The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SoMx PEOPLE doubt the presence of naphtha
in the worst kind of whisky and other liquor,
but the bartender in any very low saloon will
tell you that large quantity of worthless
liquor is toned up with this horrible liquid, and
that some men positively like the mixture, says
the St Louis Post Dispatch. II used TO be a
common practice in chemical works throughout
the world to adulterate alcohol used in manu-
featuring with naphtha with q view OF prevent
ing bibulous workmen from drinking it. The
practical lie not so universal now.
owing to the discovery that men with 9
taste for pure alcohol will drink It almost as
readily when thus aduterated as when chem
ically pure. AS to the effect upon the human
anatomy. 1t can be best imagined by pouring
few drops on to piece OF leather or raw meat
and watching the results For all that some
men will take naptha with their drinks for
years, and apparently suffer very little incon-
venience; but il a man not used to hard drink
ing was to take two or three glasses of the
mixture 1t would well nigh kill him.
o. D. ROSE, a resident OF Lincoln Heights, is
the possessor of an ancient and interesting relic
that has a remarkable history, says the Ne
braska State Journal. Il is no less than pow
der horn 1874 years old. The horn is yellow with
age, and contains the following inscription:
Daniel Brooks, his horn, made at Lake George
October the 9th, 1853" Although made from q
common steers horn, this interesting relic has
been the property Of Gen. George Washington,
Gen. Wolfe. the hero Of Quebec, and Old Hick-
ory jackson. Mr.. Rose has piece of old
Il
The paper states that the horn was taken from
the dead body of Gen. Wolfe at the battle of
Quebec by Gen. Murray. In 1853 it became the
property of Mai Gladwip, and in 1716 il fell into
the hand of Gov. Sir Henry Moore of New York.
Gov Moore gave 1t TO the famous Gen. Warren,
the hero of Bunker Hill. After the great battle
when Gen. Warren was killed, Private W. NJ.
Smith took possession of the horn and
afterward gave it to Gen. George
Washington, who carried it through
the remainder Of the revolutionary
war and kept it up until his death. After the
death Of the father of his county, the horn be-
came the property of Lieut.. Richmond Somers,
who carried it through the war with Tripoli.
The horn was afterward given to Gen. Jackson,
who carried it through the war of 1912. On
June u, 1872 it became the property of W. NJ
H. Rose. who, in turn. gave TO H. V. Rose Aug.
10. 1881. The latter gave it to his son, o. d.
Rose, the present owner. July /, 1860. At the
battle of Bunker Hill the bottom was shot out
and was replaced by piece OF brass.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Newcastle (Eng.l
Chronicle, describing scenes on the Northum
berland coast tells a curious story about rats:
What scene Of devastation did st. Mary'e
Island witness as the result of the breaking up
of the Gothenburg City. was one Of party
that went on board that Inflated vessel a few
days before she broke up and saw a sight to be
remembered l shall never forget it. To all
appearance as we approached her, the vessel
| might have been sailing comfortably out of
harbor, save for the alb, ence of any apparent
| life on board Of her. But we had no sooner put
foot on deck than we were immediately at
tackled in such manner that such of us
| as had got on board had to make
tracks for the rigging. while the rest fell back
into the boats. Rats! l never saw so many in
| my life and never hope to again. Great, hun
cry, lankY, leanlooking rats, many of them
| with their tails chewed of, swarIned up from
| below in never-ending thousands, squeakine
| and squrming over one another in manner
sickening and horrible to behold. particularly
| to those of US up in the rigging. At last we
| cut Off some loose ropes, knotted them into
| convenient lengths, and SO armed we descended
| and attacked the rodents, eventually succeed
: ing in beating passage to our boat. ANY one
would have supposed that they knew by in
| stinct the impending fate of the vessel, fol
they no sooner saw US over the side than they
began TO swarm down the ropes and try TO enter
| the boat, and it was only with difficulty we
| were able to beat them off before casting the
| boat clear; and they sQueaked in a horrible
| manner in their anguish and mad frenzy as we
rowed from the vessels side. They were toe
| far both from the island and the mainland tC
| swim ashore. They could not feed on the tim
| Der and coal, and 50 that was washed ashore to
warm the shiDs Of the coast-folk. While every
| other part OF the vessel seemed to go to splin-
| ters, the deck house, strange to say, came
| ashore on the island intact"
THE hat proper-that is, the raised hat-was
first made in England by Spanish hatters
about 1870 having been introduced into France
| a century earlier. The gay young courtiers of
the Queen-Elizabeth of immortal memory
| shone Respondent in high crowned hats of rare
| device, which. Ike the brilliant Raleigh, they
| hung round with strings of pearls. Kingsley
| describes his Elizabethan adventurer, John
| Oyenham, as having on his head "a
| broad velvet Spanish hat" and Master
| Frank Leigh as shading his delicate
| complexion from the sun with "a
| broad dove-tailed Spanish hat, with
| feather to match, Topped up over the right ear
with pearl brooch" But hats or caps were
| worn according to taste or circumstances; and
| Scott tells us that when Leicester rode bare.
| headed at Elzabeth's side on her entry into
Wentworth his esquire had charge of his 10 I'd.
| ships black velvet bonnet garnished with a
clasp of diamonds and surmounted by white
| plume. By a statute of 1885, velvet hats or caps
| we're prohibited to all persons under the degree
| of knight; and by another, enacted in 1871,
| every person, except ladies' lords, knights and
| gentlemen having 90 marks year in landed es
| tate. was required to wear on Sundays and
| holidays a homemade cap of wool, very decent
| and comedy for all states and degrees. But
these sumptuary laws were openly dis
I regarded. Stubs, in his Anatomy of Abuses, -
describes pleasing variety OF new-fashioned
headRear-hats perking up like the spear or
shaft of temple; hats fat and broad on the
crown, like the battlementS of house. and
round crowns with bands of every color This
variety of shape consorted with an equal variety
OF material-silk, velvet. taffeta, sarsenet wool
and "a fine hair. which they call beaver, fetched
| from beyond the seas" Whose had not hat OF
| velvet or hat of tafeta was held of no account
among the gilded youth of the time, and SO
| common a thing was this ostentation in the
matter Of head covering that every serving
man cOuntrVpnan or other avan all iudfPar