The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-29
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WHEN King Oscar visited the Prince OF Monaco
recently the latter ruler not only turned out his
full army to receive the guest but he reinforced
the organization by borrowing few policemen
from the city of Nice. The governor general of
Monaco, the Baron de Paramount, presented
himself in his new uniform made for the &C.
caslon. which the sovereign visitor is said TO
have declared to be the most magnificent which
he had yet seen in the west.
The latest or souvenir spoons is one COPY.
righted by a Washington woman and repre-
senting the Cleveland family. On the top of
the handle is an oval medallion containing the
portrait Of the ex-Presdeut surrounded by a
wreath of laurel, and below it medallion like
ness of Mrs Cleveland. The shaft of the handle
is decorated in imitation OF a double scepter,
and in tue bowl is picture of little Miss Ruth
Cleveland leaning back against big lace pillow
and shaking rattle in her right hand.
AN extraordinary punishment almost equal
to that of cutting of the nose, is now in vogue
in Persia. 1t was introduced by the present
shah with view of putting stop to the petty
pltering that had had unbridled sway for hun
dreds of years 1t consists in taking the cuI-
prtt through the following course of sprouts"
and is said to be very effecEual, especially when
1t has been applied to one guilty of the third
onense. The first time man is caught in the
act of stealing be is "bastinadoed' (beaten on
the soles Of the feet with an iron rod, and
made to sign paper declaring that that will
be his last ofense. II he forgets this when the
sOlbS vi te leu (lulL burning, ana Ifleo again,
the second oftense calls for the amputation of
his right hand. II he is still obdurate, and goes
at it left handed, the third and, of course, last
resort, is decapitation.
A CLEVER Pniladelphian has devised a new
method of taking collections on Sunday in
churches, says the Philadelphia Record. His
ldea, as he himself candidly admits. is taken
from 1.-THE cash. railways and toboggan slides
used ip5be big retail shops; but he has used a
great many improvements In working out his
pan. and 1t eInbodies the use of compressed
air, gravftatioh ahd'eectricity. The idea is to
send anHaIoerot beautifully decorated little
baskets oftbrass wire through the congregation
at colecbon tinleg each basket, OF course, fol-
loving asdinerenkeo course, and moving at so sol
emn aud Sedatet a, pace that the most careless
members OF the congregation can be taken by
surprise by us arrival, yet have ample time to
get outltheif 'pocket books and contribute In
case, hbt evsr, that any one should not be
readyYa sfeondntr1p, made at O more rapid
rate ofspied, wibbs made by each basket. BY
singula7ly clever and delicate adjustment
OF hair springs and dynametic accentuatores
| the invention of the renowned Spanish scientist
| Don D0ndorado of Upper Polobombasto, each
| basket can correctly register on a dial in the
| Vestry room each coin or bank note it is de-
| posted SO that when basket returns the exact
sum It c9ptains is already plainly in view of the
| keeper OF accounts. You can easily imagine
| that the mechanism needed to attain this result
is very expensive. but that did not deter us from
| contracting for the plant Another clever idea
| Is the manner in which the basket receives the
| contributions, Attached to it is a musical signal
box, very Smpti affair, but one which seems to
| possess afm4at 4ul an intelligence. II a cent ia
Deposited bwiil grunt a loud, dissatisfied grunt
| and VIII tnntt the SAM sound when buttons or
| OF. eTsspHrous contributions are passed off on
it. A.sstTiess Off musical sounds will be givea
| torthofoP, oquapteTs, halves dollars and pills.
sweet in preparation to their value, and when a
| check is deposited-checks generally being for
| larger sums than S20-a long whistle as of graf
flied surprise will proclaim the event throughout
| the church.
AMONG the first discoveries Of the pilgrims at
Plymouth was maize, or, as they called it. In
| dian corn, and the virtues Of corn meal for man
aud beast are familiar, says Hdrrey's YOUNG
| People But the nutritious grain has not gen
orally penetrated Europe. and an Indian com
propaganda has recently been started In Ger
many with very promising results. Thirteen
mills have been put in operation for grinding
corn, and some of them have been working
night and day and have been una Die to fill their
orders. Several other mills in various parts of
Germany will soon be erected, tns demand for
corn Is go great. In Dresden, where two corn
mills are in operation, more than half the
bakers are selling maize-rye bread, composed
of one part maize and two parts rye, In which
the taste Of the maize Is not perceived Even
the two mills in the latter city, one OF them.
I. Bienert'S. the largest rye mill in
Germany, are baking and selling large ouanti-
ties of this bread, and the old government gar
rlson bakery is turning out thousands of loayes
daily. The United States consul at Rotterdam
mentions the great increase in the importation
OF Indian corn. The German Millers' Assoca-
ton has taken the alarm, and corn has been
assaulted as an article of human food with an
energy at which the yankee must smile. seeing
what people has been bred upon it. A we'll.
informed correspondent in Berlin writes. "Nv
firm opinion is that when the German peopie
know the full value of Indian corn as human
food they will consume as much as We do in
proportion to the number of inhabitants The
government is now putting corn-milling plant
in their large mill at Madgeburg and fine
government report OF the value Of corn as food
will soon be published which is the result Of a
thorough investigation and practical testing Of
bread making at the garrison bakery in fhis
city and which, am informed by the Commits
sion will be highly favorable" Probably with
out knowledge OF these facts a corresponden.
pleads for maze, or Indian corn as the most
fitting national flower, as a native Of the CONT
nent, while the golden rod has Furonean
variety What could compare with It In scnInt
ure or in harmony Of tint for the artist whathsr
we choose the tender tasseled blossom GROWING
the tall stem, the long leaf waving in the wind
or the golden ear in its brown sheathf II NAV
be urged that the flower is not the strikng
feature OF this plant, but when we take ths
tout ensemble, there is nothing finer in the no
tancal world. The shamrock OF ireland 4.
generally represented by It's leaf not the hIos
som, therefore we might reasonably take the
fruit of the maize as our emblem; for docs n
not t7pify pea. Q, prosperity, labor sustenanceS
Neither the goiden-rod nor the pansy has any
prominent traits, the abundance of the one
the lowliness OF the other can only be claimed
Tor them. Our correspondent kindly rernind.
us of q fact with which we we're not nltooathar
unfamiliar. that Lowell's homage to the Sdnst1
gold" occurs in his poem to dandelion Pnt
there can be nc question that Barlow's 'Hastv
Pudding, one OF the earliest OF American
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