The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A club in Berlin, called the Giants. admits
to membership only men who are over 8 feet
high.
1t is estimated that 5000 ladies paint on
! china In the United States and then oTer it
for sale.
The French system of weights is pretty
nigh universal in all countries other than
English speaking. -....
Buffalo burglar recently sent a man two
thea;er tickets, and while the latter was at
tending the performance, robbed his house.
A gray fox on West Chester. Pa, farm is
on terms Of friendship with a lot Of young
beagle dogs and frequently sleeps in the same
pen with them.
In the museum at Anvers a trunk is ex-
hibited which belongs to Rubens, containing
a collection of pigments which he carried with
MIN IN his travels.
A powder made from a fossil shell known as
the devils thumb" is regarded as a cure
ana preventive Of whOoping cough in many
parts OF England and Ireland.
There will soon be navigation on the Dead
sea- under the auspices of the Turkish Sui
tan who has put some sailing vessels in those
waters as commercial investment
An authority is of the opinion that the
natives of Mashonaland are all descended
from commercial people who, some 5000
years ago penetrated from Aralia.
List when studying the piano was sccus-
TONED, as regular occupation, to practice
ten hours day. 10 the end OF his profess
lonaI career he every day played the scales.
as ne said, to timber his fingers.
Robinson Crusoe" was offered in turn to
every publisher in London and refused by
all. At last one BOOKSELLER, known for his
speculative ventures. undertook its puhlica-
ton and made over 1000 guineas 1t has made
the fortunes of scores Of publishers since its
appearance.
A herd Of six deer came down from the
woods and domesticated themselves on a
farm near Brownheld, Oxford county, Me.
TWO or three weeks ago. The far ner did not dis
turb them, and few days ago they were still
browsing about his pastures, seemingly tame
and contented.
In 1885 the Austrian presscensor refused to
sanction the publication of two books, one of
which was Principles OF Trigonometry,
which, he said, discussed the Trinity. a for.
bldden subject. The other was a scientific
treatise on the destruction of insects viii, b
ne imagined made concealed attack on the
church.
The works of QuintiIlian were revived by
being discovered under heap of rubbish in
an Italian monastery. Those of Tacitus were
found in monastery in Westphalia where
they were being used as fuel by the cook
The original manuscript of Justinian's Pan
de IS were found in a cellar in little town
in Calabria.
William Lane Booker, the British consul
general at New York who has lust been
knighted, remains thoroughly Bristish in out
ward aspect after nearly forty years resi-
dence in this country. He is above medium
height, neither stout nor spare, ruddy griz-
zIed, blue eyed and slightly lent at the
shoulders. He walks rapidly and pays little
attention to persons and things on the
street. 1t used to be said that one Of his
duties was to receive the rents from Queen
Victoria real estate in New York.
At the close of last year, the state Of Cali
fOrnia had a population Of 1000, 900 and since
1880 the assessed value of property has lust
doubled. She has the largest per capita
wealth OF any state in the union, and her saw
ings banks now have on deposit Sl38 100000
She ranks hrst among the states in the pro-
auction OF gold, wine, honey, oranges, al
mondj and walnuts, and is running close to
first on many other products. l asst year her
mines yielded gold to the value of $3.50 100000
and other precious metals to the value of
81 01U 900. san Francisco is now the leading
whaling port OF the world.
'Seven-tenths of the people of China are
opium smokers, and Z, 900 900 of them die an
nually from the effects" said Chinese mis-
s1onary recently, who has spent twenty-five
years of his lite in the fowery kingdom
- his habit is rapidly growing, he went on;
1t is confined to no class or sex but men and
women, officials and coolies. use it alike AS
soon as opium smoking becomes a confirmed
habit with Chinese coolie he knows that he
has al out ten years to live. That seems to be
the average. I consider it easier to reform
sol In me gutter, one OF your lowest type Of
drunkards' than an opium smoker"
A Swiss wat, hmaker has just put before the
word the result OF many years patient toll in
the form of an elaborate toy. 1t is an ALSO
lutely perfe t working model of an English
railway station, The tower contains for
clocks giving the time at Berne London
New York and fekin respectively, and every
quarter of an hour the mechanism gets to
work. a minute before the hime bell rings
the level crossing gates open, the station
mas er comes out OF his ONCE, passengers buy
their tickets, and the train rushes out of
tunnel and pulls up TO the platform. man
tests the wheels with a hammer, porters
hustle a their luggage, the guard blows
his whistle, the train goes, and everything is
quiet again for fifteen minutes when the op-
GRAFTON is repeated