The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

go to Mexico is the advice Of the Bur-
lingtOn, Vt, Free Press. It says Land is
cheap, labor is cheap, and all that is wanted
is enterprise to make the production of cot
fee in Mexico great industry. In the state
of Chiapas farm OF ITO acres can be bought
for $500 and ZOO quintals OF coffee, worth S35
a quintal can be raised on il after the trees
are years old"
LaGrand Larow. of Barton county, Mo,
who is six feet in hight, has whiskers Just
seven feet in length. He was born in Temp
l1ins county. n. Y, and comes of a family
whose men were noted for their long boards
Some Of his friends think he ought to become
a populSt statesman; but he refuses to leave
his farm for the uncertain prizes OF political
life.
A Swede, wishing to make some purchases
for dinner went 60 an Irish markctman in
Hartford and gave his order in pure Celtic
The freshman looked at him in simple amaze
ment and didn't understand word he said
The Swede good-naturedy bantered him on
his want of knowledge of the ancient Ian
guage OF ireland, and said that he himself
had a better acquaintance with it than with
the English.
Cleveland physicians have been questioned
whether. in their opinion, the tendency of per
sons to throw themselves down from high
places and buildings, is an Impulse or dis
ease. One said that this feeling, giddineSs
mental ALTERATION, or whatever II may he
called. may be largely driven away, in climb
and climbing in stocking feet. The foot feels
the rock. Its hold is sure and the mind re
gains its normal condition.
The oldest industry in Great Britain-older
it could hardly be, for its existence has been
traced back TO the prehistoric stone AGES
still being carried on AZ the village of Bran
don, on the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk
and is reported TO be in a hOuriShing Condi-
ton says the London News. II is a manufac-
tory Of gun and Undertook tiintS. The work
10 in. EHa Frr,g.T-
townsfolks' cottages 1t will naturally be
asked, who wants finder box fints and gun
fiints in these days of phosphorus matches
and Martini HenryS: The answer to the first
question Is that there is a good trade in tin
der-box tiints with Spain and Italy, where
the tinderb box still keeps its ground in very
rural districts. Travellers in uncivilized re-
gtons, moreover find flint and steel more
trustworthy than matches. which are useless
after they have absorbed moisture. Gun
fints on the other hand, go mostly to
the wild parts of Africa, where our old
friend Brown Bess" sold by auction long
ago for what flint muskets would fetch. has
found, 1t seems, her last refuge.
In the Middle Ages at the girdle were hung
the thousand.and one odds and ends needed
and utilized in every day affairs says, Cham
ber's Journal. The Scrivener had his ink
horn and pen attached to it, the scholar his
book or books, the monk his cruci6x and
rosary the innkeepcr his tallies, and every
body his knife. So many and so various
Z
pant began to poke fun In and old play
there Is mention of a merchant who had
"a "A punniard, a pen and lnkhOrn, and "a
hanging at his girpleapouCh, a spectacle case
Handkerchief, with many other trinketS be
sides, which a merry mpaniOnSeeing, said it
was like a haherdasher's shop of small wares.''
In another early play lady says to her
maid Give me my girdle, and see that all
the furniturebe at 1t; look that cizers. pincers.
the penknife the knife to close letters
with, the bodkin, the earpicker, and the scale
be in the case" GirdleS were in some re-
spects like the chatelaines not long ago so
much the rage among ladies; but they diff
fered therefrOm in being more useful, more
comprehensive in regard both to sex and to
articles worn, and, when completely fur
nished, more costly. 1t is partly for this last
reason that we find girdles beQueathcd as
precious heirlOoms, and as valuable presents
to keep the givers memory green after
death They were not infrequently of great
intrinsic value. One of King John S girdles
was wrought with gold and adorned with
gems; and that of the widow of Sir Thomas
HungerfOrd, beQueathed in 1904 to the mother
church of Worcester, was of green color.
harnessed with silver and richly jeweled.