The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


| elliott, now the famous steel penmaker, aoci-
dentaly split one of his fine steel tools. Being
suddenly required to sign q receipt, and not
finding his quill pen at hand, he used the split
tool as rea y substitute. This happy accident
led to the idea OF making pens OF steel.
A SHORT TIME AGO the Moorish Kaids gave the
Sultan of Morocco and his son a present of 200
male and female slaves to celebrate the event of
the marriage OF the heir to the Moorish throne.
Girls from 10 to Is years of age fetch about $50
TO $40 each. and the slave merchants find the
| females more profitable from 10 to 20 years of
age.
NORWEGIAN SAILORS belieYe in a mysterious
water goblin who singes their hair while they
are asleep, knots ropes and commits all sorts of
aosurdities He is a small man, with fiery red
hair and green teeth, dressedin yellow breeches,
tall boots and a steeple- crowned hat He often
helps the sailors in their work but to see him is
certain death.
THE longest span of telegraph wires IN the
world is to be found In Cochin. China, crossing
| the river hekong. and the longest span of tele-
| phone wires in England, IL happens to be
| portion of the wire crossing the river Dart and
connecting Dartmouth with the trunk lines be-
tween Torquay and Plymouth. The span of
the former wire is stated to be 1850 feet, and of
| the latter 400 feet.
MAYFLowER landed on Friday, Bastile was
burned on Friday, Moscow was burned on Fri
day, Washington was born on Friday, Shakes
| peare was born on Friday, America was discov-
cred on Friday, Lincoln was assassinated on
! Friday, Queen Victoria was married on Friday,
| King Charles l. was beheaded on Friday, battle
OF Marengo was fought on Friday, battle Of
Waterloo was fought on Friday, Julius Caesar
was asssssinated on Friday battle of New Or.
| leans was fought on Friday Joan of Arc was
! burned at the stake on Friday, and the declara-
ton OF independence was signed on Friday,
GREAT REGRET is felt in Rome at the afiiction
| of Gen. B9rtole Viale who became insane sud-
denly few weeks ago. Without being an
nplnced be forced his way recently into the
| presence of King HumOert made u profound
| bow and said that he had come to thank his
| majesty for having made him knight OF the
Order Of AnnunCiation. The surprise of the
king may be easily imagined. 1t was seen,
| however that the brave old warrior was out of
| his mind, and he was led from the room by an
adjutant of the ruler, who happened to be pres
ent. The general recently suffered from an
attack OF the influenza. 1t is hoped that he can
be cured.
| NEW great seal for Ireland has Just been
| completed by Mr.. Allan Wyou, chief engraver
Of her majesty's SEALS to take the place of the
seal designed on the accession of the queen.
| which is now worn out. The new seal IS an ex-
act replica OF its predecessor, and is similar in
| all respects to the great seal OF England, save
that in the exergue harp with shamrock
leaves takes the place of the trident head and
| sprays of oak which form the distinctive mark
of the Englifh seal. 1t is interesting to observe,
as Illustrating the much greater frequency with
winch Ln6 EnRllSn seal IS used, as compared
with the Irish, that whereas the latter has with
| stood the wear OF fiftyfour years, the English
| seal mas already been twice renewed in the
| present reign, once in January, 1880. and again
! in August, 1873. A discarded seal, on being de.
| faced, becomes the perquisIte OF the lord chan.
/ cellor
81 AM TOLD" said an expert in precious stones
recently. that the latest trick OF the Partisan
1 diamond swindlers has reached this country. II
\ Is clever one, and even the most experienced
are taken in by it. The number of people THAI
| have been viotimized both here and abroad is
1 quite large, and the proceeds realized by the
| gang-for there undoubtedly Is gang behind
| the scheme-must be quite large. Two stones
exactly the same fashion. One side Of
| each is left perfectly smooth, and when
completed they are Joined together by
| some kind of translucent cement, the compost
| ton Of which remains an undiscovered secret
| The result of this little arrangement is a gem
that more than quadrupes in value the two
| stones that are employed in its construction
| and, as l sad before, the, work is so neatly
| done that the knowing ones are fooled quite as
| readily as the innocents$ Only the microscope
can discover the deception, and It calls for
more than ordinary glass to do it with at that
| The diamonds thus produced are never
placed upon the open market; the chances are
more than their manufacturers care to take.
| Little advertisements In the personal column
| OF the newspapers stating that an Impoverished
! prince would like TO dispose OF the ancestral
4 jewels, or that some fine old heirlooms are to
a
| The making of these spurious gems has been
| going on for the past three years. but not one
| Of the offenders has yet been arrested"
| THE REPoRrssbroughtb by the European news.
papers of the capture Of the Partisan anarchist,
Ravochal for whom the authorities had been
| hunting in all directions do not tend 70 enhance
| the reputation for acumeno OF the French de-
| tectives says the New York Euentno Post Il
| appears that Ravachol, so far from trying to
hide himself, did his best to get himself noticed
| openly processing himself disciple Of dyna-
mite and displaying most suspicious familiar
| ity with anarchist affairs in general He did
| not even take the simple precauuon Of aben.
| donng his hauntS, but went day after day to
| the same place, and discussed the explosions in
| a way that almost demonstrated his RESPONSE.
| bility for them. Even when his description had
! been published everywhere he continued his
| rawlings against law and order as usual The
waiter who first suspected his identity watched
| him for two or three days before he made up
| his mind to fetch the police. The commissarv
| who was summoned recognized his man at once
| and might have captured him without the
slightest difficulty while he was seated at table
eating his dinner, without the least idea Of dan.
| ger. But, instead of taking the rnurCerous
| ruffian unaTares, the officer let him finish mis-
meal and leave the restaurant the result being
| that Ravachol was only overpowered after a
desperate rough and tumble fight, in which he
very nearly succeeded in drawing a revolver II
was not until after he had been vanuuished that
the commissary put a pistol to his head an ar.
gument whose cogency the anarchist instantly
admitted. If he had looked up from his plate
TO confront pistol barrel in the first instance
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