The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-20
ITEMS OF INTEREs ?.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Two little islands furnish four-hfths OF the
cloves consumed by the world. The Islands are
Zanzibar and Pemba, and a little while ago
Arabs found 1t very profitable to bring slaves
from the African lake r. ion TO the coast and
smuggle them In the night over to Pemba to
work on the Glove plantations.
A GENUINE old roman circus placard, a thin
slab Of store three feet long. has been acquired
by the british museum. In the upper corner
there are holes for cords to pass through, SO
thatft might be hung up oui side the theater, aud
it bears this inscription In Latin; Circus full.
Immense applause. Doors shut"
ONE Of the most celebrated opera singers Of
the past generation, at whose feet half OF Eu-
rope lay at one time, was buried last week ss a
pauper in Vienna. She was Rosa Czillsg. She
was particularly great in Tho Prophet" She
years ago, and having been for the last two
years a cripple. When quite young she mar
ried Hermann, the conjurer, whose brother sur
wives him
A LATE scientific authority states that by
saturating bullet with vaseline its flight may
be easily followed with the eye from the time il
laves the muzze of the rifle until 1t strikes the
target The course Of the Digit Is marked by
beautiful ring Of smoke. caused BY the vsseiine
being iRnited on leaving tbs muzzle OF the gun.
This smoke ring will remain suspended in the
day is not too windy.
EVIDENCE increases that the universal
language will be English. It has already taken
tbs place OF French in Germany and Russia.
All the deliberations of tn recent conference
conc rning Samoa we're conducted In English
instead Of French. A gentleman in Liberia says
that En- glish has driven out every other foreign
tongue from the west coast OF Africa where
once Portuguese was dominant. This progress
in India is steady, as it is also in Japan.
THE French fishermen leave France for New
oundland in March and do not return till Sep
tember. The wages OF these fishermen is pro-
porionate to the number of cod taken; rarely
viii II exceed $50 for the season, and 1t often
will nk below these figures. Whatever be the
condition OF engagement, whether the crew
have accepted payment by the cod, the sea-
sons work will not give them a mere remuner-
alive salary than the above. AS q rule the
conditions OF engagement are the following:
One-third art Of the proceeds of the sale Of tue
fish is set aside for the payment of the crew.
This third is divided into as many parts as
there are ga Tors on board, plus two; according
TO their functions, and independently of their
parts as fishermen, the captain has four-tenths,
the lieutenant and second lieutenant each one
tenth, the sa ter one tenth, the cabin boy two
tenths. The rest ia divided among the fisher
men proportionately with the selling price,
The natural inquiry arises, what will tele-
phones cost when their manufacture is free,
and what will be the expense Of equipping q
private line? 1t is scarcely necessary to 20 into
detailed estimates at this juncture says a
writer in the Engineering Ma dkine, especially
as the cost must necessarily vary with the con-
dltionS, such as the class OF work required, the
finish of the instrument and so on. A telephone
tnat will speak can be made for very little and
small instru nents for household work need cost
no more than electric bells OF the same quality
and finish Some years ago l put in large
hotel in Spain an installation of electric bells
and telephones; the telephones were in the form
of ordinary hlftnnS.
ton and then pulled the wooden case from the
clamp which held it to the base fixed to the wall
and Stoke into tue back Of the push which con-
tanned telephone of the ordinary Bell pattern
with very short magnet. The cost OF these
instruments was very small.
WHAT is making America foremost in ap-
piled mechanics. says the Engineering Maya
zine, is not what men do only, but what women
too. are accomplishing. The makers of our
men. the women who from education arc capa-
bic of advancing as their husbands advance or
even who can aid their husbands mental
growth, who can take part in the training OF
tbeiI sons, aud who from our system of CO.
education lose none of their charms Of woman
hood, give to their sons traits OF character that
are purely American and may some time come
20 be regarded as Sucn when tue typical Aneri-
con has been developed out of the gathering OF
many nations in this new land. In
lea, it is not an uncommon thing to inquire
more about the mother of the boy shan
about the father. The boy who has be n
brought up by a capable, industrious, pains.
taking. orderly mother. is more apt II be iu-
dustrious and able to make himself useful in
short time than the son Of an amiable but in
dolent AMI careless woman, 40 matter what
may be the good qualities evident in the father.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. in answer to a let
ter on the subject Of the selection of appren-
tees and the desirability Of information as to
the motAers rather than the fathers replied in
his usual bright way that he was pleased to
bear what was sa on the subject, as it greatly
relieved his own mind, feeling sure that
wife's good qualities would amply compensa ate
for all the disa ivantages arising through bis
side Of the house in relation to his own sons
j. R. BULL, in the St. Louis Globe Democrat
says: THE newspapers recently stated the fact
of the presence Of an American oak in the i'm
perial gardens at St. Petersburg. Concerning
this tree curious story was told many years
ago, apparently with absolute verifcstion
When r. Dallas afterward vice president was
in st. Petersburg as American minister he was
one day visited by a tall. awkward yankee VINO
being requested TO state his business imme-
d ately said that he wanted TO see the emperor
He was assured that obtaining an interview with
the emperor was no easy task, but not being
disposed to take refusal, he was requested to
leave his name and return in about iortui yht
when his application would probably be consid-
cred and determined. A week or two later u q
American minister was surprised by visit
from the tall yankee, and beginning to assure
his visitor that an interview with the emperor
COuIu uOC Do OBTAINED, the yankee
responded that he had already seen the emperor
and had just called in at the embassy for the
purpose of saving goodbY, as he was on his
way home. Mr.. Dallas was dumfounded. and
inquired into the part cuars, when he found
that the an actually had. by sheer force of
brass, succeeded in passing the guards at the
palace and seeing the emf error. 81 gave him a
present, 90 Z" what was itf" inquired Mr..
Dallas. "An acorn from Mount Vernon from a
tree that grew over Washington's tomb The
emperor planted 1t in the garden with his own
hands followed him out and saw him plant
it," Strange as the story was it was true, and
the oak now growing in the imperial gardens at
ST. Petersburg sprung from the acorn ca ried
thither asa present to the emperor by the long,
awkward American.