The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| THE system Of postal savings banks was in
troduced in France in 1889. During 1890 the
| 6.6l7 branch postal banks received 1919 81
| separate deposits representing the sum oil
| SoO, 455. S32 AZ, which Is far larger sum thar
was handed during the previous year.
The CHINESE have a varied menu for theiI
table but Celestial banquets find but little favol
| Europeans, although Chinese cooking is a fine
| art IN its way. As a nation they Scorn all tradt
ton and che Chinese chef rejects nothing thai
walks, creeps, flies, breathes or vegetables.
! MISS HATTIE CRAWFORD, who lives near Aber.
deem, o., had her ears pierced for the purpose
| of adjoining herself with earrings. Shortly
atterward her face commenced to swell. The
| swelling continued until her head and entire
| oody nave swollen TO an Immense size, and the
| physicians say she will die. 3,
In MfRAMICHI, N. B., a double cedar knot is
carried in the pocket as cure for rheumatism.
In Missouri this disease is prevented" by car
| rylnR in the pocket a nutmeg or walnut. In
other localities hickory nut is used. in others,
| still, a buckeye, while perhaps, the commonest
| OF all these amuiets is the horse chestnut.
THE WORKS of distinguished Japanese painter
are on exhibition in London and are greatly ad-
mired. His name is Watauebe Seftei aud he is
native OF Toxic. Some of his paintings have
already been exhibited in Paris and praised by
the French critics. IL was he who, five years
ago, painted the ceiling panels for the imperial
80 AStAAC-
TIE new Temple Israel OF Brooklyn is built
after the plan of the famous Church of st. So
phia in Constantinople. Thearches of it's main
| entrance are supported by polished notified
marble columns, and it is surulounted by a gid.
ed dome. The walls Of the interior are frescoed
in green and gold. The congregation has
many rich members.
CAVIAR, which is made from the eggs Of stur-
geon, is an important article of expectation for
Otipa IF M Autr
cIpaliy Taganrok. The annual amount is est-
mated at 10000 pools lone ypood is equal to
thirty five pounds. The, greater part goes to
to England, and still less to France.
THERE has almost always in English history
been some one industry that was supposed to
| be king. In the middle ages it was the growth
| and export OF raw wool; last century il was the
| WOODEN MANUFACTURER itself; early in this
century and down to very late date cotton
| was king; more lately, since the beginning of
| the railway and steamship era it has been coal
| and iron. ..N.t
A KANSAS CITY PAPER says that there is a
bowlder in the Ozarks which will attract jack
| knife dropped nine feet away and that along
| the line of the fifth principal meridian in the
counties of Carter, Reynolds Iron and Wash
| lngton the lines OF east and west surveys are
| detected from the true course several degrees.
| the needle being affected by the deposits Of
| loadstone .~st.
CARP are known to be hard to kill, but one
sent to Pendleton from Portland, Ore, the
other day beats the record, It had Travelled all
| the way from Portland on 4ce and there were
bruises on its head showing that an attempt
had been made there to take its life; but when
the box was opened this "fresh, fish" was found
TO be moving around as though accustomed to
such trifies. III.
AT A recent Fishing of toe locks at Delaware
| City, the eastern terminus ofthe canal nearly
! Ia
| that between Is, 900 and sc, $50 passed through
| the locks that day. On the same day it was es-
timated that the net in the locks at st. George s
contained at one time $1,000 herring The
| weight was 80 great that only 1900 could be
bI ought ashore. z-3 %
TIE Canadian census takersI had trouble with
their Indians The Indians are described as be-
ing, not unnaturally, very curious to know what
| the census was for. At one place they would
demand to be paid for giving their names, and
| at another the enumerator mad to bride them
| with tobacco before they would tell the names
| OF children and others who were out hunting or
| berrying in the woods.
PLAYING JOKES on newly married couples is a
favorte pastime with bucohc Rdgefelders
! When young pair from that town left the
| train at South Norfolk, Conn Last week they
! we're horred to find several white ribbon bows
attached to the top of their trunk. an old shoe
| on each handle, and across one end a placard
| on which was painted two hearts transflxed
| with sSewer: 1--WE are one" The bride cried
and the groom swore.
AN English railway carriage company is
building for an Indian potentate three superb
| railway carriages which will constitute a palace
| on wheels. In the framework of each carriage
| Is to be used $500 worth of teak. to resist the
| ravages Of insects. The suite of carriages in
| cludes day and night apartments for the prince
| and his retlnue, and also a cuisine department,
the latter having facilities 60 carry two tons of
| water and two tons Of ice.
THE streets of Berlin are soon to be enriched
| by large number of so called "Urania pillars =,
of which it is proposed to set up in all 800
| These pillars will be about eighteen feet high
constructed OF cast iron, and will each contain a
| clock, meteorological instruments, weather
| charts, astronomical and geographical an
| nouncements, and also, as in the streets Of
| Paris an OF the neghboring streets in an
| enlarged form to enable strangers to find their
way.
A REASON given for the use of the third as the
ring finger by some authorities is that in the
early Christian marriage ceremonies the bride
/ groom taking the ring, put it first on the
! brides thumb, and them successfully on the
| first and second fingers, pronouncing in each
case the name of one person of the Trinity i'm
| mediately after the words: with this ring
| thee wed'-namely, in the name Of the Father
| and of the Son. and of the Holy Ghost until
reached, and there the wedding ring was suf.
| fered to remain.
THERE are two American schooners named
Grover Cleveland, one of which was built at
| Mobile, Ala, in 1887. and the other at Bridge
ton, N. j., in 1880. Moreover, there is a sloop
| that now bears the same name, which was built
| at Lynn, Mass. in 1S47, but was formerly
| acknowledged and named Henry Clay; there
| is a lugger named Grover Cleveland which was
built at New Orleans, La, in 1885, and there is
a screw-steamer named Grover Cleveland
| which was also built at New Orleans in 1884 Be.
sides these there are two schooners named Cleve
| land-one built at Key West Fla, in 1888, and
| the other at Pocomoke City, Md, in 1885; there
| is one schooner named Cleveland and Fitz
| hugh Lee, built at Mondays Creek Va in
| 1887, and there is a screw-steamer named
| Cleveland built at Cleveland, o., In 1850 ON
| the whole it seems TO have been favorite name
with American shipwrights.
Mathews from Montreal states that another
novel method of selling liquor without license
will be heard in the recorders court. For sew
eral months past Sergts. Gauthier and Sped
| ding have been trying in vain to discover how
| men got drunk at $50 st. Lawrence street, a
| private house kept by Michael Renaud As
! they sat discussing the matter on May g. a mau
| came In and gave them q hint how to outyit
| Renaud. The sergeantS with three policemen
| were soon at the door. They were cody told
TO look wherever they wanted. They did So
| They got upon the roof. where they found a
regular bar, with all kinds Of LIQUORS, By thu
| aid OF small pipes liquor was conducted from
| the bar through the walls into a cartain little