The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE EARL OF DUNMoRE has arrived in Con-
stanstinople on horseback from the Pamirs,
which he left in February, 1899. He rode the
whole distance.
A MUSICIAN named Saroni Of Parkersburg, W
Va, has perfected and patented novel musical
instrument, which he calls key either" 1t
is, in its simplicity, either played with keys,
and it is said to be "a revelation in the way Of q
musical instrument"
THE heavy snow storms that have half buried
the northwest in the past week or two have
been hailed with delight by the farmers in many
quarters. Plenty of snow means good crops,
and in Eastern Oregon, where the crops have
been poor the past three years, sufficient
snow has already fallen to insure, with the
rains in May and June, bountiful harvest next
season.
A POPULAR impression prevails that an en-
ployer is forced by law TO give written char
aoter or testimonial TO a domestic servant on
the termination of the latter's services. This
idea has been dspeled, at any rate, so far
England is concerned, by a decision just rem
dered by the high courts of justice in London,
which declares that the employer is under no
such obligation whatsoever.
THE best way to get rid of rats and mice,
says the Globe Democrat, is not to poison them,
but to make them thoroughly tired of the
locality and 80 induce them 30 leave. They are
generally too smart to eat poison, even when it
is prepared for their benefit In tho most seducu-
i've fashion but they are not so particular
about tartar enetic. When a little of this is
mixed with any favOrlte food they will eat
as greedily as though the physic were not there,
but in two or three hours there will be the most
discouraged lot OF rats about the place that any
body ever saw. The tartar will not kill them
il only makes them deadly sick. Sometimes
they will crawl out and walk about like q sea-
sics man, 80 i'll that they do not seem TO care
what becomes OF them. But 1t disgustS them
with the whole vicinity, and as soon as chey are
able to travel they march off and you see them
no more.
| Boston NOTIONS are numberless and very apt
to be good. In that city notices in English,
French German and Swedish are hung in the
waiting rooms Of the railway stations and pier
sheds warning young girls against strangers
| and stating at what hours a matron, who will
| be recognizable by her prescribed badge may
i be found to give all needed information and ad-
vice. In the game city. which is peculiarly the
! home and originating place of practical chart
ties, second good scheme is that of the Young
| Travellers Aid Society. Under its auspices ma
irons meet the chief trains. both incoming and
| outgoing, and aid bT suggestion or information
| the traveller who needs it. A country girl, q
! foreigner, a mother wrestling with an IN
| wieldy family OF slippery children. particularly
| if she is a stranger in a strange land-these and
| similar helpless and distracted wayfarers are
| righted, relieved and sent on their way rejoic-
ing,
1t IS a remarkable fact, says the Newark IN.
j. Mail, that many of the most famous horses
Of the trotting turf were not appreciated until
after they had arrived at maturity. With q
great many the trotting quality was discovered
| by accident 1t is on record that Flora Temple
was once sold for $i3. and the great mare
| Princess dam of Happy Medium. brought her
| breeder about $40 Tacony pulled q stage and
Mack likewise. Abdallah /. would have been
made to haul fish cart had not his lofty spirit
rebelled at the indignity. Billy But
ton was used as runner to forcs the
of .d I;FH'S for s sC5 and Maid
dam OF Ethan Allen was sold at the age OF 10
| for 935. buchanan worked In a brick yard, SO
did Old Columbus and Andrew jackson was
up from a quarry By pulley aud derrick. Go
dolphin Arabian drew a watering cart in the
streets Of Paris Justice Morgan was long
wheel hO, %.t !. Vermont The grand,
cry The dam OF Billy Button hauled garden
truck to market and pulled a milk wagon alter
nately. Clifford Morgan drew slabs from saw
mill and at one tims was sold for 3lC0. The
dam of Flying Morgan used 20 peddle wood
ware. The sire of Rarus worked to butchers
cart, and it is said that the dam of Black Hawk
| also drew a butchers cart. The first authentic
| account of Old Pilot places him in the hands of
| a yankee peddler in New Orleans, The dam of
| Lady Griswold was used by patent medicine
| vender. The dam Of Green Mountain Morgan
| ground apples in cider n i'll. The dam of
| Taggert's Abdallah drew the wagon of tin
| peddier. 1t is very easy to account for the
| Morgans being put to somewhat mental serv-
! ice They we're strong hardy and speedy. They
would work anywhere, and their descendants
will to this day. No road is too long for them,
and no reasonable load too heavy.
OF THE birds Of New Zealand writer in the
| Min eteenh Century says: The kwi is a brown
night bird about the size of guinea fowl, with
a long, narrow, curved besk, with which it
| pierces the ground to satisfy its appetite with
| worms and grubs. 1t has tine long pointed
| pf vi
| rugs by working them together with tiRxen
| threads. The kakapo resembles q large bright
| green parrot and is very handsome. The wika,
| or wood hen, is the most common and the small
| est The kiwi, or apteryX has the least devsl-
! oped wing, and approaches most closely to the
now extinct moa, or dtnornis of which there
| are some fine skeleton specimens in the muse
| ums. Those at Christchurch run to hight of
| Il feet but lack the rudimentary wing bone
| in Dunedin there Is one with it attached and a
| beautiful skeleton is to be seen in the Natural
| History Museum in London. We had
| quite collection OF live birds on
| the Hinemoa, as we captured various specimens
| OF young black swans paradise ducks, and
| penguins, when boating from the steamer. The
| method was to row after young bird till it got
/ frightened and dived and finally, when tired
| out II was caught in sort OF landing net at the
| end OF long bamboo cane. The captives we're
| designed for various geological gardens, as un-
| fortunately there seems prospect OF many of
| these native birds dying out, probably owing to
| the depredations OF tourists aed sportsmen. On
| this account the governor has lately cause a
large island in one Of the sounds TO be set aside
as o reserve, where they will be neither shot nor
| captured for any purpose whatever. In
J addition to the wingless birds, there
are fifty nine different land birds. and
many more water birds abound on the
rocks and islands 10 the south and wess. Pen
! gums exist in multitudes, and our captain told
US thousands OF them swim away in the sum
mer toward the South pole to feed. whence, In
spite of having traversed many leagues, they
| return 80 fat that they can hardly stand. When
| fra haw hal
| bodies, on the sea, of several hundred each aud
| spread themselves out in line, at just sufficient
| distance to enable one group TO communicate
| by cry with another. Ii was explained to us
| that this curious aud intelligent mode OF pro-
! ceeding was TO enable them to search the sea
| for land, aud to avoid missing it by mistaken
| direction; but it seems hardly likely that their
| annual migration should be quite as vague as
| that would suppose, or that birds of previous