The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


! According to a recent issue Of the London
and China Telegraph, the cotton interest in
| Japan is going ahead in a most remarkable
/ way. IN 1875 the prod lctlOn Of cotton yarns
! IN Japan was less than 900 90 pounds
l weight. IN 1892 il had risen 10 more than
64.OJO,OOJ pounds. This result is due. the New
1Ork Tribune says, to The cheapness of la0o
| IN Japan, which renders the cost of produc-
1 ton even less than in India The igures
| form striking commentary on the demand
among English operatives for .hor.er hours
and larger wages. in face Of sub cOmpe,i-
ton Lancashire will be- harder put to it than
ever.
There are two or three standards Of
measurement that appear IN the tables, but
| which comparatively few people understand,
! says the St Louis Globe Democrat. The
/ halr-breadth. the barleycOrn and the ell are
| Jne most common stun bling blocks ana need
| explanation. The taole OF measures says
/ that three barl9ycorns make one inch. and so
! they do When tie standards of measures
! were first established three barley cOrnS.
| well dried, we're taken and laid end TO end,
/ three being understood to make an inch in
| !ength Inc halr-breadth, now used lnden1-
ltely and cOnyentionally for iahnttesimal
space. was a regular measure, sixteen hairs
lald slue by side equaiing one barleycorn.
Inc ell was the exact length Of the forearm
OF Edward Ill. who established. or rather
| revised, the system Of weights and measures
In use IN his time.
A number Of twenty-four hour clock faces
are to be seen IN store windows in town, says
the New York Tribune They are not as
popular here. however, as in Europe. On
most of them the hours from to 10 a. m are
printed In roman numerals, and from Is to
| Il In red ink in Arabic figures, in circle in
SIDE or outside the ordinary one. 1t is claimed,
as a common sense feature of the clock face,
thaG II Is especially adapted for the use OF
| those who are often at loss 10 know whether
| l2:O In time table means morning or after
| noon. 1t would seem as though the aStrono-
mfHal method ms ~ VyO
serve as good purpose. By this system,
| l2:O5 could have no other meaning than after
| noon, as the day begins at midnight the first
morning hour not being marked until sixty
minutes have passed, any subdivision Of that
| hour being prehxed by a cipher, as 00j, 0:20,
| etc.
| The tobacco merchant was showing US
yard" of Perique tobacco grown in that
famous county in the south. and the CONVEX
sation had drifted in that direction, SAYS the
Lewiston Journal. No man can smoke
periqne straight" said he, and those who
know 1t best use about one-eighth perlQue
and the rest other to )accO / well remember
the first that l ever smoked. My friends put
up the trick on NE and when 1 came TO my
sell had the pipe with me, but didn't know
where had been Later had four pounds
of it seEt me from New Orleans as heavy as
roped molasseS. I filed PIPE with 1t and
covered 1t with dry ashes and LAID it away
Tor friend who never bought pipeful of to-
oacco IN MS life, and who always was SmOk-
ing in my store. He came in, and how his
eyes glistened at sight Of the fun pipe. He
lit II and sat down. In five minutes it fell
from his hands his head went back and he
had passed away. He slept over two hours.
and got afraid. We couldn't awake him,
and IL was fully four hours before he came to
himself. He never smoked my pipe again
The bulls used for fighting purposes are
specially selected, specially caredfor class,
says a writer in the Fortnightly Review.
hey are all pedigreed. Andalasia is especi-
ally the district of the bull. Here, at the age
OF year, the young bulls are separated from
the helfers, branded with the owners mark,
and turned out loose en- the plains to Craze
with others their own age. When year
older, the young bulls are gathered together
IN order that their m 3ttlc and lighting quail
ties may be tested. one Of them is separated
from the herd and chased by a man on horse
back, who, by the Skillful use of a blunted
lance, overthrows the escaping bull, where
upon another rider comes in front OF the ami
nal with sharper lance to
Withstand the expe ted attacks II
the BULL on regaining his feet attacks the
rider twice it is passed as a fighting animal
but il II turns tail and runs off then it is set
aside to be killed or to be used in agricultural
work. And 50 with each animal until the
whole hero OF 2-year-olds has teen tested.
Each bull that has stood the test successfully
is then entered in the herd book with de-
scrlptlon OF its appearance, and receives a
name. The process Of careful selection goes
on from year to year until the bull is years
old, when, should its mettle stin prove true
IL is ready for the arena, and flaming posters
appear on the walls OF Madrid or Seville an
nouncing that ESpartero (Or whatever his
name Isl will on such a date make his first
and final appearance. A good, 'Warcantable"
5-year old bull for the hghting arena costs
from $3.50 to $500.
1t is true that there are twenty or thirty
more members In congress than there were a
few years ago but a change has come over
the spirit OF debate. LOng-winded speeches
are Iarer; men talk quicker and say more
The inceSsant agitation of the tariff has been
a education in figure If a maj
wild statement he is promptly contradicted.
A Steno grapher who can report the house de-
bate is at the top OF his profession, says the
Boston transcript. and there is no more pro-
motion for him. The men who do this work
| earn incomes that would make the average
| professional man turn green with envy; for
| when congress Is not In session they are in
| demand, at the highest figures, to report the
| most important matters. There was a man
| in Washington once, a good many
years ago, who through bad habits
| had lost every faculty he had except that
of writing shorthand not only as fast as peo-
| pie could talk, but as fast as they could think
! In his intervals OF soOr1ety he could make
| money hand over fist as a House stenographer
| he generally kept fairly soner during the
| session OF congress. but as soon as it was over
! he would deli .erately drink himself into in.
| sensi o1lity. His services were so much in
| demand that men who knew his powers and
| wanted his services would come to Washing
| ton. bring him out of his lit Of dissipation.
| get him sobered up, take him of to the scene
! OF action and watch him like a hawk while
| the case generally great lawsuit-lasted
| Then, as soon as it was over. he would 20
| back TO his evil ways, But as long as he
| lived he could write shorthand and as long
| as he lived he ma lie tine income.
The striking thing about the execution of
/ Valiant was the appalling quickness of it all.
| Action was so rapid. says a writer in the New
! York World from the instant he appeared in
| the doorway of the prison to the moment the
! knife fell, that 1t was almost impossible Ia
! distinguish the slight chain Of incidents ne
! flung himself eagerly against the plank was
| strapped 10 it. and in the flash OF a glance the
! plank was pushed forward on the platform Of
the guillOtine. An lnStant's vision Of a re
cumL cent hgure, face downwlr6; in the same
| moment head, with two staring wide omen
| eyes whirled almost deiantly as it seemed
| ana with slight zigZag movement to the
! rightW ard, while simultaneously the piniOned
! body rolled inert. COnvulsive into the cana
| CiOus basket, also at the right-hand side Of
| the guillOttne. The swiftness the mechanical
! promptness OF the business fairly stuDeIej
the spectator. 1t was impossible to reali7e
that human life had ended in less time
than it would take to draw full breath me
guiLotine had done It's work we'll There was
scarcely a sense OF horror in the sigbt
! Twenty-tour hours later no one could have as.
soclated Paris with perhaps the most i'm
presslve vengeance society has ever taken
upon the revolt The Mardi Gras festival
was being kept as no Mardi Gras known since
the BONANZA days Of the empire In spife Of
the London weather, as it is called ali the
gayeties and Rraees known to French fun