The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Since electric transit was established at
Baltimore, 1920 car horses have been sold by
I the old street railway companies, says the
! New York Post. The prices usually paid by
/ purchasers were so and $50. although the
| youngest horses brought 500. The sales
/ were made at a loss to the companies. but
/ they have been the means Of enabling small
/ farmers IN the suburbs to equip themselves
] with good working animals. The auctiOneer
/ who sold about 2.SOO of the companies car
/ horses, says: a large percentage OF the
/ norSeS went 10 the country, but many are
/ owned IN Baltimore. The building opera
/ tons on the country ends Of rapid transit
/ lines, the increase OF stores, residences, ana
! otheF places needing hauling and delivery OF
/ goods. have been the causes of employing
/ more horses. wagons and trucks than ever,
ana there are as many draught animals, II
| not more, used In Baltimore than when all
/ the Car-horseS were at their old business
Mrs. Hevern, wife of Justice Hevern Of
Hi2hlandtown, is noted for making pets of
/ animals and birds, says the Baltimore sun.
/ Her latest fad is a collection of land turtles,
! which she carefully looks after every day.
] one OF the turtles has been in her possession
1 Tor nearly four years and Is now so tame that
/ when she calls it Will come to her and feed
| from her hand. The turtles were brought
| home by Justice Hevecns daughter. who
! teaches school near I ack River. In driving
to and from school Miss Hevern frequently
sees the clumsy turtles n the road and takes
| them home TO add to her mothers collection.
In winter the turtles hide in the ground.
/ They disappear with the nrst snap and come
| above ground as soon as warm weather be-
! gins. They can burrow in the hardest
ground, and generally 60 foot Leneath the
| surface. They live in Mrs. Heverns back
| yard. AS fond as she is of animals AMI rep
| tiles said the justice, there is one that
makes her squeal and jump for chair, and
| mat Is a harmless little mouse
The coming man will not write nearly so
much as the man of this age" said Prof.
| Charles Whiteford of Philadelphia to the
| Washington Post, and yet it m lst not be in
terred that the art OF penmansnip is going to
| crop into early desuetude. Inc cheaper
typewr1ters become the less chlrography
| there will be. Professional men of any stand
| ing rarely do any writing now, save. perhaps.
| TO ndlte their own signatures. In newspaper
| omceS three-fourths OF the Teportor1ll stan
| compose their stories on machines. and not
few Of the more dignited editors have
learned TO play the keys. handwriting VIII
| llnger great deal longer in the country and
small towns than in the big cities for the
same reason that the candle and kerosene
lamp llnger longest in the former localities.
And after all the typewriter has Its
limitations. Convenient as it is for the dis
patch OF business and handler for the type
setting apparatus. the fact remains that there
are certain uses to which il cannot be put.
The thought is incOnceivable that even the
ny youth Of the latter part Of the twentieth
century could send to his best girl declara-
ton OF love and proposition for connubial
bliss IN typewriter characters. The world
has great progress in store; improvements
not yet dreamed of in our philosophy are sure
to lie realized, and vet am loath to think
that the coming man, callous and practical
though he may be, will ever resort to a ma
chine as the agency for declaring the tender
passion. Ergo. think the coming man will
always be able to write little bit"
Every merchant is guided more or less in
the purchase of his supplies by the character
of his customers, but, according to the New
York Sun, the men who run the general
stores in the coke regions Of Pennsylvania
nave more peculiar ideas to meet than in the
lot OF the average Stol ekeeper These stores
are all controlled 10y the owners OF the mines.
and it is alleged that some of them force their
men to buy from them exclusively. The
profits OF these stores are undoubtedly large,
although the prices at some of them at least
/ are lower than they are at the usual country
| stores. The unique features of the wares car
rIed in these stores are the enormous feather
beds, Polish and Hungarian head dresses.
heavy boots for the women as well as the
men. and all sorts OF gaudY Shawls and dress
stuHS. Among the special provisions these
stores supply are highly seasoned Sausages
and hams, such as are found in the Hungarian
and Polish quarters Of this town. The Poles
are much more eXtravagaut than the Huns
and buy much better aud higher priced goods
The Huns buy the cheapest kinds of meat, of
winch they make their gOIasheS They do not
buy very much of anything in the way Of pro
visions, however, relying largely upon their
gardens for vegetables, and occasionally kill
ing one of their ducks or geese I he Poles on
the contrary, rely very little upon their own
efforts, although they also have good gardens
but purchase the best foods that the stores
have Very few of the purchasers pay cash.
Instead. they secure from their foreman
tickets for various amounts. These are pre-
scented at the stores in payment for supplies
and the clerks mark on them the amounts OF
their purchases. When the whole value Of a
ticket has been contracted for it is taken up
by the clerk at the store.
''Watermelons are beginning to come I'D
from the south in quantities so enormous
that it will fairly take ones breath away as
the season reaches its height" said Arnold
Baker, wholesale fruit dealer. recently to the
New York Telegram. OF course the first
shipments OF any size are sent from Georgia
ana Alabama The demand for them up
north IS so great that the railroads find it
dif1cult to provide cars tor the transportation
OF the fruit. The Americans are great fruit
eaters, and il has always been a matter of
amazement to me that more attention has not
been given by the farmers and landholders
OF the Middle States to the raising of fruit
instead OF Improbable crops of cereals.
The country rs rapidly approaching the
time when there will be u permanent 5 :arcitv
OF the finest fruit that grows. I mean the
apple The apple orchards in the United
States have been allowed to 20 slowly but
surely to ruin, and lower Canada is now de-
pended almost entirely upon to supply the
Atlantic coast market withapplss. In North
ern Mlchgan there has been considerable
increase in the orchard acreage but this side
OF the Allegheny Mountains no apples are
now raised that are worthy OF the name The
famous Alb marie pippin is as scarce nova
days as the Swiss wineSap that William Tell
shot from the head of his son. And all the
otner me ana hardy varieties of the fruit
have declined IN the same way. There are
thousands OF acres of farm land now de
voted to the raising of wheat at So cents a
bushel which, with half the expense ana one
tenth OF the attention, could be transformed
into productive and profitable apple or
chards. Fine apples now cost two or three
times as much as tine oranges and the ener-
getic farmer who will look over his soil and
see what it needs to adapt it to the raising of
apple trees and go into the business has
fortune before him. The juicy little globe
that excited Mother Ewes appetite and made
the world weary and woeful is the most
healthful fruit that grows, and the man or
woman wAo regularly eats the meat and
throws away the stem and core won't have
any doctors bills TO pay II they stick to fruit
that is ripe and juicy"
A mature lobster is not small or harmless
looking by anymeans, says the New York
! Evening Post Without the claws an old fel.
low should measure from one to two feet in
| length, and viii weigh altogether from five
! 10 fifteen pounds. Smaller ones are caught
| more frequently than larger ones. especially
since the competition has become so fierce as
| TO reduce the numbers and size along the
! New England coast. Occasionally an old
| timer is caught--one that weighs as high as
| twenty-five pounds, Such a monster is a
| verltabe nghter, and a fierce struggle is
sometime experienced before the creature
| Is landed safely. The claws of a large
| lobster are powerful enough to crack
| the she'll of q clam gnan an mans