The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

AN OSTRICH RAISER of Honolulu will exhibit
bird at the worlds fair that is a wonder and q
terror. He is feet inches high. weighs AGO
pounds, and can kick twenty-four times-more
or less-durinR the snap of kodak He is
named Jumbo.
The moose in Penobscot county, Maine are
getting so accustomed to the Canadian Pacific
trains which now penetrate that wilderness
tnat they gaze calmly on the locomotive as IL
passes and are not disturbed by ia whissIin1
good shot from the car windows is sometimes
offered.
DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, notwithstanding
It's suggestive name, is the abode OF more curl
GUS and wonderful specimens of animal creation
IMAM any place OF its size within the limits OF
the United states. The Oldest Of these crea-
lures, perhaps, is species OF rodent called the
kangaroo rat"
THE LAW OF Denmark now gives TO every Dan
lsh subject, man or woman the right to q PEN
sion at so years Of age, except IN cases Of con-
VIcted criminals, of those who have fraudu-
ledtIy made over their property to relatives,
and Of those who have brought themselves 10
distress by extravaganza.
A2yEARs' STUDY at Gizeh has convinced Mr..
Flinders Petrie that the Egyptian stoneworkers
OF a. 600 years ago had q surprising acquaintance
with what had been considered modern tools.
Among the many tools used by the pyramid
builders were both solid and tubular drills and
straight and circular saws.
MRS. MARY GREEN of Scarboro Me-, who is 81
years old, has during the last six months spun
thirty six skeins of yarn, knitted five pairs of
stockings, picked three bushels of blueberries
and tended large tfocks Of chickens aud ducks.
beSldes doing much general homework She
mas SIX grandchildren and eight great-Rrand-
children.
A SAN Francisco FIRM is about to attempt the
revival Of whaling in the Antarctic ocean,
which has not been carried on for as many as
twenty five years. quarter of a century ago
the catches OF sperm and right whales used TO
be excellent there, and many whalers are now
OF the opinion that the southern seas will again
afford profitable field for operations.
SOME English newspaper women who wanted
to ind out whether the people who sing in the
London streets make good living or not, put
on disguise aud, taking guitar went out to
try it for themselves. After singing and pIav-
ing for an hour and a half they had collected "a
| 4hd. And they were only amateurs at that
ana win no previous experience at pleasing
the people.
| A CLEoPATRA's NEEDLE OF red granite With a
pedestal of black porphyry, which has been
lying in the garden of the Austrian consulate
at Alexandria for nearly sixty years. is about
| to be- conveyed to Trieste, wher. il will he
! erected on one of the quays. This needle is
nearly seventy feet IN length, and it il SAID TO
be finer oDelisk than either the London or
IA is ones.
AFTER lapse of nearly thirty years, the
photographs Of more than 00c union soldiers
have been exhumed from the dead letter de-
partment of the United States postoface at
Washington. These are enly small portion
doubtless, Of the pictures that were lest In thu
mails duriOR the war, while on Their way to
friends at home. They represent every state
and every branch of the regular and volunteer
land forces as Well as every rank from general
TO private.
DR. S. WEIR MITCHELL, the Philadelphia spe-
| cialist in nerve disease, has invented q cigar
containing no nicotine. The Vuelta Abaio to
bacco used for the hllsr and the Connecticut
wrapper are subject TO what is termed the
double resWeatlBg process The materials
are placed in a steam room for feur or five
| hours, after which they are taken out and sub.
lectsd TO natural drying for a day or two
This operation is thrice repeated after which
| the tobacco 10 considered practically free of
| nicotine.
A GENTLEMAN living near Boston, according
to the Commercial Bulletin of that city is said
to have had q much priced horse, which he had
named Ajax. IL so happened that during the
season he came acress and purchased an excel.
| lent mate for his favorite. The question then
came up Of a name for the new ACQUISITION and
the family adjourned to the stable to inspect
| him, when it was found that the hostIer had
| solved the difficulty, Over the family fayorits'a
stall was painted his name, Ajax, and over thar
| OF the new arrival the stable attendant had
chalked. "B jazz"
For SOME TINE PAST there has been a project
HOuQtAinR
and the scheme has at length become an ar
| complished fact, one of the fountains being now
4 in working order The medium employed ia an
automatic machine, and the price for the hot
/ water is one sou for eight ltres The water is
| conducted directly TO the machine by means of
| subterranean pipes and is heated by gas, which
IL turned on by sou dropped into the slot.
! 1t runs through a coiled-up copper tube
ever 3OO rect long and 10 heated during its
progress In the course OF a short time mora
fountains will be placed at the various spots in
the city. 1t ia intended, moreover to establish
one Of the machines near each of the important
cab-stands, with the object Of facilitating the
heating OF cabs in the winter. A good deal
will depend upon the use made of the apparatus
by the general public. The expectation is that
the poorer class, to whom fuel is a Injury and
whose kitchen arrangements apt to be ex
tremely primitive, will avail themselves of the
offered opportunity in very large numbers. the
price beng so low.
THE consumption OF alcoholic LIQUORS In
France, and especially of the Rbominable alb
sinthe. continues to increase at great rate
Recent statistics show tremendous growth in
the number Of win or drink shops within the
last fifteen or twenty years, and naturally the
consumption of alcohol has also risen With
regard to absinthe, it is remarked that gen
Grafton ago this pernicious beverage was known
but 10 comparatively few whereas in the
present day the taste for 1t is so common
that 9l.5 hectelitres are consumed yearly.
And this is not the worst Of the matter Tia
nature Of the liquids supplied 70 the French
public, and more especially to the working
class, is not nearly so wholesome as IL was a
few years ago, when the alcohol consumed was
made from wine. Now it is largely distilled
from cereals and fruits, of which the spirit il
far more injurious The Debdts treating the
question, suggests that the number of drink
shops ought TO be restricted. Ii adds however
that no such reform can be thought Of or hoped
for. since the 440 900 wine-shop keepers in
France are valuable electoral agents. and no
parliamentary party would venture to propose
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