The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IT takes 100000 words of telegraph to tell
the story Of a national convention to the differ
| ent daily papers of the country.
! A Knoxville (TENN.) MAN has captured q
mocking bird that has only one body, but has
| two heads, AMI can sing with each OF them.
! JERRY SIMPSON has a small son who has to
stand no end Of teasing in his school in Wash
ington, where all the boys call him ''Hayseed.'
Gov. SEAY of Oklahoma is a very popular
man in the territory. He is a bachelor, nigh
onto sc" as he says himself, and weighs 200
! pounds.
The Prince Of Wales and his son, Prince
George, have arrived at Marlborough house
from Sandringham. Both are enjoying perfect
| health.
PRESIDENT CLARK of the Union Pacific rail
road. began life as a brakeman on a gravel
train. He is particularly popular with all labor
organizations.
THREE MEN have been condemned at Lyons tc
three months Imprisonment and 500 francs
| fine for insulting the army. One OF them had
said: THE army is the school of crime; look
| at Anastay." Another had called the flag the
"oase trl-colored rag under which all infamies
| find shelter"
In ALL PROBABILITY the first mirror was the
placid surface of a body of water The next
most accessible object was a piece of polished
metal, and it was of this material that the first
artificial mirrors were made The Israelites,
under Moses, had mirrors of brass, and doubt
| less other metals were used long before that
| period.
The MOLE is gifted with incredible activity 1t
pursues the earth worms on which 1t chiefly
| feeds with an energy that is untring, and when
1t has caught one, it devours the prey like a
starving tiger, rending it with its powerful claws
and teeth. Occasionally it will capture bird
and tear II to fragments. devouring eagerly the
| bleeding flesh.
SOME WRITERS still use the French spelling,
''Esquimaux," to designate the natives of
| Greenland. "ESkimos" is the Danish form Of
the word, and it has now almost wholly super
| seeded the older French spelling and is IN
doubtedly, preferable. None of the natives, by
! the way, ever called themselves ESkimos. The
native name is lnnuit.
The diet of the Tyrol has passed bill impos-
| ing heavy fines upon persons found selling any
sample of the beautiful but rare Alpine flower,
called edelweiss. which has been pulled up by
the roots on the mountains A similar act was
with view 20 the preservation of the edelweiss
plant, which is threatened with extinction in
the Austrian Alps
THE technical language Of seamen has been
unsettled of late by the growing tendency to
multiply masts on large vessels, and by the
recent important notifications in the rigging
of the different masts. The Nautical Magazine
Uondon) is, however, satisfactory authority
for naming the masts of tve-masted We ssels as
follows, the order being taken from stem to
stern: Fore, main, aftermath, or center, miz-
zen and jigger
ACCORDING to foreign papers, while the
Duchess Of Sanfelice was walking along the
Via Fireuze in Rome recently, the cord holding
her necklace Of pearls broke, and the gems
valued at $4,000 rolled into the sewer An
alarm was sent to the department of streets
and laborers were instructed to search for the
pearls, the Via Ftreuze in the meantime being
closed. The hunt was successful, and all but
four of the jewels were found
JUDGE GRESHAM was showing some friends
how badly cracked were the walls of his office
In the federal building in Chicago, last Mon
day, when three OF the mantel slabs which he
had touched lightly fell with q crash to the
floor. a few minutes before this incident his
electric lights were extinguished by the break
Ing of a wire due to a fresh split in the wall;
and the same day window sash over his door
became dislodged and dropped.
The custom of placing Grape on the door of
house where there has been a recent death had
its origin In the ancient English heraldio GUS
toms, and dates as far back at least as the year
l1O0 A. D. At that period Indictments or armo-
rial ensigns were placed in front of houses
when the nobility and gentry died These
Indictments were of diamond shape and con-
tanned the family arms quartered and colored
with sable in such manner that the spectator
| at glance could tell what branch of the fam
lily was dead. whether the deceased was young
or old, married or single, widow or widower.
THERE is apparently no limit to the applica-
tons OF electricity as motive power in the
manufacturing arts, the current DOW being en-
| ployed successfully in the textile industries
| The electric motor which has been devised for
use in knitting mills is diminutive In size, and
| yet 1t possesses ample power to operate single
Knitting machine. The object is to make each
machine perfectly independent in its operation
The advantages Of this arrangement are that q
number of machines may be run by one opera
tive, each being stopped at WILL or ell together
as the case requires; besides which the current
| is very economical in small factories that are
| not able to employ steam power Electricity
has not yet been introduced for the operation Of
large or heavy machinery in textile mills
JAY GoULD's history Of Delgware county,
written when he was 20 years of age, is now
very rare. Here is passage from it describ-
| men disguised as Indians, during the anti-rent
| troubles: THE savage horde sprang from
| their hiding-places and with demou-like yells
rushed up and surrounded Mr.. Gould, who Wak
standing with his little son in the open air in
| front of the house. We were that SON. and how
| bright picture is still retained upon the mem
| DRY of the frightful appearance they presented
| as they surrounded that parent with fifteen
| guns poised within few feet of his head, while
| the chief stood over him with fierce gesticua-
| tions and sword drawn. o the agony of nv
| youthful mind as expected every moment to
| behold him Frustrated a lifeless corpse on the
| ground
A CALCULATION has been made of the com.
parative results, from an economical point of