The morning news., 1894-09-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

stroyed in 1893 by fire caused by electric
wires.
In the belfry Of the old parish church at
Bury, England, the curfew that tolled the
knen OF parting day 200 years ago is still in
place, and IS still rung every night at sunset.
Donald Funnam, who lived in Dunkirk,
Scotland, IN 1902, is believed to be the talleSt
man who ever lived. When he Strengthened
up, as though he had style about him, he was
IL feet inches.
Rare Ben Jonson learned the trade Of a
bricklayer, but tired Of it, so the story goes
after fellow workman dropped a couple OF
Drlcks on his head, and upset hod full of
mortar down his neck
The tobacco raised in Beloochistan is ex-
ceedingly strong and cannot be smoked by
any but the most vigorous white men. TIE
natives DO not appear to be affected by it, and
children Of 10 and l. years puff away all day
long without any discomfort
Uncle Ephraim Barnstable. OF Dedd's Cor
ners, O., mas caused a cage to be constructed
Tor himself, into which he crawls every night
at 3 o clock and locks himself in. This is on
account OF his unfortunate habit OF walking
IN MS sleep and singing Comrades" at the
top OF ms voice, to the great annoyance of
his neighbors.
While Georgia has produced some curl
ously named people, Kentucky believes she
Will soon be able to present good claim for
recognition IN that line. There is lawyer
IN the Blue Grass region named Fountain
BOX Babtlt and a stock raiser near Coving-
s9 I9n VINO re5olces In the patronymic of Cad
qleeup Deedlenucks. His fathers name was
Dup Deedlenucks
While cleaning out his we'll William Sam
pie Kane county Qdaho) farmer. found an
old plug hat at the bottom. II was of the
style OF 1850. and as the we'll was not dug un-
tll 1881, he was at first inclined TO believe
LudJ IL la0 grown there &amDlp'S rHipb
think his mental condition might be i'm
proved little If some method could be de-
Vlsed to furnish him with brains.
Idiots says the New York Times, have been
, improved, educated and even cured not one
IN thousand has been entirely refractory to
treatment; not one In hundred who has not
DeeD made more happy and healthy; more
tnan 30 per cent. have Ueen taught 10 conform
10 social and moral law, and rendered cap
able OF order, of good feeling and of working
IKE the third of man. more than 40 per
cent have become capable of the ordinary
transactions OF life under friendly control
| ana OF understanding moral and social alb
| stractlons, OF working like twothirdS of
man, and % to 30 per cent come nearer and
nearer the standard of manhood, till some of
| them VIII defy the scrutiny of good judges
When compared with ordinary young men and
women. That this is not mere rhetorical
flourish, says writer in The Hospital is
proved by the statistics of one OF the largest
English training institutions for imbeciles.
Storing wind power has for years been one
of the pet subjects Of inventors and many and
wonderful have been the schemes proposed
| TO accomplish the work, says CaSSler' S Maya
| zine. One of them hailing from the sandy
| plains OF the western part of the United
| States, was to have a windmill drive a belt
and bucket conveyor TO carry sand up into a
| large tank or hopper, somewhat after the
| manner in which grain elevators carry whea5.
| A stream OF sand was to be let out from this
| bin upon large overshot water wheel and
| nat L a.
| the weight of corresponding volume of
| water When there was good. steady wind
sand was to be stored up for use during sue
| ceellng Gains, and power was thus to be
| male available continuously, with the spe-
| cine OBJECT of driving number of arastras
| or ore mills, which were located in u sandy
| district where only sufficient water for drink
| ing purposes and for mOistening the ore to be
| operated upon could be Obta led Like the
! winding up of springs, the compressing of
ar ana other unlikely wind power storage
| suggestions however, the sand power scheme
| has come to naught, and its promoters have
| been Obliged to seek other fields and pastures
new
All travellers agree writes Rome CORE.
| spondent of the Buffalo Express, that there
are nowhere else roses so magnificent as
those that cover the wall Of the old Roman
| palace of the Via Sistui, in which once lived
| the famous epicure, Lucullus. Rome is a city
| OF roses. They run riot but those Of the old
| palace have become celebrated Their odor
| 40 phSSlOudJC III us intensity. ll6lr form,
| their every petal the way they hang upon
| their stems IS picturesque. The color in some
| is deep, deep crimson, almost black at the
heart; In others 1t IS cameo pink, changing to
| rich cream tlntS at the center; others are the
| bright yellow that mellows into gold others
are the white that is like melted moonlight
in the petal cup. l lived next door the
house overlooking the palace garden
and 1 had frequently asked my,
| self: What has produced these
superb roses One day saw the gardener,
| whose love for his roses is almost pagan
| watering them carefully at the roots with a
clear dark liquid l was sure that this was
! the feeding that had TO do with the secret of
their wonderful beauty. On investigation I
! learned that the wealth OF odor and coloring
was the result OF animal food. That nnysteri-
| Gus liDation which had seen poured at their
roots was strong beef tea made from fresh
| cuts OF beef and strained. The old gardener
| himself invented the idea. This reminded
| me how luxuriantly had seen ferns of every
| kind. even the most delicate. growing in
! several spots In Germany, whore the brewers
| had bestowed their refuse malt.
Nowadays everybody carries a watch, and
they are turned out in millions by machinery
The artist and the true craftsman have prac-
tically ceased to work upon them, saws a
| London journal, for We cannot accent ma
| chine turned cases or fronts and backs
| 'Swedged' in mold artistic, even though
| StudCet with Jewels plastered with enamel
| and laVishly engraved. Certain CaInpanieS
| abandoning all pretence to beauty ii favor of
/ use alone, have hooded mankind with time
| keepers in cases Of base metal which are "a
| seryiceable as they are ugly. The CRYSTAL
| face to the watch obviating the breaking of
! glasses, was a great improvement, and the
! Stem-winding system, dispensing with the
| watch key. completes the convenience with
/ which the modern man COMPUTES the pas-
| sage OF his hours. Does he I Sc those f1Ving
! hours better than did his watchl sss ancestor
! Is it not perhaps largely due to clocks and
! watches that he goes to ed so late
and rises so long after the morning
| has dawned? In old times mankind in gen
! eral retired to rest with the sun and rose
/ with it. The healthy sleeper had no know
| ledge and wanted none of the passage of
| the dark hours Also he had no bill to nav
! for gas or candles, no explosion Of petr0.
| leum amps, and wore no spectacles IL he
| lived TO be a hundred. The sun was the
| only timepiece ne wanted splendied self.
| winding and sufficient There is perhans
| no instance of human wastefulneSs so great
! as that OF the amount of morning light cast
| away and dsregarded by civilized mankind
! between the hours of daybreak and of mod.
/ ern breakfast time since the invention Of
watches. We do not say that this serious
| change is entirely due TO the horolopist
| He has his uses it would be difficult to
| regulate railway trains and parliamentary
| debates by the growing of cocks or the
| trickling OF clepsydre. Nevertheless IL is
/ curious to reflect how yery well the race
| got on before anybody owned a watch. and
most wonderful Of all, how the ancient
mariners OF Greece and Rome and Phenicia
| navigated the seas without the ghost of a
chronometer.
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