The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

4hEhE 10 btli burning 1uQla q sacred fire
that the Parsees lit l,eO0 years ago It is re-
plenished with sacred woods five times day.
THE highest priced piano in the United States
belongs to the Marquand family of New York
city. 1t was designed and painted by Alma
TademH and cost $4,000.
THE bugle horn was once called the buffalo
horn, and it apparently derives it's name from
the bugle, or extinct auroch. the wild OK OF
Great Britain. In the Isle of Wight the bull
head on inn signs is often accompanied by the
word ougle and the French term for the LOWING
OF cattle is still bengler.
AN Abilene Ran.) man recently advertised
that he would like to buy secondhand mower,
and to address "X. l.. postofice He received
one answer that struck him favorably, and
after corresponding some time, hunted the
party up and found it to be his wife. who was
trying to sell him their old one.
TWICE year jumping procession Is held IN
| honor of st. Willebrod the apostle of the
! Frstans The fashion OF the procession. which
goes around the towns and to the chapel is
this: The worshipers sing prayers 10 an anti
phonal manner, and jump two steps forward
and one back, thus progressing one step to
| every three.
FRENCH perfumer has been making tests Of
California roses, and discovered that they pos
sess 20 per cent more OF the volatile oil than the
| French roses. This means the development OF
new industry for California. The French per-
rune factories OF the town OF Grasse alone give
| employment to 5000 persons. II is said that sc
| cents per pound is paid for some flowers
THEREi is a curious group OF rocks near Milan
which formed the oft described Natures
| City" An irregular mass of rocks some 9OO
| feet high resemble a citadel Below are five
| Expressions, OF which one is a gigantic ampbi-
| theater, and the second a metropolis a third a
parade and the fourth a regularly laid out city
| quarters, with public monuments, gates streets.
| etc.
So GREAT have been the crowds that have
visited Winters grave since Saturday that
| 1t has been necessary to put a special police
| guard around the lot. Every one who comes
wants to carry away leaf or q flower as a me
| be entirely stripped Of everything Of the kind
Sunday between 200 and 1900 persons on foot
and $50 teams visited the grave
THE smooth raised edge running about the
face Of modern coins and incIoslng the device
as frame inoloses picture not only adds a
great deal to the beauty of the pieoe hut
serves double unitarian purpose, first to pro-
tect the design from wear and second to az
lord horizontal surface so that the coins may
| be piled up vertically one on top of another
without danger Of topping over.
THE origin of the name America has been dis
puted. though the weight of testimony leaves
no doubt that 1t comes from the Christian name
! VI ALloElSO NeSpuCcl- some earlV authorities
contended that the name came from the Peru.
wan word Amaru, meaning the sacred symbol
| of the cross, made Of a serpent aud q stick. and
the SUNK ca, meaning country. Thus derived,
| America means the land OF the holy auinaL
| ONE of the bright spots on the dark picture
| the clam dggers of the South Bay present in
connection with the beating off Of gha Nor.
mann1a's passengers is the conduct OF Ainsiee
5. Davis and his wife, who personally rendered
to Gov. Flower the use Of their large mansion
and offered TO strip The grape vines and fruit
trees rom their IOt houses in order to shelter
the passengers and to act as nurses if their sery.
les in that capacity should DO headed.
LAST May Lewis Cole. farmer Of Howa d
county, Indiana. turned drove of hogs into a
field 10 which was an old stack In which the
cattle had eaten great holes The stack fell in
and fat hog vas buried underneath. Mr.,
Cole tried to locate the porcine, but failed and
it remained there until Aug. "a, Just ninsty.nine
days, when it rescued The hog had
dwindled away tQthe merest skeleton, and was
barely alive, but upon being fed on milk has re-
covered full health.
AN ORDER has been issued from the ssAmose
military headquarters that the troops In one of
the largest garrisons are to be EN- plovsd every
day in ny catching. Every man is expected to
capture each day match box 'ull of blue bot.
tie flies. and II he does not perform the duty no
will be compelled, as a penalty, to row around
the island where the troops are in came The
order seems to be ridiculous, but the Siamese
are taxing il seriously They say there ia
great need OF cleaning out myraids OF flies that
are making life miserable at that particular an
campment.
ONE of the must curious Of the many natural
barometers consists Of half-pint glass half full
Of water, piece Of muslin and a leech. The
leech must be put in the'water and the muslin
tied over the top OF the glass so that the GREAT
ure cannot get out again. When fine weather
is to be the order OF the day the leech will re-
q nf fna
spiral shape, and perfectly motionless If rain
IL to be expected it will creep to the TOP
OF the glass, and remain there
until there is likelihood Of mora
settled weather If there is to be a storm
of wind the little animal will comfort itself vio
lently and squirm about. For some days before
thunder 1t VIII keep out OF the water almost all
the time and will occasionally move ftR body in
convulsive fashion. For frosty weather IL
behaves in the same manner as for fine and IL
foretells snow in the same manner as il does
rain.
HERE is a remarkable woman, one with an
astounding head for "figgers." She is Eliza.
beth Brown Davis, daughter Of an ex-con-
federate officer and wife of the son OF an
alliance congressman from Kansas She was
born in Virginia in 1863 She took her school
ing In Washington, where her excentional
mathematical ability commended her to Prof.
Gore, for whom she read the proof Of a geodesv
and to Prof Newcombe, for whom abe read
proofs OF his calculus. Then she got a Al 200
place as computer in the National Almanac OF.
fee beating a dozen male contestants. The board
OF examiners enthusiastically marked her 100
plus" Her salary was now double that she had
earned as Washington public school teacher
She added 10 1t by the proceeds of some math.
ematical work Rot for her by Prof. Newcombe
In 1885 she became sweet girl graduate at
Columbian University, reading q mathematical
essay that was out Of sight. In the way of by
play she corrected an error in one Of La Places
tables, and invented the Washington Green witch
table. And then-she married But to keen
her hand IN she calculates the ephemeris of the
sun for the National AIrndndo 10 took liz
years to fill her place with man content with