The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Inc mace OF the city OF 1O1QOu, winch -
very ancient and has been carefully guarded
since 1884, was carried in the wedding process
sion Of the Duke Of York. The foot-knob be-
came detached and was lost No efforts were
spared to lind it, and it was at length re-
covered, so the mace is once again complete.
There are comparatively few names for
other aggregatlons Of abstract numbers be-
side the dozen and the score, says Taggart's
Times. Two things maze brace, couple.
duo or duet; three things make trio,
trinity; eight, according to St Paul, are
| few; thirteen make bakers dozen But
| taking concrete numbers, we IND plenty OF
such names. Fourteen pounds make stone,
twenty-eight pounds quarter; Glove OF
wool is seven pounds; tod is twenty eight
pounds wey is six and one-haif tods; sack
Is two weys and last is six sacks
The highest price on record, 1885, has been
paid for two stamps-namely. a penny red
and a twopenny blue of Nautilus of ls47 with
the words post ONCE on the left side. There
are only two other specimens OF these stamps
known in England, both OF which are IN the
TAPPING collection in the British Museum. In
| the world there are some fourteen known
copies in all but they are in collections OF the
| highest repute, such as those Of Baron Roths-
! child, lie Comte de Ferrary, DR.. Legrano,
| etc, and are never likely to come into the
| market.
It's an odd thing, but there are number Of
people who have distinct antipathy to the
| screech owl, and cannot listen to a single
| burst Of its hilarity without shuddering says
the Cincinnati Times-Stsr The screech owl
( is supposed by the negroes on southern
| plantations to be in direct communication
with all the ghosts and giants Of the for
| ests" He plays great part In the more weird
| folklore story OF the darkies. A funny super
| stition in regard to the Screech owl is that II
| you will take your shoe or slipper of your
| left foot the first time you hear an owl laugh
| and turn the shoe sole upward on the floor
| and place your ''stockin' foot on the bottom
| of the ShOAfS sOln the owl will StnD Laughing
| and fly for ten miles without rest
| Annie Thomas is the only woman in Ka
mania county Washington. says the Wash
| ington News. She is a sQuatter and lives on
I RattleSnake Hills. There has of late been
| great strife for her hand in marriage among
| the rough settlers of that region. Hank Mon
| ley and Jerry Woods seemed to be the high
| est In her favor. and so it was finally agreed
that these two men should settle the question
| between them by duel with bowie knives.
! After desperate fight, in which both were
| wounded, the battle was declared draw. 1t
was then agreed that the matrimonial ques-
| ton should be settled by game of seven-up
| The fortune of cards favored Monley, and
/ he was declared the winner A parson was
| called in to assure him his prize. The tickle
| Annie had long talk with the parson, and,
| though she had never seen him before, she
| at last announced her intention of marrying
| the parson himself and not Monley. In vain
| did the hero of the bowie knife duel and vic
| tor Of the game OF seven up object to this
| proceeding. The woman was firm in her in
tention, and the upshot was that the parson
| got the woman.
1t is stated that when Liberia appointed
| Prof. Alfred Benedict King as commissioner
to the world S fair there was no money in the
| treasury to pay his expenses, says the Col
lector. An appropriation of 5000 worth Of
| unused stamps, including a choice assortment
| of all values, and the stamps intrusted to Mr..
! King to he sold to cover his expenses He
went to Philadelphia, where he hoped to dis
pose OF his supply OF stamps to dealers or col
| lectors at their face value, but soon found
/ that the dealers had some on hand and the
| demand was not great enough to induce them
| to purchase an extra large SUPPLY. AS the
| dealers In Philadelphia wouldn't take the
stamps Mr.. King turned toward the New
| York dealers. Several were applied to in
| vain, but one firm at last consented to relieve
| the commissioner, and made an advance OF
| s., COD to him. The stamps are now on sale in
/ this city, and the set includes II varieties Of
the values Of 2, T. 6, 8, u, l6 "a and 81 cents;
81, q and IS, They are Of the 1892 issue, when
| the Liberian President was j. Hillary John
| son, whose picture figures on the Scent and
s. stamps
Chattanooga has q Seaboard Bank, al
| though some hundreds OF miles from the
water, says the New York Recorder Per
| haps the name is borrowed from a like inEti
| tuition in New York. In Salem, Mass an
Asiatic National Bank recalls the day when
every tenth man you met there was an East
Indian navigator; The Tombstone, Way
curiouSly named by necessity Of their lOca-
| ton. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking
| Corporation and the Yokohama specie Bank
are not in Asia, but in San Francisco. The
| butchers and Drovers' National Bank, like
| abe Hide and Leather, makes bid for the
patronage of special industries: the River
side. Fifth Avenue, etc. for that of localities.
| The most formal and Notwithstanding title is
| that OF the Institution for the Savings of
Merchants Clerks. The Binetallic and
Smelter are, of course Colorado banks. The
| Irish American Savings Bank is an Atlanta
| institution, The Bank Of Good II ope has
| cheering sound these hard times Good
| Hope is in Illinois. The Chickasaw and
/ other national banks in the Indian Territory
| are managed by and for the Indians.
A Paris municipal counselor, NJ. Georges
Berry, has, according to the London Times
| been exploring all sorts of out-of-the-way
| places with view Of presenting TO the coun-
| Gil a report on beggars and begging in the
| French capital Near the Ecole de Medicin
| NJ. Berry found woman who sells sets of ad-
| dresses Of the charitaDly disposed to begging
| letter imposters. She sells two sets the big
set and the little set (''le grand eu ct lie petit
| jeu'D. The little set is francs and comprises
| 200 addresses; for Is francs one can have the
| big set OF $50 addresses, sufficient said the
| vender, 10 enable one starting in the business
| to earn his living for a year. AS NJ. Berry
| bought copy of each set. doubtless the coun-
Gil will give a useful warning to the persons
whose addres SIS are given. Ordinary street
| begging in Paris it appears, is reckoned to
| bring in an average of at least a shilling an
| hour. Many of the beggars sleep in the
neighborhoOd of the Jardin des Plantes A
| man in that neighborhood makes large in
come by anording shelter to them at the
! rate OF penny per head per night. He is
| enabled 10 do this by hiring for a small sum
| each, until regular tenants are obtained for
them, all the empty shops and houses he can
| obtain.
Following on the heels Of the Mutual Lies
withdrawal from Spain on account OF oppres-
| sive laws comes rumors that the Equitable
and New York have botn like action under
| consideration, says a New York letter In
| life insurance circles it seems to be the i'm
| preston that the oppressive legislation com
planned OF is due to the Mckinley bill Vice
| President Alexander, OF the Equitable who
| is one Of those disposed to hold this law re-
| sponslble for the foreign OPP osition in a great
measure at least says: 1.-The foreign business
has been good business. 1t has not onIv
| been large, but Of a desirable kind and the
| American companies have in most Eurooeap
| countries been more popular than the local
| companies. and it is pro ably this which has
| excited the gradual encro lchments made on
| our usiness of late years. When the incon-
| venicnce reaches the point Of being positive
damage, we must Of course withdraw Mr.
Alexander also said that some OF the Ameri.
can companies transact larger business in
| their foreign departments alone than the res
| ident companies do as a whole. Very natur-
ally therefore, the latter as they see business
diverted from themselves to American com