The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! known as the "Tlao-ching-ohiao " or the sect
! which pulls out the sinew. They all dwell
! round the site Of an ancient synagogue, which
! Is IN ruins. In their midst is a pond with an
/ lslet in II on which is placed stone with the
1 dates when the temple was built and rebuilt
| and when 1t fell into decay. These Jews came
| 10 CHINA during the Handynasty COBB c. to
| ~ A D. They now number about 500 souls.
! belonging to SIX families hut they have no
| place OF worship and lost almost all knowl-
/ edge OF the God OF israel. although they re-
tain the distinguishing features Of the
| Hebrew race.
! The word ave age as used in insurance
policies puzzles many readers, saws the New
DIRK Mail and Express. The origin OF the
| word Is IN the Arabic "awar,h meaning dam
! age. From the Arabic language the word
passei by way OF Rhodes or Barcelona into
medl9Val Latin and thence into Italian. and
/ thus came into use with English merchants
| who traded with the Mediterranean. A dam
! age at sea necesSitateS an adjustment be.
| tween the owner of the cargo, the word ''av-
! erage' obtained its recent mathemati, al
meaning of the mean OF a collection Of guam
| Titles, found by dividing the total by the num-
| Der OF the collection. 1t is true that Skeat
| gives different derivation of average, say
ing that IN meui@val Latin ''averia' meant
| cattle - and 'aVeraglum" the tenants con-
| tribution of labor to the lord Of the manor,
but We prefer the derivation from the Rho
| dian laws OF commerce.
y post-morten examination OF the body OF
Jesse L, Jordan. OF Portsmouth, O.. held the
other day revealed the most extraordinary
state OF affairs inside him Last January
Jordan was found in the street stabbed and
bleeding, and when examined by medical
man, the latter said that he could not live.
lie did live, however, and recovered his
| health sufficiently to be about the house and
help himself. He never fully recovered. and
last week died rather suddenly. According
To the ontctal record OF the post-mortem the
nth rib was found cut clean in two.
| The pericardium containing the heart
was then removed and found empty OF
| water, which is necessary in il in
order that the heart may perform its functions
properly. More wonderful still was the fact
that the pericardium had attached itself to the
heart and the two had grown together. This
process must have required months and com
menced Immediately after the stabbing How
Jordan could live under this circumstance
alone is beyond the knowledge OF the physi.
clans. A still greater surprise awaited them.
Jordan lungs were absolutely extinct Not
parucle OF either right or left lung was to
be found This condition existed. the phYsi-
clans s ate, for DAYS and probably weeks i'm
possible, as it may seem.
II nobility may be estimated in dollars. the
mule is nobler animal than the horse. says
the New York sun. Yet there are no autumn
nal mule shows. and even il there were il is
hardly probable that fower.adorned Young
womed would make pra ,tice OF patting the
prize animal. The only way to pat a mule
according TO the Texas code, is with fence
ran or board. The man who collected horse
and mule statistics for the census report
shows that the average Price OF a mule Is s7
more than the average price Of horse. The
ordinary mule in South Carolina which owns
about 5000 OF the long-eared beast is worth
about $40: the average price of horse in the
same sta e is about so. Texas probably has
more mules (ubout 2000JOD than any other
state. The average price Is about S4l or
nearly twice the valce OF Texas horse. In
Missouri mules are wOcth about s. more. and
in Kentucky acout 81 more than horses Only
rev states have no mules, or so few that the
Statisucian didn make note OF them One
OF these states is Rhode Island. which the
mule driver o. Texas doubtless would think is
not any too large paSturlge and play
ground for a festive mule OF southern birth
Oregon Is the only state where horses bring
higher prices than mules. Tine ordinary mule
out there Is worth $50 and the horse S5l. The
figures for California are Mules So: horses
$40. In Pennsylvania. where mules famous
Tor longevity, are much used in the mines
they ring about $50; horses. $67. In this state
there are seventy times us many horses as
there are mules which number about I4OO
4 New York mule is worth Sgi and a horse $40.
Mules are priced more 10 New Jersey than in
any other state the average price being about
SlO6 or $50 more than horses. Illiuois has
about 1900 mules, or more than any other
western state.
One Of the most important matters to be at
tended to in any large retail business is that
OF keeping sufficient supply of small change
on hand TO meet the current requirements of
the trade that IS being constantly carried on
with the neyerending stream of buyers says
the Boston Transcript. At this season of the
year particular care has to be exercised in
THIS branch OF the business, especially among
the great dry gooGs houses of the city. One
of the largest of the dry-g0ods houses
In this city has standing contract
with one of the great daily news
papers to take ali the small chance
received each day by the newspaper Change
is also obtained from the ferry companies and
from the large candy manufacturer who send
wagons out upon the road. These coufection-
cry wagons doing large retail business in
the country districts, accumulate a great
many cents and nickels and dimes This par
ucular house does not find the pressure for
small change any greater during the holiday
season than at any time of the year. il
buys what il needs from day to day some
mes. In anticipation OF large DAYS bust
ness, laying in an extra amount OF small
coin. and a other times retrenchlng in this
particular. for fear of burdening itself with
an unnecessarily large amount of change.
another OF the prominent dry goods houses of
the city not only finds it necessary to buy the
small silver coins but actually has a surplus
OF them to dispose Of regularly. II has how.
ever. to fall into line with other firms so far |
as the copper cent is concerned. Each year
about this time 1t orders supply Of. these !
coins from the mint at Philadelphia in antici. |
patton Of the requirements OF the Christmas
trade In year ii has about So 800 worth of
them on hand.
The steamer Alfonso XII having on board |
ten boxes Of gold coin, each box worth etO.-
OO, struck on a rock and sank at Grand Ca. |
nary, while on a voyage from Cadiz to Ha- |
vana IN 1886, says the Westminster Review
1t was ascertatned that the specie was at a |
depth of &c % fathoms-160 feet-and grave |
doubts were entertained OF the possibility of |
any diver being able to withstand the tire.
mendous pressure incidental to such dapth
VIZ. some stXty-seven pounds to every su-
perhcal square inch of his body Experi- /
meuts at this depth were made off Dart.
mouth. and two men, Lambert and Tessier
were found equal to the perilous task. AIs1
dresses were at length made which would
remain ~ater-tight at so great depth An
expedition was sent out ty the Marine Insur-
ance Conn any the divers TO receive a re
ward OF per cent or $500, on each box re-
covered. Lambert got up seven boxes and
Tessler two. So terrible was the pressure
that neither man could stay below for more !
than few minutes and Lambert for some
Time after his return suffered from chronic
OF the bowels, by which he was in a
certain respect reduced to the HELPLESS
condition of babe in the cradle Probably
a tightly kettle sent down empty 10
the same depth, would have been crush I'd
nat. AS 1t was, the divers only succeed e
IN finding nine boxes out OF the ten,
ElOO0J thus remaining below A suLse.
quent expedition went in search of This
box and the diver, after being down for
twenty minutes, was hauled up only TO die
Nothing discouraged, fresh expedition went
out with two divers, from Germany The first
OF these was promptly hauled up half dead
OQlV to be sent ashore n tho hos rft,I ,.,..s. |