The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A HORSE gets up fore parts first, COW hind
parts first because the strength for the second
movement of rising is posterior to the horse,
out anterior to the COW.
l0-PoUND cannon ball was recently dug I'D
at Lakeside, Ind. 1t has been identified as a
relic of the times when Mad Anthony Wayne
was In command thereabouts
FEW days ago at Quebec twelve brothers
and five sisters had their pictures taken In q
group. They are he children OF couple both
families.
HE youngest barber known to work in q shop
Is Nellie Wick. aged Il, IN the GLOBE toilet sa-
loon. Kings road, Chelsea, London, states an
exchange. She recently shaved five men in
we've minutes, and received q silver medal for
so doing.
THERE is point near the famous Stony cave
| in the Catsdll mountains where Ice may be
found on any day in the year. This locality is
locally known as the Notcn, and is walled In on
all sides by steep mountains some of which are
more than 5000 feet high.
DEATH VALLEY, CAL, notwithstanding It's sug-
gestive name, is the abode of more curious and
wonderful specimens OF animal creation than
any place Of its size within the limits of the
United States The oddest of these creatures
| perhaps, is species of rodent called the kan
CARGO rat.
KoUM1ss, mares milk fermented, is men
| TONED in the thirteenth century by Gulielmus
de Rubruquis, a travelling monk: "After q man
mas taken draughr thereof it leaveth behind
taste like that of almond milk and maketh
| ones lnsdes feel very comfortable, and it also
intoxicateth weak heads"
The largest specimen Of extinct animal ever
found in the world was the skeleton Of dino.
sauran reptile discovered in the Bad Lands in.
| 1882 The weight of the skull alone was 694
pounds, and of the whole skeleton /, 900 pounds.
1t is now in the rooms OF the Academy OF Nat
ural Science, Philadelphia.
THE United States gold dollar contains IS 8
troy grains. The ordinary pound. avoirdupois,
contains 1000 grains. therefore 81 .OOO, 900 in
gold coin weighs 1864 pounds avoirdupois, or
over a ton and half. The standard silver dol
lar weighs Arb grains, and Sl,000,000 in the
United states silver coinage will weigh Sc, e3l
pounds, or nearly 2S14 tons.
GREAT numbers OF vultures hover over Para
on the Amazon river. blackening every housetop
and church spire. heavy fine is imposed for
killing one OF these immense carrion birds-a
fact which is less strange than it appears when
II IS known that they 10 more toward keeping
! that undrained city in a state of co nparative
cleanliness than is accomplished in any other
! way.
| TIE painting, gliding and wood-carving Of
! the House of Lords are being cleaned for the
| first time sincs the erection in 1877 says the
| Gr1DSdck Cons 'dering that nearly half a cent
/ ury has passed since that date, the interior
/ sutIaCo OI LnlS decorated chamber
is In remarkably good state of preservation.
Inc electric light is being install d, and in
| future will be the sole illuminant. In the House
OF Commons workmen are engaged in re-
/ arranging the rooms adjacent to the inner
! lobby, IN order to improve the accommodations
| for the whips.
| A STRANGE STORY of buried treasure comes
from Waynstown, Ind. Fifty years ago band
! of outlaws and robbers. under the leadershi D of
| one Jason Spray, infested the neighborhood
ha nj hi IaI
! two, who escaped to Texas. II was thought
that the robbers had large treasures buried. but
| all attempts at finding 1t were futile. Sprays
cabin was long ago burned down. and the place
! where it stood is in the middle of a cultivated
| field. A lew days ago two strangers appeared
| IN Waynetown. who said they were from Texas,
and after a couple of days mysteriously dsap-
| peared. After their departure it was found at
long trench had been dug in the field where
| the SpraJ cabin had once stood, and that the
| hearthstone of the cabin, long since covered by
| the soil, had been unearthed and removt /, and
hoJe sunk beneath 1t from which large box
| had evidently been taken. 1t is supposed that
| the strangers were descendants of the escaped
| outlaws and that they had found their treasure.
Troy, the greatest laundry town in the world,
vii be especially interested, says the Times of
| that city in an article on starch written by
William Elliot Grif1s and published In the cur
| rent number of Hdr er'S Bazaar. Mr.. Griff1s in.
| forms us that it was Queen Elizabeth of Eng.
| land who introduced fashions that established
starch factories She not only enlarged the
| run, multiplied undergarments, increased the
| lady inventory aud the brides trousSeau but
| it was she who began the fashion of the
farthlngale or crinoline. This wheel shaped
| arrangement pulled out the dress Ike
balloon, and right royal was the
rustic OF the stiffened skirts as the queen
| and her ladies NOV, d about. So great was the
demand for s. arch with which to stiffen properly
the rufus, collars, cuffs and crinoline, that it
ssri usly affected e price of wheat. Com
nlalnTG a nd hr.a h.
( Ing taken out of the mouths of the people. The
potato was then unknown or too much of a
novelty. Its virtues and potencies Of supply to
the laundreSS and the Sed sugarmaker were
then unsupported. To whom were the En- glish
and their doughty Queen Bess indeb,e ed for this
wonderful addition TO the sources of civlliza-
ton and of personal neatness? 1t was not
there own invention, but the gift of the
low countries. 1t came in tn carriages1
which also were imported, to the amazement
of the common folk. Elizabeth was unable to
monopoize starched rutfs. for presently the
gentlewoman of England began to send their
daughters and nearest kinswomen to Mrs
Dlngnen to learn how to starch. Would the
reader know VINO Mrs. Dinghen was-she who
first made En- dish ladies' so fine aud British
house maids so neat? We bless tle memory of
Mrs. Din hen every time we are daintily served
III an English home The daughter Of a knight
of Flanders, ID driven out by Spanish oppres.
sion. o with her husband found refuge
in London. Being probably penliess
so turned her hand that the pounds
soon flowed in. While Mrs Boonen
SEARCHED for the queen, Mrs. Din then van den
Plasse, as her full name was, taught starchng
TO the ladies Her price WAS 30 for teaching
how to starch, but $50 for showing ''how to
seeth starch" In little time she got an estate,
b ing greatly ENCOURAGED by gentlewomen and
ladies. She was tine first to teach starcning
in those days of impu rIty." adds the his, orian,
with pathos and appreciation OF the previous
facts. Blessings on Mrs. Dinghen van den
Piasse'" saws Mr.. Grifns;"' and every Troy
laundress responds "Amenw