The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

CONCERNING memoirs two great men of con-
temporary fame had somewhat different views
Tennyson. it is said. once remarked: 81 will
take good care that they shall not rip me up
like pigs" and so he kept no diary and no rec
ord of his correspondence. But Tolstoi has re-
Gently deposited with the curator of a Russian
museum his personal memoirs. including
diary in manuscript, the condition being that
they shall not be published until ten years after
his death.
A LADY CORRESPONDENT of the Philadelphia
Ledger voucnes for the following: A Delaware
county mother missing her baby boy the other
day found him IN the stable in close proximity
60 and clapping the hind legs OF family horse
with LOUD and delighted cries. Although q spir
tied animal. the horse stood perec still under
the shower of blows. seemingly afraid to stir
for fear of hurting the infantile tormentor. re-
fusing even TO eat. AS soon as the child vas
removed the horse changed to more comfort
able position and resumed its meal.
EMPLOYEES at the Hemingway glass works,
Muncie, Ind, WILL in a few days, work some
very peculiar glass made from a dogs bones.
Robert Hemingway. the veteran glass manu-
around the factory. The canine died q few
days ago at the age OF 20 years. His bones are
now being dried and will be crushed, and with
into glass, which will be worked into watch
charms TO be worn by the employees as me
mento OF ''Rodger, the faithful dog.
TRADEsMEN are imposed upon in various ways.
Recently well-dressed stranger accompanied
by boy entered a hat shop in frankfort, sp-
parently with the intention Of buying hat,
After much trouble the shopkeoper fitted him
with hat and invited MIN to look In q mirror
TO see how handsome he appeared In
it. After gazing at himself in the
glass, the man turned round to the boy and
said, How do l look, Carl?" Like a chief"
promptly responded the boy. The man darted
Rngrly toward him, but the lad fed from the
shop pursued by his accomplice. The shop
fh1yr MN warn VEs,enf haSr
'nR absence made him realize that he had been
cleveriy robbed.
SOME of the loading jewellers Of Cincinnati
have been telling reporter Of that city ro-
mantle story about a strange. dark-skinned
man. about 50 years Of age who comes in and
under pretext of wanting to purchase an emer-
aid has the jeweler display his entire stock.
The fellow LOOKS at the stones exhibited care
fully and finally will ask; lis that all?" Being
informed that all the emeralds in the store
have been shown, he departs mournfully. tits
said he comes from bayend the sea, and s
going from city to city In search OF rare tails
manic stone stolen from his tribe by an Ameri-
can tourist. He is said 60 be commissioned by
his tribe never to return home till he brings the
stone as it Is regarded as sacred.
RAIN, which, on touching the ground, crackles
and emits electric sparks is a very uncommon
but not unknown phenomenon, SAYS Caumbers'
journal An instance OF the kind was recently
reported from Cor 1oVa in Span. by an
renee. The weather had been warm and nndis-
turbed by wind and soon alter dark the SKY
became overcast by clouds. At about O'Clock
there came a fash OF ightning. followed by
great drops of electrical rain. each one OF which
ON touching the ground, walls or trees. gave
faint crack and emitted q spark OF light. The
phenomenon continued for several seconds,
and spt Rrently ceased as soon as the atmos
| phere was saturated with moisture.
COMPANY ia being organized to build on the
Back Bay retrigeratinE plant according To
| the Boston Transcript, from which pipes filed
with continual flow OF cold air will be laid
/ throughout that section of tbs city. These
pipes will connect with a coil in the house of
! every one who desires to use it, and il will be
| ARA ged so that the temperature can be raised
or lowered as desired. 1t is estimated that this
use will save annually 10000 tons Of
| ice, and do away with its unhealth
| fulness, Inconvenience and waste. The
service will cost no more than the les would
| cost and has the advantage OF making q room
| cool and dry, whereas ice makes II cool and
damp. This cold air can be use 4 in food chests,
wine cellars and sleeping and living rooms.
WRITER n the Medical Record, who has had
much experience as q physician smong the
Chinese the Pacific coast notes especially
the speedy healing Of wounds on these people
which, he says, must be due to their diet and
habits of Oily cleanliness From early youth
they are constantly in the water. and you find
the lowlie,t washing their bodies twice a day
| Their diet is mostly vegetable, in which rice
anu zen form inc lOuuO8ClOD, TO winch are
/ added green vegetables. as young turnip tops,
! spinach, kate, or similar garden truck
Occasionally they add to this oysters,
| fish, pork and fowl, principally chickens or
ducks. Beef mutton and veal they use ia no
way. Possibly this may explain the quick beal-
ing power who is marvellous. The tissues of
their bodies cut differentiy-that is, they feel
differently undsr the knife-from those of the
Caucasian subject. They are more dense ana
elastic, aud not SO fla6by.
HERE is quite a Rrewsome story from Louis
vile, KY: A sensational report about O we'll
known citizen, who died last Monday, is being
talked Of everywhere on the streets tonight
(Oct. 20.l After being dead a day and half
and having his death notice formally made
at the health Office, it is declared BY
those who claim to have been rres-
emit, that Benjamin w Ash, an
agent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, arose in his coffin and said: why do
you bury me be ore l am deadi" He fell ex-
hausted. back In the coffin. DR.. Beuren was
called in, but in spite of all efforts to save
him, the man died few hours later. His wife
was seen toni hit. and she admits that her
husband was in a trance but she would not talk
definitely about the other part OF it. Mrs
Salie Hoerter, next-door neighbor, says she
was present and it all. Others in the
nelghborhood also say that Ash arose in his
coffin from a trance and spoke His body after
death was sent to Nelson county for burial Be.
fore shipment it was kept in the house over
two days after the death notice was published