The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

EDWARD EvERETT HALE chats delightfuIly-
as, of course, was to be expected-%iih the San
/ Francisco newspaper reporters, who question
| him about his writings and jOurneyings; but to
| request for a pilot raph. not as a guarantee
OF good faith, but necessarily for publication, he
| answered: Il haven't; haven't one. / wish
| had There was one published in a we known
| magazine a few years ago; that is, IL was sup
| posed 70 be picture OF me. Ny friends called
| il the Yelled Prophet OF Khorassan. The artist
| liked veiVety effects better than likeness"
Court AND OFFICIAL CIRCLES of Germany were
! greatly surprised few weeks ago over the an
nouncement Of the engagement of the reigning
! Prince George Won Waldeck and Pyrmont. The
| prince is 81 years old and has been a Widower
| since 1858. His second bride is Princess Louisa
| Won Schleswig- H olstein-L ouderi urg -Gluecxs-
/ burg. who was bora in 1858. She is niece of
| the King of Denmark, a daughter of Duke
Frederick OF Schleswig Holstein. Tie young
woman IS also related to the Empress Of Ger
| many and to the American wife of Count
| W aldersee. The little queen of the Netherlands
| IS a granddaughter Of the Prince Won Waldeck
and Pyrmont.
JAMES WHTrcoNB Riley lives on the wing;
| now in the best Indianapolis hotel then with
his sister. The next he is of somewhere lectur-
! ing. blink of it., be says, II never owned a
| desk in my life, and don't know what it is to
| have library" He was asked where he wrote.
Everywhere. he answered; sometimes on
| the kitchen table in my sisters house; then in
the Earlor, and again on the printers case-just
| where the fancy seizes me. When the Frost Is
| on the PUN kim was written on the end of a
tall, standing desk in obedience to the editors
cry for copy. Tue trick line had been running in
| my head Tor some time, and when was toll
ought to have poem in the next days paper,
just TOOK piece of paper and wrote out the
| oem on the end OF the desk, handed it In. and
| never for moment dreamed of its subsequent
| success"
| TIE UNUSUAL SIGHT of man with three full
sized arms and Lands may be daily seen upon
the streets of Marbette, British Columbia. says
writer IN the st. Louis Republic. He is Rus
sian oy birth, and first came to America in
| 1917 as an attache of the Greek church at Sitka
| Alaska where he resided about 1884 He is a
| large, powerfully built man, but seems to have
! no control of this extra b Oily member, which
hangs down his back from a point almost ex-
actly between his loulders. and rolls from side
| 10 lde In an unsigntly manner. Besides being
well equipped in the way of arms, he has double
set of teeth ali the way oInd IL is hardly neces-
| sary to add at the reformation of the teeth
| does not detract from a naturally ferocious
| looking countenance Notwithstanding his
| wicked appearance. he is a mild hammered,
| christian gentleman.
ALEXANDER WYCIsK, the only drummer who
| has worn the iron cross, killed himself in Rati-
| Dor. Germany, a short time since. He went to
the Franco Prussan war with the Twenty third
| infantry. One afternoon he lay with his com
| rades behind the walls of courtyard which the
French were trying to take by storm. In the
neat or the struggle he threw away his drum,
| hole In the wall with bayonet and began
| hring on the enemy. When the order to ad-
| vance from the courtyard on the attacking
| force was given Wycisk could not find his
| drum. The Germans broke over the wall and
| were Immediately within but few rods of the
enemy Wycisk sprang far ahead. seized a
| French drummer by the waiStbaud, wrested
| from him his drum and sticks and began beat
| ing the double quick" For this deed he re-
| &c we'd the order given only for bravery on the
| field of battle. Poverty and inability to find
! work were the causes of bis suicide.
