The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| ITEMS OF INTEREST.
| MACHINE for Embedding wire netting IN
J glass is a late invention.
SUCCESSFUL TRIAL was made on the Erie
canal at Lockport, N Y. few days ago of a
full sized canalboat equipped with Two revoIv-
! ing portable wheels running like overshot wa
! ter wheels in ar-tight recesses cut in from the
| bottom of the boat, a little forward of the
! stern.
The PREFECT of the Seine had recently i,07s
offices at his disposal, all of minor Importance.
and for these offices he had over 30, 600 apph-
| cAnts. 1he offices were mostly as super
numerary clerks, porters, local customs collect
ors. tobacco shopkeepers and even chief funeral
| muteS and cemetery rangers.
RACE meetings in India generally include
some comic feature. and the latest novelty is a
white tie race" introduced at Kirkee. The
| competitors ride certain distance and
| dismount and kneel before a lady while she
! ties white tie round their necks in neat bow,
then they remount and rush for the winning
post. Much depends on the ladys deftness.
THERE'S girl in Stanton, Mich, il years old
who, from infancy until about two weeks ago
has never been able to talk She has suddenly
| developed the power of speech, though the
change has come from no apparent reason, and
for more than week she has been talking in
| cessantly taking no rest day night. Strong
opiates seem to have effect in checking the
| constant working Of her tongue. Her talk is
perfectly rational, being mostly made up Of an
| account OF her experiences while she was dumb
but it is feared that she will talk herself to
death, II not the family.
The PRACTICE of keeping bad dogs to chew up
! other people has suddenly grown very unpopu-
lar at Sycamore, Ill. Mrs Mitchell of that town
| had one ugly dog, and her neighbor, Walrod
| had another. asst Sunday a l4-year-old boy
had occasion to pass their houses at o clock in
the morning. He took the other side of the
street to avoid the dogs, but they ran across to
small pocket knife, but they threw him down
and before his cries brought ssistAnce they
had partially eaten him alive. Que leg and one
arm were totally stripped Of flesh, and his body
was horribly mangled. Everything possible was
done for him, but he cannot live. The citizens
now say that every dog in town must die.
SOME very interesting archaeological remains
are being taken out of a gravel pit on the bluffs
\ of Sugar Creek, near Charlottesville, Ind So
far twenty five skeletons of Brobdignagian
stature have been eXhumed, and the search is
| still being actively prosecuted. The last one
| found was fully seven feet in length and of
| enormous proportions, the pelvic bones being
| twice as large as those of an ordinary man
them cracked or decayed, and with the enamel
as beautiful as ivory. No implements or orna-
ments nave been found with the bones but not
lar away were discovered many implements of
warfare and of domestic USE Most of them are
of stone, but some are of copper and few Of
shell and bone. The stone weapons are mostly
spear and arrow heads, and many of them are
of very perfect form and highly polished all
over.
IT IS probably not generally understood that
the six Companies" are not six regularly Or
ganized money making institutions, says tbs
Kansas City Star, There are in fact seven
| companies, " but they are not companies at all
| The head OF the seventh and largest institution
is a representative of the emperor and the six
I minor organizations are merely his helpers. 1t
requires this leading spirit and his cabinet, with
| SIX wise Cinnamon as heads, to watch the
Chinese interests in this country Chinese
news reaches all Cinnamon in America through
| these seven representatives. All American
| news of interest to Cinnamon Is dissemin ated
through the same channel Railroad maps
books clothing, wives, coffins and return ticket,
| for corpses-everythng In short, that China
| man in America hss-oomes to him from head
| quarters. Little wonder that the "Six Com
panes" are powerful with their people.
"A RURAL farming district In Michigan, - says
The Engineering AGcdEins. 'has provided
itself with telegraph line eight miles in length
| connecting large number OF scattered farms
| with the village store. the proprietor Of which
offciates as telegraph operator, express agent
postmaster, and so on. The total cash expendi-
| ture for the outfit is said 70 have been only
| some $500, while the.expense Of maintena noe
| which is but trihing sum, is assessed equally
| upon the owners. The small cost and enormous
convenience OF such system as this In country
| districts ought to lead to a more general adop-
| ton of the plan. Especially after she expiration
OF the telephone patents In 1924, such @ system
OF REORGANIZATION by wire would be pos
| sible in every township throughout the country
| The individual expense would be almost insie-
| nifcant, and in the item of useless travel alone
| would save many times its cost every year"
SOME TINE AGO Edward O'Reilly, a penniless
/ pauper, lay very i'll OF consumption at the
4 Charity Hospital in St Louis Mrs E. D.
l Plant and her daughter, while visiting the hos .
pital, paid him some attention. He profsssed
to be profoundly grateful, and asked Mrs
Plants permission to will his 200 life insur.
| w a nv ~ oI 49, A..
! daughter. The request was granted and the
Plants took deep interest in his welfars and
| had him conveyed to a private hospital where
| ne could have better attention He had not
| been there long when he altered his will SO as to
| leave half of his property to the kind sisters
| who thereupon nursed him with the utmost
| tenderness He died, and there shortly arose
I dispute about the will between the Plants and
the sisters. 1t bid fair to be an ugly affair
4 until few days ago, when the lawyer en-
| poyed by the Plants discovered that O'Reilly
carried no insurance and possessed no property
| of any kind.
| THE San Francisco Examiner says: What the
! queue is to the Chinaman. what the tuft of hair
in the middle of his head is TO the American In
dian, such to the Fiji Islander as giving him
the pass to social distinction is the necklace he
| wears OF teeth taken from his victims So saws
! DIR. j. NJ Whitney of Honolulu, and he ought to
| know. For few dollars he obtained such a
necklace from a sailor who had been on a Brit
ISL man of-war cruising among the Fiji Islands
| Many traits of character and disposition are re-
| vealed on examining this necklace. In the first
! place there are 2SS teeth. AS each tooth rep
| resents victim the assumption is that this par
| ticular chief lived well and dned sumptuously
: Many of the teeth have not attained their full
size. This indicates that the owners of the
teeth were young, and, OF course, tender and
| juicy. All of which goes TO show that the can
nibal king was of a discriminating mind and
! knew good food when he saw it. On the other
! hand, the presence OF some very old-looking
teeth augurs that sometimes times were hard
and the poor cannibal had to put up with what
| he could get. This would encourage the Writ
J ues of fortitude and self denial.