The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


has just been published, the work OF fifty years
bestowed by the most competent scholars in
Norway IN our day.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance Union
OF ChicagoI has placed slot drinking ma
chine" in the postofice building OF that city
4 penny put in the slot causes it to hand out
drink Of cool water.
A DEMOCRATIC nominee for congress In Texas,
Judge Pascal, has q mustache that measures
sixteen inches from end to end II he finds his
mouth running away with him he can tie It back
Of his neck as a gag.
SON Of the famous statesman Of that name,
Stephen A Douglas, is about running on a mat
rimonial ticket with Miss May Tudor, student
Of Wells College, New York, as the other and
proverbal better half.
LONDON is now credited with having 5000, 900
inhabitants but you wouldn't think, Judging
from the papers. that there was anybody in
town except elected, rejected and defeated
members of parliament.
LITTLE QUEEN WILHELmISA has taken her first
part in an important state ceremonial, having
been a central figure of the royal gathering
which declared open the Meerwede Ship Canal
which will connect Amsterdam with the Rhone
WITTY WRITER has observed with much
truth that every man is In a sense three differ.
emit men. In the first place he is the man he
the man others persons think him to be: and
finally. he is the man that he really is
IRELAND, land of the potato, will find an omen
Of good luck in the fact that Mr. Gladstone wore
a tuberose in his button hole when he kissed
the queens hand. For tuberose, as NAV be
found by consulting the dictionary is not rose
OF any kind, but plant with tuberous root,
A oANvAssER while in Washington, Me-,
was surprised to find six successive house.
hnId 10 In
upon calling at the next house asked the
reason, and was informed that not member
OF the six families could either read or write
THE BURMESE WOMEN are important person
ages and play a great part in their household.
They choose their own husbands and divorce
them when they IKE, retaining their own prop
erty and all that they have earned; they are at
liberty to marry again when widows or d.
vorced.
CHILEAN MONEY is of very little intrinsic value
just now. 1t is simply small tags Of pastboard
The maker of each tag writes on 1t the sum for
which he is willing to redeem IL, and uses it
as cash. 1t passes from hand to hand as
money, and in time comes back to the orig
inal producer, whose duty it is TO promptly re-
deem it.
WORTH, the famous mIlliner, who has made
dresses which high born aristocracy claims to
be the only dresses worth wearing, is a short,
stout and retiring gentleman, who looks as IL
NO WOulun nave courage TO talh BACK to one
o, his models, and would shrink from putting
his judgment against the opinion Of a strong
minded woman client.
A KITTEN became lodged in the iy-wheel of an
engine in Portland, Ore. The wheel ran for six
hours and half. TIE cat was taken out nearly
nteless, but recovered. The flY-wheel makes
$50 revolutions p minute, and every turn pussy
Travelled seventeen feet. The enSine was In
motion 800 minutes and during that time the
kitten Travelled distance Of 3l6 miles
ACCORDING to science" the snail is very pro-
life. Assuming that the reproduction season
extends from March to September, and assum T.
ing further that the snail lives but two years. we
have the following estimate of the total num-
Der OF the offspring of q single pair: At the
close of the first season, 1905 $50 pairs at close
Of second season. 800, 900; original pair at CLOSE
OF second season, 300. Total numb3r of off
spring in two years, 1,S0s, 500.
PRINoE ROLAND BoNAPARrE, whose wife's
immense dowry was part of the revenue from
the gambling house of Monte Carlo will NOT
marry again it is believed. The prince now
enjoys the benefit Of this wealth but is sensi
tive about the source from which it is derived
Indeed, 1t is said that he dropped the acduaiat-
ance of a lady friend who was so indiscreet AZ
to solicit his influence at Monte Carlo In behalf
OF young singer that was seeking an engage
ment.
OTHER THINGS being equal, 10 Ia always a
much more expensive thing for the German
emperor to visit the English than any other
court seeing his recognition OF the personal
servic IS rendered him by officials and others
must in Englan /, where the acceptance of for
eign orders Is not as a rule permitted take the
lively little, but OF imperial souvenirs which
have an intrinsic value. or these the kaiser
lefta goodly number in the Isle of Wight.
UNIQUE collection of cats is possessed By
DR.. Susan Janeway Coltman of Germantown.
Pa much respected lady who studied medi-
cine but has not practiced since she Inherited
her fathers fortune in 1888. The cats numher
twenty two in all, and include yellow Persian
Manx, white Maltese, English tiger feather
tailed" Turkish, Skye, Zanzibar and other fe-
ues her pets at $1,000. When, by the accident
or TOO prolific birth, her cat family grows larger
than she wishes it 10 be she sells the superfiu0us
Kittens and devotes the proceeds to charity.
OPIE REED. writer of 1.-THE Kentucky Colonel"
and other picturesque stories of life in the south
west, is familiar figure in New York inst now
DE IS big and broad and good looking He mas
an intelligent od-humored face dark dreamv
eyes, dropping brown mustache and a skin
sun tanned until it is nut brown He never
seems 20 De IN a hurry. Although Mr.. Reed is
one OF the best tempered men in the world. ba
is said to fret some because of the liberties the
actors have taken with the language M nc
aJ. lie makes Chicago his home, but his
lntimates say he is thinking OF settling in New
York. - A0"
THE largest boat ever built on or for fresh
water will soon be under construction at West
Bay City, Mich. The contract for It was closed
few days ago. II will be 40 feet keel and al
feet wide. Her extreme lsagth will be nearly
4UO feet, and she will carry "a <6 feet of water
not less than $500 tons dafs8 a,siRht This ia
said 70 be much more thar ghe average cargo
OF salt water steamers. ASa gor the sams
draught is without precedent. When projected
improvements In canals are coaE.leted abe win
carry over 5000 tons. She will have a sDeed Of
10 miles an hour, and viii be ready for servfce
next spring