The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-19
NATURAL FRUIT FLENoRs.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A FACTORY at Lynn, Mass, has asked for
space at the worlds fair to show pneumatic
dynamite guns and projectiles one dynamite
Geld gun to be shown on a wheeled carriage
lox6 feet over all; one coast defense pneumatic
dynamite gun, stationary. mounted on carriage
with turn-taole track, tube Sinch bore, three
feet long.
THERE has been recently UNIQUE ladies'
strike In Germany in one of the garrison towns.
The conduct of the men, who neglected the
unmarried ladies in order to dance vita the
wives OF their friends and acquaintance, dis
pleased the sighted maidens and their mothers,
and at the last regimental ball not unnar-
ried girl was present
TRAVELLERS say that the most costly railway
station In the world will be the Waverley sta
ton, which is the Edinburgh terminus OF the
North British Company, for in the company g
negotiations with the municipal authorities it
was stated that the cost of the immediate ap-
proaches, station, ETC., would be at least
81 100000. The finest station in the world at
present is that Of the Indian Peninsular railroad
In bombay, which cost In our money 81 100000,
and took ten years TO build The finest in Fu-
rope is to be the central station at Frank
n-the- Main, in SaXony.
SvEDENBoRG professed to have held communi
cation with the people of Mars by spiritual
process. according to spiritual laws which are
unfolded In his writings, says the New Orleans
Picdyune. II his statements are credible our
scientists need never expect to hold any inter
course with the inhabitants of that planet
They are said never to have lost the child like
simplicity and innocence of the golden age
They live in families and small societies under
the simplest patriarchal governments. They
have nothing like our arts and sciences, no
cities or towns. no books or literatures. They
are, however, in states Of intUitional wisdom,
have communication with angels and are in
structed from heaven; so that they are a thou
sand times wiser and happier than we are.
When our present civilization, based upon sell
fishness, has utterly persisted, Swedenborg's
road to the planets will be- often trod by new
generations of men. So say his disciples.
WILLIAM L. LAFoLLETTE, superintendent of
the worlds fair agricultural exhibit for the
state of Washington, is arranging for COM
plete model farm in miniature for the Washing
ton exhibit. He will have farm house, barns,
fences and fields of growing grain. There will
be fields OF summer fallow. with tiny gang plows
and burrows. Threshers. binders and all other
farm machinery will be shown in miniature as
they appear when in use in the west. Mr..
LaFollette will also erect large cold storage
arranged shelving The fruits of Washington
will be shown in this during their seasons, and
collectors throughout the state will renew the
supply by sending fresh fruit daily to Chicago,
by express. First, the safe will be filed with
luscious strawberries, and from that on during
the succeeding seasons, as the fruit ripens. the
cold storage fruit display will be kept replen-
ished with all varieties OF riDening fruit from
May to Oct. so. 1893, or during the entire time
that the exposition is open
THE St. Louis Globe Democrat says: ST have
been selling firearms for fifteen years." said
Jacob Ehrlinger at the Lindell, and believe
that more deadly weapons are now bought by
civilians than ever before The heaviest sales
are Of % and 32caliber revolvers of a cheap
make. Now these weapons are well-niRh worth
less q means Of ofenSe and defense. the
ordinary 22-caHber pistol Will not put d bullet
through heavy ov rcoat at a distance OF ten
yards, AMI you might put all six shots into a
man without disabling him. The 80 is not much
better. When man needs 3 pistol at al lie
needs one that can be relied on to knock an an
tagonis5 out at the first fire, and should \
a or IS. When one of those puts bullet intn
a man he generally quits right there. 1t does
not matter much where you hit him, the ball Is
so large and strikes with such terrific force that
il renders him hors de combat. The knife is
not 80 much used as formerly by Americans.
II we'll made it is a terrible weapon for close
fighting, but man may make killing at err
he has been cut half to pieces The thing to
stop antagonist with quickly and effectively
Is a IS.
GEORGE MANNING. the old man who pleaded
guilty in the United States court at st Joseph,
Mo-. to counterfeiting. has had remarkable
career in crime. He has operated in Tacoma,
Wash Portland Ore, San Francisco,
Denver, Omaha, Council Bluff, Des Moinss,
Kansas City, and at many points in Illinois
and Ohio. At time Manning left Dayton,
Ohio, with $4,000 worth of counterfeit bank
notes, and in less than three months had
disposed of the entire lot The officers who had
to deal with him say that he has disposed
of fully $4,000 worth of counterfeit bank
notes during the past five years. He has
made considerable money out OF his deal
ings, and is now reputed to be worth in the
neighborhood of $40. 900. He owns farm near
Des Moines and has considerable real estate and
farming land IN Washington Aside from this
he has some $1,000 or $1,000 in cash in St
Joseph and Des Moines banks. The counterfeit
money which Manning made and sold was
printed from plates OF the Webster series of
1880 and 1882 and was nearly all fives and tens.
The plates from which the notes were made
were perfect in every respect and the only
manner In which the counterfeit bills could be
detected from genuine bill was the absence of
81 * fibre in the paper.
TIE REPORT OF the chief of the Berlin police
gives some interesting particulars as to the
number of places where drink may be obtained
in that city. The FriedrichstrasSe. which only
possesses 251 houses, contains 253 places for the
sale of liquor. IL appears further that Berlin
had In the year 1890 2Jl inns, 253 wineshops
shops, 7l9 places where bser. coffee
and tea were sold, S23 licensed for the sale of
spirits, and l42 confectioners' shops Thus
wine and beer could be obtained in SOC
places, the number of which is raised to 1923
if the 1903 soda water booths and the S04 retail
traders in spirits are included. Compared with
the year 1881, this number shows an increase of
1885, the inns Of a. the wine shops of 127, the
beer shops of 1850, the beer, coffee and tea
houses Of 226, the gin shops OF 232, and the
retail traders OF l,04 On the other hand, the
coffee, tea and chocolate rooms have decreased
by 49, the confectioners by 8, and the
soda water booths by S. According to
the census Of December, 1890, the population
was 1870, 794 souls, and there was a beer or
wine shop for every 1855 persons. In the year
1885 the proportion was the same, but In the
year 1881 il was one to every 10 persons The
report specially discusses the so-called Vienna
cafes ami the beer aud wine shops employing
ent moment there are 924 Of these, and most Of
them are decribed in the report as dangerous