The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A new crematory at L,eominster Mass. is
/ 20 be dedicated" with a clam bake, the clans
/ 70 be baked in the cremntory oven.
A Congregational clergyman. OF Ohio &c
( cordinp 70 The CongregatiUnaiist has for
warded 10 the patent ONCE at Washington a
model OF a device for furnishing communi-
Giants with individual cups. They are about
/ two inches high, one inch at the mouth Ia
/ pering down to nearly five-eights of an men az
I the bottom. AS many as forty can con
/ yenienty be carried In a frame and be replen-
/ ished In few seconds.
/ up to the present time, says the Europe,
/ OF Frankfort mo monument that we are
! aware Of has ever been erected TO the memory
/ OF pig. The town Of Luneburg, in Hanover,
] wished to fill up that blank and at the Hotel
/ de Vile in that town there is TO be. seen
/ kind OF mausOleum to the memory OF mem
] Der OF the sWinish race. In the interior OF
| that commemorative structure Is to be seen
| glass case, inclosing ham still in good pre-
/ servation. A slab Of black marble attracts
! the eye of the visitors, who find thereon the
! following inscription in Latin, engraved IN
/ letters Of gold: 'Passers- by, contemplate
] here the mortal remains OF the pig which &c
! quired for tseltimperishable glory by the
| discovery OF the salt springs of LuneouFg.
1t is most interesting sight to watch an
| orang outang make its way through the jun
| gle. It walks slowly along the larger
]
! apparently caused by the length OF its arms
and the shOrtness of its legs. 1t invariably
! selects those branches which intermingle
| with those of neighbOr1ng tree, on APP
! preaching which it stretches out its long arm,
| and grasping the boughs opposite, seems
| first to shake them as If TO test their strength
and then deliberately swings itself across TO
! the next branch, which IL walks along as be-
| fore. 1t does not jump or spring as monkeys
| usually do, and never appears TO hurry itself
| unless some real danger presents. Ell, IN
| spite OF its apparently slow movements, 1t
/ gets along far quicker than person running
! through the forest beneath.
! The s25 which Hoke Smith received as his
! first legal fee was big amount in compari-
| son with those of some other lawyers now
! great writes F. G. Carpenter. Henry Clay's hFst
/ fee just amounted to fifteen shillings. and the
| late Justice Lamar got two jugs Of hand
| made whisky for his first legal services. John
! Sherman had to borrow $50 to go to Columbus
! to be admitted for practice before the supreme
! court of Ohio. And John H. Mitchell of Ore
! gon, who now makes S20O0J and upward
| year at law, was refused credit by a carpenter
! whom he asked to make an office table for
| him at the time he began his law practice in
! Portland. Senator Ingalls, first law fee was
! from carpenter and he took his pay out in
! trade. Inc carpenter made him table
! and desk for trying the SUIT, and Ingalls,
son uses this desk a nart of his office furnt-
! ture to day. The late Benjamin Butler made
| his first real start at the law in attaching
! mill wheel for one Of his clients in Lowell,
and Leland Stanford once told me that he
made just 81 200 the first year that he prac-
! uced law IN Wisconsin. A tire burned down
| his law office and library, and this it was that
| sent him west to make his fortune,
| A student of life and manners in the Pun
| jaub has been struck by the large proportion
of very old men in the Indian jails. says the
! London Daily News. In the prison at MOOl-
! tan there were last year seventeen life pris-
| onerS whose total ages were found to amount
| TO more than / 100 years-two of them being
patriarchs of upwards of so. This remark
! able fact is attributed partly to the great i'm
prOvement in the economy Of Indian jails
since the exposure Of their mismanagement
some years ago, but more directly to the
prevalent practice when a crime has been
committed of handing over the least
useful member Of the family as
sort of vicariOus Offering to Justice
of Indian prisons observes that the conhne-
ment which conviction entails is, of course
less irkSOme to the aged than the young
Moreover Che continues) the people know
that a specially comfortable place in the
shape of good food ample clothing, a special
dietary, the ligntest of work and society
not entirely uncongenial awaits the old man
In our Iatls." A case mas been cited in which
man had been strangled The person to
whom the crime, by his own confess
sion was brought home, was a feeble
old fellow who had been paralyZed in
both arms for twenty years, and could not
have committed the crime. But as mis- family
all said,he did 1t, and he himself said he did,
! and as there were plenty Of "eye-witnesses. &"
| the old man went cheerfully to Jail, and lies
there still.
In laying the foundation of house In
| Whitesborough some fifty years ago the work
| men had occasion to split large stone from
the milestone grit, says the Detroit Free
| Press. 1t was perfectly close grained and
compact. On opening it, however, they dis
covered a black or dark brown, spherical
mass. This they removed and turned over,
| when, to their unbounded surprise, 1t proved
| TO be toad, much larger than the common
| species and OF very dark color 1t was per
fectly torpid, but, after contact with the
fresh air, IL began to show signs of life and 10
| hop about in heavy and ponderous manner.
| The workmen, being ignorant fellows paid
no attention to the toad which hoped around
| the yard for several days and then disap-
| peared. They laid the stone in the wall 80
| that the cavity remained IN sight for many
| years. The story was subsequently invest
lgated by scientists, who, from the testimony
of several witnesses were satisfied of its
| truth. The milestone grit il the oldest of the
secondary rocks, and must have been formed
many centuries before the deluge II was
| supposed that the toad might have grown
! from an egg deposit through some minute
! cleavage in the rock, but no cleavage could Re
! found, and the only explanation possible is
| that the toad found its way into the grit while
the latter was in aqueous solution, over 1000
! years ago; that grit hardened around IL. and
/ that it existed within the rock ever since A
somewhat similar discovery was made while
! the Erie canal was being eXcavated. At that
! time when digging through a ridge of dry
! gravel the WOrkmen came upOn several hun
! dred living mOllusca of the mya cariosa and
mya purpurea families They cooked and ate
| u number, and found them vary palatahle.
/ J hese living fossils were taken at a depth of
! fortytWo feet from the surface of the earth.
| This county, says Barnwel s.. c., letter
! in the Philadelphia Times, possess IS a ne
! gro boy, 10 years of age, who is looked on as
/ the owner of the most remarkable memory of
| which the would has any record. He com
| mttted the entire book of Genesis to memory
| the other day in the space of three hours re
| peating every chapter after reading it over
| ouce, and forgetting only some half dozen
! words from the first verse to the last. Some
weeks ago local politician delivered "a
| speech of nearly two hours at O county meet
| ing and on returning home the hoy was able
| to tell the discourse over with such accuracy
| that the following day the man who delivered
| it went to see him to take a copy of it from
| his mouth. having himself lost the manu-
| script on which il was written This gift
| seems maccOmpanied by an unusual degree
| of intelligence, the boy being only o day
| laborer in the fields, and he appears not TO
| take in the sense of what the camera of his
mind preserves. but to repeat it after the
| manner Of parrot His mother says that he
has possessed this faculty since a
! baby, and that at the extraor-
| binary age of a year he could repeat any CON
| VcrSation that took place in his presence. ir-
respective of its length ana purport. He does
! not know how to read or write, but has fire.
! quently given exhibitions of being able to
| correctly copy out any sheet of writing he has
| read over once. giving every punctuation
| mark and flourish, and initiating the hand