The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

At one of the Washington hotels there are
special sets Of Honeymoon apartments
each one OF which is mated up to suit pecu-
uar type OF color. Blonde, brunette, or nut
brown tribes are thus specially catered Tor.
The number Of lady shooters is increasing
rapidly. At least, so say the gunsmiths and
the ladies' tailors who ought TO be able to
form an opinion The demand for ladies'
nghtguns and smart snOOtllg costumes has
been greater than ever this year.
The English newspapers record at great
length last week the gracious generosity Of
her Majesty Queen Victoria. who. when she
heard that venerable couple named Moore
mad celebrated the seventeen anniversary OF
their MARI age Immediately sent them s..
a charming little note was written by the
queen TO old Mr.. Moore advising the m not to
spend the money fOolishly and to Ike ep out Of
I draughts.
In Nebraska woman owns and personally
superintends travelling steam threshing
machine outfit and goes about the
country with il and makes her own con
tracts. There arc two women captains on
steamboats, on the Mississ iDpi river. each one
holding a United States marine license as
captain. One owns her own boat; the other
| boat is owned by company OF merchants.
| There is another feminine cap, am Of
steamer on Puget sound.
The Shah of Persia has become an ardent
sportsman and established Persian Derby,
in which twenty-seven OF his majestys
horses recently ran. The owners of the
horses which were defeated received nothing,
OF course, but the owners OF the winners we're
no more successful 1t was considered an in
suit that they should allow their animals to
ueieat those OF the shah. Further than that,
the horses were cOnuscated and placed IN the
stable OF his majesty, who thus has a new
sourceNof income
A very peculiar accident happened recently
to Eben White, farmer living about four
miles northwest of st. John, Mich He had
Deen working In the woods and lay down to
sleep under tree, and must have slept with
MS mouth open. n common mongrel pup and
small boy were his companions While the
old man slept the boy anu the dog started a
| chirmunk and proceeded to chase it. That
ch'pmunk made tracks for safety, and, seeing
w hlte mouth open, lodged in it. 1t was
new senSatian to White to have a chipmJ nix
trying to get down his throat alive. and ne
aWOke up IN hurry. He nearly choked to
death before he pulled that ChiDmunk out of
his mouth, and then he killed. the little ami
mai ana broughtlt into town to prove the
story he tells doctor who examined his
throat and mouth found it badly lacerated,
and says he believes Whites story is true
Many theories have been proposed to ex-
! plain the absence Of forests in large portions
! OF the great inland basin o; the United States
! lnelUding 10th prairies which lie mainly east
| of the Missouri and the plains which lie
| west of that stream. a new explanation for
! the absence Of trees IN this area has lately
/ Ueen OuereQ IL the London Geographical
! journal by j. w. Redwdy. He holds that
| seeds have been mainly carried and dis
| triouted through the agency of water and
! that the spread OF forest growth without this
/ natural aid or some artl6Cial aid, would be
! very slow. He argues that our treeleSS re-
! glons have never been oyerttOwed ~ run
| ming streams since they became dry land,
| and consequently they have never been sOwn
with forest seed. Whenever the water of
! running streams has spread seeds have been
! carried and forests have appeared. Accord
| ing to this view these regions have al ways
| been tTeeless, and therefore Mr.. Redway con
! siGeTs that the nature Of the soil, which was
! the eXp9natlOn offered by LesquereuX and
| Prof. Whitney, and sweeping hres. which
! has been the most generally acCeptod
| view, are not the principal agents
| in causing this treeless condition.
! Many are the attempts to identify the for
hidden fruit says All the Year Round. Some
say it was the fig others the grape others,
! again, the pomeRranatC; but the most
Arabian NlghtlSh' description paints II a.
! an ear OF wheat, which looked like a ruby
| and was as big as an ostrich egg, and grew
| on tree whose trunk was like gold, its
branches like silver. and its leaves emerald.
| Our first parents we're expelled a. out 3 o'clock
| OF the afternoon of Friday, May 10, having
| resided in Eden seven years two months two
! weeks and three days. Adam was banished
| to Ceylon and Eve to Mecca. an they re-
| ma1Ie1 apart for POO years. Alan. accord
! ing to some accounts, spent halI this time
| weeping, with his face TO the earth: others,
/ >
| Cheered by L1l1th, who resumed her former
relations with him. When he repenteI and
| reioined Eve, he begged that something migI
| be given nlm nom the happy garden of in.
nOcence which he had forfeited, and 10 IN
answer to his prayer. three mighty arch
angels were sent to him-MiChael bringing
gold. Gabriel ankincense and Raphael
myrrh-mySuc gifts, in after years aSSO-
Grated with the offerings of the Magi. whom
early Christian tradition identified with
EnOch, MelChisedek and Elias.
w C. Knoofe, q rich coffee and sugar
grower of Java, is among the recent arrivals
at the California, says the San Francisco Elk
aminer. Mr.. knoofe is accompanied by sew
eral friends He has lived in Java ten years
and has large and flOurishtng plantations He
told an interesting story Yesterday about this
! queer country, for so many years under the
| control of the Dutch. and said that few per
| sons understood the strange conditions of lite
| there. You never saw snch happy people
anywhere as these little JaYaneSe They are
| always talking, laughing and dancing. and
| seem never to have any sort of care. They
! work in the tee, coffee and sugar plantations
/ Tor or cents day, and the best of them
never get over 10 or T. cents. Yet they are
| entirely Contented. The women, who are tie
| best for tea picking, do not get more than ! or
| cents a day. The tea is cut every forty
| IS big yield this year, and it is good tea tut
| 1t ism . weTth much. We got word
from Amsterdam, where much of our
/ tea goes, that it was worth only
from to 10 cents a pound With coffee ana
| sugar the pri e is different. There never was
as much money In sue ar as at the present
! time. 1t is worth from - 20 to s3. 80 for each
/ picket, or 1874 pounds. The growers are get
! ting rich. Both the coffee and sugar crops
are very large, and, like the tie l. they are very
/ fine. Coffee has veered around so luch that
there is no longer much money in 1t. All that
/ is grown must be sold to the government.
| 1 hat is q requiem eat. 1t is cheap. in hol-
! land it is worth but Sc for each l34 pounds
All the labor used is Japanese. 1t would not
| pay US TO employ any other. and though the
! wages are small, the people are probably the
| happlest on the globe. heir wants are few
In climate Is so mild that little is worn ard
! they are as Jolly as the day. There are ~
/ 10000 of them, and the Dutch government
has never had the slightest trou. lie with any
| Of them Mr., hnoCfe is on his way to Lon
don and Amsterdam. which cities he has not
visited for many years He will go by the
anadian Pacific road
y contributor TO Macmillan's Magazine
says We all know the tradition about the
power OF a swans wing-that its blow will
! break man $ leg. l questioned u man who
! has much to do with swans aDOut the credi.
hiltty OF the tale, and he tod ms that he for
one, Was ready to telicye it. and thought that
! any other man who had received such blow
! from swan wing as he had suffered would
/ be likely To believe II also He was sum
mOned from his cottage by the news chat one
| OF the cygnets was in trouble. A Toy had
| been amusing himself with the elegant sport
! Of giving the Cyguets meat attached to a io~p
string. When the cygnet had swallowed l .
meat well down, the toy would pull it up
/ again by means Of the string. 1t was great
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