The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The manner in which animals and birds en-
| dure pain should awaken the sympathy OF all
thinking people. says the New York Herald
Horses in battle furnish striking example
OF this power OF endurance. After the first
stinglng pain is felt they make no SOUND. but
pear y with mute wondering endurance, ana
when IN the silence Of the night a grOan
comes from the battlefield 10 Is because OF
loneLness-the craving for human cOmpan-
lonshlp which is so necessary 70 once domes
tlcated animals. dog will 20 for days with
d broken leg without complaint, but the
pleading WiSuul look would attract attention
from any one not totally blind
to all sensbility A cat wounded by
SUCK or stone, or caught in some trap
from which 1t has either gnawed or pulled its
way. Will crawl to some quiet out of the
way place and endure silently agony which we
could not endure. Cattle will meet the thrust
OF the butchers knife without a sound. The
wild dove with shot from the hunters gun
burning in its tender flesh will fly 20 some
hlgh Dough or lay fiat upon the ground and
ole, and no sound will be heard save the
dripping o. the blood upon the leaves. The
Strlcken deer viii speed to some thick wood
ana there In pltlful submission await the end.
The eagle stricken In high air will struggle to
the last, but there Will be no sound of pain
anu the proud, defiant look will not leave the
eyes until the lids close over them and shut
OUT the sunlight they love so we'll.
A little known and striking instance fore
sight and industry exhibited by a bird is that
OF the California woodpecller, says the Spec
tator Like others Of its kind, this bird is an
insect eater Yet in view of the approach of
winter 1t prepares a store of food OF a wholly
ulHerent character, and arranges this with as
lutch care as an cplcure might devote to the
storage OF MS wine in cellar, In the sum
uer the WOokpeCker lives on ants For the
winter 1t stores up acorns TO hold each
acorn II hollowS a small hole in a tree into
Whleh the acorn is exactly fitted and is
ready 10 DC split by the strong bealx Of the
climbing wOOdpecker, though too tightly
held to be stolen either by SOUR
o gf" ,6 or other other bid, bids relation
driest parts Of Mexico where during me
uroughts II must die of starvation unless it
made store. To prevent this it selects the
n9 3i,S stem OF species Of aloe, the pore OF
Mhlch is Just large enuogh to hold nut. The
Woodpecker drills holes at intervals in the
STEM ana Nils ii from bottom to top with the
nuts, the separate holes being apparently
maze Tor convenience Of access to the the col
unh OF nuts within. The intelligence which
moi only constructs a special storehouse but
Ieaches the woodpecker TO lay by only the
nuts winch VIII keep, and not the insects
winch would decay. is perhaps the highest
form OF bird reasoning which has yet been OBJ
served
OF all the queer developments that have
arisen in connection with the dethronement
OF queen Llhuokalani none is stranger than
the excitement which attended the specula-
tlon IN the provisional stamps issued by the
present government, says the san Francisco
| can. This speculation is not confined to
| stamp collectors and dealers but is induced
IN by residents Of Honolulu and CITIZENS of
TINS ana O'her countries alike, even one OF
! the Sprcckcls family being credited with
having purchased and laid aside $4,000
worth of these labels for future profit
It was anticipated that the DrovlsiOnaT
government would be OF short duTa ion and
that the lmpIovised stamps we're To have a
life as short as the temporary government
ana this let 10 a scramble for stamps, as il
was presumed that they would become ex
ceedingly rare and valuable. There were
twenty one varieties issued. includ lng All the
perforated stamps issued by the Hawaiian
government since 1854, ranging In value from
/ cent TO 81. Each of these was oyerDriDted
or surcharSed to use philatelic term. with
the words provisional Govt 1898 in three
lines, each word and date taking "A seDarate
line. Some Of the stamps were Surcharged
with black letters ana others with red ali OF
one denomination being OYcrprinted in the
same Color. But the portion OF one value the
l--ceht ulauNei was Surcharged IN black. and
the remainder in red the.e being twice as
many OF the latter Surcharged as of the for
mer As but few thousands Of this particu-
ar stamp were on hand. they were soon
bought up, and as much a 8 each was paid
for specimen OF the black surcharped
Spectators soon bought up the supply Of
several OF the other values, and 10 was not
long after the date Of their issue that a com
plete set of these stamps, which had a face
value OF S3.Ol, was selling for Sl5. Recently
however, some of the spectators have
deemed II wise to unload, ana the entire set
can now be purchased for SO stijl leaving a
handsome profit on the original cCs Recent
adyicCS from Honolulu show that the mania
for stamp collecting has had somewhat OF q
sensational effect there. f. r. Porter a
brother OF the ex-miniSter OF finance of the
PROVISIONAL government wrote as follows.
Ihey cave gone crazy on Hawaiian stamps
Even the Chinese are in it. l saw in the ma
per last night that one Chinese firm houEht
SL7O worth at the postonice. II such is tie
case the government has a mighty good thing
for it can grind them out for about 10 cents
per loo sec in the windows about town
samples OF severa! kinds Of stamps priced
$40"
A correspondent Of the North China Herald.
writing from the interior of F<langsu province
mentions that one OF the industries there IS
the manufacture OF mock money for offering
to the dead. Formerly the Chinese burned
sham paper money, but in there DAYS OF en-
hghtment and foreign Intercourse the natives
OF Soongkong, HangchOw, ana other places
nave come to the conclusion that dollars are
more handy 10 the ghoststhan clumsy paper
money; hence they now, to q great extent
supply their ancestors and departed friends
the size Of real dollars, but there appears to
be no more harm in cheating the
dead than there is in cheating the living
Besides, the deceased are not SIM
posed to know the difference for many n
them parted this life before silver dollars
We're imported into China A hundred mock
carolus dollars, done up In boxes, are sold for
"a cash. The operation Of making this money
Is interesting. First of all there are blocks Of
tin which are melted down and then poured
between cards lined with Chinese pa'oer. and
when the upper board is pressed down on the
lower thickness Of tin remains This is
next cut up into strips four inches long one
wide, and an eighth of an inch thick. Some
ten of these strips are placed evenly together
one on top of the other, and one end is held
between the fingers when the workman pro.
ceedS to hammer them ont till he has beaten
them so fine that they are now three feet
long and loot broad, and so thin that they
are not thicker than the thnnest paper This
IS next pasted on common cardboard. which
is then cut with punching machine to the
size of half dollars. and this having been
done. boy takes the cut out pieces In hand
and with TWO dies one representing the one
side and the other the reverse hammers i'm
pressions Of dollars on them and the money
is ready for use. Another very curious IN
stance OF the practice Of cheating the gods is
recorded in the same journal. out from quite
a different part of the country, 1t appears
that districts Of the Anhui province have
lately been ravaged by an epidemic. so that
in many places the people were unable to al
tend to the harvesting of the crops An At