The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In MS own town OF Hartford Mark Twain
is said to be more noted for his shrewd bar
gains and his picturesque profanity than
anything else.
An American physician in Toxic is doing a
rushing business by Strengthening the slant
in the eyes OF the japanese A fine silk
| thread draws up the eyelids and holds them
In place: few neat stitches are all that are
required.
! A woman traveller who saw King Behanzin
of Dahomey, recently describes'hirn as a good
looking man. IS years old. with extremely
| white hair. He is almost unable to walk as
he has been carried by attendants. the greater
/ part OF his life. Five wives have aocompa-
MED him into captivity.
1t has been decided that all vessels in the
German navy shall be painted in one distinct
i've color, not a color that will enable the ship
| to be distinguished, but one to keep them from
| being sighted. The paint is to be of CHINA
mon-yellow, this being a color that is te-
neved to be the least visible by day or night.
! When sugar ref merry wharf needs new
| floor the old one is carted into the refinery
and boiled. The planks are saturated with
| sugar, mOlasseS and a variety of other things
not usually deemed edible. The refinery pro-
| cess, however, separates the absorbed sugar
| from the impurities, and the rehners make a
very handsome saving by boiling up the old
floor
/ <AAlOlS buc many anniversary CSACDTdllOuS
which are to be observed this year in Eng
| land, is the a0Oth anniversary Of the founda-
] ton OF the Bank of England. The Old Lad
| or Threadneedle street came into existence
In 1884 and its charter was renewed by the
administration of sir Robert Peel in 1901,
when 1t received what is practicallya mo-
nopoly Of issuing English bank notes.
A six-chambered revolver has just been
found in railway cutting, near the battle
| field OF Culloden. The revolver. which is ap-
| parently of French make Is of the pin-f1re
| pattern, with one barrel. The stock is of
! ivory and the barrel and chamber are orna-
mented with some fine scroll-work.- 1t is be-
neved to have been the properly of some of
the French officers who accompanied Prince
Charlie on his Inflated expedition.
At some of the railway stations in India in
termedate and third-class passeng ers with
the families and children, are Obliged. for
| want of benches, to sit for hours on dirty,
| damp and bare floors, suffering from inclem-
encies of wheather and bearing the rude
| gazes of all sorts of people. The railway com
| panies have spent thousands of rupees I'M
scrupulously Tor vain decorations, and yet the
passengers have to sit on bare floors.
The grossest superstition exists even in
Calcutta. Recently an Indian gentleman,
| residing in Jaun Bazaar street. had live goat
| hung down from his distorted house. in ac-
cordance with the directions of a so-called
| magician, who was called in TO cast out
| devil with which a son was supposed to be
| possessed. The poor brute was hrSt fed with
few bamboo leaves over which the wizard
mumbled some mantras, and it was then
| pushed over the terrace The animal was
killed, and its flesh was distributed to the
| poor.
The Syracuse Courier has classified a new
type of disagreeable people whom it calls
| "aukmuks." 1t says they belitte the efforts
of the generous and publc-s spirited by their
cantankerous criticisms. They find fault
where no fault exists They suspect worthy
people OF Interior motives. of esoUeric pur-
poses, when their hberaltty exceeds that by
which they themselves have been able 10 gain
a little praise. They are, in some instances,
led around by the nose by brainier men, who
use them as tongs to pull chestndts out of the.
hre. They do more to embarrass progress and
the development of a progressive spirit than q
swarm of seventeen-year locusts
Several women penetrated into Jeypore
Jungle, in the District of Bankura to collect
muhul. Under tree there was bear, which,
at their approach stood up, and with its
mouth open, advanced TO attack the women
who had disturbed its sleep. Finding escape
impossible, one of the women. a Mohamme-
dan. boldly advanced and began to twist the
tongue OF the animal so hard that the other
women got an opportunity to make their es-
cape and report the predicament their COM
panion was in to the villagers None, how
ever dared approach the spot for a long time
At last the Mohammedan Womans brother
took heart to go to the rescue Of his sister,
He killed the bear with one stroke of an axe
In the streets of London in one year no
fewer than 24l passengers have been killed
y the movement of vehicles. On the 90 900
miles of railway in the United Kingdom the
trains Of which ran nearly 3O0,00J and car
ried about S00,0 600 passengers and 2s2 OCO-
900 tons OF goods and minerals only II PAS
| sengers were killed last year, and 49, injured
| by accidents to trains. rolling stock perma-
nent way and other essentials in the move
| ment of this vast traffic. In 1892 the totals
were 2l and 4Sl respectively. In addition to
| the above, there were, of course, numerous
| accidents to passengers from causes other
| than those mentioned, including casualties
| arising from want of caution or misconduct
| at level crossings, to trespassers and others
Experts in handwriting say that all the
people of a single generation write alike, and
1t is well known that most French handwrft-
| ing has a strong family likeness to the eve
/ OF others than Frenchmen. Nearly all China
| men of the washhouse class look alike to
| superficial observers, and persons unaccus-
| toned to colored persons find difficulty in
| distinguishing one from another. 1t needs
| however. a comparison of two or three family
photograph albums of twenty or thirty wears
ago to convince men and women of TODAY
| that there are striking superficial iikenesses
running through Americans of given gener-
alton. All these old albums show curious re-
semblances' chiefly, perhaps, of dress and
| face, but Suhctently striking for one family
| album at first glance to be taken for another
AS page after page of each is turned over,
| there is the same succession of men, women
posed in groups of two or three, with hats
without hats, draped in shawls and mani
testify dressed in their best for the occasion
The photographers Of those days chose, for
reasons of their own, TO make full length
pictures, and, as they were usually small,
costume counted for a great deal and helped
to intensity the general likeness running the
whole generation.
ION the way to st. Louis 1 purchased
copy of a magazine and read very interest
ing article on the patient way In which ami
mails bear pain without crying out" said Ray
mond Howard of Boston, to the St Lonis
Globe Democrat. TO one statement in the
article ! take exception from personal expe-
rience, acquired during the war. The writer
says that a horse will endure pain in battle
without any cutlery During the war rode
the same horse for nearly year He was
wounded two or three times slightly and
always gave vent to so pitiful a cry that I
felt as much sympathy for him as though he
had been human comrade. One evening I
was out with foraging party In Virginia.
when we we're shot upon from ambush by a
small detachment Of confederates. MY horse
was struck and fell and escaped by riding
double with one of the other toys We OBJ
tanned reenforcements and soon drove that
gray coated detachment out OF the neighbor-
hood AS we were returning through the
woods l distinctly heard my horses cry, and
returning to it put an end to its troubles and
misery by getting friend to shoot il. the
task being one could not perform myself
Last month l positively saw half a dozen