The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Head Of Christiana church. in Newcastle
county Delaware, outdoes even Or. Wylie's
church in the average length OF pastorates
Its latest pastor has just resigned. after a ser
vice OF forty years. and the church in its
whole 100 years has had but six pastors. The
father OF the minister just resigned served in
but one pastorate during his clerical life OF
thirty-seytn years
A contractor sinking a ten-inch driven well
at Dover, Del, has hit upon the plan Of sub
stituting rotary motion for the direct blow
or the pile driver In sinking his pines After
a pipe tai been driven more than % feet by
the pile driver, the other method was applied
and the pipe was sunk three feet in twenty
minutes. The contractor is going to patent
MS invention If nobody has anticipated it.
The Rev. Dr. David A. Day, a Lutheran
missionary from St Paul West Africa, in
lecture at Washington, spoke about the sale
of rum which he feared was destined to over
come the missionaries work and sweep away
the tribes. lie told Of natives whom the mis-
sion had spent years in raising out of degrade
ton killing themselves with drink, and said
that the vessel which carried him to Africa
had 100000 gallons Of rum in her hold.
The town of Grand Junction, Col, put on
holiday attire on the 18th of this month, and
the people Of the country around assembled in
crowds and celebrated Peach Day with much
feasting, Fruit growing at Grand Junction"
says Denver daily, lis 'one of the states
recent triumphS, and the development made
in that vicinity is little short of marvellous.
Here peaches, pears, plums, nectarines and
grapes are grown to perfection, and where
land was Onte worthless there are thousands
of orchards oftgreat value" All this has been
accomplished within ten years. Seemingly
all is not calamity and despair in Colorado.
An energy saving appliance, says the New
York Sun, was noticed in an open carriage on
Broadway recently. 1t was an open-faced
watch fastened in the bottom of the carriage
so that the occupant could see the time Of day
by merely glancing down 1t was very swell
carriage, with fine horses to draw it. i'm
maculate coachman and footman, and silver
decorated harness. The lady who sat grace
fully on the rear seat kept her head very
erect, and did not even sway as the carriage
rolled over the paVementS. II she ever I'M
bent sufficiently to look at the watch at her
| feet it was not while she was within sight of
the reporter, nor was 1t easy to imagine that
she would do So
Everybody knows the pretty little forget
me-not and like the flower more perhaps be-
cause Of its name than its beauty. How was
| it so called? The Germans account for it by
quite a pathetic romance. It seems that
once upon time knight and lady were
! walking by the bank of the Danube, when the
| latter asked her gallant gay to pluck for
her tiny blue flower which she saw growing
| in the stream. No sooner said than done,
but the knight overbalan ling, fell into the
river, and owing to the shpTery nature of the
bank and the weight Of his own armor was
/ GdIIlCu away ny lub current. AS ne Threw
the flowers ashore to his lady he cried out
! with his last breath, 'Vergiss mein nichtl"
] (Forget-me mott And ever sin e the flower
| has been looked on as the emblem of fidelity.
Now and then one sees a paragraph on its
| rounds describing how cat committed sui
eide by getting in front of a street car and let
ting the wheels go across Its neck Brook
lyn, n. Y car driver does not believe in the
= suicide theory He says it is stupidity and
slow thinking that costs the cat her life.
1u hn
You can see that they don't want to get hurt
no more nor man would, but when they sees
cars coming 10th ways. and horses and
wagons, and crowds on the sidewalks. and
hears the noises they don know which way
to go. They lose their senses most at nj ht
because the lights seem to scare EN-. Since
I've been running trolley car I've run over
half dozen of en- and they al squatted
down on the rails. But they didn't mean
suicide"
Some years ago, says the New York Press
nephew Of Washington Irving young man
entirely unlike his distinguished uncle either
in intellectual or moral qualities, appe ed at
his home in Central New York after a long
hunting trip. He was an adventurous char
acter, fond OF sports, but not over foad of
looks. One daY he took from his valise a
thick bundle OF paper with which, he said to
friend, he was going to clean his guns, the
quality OF the paper being such as was es-
pecially adapted for that pUr lose Some Of
the sheets he did take to remove the foulness
from his foWling pieces, but before he made
such use Of all this paper 1t was discovered
that they were the anusCripts OF some of
| washington lrv1ng's sketches which had
| been returned to the author after the printer
were through with them. Where the young
man found them is not known, but gentle
man living in Geneva e ured what was left
OF the manuscripts and kept the sheets as a
most valuable curiosity. After some years
they disappeared from his house, but were
again discovered in another place, and some
time ago they again disappeared, and not
WltlEtanQl1R most patient search thew
i not been found. The impression is that
through the carel essness OF a servant these
precious manuscripts were either burned or
else sold to the junk man.
Oldfashioned molasses the genuine, dark
brown, saccharine delicious adjunct of the
corn pone and the slapjack, has become a
| scarce article Of late years says the New
| FORK Sun, and IS likely to become Scarler
still Ip fact, the old time molaSses is sea-. civ
! produced nowadays, for, as sugar-making
machinery is improved and the production OF
! sugar increased, the quantity and quality Of
1 molasses decreases. Many planters can re
member the days when, to separate the sugar
from the moiasses, the boiled cane Juice was
placed in barrels bored full OF holes the
/ molasses drained out and the sugar remained
in the barrel. The centrifugal machinery now
In use separates the 81 gar so thoroughly that
but little mo,a 5seS, ana that of poor quality
is left The bounty on sugar has also ope-
rated greatly to reduce the production of mo-
laSSeS. The planters have made every effort
during the past season or two to produce the
greatest possible quantity of sugar for the
sake of the bounty, and the molasses has been
OF so poor quality at times as to be unmar-
ketable. he most Of the mOlasseS made is
now sold to rehners and reboilers who ma
n1pulate it and place it on the market under
variety OF names Many of the West Indian
planters do not market mDlasses at all now.
but turn the product INTO the rum stills
Dealers say that the trade in molasses. for
the country at large, has been decreasing
greatly every year.
A curious lawsuit, says the Philadelphia
Press, is in progress at Paris the defendant
being the Prince de Berghes the only son of
the Due de Berghes The prince while con-
nected with the French embassy at Vienna as
military attache. contracted a number of liza
bilities, especially to money lenders and on
the non -payment of his promissory notes
| when due the harpies attempted to recover
from him by ordinary legal process. Owing
| however, to his diplomatic position and to
| the privileges attached thereto, they dis
| covered that they could do nothing being
| thrown out of court at the very commence
| ment OF proceedings The scandal caused
| thereby was so great that the prince was
obliged to tender his resignation and to re-
turn to France, where his father and relatives
Immediately provided him with counsel iu-
d1clare that is to say, they vested the control
of his property in the hands Of trustees de-
prlvlng him OF the legal right Of administer
ing his estates or Of contracting any valid
engagement The Vienese money lenders are
now endeavoring to proceed against him in
the courts OF Paris, but are met by opposi-