The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A cod caught of Marlborough, England, .the
other day, was found 10 have tfty-nine fish
hooks, all baited, in his stomach.
A new sign Of the times is the great
I plenty Of Yenison in the London market.
Formerly, those who owned deer shooting
sent their bucks to their friends; now they
send them TO market to make little money.
A new monograph cylinder made OF hard
soap has been invented in Germany, which is
said to be cheaper than the writing paper re-
quired for holding the same number Of words.
AT least 2oOOOO words can be put on 75-cent
cylinder
Wonder Is sometimes expressed as to where
all the bicycles made each year are sold. To
answer this question Hardware" says that
IN certain little town in Ohio. which pos
sixty bicycles owned: Then multiply that
town by the whole United states.
At Alyth, in Scotland, the other day. a
curious incident occurred in connection with
the capture of a rat. All ordinary wire rat
rap was SET with oalt of corn. The next
evening eve n when the trap was inspected there
was IN u a FEMALE rat, sitting sucking eight
young ones that had Oeen born captive.
Although sugar cane has been cultivated for
thousands OF years, its seeding has been
noticed, strangely enough. only during the
past year, and then by singular coincidence,
IN two widely separated spots, Java and the
west indies. 1t IS thought that new and su-
perlor kinds Of cane can be raised from the
SEED, and perhaps some that will seed regu-
larly
Three evangelists who are at present work
ing IN the coal regions near Scranton-B. F.
Armstrong, Thomas Thorburn and J. c. Ten
nant-recently held revival meeting for the
miners OF the Ontario mine under uncommon
circumstances. 1t was at the bottom of the
smart Snps OF paper with the words of
hymns printed upon them were handed
around, and the miners gathered in the
gloom OF the mine, Joined heartily in the ser
vice of song
A san Francisco fisherman has a cat that
IS said to love water as much as other cats
love a rug in front of CRATE FIRE When he
goes fishing the cat lies quietly in the boat
and does not appear to mind how wet he gets
When the seine with its load of live fish is
hauled in the cat seizes the largest one, try
ing TO shake 1t as he would a mouse. He does
u enttlrely Tor sport, as he never attemps to
eat the large fish, and lives almost wholly on
the smaller ones used for bait.
A Paris correspondent describes. one Of the
oldest industries of that city to he found in a
little shop in the Rue des Ecoles which deals
exclusively with the second hand boots Of the
men who work in the sewers These boots
are furnished by the state. and come half way
up the thigh, and each man is allowed a new
pair every six months When new thew cost
81: when sold second hand they realize the
IuOu6St sum OF op CenJSi but as at least 5000
pairs per annum are sent to the Rue des
Ecoles, 1t makes quite becoming industry
Inc leather of these boots is so to sneal,
tanned by the alkaline and greasy water in
which the sewer cleaners paddle and thew
are eagerly sought for by the great ParisiBn
bootmakers; for this leather. being at once
tough and light serves to sustain the cDrve
OF the Louis XIV. heel
The cockroach is an insect with which all
housewives are at deadly war and they will
a inf q tod
to day OF a remarkable migration of cock
reaches witnessed by him on the streets of
Washington on a very dark day last summer.
says the Philadelphia Ledger. He showed
that the migrating army which was com
posed OF many thousands Of individuals. con
sisted almost entirely of female reaches car
rylng egg-SacS. An Investigation led him n
believe that, while the old residence of the in
sects might have supported its then occu-
pants, provision for the suStenance of the
young, as yet unborn. neCessitated a Journey
IN search OF new quarters. The migration OF
lnlS army upon dark day suggested that it
Is by similar migration after nightfall that
new houses become infested with reaches.
The bicycle sta mp" which was brought
into existence in San Francisco by the re-
cent railroad strike, is likely to be much
priced by stamp collectors. For more than a
fortnight San Francisco was practically cut
Off from all railroad communication and
bicycle mail service was gotten up by the
agent OF bicycle manufacturer between that
city and Fresno, a distance of about 2lO
miles. 1t continued for four DAYS when the
blockade was raised. Stamps and stamped
envelopes were hastily designed and several
hundred printed, the stamps being sold at d
cents apiece and the envelopes at 80 cents.
VI the $50 letters carried, 3l5 were stamped
and forty were sent in stamped envelopes
Used specimens are already commanding a
high premium in San Francisco, the papers
OF that city say, as high as S. being paid for
the stamps while the used envelopes are ex-
pected to bring from IS to so each
traveller from the south described re-
Gently one of the oldest and most popular
dishes In Kentucky, which Is known as
"burgoo, says the New York Tribune. 1t is
an outdoor connection, and many massive
pots OF 1t are said TO have Simmered over a
hot fire in the open at political gather
ings in Kentucky. The making of ''burgoo"
is thus described: In the bottom of the big
pot some red pepper pods are thrown; then
potatoes, tomatoes and corn are added: then
nalt-dOZen nicely dressed prairie chickens
are thrown into the pot, and also a half
dozen OF the latest farmyard chickens are
added; then couple of dozen Softshell crabs
and three or four young squirrels are thrown
on the heap. Enough clear spring or We'll
water is thrown into the caldron barely TO
hoat the varied contents, and then the fire is
started. 1t must be allowed to simmer
slowly for SIX hours and an old superstition
is that it must be stirred with a hic korv
stick in order to give it the best favor.
While camphor was formerly produced in
SuIudJFd, bOTneO ana OIQ6r parts or the East
Indies all now known to the trade comes
from Japan and Formosa, says the Scientific
American The camphor tree is large ever
green of symmetrical proportions somewhat
resembling linden. 1T bears a white flower
which rlpenS into a red berry. Some of the
trees are fifteen feet in diameter and live to a
great age. group of trees in the province
of Toosa. about century old, are estimated
to be equivalent to about 10000 hounds Of
crude camphor. The camphor is extracted
from chips taken from the roots or from the
stem near the root, the wood yielding about
per cent. of camphor and the root larger pro
portion The annual export of japan camphor
averages about 100000 pounds The forests
in Japan owned by the people are now almost
denuded of timber, but the government still
possesses large woods of camphor trees
which, it is estimated, will maintain a fuli
average supply of the gum for the next TWEEN
ty-hve years. Plantations Of young trees are
also making and are well taken care Of and
although camphor has not hitherto been ex.
tracted from trees less than 70 or so wears
old it is expected that under the present in
teligent management equally good results
may be realized In twenty-five or thirty
years. The japanese Department Of Forests
which has the control OF these woods is nm.
der good management.
In a scarce copy Of the Maase Tobia. an an
cient Hebrew work, which was republished at
Venice in 1905, there is an interesting descrip
ton OF the Vegetable Lamb" or Animal
Vine Of Tartary, says the ST Louis Repub.
lie. The following is the account, phraseoiopv
chonpnd To make mara ipta1I{v{t,1r