The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AAIShh W Lillian L. WHO pTlu6S ulUtSelI upon
initiating his illustrious predecessor. Frederick
the Great, in every possible direction, is in the
habit of always carrying with him a SNUFF box
once belonging to the great Prussan monarch
VINO was not only military genius, but also the
most inveterate snutfer OF his time. This snuff
box bears a miniature portrait OF Frederick II
Asked by his brother, Prince Henry, why he did
so, William IL replied: Il do it to have, at any
moment, my conscience whetted by looking into
his face and questioning myself, What would
he have commanded or forbidden, or done in
thy placer"
A SANTA BARBARA (CAL.), CH1NAMAN recently
inserted the following notice in the local paper:
Il have tame cat is lost on the 18th of april 1t
is about nine pounds his breast all are white the
hands and legs both are white but his behind
leg out side part have a spot Gray Color and
his back are all gray but the back have q white
blue spot on it his muzZle is red and his head is
light black his make have iron ring on il and
with six chinese money to tie it tight on the
iron ring in his make If any people know where
he was bring back to me l will prefer to give
him two dollars for reward. Fang Lee Yum, 81
Canon Ferdido street."
GEORGE R. VENDING. the lecturer. says that
while he was delivering his address on Stone
wall jackson in Kansas City some time ago,
when he reached the point when Bee, driven
back by the union advance, called to his men,
Rally behind the Virginians; there stands
Jackson like a stone walll' a man in the gallery
rose up. his face on fire with enthusiasm. and
shouted, GLORY to Godr" AS he shouted he
seized his hat aud sent it sailing over the au-
dience, and in an instant, to quote the time
honored phrase, pandemonium reigned For
five minutes the audience cheered and yelled
with Yigor that ratified both Vending and the
windows
A NOVEL FOUNDATION has been described in
Indian Engineering. In making this fouuda-
ton hole is bored in the ground (which was
previously damp from 10 to ~ feet deep and
~ inch in diameter. Then this hole Is charged
with cartridges, which, being exploded, not
only excavates hole three feet in diameter,
but drives the water out of the earth surround
ing the excavation to such a distance that it
does not filter back for more than an hour:
meanwhile the excavation is filed with quick
setting concrete, which by the time the moist
ure returns is hardened enough TO hold against
the water. In this way series of foundation
supports for building may, according to the
journal, be very rapidly formed
The JAPs. who have the honor of being
styled the yankees of the east, have UNIQUE
ways of doing things, from which even an
average yanke might profit. Long ago thew
| discovered the value of advertising. A Toxic
| book seller, for example. announces his BUSH
ness in the following manner: The advantages
OF our establishment. l. Prices cheap as q
| lottery. 2. Books elegant as a singing girl.
3. Print clear as crystal. 4. Paper tough as an
elephants hide. :. Customers treated AZ
| politely as By the rival steamship companies
g. Articles as plentiful as in library. Z. Goods
dispatched as expeditiouSly as a cannon ball.
8. Parcels done up with as much care as that
bestowed on her husband by loving wife. The
other advantages are too many for language to
express"
THE ancient ceremony of talabaram, or weigh
ing the Maharaiah of Travancore against an
equivalent weight of gold, was performed this
year with great pomp the present maharaiah
being an orthodox Hindoo, and a sticklsr for
tradition Months before the ceremonies his
government bought great quantity OF pure
gold, the greater part of which was converted
Into coin. After presenting an elephant to the
shrine, the maharajah entered the temple and
|, mounted one of the scales, his sword and shield
being laid in his lap In the other scales the
newly struck CO n were put in by the first and
second princes until the mahara iah rose in the
air, the priests chanting Vedlc hymns. In addi-
tion to this. the band played and the guns fired
Afterward the coin used was distributed among
about $1,000 Brahmins.
The Magic Maze, a maze OF mirrors. is the
latest novelty at the horticultural exhibition
in London. The visitor enters the Inaze nv a
crooked passage, walled entirely by mirrors
into the central hall, toward which a number OF
seemingly endless avenues appear to converge
Reproductions of the visitor are presented at
every imaginable point and angle. A figure
stands at the entrance to the hail and beckons
with uplifted hand, and the reproductiops
show the figure in hundred different places at
once. The bewildered visitors walk about in a
cautious halfscared way, running into their
own reflections and looking with distrust on
every one who approaches, unable to tell
substance from shadow. The space occupied
by the maze is only forty feet by thirty feet.
but the arrangement of mirrors gives it the
appearance of being acres ia extent
THE ENGLISH DWARF, Sir Godfrey Hudson. was
doubtless the most widely known of any human
curiosity Of either ancient or modern times
Lucia Zarste alone excepted. Born of parents
OF The normal size, in Rutlandshire in 1919 at
his birth his hight did not exceed inches He
did not begin to walk until after the end OF his
third year, his hight at that time being 6aI
inches. When years of age he wes taken
into the family of the Duke of Buckinehann
having between the age of 8 and added bnf
four inches to his stature At the age of 20 he
was only Is inches tall when fully eouipned
with his high-heeled shoes, which We're then 40
fashionable. Now comes the most remart1
able part OF the story. At the age of
81, time when most human BEINGS
are supposed to have fully matured. he sad
denly began to grow at a surprising rate. his
growth being so rapid that in the short snaca
or four years he shot up to the hight of q feet
9inches, a clear gain or 6A inches Tor each
year. How or why this remarkable change
was brought about was problem which the
Royal Society of Surgeons was never able ~
solve. Hudson lived TO be CO years old Tosenb
Bornwalski was another of the Old time dwsrfS
OF distinction. He was born in 1879 near
Chatlez. Polish Russia. He was one inch less in
hight at birth than Hudson was and yveigbad
but eleven ounces. On his 2lst birthday he was
2 feet inches high, and very robust. He wsnt
to England and married a woman az the go,
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