The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT a recent examination Of medical students
in Pennsylvania, the question was asked:
What are some Of the causes of natural DEATH"
ARD an earnest young man answered, Hang
ing, disease and old age"
LONDON has 1000 ships and 5000 sailors in it's
port every day. 1t has an average upward of
10000 persons annually taken into custody by
the police 25 600 persons living 10 its common
lodging houses, 25, 900 persons annually arrested
as drunk and disorderly, and more than one
third of all the crime of the country IL com
mltted within its radius.
CAPT. BowER, after crossing the plateau Of
Thibet at its widest part by a route new to
geography, has returned to Smla. He says he
has discovered the highest lake in the world
Hor-pa .chu-l7 $40 feet above the sea- He has
explored 1000 miles of new ground at an aver
age elevation of i, 900 feet tramDing and rid
ing over trost-bitten and almost uninhabited
land OF successive mountain ranges and deep
valleys.
THE London Daily Nei0s says: "There was a
time when all foreign eggs in this country were
known as French eggs Now, thanks to i'm
proved means of transport, they come 60 us
from variety Of countries. The annual i'm
port, according TO the latest official returns.
reaches the enormous number of nearly l,300,
100000, valued at 8250, 900 600 France and
Germany still furnish more than one-half of
the whole"
SWANS are now hard to raise. They sell at
$40 to S75 per pair A yankee farmer at Bidde-
ford, Me-, is making quite a success ct swan
breeding, and his profits must he quite large
each season. the average hatch yields from
three to six young swans. They hatch usually
about Juns aud mature in fourteen months
from birth. They are very cross when with a
brood, and need watching constantly unless
penned up closely.
Postmaster GENERAL BIssEL1, says the Wash.
ington Post, had caller yesterday who re-
ceived chunk of very sound advice and no
office. He was quadroon, under the middle
hight, sendery built, narrow chested, knock
kneed, and not more than 10 years old. He
wore a black cutaway coat and vest. lavender
colored trousers, with a wide "sDring" at the
bottom, pointed shoes and an assured SMILE A
plated watch chain crossed his breast, his hair
was oiled, and he came from Alabama. Taking
seat i'll confidential proximity 20 tho official.
he coughed slightly and said: II wants to be q
Waterman" Mr.. Bissell looked at him with a
slightly Quizzcal glance. Are you a veteran
of the late war;" he asked Ever lose a leg or
two or an arm!" His caller surveyed himself
approvngly and said he had not well, +" was
the response, I'VE generally keep the watching
places for men who have seen much hard serv-
Ice are in q manner disabled from performing
more active duty. | don't think there is an
opening for you, and l cannot say that we will
make one. Take some advise: You seem to be
intelligent. You are very young. Go home.
Quit spending all of your money on your back.
Be somebody. Dent put in your lime endeav-
oring to secure position in which your best
years would be wasted Good day" The col .
ored gentleman from Alabama went away feel
ing that he had been injured. yet he got a talk
that would be worth money to a good many
white men.
A REPRODUCTION OF a steam engine built over
1900 years ago was carried to ths Baltimore
American office Saturday by its builder, John
G. White, a miller with Parrish Bros. spice
dealers. The engine will be exhibited at the
worlds fair. 1t is made OF malleable iron nick
eled. brass and copper, and is about foot in
diameter and IS inches high. The engine was
invented by Hero or Heron of Alexandra.
Egypt, in the year 200 B. c., and seems to have
been the first application Of steam for motive
power known to history. The engine consists
and inches long. Around the upper part of
the globe a series Of arms project.
About half way down these arms they break
of at right angles The arms are hollow. The
glove or engine has hollow shaft, with
valve seat at the bottom, where the steam en-
ters. The steam escaping from the series of
hollow arms as described, causes the globe to
revolve. BY attaching it to the steam at Par
IRISH Bros, it was made to make about $500
revolutions per minute. Mr.. White says that
much power could not be gotten out Of the en-
CINE, as there is no way TO conf1ne the steam,
although small machinery could be put in no
ton. Mr.. White says that the modern rotary
engine has grown up and elaborated from this
engine. The reproduction of Hero's engine is
is suspended from a brass column that rests on
a copper pedestal The plans of the engine
were taken from "Quackenbos Natural Phil
osophy." Mr.. White was the exhibitor Of a
modern stationary engine at the last fair that
was held OF the Maryland Institute.
THERE recently died In Paris lady who had
beautiful cat, to which she was devotedly at
tached When she died she made provision
in her will for the payment of rent for a suite
of rooms for the use Of the cat and left a sum
of money to pay for the personal attendance OF
a man and woman. Another woman left to the
town In which she died sum Of money on two
conditions One was that her tomb should be-
town should pay the sum of $40 per year for the
care of her cat. She carefully stipulated that
he should be fed in the morning with quarter
of pint of milk served in Sevres saucer: at
midday with piece Of liver or fish from which
the bones had been carefully removed, the same
TO be repeated at night; his bed to be a casket
warmly Iped with flannel and on each
bath AMI have tied on his neck bow
OF blue ribbon. A writer in the Christian
Union distinctly remembers, when she was a
little girl old sorrel horse that used to stand
usually under the one tree that grew in a GER
tain field, rarely moving beyond the shade OF
the tree. The horse had crooked legs a rough
coat, a name aud tail that might be called
pecal object of interest because he was the
heir to $500 year. That 49, the owner of that
field was paid $500 year to take care Of this
horse, which, under no condition, was to be-
put in harness. The woman who left the horse
this money had driven him for twenty years.
ana she said that In that time he had shown
more intelligence in doing his work than she
Of money for the care and wisdom he had
shown while pulling her wagon. It was q source
OF sorrow to the man who was paid the $500
a year when the horse died, for the money went