The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AEocoMoTrvE ENGINEER said few days age
to reporter for the st. Louis Globe Democrat
I'VE once had an experience on the old Kansas
Pacific that taught us what quicksandS are
An engine ran off low bridge near River Bend
about 100 mil east of Denver and fell into q
small creek nj ed with quicksauds. wrecking
train came up in few hours but the eng1 {
had entirely disapp AIRED. The railroad officials
ordered It to be raised, but it could not be
found: We sounded with rods to depth Of
over 90 feet, but not a trace did we discover OF
the engine which had vanished as completely
as II 1t had never existed. Four years after
wards it was found al depth of over 100 feet
and was raised. We tsen ascertained that
there was scarcely a bit Of rust on it. the
breaks wer~ few, and after little tinkering il
was put upon the road again. The sand had
Kept out the air and prevented the iron from
oxidIzing"
NEW SECT has been discovered in che vii
lage of Russany in the government Of Yoro
| nezh. lis adherents call themselves Atetooys:
among their nei2hbors they are known as
Skoptcys. khlists, or Perevertis es. Among
themselves the members OF the sect live as com.
munlstS and free lovers OF the broadcast descrip
claimed with equal rights by the other But
they are strictly honest with their neighbors,
and Will not approach with any improperly a
woman who does not belong to their sect. They
are very thrifty, and indulge in good eating
and drinking They keep their persons and
their houses scrupulously clean. Holding their
LuSOIAIHS al Jl6 house OF IN the cUurGYa ru OF
any of their members, they place sentinels all
around to guard against tAe intrusion of strang-
ers TO 70 give them notice when the intruders
cannot be kept away, as in the case of govern.
nent or police authorities.
On Jan. 90 a curious case came up before the
court of appeals in Kazan Russia. The son oil
Russian townsman (Miestshaninl boy of
years, playing with boys In the street., made the
sign of the cross over a Tartar boy a NOLAN.
medan. The Tartar boy ran away crying over
the sacrilege and complained to his father. The
Iather Immediately went out, caught the chris
tan boy and gave him sound thrashing. The
Russian father brought suit against him. The
judge sentenced him to Imprisonment. He
TOOK an appeal, but the sentence of the
sentence OF the Judge was sustained. ''Since
some of our confreres," says a st. Petersburg
daily, insist upon stirring up the religious and
racial preiudices of the people IL ia no wonder
that such cases will occur. The most objection
able sentiments of parents must be Transmitted
| to their children, and the innocent play of the
latter must become source of serious trouble
| between persons OF the various races and the
| various religious professions of our vast EN-
pre-
A FEW DAYS AGO a gentleman we'll known in
political circles in New York and in Washing
ton called at the Office of president of one Of
| the trunk line railroads in New York and asked
for pass to Chicago and return. There was
naturally some hesitation about issuing the pass
before information was received as to why the
L
| formed the president that he had at one time
represented the - district in congress and
he thought that WAS valid reason why pas
should be given him The pass was issued. but
the CLERK making IL out, whether purposely or
not is unknown, wrote in the name of another
| gentleman who had also been IN congress- and
was much better known to fame than the apDli-
cant. IL was not long till train time, and feel
| ing that everything was all right, the seeker
\ after free transit took passage. The conductor
knew the person whose name was on the pass
he knew the passenger was not that person,
| There was war of words. The conductor tore
up the pass and made the passenger pay full
| fare He says he viii never ride on a pass again
The way tea ia carried IN Tibet Is thus de.
scribed by Lord Rockhill in March Century
The packages Of tea. each about four feet
long, six inches broad, and three to four thick
| and weighing from seventeen to twenty three
pounds are placed horizontally one above the
other, the upper ones projecting so as to come
| together by coir ropes and little bamboo
| stakes; straps, also of plated coir ropes pass
over the porter's shoulders while a little string
fastened to the tep of the load helps to balance
the huge structure, which It requires more
knack than strength to carry. for it's weight
must bear on all the back and only slightly on
| the shoulders In their hands the porters carry
short crutch which they place under the load
| when they wish TO rest without removing il
from their backs. The average load is nine
packages, or from 1870 TO. 200 pounds,
ing seventeen packages. and one had
| twenty-one. man, was teld, had few
| years ago brought an iron safe weighing 400
| pounds of Mgr Biet from Ya-chou to Ia
| cnienlu in twenty-five days. Old or decrepit
| people commonly travel along this road borne
| on tue backs of porters. Many of the women
porters carried seven packages of tea, nearly
| 200 pounds, and children of 8 and 6 trudged
| along behind their parents with one or two. The
price paid for the work is 20 tae cents (about rs
| cents) package, and it takes about seventeen
6ax To mo Ia fbsak Grin Va oh O.
! my knowledge goes there are no porters in any
| other part Of the world who carry such weights
| as these Yachou tea-coolies; and strange as 1t
| may appear, they are not very muscular, and
over half of them ara confined opium smokers.
SENATOR HENDERSON received present just
before the adjournment of congress that he
| shows with considerable pride and amusement.
1t is only paper hat, but it cost more probably,
than any neadgear ever before made. 1t is in
the shape of an ordinary silk hat and looks not
unliEe the white hats worn In summer by the
average wel-dressed man about town. The
Nebraska senator, however does not expect to
wear his new hat long at any time nor in any
| public place. 1t was made by one of his old
soldiers, big, jolly German named Martin
who stubs around Washington on peg leg and
makes liv ng by manufacturing greenback
statuary-the little pug dogs, slippers. Wash
ington monuments. and bustS of various great
men that tourists buy so readily when they
| visit the capital. The hat for Senator Mander.
| son weighs twenty oulces-rather too much
for comfort on a hot summer day. The
! big cowboy hats that Stetson makes
In New York and ships to Montana
and Colorado to sell to the DUDES of
| the range are sold by weight. Sometimes they
| bring as much as So an ounce, and specially
large hats have been known to tip the beam at
sixteen and eighteen ounces. These were par
ticularly finer ones coveted by the finest dressed
COW punchers. Senator Manderson's hat beats
those all out OF sight. While cowboy can in
vest sometimes $50 or S35 in a huge broad brim-
med hat, the Nebraska senator boasts that his
thatch protector cost over 81, 000 The average
value OF the greenbacks and bonds cancsIed
and destroyed in the macerating machines at the
treasury department is estimated to be $3j4 per
ounce. So that the twenty ounces of green back
pulp in the senator hat at one time was worth
to Uncle Sam sum sufficient to buy hats for the
whole Ohio brigade that Gen. Henderson com
manded when he was a boy of &c. and in the
S out legs under him, marched 10 defend his