The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-29
NATURAL FRUIT FlENoRS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN gold weighs S,6s5s
pounds avoirdupois.
DAMASCUS, Pa, boasts of girl baby born on
July 10, which weighs only III pounds,
CUSTER COUNTY, MONTANA. is larger than Yer
mont, Massachusetts,, Connecticut Delaware
and Rhode Island.
ACCORDING TO a calculation published In Jus
tice, London paper, the entire population
of the world could stand on field ten miles
square.
A COUNTRY NEWSPAPER coRREsRoNpEET In
Maine recently sent this cheerful bit of news to.
his paper: Brooks is at last provided with
nice hearse, and our citizens can now be con
veyed to their graves in decent shape. This is
something that has long been needed here"
Mrs. FERDINAND CLAYTON Of Marion, Ind,
owns peculiar bird brought to this country
seven years ago from Africa 1t has beautiful
pumage, is not songster, and is noted for its
comoatiVe and vindictive disposition. It is
called the niue or widow bird -
THE anti-pork people say that the eating of
pork is the fruitful cause of scrofulous diseases,
not to speak Of the deadly triehina. But an
eminent physician declares that OF all the races
| In the world the North American Indians are
the most afflicted with scrofua, though they
eat very little pork.
PERFECTLY preserved salt nsh, probably
| lOsOJU years OH. are IOuuQ III N0VdQa, OLdn
and Arizona, where salt strata are often struck
In making excavations 100 yards beneath the
surface These fish resemble the pike and
| pickerel, and are wholly unlike the living fish
| found in the same region.
WOMAN made her 24sth appearance in
London police court, charged with being drunk
| and incapable She pleaded that she had found
| it a long time between drinks, having come out
| OF prison on the previous day after months
confine ment. The magistrate took the same
view and discharged her.
| IT is estimated that in the United States the
| annual expenditure for public charitable insti-
buttons is fully Si25O00 OOO aud not less than
| S5000O0. 900 is invested in buildings and equip
| ments for carrying on the work Of these insti-
| buttons. In this estimate no account is taken
| of penitentiades and jais.
THE German newspapers publish the follow
| ing proclamation by Herr Johannes Lang, mayor
| Of Oberammergau: 81 hereby declare that the
report published in several papers, according TO
| which the people OF Oberammergau, or part of
| them, have resolved to 20 to Chicago in order
| to produce the Passion Play there, is entirely
| false. More than $50 years ago our ancestors
| soemnly pied ged themselves to produce the
| Passion Play every ten years IN grateful re-
| memorance of their having been spared from
| the pest then raging, and this vow was always
faithfully kept by u.s. Nothing Is farther from
| our thoughts than institutinR productions of the
| Passion Play besides those given every ten
years; neither do We deem it proper to travel as
| actors or to make q profession Of our sacred
play. In the interest OF truth we beg you to
give this, our disavowal, the largest possible
| circulation"
IT is OFTEN said that IL white people eould
live most Of the time 10 the open air. like the
| Indians, they would nsver have consumption;
| and, In fact, certain physicians attempt to cure
| consumption by keeping their patients outdoors
nearly all the time. But DR.. A. b. Holder Of
| Men pbis Tenn, now comes forward with sta
tlstics to show that the Indian rs peculiarly sub
JrcG to pulmonary diseases. Reports which he
secured from the Indians Of Yankton and Sisse-
tor, Oak. DEVILS Lake, Oak, Green Bay, Wis. {;
Tulalip. Wash; Standing Rock, Oak. Lower
Brule, Oak Usage, /. T., Grow Greek, Dak.,
Nheyenne River, OAK, and Western Shoshone,
New, all teemed with date as to the fatal raw
ages of consumption. OF !, 453 deaths from all
diseases in 1888, b14 were from consumption
alone.
THE editor was taught by his goveFness that
three barleycorns measured one inch, says
Whittoksr's AIps0ndek. and at tho mature age
OF years he determined to test the ACCURACY
of this statement. He had no difficulty In and-
ing the barleycorns, but somehow no three
grains that he picked up in the chickens yard
agreed with the formula. He never attempted
the more scientific test which is thus described :
THE length OF pendulum osolliatna In a
second IN vacuo. at sea level, in the latitude
of London, is 39, 1929 inches, and from the
knowledge OF this fact the standard OF she inch
foot and yard can easily be obtained should the
official standards at any time be lost or mis-
| laid" When, in 1884, the standard" measure
was destroyed by fire at the Houses Of Parlia-
ment en attempt was made to restore II by the
pendulum test but pendulums, like barlsyeorns,
were found not to agree.
IT has recently been pointed out that few of
the industrial occupations, as at present pur-
sued, exceed in unhealthiness that of the potter:
| that, on joining the trade, the mortality is low.
but after the age of So years, 1t is far above the
average. says writer in the New York SUN.
In England this mortality has been especially
noticeable. it being exceeded only by coster-
mongers, miners and hotel servants. This high
death rate, indeed, in this specially has led the
registrar general of England to seriously con
slider what, If anything, may be considered a
remedy. It claimed for America that in this
respect the potters are much better off, work
ing, as they do, in factories that are larger
better lighted and ventilated, and where the
use Of anthracite coal so universally prevents
the smoky atmosphere which surrounds the
English pottery districts. There is certainly no
doubt of the correctness of the statement tha
1t is not SO much the physical labor that Injuries
the potter as it is the dust arising from the
materials in which he works.
A PHILADELPHIA PHYSICIAN who has Just re-
turned from trip to England says: Il stopped
with q gentleman in Liverpool who is making a
fortune out Of one of the most curious applics.
tons OF the drop-a-pennyi in the slot idea that
have ever seen. In England, by the way, they
use It for dozen things that We know nothing
OF in this country. The use for it TO which 1
allude, however, is the furnishing OF iumi-
mating gas to small consumers A small device
is fastened to any ordinary gas meter and each
time a copper penny is dropped in the slot a
certain amount of gas is let into the meter and
thence into the pipe leading to the burner. A
little dial shows how much gas is admitted to
the meter. and a dozen or more pennies can be-
dropped in in succession if the purchaser so de-
sires. Over 1909 of these are now in use in
Liverpool, aud the demand for them in that
and other big cities is SO great that the COM
| pany owning the patent cam L at present be-
gin to make them fast enough to supply it."
DURING the performance of a play to a
crowded theater at Bella, Italy, last week one
of the players behind the scene thought he saw
tiny threads OF smoke curling up from the floor
OF the stage He called the stage manager 8
attention to It, who, on investigation found that
under the stage the place was on fire. The
manager kept his self control and returned to
the stage, where one of the chief actors was
about to appear. The manager whispered the
situation TO the actor and asked the latter 20
| feign sickness when he went out 20 act his
part, aud thus give an excuse for stopping the
performance The actor did as suggested He
went on the boards Immediately aud pretended
10 reel and then fell. The audience rose a
| sympathy aud the stage manager, rushing for
ward hurr1edly, sail chat owing 10 the serious
| illness OF the sign0r, the performance would
have 60 close for that night The doors were
/ promptly throgn open aud the audience Was
buried out. Just as the last Of the audience
vas leaving, the flames began 20 burst through
the stage, and looking DAck the people saw the