WHILE returning from Europe the captain told
! the st. Louis Globe Democrat a story Of how he
| once utilized Hiudoo superstition to have his
ship worked He was in. command of an India.
man, and the majority Of the crew were Hin
| docs. As long as the weather was warm they
cheerfutly did their work, but when a cold storm
| came up they positively seemed to shriveL and
| within short time betook themselves to the
| hold, from which they could not be driven by
threats or persuasions The captain was at his
| wits end but suddenly bright thought struck
him. He remembered the Hindoo horror of the
| pig, contact with which means loss of caste
| There happened to be wel-fed porker on
| board, which he took from its pen, tied a rope
to its leg and lowered it into the strikers QUAR-
| tiers. I he effect was electrical. With a wild
yeld every man rushed to the deck to avoid
| contact with the unclean animal, and there was
| no further difficulty in getting them to work in
| the coolest wealth r.
| The CENSUS OFFICE has issued bulletin upon
| the subject of the distribution of population in
| accordance with mean relative humidity of the
| atmosphere. The reason for publishing these
| statistics IS because of climatic Influences ON
diseases. 1t shows that nearly all the popula-
| ton of the United States breathe an atmos-
phere containing 65 to Is per cent Of its full
| capacity OF moisture; that 49, the atmosphere is
from two-thirds to three-to urths saturated In
1890 81. 036, coo out Of 69622 $50 were found ia
this region; in 1880 6,5590OO out of So 1875 7S3
| and in 1870 36,273. 900 out of SS,55S ,S7l. The
| number OF Inhabitants living in drer atmos-
| phere was at each census comparatively tri-
| fling, numbering in 1870 10 than half a million
and in 1890 less than 100000 In the moister
| atmosphere were found larSer numbers scat
| tered along the gulf coast and the shores of
| Washington and Oregon. The most rapid
| increase, says the bulletin, has been found at
| the top and bottom OF the scale. and particu-
| larry in the more arid region. where the ponnle
| ton has nearly doubled during each of the last
two periods
ut is a fact" said Canadian registered at
| New York hotel, that many young Canadians
come to the United States to try their fortunes:
| but it is also fact which can be proved nv
| figures, Lat over 1000 Americans are living
| and doing business in the Canadian Provinces
| Wherever you travel in Canada you find Ameri-
| cans, and in many of the big cities you can find
a small most OF them In the maritime lrov-
| inees there are thousands of them engaged in
| trade and in the fisheries Several Of the rich
| men of Canada are Americans, and several i'm
porant Canadian enterprises are under the
| management OF Americans The wages of
| Canadian workmen are not up to the American
| standard, but the cost of living in Canada is
less than in the United States or course the
| greater part OF the Americans settled in Canada
| went there from the New England states but
| YOU do not need to hunt far to find New
| 0rkers. Then out on che Pacific colst in
| British Columbia I'd along the southern from
| tier of the weste n provinces there are rlenty
of Americans, and everywhere their enterpris-
ling spirit has been of benefit to the Canadians 81
1--WE HAVE have before alluded to the wonders
full properties of the kola nut, says the Lon ION
Invention, as an antinebriator. We had not
then be ore u.s. however, the evidence given bv
| 7. Christv, the chief importer of this nut in a
| case in which payment for a consignment was
| disputed. He stated that If a man were wing
| insensibly drunk on the floor, or under the tsbIs
| and a nut were put into his mouth in fifteen
| minutes tn man would rise and one would NOT
| know lie had been drunk. He would not even
have headache. Even il within four or i've
days he went to take spirits again the effects of
the nut would still produce a nausea in the
throat and mouth. This was a we'll known
scientific fact. As the nuts are used incidentally
| it is an important matter to have u EN- moldY.
as they then change their character and become
fungus. They are then of no use" Just the
tn ng. this. for the Woman's Caristlau Temner-
ance U ion for the state of Maine, Of Kansas.
and other prohibition localities, A large inyoice
| of these nuts, iudictously used, will do more TO
raclaim drunkards and EXPLODE the whisky
l.