The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! On the day which saw his appointment as
| ambassador to Italy confirmed in the Senate
| Mr. Van Allen il is said, sent a telegram TO
MS agent in Rome instrueting him to arrange
Tor suitable residence for the new ambas-
sador.
In the old time, says Notes and Queries.
men and women who were mere acquaintance
exchanged kisses in public, and with certain
amount Of ceremony, and a visitor to whom
1t was desired to show special civility was al
ways received with a kiss The mode of sal
utatlon has changed greatly with the times
haste ana high pressure have contributed to
render the form OF greeting as brief as posi-
! bic Not only have we given up the quaint
familiar way of our ancestors, but We have
also parted with much of that elaborate eti-
quette which, in the last century. played so
large part IN social life. The changed
| habits OF society, the greater mingling
OF Its various grades, have brought
simplicity into the form of inter
| course which strikes oddly upon the senses
OF people accustomed to oldfashioned cere-
| mony. 4 always kiss the lady's hand when
l take my leave OF the hostess after party"
SAID German lady. descendant Of one of
the eldest families in what used TO be called
Prussia. She was commenting rather Sc
yerely on the habits and customs of her
adopted country. The of-hand manners of
girls towards their mothers. and of all young
people generally toward all older people drew
torth her reprobation and kissing is now con-
nneu 70 stale ceI G monies, and to few old
world lovers and gallants who have retained
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Quite an ingenious method has been re-
! sorted to for assisting electric cars up steep
grade in Seattle says the New York Sun.
Two CONFERENCE.-The, aggregattng six tons,
run on track in conduit three feet wide
and fifteen inches below the street surface,
and at the bottom these weights abut against
an air cushion made of two eighth-inch
wrought iron pipes Of eight feet length, incIos-
ing seven inch plstons of about the same
length. At the other end of a steel cable at
/ taCled tn the prWpipbtG iS q small
dummy running in a conduit four inches wide
by eight inches deep, placed above the larger
conduit; this dummy has bar hinged to it
ana projecting eight N hes above the
ground, to which the draw-bar Of the car is
coupled In operation the loaded car de-
scendtng the grade draws up the counter
weight, which very nearly equals the weight
OF the empty car, the electric power and
brakes being operated as on the level. In as
cending the cOunterweight comes down and
pulls up the car. with the assistance of the
electric motor to handle the load; when the
car is uncoupled at the foot of the grade an
automatic catch holds the dummy in position
for the next ascending car. Another simple,
nut essential mechanism in carrying out this
arrangement is The employment OF a safety
catch with the weights in case Of breakage of
the rope, and the coupling is AUTOMATIC.
The Indian Parsees number now in all 50 70
900 people, says the Nineteenth Century.
! They are and always have been devoted sub
| lects OF her majesty, and we may attribute
/ this as much to a certain sympathy with
| western methods of thought over eastern as
! to the fact that they would rather be ruled by
] entire foreigners than by those whom they
might themselves have conquered mad fortune
| favored them. The Parsee, in the business Of
! life and in public connections, is enterpriSing
| eminently successful, earnest and diligent.
| He does most things with ease, is blessed
! with intelligence, has tact and adaptability
! so that his relations with all the differing
races around him are easy and happy. No
| caste distinctions have made for him his pro-
| fession, as with the Hlndus. Parsees as such
are all equally well born and equally IA
vored Of the Deity. The heaYen-born Brah.
min has not his parallel among them. Zorro
aster came to priest and lavman alike. Any
census will give the range of their vOcations
When not medical, legal, or educational,
they are commercial Agriculture thew seem
to have forsaken with Persian pastures al
though there is now some prospect of a re-
turn to early habits in this respect. In do
nestle relations the Parse shows favorably
de IS gentle and courteous, While, as in the
case with all the children of the sun. his af-
fections are strong, His treatment Of his
womanklnd is not Oriental; no petty jealousy
consumes him lest they should be as power
full as himself if allowed similar advantages
He is, perhaps unnecessarily luxurious in his
style OF living, and this reacts en- his charac-
ter, making him averSe to ny exertion which
would involve personal discomfort Doubt
less it is not his fault, he has been too much
the center of his family's affections to be any
thing but self-regarding by education.
Ten years ago yesterday, says the New
York Tribune Of Nov. IS, the use of local time
was abanC oled, and standard time, based
! upon even hours from the Greenwich meri-
! dian, was adopted in the United States and
! Canada. The reform was commended for bv
| w. r. Allen secretary OF the general time
| convention, which is now known as the Amer
| lean Railway ASSOCIATION several years be-
! fore 1t finally took effect The railroad man
ayers, after discussing the question at fire.
! quen meetings, at last decided to adopt the
standard time system for the running of
| trains. 1t proved to ( e an immense gain in
| simplifying and making uniform the former
| numerous and conflicting time tables The
| divisions adopted were as follows: % East
ern standard, ta5ed on the 10Th me ridian GOV
| erlng Can ada. betwt en- Quebec and Detroit
| and the United States east OF Buffalo
PlttSDurg, wheeling and Huntington. w. Va;
| Bristol, Tenn: Charlotte, n. c.. and Augusta
Ga. t2) Central standard. based on the Goth
meridian, being west from eastern" limits to
| Broadner, Canada: to the Missouri river in
Dakota; North Platte and McCook Neb:
| Wallace and Dodge City, Kan. and Toyah
and Sanderson, Tex (3) Mountain standard,
O5th meridian, west from central" limits IN
| Heron, Mont; Ogden. Utah and Needles and
! Yuma, Artz a. Pacific standard, 12Oth
meridian west from mountain limits to the
racine coast. An hours difference is main
| talned on railroad time tables on the roads
! operating in the territorial divisions After
/ the railways had once familiariZed the pnonIe
! with this rev system. solar time was gener-
ally abandoned in the cities and towns and
| the standard system of time keeping 8 now
| used almost universally in this country. and
| mas also Deen adopted by many of the coun-
| tries Of Europe.
| The mammoth, or behemoth, is not vet mi
verSally regarded as extinct says the Fdin.
| burg Review According to Siberian and
| chinese belief, the race is merely hanished
| underground its blind life" being inStantIV
! terminated oy glimpse Of the suns. or even
| OF the moon RAYS. The inference migbt
| almost be called logical one flon the state
| OF the unearthed remains. In several cases
| the great beast has emerged from his milIen.
! MAI retirement as completely arrayed as If
| death mad only Just Overtaken HIM his hide
| denSely clothed with fulVouS wool and thai
| again covered by long black hair: his name
! laillng over his shaggy shoulders his ante
olluNlan eyes actually staring from their
! SOCKETS. contemporary dogs and wolves And
! mammoth flesh appetlzing, IN spite of its
| seml-tossI character: mammoth bones have
! been proved to contain remunerative
amount or gelatine, and in Kamsohatka to
IN gay, mammoth fat is largely used for incl
Inc hIst mammoth cusk seen in Western
Europe was brought to London Ia 1911 bv !
one James Logan who had purchased il from
tne Samoyedes and Father Avril a Jesnit |
VINO crossed Siberia in 1885, wrote that tho
Russians had discovered a sort of iv0rv |
winter ana smoother than that which comes |
from lndla. The substance was prizad TOO |
as Il styptlc, and was said to be derived from a |
powerful ampEi olous creature "as bic an / 40
DANGEROUS as crocodile, living chiefly AT tho
mouth or the Lena. Fossil IVORY toward The
close OF the eighteenth century, became an
opJect OF general commerce. and incredihia
quantltles were exported from its arctic re-