The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the other night performed the feat Of swim.
ming To the mainland with his clothes on tc
! dodge the red constable.
| ACCORDING TO the PedGqo0ic1I Seminary. in
Russia cervia, Roumania and Bulgaria over SO
| per cent. of the population are interate Spain
SO per cent, Italy As per cent, Hungary 43 per
cent, Austria 80 per cent. Ireland 81 per cent
| France and Belgium IS per cent, Holland Il
| per cent. United States (whttel g per cent,
| Scotland per cent, Switzerland 30 per cent,
| some parts of Germany per cent. In Sweden
| Denmark, Bavaria, Wurtemberg and Saxony
! only rarely person cannot write.
AN FNeLIsHMAN wants to sell a portrait Of
| Columbus TO tine worlds exposition for SO, 900
| The portrait, it is claimed, was painted by
| Chevalier Antonio Moro about 1870 from a min
| iature of Columbus painted from life especially
for Queen Isabella, and which is still in the DOS
| session of the royal family Of Spain. The frame
| of the picture was made when the portrait wa,
painted, and is an intricate mass of carving and
| gliding, showing Columbus coat of arms and
| the implements of maritime.warfare of that
| time.
LIVERPOOL is greatly excited over the report
| of the register general, which announces that
her population has decreased BIZ nearly IS .OOC
| IN the last ten years, and that she is the only
! great city IN England showing no growth. The
result of the census is a complete surprise 1.-THE
| trade of the port has been increasing steadily
| shopkeepers and middlemen have prospered
and the working classes have been well en-
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crease in the voters lists of the different wards
| On all sides arises protest that q great mis-
| take of some kind has been made and the
| register general is a target for uncompliment-
| airy remarks"
A PRACTICAL JOKER in Cincinnati got some of
Ibis own medicine, to use common phrase.
He put rope about his neck and passed down
the street in review Of friends to whom. in an.
| swer TO question, he said that he intended
| committing suicide, They replied IN chorus
! that they could save him the trouble, and,
| quickly selzlng the dangling end of the line,
they threw it over an awning frame, and before
| he mad chance to slip the moose from his neck
pulled on the rope lifting the joker off his feet
several times. He took it good naturally, and
| said that 1t taught good lesson, and that in
| future he would abstain from playing prac-
| teal jokes OF taking any hand whatever in
| them.
EX-SENATOR 3. K. BRUCE of Mississippi is
register of deeds at Washington, but has an ex-
tensive cotton plantation in Mississippi. He
has lust returned from visit to it and a trip
through the Gulf States, where he came to
these conclusions about the cotton crop: The
production of cotton will be the largest this
year that we have ever known, and next year s
crop will exceed this years Prices are the
lowest that have ever been known but
will 20 still lower. In all the years that | have
known the south and studied the cotton grow
ing business have never known such prospective
crops. Every planter OF cotton with whom |
talked stated the situation to me as have given
1t to you. In Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas
and South Carolina the product will be enor-
NOUS and the sea slaudscotton will beat every
thing yet grown. The planters are all talking
about reducing production tocontrol prices, but
every one of them wants his neighbor to restrict
his acreage while ne himself goes on increasing
his own planting "
An INDIAN STORY, that dates back to the time
when the first locomotive entered Northwest
ern Nebraska. is revived by a Chicago ex-
change of the Wis To tbat oit1
of j. G. Morehouse, the champion Indian
killer, who is the hero of the story. He is a
railroad man. and was in charge of a construc-
ton gang in Nebraska when the engine ap-
peared. The district was invaded by Indians
and they were worked up to high pitch of ex-
citement at the sight of the Iron horse and
their antics SO frightened the train hands,
who feared they would be scalped, that
some of them deserted and ran away. More
house saw something must be done, and at once
SO he mounted the engine and pulled the whistle
cord. Such shrieks had never before been
heard by the redskins, and they had the desired
effect. TerroriZed, the Indians ran pell nell in
every direction, and the next morning, so the
story goes 100 of them we're found dead fifteen
miles from the place where the engine stood.
They had run themselves to DEATH Hence the
! bestowal on Morehouse OF the title of cham
plon Indian killer"
SALEH, Stanley's attendant, said it was
curious to watch StanIeys white officers when
| introduced to ohiquanga, a kind of pudding
made OF boiled manioc root. Neither the taste
nor Odor of this food is atall inviting at first:
but necessity brings all whites as we'll as blacks
to regard it as a bread of life before many
months of residence in Central Africa. Some
, times when deprived of it for many days l have
| often hailed piece of toasted chiQuanga as q
| real luxury, and have been rather disguised
with newly arrived whites whose upturned
noses condemned my barbaric taste. When
Stanleys white officers had finished
their small stock of timed provisions and rice,
they were absolutely compelled to fall back on
the maniOc dishes; but the sourness of taste of
this African pudding is a serious barrier to the
enjoyment OF it, and some stubborn persistence
is required before the white man halls chiquanga
as dehcacT; but, like other white travellers
these officers began to like il, and when they
passed beyond the district where it grew and
were forced to adhere to roast plantaln diet
they regretted bitterly that they had no manioc
HAVE you ever washed filthy lucre? never
heard of such thing until recently says a
writer i'll the Sun, when happened to be max
Ing social call at the home of a we'll known
physician in this city. Pausing a moment at
the open door of his office to give him friendly
greeting noticed row of ''greenbacks" hang
ing on a string that was stretched from the
washstand to the chimney piece: Il am just
washing some money" he said. Have you
ever seen it done? do it because get money
from ali kinds of people, and it is often SO
| horribly dirty that know it
is breeding-pace for microbes
| so wash every griny and ragged bill that
comes TO me. Give me one of yours aud will
show you With some misgivings l handed
him a ten-dollar bill, which was excessively
dlapidated The physician lathered it's face
, generously with soap, and began vigorous
| rubbing. Then rinsing it off in cold water he
| squeezed it dry, and, smoothing it out again
| hung 1t IN the warm sunshine. To my surprise
| IN rev moments 1t stiffened itself up and be-
| came clean, crisp new, selfrespecting
! product Of the United States treasury instead
| OF the limp disgrace that had been carving
about in my pocketbook If you don't believe
| mat this is true, try it.
| THERE are number Of animal fibers other
| than that of the silk worm which have been
| tested at various times In weaving. Practical
| attempts have been made by different persons
| to weave the web of the spider, but the spider =
| wen Is so much finer than the web of the silk
| worm that such efforts have attained no mer-
camille lmE ortance The web OF the spider
| pears the same proportion to the web of a silk
| worm In strength that the latter does to q
| broomstlck. The spider makes thousands of
| strands. lnspite OF all the impediments in the
| way OF weaving it, many yards of SPIDERS silk
| nave been woven, and an entire dress of this
! SIX was presented to Queen Victoria number
| OF years ago, when experiments were conducted
| on a somewhat extensive scale in
| weaving the web of one of the tropical
| nary spiders of the temperate zone, But the
! experiment was finally abandoned. Another
| creature which has furnished exhibits of silk to
| curiosity hunters is pima, " that weird silk
| weaver OF the ocean, which weaves byssus OF
! sllken threads by which it attaches its shell to
| the rocks. This in a huge mollusk which is
| IGund In the Mediterranean. The silk OF the
| pima cannot become of practical Importance
| because OF the difficulty of propaRating the
creature or OF obtaining sufficient material
| from 1t Another difficulty in the way OF the
practical use of this silk of the sea lies in color
ing H. Like most things of the ocean, It reSlst6