The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A live lobster. half red and half green,
is one Of the rarities on exhibition at one
of the Portland, Me, lighthouses.
Economic writer's declare that the in
come Of the Car Of Russia is equal TO
IS go per day every day in the year
The remains OF the murdered Mr.. and
Mrs. Borden in Fail River, are now Gov
cred by s., $50 monument erected by the
heirs.
Exactly why the magnetic needle al
ways points to the northward mas never
been positively determined by the sclen-
fists.
The celebrated Sphinx, the figure of
the crouching montrosity near the Great
Pyramid is I72 feet and 6 inches long and
50 feet high.
In the Great Fire of London" 1866,
1900 houses, churches, halls; HpIarles,
hospitals, etc, were destroyed and only
six lives lost.
There is a specimen of the Mission
grapevine at Carpenteria- Cal, when mas
a girth of . feet and 1 inches at the base,
| and is still growing.
Farmer Gibson, near Avona, Pa, has
raised a family of 10 squashes on one
vine, the smallest of which weighed III
and the largest 141l2 pounds.
Nine. ReEnen, a florist Of RoOstoen, Hol-
land is the owner of a giant rosebush,
/ which had 5000 roses il full bloom at one
| time during the past summer.
A devilhsh having a mouth with lat
| eraI spread of over five feet was recently
| captured in the Gulf Of Mexico about
/ 20 miles off from Brownsville, Tex.
! There are credible records of over. 1000
/ earthquakes between the years 1905 .. G,
| and 1894, A. D., and the uprecorded ones
/ are believed to be still more numerous
| The Great Bell at MOSCOW weighs
/ AS. 1872 pounds, is 19 feet and inches hign,
| and measures 60 feet inches around the
| lower rim. The bell metal in 1t is worth
/ $500 600.
MolHe L. McGlasson, a young lady of IS
years of age, who recently arrived at
| Castle Garden from Scotland, mas two
| horns, each about three inches in length
| on the back of her head.
Prof Ghoost says that if we reckon the
/ average depth of the oceans at three
4 miles there would be a layer OF SAT- ZOU
feet thick in their basins should the wa
ters of all suddenly evaporate.
A Salvation Army crusade of a novel
| character is being conducted on the hlSh
| seas somewhere in the Pacific, and II
| may continue clear around Cape Horn
and across the South and North Atlantic
| Capt. Guthrie of the British ship Mac
milan, was converted and Joined the ar
! my in San Francisco ten days ago, ana
sailed with his ship for Liverpool two
DAYS later. Promptly on his conversion
he was made captain in the salvation
Army naval reserve. He declared his in
tention of conducting vigorous cam
paien among his crew during the voyage,
and his hope to bring into Liverpool a
converted ships company.
Harrisburg. O., a village about ten miles
from Columbus, is in q state of terror,
the people hardly daring to go out Of their
houses for fear of some terrible wild beast
which is lurking in the vicinity. Nobody
has ever set eyes on It, ana what II Is no
body knows, but it has been heard utter
ing terrible rOaTs after dark, and calves
and other animals have been killed and de-
VOured. The other day several bold splrl Is
determined to get rid of the animal and
| organized a hunt, with some of the best
. dogs in the neighborhOOd. As soon as the
dogs caught a scent of the trail they ran
back and crouched at the feet of the hunt
ers, refusing to move away from them.
The hunt had to be given up, and this has
increased the terror of the citizens
Tire most extraordinary pearl in the
world is known as the Southern Cross,
says the Genuema's Magazine. 1t con
sists of group Of nine pearls, naturally
! grown together in so regular manner
as to form an almost perfect Latin
/ cross. Seven of them compose the shaft,
| which measures an inch and half in
: | length, while the two arms of the cross
are formed by one pearl on each side. All
the pearls are Of fine luster. This aston
/ isning freak was discovered by ahman
named Clark while pearl fishing in West
ern Australia. He regarded it as a
miracle, and, entertaining a sUpersutious
dread of it, he buried it. In 1874 1t was,
however, dug up again. and since then
IL has changed hands many times. Its
value is said to be 10000 How it CHANGED
that these pearls were grouped together
in SO curious d way no one has as yet
been able satisfactory to explain. il
: has been suggested that n fragment Of
} Serrated SeaWeed may have got into the
shell of the oyster, and that the success
sion Of teeth along the margin of the
front may have caused the deposition OF
} mother-Ofpearl at regular intervals. sc
as to form a string of pearls in a straight
= line. The cross was found in the shell
of the mOllusk, Just as it was taken from
- its native element.
The connection between bonfires and
election day, or even Guy EaWkeS day, is
| not very apparent, says Harper's Weekly
unless we accept DR.. Johnson's deriva.
ton and definition" From bon and fire
t fra fire made for some publick cause
Ngsva T., aHf = 4 Il
preston of good feeling at the receipt OF
; good news. But election might bOnttres
are usually lighted before news of any
} kind is received; and not infrequently
they are kept lighted by enthusiasts tC
whom the news, when II does come, is apt
= to be bad. Bonfires in England upon oc
casion OF rejoicing of any kind are as ole
as history. But fireworks seem to have
been little known until the days of Eliza
] beth; although when Anne Bullen was
2 conveyed to her coronation, before Eliza.
{ beth was born, we read of one of the roya
/ barges as containing a great red dragon
| continually moving and casting forth wild
fire, and round about stood terrible mon
a sters and wilde men, casting of fire, an(
f making hideOus noise. Strut preserves
: many records of pyrOtechnic displays il
honor of the virgin queen, such as blaz
- ms, burning darts flying to and fro beams
{ of stars, coruscant streams and hail Of
) fire, sparks, lighting of wild fire on the
water and on the land, fight and shot Of
q / thunder-bOlts. etc. Concerning the 5th O.
= November Pepys had almost nothing t.
:
! annoyance at the bonfres which fright
, ened the horses who dragged his coach
! But on Aug. A. 1866, which was celebra tee
rs Thanksgiving day in honor of recen
. naval successes. he alludes to frework.
, in way so Observation-Disclosures of Pepy!
but Of fireworhs-that his words win vel
bear quoting. About nine to Mrs Mer
, GERS, where the fire and boys expected
, us, and her son had provided abundanc,
of aerpents and rockets; and there mighty
- merry, my Lady Pen and Perg goini
+ / with US, till about twelve at night, fling
ing our fireworks, and burning one an
7 other, and the people over the wayu
/ The peasantry of the Island of Sardini;
q / stun cling to the many old customs which
t have long since been forgotten in othe
a parts of the old world. No more curious
0 1 nor interesting customs are to be rount
o than those in connection with betrothal
+ and marriages, and the present observance
20 amongst uncivilized people win
{ their surViVals amongst thOs,
T which are reckoned as hirbe
. in the scale of humanity are q
4 present engaging the attention of stu
dents in anthropology the world over
Amongst the Sardinians, when younI
man has made his choice, he feels bonn,
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