The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Nor a great way from Monterey, Mexico. is
the famous Carthusian table, one Of the greatest
natural curiosities on the North American con-
tinent. 1t is a tableland, 400 feet high and
$500 above sea level. The figure of the table
land is an almost perfect crescent, running east
and west, and on its summit is more than so. 600
acres OF perfectly level land, Astounding In run
ming water.
In PERSIA boys and girls never play together.
The little girls have TO invite playmates Of their
own sex, but their games are never lively ones
They generally prefer to sit by themselves
under the shade OF mulberry or pomeRranate
trees in the garden and listen to fairy tales,
which their mothers and nurses can tell very
Interestingly, indeed.
SOME of the younger squaws of the Tarratine
tribe Of Indians are better looking and better
educated than many of their white sisters
Alice, the 1Syear old daughter Of John Francis,
the big hunter and trapper of the Penobscot, is
a very pretty and graceful girl, with dark.
mstrouS eyes, and clear olive complexion. She
speaks English, French aud the Tarratine dia-
lect. plays the piano, makes many kinds of
fancy work and has Travelled some.
YALE's EXTENSION of ost-graduate ed
vantages to women does not mean all courses
will DO open to them, much less is it intended
that there shall be coeducation in the under
graduate department. Nor is there any purpose
to compete with women's colleges. 1t is simply
proposed to throw open in some branches as
good facilities for research as can be found in
Europe. Twenty scholarships, yielding the
amount of 500 each. five feliowships Of 8 100
each, have been created. These will be open to
graduates Of all colleges. The most noteworthy
feature Of the plan is the opening Of the strictly
postgraduate course and the degree of doctor
of philosophy on and after the fall OF 1892 with
out distinction.
ALTHOUGH some millions of francs passed
through Boulanger's hands within the brief
space of eighteen months the assets of Boulang-
ism are practically nil. The whole of his avail
able property amounts to about 44,400, of
which more than three fourths 90 to hiswife,
and the rest will barely pay his debts The sale
Of his beion Zings in Brussels on Wednesday,
March %. bids fair to achieve success. Il is an
nounced by gigantic green posters. and in -
given him by the electors of the Seine. Busts,
portraits, photographs and addresses may be
counted by dozens, and ill ten pages of bulky
catalogue. Inc unusual demand for private
view tickets gives the whole of the melancholy
proceedings the character Of salon.
THE ANCIENTs firmly believed in monster ser
penis Of all kinds and of both the land and ma
rine species. During the wars with Carthage
great snake is said to have kept the Roman
army from crossing the Bagrados river for sew
eral days. The monster swallowed up no less
than seventy Roman soldiers during this com
bat and was not conquered until 100 stones
from as many different cataputs were fired
upon 1t, ali at one time The monster skull and
skin were preserved and afterwards exhibited
In one of the Roman temples The dried skin
of the creature was 1870 feet in length, accord
ing TO Pliny Boa-Oxus. city on the Ganges,
is said to have been so named because gigantic
serpent 120 cuoits long and having a double
head, was killed at the present site of the town
about the year 1851 A. d. One of the first copies
of the Illiad was written on the great gut" of
DRAGON said intestine being 1870 inches 10 length
and IL inches broad. 1t was destroyed in the
great fire at Constantinope.
In November. when the cold weather has
Ras-
gins in Vermont says q Bennington Vt) letter
in the Chicago Tribune. Genuine spruce gum
has almost entirely disappeared from the Ben
nIngton market as q regular article Of rneS.
chandise. Formerly the supply was abundant,
the supply now largely depends on chance, the
gum plckers not bsing so numerous or indus
trlous as in former years. as there 10 little
and forest fires have wrought such devastation
amonE the b Il tracts OF spruce trees which for
merry clothed the Green mountains that the oc-
cupation of the gIm-pckers is most gone.
Sometimes lumberman or a mountaineer in
WoodfOrd a town adjoining Bennington on the
east, discovers tree that will vie several
pounds Of marketable gum, which is brought
TO bennington, where 1t finds a ready
market At good prices. The price depends en-
tlrely upon the quality, ranging all the way
from so cents to 81 80 pound. Gum Of poor
quality is readily distinguished by its opaque
ness and by its intimate admixture of minute
bits Of bark, which became entangled with the
gum when it exuded from the tree in a semi
liquid state Poor gum is further istin gushed
as being too heavy or too light, bitter and per
manently sticky to the teeth IN some cases. aud
hard and crumbly In other specimens Gum
of the first grade is either translucent or trans
parent, OF Light amber color, filed more or
less with minute bubbles of air. breaking with
short shining fracture, and having a sweet De-
cular and oalsamic odor and taste The word
gum" however, is popularity misappied as
the substance is a resnous matter. con-
siderable portion of the gum offered for
sale in Bennington is sent west in small
packages by mail. The reason for this is
that large numbers Of eastern people who have
gone west send bach to their old home for small
supplies at tune. In this way, too quarter
pound packages of gum are sent across the
continent TO California, where the article is
valued almost beyond price The Ohio and
Michigan branches of the Olin family, that re-
Gently held their annual reunion in bennington
''cornered" about all the spruce gum stocks In
town. Several years ago an enterprlsing Young
man, H. W. Martin of Bennington. worked up
a large trade in this commodity. Tons of gum
by mail, express and freight we're sent by him
to remote sections of the country and the de-
mand was often greater than the supply. The
gum, however, which was Of extra fine quality
was obtained in New York state. Mr.. Martin
was subsequently appointed postmaster at Ben
nington, and the gum business was abandoned