The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

= hENGh Fh1slIlAN has tEF6Lt1 ELEVEN pa
tiens with injectons OF the gray substance OF
the brain Of the sheep. and concludes that such
/ injections constitute nerve tonic OF no mean
/ value.
! NEW YORK lady has weakness for murder
ers. She spends all her pocket money on bou-
/ quets, which she carries TO the cells Of the
condemned and presents them TO the occu-
pants.
! IN ICELAND men and women are in every
respect political equals. The nation, which
numbers about 20. 900 people, is governed by
representatives elected by men and women TO
gether.
IT IS proposed to introduce q new species of
vermin into this country The people of Cali
fornia ara plagued with gophers, aud they pro-
pose TO bring the wongoore TO war on the
gopher.
Few FAMILIES can show q record like that Of
the Gross family Of Richmond, Ind. There are
six brothers and five sisters Of the family and
there has not been a death among them for
| fifty years
THERE are nearly 100000 miles OF railway in
the United States. And yet the time is easily
within the memory OF middle-aged men when
the total railway mileage of the country was
less than "a, 00) miles.
The Oldest hotel in Switzerland, and probably
the Oldest in the world is the Hotel OF tbs Three
Kings at Basel. Among its guests in 1925 were
: INC Emperor conrad ii. ana MS son Henry III
and Rudolph, the last King of Burgundy.
The photographic bureau at Washington for
two years has been trying to learn something
of the characteristics OF the Atlantic ocean as
q great moving body Of water by bottles Asa
result the whole Atlantic is shown to be slowly
circulating round and round, like an enormous
pool.
A SMALL STATION on the Old Colony road in
Massachusetts, bears the queer name OF Ken
I
summer residents born 10 the place are named
respectively kenilvorth, Bertha and Mary and
toe first syllable OF each name was taken TO
form the name Of the station.
IL MAINE a certain kind of beer, said TO be non.
intoxicating, is called "Uno," because would
be beer drinkers in that state are in the habit of
asklng Tor a glass OF you know" II Is said
that the stuff is genuine lager beer until the
seller is arrested for selling IL, and then BY
some mysterious process, it becomes "Uno.''
ANINeENIoUs lock has been invented by which
doors, ETC., may be locked and unlocked from a
distance electrically. 1t is especially applicable
for doors in private and business houses and or
ices where absolute privacy is needed or de-
sired. The door is operated by simply turning
a switch. Thus the occupant of a room NAV
lnstantaneously admit person and as instan-
taneousy lock the door on his eRreSs without
leaving his chair, the switch can be placed
close TO his hand.
The Erythrina indca, beautiful flower of
the basil family, which grows wild in India, is
supposed TO be under curse and although the
bloom is perfection itself, both in odor and In
color, no true Hindoo would touch it for all the
world. They tell you that originally grew In
the Garden of India, in the center OF heaven
where 1t was hourly worshiped by all the deni-
1ens OF that blessed abode. Krishna stole it
ana brought 1t TO earth, but all who worshiped
at its shrine after that event died before thew
could leave the spot. On this account indica is
summed as II 1t were a poisonous serpent.
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SAYS well-known architect 10 the Philsdel-
phia Press; The days OF towering steeples on
| churches and public buildings will soon be
| dropped and well they should be For years
| tai steepe on n church was only a mark of
| competition to enable the next congregation, if
| possible to erect their steeple q peg or TWO
| higher. They are very expensive things at best.
and in few years become very dangerous and
are always targets for the highest winds and
| the lightning stroke. Many serious accidents
/ have occurred in their repairing, and q first
| class sky high ornamented steeple costs often
as much as one-third of the whole building.
| How they originated Is matter Of some doubt,
but the general belief Is that il the earliest days
both in this country and foreign lands, the
| church steeple was the lookout tower to watch
! the enemies OF the st,ler5 for miles around"
| ONE of the most peculiar creatures known TO
| the tuients Of oddities in natural history is
| the ornithorhynchus Of Australia, that Land
| of Inverted Orders" 1t lays eggs Ike a bird,
| SuckleS its young like other mammals. ana in
| general appearance aud habits resembles the
| beaver OF this country and Europe One
variety of the ornithorhynchus is covered with
| hair has webbed feet and a bill like a duck.
Another and larger specie has long hooked
oil like a curlew, but IN ali other respects Tex
| cept its egg-layng habts) is a perfect porcu-
pine quills and all The first specimens of
/ this curious creature sent to the United States
! were consigned to the American Museum Of
| Natural History, New York, in 1884. A year
| later Prof. H. A. Ward, the great Rochester IN.
" naturalist, secured thirty fine specimens Of
| little orniLhorhynchi, which, he says, "are the
most paradoxical products of a parsdoxical
| country"
| In the year 1900 preacher by the name of
William Darlington threw himself from the
| parapst of the Church of st. Sspulchre, in
London. He left a note which gave as his
! reason for committing the act "that he wanted
to to the theater that night, but did not have
| the money wherewIth TO purchase the ticket of
| ADMISSION. mere are only eight cases OF
suicide mentioned in the Bible-A bimelech,
| Samson, Saul and his armor-bearer, Ahitho-
phel Zimri, Razs and Judas Iscariot. July IS,
| 1875, Jean LafarRue, his wife and
| daughter 10 years OF age, committed sui
eide by hanging themselves in the dining
| room, all because a neiyhboE had accused them
Of stealing vegetables from her. garden. This
! at Ose France. In 1888 ZaHe Sivar OF Hause-
| Loire, France, after quarreing with her hus-
band over some small matter heated her out
| door bake-oven red hot, creDt into it aud Gre
| mated herself During the same year, 1888, W.
| T. Day of Dubuque, Ia, took a Ratchet went to
| the hog pen and deliberately cut off portions OF
| his body and fed them to the hogs. He was so
shockingly mutilated that he died soon after
being discovered.
| In an old tower in Nuremburg there is a room
set apart especially for the preservation of the