The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

in London there are more Jews than
in Jerusalem more Irish than in Dublin,
and more Scots than in Edinburgh.
The Fulton CIoD Gazette says of a
Missouri town almost entirely populated
by Germans: Herman has no policeman,
no city marshal, no prisoners, no police
court, no lawyers, but has eight open
saloons. and in its cellars are stored about
l,OCO,OO0 gallons Of wine"
"A physician in a country village has
lately given to his medical brethren some
additional instances of the ways in which
contagions are spread which should make
Us all thoughtful. says the Kansas City
journal The only case Of scarlet fever
ever lost by this doctor was one in which
the disease was communicated by a let
ter written by a mother lin whose famils
mere were two cases of the fever) to
friend hundred miles away. The en-
NelOpe of the letter was given to a child
as plaything. Another sever case or
the IeVer was contracted by a little girl
from Two playmates who had what the
doctor called scarlet RASH" and still an
other was carried to a family by a car
penter who lived eight miles away. whose
a disease that the attending physician
informed the father was rot nearly as
catching as scarlet fever
A correspondent writes to the New
southern OhiO.I came across a delectable
dish which l think il worth while to pre-
sent 10 an epicurious public, especially to
that part or the said public which does its
eating in New England. This dish con-
sisted of what is locally known as a
layer pie and was built out of pump
front or ''unkivered" pumpkin pie an
inch in thickness was laid as a founda-
ton, and upon this was placed a Gran
perry -ple, on top of which was suDerim-
posed another pumpkin pie of the same
proportions as the foundation pie. The
work OF construction being completed, the
PIE was cut as jelly cake would be cut,
ana liner eating l am at a loss to think of
may add in this connection that this
composite pie of marvellous toothsomeness
was not Dartaken of at but one meal IT
was served at breakfast. dinner and sun
per- ana didn't taste bad between meals.
IA small ice machine for the household
MnlSh ln nftean minutes will furnish a
sIhdh cake OF pure ice, is being very gen
orally introduced abroad. The water used
20 OBTAIN pure ice must be distilled or
uttered through reliable germ-proof fl
w. me apparatus consists of a double
SAeot-metal cylinder covered en- the OUT
sue with a protective layer of asbestos
lot the purpose of heat Insulation, and
lung IN sockets by two central pivots
Inc receptacle, the section of which shows
the shape OF a cross is filled with distilled
We, uP 20 WITHIN half an inch from the
top, ana after the rubber washer and
HittaI cover are adjusted 1t is tightly
closed down with a screw This permits
the NUNS nlnI,nge Of the space. between the dou-
PIE wall OF the outer cylinder with a chem
leal used Tor generating the cold temper
ature-ln this case ammonium salt After
turning the cylinder around rapidly for
nIteen minutes the inner receptacle is
Withdrawn from the cylinder held for a
moment in boiling hot water, and upon
DelhS opened piece of ice exactly the
shape OF the inner wall will slide out with
out trouble. Another round cylinder is
provided for the quick cooling of any
mud. The cost of the production is very
small, as the salt may be used over and
ity. 40 yuan
In September. 1892. the daughter of the
blacksmith in Gamma an island of the
Hebrides, was wandering on the sh.re
gathering dribtwOOd for fuel when in a
slnall bay about hundred yards distant
from h6r fathers house she picked uD a
piece OF wood bearing the inscription, cut
WIN q knife, "Lachlan Campbell Bilbao
warren - lSs2' says Good Words. On
taking II to her mother she became con
cerned, as this was the name Of her own
son, VINO was boilermaker in Spain and
as would pc the case with most people,
certainly with highlanders she could not
gel over the superstitiOus dread that this
message from the sea was the harbinger
OF eVll tldlngs regarding her son. The
IdinlIy or the proprietor did its beat to
calm hSr terror, eXhorting her to wait for
an eXplanation. When writing to her sen
she told him of what had happenesd and
was greatly relieved ON receiving a. replv
assuring her of his well-being but was
astcnished to learn that he perfectly re-
men how when on holiday he had
written as described, ON a piece of wood
and had idly thrown it into the sea from
rock near Bilbao We all know the
power or ocean currents and need not
be surprised at this piece of wood having
been carried about for six months. but
the marvellous, and, except for undoukted
evidence, the incredible circumstance in
thiS case is that this piece of wood after
its long drifting, should have been washed
on the shore within q. hundred yards OF
WhSre the writer's mother lived and that
it should be picked up by one of his own
family and taken home. Had any novel
ISL dared to picture a message delivered
as this was by means of an ocean. ctlrrt,1t
every. reader and certainly every critic
would have denounced the outrageous de
mand on faith And yet the apparently
Impossible actually occurred in Gamma.
In the lamp house of the government
lighthouse station at TomkinsVille Sta.-
en- Island. is housed Ne r,nst 80, l..s...