The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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City. She stands feet inches In her stock
| ings.
THE Egyptians and the Phnnicans are joint
| claimants for the honor of the invention of
| water craft.
NINETEEN BABIES IN New York were named
after Columbus during the week following the
celebration.
The famous Bank of Venice began business
IN 1852, lasted 800 years, and might have ex-
listed to this day but for the invasion of Ma
poleon.
PoRPHYRY powders which greatly resemble
watermelons in size, shape and color, are to be
found in the Cascade mountains east Of Rose
| burg, Ore.
| EUROPEAN SCIENTIST has been listening TO
the voice of the house fly through microphone.
He says it sounds very much like the neighing
| Of a horse.
THE smallest objects that would be discern
ible on Mars must be as lsrgs as London, de-
| clares Sir Robert Ball. It would not be possible
TO see point so small as would either Liverpool
| or Manchester be if they we're on that planet.
NEW JERSEY comes to the front With a straw
berry plant which bears fruit all the year, and
Arkansas with a 3-year-old negro boy who
Killed rattlesnake Just twice old as himself,
| inside of which were found a water moccasiu
over four feet long, q black snake of the same
| length, two dead Uoads and one live one, be-
sides large bullfrog.
QUEER business transaction has just come
| to light in Paris. A man was arrested for buy
| ing blind man. 1t seems that the first owner
| of the blind man secured him from an asylum,
and used to lead him along in front of the cafes
| TO beg. The venture was not a financial sue.
cess, so he sold his blind man to another specu-
| lator, who was Disguised. The unfortu-
nate man was deserted on the streets by his
purchaser, and in that way the police became
acquainted with the peculiar transaction.
'THAvE been in the safe and lock business
for twenty years, and l am free to confess that
the burglars haze the best Of US" said Thomas
| f. Gray to a t. Louis Globe Democrat writer.
| Burglar poof safe is a misnomer There is
not safe made that an expert cracksman can
! Others that's all. Locks of any kind are small
| bar to burglar who understands his business.
| Ihey suffice to keep out clumsy novices and
footpads but it requires a Waterman to cope
| with your thoroughbred burglar.
A QUEER STORY is told by the Cincinnati Times
Star as to the failure of Clermont county
merchant few weeks ago. While in that city
he was attracted by the watches displayed in a
| pawnshop window and stepped inside to exam
| inc them Two or three persons from his vii
| Iage happened to pass and saw him. They
| went home and gossiped about the matter A
| report was spread that he was hard up and had
been seen pawning his watch in Cincinnati The
report injured his business and his creditors also
| began to press him. In short time he was
compelled to make an assignment.
In the insane ward at Blockley aims house,
says the Philadelphia Record. is a man who
once a prominent figure in Philadelphia
! councils, is now stark. staring mad
| Although man weighing in the neiShb orhood
| of $50 pounds, he is afflicted with the insane
| idea that he is baby. One of his favorite
pastimes is to lie on the )or kick his heels in
| the air and laugh or cry the mood strikes
| hin. one day last week, while INDUCING in his
| favorite occupation. guard. accompanied by
several visitors, passed through the wari. m
| medately the Quondam councilman began to
raise an awful cutlery. The visitors stopped.
| What's the matterf" one OF them asked in
alarm. ''Boo-hool" cried the $50 pound infant.
| You ought TO be ashamed OF yourselves All
you big men standing there and letting little
baby like me lie on the floor. Boo-hoon'
The miners of Colorado who have butt cabins
on the mountain sides know what pest the
small, brown wood spider proves to be, says the
! Denver Great DiVide. They throw their webs
over our best clothes, cooking utensils in every
corner where they can get them in your eyes
and mouth. Not only that, but they will drop
into the frying pan, water bucket, or upon the
table where you are eating. But nature fur
nished remedy and a friend when she gave the
spider hawk. The name is given by miners to a
small steel-blue wasp, almost three-fourths Of
an inch in length. He can easily be recognized
by the quick. nervous strokes OF his wings
They build nest up among the rafters OF your
cabin of wood pulp or furze from the outer
coating OF old dead trees. Then they are ready
your hawk climb uD the rafters with a spider
sometimes carrying one four or five times its
own weight Sometimes they get spider so
heavy that they will fall many times before thew
succeed IN reaching their nest They never
| give up, but keep on trying until they succeed
When the spider is safely placed in the nest the
| female hawk deposits her egg in the dead body.
The hawks live only in pairs, as far as my OBJ
servation goes They become rather tame and
seem to be obliged to you for building the spi .
| der trap for their benefit.
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the bottom remained there until she was en-
| tombed in the shifting mud or sand, or else had
| undergone process OF gradual dissolution
! fastened by the ebb and flow of tides and cur
| rents says Chambers Journal. Wreck raising
| was then science practically undrea med Of
| Some crude operations carried on, it is
| true, at several sunken wrecks. but the object
aimed at was the recovery of treasures and
not the raising to the service of the vessel CON
| tanning it. The development of mechanical
| science and steam power has placed in the hands
| OF modern wreck raisers machinery that has
| enabled them TO lift many fine ship from her
| ooZy bed and restore her to her proper place
among the floating argosies of commerce
| Most Of the vessels that are raised after suffer-
ing submergence beneath the waves are the
| victims of collisions and these as might nat.
| urally be expected, are most frequent in the
crowded waters of our own harbors and their
| own approaches. The chief economic purpose
| served by wreck-raising is the Keeping clear Of
| impediments the fairways leading to the large
| seaports Sensational wreck raising attracts
| JD6 htUenUlOn Oh tue WnOl6 civilized world. g
| pecialy when the catastrophe which resulted
| in the sinking Of the vessel was attended by an
| awful life loss or other sensational features.
In archaic times the moon was regarded as a
male god says Pedrson's Weekly. Primitive
man, says a well-known writer saw the moon
| as most conspicuous object whose spots, at
| periods had the semblance of a mans face,
| waxing and waning increased their wonder
whose coming and going among the still and
| solemn night added TO the mystery until from
being viewed as a man, It was seated, especially
| when apparently angry, in mist an eclipse,
/ and so reverenced and wor3hiped as the heaven
man - the monthly god" We learn
from Max Muller that moon" is a
very old word, and In Anglo-Saxon, where it
was used as a masculine and not feminine, wa
| mona" In all the Teutonic languages the sun
| was feminine, and it is only through the influ-
ence OF classical models that in England moon
has been changed into feminine and the sun
into masculine. Even in comparatively recent
| times the Germans we're fond of calling the sun
| and moon Frau Some" and Herr Moud "
| The practice prevailed in ancient Egypt ''An-
other reason" says Sir Gardner Wilkinson.
that the moon in Egyptian mythology
could not be related to Bubastis is that it is a
male and not female deity, personifed in the
! god Thoth. This was the case in some religions
! Of the west. The Romans recognized the god
/ Iunas. and the Germans. like the Araha con.