The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST,".

columbian celebration in New York, and
Mayor Grant has consented to lead the process
sion.
AMONG Siberian curiosities for the world,
cir. recently landed at San Francisco, are five
live Russian sables. They are about the size OF
a gray fox, and their highly priced brown ful
is like velvet.
THR latest seasonable novelty in the station
| ers' shops abroad, says the Boston Globe, II
postcards for tourists. which, presupposine
tnat the latter-day tourist has not much time
Tor writing letters, require only the insertion OF
lew words here and there in the printed text
ana the address. The printed texts on these
cards run as follows: Dear -: Only line OF
two. am glad to say am well, and hope you
are the same The weather is -. Write be-
Tore -. Love to all. In great haste"
IT IS STATED as an observed fact for which nc
| explanation is offered. says the New Orleans
| Picdgltne. that whenever a grand Jury is en-
| paneled in Washington county, Texas. a murder
IS lnmedlateIy committed in some part of the
| county. The memory of the oldest inhabitant
II IS SAID, cannot recall single exception, and
wnen the district court meets it is commonly
asked: Who W II be killed this time? The court
| is now sitting and the traditional killing came
| OIL on time at country ball near Long Point
| the victim being William Bode and the slayer
unknown, several men having participated in
| the difficulty.
HINDoosTAN Is about twenty-five times as
large as the state of New York, and the Sahara
desert has almost exactly the number of souars
miles as the whole of the United States The
Mediterranean sea would cut the United States
across ITS greatest breadth. making an open SEES
from New York to Vancouver. Great Britain
and Ireland have about the same number OF
square miles as Arizona. Madagascar is about
as large as New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Vermont, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania
New Jersey, Virginia and North Carolina com
bined The area OF England proper and that OF
| the state or Iowa are about identical.
GEN. 7. j. ToRRENCR, a prominent business
man Of Chicago, concluded the other day that
he had carried around quite long enough the
| bullet that he had received in HIS right leg al
| the battle of Perryville. He summoned skill
full surgeon to his Office. and asked him to watch
| him while he cut out the bullet, and prevent
MIN from making any serious mistake. saying
thaI ne thought he could hnd the bullet himself
| better than any one else. He then took a lancet
cut into the ball, and pulled it out with pair Of
plnchers. The operation was quite successful
| and Gen. Terrence thinks that he will now bs
| free from the pains which he has suffered fol
years
! BURGLARS broke one night into the Workshop
! OF a dyer in koslin. says foreign exchange
! and had got together uretty iarge-sizsd pack.
| age OF valuable dyestuffs, when the dyer, awak
ened oy the noise, appeared on the scene armed
with douole shooter, AS he entered the door
he espled two men skurrying off to the othel
end OF the dye house. AT the summons, stand
or fire !" they both jumped into vat which
|
some color liquid. Standing in this blue bath
they both cried for mercy. The dyer, however
took aim, and they ducked under, but soon
| came up again and earnestly entreated pardon
/ But the relentless dyer gave them the benefit Of
a few extra dips and then turned them out into
the street without giving notice To the police.
, Inc story got wind in koslln, and every body
knows the Indigo-dyed scoundrels.
The WORD ZERO" says London Public Onfn-
ion, is from the Spanish and means empty
mometer in 1898 by Prussian merchant named
Fahrenheit From a boy he was close OBJ
server or nature, and when only 10 years old in
the remarkably Id winter of 100 he experi-
mented by putting snow and salt together and
noticed that 1t produced degree Of cold equal
| to the coolest day of the year. And that day
being the coolest that the oldest inhabitant
could remem Der, Fahrenheit was the more struck
with the coincidence of his little scientific dis.
covery, and hastily concluded that he had found
the lowest degree of temperature known in the
world, either natural or artificial. He called the
degree zero and constructed a thermometer, OF
rude weather glass with a scale grading ur
| from zero to boiling point which he numbered
2l2 and the freezing point 80. because, as he
| thought, mercury contracted the thirty second
or It's volume on being cooled down from the
temperature OF freezing water to zero, and ex.
panied the lSOth on being heated from the
freezing TO the boiling point.
WEEK OR TWO AGO some Of the bankers OF
Chicago tried to make a sensation out of the
OlSCOFcTy vi Au uQuuLuD6reQ DILL or the Qep0mf-
nation OF ~, bearing the vignette of Gen. Nc
Pherson. AS the number OF a bill is or i'm.
portance in it's Identification and as this was nc
doubt genuine bill, the query at once arose as
70 now 1t could have slipped through the
machinery of the treasury without receiving
its number. The matter was placed in the
hands of Harry Smith, assistant register of the
treasury, and that gentleman has made a re-
port, which is in substance that it is
impossible this bill or any Hill
should go through the department without be-
ing properly numbered 1t is supposed that
some one experimental on the number of the
bill IN question with chemicals, and succeeded
in removing all traces OF the figures It FIRE
quently happens that bills come back to The
treasury that have been thus tempered with
Mr. Smith takes occasion in his report to go
over the threadbare story oil the progress OF a
national bank note from its Inception to its final
impression and inspection, to show the impos-
sioility of the issue OF q note without a mum .
Der.
A ROCHESTER IN. " FIRM is constructing a
chest as a receptacle for the original declara-
tion of independence, the draft of the same
made by Thomas jefferson. the constitution of
the United States, and other valuable historical
and legal documents, which are to be exhibited
at the worlds fair. The constitution has never
before been out of the state department since
1t was first deposited there The chest in ap-
pearance is like safe built in the for n of a
sideb 1ard. The hight is 10 feet. 1t is feet 6
| inches broad and about as deep and is made of
highly wrought gray steel. The trimmings
which are put on in abundance, are of gold
leaf. A shelf lined with velvet is placed below
the upper drawers The latter are of oak
When the gold combination lock is turned to
| the right number and the steel doors fly open, q
| set OF drawers working on rollers and provided
with birkhead brackets appears. The chest is
| lined with tin. 1t will be sent to Washington
and there supplied with plate glass so that tie
| curious may catch glimpse of the documents
A special car will be provided and under a
guard, composed of several army officers, it will
be taken to the fair.