The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

= A MICHIGAN WOMAN recently received in
change a silver quarter of 1897. She didn't want
to take 1t at first, thinking its age made it val
ueless, but she finally accepted it, and next day
she sold It TO a collector for $50.
ONE Of the rare and beautiful skins seen oc-
casionally In this country is that OF the vicuna,
small Indian deer found in Peru and other
regions OF western South America. The skins
reach this country made up into robes, evil
IDENTIFY of carefully selected small pieces sewed
together. The fnr is SOFT thick and tawny in
color, with rich, sunny gnts that give il al
most the luster Of velvet.
THE floating dock and the typewriter are
among the many important Inventions that
were hit upon by men who have made no at
tempt to patent their ideas. A photographer
conceived the idea of the floating dock before
the device was perfected and put to practical
use. and naval officer thought out practical
typewriter, but was persuaded by friends to
abandon his invention as thing that nobody
could be induced to use.
TEE following item from Dean Stanley's
''Sinai and Palestine" may be of interest: st
may be well toremind the reader that there are
two errors implied in the popular expression,
Mount Calvary l, There is in scriptural mar
ratlve no mention of a mount or hill 2 There
Is no sncn name as Calvary. The passage
from which the word is taken in Luke xiii 49,
is merely the Latin translation cCalvariaO Of
what the evangelist calls a skull "
Nice foe which carried away couple Of
sportsmen from the neiRhborhood of Odessa
ten days ago subsequently driven by a
southerly wind over against Otchakoff, where
the fsherfolk discovered the frozen corpses
lying close together on the ice and still guarded
by faithful and half famishsd dog, which had
made no attempt to reach the shore. The ami
NAL had apparently preserved its existence on
some OF the wild duck shot by its unfortunate
owners.
The bronze tint noticed in certain kinds of red
ink is due to eosine, ~ chemical discovered In
1874 by German named Caro- and not i'm
ported into this country until q year or two
later. knowledge OF this fact exposed forged
will in Jersey City the other day The will pur-
ported to have hoen dated in 1868 but LAWYER
Adams showed to Chancellor McGnrs satsfac-
ton that the red ink employed in the pretended
testament had been made from ''eosine which
had not been discovered in 1859
PERHAPS the greatest oddly displayed at the
spring exhibition of the Pennsylvania Historical
Society at horticultural hall is a potato whose
leaves are variesated white and green, says the
| Philadelphia Record This variety of the sue.
cuent tuber which has besn given the aristo-
cratic name silver leaf, J." was grown by Pitcher
| & Manda, the orchid growers OF Short Hills n
| j., from sprout found in their potato field
| Oddities similar to this have occurred and been
| exhibited from time to lime, but all others have
| degenerated in the cuttings from the parent
| plant back to the ordinary green foliage To
| this unprinciped proceeding this variety shows
no tendency, it is claimed, but produces gen
|
| third generation of its descendants.
THE old Pohick Episcopal church in Fairfax
county, Virginia. for the rebuilding OF which
George Washington drew plans in 1878. ia
| still standing. The exterior, says the rec,or
presents the same appearance 1t did when
! Washington drove up to it regularly on SUNDAYS
In his famous coach. The interior suffered
severely during the late war All the wood
| work was destroyed excsptIthe cornice, which is
| the only interior work still existing from Wash
| ington's time. The roof was left in a ruinous
| condition after the war, but the old timbers are
| still there, well protected by covering of good
shingles. About eighteen years ago the church
was put in good repair, though not restored to
| its original interior appearance, through the
kindness OF a gentleman then living in New
| York city. Much needs to be done 10 restore
the church to its former antique interior, but IL
| is comfortable and properly cared for"
ONE of the queerest sights which saw In
| Europe was o row of wooden shoes outside the
| door of a Dutch farm house on Saturday morn
| ing, says 6 writer In Hdrper's YOUNG PeopIe.
| They were the biRsized shoes of the farmer
| himself, the middle sized shoes of his good
| vraow aud several Small-szed shoes of the
children, and all the line had been scrubbed and
/ freshly whitewashed in preparation for Sunday
There are many kinds OF wooden shoes worn Nv
| the peasants in Europe, but none are more
clumsy and heavy than the "kloompers" of the
l Hollanders. They are boat-shaped, with high
| wooden projections to the heels, and a curious
L little upward twist to the toes like the
| PROV Of Chinese junk. But heavy
4 and awkward as the shoes are the Dutch chill
dren run about as lightly as if they were shod in
| Cinderelss glass slippers and do not seem to
| object in the least TO the clicking sound made
| by the shoes on the pavement One of
| the most extraordinary sights in the world ts
| line of little Dutch boys playing leapfrog in
J their great noisy wooden koompers Having
| formed a row OF frogs" from one end of their
village to the other the boys begin to jump in
| the usual agile way OF the players of the lively
| game. AS soon as the line is in motion a most
| tremendous sound startles the village. The
| Oldest inhsbitant can hardly hear himself
| think" but he knows thar the noise is not
| thunder; it is only the rattle OF the bows
wooden shoes as they strike the hard brick
| paved streets.