The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The VIr0fnia Citizen tells OF fox hound
that ran away from new master in Texas,
and madeits way to its old home near Raleigh,
y. G. The trip occupied three weeks.
The -four used in Russian black bread is COM
posed Of a cured grass ground with the bark Of
a tree a little rye flour, and that of some
leguminous plant. The bread is brownish
black. Of the weight Of burned bread and tastes
like hay.
SOME novel fire escapes have been added to
the Narragansett house, Providence. They
form a spiral curving about standpipe five
inches in diameter. This staudpipe is so adj
justed as to be readily connected with the street
MIGRANTS and at each story can be connected
with hose, thus adding another precaution
against fire.
BY a novel legal technicaity mig" Scoring,
one of the most promising young toughs in
Charlottesville, Ind. has escaped a term in the
northern penitentiary, and now poses before
the community as martyr He was indicted
for stealing box of cigars from a grocery
store, but in the trial it was proved conciusively
that he left the box and only took the cigars
On this ground he was discharged.
AMONG collection of curious plants recently
received at the Kew gardens, England. is a
specimen Of the curious tree from the Solomon
Islands: 1t is believed to be new genus of the
order or Sapotaceae, to which the sapodiller Of
Florida belongs. The tree is known to the
NATIVES or the Solomon Islands as the turtle
seeo Tree on account OF the close resemblance
winch the seeds bear to the turtle.
APOLLO was the old god of music. and his
favorite instrument. the Tyre. was invented by
Mercury. When the latter was hours old he
found the she'll of a tortoise and made il into a
Tyre with nine strings, in honor of the nine
muses.. This instrument Mercury gave to
pol Tbs w ITrs became wonderful player upon
Ulnes' and from it was fashioned the harp.
THE Shanghai Debating Society has been con-
sidering why the young men of Shanghai do
not marry The impression is that the fault is
IN the chit system" the local name for tie
credit system, by which things are charged at
nigh prices, instead of beng paid for at low
prices. The majority of the young men were
In favor of abolishing the system but the young
women were against it and swamped the boys
THE old-time viol was the first instrument of
its kind, and furnished the plan for the modern
vielin, which, however, is 700 years old. 1t is
said that Charles II. introduced it into England
one OF the finest violin makers was Stradiva-
rus, OF Cremona, who existed in the early part
OF the eighteenth century. Violins made by
him are worth thousands of dollars now and
hlghly esteemed By collectors and performers.
WHILE Edgar Bates, a geologist of Angola.
was prospecting in Jackson county, Michigan
he discovered in a stream peculiarly marked
stone rudely cut by blunt instrument. With
the aid of q microscope he was able to decipher
an inscription running to this effect: Samuel
b6IueJs L was taken Dy Ule InQlanS near san
dusky, and expect never to reach that place
II my friends-Iam to be burned. April l6,
1909. ."
The marriage ceremny practiced by the
people of Boreno is very short aud simple
Bride and groom are brought out before the
assembled crowd with great solemnity. and
seated side by side. bete nut is then cut in
two by tie medicine woman of the tribe and
one half is given to the groom. They begin to
chew the nut, and then The old woman, after
lima afafT Nk..s.-
together, and they are declared man and wife
HEKrNG OF SIAM recently cut the first turf
for the new railroad at Bangkok. The minister
of public works read short address, to which
the king, replied, and then the king. taking an
ivory handled spade, thrust the silver blade
INTO the turf, which he transferred to ebony
wheelbarrow. The crown prince trundled the
wheeibarrow along a carpeted track about
thirty yards in length, followed by the king,
the royal family and the assembled guests.
The turf when removed from the ebony wheel
barrow, was sprinkled with consecrated water
from golden ever by four priests.
EDMUND YATES, in his letter to the New York
Tribune, gives an amusing illustration of the
curious and unexpected results of a tax on
productive industry. An Englishman soiourn-
ing at quiet village on the Riviera determin
on morning TO use salt water instead of fresh
in his sitz bath. 1t seemed simple matter as
the edge of his garden washed by the
Mediterranean sea- but he found that he could
not draw pailful from it without special per-
NIT from the mayor. To make the tax on salt
effective it had been considered necessary to
adopt and enforce the most stringent regula-
tons to prevent the natives from taking the sea
water and boiling it down to make their own
salt.
THO Grand Duke of Hesse is about to dispatch
his uncle, Prince William OF Hesse, to Berlin to
bear to the kaiser the news of his father death
and his own succession. The proceedings at
the German court on such occasions are very
quaint In fact there is almost as much mum
merry about them as there is about a funeral
Grafton in congress The emperor and his court,
all in deep mourning, receive the envoy in a
room hung with black. The envoy enters with
a lugubrious air. and dejectedly announces the
demise of his sovereign, while the emperor de
plores the loss and makes a suitable eulogy of
the departed one. Then an hour later the en-
peror and court, all in gala dress, receive the
envoy again, there is much jubilation and Joy,
and the old adage about "the king is dead; long
live the king, gets new confirmation.
VARIOUS FACTS await manuscripts submitted
for publication into the periodicals. One IA
nous juvenile weekly not only rejects articles.
but destroys large percentage of what it ac-
cepts and pays for One magazine sent back
in lump nearly two years supply of manu-
scripts that had been accepted. A literary man.
whose articles fetch the highest rates easily
complains that they are held sometimes as long
as six years after having been accepted. 4
man who furnished an article on the negro
question to religious periodical eight years
ago was astonished recently TO see il in print
with his signature He had sornevaat rayisa5