The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-23
ITEMS OF Interest,".

a GENTLEMAN Wao mas been travelling In
Europe tells the Washington Star that in some
places the jails are vacant, because the inhabit-
ants who would naturally fill them have elni-
grated to America.
The LARGEST lunatic asylum In England is At
Prestwich, where the Lancashire county asylum
has over $500 patients Colney Hatch. in the
parish OF FFiern Barnet. in Middlesex six miles
north from London, will accommodate 2. $50 ma
tients.
The open fireplace In the new public library
building at Machias, Me-, will be constructed OF
stone which were used for ballast on board the
British war schooner Margaretta captured by
the Americans near Machias during the early
part OF the revolution.
To FORM some idea Of the lareeness of the
earth, one may look upon the landscape from
the top Of an ordinary church steepIe and then
bear in mind that one must view 900, 900 similar
landscapes TO get an approximately correct idea
OF the size of the earth.
THE twenty bowling derYishes who came to
this country from Syria two months ago to give
exhibitions of bowling, dancing, ETC., sailed on
the steamer Waesland Wednesday for Antwerp
on their way to the Levant. Their show did
not take here and their managers sent them
back.
GLASS, as far as research has been able to de-
termine, was IN use 1000 years before the birth
of Christ, and was even then not in its infancy.
In the state collection in the British museum
there is the head Of a lion nodded in glass
bearing the name of an Egyptian king Of the
eleventh dynasty.
CURRENTS Of water serve to a vast extent the
purpose of distributing seeds Walnut, butter.
nut and pecan trees are found close to streams.
where they drop their nuts into the passing
flood, to be carried far away and start other
groves perhaps hundreds of miles distant Tree
seeds OF many sorts are carried by oceanic cur
rents.
A COMPLETE suit of knightly armor contained
the helmet, the cuirass for breast, epaulieres
for shoulders. brassarts, upper arms: coudIares
elbows; avant-bras, lower arms; gauntetS
gloves; faudes for TANKS; haubergeor a quilted
surcOat; cuissarts, thigh pieces; genouillieres
Knee guards; Rrevleres, leg pieces; solerets
shoes and spurs.
A VERY widely known clergyman in a town
near to New York had the misfortune lately to
lose his wife while the invalid was absent at the
seeshore on vain quest for health. His grief
did not cloud his intellect He went to the local
railroad Office and endeavOred to persuade the
agent to send his wife's body back TO the city
on her return excursion ticket.
THREE pieces of the first calico printed in the
United States will be presented to the worlds
fair commissioners for exhibition through Com
missioner Bradley, one Of the best-k known men
In Northern New York. who get them from
Judge Wadron of North Creek. The calico was
printed at Johnsburg, Warren county, and one
of the pieces Is from the wedding dress of the
first lady married in that town.
SAYS man who has just been travelling
through the south to the New York Tribune:
THE pine forests of the south appear abso-
lutely endless, and for hundreds Of miles we
pass through unbroken forests OF pine. In all
of these saw-mills are at work, and at many
stations there are railroad ties piled up while
everywhere OK teams may be seen dragging
logs out of the dim distance, and for ali that
you cannot see that a tree has been cut"
THE proiectiles for the VesuvIus, which have
been under construction for many months are
now completed and when they have been put
aboard the long looked for tests Of her pneu.
matte guns will probably take place, saws the
New York Times. The vessels status is a yery
peculiar one, for, although she has besu in com
mission for two years there has been no proper
trials given her pnumatic firing system, for
which particular purpose the vessel herself was
built.
SAYS the ChriStidn Secretary Of Hartford:
''The great enemy Of a proper observance of
the Sabbath is not the saloon, great as that ia.
1t is the bicycle. II is our opinion that the bi-
cycle causes more young men to neglect church
and Sunday school than almost anything else
ct it would not be fair on this account to CON
denim the bicycle. for doubtless many people
have been benefited by it. The evil lies In using
1t for Improper purposes and this IL true Of
many other things"
WE have heard nothing this year about the
cholera in China or Japan. At this time last
year its ravages in both these countries were
terribly destructive, even more so than they
now are in Russia. In many parts Of China
the natives tried to ward it off by offering
sacrifices to the gods of terror; but 10 all the
chief cities of Japan a different policy was
adopted, and very large sums of money were
expended In the execution Of sanitary measures.
The city of Eegasaki alone established new
water works at a cost OF S3,0000OO
RAILROADS in Palestine will be so common
soon that no notice will be taken Of them. A
new line has been begun, starting from the old
castle at Acre. passing north of Mount Carmel
Nazareth-and crossing the Jordan near Beth
sham Thence it will proceed with easy
gradient to Damascus. Already the Jaffa rail
road is working transformations. "Villas" are
sprtngtnR up at Jerusalem along the Jaffa road
large hotel has been built near the Armenian
convent and the station for Bethlehem, pre-
dlcted two generations ago by the author of
,'Eothen, is actually In hand.
Boston is discussing the question of the best
site for the statue of Columbus which is to be
erected in that city. The public squares advo-
Gated are COpley, Columbus, Haymarket and
Fort Hill, and the time for q decision is limited
the date set for the unwilling being Oct 81 The
design Of the statue is the work of Richard An
drew student OF the state normal art school
at Boston, and the sculptor is Aloise Buyens of
Ghent who on the highest honors at the
academies Of Client, LieZe and Brussels, and
was Tor several years q student at the Eoole des
Beaux Arts. The statue will be of colossal size
and will represent Columbus in an attitude of
giving thanks to God and pointing to the site of
the first settlement in the new world. The face
has the look of one inspired and the pose of the
body with the left arm uplifted is graceful and
full of life. This Columbus memorial must not
be confounded with the monument which the
Boston Columbus committee is to place on
slope overlooking Old Isabella, on the island
where Columbus and his first colony made
landing The latter, which was cast at Chi
copee has just been placed on exhibition at the
Boston Art Museum.