The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT the meeting OF the American BAPTIST mis-
sionary union in Philadelphia, the other day, q
| Clergyman spoke in severe terms Of the hy1nu.
Nearer, My God. to Thee" He called it "a
foolish hymn and expressed the wish that IL
might be banished from every Christian heart
ana lip. His chief objection 70 it was that IL
seems to teach that God takes pleasure in the
az ony and trouble of men.
In a town not 100 miles from London there is
| preached every year what is known as a
drunken sermon" 1t is a temperance sermon
1t was instituted MANY years ago by an old
eccentric man, who bequeathed to the town q
puohc house on condition that 30 shillings DO
deducted from the annual rent and given TO a
minister. who should preach . sermon against
the evils OF intemperance
If the Pacific could be laid bare we should
have most singular spectacle, says the Chi
cagoHeTdld. There would be q number of
mountains, with truncated tops. scattered over
1t and those mountains would have an appear
ance just the very reverse of that presented by
the mounta rs see on shore You know that
the mountains on the shore are coverei with
vegetation at their bases, while their tops are
barren or covered with snow, but these noun
tains would be bare at their bases and all round
their tops they would be covered with beautiful
vegetation or coral polypi.
FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER lately invented a
process by which bit of ordinary paper-the
leaf of book, for exAmple-can be made sen-
sitive to the light without affecting the rest of
the page. Acting upon this hint, says the Bos-
ton Advertiser, the French war minister has
begun to take the portraits of conscripts and
recruits on the paper, which gives their hight
complexion, age, etc, and the cheapness and
swiftness of the operation, which is already in
use in the French army is something remark
able. 1t costs only cent to get two copies OF
portrait of jacques Bonhomme-one for his
individual registeR and the other for his muster
roll. aud so rapid is the process that In a few
hours whole regiment can be so photographed
along.
sits for three seconds in the Photographic chair
and the thing is done
CITIES have their own peculiar methods of
buying and selling property. particularly real
estate, says the New York Tribune When an
important sale is made in New York, for in.
stance, the amount is at so much a front foot,
Large values are better appreciated when re-
duced to the standard Of front feet. Several of
the leading cities of the United States however
have never adopted the New York method. In
Washington real estate is sold by the SQUARE
| foot. In Chicago both methods are in vogue
| In Philadelphia the front foot Is seldom heard
| of. Baltimore sells by the lot without regard
| to front feet or square feet Atlanta sells by
| the front foot and Savannah by the lot The
| frOnt-toot method seems to make the property
appear more valuable than it really is. and
| growing towns generally adopt it to impress
| the newcomer with the idea that he is in the
midst or great boom"
THE old oak chest sung of In the mournful
ballad of THE Mstletoe Bough, +" in which Ior d
Lovelrs bride hid on her wedding night while
| playing hide-and-seek which proved her tomb
was sold at auction three weeks ago SAYS the
| New Orleans Times Democrat. Many people
| regard the pathetic tale of the disappearance OF
| the young bride in the midst of the wedding
festivities, and OF her husbands pitful search
| for her through some fifty years, merely as a
| tale, and similar story is told in several
| countries. But it has always been stoutly
maintained that the tragic event really did oc-
| cur at MARVEL Old Hall, near Winchester.
| England. and the authent city Of the old oak
| chest, preserved in the hall until a few years
ago, has been accepted without question Re-
Gently the chest passed, by inheritence, into the
| possession of the late rector Of Uphan Hants
and at bis death recently came TO public sale
AT recent trial In France, says Public
| Opinion it was shown that the chemist Tur-
pin, who is undergoing five years imprison-
| ment Tor treason made arrangements with a
Iriend 70 carry on secret correspondence. A
letter from the prisoner, giving the necessary
| directions TO his friend, was read in court, An
| official inquiry was made and some interesting
information supplied by the convicts, from
which 1t was shown that when private news
was to be supplied 10 prisoner formal letter.
apparently containing nothing OF Importance
was sent. This, being read by the governor,
would be passed on to the prisoner who. I'M,
Outstanding the nissive, and that it was onIv
necessary to read between the lines written In
milk, he could make this perfectly decipherable
| by rubbing 1t over with dirty finger or an old
| slipper. Another ingenious form of secret cor
| respondence consisted in leaving letters ont OF
words, as If the writer were illterate. The
| omitted letters put together formed the re-
quisite words and sentences.
THE despised left hand makes good its claim
| In many cases to be the DETER of the two Tina
| fingers that touch and adjust with such nicetv
| the strings of the violin are surely as cunnin1
as those that move the bow. The hand that
| guides the reins aud steers with exactness the
! horse through the crowded streets is onite a a
| cunning as-one might say much more than
: the hand that Yields the whip. But great is
! pear 10 Chambers journal that as life becomes
| more and more complex we are becoming more
and more specialized, and the difference he
Tween Tween our limbs is encouraged rather than
nlndered BY every pair Of scissors turned off at
Shen1eld, by every screw made in Birmingham
ana oy every slap administered to the yonno
OFFENDING fingers that would dare to shake hands
incorrectly IL IS curious to notice the va9aries
! or humanity in cases where no hard and fa At
line has been already drawn. Although most
rlRht-handed persons put on their coats left arm
right first Soldiers fire from the right shoulder
| but sportsmen are found who nre
Ter the left. In working with the spade pro
| portion OF right handed men grasp the spada
| with the left and push with left foot and richs
hand: though, when using an ak, the same in
| dlVlduals would grasp farthest down with the
t Tlgnt; Inc Perslans mount their horses from
the right side, which is the opposite side from
that mounted by Europeans. The buttons on
coats, etc, are placed on the right side and the
sneu OF the mar IN boys to the left, evidently to
!
| philosopher, Newton, records that at f3rst he
confined his astronomical observations to the
! right eye, but afterwArd he managed to train his
ielt. but there are persons who could not do
TINS, owing 70 the unequal strength of their ewes
! strange to say, the Chinese assign the place OF
| honor TO the left. At Kunyenye, in Africa.
cameron relates being introduced to the heir
! presumptive TO the throne, the nails OF whose
left hand had been allowed to grow to an enor-
mo IS length as a sign of high rank, proving
that he was never required to perform manual
labor. and also providing him with the nnanrn -