The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tue recent OTluBe wreck.
Australian meat is now sold in the Vienna
markets, much TO the wrath of Austrian
| farmers. Cattle being such an important
source OF the national wealth in Austria
Hungary, native agrlculturists object loudly
to such rival trade, especially as the foreign
imports are much cheaper than the home
grown product,
The whipping post and the pillory in Della
ware are practically one piece of machinery
The post bears at rather more than the hight
OF a tall man small platform and above that
Two arms, each provided with three holes,
one Tor the neck and the other two for the
| arms OF Inc culprlt. The man to be whipped
stands at the foot Of the post with his hands
| secured to 1t above his head. Sentences for
some. crimes In Delaware name. besides i'm
prlsonment, the penalty Of receiving so many
| lashes on the bare back well laid" on, and
| the requirement to stand thereafter so many
Lou II IN tne plllory. me sentence OF the Pill
| Iory Is no longer specially effective as ter
Tor 10 eV1ldoers, in the northern county at
| least; because the culprit IS invisible behind
| a high wall. where no gaping crowds can deny
| MIN the boon of solitude.
A novel method of cultivating the faculty of
| observation In children has been introduced
! by teacher in an uptown kindergarten, says
| the Portland Argus. She tells her pupils
| that she is about to have a call from some one
| who will remain only three minutes, that no
! one must directly stare at him. but that the
/ pupil who gives the best description of him
| AFTER his departure will receive prize. The
uthOI udy uST ldIu6f, a RraQQ army veteran
| IN uniform, performed the part of caller, and
some of the descriptions after he had bowed
/ himself out denoted unusually quick and &C
curate attention TO detail. One boy had
| counted all his buttons, and gave the number
| correctly; another noticed an almost invisi-
| bic scar on his face, and various others gave
| details OF the color and shape Of his beard,
mar and uniform. The one who received the
| prize was little girl. who declared he had
| an expression on his face"
| The school commissioners of Cook county,
/ Ill, are IN trouble over their attempts at
economy. Recently they dropped one OF the
| teachers OF the normal school, and cut the
| salaries of others, and a storm of protests
| has followed. The principal. whose salary
was cut from s. 900 year to 50 0OO, says that
| he cannot stand the humiliation OF having his
/ salary reduced, and that he will resign, and
| then the normal school will go to pieces at
once, and the land where it stands revert to
| the donor. The commissioners think that
| possibly the school will be able to survive his
| loss, and they mean to give him an opportu-
| nifty OF reslgntng anyway. The teacher who
was dropped was the professor of "Sloyd.n
whatever that is and the commissioners saw
| that they can see no good in paying a man to
teach teachers something that is not taught
| in any Of the schools of the county. as ''Sloyd"
| is not. They argued that it costs Cook county
500 year for every pupil taught in the nor
NAL school, and they think that is too much.
when pupils from other states can get all the
advantages of the same institution for SO a
| year.
The Carlisle gas committee are prepared to
supply gas TO the cottagers and others by
means of the new penny-in -the-slot gas meter,
says the Cumberland (EngD News On the
payment Of ] shilling and pence any house
holder within the city can have one of these
meters fixed. This sum will cover the cost OF
liking the meter. To obtain a supply of gas
the consumer must place penny in the slot
OF a meter and turn the handle according to
| the instructions sent out with each meter.
| The meter is arranged to supply twenty eight
| feet OF gas for penny. and this quantity. if
| used through governor burner will OF q
| good light for about seven hours. If only
| gltmmer is wanted. as in a bedroom in
| case Of sickness, the tap may be turned
| down partially and then only quarter of a
| foot will supply light for an hour, or less
than farthing's worth of gas will suthce for
| four nights use. Thus gas so burned was
Another use to which gas can be put to great
| advantage both in economy and convenience
Is that of boiling the kettle for early break
| fast. A kettle boiler or small gas stove Will
| boil pint of water in a proper kettle in
| about six or eight minutes. The cost of the
| gas is less than of the wood used to light a
| coal fire. to say nothing of cleanliness and
| saving of time. If foot OF gas is used each
| time-and less will often be suficient-the
| Kettle may be boiled twenty-five times or
| more at the cost Of one penny.
G. B. Gretg, from Tanning Island, was in
San Francisco recently, says the Examiner.
This island is one Of little group that lies in
| mtdocean, about half way between Honolulu
| and Samoa being situated between three and
| four degrees north Of the equator 1t is the
| property OF the Gregs, who are Americans
| Here members Of this FIRMLY lead an ideal
| life. apart from all others of their kind, save
| 100 natives. who do their work. Once only in
| six months do they hear from the world, and
| then little sailing vessel comes laden with
mail and books and provisions and even
| newspapers six months old. 1t is always
| sumner IN Tanning: always warm enough so
| that one can swing in hammock all night
| with no covering save the clear Sky
| 1T IS not generally known" said
/ hot no
| ing Island is a British possession. 1t is the
| property OF our family. who work 1t for COBRA =
and guano. 1t is coral islet. with a hne
| lagoon, which has been entered by several
| warships-American British and also Japan
| nese. The island has a circumference Of
| auout thirty miles. 1t was annexed to Great
| Britain in 1859 by Admiral Richards. The
| place would make tirst-class naval coaling
| station. The proposed cable across the Pa
cifc ocean, from Australasia to British North
| America, will probably cross Tanning Island
l In that event we will feel quite in the world
| What is necessary in the interests Of Austral-
| asia GEMS to be a cable from Australia via
| Fiji, or other islands, to Vancouver and IL is
/ certain that 1t Is possible to lay cable in an
| almost direct line. touching entirely on Brit
ish territory. This line would be a great
| link in the coming commercial connections
| between Australia and British North Amer
| Ica."
Tinoret, an italian painter. in picture of
| the children of Israel gathering mamma has
taken the precautton to arm them with the
modern invention OF guns, says the Philadel-
| phia Press Cigoh painted the aged Simeon
| at the circumcision of the infant savior: and
| as aged men in these days wear spectacles
| the artist has shown his sagacity by placing
| them on SimeOn's nose. In a picture by
| Nerrio OF Christ healing the sick, the lockers
| on are represented as standing with periwigs
on their heads, To match, or rather to ex-
coed, this ludicrous representation. Durer
| has painted the expulsion of Adam and Eve
| from the garden of Eden by an angel in a
| dress fashionably trimmed with tlounces.
| The same painter, in his scene of Peter deuy-
! ing Christ. represents a Roman soldier verv
| comfortably smoking a pipe of tobacco
| A Dutch painter in a picture of the
wise men wOrshiping the holy child,
| has drawn one of them in a large white
| surplice, and in boots and spurs and he
| is in the act of presenting to the child a
| model OF Dutch man of-war. In a Dutch
| picture of Abraham Offering up his son in
| stead of the patriarchs stretching forth his
| hand and taking the knife as the scripture
| informs us, he is represented as using more
! efectual and modern instrument; he Is hold
| ing to Isaac's head a biunderbuss. Berlin
| represents in picture the Virgin and Child
| listening to violin: and in another picture
| he has drawn King David playing the harp at
| the marriage of Christ with ST Catharine
/ French artist has drawn, with true French
taste, the Lords supper, with the table orna-
mented with tumblers filled with cigar light
ers; and. as If to crown the list OF these alb