The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Gas companies in Brooklyn encourage the
use Of gas by offering a handsome gas stove TO
every person that shall consume in a given
time $40 worth OF gas The stove is worth at
least twice as much. Some Of the New York
gas companies also undertake TO supply gas
stoves 10 householders and others.
There are companies in Philadelphia which
make a speciality Of addressing envelopes, not
only for cards of invitation, but for circulars
from business houses. Ibis has grown to Le
quite BUSINESS, and in one establishment
large numbers Of men and girls are employed.
IL mas Teen found that men do even such per
IuuClOrY coping much more rapidly and much
more &C III atelv than girls, though few men
care for the work.
A single concern in New York has been turn
ing out for almost fifty years pewter toys-the
kind that several generations o. children now
IecaI- lhese things are made by the gross
auu solu the country over. some OF them, as
Yea sets, ale hawked about the streets and are
familiar things the country over. 1hey sell by
Inc gross at something between S{5 and $40.
me factory IS little, oldfashioned house in a
oo"u- Town street, anu the once, which occu-
pes what must have been the drawing room
OF the dwelling in other days, has an old CRATE
WIN trass ornaments
With the turning Of the leaves it is supposed
that the flowers disappear but in northern
New England. and over the line IN Canada the
a aSteIs were never more gorgeous, the daisies
Digger or the chamomile more abundant than
now Jnst on the eve OF frost time. In towns
w or . miles north OF New York the short
Dut warm summer seems to have its fruia ye
aIter the equinox, and the parks and ga:dens
N tnese towns are brilliant with marigolds,
Zlhhlas, asters, cosmos and even sweet peas,
long gone by in these attitudes. Melons are in
tneIr prime IN Maine when they are not on sale
in New York.
Tie amount of gold held by the national
banks of the United States, by states, is shown
in the abstract of the returns Just completed in
tne ONCE OF the controller Of currency. New
nolk banks alone have S25, 0OOOt0 more gold
IMAM the reserve in the treasury. Returns OF
J J9HIy last include the following: New York,
10000; Illinois. S264O6 600: PENNSYLVANIA
52I 2g6 600; Ohio, Se,8l5 900; Minnesota. IA $50
WUi Wisconsin, 80, 524 900; India IA. So 743 900;
Missouri S3,Cl3,00U; Colorado, 1896, OOo: Michi-
gan, S!,723 O00; Nebraska, 50 1863. 600: Iowa 81
GOO.O Kansas, 81 ,2U1UOO; Kentucky 81 ,057 900;
montana 5VJI,OO: Arkansas. sol .O)O; MtSSiS
slppl, $4,000 Oklahoma, S45 zoo; Indian Terri
tory, $4,000.
Although we are accustomed here to re ard
cricket as rather quiet and lnofensive game
1t bears an entirely different aspect when
played in the Pac a. Islands According to
the new English tisnop of Melanesia who was
ooWIed out by one OF the converts to Christian
ity at the outset of his first game in Norfolk
Island, the natives don't clap their hands. but
war Wnoop in token of applause. This Whoop is
more Ike shrill siren whistle than anything
else When the batsman misses he leaps about,
whooplng. to the crowd OF onlookers and thew
back to him while he swings his bat round hi
head to the peril OF the wicketkeeper, and. in
deed, of all within range" Imagine what the
antics Of the Norfolk Islanders would be if
they were to acquire any knowledge Of our
national game Of baseball
Baron Salvi, a well-known Italian writer on
horses and famous rider OF long distances,
when in Berlin the other day was ignomiliously
Knocked down by an infamous specimen OF a
Cao morse. On recovering his feet. the baron
looked earnestly at the old nag and exclaimed;
Ihat is odd after having gent my life among
thoroughbred horses, we nearly lost nv life
under the feet OF that wretched looking beastl''
VINO knows, baron. but that sorry animal was
/ once Thoroughbred that you neglected and
desplsed, and after many Ylcissitudes he now
taxes revenge by running over you horses
have long memories. Whenever we see a
prancng locked tail steed with his head
strained up by an infamous curb rein, the hope
Will arise that some time ne NAV lie able 10
turn the tables on inhuman man who has
brought him to this state. Not exactly Stay
MN, but give him a bad quarter Of a minute
such as Defel baron Salvi in Berlin
The New York Advertiser twits Kate Field
in the following vein on one OF her recent
poems: Miss Kate Field, in a tender and
soulful poem, printed in her excellent Kate
RE Washington, tonfesseS that one bliss
tul summer day Love CHANGED to pass my way
ana touched my silent lips with doWny wing
ana so l sing Reason enough for singing II
has made maidens sing before, aad will make
tnem sing again. AS to why She smiles she
one night his eyes tender and grave and wise
lpoked long IN mine with loving smile-and so
smile But what object to IN Miss Fields
case IS IN TINS question and her answer: Why
do sigh? Because my day is 0 er; for me no
more. At morn or noon or nj ht Love passes
by and so l 81 h.' Nonsense. Kate. \ our dav
Is not over. The sun Of your fair life has not
reached its meridian BESIDES you must not
forget mat there are as good hsh in the sea as
ever were caught.
In the Strand Magazine, Mary Spencer, War.
rem publishes an interview with the Baroness
BurdettCusts. The baroness, at the age Of "a
iound herself the richest woman IN England.
She visited some OF tie fOulest dens in London
with Dickens, and, as a result of these visits
she converted Nova Scotia gardens into co
lumbia square, with its model tenement bonsas
During the cholera epidemic OF 1867 she en-
ployed eight trained nurses, two sanitary in
spectorS and four disinfectant agents to work
under doctor in the east emo. She has founded
the hlshoprlc OF Adelaide, British Columbia and
Cape Town at a cost of about 1850 90 apiece
She spent 100000 in building the church of ST
Stephen at Westminster She started he
Whitelands Training College and is the chief
promoter of the English Society for the Pre-
yention OF Cruelty to Children. She is Presi.
dent Of the Destitute Dinner Society of Lon.
don, which every year gives 100000 substantial
dinners at charge Of from half-penny to a
penny each.
Gen. Isaac J. Wistar, president Of the Phila.
delphia Academy of Natural Sciences. has re-
ceived the following letter from Lieut. Pearv.
The experience of The journey has shown ne
That my ideas as TO the topography OF the
inland ice Of Northern Greenland are correct
and that on my proposed route. after surmount'
ing the slope of the ice Immediately adjacent IN
Whale Sound. shall have level road until
begin the descent to Independence Bay. also
know that the human animal can be SO clothed
and fed as TO be unaffected by anv degree of
cold. what need now is an exhaustive study
OF the Eskimo dog aud his needs under the
most trying circumstances. The coming winter
VIII give me the opportunity Tor such study
N INV agf W rrNE vfavIrU el,rt
full friends and allies, the Eskimo and with
their assistance Shall have strong. efficient
working force. You may rest assured that
shall not return until l have done everything
that Is possible for one who believes in ultimate
success, and whose every bber is in sympathy
with and stralning for the desired end"
On April II, 1875, Henry Smith arrived in
Seneca County, Ohio, and settled on the farm
he now owns and works. The land he entered
at that time from the general eroro-rr-a...