The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-23
NATURAL FRUIT FLANoRS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| WHETHER Sir Edwin Arnold has not given US
a Just idea of the Japanese people, or whether
| the American atmosphere has demorazei the
! guileless sons who have come from the
| FlOwery Kingdom to the western coast it nsy
| be too soon to determine, But the experience of
| a vine grower OF Eapa, Cal, who employed
nearly two score Japanese in his orchard has
| brought with it the conviction that in industry,
| sobrlety and discipline they cannot compete
| with the Chinese. This man says that his work
men got drunk en- masse one day and refused to
! work. He discharged them and hired substi-
| tutes in their places, but they returned armed
| with knives and took possession OF his house.
! From this intrenched position they we're only
ousted by body OF police.
ONE of the Berlin papers prints a delightful
story of the empress, on the last occasion when
she was in church at Berlin. a little girl, re-
markable for her delicate beauty, was seated
! III the neighbornood of the royal pew, when she
suddenly tainted She was carried out of the
| sacred edifice, and her majesty directed one OF
her LADIES' IN waiting to take her smelling bottle
| to the little sufferer. day or two ago a cham
berialn called to inquire after the little child in
| her maJestys name, and finding that the
| parents were poor, respectable and hardwork-
| ing folk, a sum of money was left for their I'M
mediate necessities. and an intimation that fur
ther notice would b. taken of them. Ii
| is further leanrel that one of the royal
| physicians has been instructed to take charge
or the little girl. who will be sent to school and
her expenses betrayed by the empress her
| self.
D. GARDNER TYLER, ESQ, of James River, Va,
writes as follows to the Philadelphia North
AmericGn: My attention has been called to a
msstatement made by your Washington CORE
| SpOndent in your edition of June "a which beg
| leave to correct 1t is not true as stated by
| your correspondent that my mother, Mrs. ex-
| President Tyler, died an inmate of the Louise
| home, nor was she at any time a recipient of
that noble charity. On the contrary, she re-
| sided for many years prior to her death at her
| old homestead, Sherwood Forest on James
river. Virginia, and died in Richmond, Va. July
10, 1889. Your correspondent IS also mistaken
in saying that there is small picture of Mrs.
| Tyler in the white house, taken when she was
Miss Gardner. A life-size portrait of Mrs. TYLER
taken after her marriage with the President
hangs ia one of the parlors, while the painting
or my father is by p. T. Healy, and is considered
fine work Of art"
RATHER an interesting contest is in progress
at the Santa Fe land office 1t is the old con-
flict between agricultural and mineral lands
judge Sloan on the witness stand said he
originally located the mine in 1889, and after
ward 1t was located in 1855. Attorney Seward
wanted to know If the jude rode his old roam
pany' when he first discovered the mine aud
was answered in the affirmative. Reference to
the old roam pony is of local interest because
of the magnetic influence" as frequently in
times past claimed by Judge Sloan for this
humble repre- sentative of the equine family
1t is related that this pony was a veritabe
or copper deposits; in fact. it is said that
whenever, In going along any street, road or
mountain path, he crossed ground beneath
which was pay ng mineral, his hair would i'm
mediately stand erect. and that his rider judge
Sloan, would receive a shock which warned
him of the presence of mineral wealth beneath
the ground, and that, it is said is the secret of
the judge numerous locations all over North
ern New Mexico
A CHINAMAN living in Australia, when anxious
to have wife of his own nation, sends letter
to an agent in Hong Kong, written in some such
terms as these: Il want wife. She must BE-
maiden under 20 years OF age, and must not
have left her fathers house She must also
never have read book, and her eyelashes must
be half an inch i'll length. Her teeth must lie as
sparkling as the pearls of Ceylon. Her breath
must be like unto the scents of the magnificent
odorous groves of Java, and her attire must be
from the silken weavers of ka-la Ching, which
are on the banks of the greatest river in
the world-the ever-tlowing Yang tSe- Kiang"
The price of Chinese woman, delivered in
sydney, is LBS, but two Chinese women onlY
cost Ej2 therefore, the Chinese import the
women in couples The importer never sees
his women before they arrive, and then he gen.
orally selects the best looking one. The other
IS shown around to a number of well-to-do
Chinese, after they have inspected her, she is
submitted to what may be called public auc-
ton. The writer happened to be present at one
OF these sales. A young girl aged about 10 was
offered, and, after some spirited bidding pur-
chased by wealthy Chinese hopkeeper. whose
place of business is one of the leading towns of
New south Wales, for &l2O The melancholy
aspect of the girl as she went away ia company
OF the man who purchased her was deplorable
in che extreme.
A KINGSTON LAWYER, after readind the item
published by The Freeman few days ago in
regard to snakes found in EImendorf street.
said Il have had an antipathy TO copper
heads since was boy and saw this kind of
snake at Maroletown, \. Y. 1t is a sneaking
mean snake. There was path the men used
near the house where lived, and the copper
heads would lie along the path in the sun and
strike their poisonous fangs at whoever came
near them. One man was bitten through the
Go ung, and his leg Swelled as big as keg and
became as blue as indigo. He narrowly escaped
WIN MS life. Notwithstanding the fact that
most of the poison was absorbed by the cloth
ing and did not reach the wound Each year
thereafter at the date when the man was bitten
MS leg would become spotted and swell and
break out just as though he had been bitten
again One OF the safeguards used by farm
on ground infested by these rep.
tiles is to bind twisted bands of hay
around their logs. The snakes lump I'D and
strike their tangs in the hay without reaching
the flesh. There is a legend of one chap in
NawarSIng, famous as a mower with a scythe,
TO the effect that he carried on his legs three
copperheads half way across a field while NOW
ing The snakes, in striking at tue man. became
fastened in the hay bands and dangled from
bis calves, to the terror of his fellow workers
who saw him. When informed of his danger
he said that was nothing. He was acquainted
WITH snakes. To prove it he bet gallon of
whisky he could show them a dozen copper
heads IN less than three minutes; The bet was
taken. he drew from his pocket whistle,
blew shrill blast and all over the field the
heads of copperheads could be seen above the
erass as they raised on their tails TO ascertain
the meaning of the unwonted sound. The bet
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