The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| ITEMS OF INTEREST.
AN INCH Of rain means 100 tons of vassr on
| every acre.
IT was lately quoted in British shipping circles
as proof Of the depression affecting the ship
| ping trade that splendid 4.mast iron bark of
| 1900 tons register, owned on the Clyde, came
| into port from Australia in ballast, was unable
| TO get cargo and sailed back for the antipodes
| again with the same ballast she brought with
her.
A BOTHERED MICHIGAN CLERGYMAN asks the
Springfield Republican whether word cannot
be coined to designate the performance of the
marriage ceremony. If say I married Miss
struction that am now her husband" Mar
rthed' is the new verb he suggests as ~ mar
rifed Miss Brown"
THE health authorities of Berlin, according to
| arecent dispatch, have been informed that the
| experiments OF DR.. Budener and Dr. wernicke
in Hamburg, about the relations OF tobacco to
cholera, led to a remarkable discovery. The
cholera bacilli shriveled up and died after being
placed on tobacco leaf for only a few minutes.
When the bacllli were exposed to q dose of to-
bacco fumes or tobacco juice, they likewise
| quickly died.
| lSIxrEEN YEARS AGO a senator OF the Italian
parliament, while coming down an Alpine gla-
cier at the height OF 1900 feet dropped his
/ coat In crevasse. He was informed by the
| guides, knowing the annual rate of glacial
/ movement, ClaL IL ROulQ DrOOaDly come out
l from the mouth of the glacier in about seven
| teen years. Last August party OF tourists
/ saw coat in the moraine and, on examination,
/ it is claimed to have been the senator's.
TIE latest machine designed for use In cleo
4 trio spark photography gives quite remarkable
results, states writer in the New YORK World
| Articles moving at the rate Of 1000 miles 40
| hour can oe photographed. and, bg ne intro
duotion Of revolving mirror a spvso OF $50, 900
i miles an honr can be COPIED with. The mir
/ m liza f4lr I'D hx-
] electricity, which Is about 100 times fast as
| rifle bullet travels. The whole Photographic
power Of the spark is over in time equal to
| the ten OF eleven miIiouth part OF q second,
and ii is during that incredibly brief space that
the image is made On the sensitive plate.
THE st. james Gazette CEnglish) thinks that
;. the statistics Of Chicago give good ground for
raising the cry, America for Americans" 1t
| says. According to sarie Interesting statistics
/ which our consul has jHsS seht over, that great
| American" town contains remarkably few
| Americans. Indeed, lesa akhan fourth Of
| the population ives born fp the lpited states.
| birth. The Chicago Irish ntinlber nearly az
many as the native born inhabitants. while the
| Germans outnumbsr them By nearly 100, 800.
| There are even 10000 RusdianslIin Chicago
! probably a greater proportion than is to- be
foand in any other city in the world outside
| Russia.
THERE is an honest and jolly butcher who
does business in Eighth avenue not far from the
Central park entrance, observes the New York
| Times. He Is large and heavy man, his wife
is almost as heavy and his grown daughter
| weighs nearly 200 pounds. n is customary for
this welghty family to take ride 10 the bStch-
and the srio, dressed in sunday Hnery, present a
| very imposing appearance. The women are
particularly fond Of bright colors. One or two
| Sundays ago this party appeared on Riverside
/ drive and attracted much attention. The com
| plRcent butcher and his female companions
seemed to more than ill the stout wagon, and
reason for the merriment caused by their ap-
| pearance. on each side OF the wagon was
painted in bold, black letters, Dressed Beef :"
THE longest horse railroad In the world runs
from Buenos Ayres TO San Martin, IN the Ar
gentine Republic said Alien 4. Bixby, former
y an officer in the United States navy, to a
| st. Louis Globe Democrat writer. while
serving on the Tallapoosa / was statioped at
| Buenos Ayres during the Argentine revolution
and in company with brother of1cer, made
trip over the road, the distance being about
fifty miles and the schedule time OF the trip
thirteen hours. Trains leave Buenos Ayres
every hour during the day and twice during
| the night. Every morning and evening express
trains leave, carrying only baggage. The night
passengers are furnished with narrow little
hunks, where they may snooze the long hours
away, II the train does not run off the track too
often. When SUCH an accident occurs the pas
. sengers are expected to turn out and help lift
the cars back on"
A FRENcHMAN of an inquiring turn Of mind
has been making experiments with some Of the
matches which the government, which enjoys
monopoly Of the manufacture Of these arti-
cles, is good enough to distribute among the
citizens OF the republic for the trifing consid
GRAFTON OF sous per box OF 500. He knew the
goods we're bad, but was rather astonished by
the result of his Investigations. In the first
place he found that his box, instead of contain
ing 800 matches as guaranteed, only contained
400 OF which "a were destitute of phosphorus
I or so broken as to be useless. He thus appar-
1 emily had 1856 servic cable matches left, but
| when he came to test them by striking, he found
! that only l73 of them were capable Of produc-
ing. fire at all, and OF these 107 went out after
an Intellectual splutter. Sixty six matches were
| lighted and burned to the end, but IS of these
we're subject to little explosions which threw
sparks upon the hand or clothing OF the in
| vesttgator. AS matter OF fact says the New
| York Post, only one-tenth of the matches were
| what they pretended to be-a delightful illus
l tration Of the beauties of a monopoly.
IT would surprise good many persons prob
ably, to hear that punch and Judy" is a
Chinese institution, says the Philadelphia
Ledger but there seems to be good ground for
4 the superstition, according to a correspondent
| Of London paper, who says: "a few years ago
1 witnessed at q garden party given by the gem
| eral then commanding the troops In Hong Kong
l the exhibition Of Chinese Punch and Judy
| which had been brought down from Canton.
| The general arrangements were precisely the
| same as those of an English Punch aud Judy >
| the only difference being that instead Of the
dog Toby there was wooden figure with clap
| ping jaws, supposed to represent dragon The
| costumes were Chinese, and the piece varied in
some respects from that which we see in Eng
land, but all the characteristic features were
the same. The lesser mandarins were duly
knocked over by the big mandarin, with lust
the same satisfactory whack as that with which
| Punch disposes OF Judy and Jack Ketch, and all
| the accessories OF voices, pipes and scenery
| corresponded TO those of the English perform
| ance" The correspondent asks Prof. Max Null
| Ter and the congress Of orientalists to decide
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