The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

$1,000 ~~-eHAANSS
for 900 years.
THE LIFE Of a locomotive crank pin, which "a
almost the first thing about an engine TO wear
out, is $1,000 miles, and the life Of sS-inch
| wheel is o. 733 miles.
AN AVERAGE Of 9.600, 600 kids are slaughtered
every year to furnish a single manufacturing
| town in France with skins These will make
l,2O,OOO dozens OF gloves.
A MAMMOTH CHEESE will be exhibited at the
worlds fair by Perth. Ont Il is to be ~ feet
high and feet in diameter, and will require for
| It's making the milk Of 600 COWS for three days"
THE silver wedding Of the King and Queen Of
Greece, which will occur on Oct. q, will be q
! quiet and transformations affair. The only reIa-
| tiVes Of royal rank new expected to attend are
| the czarowitz and Crown Prince of Denmark
PROBABLY the largest serpent of which actual
| measurements have been taken was an anaconda
| which DR. Gardner found dead and suspended
| to the fork of tree during his travels in Mex
| leo, According to DR.. Gardner it measured 81
| feet in length.
NEW YORK DENTIST says that the filing Of
teeth with gold has grown TO such proportions
that about 50, 600 900 OF gold is consumed in this
way every year, and that this consumption
should enter rto all calculations as to the
| supply Of the recious metal
| THE oFT-RAIsED QUESTION as to Queen Vic
toria's surname Is thus answered by recent
writer: she is of course, Guelph by ances-
trail lineage, which is traced by the genealogists
| from the Empress st. Cunegonda, consort to
| the Emperor st. Henry II, A. D. 1924. Both are
| canonized saints, and both were solemnIy
| crowned at Rome by Pope Benedict VIII But
all this relates merely to the pedigree Of Princess
| Alexandria Victoria prior to her marriage in
| 1910 to Prince Albert of Sake oburg -Gotha
| This prince was of the ancient house OF Saxony,
| whose family name is and has during more
| than four centuries been, Victim. Obviously.
| therefore, the Guelph princess became upon her
marriage Mrs. Victim"
THE migration OF birds is due to instinct, says
the Boston Herald. But this instinct may be
| easily overcome and suppressed. On the roof
| Of the city hall in Donauwoerth (Bavaria) a
| couple OF storks have a nest which they have
not left for three years. The first time they re-
manned because there was g young bird too
| weak to fly south. The parent birds were not
| willing TO leave their little one and stopped to
feed it. They liked the winter and have stayed
| in their nest ever since; having reared young
every year, all OF whom left when the cold sea-
| son came and the rest of the storks departed
| for the south. But the old couple remain and
| do not seem to have any worse health for being
exposed to the cold northerly winters on high
| house top.
CLEVER TRICK was played a short.:time ago
on board a steamboat plying between Calais
and Dover, relates the Boston Transcript The
sea was rough. young woman, apparently
i'll with seasicAness, gToaned until a gentleman,
who seemed to be- a stranger, approached and
often tried on people with marvellous results.
The young lady finally accepted the Offer Tho
cure was instantaneous Hardly had she swal-
lowed the lozenge when she was sitting I'D all
smiles and ordering ham sandwiches and bot
tied ale. Some passengers struck with the in
cident, inquired what the wonderful
remedy, and the gentleman, who proclaimed
himself the agent for the sac of the lozenges
disposed of a considerable number of boxes at
81 each. What was the surprise of the buyers
when they saw the lady and her preserver go
off arm in arm when the boat reached Dover
The pills were common juiube paste.
The PREJUDICE against red hair is both ancient
and widespread, says the St. Louis Republic
For centuries the popular notions throughout
all Europe associated hair OF this unlucky color
with villainy, untrustworthiness and decsit. In
Henry Bebel's Collection of Proverbs" pub
lished in 1912, occurs the following: Proud
are the short; untrustworthy the rsd-haired. ~
over 500 years old says: Salute q red-haired
man or bearded woman at thirty feet Oh, with
three stones in thy fists TO defend thee II need
be. " In very early times all pictures OF Judas
Christ's betrayer, were shown with great shocks
of red hair falling down well over his shoulders
This, and the fact that the "Judas' 10 the
suite, worked the superstitious people Of the
middle ages up to such q degree
that it was actually unsafe for a red.haired per-
son to appear in company. Seeing that things
classes began to rebuke and denounce the
senseless prejudice against those OF lively COL
OreQ nalr. - CyranO de Bergerac IN his Estates
and Empires of the Sun, boldly praised and
glorifed the despised color in the following
words: "a brave head covered with red hair is
nothing else but the sun in the midst of bis RAYS
vet Won NAV speak I'M of il, because few have
the honor to be So" The adjective, Judas col
ored hair" and many similar illusions are often
met with in the writings of the older authors.
In LAS You Like It. Rosalind says of Orlando:
His very hair is of that assembling color" to
which Celia replies: something browner than
| Judas"
TIE TENDENCY to hide away gold. says the
Chicago Evening Journal is remarkable. Ex-
cept what is seen by the public in the form of
jewelry l gliding and ornaments on signs and
| buildings, in plating on various objects Of art
or use, all the gold is out OF sight; it has wholly
disappeared. What becomes Of all the balance
| of the gold is question which ia oftener asked
than answered, at least by the New Orleans
FicdVune. A vast amount OF gold has been
taken out Of the earth within the century now
nearly at a close and it will be interesting to
attempt to trace it. The United States did
not count much as producer OF gold until Af-
ter the discovery OF the mines in California
Since then and Up to the beginning Of the year
1892 we find the total production OF gold in the
union to be $1,000, 900 900. These figures are
taken from the superintendent of the mint for
1891 and are authoritative. Now, where
is the gold? The mint report for 1891
shows that the total amount OF gold,
in coin and bars, in the United States on the
This what known to remain In the
country in the vaults Of the mint and treasury
and in the possession OF banks Besides this
amount S57, 900. 900 was known to have been ex-
ported to foreign countries and $2500,o0 to
have been worked up by goldsmiths for plate
and jewelry, and by goldbeaters for dentists
foil and gilders leaf. Therefore. out of 81. &c.,
600 900 of gold produced In the United States up
to the end of 1891 il held that only about
$685., 600 900 remained in the country In the form
of coin and bullion, while the enormous sum of
| S1,211, 000. 900 had entirely disappeared. Where
can it bef Without doubt great deal of IL was
sent to Europe. We have the government
official returns They show exports from 1913
to the end of 1891, 10 excess of imports OF
| $410.00O,000. This amount deducted from the
remainder of $1,2ll 100000 would leave a bal
enormous amount OF sal, 100000 in gold.
| How much of it is hid away in
old corners, in the old stockings of frugal house,
| wives, in the hordes OF miserst The people
must have large amount Of gold coin so Sc
GREETED. Handouts Of gold pieces treasured in
broken teapots and other such receptacles and
even iron pots full are sometimes dug up where
they were buried and forgotten. II would not
be surprising If more than 500, 600, 900 were SO
| hidden away by the people. Then, there is a
| large amount in plate and ornaments, watches,
jewelry and In other forms in which gold is
| consumed. But how much is sunk in the sea-
in rivers and the lakes. by the wreck and burn.
ing Of yesselsi Nobody can answer. The most