The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


| congress at st, PAUL. is to be the lntroductlon
! of lassos in the mounted police service OF GIN
/ cinnati Tor use az tres for stopping runaway
horses and rescuing drowning people
Rube Jaggers. Of Middle Valley, Mich has
/ a cocker spaniel which has developed the ex-
traordinary haiti, # walking backward The
dog has become greatly emaclated Tor lack OF
food Every time he starts for a bone ne
runs away from it and the exercise and worry
| has reduced him 10 a skeleton
| A young woman IA Dion, France lost her
| upper lip il railway accident and skillful
I surgeon successfully grated strips Of skin
/ from man 5 face The patient Is much NOR
tilted because muStache has made Its APP
/ pearance. She could withstand this if the
hair didn't tickle her nose and cause her to
sneeZe. This has ruined her complexion a o
! solutely.
! There was picked up on the shore at Hobo
ken few days ago pair Of shoes in one Of
which was parchment certificate of probate
/ OF will dated IN lS52, describing a valuable
estate in ireland together with numerous GER
! tiiCates of stock il several Irish banks. The
name Of the testator was John Johnston, OF
/ the Diocese OF Clogher.
According to a tabular statement in the
London Spectator, the total amount of life in
surance IN force in the world is 50 .s3t II. 900.
| The annual premiums upon this are Sjs3al,-
| 600. and the policy holders number b, 1877 667.
| America leads with 81 949 $4,000 insurance in
! force and 6S7 .775 policy holders, the English
| figures, which next, showing s. ,46l go 900
/ insurance and l,09s 81 policy-holders.
The California supreme court has decided
/ the insurance case of Mary V. Griflths
against the New York Life Insurance Com
| pany. Judge Z. J. Grlfiths, a well-known
| Fresno lawyer, several years ago took out
two policies OF $4,000 each, giving two notes
in payment of the first premium. Later
Grifflths told the local agent he could not pay
one of the notes at maturity and one policy
was cancelled. Grifths was accldently killed
! before the second note matured. The com
] pany refused to pay the amount on the ground
| that the agent had no right to take notes
! Mrs Grihfths brought suit, secured Judgment
and on appeal the judgment is affirmed.
The early Greeks depended upon natural
springs AMI cisterns hewn in the rock, but
the lnsuficiency of the supply led to daring
engineering works, says Fire and Water. AS
early as CPS B. C. a tunnel 42O0 feet long
feet broad and feet high was cut through
hill which stood between SamOS and COW
| eted supply of water Fifty or sixty years
later extensive works of similar nature
| were constructed 10 bring water to Athens
from the hills of Hymettus, PentelicuS and
Parnes. Two conduits from Hymettus passed
under the head of the Ilissus, and were cut in
the rock for most OF the distance. This con-
duit and one from Pentelicus met in a large
reservoir just outside Athens, and from this
the water was distributed throughout the
city by underground channels. Some of the
ancient aqueducts continue to Supply Athens
at the present time.
There is a parallel between the death of
President Carnot and Henry ". of France,
who was killed on My IA, 1910, by Ravaillac
VINO was born in AneOuleme. was first clerk
to a notary. and then became Schoolmaster.
He was subsequently imprisoned for debt,
and later on entered the Order of the Feuil-
lantS, from which. however, he was expelled
as crank. For religious reasons RaVaillac
| became incenSed against his sovereign. After
several attempts TO approach the king he
succeeded in doing 50 on May IA, 1910. The
do tn Il his rVne
was sick n bed. II LaferrOnnerie street.
which was very narrow thoroughtare. mis-
coach was stopped y some heavily laden
| carts IN front of it. RaVaillac Jumped on the
hind wheel and plunged a dagger into the
heart Of the king, who died Immediately. The
| murderer was captured soon after ana exc
| Cuted on May p. two weeks after he had per
petrated the murder
There are ,759 cOlored girls studying the
several professions in the United States.
Three colored women are instructors in the
| ology-one IN Indiana, one in Illinois and one
| in Iowa. There is one woman enrolled as a
| theological student in the Alabama college.
| In the District of Columbia a colored woman
Is engaged In the Study OF law. and there are
| eight in the United States who are studying
| medicine-two IN New York, two in Pennsyl-
| vania, two in the District OF Columbia. one in
| Michigan and one in kentucky. Throughout
| the whole country there are twenty-nine col
ored women in schools for training nurses.
Eighteen Of these are in Massachusetts
ten in the District of Columbia and
! the other one in Vermont The
census returns show that 2,!0l young
colored men are engaged in the study OF the
professions. OF these l446 are fitting them
| selves for teachers, Sl2 are studying theology,
| "a are studying law, -66 are studying medi-
cine and 3 are studying chronological
| branches The theological students are
| mostly in the southern states The law stu
dents are mostly in the north. OF the sixty
four law students twenty one are in the Dis
! trict of Columbia, three in New England
| thirteen IN the north central states and only
| eight IN the southern states.
The tax gatherer's chief instrument in the
east, says the New York Tribune is the bas-
tinado a thick bamboo stick, laid across the
! naked soes OF the feet the taxpayer being
| firmly strapped to the ground face down
| ward, and kept there until he has not only
| yielded up all his income but all his principal
| likewise AS Morocco owes Spain 100000
pesetas, and has begun to pay them OF it is
| likely that the whack Of the bastinado and
| the yelp OF the victim will now be heard in
| the land from the headlands OF Mequinez to
| the ranges of the Atlas mountains and
| throughout the provinces of Figig and TWat
| and Ildikelt, and teyoud, on desert spaces,
seen by the low necled camel on the verge,
as far as the domnions of the new
| Sultan extend. 1t is not an enlightened
mode OF collecting revenue. but is the prn-
cipal one which exists in those curious
countries and among those curious and no.
made peoples, and if the grand vizier were
! appealed to In the case he would probably
say that the villagers thus entreated We're
dogs and the sons of dogs, and that they could
not be persuaded to give up their money in
any other way. The custom is of great an
tIquity and seems more popular among those
who apply it that among those
to whom it is applied but necessary re
source IN case OF any deacit IN the revenue
Which is at the same time the smallest
coin and the coin of least value at present
current in Europe: In the absence of a
Knowledge Of any smaller and more worth
less. says a writer in the Westminster Ga
| Zettet l should be inclined. writes q CORE
Spondent, TO award the palm to the Greek
! lepton. specimen Of which has recently
come into my hands. II Is about the same
size as the Italian centeslmo, ald the way to
| get one Is to buy something marked lepta,
give pendara, or Greek half penny. and wait
| for the change. The Iepton is, according to
the decimal monetary system current in coun-
tries belonging o the Latin Union, the hun
! dredth part OF the draChma. Now, the Greek
| drachma is, while normally the equivalent
! of the franc or the Ira at present
worth rather less than Cd. the
rate OF exchange about fortnight
/ ago being ~ 90 drachmaS to an English SOW
erelgn. The lepton is, therefore. approx
mately worth about one-fifth Of an English
farthlng. In nothing does the deplOrable CON
| dltion OF Greek finances strike the casual OBJ
server more forcioly than in the fact that at
present Greece has no money" but copper
and is obliged to issue bank notes for sums of
slxpence upward, and MASTER little rag than
the one-Grachfna note it would be dificult to
find. All travellers in Greece should provide
themselves with small pair of tongs to take