The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NJ FLAMMARIoS, the French astronomer, has
suggested that in Mars they are a great deal
more advanced. Intellectually speaking, than
we are ours lives, and that they there have opti-
cal instruments which excel ours as much as
the Lick telescope surpasses a piece of colored
glass. Mars is. according to the same au-
Jhorty, an old planet, very cold now, but one
which has passed through all its hot periods
THE Yuma Sentinel makes a statement that
will make Northern Isaak Waltous envious,
when it is claimed that at the mouth of the
Colorado river and the upper end OF the Gulf of
California are to be found sea bass that weigh
from $50 TO $50 each, clans as large as a com
mon dinner plate. millions of sardines and
smelt, oysters small> but delicious millions of
soft -shelIed crabs and other she'll fish, millions
of wild geese, brants, ducks, cranes and other
sea fowl and birds. 1t is paradise for fish aud
game.
FURTHER tests of f1brelia, the product of com
mon fax straw. show that to a certain extent it
has not only valuable textile properties of it..
self, but also as substitute for cotton or wool
1t is claimed, Ia fact, that IS per cent. of the
fbrelia, with IS per cent. of wool made into
bro adcloth gives product absolutely more
valuable than IL made of wool alone-that Is
the r al strength of the cloth is enhanced it is
more fmpervious to water, is warmer and on
account or its tenacity and fexioility its ce-
mentins property and electrical adhesiveness
forelia not only imparts preservative qualities
to the wool and increased durability to the
ClOLLlt DuL LlphTJS TO UOe WnOle a gloss anu
finish not otherwise attainable.
Nor LONG AGO a little Cincinnati girl asked
her indulgent parent for so cents to get some
thing AS she didn't seam Inclined to to eel
what the same was, the said parent quietly
gave her the required sum and resumed read
ing his papa. The mkt day his daughter
triumphantly burst into the room with Here
1t is, paper and there upon her shoulder was
tame rat; and she stroking it MS if it were
kitten. The gentleman said something about
their being plenty of rats without paying so
cents for them, but no marked objection was
made to her keeping it. The rodent now is act
ing as missionary in the home of little invalid
boy. VINO watches from his bed of pain the rats
antics and find; the days less long.
ARTHUR WILSON. the son OF Arthur Stanley
Wilson. of baccsrat fame and of the Wilson
Line of steamers, is engaged to marry the ED
est daughter of Lady FiDmsr Miss Alcs Cecil
Agnes Fllmer. Miss Fimer is a daughter of
tie late Sir Edmund Fimer. the ninth Baronet
who died ia 1887, end sister of the present
baronet. the first bAronet was the son OF an
active royalisJ and q brother of Edward Fill
mer, Esq, gentleman OF the privy chamber to
Charles !. and H." as he is described in the
'knightage." Lady Filmer. the prospective
mOther-in-law OF young Arthur Wilson is the
daughter of the late Lord Sandys who was de-
sc'ndei from George II, s chancellor of the ex-
cheqer and from the Marquis OF Downshire
who was colonial secretary during the revolu-
tionary war.
JANE WILSON, who died at Greensboro. n. c.,
recently, had been slave, and had belonged to
four of the cid f. F. Y. families, her last owner
being r. J. Fhppel of Danve who knew her
age, and told her after the surrender of Gen.
Lee that she had lived to see two great re voln-
tons end IN this country, meauluE tie sur
render of Lord CORVALLIS in 1881 AMI Gen. lee
III $50. Jane wilson was - years of az. when
Lord CORVALLIS surrendered, aad up To a snort
time before her death could relate many in
stances of those trOublOui times. She lived in
WINSTON in M. md effort mazda fo rtAf.
her 10 20 20 the Philadelphia centennial. bu.
she could not be induced to do 5 y. She seldom
knew what it was 70 be sick, up to the last few
years of her life, " hen she was Krdly cared for
by the husband Of her grand lighter, with
whom she we'd twenty-five year Il is q we'll
authenticated fact that she had reached the re-
ularsable age OF l2e years.
FIVE Of tie cattlenen from the steamship
Mondego, which Was wrecked on the Newfound-
land coast. reached Montreal lately and told
their "a of adventure ant disaster There
wrrn len cattlcmen in all. but the other five pre-
ferred III remain in Halifax and return to The
old cJuD;ry Mt the first opportunity From the
storE Of the cattle nen the ior de 20 was wrecked
al Marine Cove. st. hGry 3 bay. On the night
Ct Sept. = the MnHleGo encountered a terrific
gale, w.lcf. with sbOveward tide and t1ick
weather, succeeded in driving the vessel on the
rocks. All tae mn were in their hunks at
thA time. but q rush was Immediately
made Tor the decks, wnere preparations were
going on for the iaunc ling or the boats just
almost nothing on. all hands left the doomed
steamer. The CROW hGd considerable trouble
in tryiug to reach the shore, distance OF rer-
hapS 80 yards. as he was running noun
tain high md the rocks along the coast ran
sheer up to ti;ty fest. Toe coast was a very
inhospitaOle one. not a house being in sight
and the men spent most dreary night, shell
tered from the inclemency of the weather as
best they could. Five hours after she struck
the MondesO went to pieces.
To SUFFER WRECK in a staunch vessel. under
calm SKY. in midoce4n, and with not enough
wind blowing to fill sail, is rare fate, but the
crew OF the steamship hfectve of the tarn lire,
which arrived in Philadelphia recently, feel
that they came very TO suGh an end. The
EnectIv3 her way from Cuba with a
cargo OF iron ore and Capt. Crosby noticed
nothing unusual until the bahamas passed.
Soon after tie vessel began rolling heavily in a
sea running strongly from the eastward, and
this continued steadily tor six days. There
was no storm any Indication of one, and
not enough wind at any time u mike it worth
while to run up tine ssaysals to steady the
steamship Twice the Effective wa thrown on
ner beam ends ana it feared that she
woud turn bottom up. The cargo OF :, 100 tons
heavy sea running from the east it was al most
mpos 'ible to right tho vessel When ire Eff
feciive arrived in the harbor her stnrboard side
was FIVE feet below the port aud she badly
listed CapL. or shy thinks that bis boat GOT
into the track # cyclone VIII ich had swept up
the coast short time before, leaving in itS
wake heavy sea and dead cain. The case is
considered one of the most singular on record
The English steamship Aral. from Shi Ids
Capt Simpson. had somewhat sim lar eXpe.
renee, but the seas which It eacOunt cred wers
not heavy.