The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-04
ITEMS OF INrEREsr.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The manager of one of the big candy stores
| on State street, says the Chicago Tribune of
| Saturday, advertised yesterday in a morning
| paper Offering pound box of candy each to
| those who would bring him ten black cats. The
| manager said yesterday evening: There has
| not been a cat brought in yet. l advertised in
good faith. The house is full of rats and l
wanted to send an army of cats after them, but
the matter OF advertising for cats and dogs has
been run as a joke so often that it has become a
| chestnut People reading my advertisement
! evidently believed that it was another Joke and
| not cat has been brought. l supposed that
] the store would be crowded with children
dragging the reluctant felines, but there has not
] been single cat-carrying applicant for the
| candy prize"
The value of ice cream as a remedy for GER
| tain intestinal troubles is being considerably
| advanced, says the Jenness Miller Magazine
| Some, indeed most, physicians permit it through
typhoid fever, always insisting it shall be of the
| purest make To the story recently going the
rounds in print of the entire cure of q case of
! ulcero the stomach by the sole and persistent
use of ice cream may be added that of a woman
known to the writer. She suffered from a seri-
| Gus affection OF the eyes, directly traceable to
| digestive disturbance and her physician finally
put her upon ice cream as a sole diet. For
eleven months she literally lived upon ice
cream, with the result Of efrecring a complete
and apparently permanent cure. The theory is
that the cream furnishes ample nourishmeut
while the diseased intestines. chilled from the
low temperature of the food, are prevented
from getting up Inflammation during the proc
ess Of digestion carried on by the healthy
parts
MONKEY WITNESS is shortly to appear In a
murder trial at Sattara, India, A travelling
Snowman, whose living depended on five
monkeys and goat, was murdered near
Ratiti, the whole troupe, with the exception of
this one monkey, sharing the fate of their
master. The monkey ran up a tree and there
watched the ASSASSIN hurry the ha
goat and the other monkeys. When the awful
deed was finished and everything had become
quiet, this intelligent missing link ran of to
let the patel Of the nearest village know what
had happened. By screeches, yells and gestic-
ulation the monkey made the officer understand
that something was wrong. The patel" fol
lowed the monkeys lead to the scene OF the
tragedy and 1t is now being Kept for the identi-
fication Of the assassin This curious plan of
detection reminds one of the time-honored
story or the dog OF Montargls. The people OF
India. it may be observed, have great faith IN
the detective instinct of monkeys.
THE Ner0s MilltGrtsche Batter prints some
startling figures showing the financial resources
which the great European powers can rely
upon in case of war. In the Julious tower OF
the fortress OF Spandan in Arussia there is a
treasure of .one hundrsd and fifty millions of
francs in gold. The other states have only
their national banks to depend upon. The
estimate gives nine hundred and forty-seven
millions for the Austro Hungarian empire, and
two hundred millions to The kingdom of Italy,
giving total Of one billion six hundred and
ninety -four millions for the triple alliance To
this total is added the sum of five hundred and
sixty-seven millions for the Bank of England
and one hundred and one millions for the Bank
of Belgium. In this way it arrives at total of
two billions three hundred aud SiXty-two mil
Inns for the five states OF the west and center of
Europe. But substantial as this sum is, it ap-
pears, according to the same authority, that it
is not as big as the treasure of the Bank of
France, which at present is more than two bill
lions seven hundred millions of francs in gold.
Then, with the resources of Russia, about a
mIlllard more must be added to the war budgets
OF the opponents of the triple alliance.
The first vice president Of one of the eastern
trunk lines of railroad had a peculiar expe-
rience in France recently. and he is undecided
whether to attribute an uncommon exhibition
Of courtesy to the politeness or the cupdty of
French railroad conductor. He was travelling
from Paris to Calais on the fast limited ex-
press. He was hungry when he boarded the
train, and eagerly looked forward to luncheon
| either on the train or at some convenient sta
tion. he soon found that there was nothing to
eat on the train, and that no stops for meals
were provided for in the running schedule. He
sought the conductor and asked him if IL was
not possible to get something to eat before the
train reached its destination. The conductor
suavely intimated that anything was possible
where generous American was concerned.
The American railroad man noted the emphasis
on the word generous and put 5-frauo piece
into the hand of the conductor with Alacrity
The French conductor smiled, nodded and
have his desired opportunity to eat. A few
minutes thereafter the train stopped and the
conductor politely escorted the American to an
excellent waysde restaurant and babe him eat
lesurely. The train was kept standing for fully
ten minutes, while the solitary hungry man de-
voured some eggs with rolls and coffee. I'm
agne such a thing on one of our American lin
tied trains!" said the gentleman, in relating his
experience the other day.
In 1907 Robert Fulton of New York launched
the first successful steam-propelled boat in
America or in the world-the Cleruont The
boat proper was built by Charles Brown in New
YORK; the engine was built in England. The
object of this "Note,h says the st. Louis Re.
public, is to give size and dimensions of the
Clermont, dates, speed attained and other curl
GUS facts not found in the usual sources of in
formation. Her dimensions were: Length, 100
feet; depth, feet; breadth, Is feet. Her trial
trip was made on Aug. Z, 1907, from New York
to Albany. those on board being Fulton's
friends, the mechanics and six passengers
When the steamer left the New York docks il
was amid the jeers of the ignorant and the
coarse jokes and ridcule of the incredulous
On her way up tho Hudson she excited the
astonishment of the inhabitants many of
whom had never heard of an engine
much less of a steamboat. Some educated
eXcurslonists, who were camped on the river
bank and saw her pass in the night described
her ID their letters to friends as "a monster
moving on the waters. defying the winds and
the tide, breathing sulphurous vapors ana
snortlng flames and smoke" Aug. z, 1907 the |
day she left New York, was Monday and she
steamed off from the dock at exactly O'Clock
in the afternoon, arriving at Chancellor Iiy- |
lngstons, above Poughkeepsie, at O'Clock on |
Tuesday exactly 40 miles in twenty |
four hours. From here the trip to Albany was |
continued, Fulton writing that exultant and |
prophetic letter from the last-named place in |
which he said: That boats can be propelled bv |
steam has been fully proved, and it is my belief
that the ocean will yet be crossed by steam |
propelled vessels" Four years after Fulton's |
death, which occurred in 1915. the Savannah |
plowed the pillows of the ocean and made safe |
transatlantic passage.
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