
almost always unnatural off it, 1t is the an
pearanee OF nature. not nature itself. that we
| have to present. To go back moment to the
| questi' of conventionalism, always remember
a GOOD actor hides even that as far as possible.
There must be no suggestion of effort The
essence of acting is its apparent spontanety-
| ITS accident, IT may say so. You may object
That the tragic actor is hampered by the state
lness OF his lines, but remember that there is a
medium in all things If his defamation is too
measured. the sanse of truth is at once i'm
! paired; if, on the other hand it falls only a
shadow OF shade below the level of an1ro
! pirate expression, the auditors SYMPATHY
is instantly checked. The union Of
grandeur without pomp and nature without
triviatyi of all artistic ideals the most diff.
cult to attain. good actor not only has to
establish harmony between his voice and
action, and the poets lines, but he has also To
establish harmony between himself and his
hearers People say all actor is born not made
and that is true as far as it goes; but in as no
painter can succeed in pure Ignorance Of
| technique, so no actor can make much nroorass
! till he has mastered a cartain mechanicisn7
which is within the scope of patient intelligence
| Inc parts That are easy TO me are Louis XII
and Matthias, in The Bells, though the NH
lie think differently; Hamlet and 'MacbetS,
are most exhausting"
GRIM STORY of swindle comes from Cali.
cut where cholera has been raging, especially
among the Moplahs, who are 1ohammedans
and very fanatica The other day Young man
| appeared and announced himself as an esne
cially holy priest, able to heal all sickness and
| capable even of destroying the cholera PeonIa
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