The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-22
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

people way out in Omaha by full blooded
Sioux, who lives at Pine Ridge agency. He
said the belief was that every time new moon
appeared it was signal for all the mice in the
country to gather themselves together in one
spot When they assembled they then
separated into four great armies. One army
went to the nortn, another to the south, a
third to the east, and a fourth to the west.
These armies of mice Travelled until they
reached the point where, from the place of
starting, the heavens seemed to touch the
earth. Then they climbed up the sky until
they came 10 the moon, which by this time was
what we call full. All of the four armies then
commenced nbbing at Luna, and when they
had eaten her all up the mice would scamper
oacK down the heavens TO the earth ana walt
for her to show herself again when the journey
and the nbblng would be repeated by the
mice; and this is what the Indians OF early days
believed was the cause OF the moon growing
old and finally disappearing.
WILLIAM s. WELLS of the firm of William g.
Wells & Co. of New Haven, Conn, has some
very interesting war relics, collected by himself
during the civil war, says the Collector. Mr..
Wells was a naval officer on the frigete New
ronsides and served from November, 1882 until
1870. Among his curiosites is fragment of the
frigate's iron deck plating which was torn out
by a l0-inch shot in the second iron-clad attack
on Sumter This shot furnished good illustra-
ton OF the old saying that IAN is fair in war"
etc, In the first iron-clad attack the fort the
Keokuk was sunk. Afterward the confe ierates
aud turned them effectively against the
union fleet. One of these guns was particularly
offensive to frigate New lronSides, and ripped
her iron plating considerably. The fragment
of the deck plating referred to is two inches
thick four or five long and about three wide. The
impression OF the shot was made in such q way
that its size and kind could be calculated An
other bit OF rusty iron, smaller than the one
described, is a fragment from a gun on the
deck Of the frigate Congress. IL was clipped
off by Mr.. Wells eight months after the Con-
had haaN1 bad hvN h.
relic which Mr. Wells prizes most highly is the
twisted piece of wire which used by the
confederates to explode the mine under Fort
Fisher, where so many of the union men were
destroyed.
That bogus Indian curios and relics should
be created the moment demand for real ones
arose is but natural. says the Collector. Col.
lectors Of such objects will do well to buy with
both their eyes open these days for the supply
has increased suspiciously OF late years, and it
is asserted the demand can always be met by
the willy red man and his interruptions white
associates, who in some cases are the p~st-
traders at the agencies On the Northern Pa
cinc, near Bismarck, for instance there is an
Indian store that does a land office business
with guliiole tourists. During the last winter
"ths arrow that slew Custer" was twice
sold to English travellers, although it is
well-known that Clusters body was untouched
by arrows Navajo blankets from Msssa-
cAusetts and Indian pipes from Connecticut are
common articles OF sale. The tom toms eagerly
bought up as relics are often nothing less than
government cheese boxes covered with sheep
skin. Pipes which the Indians exhibit and sell
in their tepees for 81 and So may be bought at
the post traders for So. The Apache no longer
has any use for spear and there are few
genuine ones to be- found. but he still makes
| them out of long poles and boier-Iron to sell to
the tenIerPJOt 50 also he now uses the Win
chester in place Of bow and arrow, but he
s o idS many SUNDAY making b )Ss for collec
tons VIII ch he dispossS of for an eXtortionate
a Sed in ne
cIase by his father, Plenty Bear, or some oyIer
distinguished warrior.
HAVE often wondered where NJ. Henrion, the
French savant, got his data for the curious
speculations he gives as to the hight and other
proportions of Adam and Eve, says writer in
the Philadelphia Press In his remarkable
work, The Degeneration of the Human Race, y
published in 1918, the learned academcan
gravely informs his readers that Adam was i23
feet and inches in hight, while his disobedient
consort was but paltry l1S feet from the sole
Of the foot to the crown of the head. OF course
all who have read very extensively OF Talmudlc
literature, or even Barring -GouldS Legends OF
the Patriarch Prophets, " remember the wonder
full stories told of how Adam made; of his
gigantic size, and how after the fall, mis-
stature was reduced by several miles by the Of
Tended God himself The Talmud has this to
say of Adams hight: "He was so tall that he
stood with feet on earth and head in heaven UNI
til after God pressed him down at the time OF
tue fall" Rabbi Jhuda says that when he lay
on the earth "his body completely covered it, q
Another Talmudic story says: ITO judgc how
long ne was, understand that his body stretched
from one end of the earth to the other and it
takes man 800 years to walk that distance
The angels were awed with won
der when they saw that gigantic human being
and bowed befors him crying: Holy, holy.
holy Then God reduced his size by cutting OF
great chunks Of flesh" These are all absurd
legendary Stories of course; but whore did
Henrion get his figures for the 123-foot cslcula
ton mentionedin the opening?
DEVICES of various descriptions have from
time to time been placed In operation on street
railways for the purpose OF registering the
number of passengers carried, fares collected,
etc. 1t remains, however, says the Albany IN,
" Times, for Harry Pierce to present the moss
ingeniousi Inventions patented for recording the
names of all cross streets and some of the pub.
lilo buildings along the line OF the several rail-
ways. Toe invention Is original and wholly
perfected by Mr.. Pierce. 1t Is an automatic de-
vice placed in q receptacle about one foot
| square, which is placed over the doorway on the
| insidesof the car and at a point opposite the
| passenger Indicator. At the top and bottom of
| the box-shaped receptacle is an aperture On
the span wire which supports the main or over
| head wire is placed check or projection near
! the main wire, and from the trolley wheel a
| small arm projects in the direc-
! ton of this projection. When-the wheel
passes by this point is touches the projection
with sufficient force to cause current to pass
| through an appliance which rings bell call
ing attention in that direction. Immediately
the mans Of the cross next to be approached
with the nearest number thereon to the main
street. or the name of a public bnilding ap-
pears in the top apparatus above referred to ,
and as the car approaches the next street or
public building 1t again rings the bell, and the
street or building first registered drops autom-
atically to the bottom, and the one approach
ing occupies the top and 80 onto the end OF the
line. The convenience of this device is of great
value to passengers in general and strangers in
psrtular, as by watching the indicator they are
warned as they approach their destination