The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT Jno time OF Lno JOnnSJOWn uOOQ James
Agnew was swept down stream and his body
was never found. His wife and children escaped.
Now comes James in person. He says he was
rescued, but came out of the peril insane and
has only recently recovered sufficiently TO look
up his family
IT Is DANGEROUS to eat in any quantity the
honey gathered in a region the botany of which
is unknown. The reddish honey stored by
Brazilian wasp Is absolutely poisonous, and the
spring honey of the wild bees of East Nepaul is
rendered noxious by collections from rhode
dendron flowers.
THE Carthusian mountain was named after
the Carthusian Monks by u former tribe of
Indians who occupied it. and were taught by
the fathers 1t is now owned as a summer re-
sort by Senior Don Patrico Melmo, rich
banker Of Monterey, lucky Irishman who, in
his native land was known as plain Pat Null
lens.
INSTINCT teaches the hen that it would be no
good to warm only one side OF her eggs, and so
when she feels that they are done" on one
side she turns them gently round. Any one
who has watched setting-hens has seen them
rise every now and then and shuttle about for
few moments on the nest, That is when they
turn the eggs over.
A CURIOUS PHENOMENON was recently wit
messed during a storm near Queenstown, when
the gigantic waves broke on the rocks and
huge volume of water OF spiral shape suddenly
rose ana aSceuQeQ TO q great night. 6lu1ulta-
neously O similar volume OF Hater descended
from the clouds till both spirals met, when both
volumes of water spread and fell foaming into
the sea.
AT ONE TIME the number Of swans in England
must have been enormous Paulus Jovius writ
ing 31b centuries ago, declared that he never
saw river SO thicky covered with swans as
the Thames; and In 1926 when John Taylor, the
water poet, rowed from London to Christ
church, and then up the Avon to Salisbury, he
was amazed at the swarm of birds on that
stream.
GOVERNMENT ENGINEERS have enumerated no
less than 1876 rivers in the Mississippi valley,
which, in their present natural state, are not
available to stream navigation. but which
might be made so at a very reasonable cost
A two or three-foot navigation for nine months
of the year might be Secured on total of
nearly 5000 miles, and with reasonable ex-
penditure.
Nh. COOKE asserts that an extensive bay off
the east coast of the island of Malta owes its
origin and extent to the agency of the sirocco,
which blows directly into it. The rapid changes
from dampness TO dryness, which are oharao-
teristic OF the sirocco and the capitalization OF
the salt which it deposits upon the rocks, are
reckoned among the powers Of destruction
which this wind possesses.
Two YOUNG city-brei women, daughters of
prominent wholesale merchant in San Fran
cisco named Lowenstein, are living on and
working a land claim in the state Of Washing
ton, between Hadlock and Port Ludlow They
took up the claim two years ago and have lived
on 1t continuously since, built the cabin in
which they live, and have cleared and grubbed
twenty acres OF land. Their nearest neig1b5r
is four miles away.
REPEKTED OBSERVATIONS have shown that the
American so-called robin sometimes hibernates,
but he has never been detected sleeping in
night gown only Of down. with his feathers ly-
ing around him. This seemingly irrational pro
ceeding had been reserved for an English
cuckoo who was brought UP m house. and
which disappeared one day In November and
was found in the following March on a shelf in
the back kitchen still alive and asleep, with all
its feathers off and clothed only in down, the
feathers lying in heap round the body"
FoR nearly forty years Punch has been regu-
larly taken at the Prussan royal palaces Of Der
lin and Potsdam Emperor William has lust is
sued private order that Punch is to be struck
off the list of journals which are supplied to
him, and the Empress Frederick, Prince Henry
of Prussia and all members OF the royal family
who are in the habit of reading English Journals
have been desired by their aAtocratc relative
TO discontinue the obnoxious periodical 1t is
understood in Berlin that the emperor's wrath
has been excited by some joculsr illusions TO his
majesty s,oratprical indiScretions which recently
appeared In Punch.
IT Is KNOWN that the hoofs Of horses were
protected by boots of leather at a very early
at least antedateS Piny and Aristotle both OF
whom make mention OF the fact These leather
boots were sometimes studded with metal nails
but more usually worn without extra trimming
the cheapness of that commodity making il
possible for the owner Of the steed to ''reboot"
MIN at any time. Homer speaks of "brazen-
| footed steeds," from which we naturally infer
| that in his day horses were shod with bronze or
brass. Two reputable ancient writers tell us
| that the mules of Nero wore silver Shoes Iron
/ shoes were first nailed to the hoofs OF war
horses in the ninth century: they were first in
| troduced into England by William II. about
| the year 1888. At the present day the Japanese
use horseshoes made of braided straw and
| several European countries used compressed
| rawhide for the same purpose.
IBN BATUTAH, the earliest and most enter
tanning of the Moorish travellers, tells of ruby
bowl that was shown him by Arya Chakravasti
ruling chief of Pathan, which he aeirms was
larger than the palm of a mans hand ="
| Further on IN his account of this carved gem he
says that its sides were engraved with figures of
! three palm trees, a man, two goats and dog
| the opposite side having the figures of two
| tigers engaged in combat " This gem of gems
| must have weighed at least 300 carats and its
value was beyond calculation. Chardin saw a
ruby in Persia which had the head and name of
| Sheik Sephi engraved upon one side, and the
| figure of a serpent on the other. The French
crown jewels are said to have once included
among their number a perfect dragon, two
inches in length, carved from a ruby of the
first water. When the summer palace at
Peking was sacked head of Buddha, carved
Brunswick as bis share of the spoils. After his
death If sold for f6 00O