The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! There are lS male teachers in the public
schools OF Boston and 1872 women. The
averago salary OF the former is s246O6 per
/ month anu Of the latter 5000.
In Holland a woman is a secondary consid-
Grafton a poor consideration at that No
Dutch ee ltleman. when walking on the side
/ will move out 4 his way for a lady The lat
| ter turns out invariably, however muddy or
! dangerous the street
| When screws were made by hand five min
utes were consumed in making one, and they
/ we're so expensive that wooden pins were
] used wherever practicable. Now by the cold
/ forged process a single machine will turn out
/ i've dozen in a minute.
The pope's viii has been made for many
years. The document is in Latin, and begins
with an humble confession of human weak
| ness and appeals to the merits Of our Lord and
| all the saints. 1t il Leo XIII. disclaims all
! personal inclination in the matter OF choice
! Of his successor.
The Russian government has Just ordered
a new yacht for the exclusive use of the i'm
! p3rtal family in the North Sea Both as re-
| CARDS fittings and size it will eclipse every
| other ship of the kind. The new ship is to
| be of 4C0l tons burden, with engines of 600
horse power, capable OF giving speed OF
! twenty knots an hour whenever required.
Prince Gloukhously, representative of the
| Gar of Russia at the world fair, gave
AtA'e
dence, in Michigan avenue, in honor of the
| Cars name-day. The two leading officers of
| each national commission at the fair were IN
| vited with the exception of the French com
! mission of which the whole mum Der were pres
| ent.
! A crematory viii soon be opened in Boston.
! Among its officers is the Protestant Episcopal
| bishop of Massachusetts. Commenting upon
! this circumstance OF the bishop being mem
| Der of the cremation society, the Buffalo Com
fa1 hon nf q
| congress at Manchester argued that the intro
| ductiOn of the custom of cremation would en-
danger belief in the resurrection of the dead,
| the reply OF Lord Shaftesbury sllenced any
! further doubt when he asked, What, then,
has become of the holy martyrs who were
| cremated""
The only instrument used purely for pun
| ishment in English jails nowadays is a crank
handle weighted heavily with lead and work
ing heavily inside box an indicator at a slit
| recording the number of revolutions made
! 500 to IL co constituting days wOrk.Among
| the purely mechanical labor is included the
working at the crank handles of the huge
| water pump, and by Cranks, too, all the me al
! used in the prison is ground, but IN the case
of corn gcin1irg the prisoner may rest as of
ten as he likes, provided he gets through his
| alOtte task.
"Leprosy," said Dr. Ohmann- Dumesnil to
St. Louis Globe Democrat writer, lis bac-
cillus, hungry for oxygen, and on that account
! work Now, that is leprosy. 1t looks in
theory as if we ought to be able to cope with
that oxygen hungry bacillus doesn't it? Yet
we haven't found just the thing to stop It's
ruinous progress. Some think Chlorate OF
! potash, will do 1t. Chlorate of potash II is
| true, spoils the appetite of the bacillus for
oxygen, but there is danger that it will kill
| the leper about as soon as it does the bac1l-
| lus."
One OF the rules OF the Canadian military
| service is that of crying down credit" In
| Toronto the last week this rule was carried
| out in front of the postodlce. 1t consisted in
! a little ceremony performed by sergeant
| major q trooper and trumpeter Of the Cana
! dian Dragons. The trumpeter blew his
! trumpet, and then the sergeant major in
! stentOrlan voice declared that the officer com
| handing the Canadian Dragons would not be
| responsible for any debts contracted by the
! members Of the regiment beyond days pay
and that even days pay would not be guar
anteed If the debt was contracted for liquor
During medieval times a woman who had
nothing when she was married escaped re-
sponsioility for her debts. Women were then
often married in a single garment to relieve
themselves of Indebtedness. A young and
noble German lady Of the sixteenth century,
| to make assurance doubly sure. had the mar
| rage ceremony performed while she was
, standing in a closet entirely Invested OF
clothing. She put cut her hand through the
crack OF the door and was thus married AS
soon as the ceremony was performed the
groom, the clergyman, and witnesses left the
room, she came out. arrayed herself in clothes
provided by her husband and took her place
at the marriage feast
Among the persons who have had great in
fuence in the revolution in Rio Grand de Sui
is woman-Madame Gabriela de Matoe,
thirty-one years old, with large blue eyes and
blonde hair. At the beginning of the revolt
she sold her cattle and attached herself to the
troops Of Yucca Tigre, whose adiutant she be-
came. She accompanied the half-wild leader
on all his expeditions, clad in q uniform which
was strange combination of wOmens and
men 9 attire. Across her shoulders she car
ried band on which was the words: Long
live Liberty Long live Rio Grande de Sul?"
Many deeds of courage, as well as kindness,
are told OF this unusual woman, who believes
that she a is second Joan of Arc, called to lead
her country to independence.
The electric underground road has earned
such golden opinions in London that the Bel
gians are turning their attention to the sys-
| tenn for their city passenger traffic. rail
way based on the Greathead system of tun-
nels, is now proposed for Brussels. 1t is to
be worked by electricity and TO run fifty feet
| below the surface. The first portion is to
! consist of a complete circle about four miles
! long, with double track. having eleven sta
tions and future extension of a second cir
| Gle OF about two miles long, with four sta
tions; the two tunnels from the different di-
| rections VIII be quite distinct from each
other they run almost entirely below the
! public streets. The subsoil appears to be
| clay. There is to be a two and one-half min
| ute service each way.
I Snake hunting is not sTort which can be
enjoyed to any great extent in London, says
Black and White. though this year. thanks to
| the sultry summer, botn snake and lizard have
! hOurished exc edingly in the country In
! kensington, however. chance passer-by
recently discovered snake wrggling along
| the pavement with the slightly bewildered
J air common to country cousins. The reptile
| caused no little excitement to a considerable
! number of people. Postmen. cabbies milk
| men telegraph boys and soldiers all threw
themselves into the hunt, and after a brief
but lively burst in the open tropidonotus
natrlx (such being the serpent proper name)
succumbed to a well-directed blow on his
| head. He proved fine specimen of his
| species and measured three feet from nose to
| tail. Snakes occur more frequently in Lon
| don than we should suppose They come up
by night in the country carts full of fruit, veg
| etables and fodder.
The meekrat of South Africa bears re-