The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THERE is population Of 5000 in Iceland, yes
the only military force employed consists of
two policemen, stationed at the capital, Reyk.
1avlc, and the only two lawyers in the island are
the states attorney as he may be called and
another, who ia on hand to defend anybody that
may be put on trial
WHEN whaler really makes q successful
voyage there is money for the humblest man
aboard. After 21S years within the Arctic cir
Gle the steam whaler Mary D. Hume brought
over $500, 900 in bone. This means that no man
will get less than $4,000, and that the captain
will win about $4,000.
AN INGENIOUS FRAUD was recently committed
in Victoria, New South Wales A man claiming
to be a telegraph operator ingratiated himself
into the favor of the postmaster In a country
district and took advantage of the opportunity
by telegraphing two money order kilograms to
Melbourne to pay two sums Of &a0. His accom-
plice IN Melbourne applied at the poStofice and
received the money in each case.
THOMAS S. COOLEY, Washington, ID. CO. law
yer, who Is also an enthusiastic astronomer
claims to have discovered four years ago. the
same fifth moon Of Jupiter that Prof. Barnard
discovered week or two ago, and to have in
formed Prof. Newton, OF the naval obsorva-
tory, Of his find at the time. Cogley doesn't
want the earth, says the Philadelphia Ledger
but he insists that the fifth moon is his.
THE following names, says the Philadelphia
Record, are all on the United States pension
roll, and we're selected from pension checks is
sued and paid to the pensioners: Squire Admire,
Prince Albert Clean Berry, Green Brown, Clay
Blue, Christian Bible, German Button, Easter
Bell, Christian Bell, American Cannon, Rose
Cardinal, Green Chambers, Green berry Delay,
Green powdy, Jay Day, Green Fields, Pleasant
Fields, Sedate Foote, Patience Face, James u.
S. Flsgg, America Green, Reason Husbands,
Chapel Heath, Orange Hyde, Green Hurt,
Charity Kid B. A, Main, Pleasant Minet, Green
Patrick Ryers Price, Tyrannous Power Simon
Peter Rash Patty .TAEel PAapa
Smart Smoke, Pool Sellers, Ribbon White, Por-
ter Wait. America West, America Young.
AMAzIAR DUKES. New York broker is fond
Of boasting that he once dined on apples that
grew more than 1900 years ago. bread made
from wheat that grew before Israel crossed the
Red sea, butter made while Elizabeth ruled in
England and wine that was old when Columbus
was barefoot boy in Genoa. "The remarka-
BILE spread was given by an antiquAry named
Geobel, in the city of Brussels, in 1871 The
apples were from eartEcrn jar taken from
the ruins OF Pompel, that buried city to whose
people we owe our knowledge OF canning fruit.
This wheat was taken from chamber in one of
| the smaller pyramids; the butter from a stone
shelf in an old well in Scotland, where for CEN
turtles it han lain in an earthen crock IN icy
water, and the wine was recovered from an old
vault in the city of Corinth. There were six
guests at the table and each had a mouthful of
| the bread and a teaspoonful of the wine but
| was permitted to help himself literally to the
butter, there being several pounds OF IL. The
the fruit was as sweet and the flavor as hue as
| though put up yesterday"
THE giant OF giants and titana Of titans, as
| far as sewing machines are concerned, has re-
Gently been finished ct Leeds England Il
weighs exactly "a tons, and is specially adapted
for general manufacturing purposes Of the
| heavier sort. This particular machine will DO
| used for attaching cotton betting, an article
which has all but superseded the old style
leather betting material for machinery gearing
In
| betting Is Of great strength and toughness and
besides, is often sewed in piles or layers having
maximum thickness Of nearly inches
| To do this the betting Is passed through
heavy feed rollers inches In diameter and 8
feet IN length. the result being that the belt
material is stretched, pressed and sewed at one
| and the same time. In this monster machine
| the needles are each thirteen inches long and
| the shuttles as large almost a small rowboat
| The machine has double set of works $50 as TO
sew both sides of the belt at one "feeding')
two needles and two shuttles being in constant
use whenever the machine is at work An at
! tachment similar to that on the ordinary sewing
machine makes it possible for the operator TO
instantly lengthen the stitch from one. eighth
of an inch to a full three inches. 1t Ia unneces-
sary to add that this giant can only be run by
steam power.
The PROPENSITY to tear paper into little bits
is peculiar to Wall street brokers, according to
the New York Times. Visitors to the stock ex.
change frequently comment on the fact that the
llOOi VI buo idrRe DOAFu room ID CnlCklY streWn
with tiny pieces Of paper. Each broker carries
small memorandum pad, and as he becomes
excited he tears of page and proceeds TO con-
vert 1t into the largest number of indnitestimaI
pieces of which his fingers are capable. Some
uncommonly nervous brokers will destroy two
or three pads a day in this manner. Henry
Clews is a tireless paper tearer. Wien he ID
talking business in his Office his hands are rest
lessly reducing paper to .snowhakes, which
he throws into the air and watches
with apparent interest as they scat
ter over the floor and the furni-
ture He probably tears up more paper, and
tears it finer than any other man in Wall street
Jay Gould is also somewhat addicted to the
habit of paper tearing. although, like his friend
Russell Sage, he folds it and twists it and plays
with il for quite a while before destroying 1t.
John H. Inman tears up great deal of paper
while talking. Gen. Samuel Thomas not only
tears it up, but frequently puts 1t in his mouth
and chews it In an absent minded way J.
Pierpont Morgan will carefully make ribbons OF
sheet of note paper while meditating upon
some financial problem. John D. Rockefeller
when interested in conversation. will make fig
ures letters and fantastic characters on his pad
When he fills page with characters he will
tear it off, 0rumple it up, aud throw it away,
and then begin on another page.