The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The swallow nuisance continues with una
bated vigor at the naval academy, Annapolis
From 5000 to 10000 swallows gather every
evening in the five or six maple trees in front
OK the superintendent residence and make
evening and morning hideous with their cries
All efforts to drive them away have failed, and
a bell and gong are kept at intervals to drive
the pests from the two trees next the superin-
tendent's house.
WHEN he is inaugurated next March Mr..
Cleveland will lack but a few days of being Sc
years old, which is precisely the average age of
Presidents on their accession The Oldest Presi-
dent was William Henry Harrison who was IS /:
Buchanan was 50; Taylor. IS: Jackson and Ad-
AIMS, 90; Monroe, SO; Jefferson. Madison and ] e.
q Adams, 81; Benjamin Harrison, Sc; Hayes
o.; Lincoln. 50; Tyler and Arthur, 81; Polk and
Fillmore, so; Garfield and Pierce 40; Cleveland
d; and Grant, the youngest President. AZ.
WHEN member Of the Prussian royal family
is married the outfit" is paid by the state.
When Princess Victoria was married to Prince
Adolphus OF Schaumburg- Lippe articles to the
value OF $4,000 marks were ordered in London
ana there was frghtful row at Berlin when
the time arrived to pay the English bills. Now
the emperor has issued an order that every ar
tlcle In Princess MarRarets trousseau is to be
purchased in Germany, and that the state will
pay for nothing which is bought outside the
country. The emperors mother has for thirty
nve years drawn an annual income of $4,000
from England.
In regard to the habit Of cartridges Of flying
into civilization and a popular superstition re-
garding them an Augusta man says: zone flew
on our premises and was captured. Then came
up the question whether we should kill the bird
or allow 1t to live. At that time there was a
general superstition that IL q partridge came to
the house where a sick person lay and the bird
was killed and the sick person ate the broth, it
would effect cure. There was a girl sick at
our house and the doctors had given up her case
n nODAiA9a flyya af Nhea
partridge and give the sick girl the broth. But
the sick girl and others were for permitting the
partridge to live. We we're equally divided and
agreed TO let one of the neighbors whom we
saw coming to the house decide whether the
partridge should be killed or not He said kill
1t, and we did. and the sick girl ate the broth
and got we'll"
HENRY B HUNT Of Hackensack, who has Just
returned from a business trip to Rio Janeiro, is
none the worse for his experience says the New
York Press, though since August he came near
being wrecked In West Indies hurricane on his
way down and had a successful encounter with
yellow fever. II had been introduced to doc
tor there" said he, land one Sunday, when I
began to ache, went directly to him. He was
prompt in action. l was Immediately dvested
or my clothes and put into room about exc,
with temperature of about 1862 Hot water
was placed in bags around my body and COB.
letful Of castor oil was administered had
hardly swallowed that when a proportionate
dose OF salts followed. This was repeated at
nAlI-nour intervals three times, and then | was
80 weak that l fell asleep from exhaustion
Yellow fever does not wait You either die or
you get well. The next afternoon was sending
up TO the hotel for some clothes and was out
OF the hospital IN thirty hours after entered.
The attendants wore rubber clothes and mine
had gone into the furnace as quick as had
taken them oh-everything, from shoes to hat.
MY money. papers and even my jeWelry had
been fumigated and disinfected."
FEW DAYS AGO tho san Francisco police re-
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highlander gangs was to take place early that
afternoon in the vicinity Of jackson and Du-
pont streets. number of officers in plain
clothes were stationed at various points near
that spot and shortly Cinnamon began to gather
there in large numbers. The presence of the
officers became known to the Mongolians one
of whom uttered q sharp cry, and immediately
there was scattering. Numerous arrests were
made in house into which some of the China
men fed, the fugitives making frantic efforts
TO divest themselves of their clothing The rea-
son for this was made manifest. says the
Chronicle when one OF them was closely ex-
his outer cloak and still wore
his trousers and shoes and another
article Of apparel, or armor, that he had
been unable to take off. This was a coat Of
mail that would have turned any ordinary
weapon or missile. 1t weighed twenty-one
pounds and was composed OF very small steel
mail was sewed between two thicknesses of
heavy navy blue flannel When the Chinaman
was made to stand erect his armor fell below
his hips Though the garment was practically
sleeveless there was q sufficient length Of armor
at the shoulder to prevent any injury being re-
ceived under the arm. Any man wearing the
garment could not have received fatal bodily
injury In an ordinary combat with knives or
pistols. Only the head and limbs would have
been exposed to the weapons OF an antagonist.
and experience has shown that in fights with
knives and pistols few serious injuries are re.
oeived above the shoulder. Another captive
was similarly equipped.
LIMA, six miles inland from Callao. In non.
ularly known as the Paris Of South America.
says the NeU England Magazine. It's women
are tie most beautiful and the gayest; it's men
are the best educated, give more attention to
the sciences, and are the most extensively
Travelled in that continent. Its theater and
opera are always OF the highest order; its
diamonds are OF the puresL water, aud it shares
with New York the claim of being the greatest
diamond mart in the western hemisphere. In
architecture IL is on Moorish lines ornamented
with the Italians taste and his pencil. In color
the tone of the whole city is that of Rladpess
itself; it is as bright the sun without being
white: 1t is hard to realize that you are looking
on adobe walls when you are in Lima street:
yet it ia so. This class of construction admits
OF great facility in moldng, and there being
no rain to speak OF. is enduring. The lower
stories OF the houses are thus built, and
when it is necessary TO 20 higher the upper por-
tions will be of bamboo, succeed with mud:
then all is handsomely flushed In plaster OF
aiAs' ~ NhiSn VIC oOuuIry hDOunQ6. The
furnishing OF Lima house belonging to one Of
the wealthy is generally in brighter colors than
the American Of the north Affects The luxury
is great, the houses being splendid palaces II
the women are gay, they are also extremely
dignifed; they are the most intelligent of their
sex 10 Latin America, and are the most charm.
ing companions In the drawing room, where the
desire to please is stimulated by the hospitality
of their tempers. Lima streets are well paved
but the sidewalks narrow, compelling ths
passenger to often take to the driveway TO pass
the man he meets. Club life is an institution of
Lima as of other civilized communities; but the
Lima gentleman is fond of his home
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