The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ANDREW JAcKsoN's carriage, made out Of
timber from the old war ship Ironsides, Daniel
| Websters carriage and one that belonged to
| Abraham Lincoln, will be shown at the world s
/ fair.
| MANY watches make B beats per second, 900
each minute. 1900 every hour. or $4,000 per
day. This it will be seen that half dozen
turns OF the key once a day. taking up but a
few seconds of time, stores up modicum of
power in the spring which is cut up into nearly
| 100000 Of beats. II we multiply the daily
beats by 1854. the plumber of days in year.
we find that the watch ticks i37, ?S8, 600 while
| the earth is making one annual trip around the
sun.
| IT TAKES long time for rivers to pass through
| maturity and reach old age, and during this
| time 1t is doubtful If the surface of the land
will remain in its position, says Goldwaithe's
Teographlcal Magazine Geological processes
| OF elevation and depression are almost con-
| stantly in operation. That lands sink and rise
by slow oscillations is abundantly proved on all
coasts, and particularly on our own. Since the
| glacial epoch there have been several such
| movements on the New England coast Every
elevation gives the river new work to do, and
| for the time rejuvinares them, or at least re-
yves them SO tnat old age seems to be not an
actual condition of rivers though it can
| be readily conceived, and must result if
| the land remains still long enough for its
attainment. No truly old river is known,
| though in years most North American rivers
are vastly old The hills of New England are
mountains worn to their very roots, and thou
sands Of feet of rock have been removed from
above them, yet the rivers of New England are
barely mature in Typographical form There
seems good evidence that these hills have been
the seat of old rivers, and that the region was
| once worn down TO almost a plain or pene
plain, and travereed by sluggish streams, with
littleSsedment flowing in broad low valleys An
elevation Of not very ancient date. geologically
speaking, revised these old streams which now
are starting on a new cycle.
IN the ninth and tenth centuries the greatest
| kings and princes of Europe all wore wooden
| shoes; not wooden boots like those worn by
| some of the Germans, Holanders and French
men OF to-day, but wooden soles fastened to
| the feet with leather thongs. In the latter half
OF the eleventh century the upper part of the
shoe was first made of leather: the wooden SOLE
however. was still in nse. Horned shoes" were
| first introduced in the reign of William Rufus
| 1890, by Robert the Da ndy" Roberts shoes
were long and pointed, the toes being turned up
and twisted like a rams horn On this account
history frequently refers to him as
| Robert the Horned" Robert was sort
OF Ward McAllister. and his fashion soon be
came the fad OF his set, who seemed to vie with
each other in the matter Of long -toed shoes.
Finally, In the reign of Richard IL. 1890, the
dand1es OF London wore shoes with toes from
| loot 70 IL inches In length with the point or
| horn" turned up and fastened to the garter by
a gold or silver chain. In the year 1863 parlia-
ment passed law which prohibited any one
/ from wearing shoes with toes more than 2
| inches longer than the foot" This act must
have soon been anpulled. for in the records of
| 1893 we read of shoes more than twice the
length OF the foot, SO long, indeed, the priests
claimed, that they prevented the wearers from
| kneeling in devotions at Gods house"
| Nor LONG SINCE the people of AchIl, or Eagle
Island, lying off the coast OF Ireland, in County
Mayo, were accorded a privilege rare in the
annals of the human race-nothing less than
| the uncommon sight Of stranded devil fish &"
| Mhen first washed ashore at the entrance Of
! blacksod bay the villagers took 1t to be the
| carcass OF some gigantic and unknown species
| OF whale. After couple or three weeks, how
ever. when it had been tossed further inland by
terrific gale, the true character of the uncom-
| mon visitor was made known. To what species
| or the Gmmestrephes the monster belonged
| could not be ascertaned the creature being too
far gone in decay. The sucker and the horny
| rings had fallen off before it reached the strand
| the parrot-like beak peculiar to this animal
| being also missing. The animal, although
| visloly shrunken and distorted, measured
as follows; Length of tentacles, or long arms,
| 80 feet each; circumference of body, Go feet
circumference of teptaces near body, feet
| each. Only four other instances of the appear
ance or this strange monster in British waters
| nave been recorded 1t is often asked why
| such things are not preserved in museums
| easily accessible to curious sight-seer Do you
know that it would take glass vessel as large
| as the hull of the Great Eastern to show off
| such monster TO any degree of perfection
1 whatever? Curious tales are often told by
| mariners about this most gigantic of water
| ulOu6IerS. ltS enormous CentacIeS armed
| with formidable suckers. nearly as large as the
average washtub, besides hooks and spikes
each set with vicious-looking teeth. all pointing
inward Some naturalists believe that glimpses
| OF the devil-hsh's arms have given rise to the
| oftrepeated sea-serpent stories.
'TEN YEARS AGO young married lady. Mrs.
: Robins. from New Orleans, made quite visit
| at our house." says a writer In the St. Louis
| Globe Democrat. She brought with her a
| parrot named Pedro, and it a sight the way
that parrot made himself at home Our chill
| oren were all at home then-the youngest s
years OLD and the Oldest Is. Three OF them are
| married now and one ls dead. 1t was poor
| little (1uita that the parrot took such a fancy
| for on that visit, and before the first dav was
out he was calling: 'Quitsl O., Quta' till you
| couldn't have told him from one of the
| family. He began calling me papa right
| away in the most affectionate manner.
and he had funny way of going down
stairs, holding on with his beak at every stem
and letting himself down, shouting at every
| breath %, Kezah, Keziahl Don't you hear
Pedro wants his dinner' Keziah was our servant
came again and brought Pedro. He was taken
upstairs to the hall, and then, at Mrs Robins
request uncovered the cage myself. wasn't
expecting anything of the kind, and tell you
| stretched his head up, turned it to one side
| looked at me critically minute. and ex-
claimed; 'Howdy papar Mrs. Robins has
that parrot remembered mel | felt so
curious to know what he would do that
turned him out and followed him. He made
straight for the chlldren's old room, and when
| opened 1t he went in and walked all about evil
| IDENTIFY looking for something. l thought I
knew what was coming, and pretty soon it
| came Quitar he called, where is OuitaY
| Maybe you think that didn't break my heart
| almost! He is there yet, and he calls her every
day. But the way he tumbles down the stair
| case, calling for Kezjah That would make Won
| laugh He doesn't take kindly to our servant
| girl and evidently considers her an nterloper.