The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WEALTHY and religious merchant In New
York has sent a Clergyman down into the dark
corners of Maine to wreste with the ungodly
and he has been surely shocked by discovering
that In some places farm work is regularly car
rled on seven days in the week and that there is
very dense ignorance prevalent as to the fourth
commandment.
The Dalles (Ore.) -Four Corners says that
Oregon girls take the cake" when 1t comes to
"buckarOoing." LAST week an emigrant wagon
and band of cattle from Oregon passed through
town with two cookbook web-foot girls
driving the cattle riding 'straddle" and sitting
the saddle with as much ease and grace as the
most accomplished vanqueros.
IT Is SAID that the locating of st. Paul where
It's was due to too much whisky elsewhere Ac-
cording 60 Father Galtier, the officers at Fort
Smelling drove away the settlers who had To-
Gated across the river because they furnished
too much whisky to the soldiers, and they set
tied as various places along the river. Many
having located at the Cave" now st. Paul a
church was built there and city grew around
it.
THE only survivor of Trafalgar is NJ Cartingy
of Hyeres, France, who is 101 years Of age. He
witnessed the famous farewell that Napoleon
gave his beloved troops at Fontanb leau in 1914.
and was present at the funeral of the Prince
Imperial at Chlselhurst, among the veteran st,
Helena medalists. In Marlborough house the
Prince of Wales has recently had placed fine
portrait of this interesting specimen of antique
humanity.
THAT curious plant commonly called the
mother in-law obtained its name In curious
way. An expert in the Washington botanical
gardens attached to the Smithsonian Institute,
in explaining the curious properties of the
plant to a reporter. mentioned the fact that it
had the power Of paralyzing the tongue. "A
good thing for a moJherin- law, said the re-
porter, and then and there the name OF mother
in-law was applied to the plant.
THE Hindoo, though as primitive in his bread
making as the Bedouin is little more dainty
He waits until the wood fire he has built on the
ground has been burned to Goals; then, putting
TWO or three stones around it. he places on these
a shallow metal bowl, the under side being up.
When his dough or flour and water has been
pressed and pulled into cake OF an inch and
a half in thickness, he bakes it on top of the
bowl. Il is by no means a bread to be de-
spised.
DEATH by spear wound or stroke of waidi
the aboriginal Australian can understand, but
death by disease or old age he does not believe
in. attributngit, in every case, to sorcery. ex
ercsed by the wizards of some alien tribe.
This death by sorcery 1t is the religious duty of
every young man related to the deceased to
revenge by the slaughter or murder of a mem
Der of the suspected tribe or of any other, in
Guiding American blacks, Cinnamon or Kanka-
kas, but not white men.
| H. j. MERRIMAN, an Englishman, at this late
day makes a startling revelation of the manner
of Nelson's death. He says: Some forty years
| ago l frequently came into contact with a
| Trafalgar veteran by the name of Williams He
was the great admiral's cabin boy and de-
| scribed the hero as a martinez disliked by his
| men in general. He stated that Nelson was shot
by one of his own to2men, in revenge for harsh
| treatment, and that this was well known to the
!, officers of the Victory"
GLEsNEvEN, where Mr.. Parnell is buried, is a
picturesqe cemetery. surrounded by high
| stone wall, with a watch tower at each angle, in
| which the Irish In olden times sighted the In
| vading Danes Many encounters took place in
| the now TRANQUIL graveyard between the natives
| OF the Emerald Isle and their inJruding enc
mics. In later years its quiet walks were often
trodden by the great Sheridan, Swift and Add
| son, who seemed to find in this shady place
faYorite rendezvous for the formation of their
| brilliant thoughts.
| DURING the past ten years there has been
decided increase in the fishing interests of
| Washington, notably In the oyster fishery. the
| yield of which has advanced from IS 900 to 60.
| 1913 bushels in the salmon fishery in which the
catch in 1850 was reported to be $4,000 pounds.
and in 1888 was 16, 1855 pounds; in the vessel
| fishery for food species Including habut and
| salt Salmon) which has been established in re-.
cent years, and the product of which in 1883
amounted to 6e6,O OO pounds. The fur-Seai fish
| cry has declined considerably in value though
| to less extent in number of skins.
| WHEN Queen Victoria travels she does SO In a
| comparatively transformations way. She wears
| no jewelry and is clad simply in black, which
she he's worn, except on state occasions, since
the death OF Prince Albert When she arrives
at a railway station there is no crowd to greet
| her. A strip of red cloth is laid on the ground
| from the train to her ca rage half a dozen
| Life Guards with drawn swords attend her
| merely as a matter of form, and then her car
! rage whisks her away without attracting I'M
| usual attention There ID very little of the
| pomp and Circumstance of royalty about her
| when she goes on journey.
| FLEAs are possessed of great strength writes
an experienced St. Louis Republic man. Mouifet
i tells of mechanic who made GOLD chain Ave
| inches in length which pet flea could easily
| drag about on any smooth surface. Bigley
| writes Of matchmaker on the Strand London
who had an ivory four-wheeled chariot with
| coachman on its box all of which was drawn
| with ease by his trained flea, "Dick " The same
man afterward made carriage with six horses,
| coachman, four persons inside, two footmen
| behind and position on one of the horses, all
| drawn by single flea. Latriella mentions q
| flea which dragged silver cannon of twenty
| four times its own weight, and showed no fear
when the tiny piece was charged with gunpow-
der and fired Off. Rene also says that he once
saw three ieas drag an omnibus, pair drag
| ging q chariot and single one pulling a brass
, cannon mounted on wheels.