The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AT LAST accounts there were 1,T01, 900, 900
francs in gold and J. 1857, 600 600 francs in silver
in the vaults Of the Bank OF France. Itwould
require 6S3 cars OF a capacity Of ten tons each
to transport it, but if it we're paper money in
denominations of 1000 francs, half car would
hold it all.
A PAIR of driving wheels seven feet in diane
ter are being constructed for the New York
Central and Hudson River railroad. The loco
motive OF which they to be part will run
between New York aud Chicago. These will be
the largest driving wheels in the world and the
locomotive is expected to run at an average
speed of ffty-fve miles an hour.
TIE expression, las cold as ice" is often
| heard, but not many who employ 1t are aware
that il is a very ndeterminate one, says the st.
Louis Post Dispatch. Some ice is much colder
than other ice. All water under similar condt-
| tons freezes at the same temperature, but
| when the thermometer falls far below the freeZ-
| ing point 1t seems to anect the ice, as that
! formed when the temperature is very low is
much firner than is that which congeals a little
| below freezing point, and it takes great deal
more heat to melt lump of similar size. Amy
one can test this by placing piece Of northern
lake ice before stove alongside lump formed
| here
AN oBsERvANr BARTENDER In Printing House
| square, New York. declares that he can tell the
| nationality of a man by his way of drinking,
rather than by what he drinks, says the Tribune.
There goes a Frenchman." he remarks. II
| know him. See how kindly he tastes his wine;
! he loves it and sips it. His appetite for drink
| is in his throat. The man standing near him is
| a German. His appetite for drink is in his
stomach, and he is in a hurry to appease it. See
| him gulp it down! mug of beer IN two
| draughts. He drinks wine in the same way.
| That little man over in the corner is Scotch
| man. His drink Of whisky never has a second
| chance. 1t is gone at a swallow. The big man
| on the other slider o. he is an American, of
course. He says he likes whisky for the enemies
| it has made He likes 1t In his throat and likes
it In his stomach. He always gives grunt of
| satisfaction when he gets it down, then thinks
| he'll have another. His neck is longer than 1t
used to be-. He has been stretching it these
| twenty years. 1t makes the whisky taste
| longer. The man near him is an Epglishman.
He doesn't care for his drink at ALL but IS taking
| it because he thinks ne needs it. Give him a
| chop, though, and he will sit right down and
drink quart of Bass. 1 wonder why he has
| stopped brandy and soda? Yonder is an Italian.
| He is too finicky. He won't let me squeeze
lemon peel in his cocktail for fear my hand isn't
clean. He drinks like pigeon, sticking his bill
| away down in the glass"
THE baby which, for general size. hight and
weight, takes the cake as being "the largest on
! record" was born in Ohio on Jan, IL, 1879 SAYS
a writer In the st. Louis Republic. The ''aver-
| age baby" weighs from six to nine pounds; this
| giant infants weight was exactly 2311 pounds.
He dt was boy was ~ feet in length the
| common run of babies range from sixteen to
| twenty inches in hight, and had a head measur-
| ing nineteen inches. Its cute little pink foot"
| measured 81 inches and was as thick as that of
six years prior to this extraordinary event the
same woman gave birth to an lS-pound baby,
which was twenty-four inches in hight. Al
| though this may be thought to be a wonderful
story by those not informed OF the real facts, it
| will be shorn Of some Of it's seeming Mulhat-
| tonic earmarks when it il known that the
| parents themselves we're two Of the largest
people OF the United States at the time Of
the occurrence related Above-they were
Mrs and Mr.. NJ. V. Bates, the former known as
| the Nova Scotian Giantess," and the latter as
xuaa
my memory is not at fault, she died some Ave
or six years ago feet inches in hight the
father of the baby giant being about two inches
less in stature. Prior to the arrival Of this
I Titantic infant upon the scene, the Largest
baby on record" was the 'giant baby" of the
London England Medical hospital preserved
specimen, which measures "a inches in hight
and has head 1874 inches in circumference In
| March, 1879. less than two months after the
birth of the gigantic Bates baby, Mrs. Ruben
| Grifhths Of Whitebreast township, Warren
county Iowa, gave birth TO a 1716 pound baby
q inches In length. and with head lacking less
than half inch OF coming up to the London
| Medical hospital record, Ihave tried to ascer-
tain the fate of the Ohio and Iowa giant babies
but up TO this time have been unsuccessful.
If there Is one human being that despise
more than another, says the London Truth, it
is man milliner; ladies' dress is a mystery to
me. and my ideas in regard to it are somewhat
vague. But as newspapers are raising an out
cry against crinOlines, l will venture to explain
their incubation. They were due to the desire
in an abnormal fit of common sense, OF women
TO have rational costume Either the queen
or one of the Processes wore. or was said to
wear, at Balmora thick boots coming high up
the leg All loyal women insisted upon folio w.
ing this example and wearing "Balmoral boots E"
The ladies had no objection to show these boots,
and still being under the influence of common
sense, objected to their dresses trailing on the
ground when they were out walking. The next
step was TO have scarlet petticOat over the
flannel and other underclothinR This
scarlet petticoat came about half wav
down the calf and over 1t was worn
a skirt, which fell to the feet when indoors. but
which when out walking drawn up by a
cord In festoons coming a little above the scar
let petticoat To this costume were added
stockings Of some bright color and a blouse
with vide sleeves and a waistband, with over il
a zouave sort Of jacket. The effect was ex-
tremely pretty, and the whole ''gat-up" was
servceabie. But the scarlet petticoat fiapped
against the legs. To obviate this therefore, an
underpetticoat of very light material with
whaebone run through il was worn between
the scarlet petticoat and the others. 1t was of
small dimensions. But these dimensions grew
and grew until 1t developed into a huge cage
while the costume for which it was originally
intended disappeared. The cage was the curse
alike of men and women. 1t was given TO the
| performance OF strange antics, and such a
| nuisance was 1t that it was at length discarded
| If, consequently, we are to go back to what
| ladies used to call their 'crinnies, trust that
| we shall have them in their infantine state with
the pretty dress that they SGT off for this would