The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"Oh. we'll. said Hartford photographer
I 60 a pickpocket who had pulled his hat down
over his eyes and averted his face. 1t doesn't
. make any difference 60 me whether you are
photographed or not. I get my pay Just the
same. rs that sos" exclaimed the fellow AS
he looked up In surprise. The PHOTOGRAPHER
. never caught better picture OF a crook than
/ the one he caught that moment.
The total cost OF the Mosque of st. Sophia
az Constantinope has been yariously esti-
mated. says the Brooklyn Eagle. Ancient
, authorities give the sum as equal to e320OC0
/ Of either gold or silver which is not expressly
! stated. GibhOn inClineS to the latter and
/ puts the total cost at the least computation
! as over 100000. A later writer on the sub
| lect, Neale, expresses his belief that gold was
| intended. According to this superstition the
! expenses, II this can be believed possible.
| would have reached the enormous sum of
S65,OO0,OUO 1t is also stated that the dome OF
tho tabernacle was of pure gold, and sur
| mounted by a cross weighing seventy-tiVe
| pounds and encrusted with precious stones.
All the sacred vessels were of gold, The al
| tar cloths were embroidered with gold and
pearls, and the altar itself was composed of a
| mass OF molten gold, into which we're thrown
| precious jewels and every other object which
could raise its costliness to the highest imagin-
| able degree.
A gentleman just returned from Great
Britain where he spent the entire summer,
! offers a curious theory in explanation of the
/ comparatively few Englshmen who Visited
| the worlds fair. He says Americans have
| only the taintest idea of the extent to which
| the impression still prevails throughout Eng
land, even among what are called the upper
| classes that the people of this country are
laWleSS and disSOlute; that there is little pro-
lection to life and that the government is I'M
! stable. he instances the fact that not only
every train robbery and outrage is published
| IN all the English newspapers. but that every
! railroad accident is also chronicled, and the
result is that the average Englishman who
! has no adequate idea of the extent of the
! country supposes that railway travel here is
| beset with every peril. and accordingly does
not care to take the risk.
A Bar Harbor cashier had check for 81, 900
on Rockland bank, says the Lewiston, (Ie.)
Journal. In the ordinary course of business
the check would have been sent to Boston
and thence forwarded to the Rockland bank,
the whole transaction being carried on by in
terchange Of drafts without expense; but the
Bar Harbor cashier thought he saw way to
get 1900 in currency without paying the pre-
MUM demanded by his Boston correspon-
dent. So he forwarded the check to Rockland
by express for collection. 1t is, however, a
very rare day when the cashier of this partic-
ular Rockland bank gets caught at disadvan-
tage, and he easily saw through the game
that his Bar Harbor contemporary was play
ing. He had two bills in his vault of the de
nomination of $1,000 each, and with these he
caShed the check. When the cashier had
paid the express on these bills and then paid
another express fee in forwarding them to
Boston to be changed into bills small enough
pansiYe ideas as to his own shrewdness.
1t is diflcult TO see what the people of the
Rockies would do without the burro, the sad
eyed philosopher of the west. says st. Nicho-
las He is a great pet with children. and
seems to grow very fond OF them. But he is
used principally as beast of burden. He
| boards himself, nibbling the grass that grows
along the trail. On his patient back the lone
| ly prOspector ties blankets, pick and frying
pan, while he himself plOds behind with rifle
ma Cfuf lou Fa., L.,
aims uses him to carry ore in sacks to the
| smelter, and brings back in return -four,
| sugar, coffee, and even water. When the gal
| lerieS and shafts Of the mine are ready to be
| braced. the timbers are brought up in the
same way, as are the lumber and furniture
for the miners Pouse. And finally he brings
the rails that are to connect the mine with
| civilization by an iron band. This is the last,
| Slowly and sadly the burro turns his back
| upon the work In whose completion he has
| been such an important helper, and picks his
cautious way over the rugged trail that leads
! to fresh woods, II not TO pastures new.
As to the healthfulness of going without
shoes or stockings there can, says the London
Hospital, be no question. Some Of the health
| lest children of the world are to be found in
the Scottish highlands, where shoes are sell
! dom worn at an earlier age than II or 10. The
negro and coolie labOrers, who work bare
I footed are usually in robust health. Brown
| in the History OF Man. tells OF an African
monarch who suffered from what appeared to
|
| ailments, while his people were always as
| well as possible Can it be that the reason
was that, by the laws of his kingdom he alone
| was permitted to clothe his feet and that he
| gratifted his vanity by always wearing gor-
| geous sandals? 1t is probably generalizng
! too much to state, as medical fact, that the
| barefOoted races are the healthieSt. But ii is
| certain that bare feet are healthier than
! badly shod feet In our English villages chill
| dren are constantly sent to school in wet
| weather with holes in their shoes They sit
| for hours with damp feet and illnesses are
| the result If their parents would send them
| of harefoOted, as is done in Scotland and
! ireland, their feet would dry by evaporation
in short time, and it would be found that no
| harm followed.
| Probably in no other country in the world
are banking facilities so extensive as they are
| in Scotland, says writer in the Forum. In
| every town, large or small, there is branch
! Of one or more Of the great city. banks and
| even every village with the least pretension
to size can boast of one. While in England
! there is a bank or branch bank to about every
! 10000 OF the population, in Scotland there is
| one to about every 1000. 1t is obvious that
| TINS extensive system or branches Is well cal
| culated to gather to one center the savings
| of the community The banks are not
| proud, and they accept at interest deposits
! current accounts to be opened sometimes
1 with trif1lng balances which in England, a as
| rule, would be looked at aSkance and proba-
bly, turned over to the savings banks. The
| depOSltOrS in Scotch banks, who have not
! more than $500 to their credit on deposit re-
ceipt or on current account comprise about
| threeforths of the whole number. The result
[ is that the aggregate banking deposits of a
| comparatively poor country, with few sources
| of natural wealth, and with a population of
| little more than 100000. exceed S465 900 900
| And 1t may be observed that sum equal to
| perhaps one-third or one-half es much again
| has been placed on deposit bv Scotch deposit
! tors with the banks doing business in the col
, onies of the empire.
The theosophists of New York are very
much exercised over a slight, which they saw
was put upon Hevavitarana DharmapaIa, the
representative Of the southern Buddhist faith
| at the worlds fair congress of religions, by
the management of the fair. 1t appears that
| Mr.. Dharmapala was chosen to represent the
100000 900 of the southern Buddhists by inyi-
tation of the managers who guaranteed his
passage from India, and then they sent him
ticket by steerage. II didn't worry Dharma-
pala much as his religion represents the ex-
tremest poverty as the highest state of per
! lection, and he Is we'll accustomed to live in
the simplest style, but the American follow
ers of Buddha have not got quite so
far along that.