The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An autograph letter OF Gen. washington to
! Col, Hamilton brought sl2 recently at sale
( in London.
| The first apple tree in Maine was brought
( from England in a tub and bore fruit over 25O
( years. II has been dead for some years hut
( Is carefully preserved by a York Me
/ citizen.
| woman at Sewallville, Ne, the other
/ day, when getting her ironing board ready to
/ iron sheet, noticed long wrinkle in 1t. and
/ on trying to smooth it out found that it was
/ caused oy 2-foot snake that had Crawled IN
| Whue the sheet was on the line.
The mattresses in the Pacific Hotel Com
pany's eating houses and lunch rooms at
/ Omaha have struck because the company re
CURES them to wear black dresses, white
aprons, collars and cuffs and a white linen
cap Perched Jauntlly on the head.
The Russian thistle, which has wrought
such damage in the far northwest that con
gress was asked to extermtnate it. has ap-
peared IN Illinois. A few plants have been
toun1 growing along the river bank near st.
| Charles. Kane county, and the farmers Of the
nelghborhood are much alarmed in conse-
Quence.
Corean women are not handsome. and to
the eye of the westerner would even appear
! htdeous and ungainly. On the other hand
the men and bows are often handsome and
picturesque. The Corsans resemble the
Chinese much more than thew do the jana
D
wearing apparel eXquisltely clean; they are
! constantly washing their entire wardrobes
though they are not so scrupulous about the
Cleanliness oil their persons
The territorial area Of Japan is about one
twenty fourth that of the United States, not
counting in Canada, which is likely sometime
TO come in: and 1t supports 40,OOJ.0O1 people
says the New York Tribune AT this rate it
is computed that the North American CONT
nent would sustain population of l OOl 600
wv How soon that limit is to lie reached NAV
be RENTED to the prophets and st1tisticians
out IL Will come sometime without doubt re-
curing an increasingly wise type of states.
man ana politician on the way if we are to hold
| together and carry out the des.inies which
seem appointed to US.
The Chinese trade unions can trace their
history back for more than 1900 years The
Chinaman does not discuss with his EN- ulover
what ne IS 10 receive for the work he doe;
ne simply takes what he considers fair ana
proper remuneration. He levieS toll on every
transaction according to laws laid down by
ms trade union, and without Tor a moment
taxing into consideration what his emDloyer
may consider proper. He is therefore saws
a correspondent of the Philadelpbia Tele-
graph, generally called thief; but he is act
ing unuer due guarantees, in obedience to
laws that are far better observed and more
strict than any the police have been able to
impose.
Colombia must be a country where carriers
prosper, or else the facilities for transpor.a.
ton are bad. A correspondent of the I'm.
glnserlng and Mining journal, writing from
Samaca, says a narrowgauge locomotive
| bought at Pittsburg, Pa, for 81 SO was de-
Ivered at Samaca with $1,000 of charges
against 1t. The iron work for four cars cost
ing S49i. As. reached their destination with n
bill Of Sl,6i0 A turbine wheel worth sos
cost, wnen carried within l59miles OF Saulaca.
3,16O. Whether IL was left there or not Mr.
Nj chols does not say, but the inference is
that the treasury was exhausted by that
time. The machinery was for an iron works
that has been IN course of construction at
9anaca Ior seventeen wears past and If once
completed there win be a fne margin oil pr I'll
the.e Il carrying ia ,lllJies are not improved
The route is TO Ba.anuuilla uD the Maqdalena
river 6OJ miles then by mules seventy.dve
I miles 10 -Bog0ta,' neXty by cart road forty
miles and then by no road 100 miles to Sa-
| maCa
1t is believed by many well up in the history
| OF dancing, says the PittsDurg Chronicle that
| the two-step dance was originated years ago
| by the darkies Of the south VINO danced il on
! thoSe Joyous oCcaS ons on the levecs when
| they We're free from duty and allowed to in
! dulEe themselves as they chose. 1t was then
/ called the hand patting dance" " as IL is TO-
day when mention is made of that style of
dance so characteristic of the negro, and
which we OF the north seldom see outside of
analy tieal!y. or by deductions as Canon
Doyle puts 1t, can easily transport himself in
fancy to those old days on the IeVees and ar
rive at something approximating at least
the gradual evolution OF the dance that seems
to have taken hold on the popular
fancy as little else has ever done
AS is well known: the children of the
south received their first lessons In dane
ing while watching the antics of the
| slaves off duty, and hundreds of times no
| DOUBT, we're the little ones taken by request
| to the scenes of festivIty on the plantation
| Even the Uabes In arms were carried by their
! dusky nurses, and thus the very first i'm
| pressioas that young minds received were Of
| dancing. Little wonder 1t is then that the
graceful art is so much practiued in the south
| We all know that the impressions of childhood
| are lndellbly stamped on The memory. The
| female child who enjoyed the dancing of the
| darkles IN time grew to WomanhOod; then, OF
| course, her aesthetic sense ripened and de-
manded more polished dance than she had
learned from the saves. Hence, the eVOlu-
tion OF the two step dance. which is now free
OF all the crndittes which formerly character.
lzed IT and which is INDUCED in wherever
fashionable dancing is known.
Mr.. Hiram S Maxim, in a letter to the Lon
don Times. says that he is not trying to make
a flying machine for either freight or passen-
! gers, but simply for war purposes. He then
| continues. Il am quite free to admit that the
navigation of the aic is beset with great
many dangers; II is also very DANGEROUS to
make nigh explosives or fire large guns but
! it is infinitely more dangerous to lie within
| the range OF an enemy guns W hat | pro
pose to do Is 10 ena Die one to asSail an enemy
| from distance greater than the enemy win
| be ace to strike back with the most powerful
/ gun in existence. SO think it would be quite
! Do ohlC lOL NOllbdLslulS 10 GulpLOY nv means
! OF assault as 10 employ the present means
| which neOessitate their approach ing nearer 10
! the enemy and having to receive its fire [ 90
| not know that any one has ever invented a Svs-
| ten OF warfare which is perfectly safe 1t is
| known now 10 be possible to make a ma
| chine that Will actually fly at a very high
! velocity: SO nothing remains to re done ex-
| cept to learn how to maneuvre it. In view
| OF the decided advantage which a flylng ma
| chine would give its poasesSor over an
| enemy, do not think that in case of war
European nations would hesitate to employ
them even II one half of the men navigating
| them were killed AT the present time no
dlmculty IS ever found in getting volunteers
TO make torpedo boat attack upon a man.
of-war, something which is indefinitely more
dangerous than navigating a fiying- machine
would be- as the latter might be painted
black and make its attack at night or IN q
fog, when it would be quite impossible for
The enemy to strike back. War, at best, is
! dangerous game. and those entering upou il
| are playing with dangerous Instruments
| whether they are guns, dynamite or flying.
machines
The Greek laws the Roman law OF the
twelve tables, the laws of every nation in
Europe. Christian and pagan, provided penal
ties for the exercise of magical and diaboli-
cal arts saws, the Chicago News Most of
these laws rendered the magicians them
selves La to lie burned alive and those
who cultivated them TO crucihxion Even the