The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE INCREASE in the country's urbane popu-
la-ion is q significant fact. shown as one of the
results Of the census. The percentage of the
| people who dwell in cities in the United States
is now 2. u, while in 1850 it % 81 Il is also
pointed ont that 10 the course Of the century
the proportion has crept up from 3.35 per cent.
70 the present figure At the present rate,
IN about Two decades more half of the popula-
ton will be city dwellers. The importance
OF bending our energies to the betterment of
1 our methods OF municipal administration is
! therefore conspicuously evident
| A VERY PECULIAR CASE was recently tried in
German court and resulted in the offender
| being fined. An old German gave everybody to
! understand that he was 104 years old, and the
| papers getting hold of the fact gave him so
much free advertising that he began TO attract
! a great deal of attention. Finally, somebody
! who hadn't much to do looked up the court
records, and made the startling discovery that
! he was only Sc years of age. ThereupOn he was
arrested, tried as an impOster aud fined as
stated above. II is poor rule that won't work
! ooth ways, and some of our 2O-year old girls
VINO. strange 10 say, nave seen in the neghbOr-
hood OF 30 birthdays, had better look out or the
| DOGGY man viii caIcn them.
SEVERAL ANECDOTES are given in Harper
| Weekly illustrating Gen. Johnston's indifference
to danger in battle, and then this citation is
made OF his opinion regarding a familiar house
! mold utensll: Il am the most Uimid man in the
| world, and dreadfuly afraid of Kerosene lamp
Inc other DAY a servant put one in my room. |
| was Jul udlL dressed, ana hurried out fast
as could run. | knew it was going to burst
! Then think of it, The very next night some
! kind of patent kerosene lamp was sent me as
! q present and the donor lit it, explainiug To me
| the method of working it. SuCn was my nerv-
| BUSINESS that never knew he was talking to me-
/ Later. after somebody hal extnguished the
lamp, tried TO reason to myself what pol
! tToOn was. We get hardened in time; but
assure you nothing could ever induce me to
! light or extinguish kerosene lamp. An enemy
| armed with Kerosene lamps would drive me off
] CHI .al1 l,nr
THE term sand witch" now so familiar, es-
pecially to the travelling public, is of singular,
but well authenticated, origin. 1t takes the
name from a Lord Sandwich, a member of the
| English peerage, now dead This noble lord, as
| 1t IS reported was addicted to gambling; and
| the gaming table had such a fascination for
/ him that on many occasions he did not leave it
| TOT his meals, but had his servant bring to him
| TO satisfy his hunger, pieces of meat and fowl
| placed between Slices of buttered bread, which
| he devoured in the intervals of the game
lie was also a famous rider after the
| hounds, passionately fond of the race course
| and an al-around sportsman generally. Hav-
| ing acquired decided liking for the meats and
| bread prepared in the convenient form indi-
Gated, a liberal supply was constantly part of
| ms luncheon, necessary and incident to his avo-
| cations. For like purposes it speedily became
| popular with that set; and thence, presumably
| by the operation of the principle of evolution,
as also the principle of natural selection it has
| developed into the innumerable species and the
corresponding magnitude IN which we find il at
| this day.
A DIRECTOR of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company, describing the system of convict
| labor employed by that corporation-probably
the largest utilizers of such labor in the coun-
try-tells reporter of the Journal of Finance
that there are many men of notable histories
| Dragging the chains and ball in the coal and
IRON works. One such is A. W. Still, who was
Twice lieutenant governor of Nevada, and who
came very near being elected to the United
States Senate at one time in his palmy days
| When he was rich and ranked among the mill.
| lonaireS OF the west He is now 81 years old and
was sent up in 1888 for obtaing money
under taISe pretenSes. The newspapers were
tull OF his arrest and trial at that time The ex
governor also has the reputation of being one of
| the shrewdest manpulators of counterfeit
| money ever in this country. 1t is said as the
| agent OF a mammoth cOunterfeiting company
he was sent to Europe with a big trunk of
| spurious money, and that he managed to dis
| pose of large amount of it. He is finely edu
| Gated and is said receives remuneration from
several newspapers for contributions he WI ties
Wlen he steals the leisure
The REAL CAUSE of the disturbance in ont
of the Vienna Imperial opera house the other
| night has just been ascertained. 1t appears
that when Countess Won Schoenborn. nee
fflncess Hohenlohe, and niece to the governor
| OF Alsace-l Lorraine, entered her carriage unat-
Tended ana closed the door, two powerful arms
| seized her IN a tight embrace and an unknown
| person showered kisses on ner face and shonl.
| ders The countess, young and beautiful
! woman, shreEed and struggled thereby draw.
ing the attention of the crowd of people
| leaving the theater. The carriage wa,
| stopped and the door pulled open, whereupon
! the countess jumped out followed by a yOunp,
| fellow dressed like workingman He tried To
break through the crowd but after a severe
| struggle was caught. Being questioned he CON
IesSed that he had entered the carriage at the
moment that the footman climbed TO the box
with the intention Of forcing himself on the
| countess, with whom he was frantically in love
and whom he had no chance of addressing IN
the ordinary way. His name is Joseph Los,
and his occupation that OF a tailor The fellow
was arrested and the countess is completely
Frustrated by the fright.
The NUMBER of puffs given by a locomotive
depends upon the circumference of its driving
| wheels and their speed, says an exchange. No
matter what the rate of speed NAV be for
every one round of the driving wheels locomo-
tive Will give four puffs-two out of each cvlin-
der, the cylinders being double The sizes of
the driving-wheels vary, some being IL 10 20
and even Y feet in circumference; though they
are generally made in or about 90 The exDreSs
speed varies from ffty-four to fifty-aignt miles
an hour. Taking the average circumference of the
urlVlpg Wheel TO be twenty feet, and the Sueed
per houf hIty mis- locomotive will give,
gong at express speed, $50 puffs per minute or
62,sO0 puHs per hour, the wheels revolving
1920 times in sixty minutes, giving O56 pnffS
per mile. Therefore, al express going from
London TO Liverpool, distance of 2O3{ miles
VIII throw out 2l3,O 4S puffs before arriving at
us destlnaJlon During the tourist season of
1888 the Journey from London to Edinburgh was
accomplished in less than eight hours the dis
lance being 40l miles, giving a speed through
out of fifty miles an hour. A locomotive of an
express train from London to Edinburgh snh
Ject to the above conditions, will give 1913 456
puffs.
PET BEAR belonging to Dewitt Mcdowell, of
Arkansas city Kan, which had been taught to
open doors, shake hands, dance, etc escaned
from his cage the other night, and for time
created CONSERVATION among large number of
people. a fashionable ball was in progress at
the time and bruin was attracted by the music
There was funny scene in the ball room when
he entered and raising himself on mis- hind leos
volunteered to shake hands with a number Of
persons, and then began to dance. There was
grand rush for the doors aud several ladies at
tempted to jump out of the windows After he
had finished his waltz the bear was coaxed from
Ihe room and then began to paint the town and
succeUI9d Ill Frightening half the inhabitants al
most out VI heir senses Entering the ST
| Charles hotel he climuo5 the stairs and wabbied
| into one room after ano,ter routing ont
| the guests in their night clothes
! and incidentally damaging the furniture Hay
| ing had all the fun he wanted with the guests
! he returned to the street and proceeded ~
| amuse himself by trying TO enter the residences
| or the solid citizens. Being closed to uninvited
guests, he was unable to effect an entrance info
| any OF them, but he convinced the inhabitants
| that burglars were at work and one alarm after
| anot er was sent in TO the police station nntil
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