The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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TIE EXPORTS OF POTATOES from Jersey last
year amounted TO 81, 100 tons. valued at e293.-
6Sl, as compared with 81. 200 tons and 1854 ,i53
in 1889, and 20 9Ss tons and e242 100 in Iss3 The
export season commenced during the first week
| IN May, when potatoes fetched 925 per ton The
potato area in Jersey is now .s56 acres. Dur
ing last year si.6S4 pipes OF port were shipped.
as against s5,211 pipes in 1889 and &. 305 pipes
| IN 1883. The shipments of sherry during the
same period were, respectively, 60,O63 butts,
| s., 100 and &, 269 butts.
! THIS is an age of electricity even swindlers
turning it 20 account. The following is their
method of sweating gold coins: The scientific
| sWlndler constructs an electro-depositiOn plant,
using $40 gold piece as an anOde and a small
| metal plate as a cathode. The battery is set
| IN motion, and, presto. in a few minutes so
| cents worth of gold is deposited on the metal
plate, and the gold coin is worth so much less
| than before. AS the gold is removed equally
| from all parts OF the surface of the SO gold
piece that coin passes for one .as good as new. ~
ACCORDING to the estimate of Director Leech,
OF the mint, France is the richest country in the
world in specie, with gold currency of $780,
| 100000. and S7O0,G0o000 in silver. The United
states comes next, with S7O2, 600 900 in gold and
| S4o2OO0,OOJ Of silver. Great Britain has $780,
OO00O0 ami S1O000o,00O silver; Germany, $780,
| OOOOOO gold and Sl4j 0J0.000 silver; India $780,
100000 silver; China. 500, 600 silver, etc.
Director Leech estimates the total gold clrcula-
ton OF the world at 49, III 900 900, and the total
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| 81, 9SO, OOO, COO is legal tender.
THE New ARGENTINE PACIFIC RAILROAD from
BuenoS Ayres to the loot of the Andes has on
it what is probably the largest tangent in the
world. This is $40 kilometers (211 Iniles) with
/ out q curve. In this distance there is not a
single bridge, and no opening larger than an
| ordinary culvert, no cut greater than one meter
In length, and no fill of a height exceeding one
meter. There is almost an entire absence of
WOOD on the plain across which the western end
| tensive use of metallic ties. which will be en-
ployed on nearly the entire road
THAT MAN or any number of men could
steal 600 hens without awakening everybody
within mile is what beats me" said a man
VINO walked out Of station in Boston scratch
ing ms mead. Inquiry developed the fact that
man had been arrested there charged with steal
| in 600 hens from poultry yards in Wakefield
ana Melrose. James Sargent was the name of
the accused. The poultry had been disposed of
70 dealer at ll6 Richmond street. and has been
recoVered-or It's value. Any one who ever
caught a hen (wanting to be quiet about it, can
| appreciate the query of the Individual who al
| lowed he was beat.
DO YOU have many orders like those?'' in
quired gentleman of a clothing dealer, who
| had just taken the measure of a customer who
wanted a pair of trousers to be delivered in two
hours, says the Detroit Free Press. "Wo do"
was the reply. You would be surprised"
auoeo tne dealer, now many people receive
sudden call, either of duty or pleasure. who dis
cover, at the last moment like a woman get
Ting ready for journey, that they have moth
ing to wear So they rush down here and we
| ne and deliver our goods TO order in two hours
how do we do its That's one of the tricks of
the trade. We could beat that record if we
wanted. In fact, there is no reason why we
could not mt and deliver pair of first-class
trousers while our customer sat down for a few
minutes and read the morning paper"
H. NJ BoMPAs, g. c., recorder Of Plymouth.
Ennr M xrrnA H. Al.
peal is causing so much uneasiness in labor
circles, is the son of the man immortalized by
Charles Dickens in ''Pickwick" as ''Mr
Sergeant Buzfuz " The youngest son of Sergeant
leader in Bardsll VS.. Pickwick the recorder is a
Inild-mannered man, and as different as can be
| from the advocate VINO tore a passion to rage
over Chops, gentlemen of the jury, chops and
tomato sauce!" Born some f1fty-seven years
| ago, he was fifth wrangler at Cambridge but
| being nonconformist, he could not, before
| the abolition of university tests, hold a fellow
! ship. Without ever doing a big business he
has always been in fair work on the western
| circuit, and might have done more did he not
create the impression that he was more at home
In the chapel than In the law courts.
ut is BAD ENOUGH" says New York phys
ician, ito have quinine sold as freely as sugar.
but morphine is a drug which ought TO be re-
| tailed only under special conditions Some
cough pills contain an extraordinary amount of
morphine, and it is really wonderful more ser
| ious consequences do not result. A few DAYS
| ago was called to see a man who was very
sick, and who had evidently taken large oua1-
| tity Of morphine internally. He explained that
| he had been taking some pills for dyspepsia
and when these were shown to me saw at once
that cough pills had been given to him by mis-
| take. He had taken as many as six at dose
| and if he had not been blessed with a wonder
full constitution he would have found it difficult
| TO pull round. There is no objection to patent
| medicines and pills being powerless to do any
| particular good but they ought certainly to be
| powerless to do any harm.
KHTER or keller was an "Anglicism" long
before it was an "Americanism." Skinner. in
1871, was Keller; he is not yet in keller, nondum
est paratms." 1t is also given in a reprint of
Rays Collection of 1881. The K before 1 points
to a. Scandinavian origin. OF. Dan, kite, to
truss tuck up, whenca E, Kilt Rietz gives
| Swed. dial, knter-b1nd, a band for holding up
tucked up clothes; Etttrd- sfo, to grid up, tuck
up, and fasten. The metaphor is obviously
enough. This word keller. as it should be
| spelled, is given in Johnson's Dictionary and
derived from the Danish keller, to grid; quo
| taton is given from Barrow's works, where the
| word is used. Bailey, in his genealogical Die
tIonary, derives it from the Latin culture. Hal
liwell ('Dictionery of Archaic and
Provincial Words'D gives. it as used
in the east of England both as
! substantive aud as verb. 1t is a word of
every day use in Surrey and Sussex. in the sense
| OF order or condition. The Rev. w. D. Parish
in his Dictionary Of the Sussex Dialect
notices it in the phrase: This farm seems in a
| very good 'kelter.'" l have often heard it used
in the same way, and anything that is out of
condition is described as being ''out o. keller"
| On reference to the publications of the English
Dialect Society, it will be seen that the word is
| of very general use throughout England In
the neghborhood of Whitby it occurs as a verb
| and substantive, and in the Mid and East
Yorkshire glossaries also it is used also in West
| Cornwall, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight
| In West Somerset, in Sheffield, and in Hudders-
| field the word means money. These references
will be sufficient to show that the expression is
not an Americanism, but that the word has
found, and still finds place in vernacuar
| English.
THE ATlemone corondriD commonly grows
wild about Smyrna and in Asia Minor, spread
ing far and wide as the most beautiful of Surfing
| blossoms. growing onchalk soil along the edges
| OF shrubbery. We cannot wonder that it was
| already in anciont times favorite of the inhab-
| itants and excited in poetic minds sensations
| such as can only be excited by surprising
beauty 81 am the Rose of Sharon and the LilY
of the Valleys sing the first voice of the sec
| ond chapter of Solomon's song, and there can
be no doubt to-day what is here meant by the
| Rose of Sharon. 1t was American Fiske p
| Brewer, who decided this question, Narclssus
| Tactic, which likewise grows in Palestine.
| having previously been considered the biblical
| flower. This gentleman, according to