The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A cOunterfeiter on being Femanded in a
Manchester police court expressed his adj
tive who mad arrested him by Offering his
watch to that officer as a memento. The
latter declined the gift.
Stephen G.. Foster, the song writer
is 10 have a memorial to him erected by
the bohemian Club of Pittsburg. The
man who wrote "Oh Savannah! the |Old
Folks at Home and the odd Kentucky
Home deserves a monument Foster
wrote altogether about 125 songs, all OF
them meritorious.
The only large city in the United States
IN which the populists have made any ma
terial number OF recruits is Chicago. and
they owe their success there. in cOnsidera-
Bile mes sure. to the fact that the socialists
OF Chicago, who are a numerous body and
have IN fact caused Chicago to be known,
IN some quarters a s the socialist city, DO
not maintain a separate organization. but
vote with the .populists. Last year at the
state election in Illinois the peoples party
supported by the socialists, received 80, $50
votes for their state ticket. At the No
Ve mber election the socialists of New \ ork
city polleG 1900 votes and the populists
300
The warden of the Frankfort. Ky. pen
ltentiary was. much mystihed few
days ago to discover one of his prisoners,
big mOuntaineer in his cell dead drunk.
The convict was known to be penniless and
without friends. He DID not get sober
enough to talk for several days, and he
confessed He knew how to make whisky,
and when he got the assistance of a negro
convict in the cook room all was plain
sailing. The negro took molasses, stale
corn bread and rain water. This mixture
was sccreted in a barrel and allowed to
stand as mash for eight days. 1t was then
put in a teapot and boiled and was run
from the lmprONlSed still into big Irons
pot. These drippings were taken to the
mOuntaineer, whose taste they fitted ex
actly. For fear some one would discover
the liquor in his cell he says he drank 1t
all, something like three quarts.
One OF the most peculiar plants with
which our footsteps are beset' remarked
a bOtanist, recently, lis this despised jim
son weed which grows in all parts of the
United States. 1t has certain medicinal
qualities we'll known TO chemists and other
scientists, but one virtue II possesses is
not generally kOnWn. If dried and smoked
in pipe it has somewhat the same quail
ties that opium possesses Those who have
made experiments with il describe the
effect as remarkable, producing the
strangest visions ina gnable. 1t Supplies,
and when in that state the Unison weed
smoker has enhancing fancies that are
said to surpass effects produced by opium.
The reaction, however, is far more serious
than that which results from an Indulgence
in opium. 1t leaves the system Frustrated
and the mind racked with pain. ana con-
tinued indulgence, even for short time,
in the practice of smoking 1t, Will soon
| drive the victim into an insane asylum, If
it does not kill him outright
Not even Dickens. l think, found room
for a butcher amid his Babylon of trades,
says a writer in McMillan's Magazine. A
bailin he has and eight sheriff's officers,
half a dozen beadleS. and half as many
more brokers. The sheriff's officer is, of
course, a familiar enough figure from the
| days of our literary drama. As ingenious
American has compiled a list of Dickens
characters, classified by callings. and it
reads Ike nothing so much as trades
| directory. There are architects, auction
GERS. bankers, BARRIERS, boarding house
! keepers, backsmiths, carpenters, carriers,
chambers, chemists clerks Ga perfect army
OF them, coachmen, coal merchants, con
stables, corn chambers, costumers, detec-
tives, doctors, domestic servants, drysal-
ters, engineers, engine drivers, farmers
fishermen, game keepers, grOcers, green
grocers haberdaShers, hop growers, jailors
and turkeys, labOrers, lamplighters, law
yers, law -statiOners. lOcksmiths manu-
facturers, merchants, medical students,
money lenders, notarieS, ostlers, pawnbro-
kers, parish clerks, plasterers, porters,
poStmasters. pOt-bOys, reporters, robe
makers saddlers, sailors, sections, ship
WrightS, stewards, stOkerS, stone masOnS
sugar bakers, tailors, teachers, tobaccon-
lists, toymakers and merchants, undertake
ers, Watermen, WeaVers, WharfingerS
wheelWTights. The list might be made long
er, but that perhaps Is long enough 10 make
you realize how amply provided with
trades and tradesmen are the teeming
streets of Dickens Imagination.
The Woman's Voice, of Sidney, n. S
W., publishes an article of considerable in
terest and some significance on the work
of Chinese silk factories. The writer, a
woman, declares that the gayeSt and
brightest native women workers she found
In the east are the SAX factory girls The
failures are large, clean, well Ventilated
and well regulated. The coquettish girls
each with her two mirrors, her hair
brush and her tooth brush-implement
sometimes forfeited for misconduct-are
cnarmlngly dressed in blue. with Saucy lit
tie decorated slippers, and smooth hair
decked with flowers and silver-gilt or
enameled pins. Some powder their faces
though many of the country women have
a natural pink in their cheeks that VieS
WITH the roses they wear one filature at
Sing Chang, employing 800 native girls, had
European foreWomen. with a man at the
head of the whole factory. Some of the wo-
men begin work at $50 a. M. have a 10
minutes rest for breakfast during the
morning, and the hour between II and Y
for dinner. They eat breakfast sitting at
their place of work, though the machinery
is stopped; but the dinner is eaten in a
great room. and the girls make common
stock of their provisions. They bring not
only these two meals, but each girl has at
her SIDE while at work little teapot in a
padded basket and a tiny teacup She
drinks tea frequently without milk or SUI
gar, and in small quantities. Work stops al
O'Clock, SO that working day is trihe
under nine hours. Many little girls are en-
ployed, some of them under 10 years of age.
tation,
The largest lobster in the world. stuff
ed, vanished and inserted in an elegant
glass case now belongs to w j. KiIduf
steward of the St. Nicholas hotel in Bos,,
ton, who expects to realize a largo for
tune by placing the creature on exhibition
says the New York World Mr.. Kildufff
is thinking of capitalizing this lobster in
the form of a stock company. He has
made rough calculation that there are
lOOOO,CO0 people in the United States eater
to witness his lobster, and pay ! cent for
the privilege, and this, Mr. Kilduff fipTlres
would bring in $4,000 to the company
while the expenses of Transporting the lob
ster in its glass case would be small Rn+
with proper advertising, Mr.. Kilduff thinks
that these people would be willing to nav
10 cents each to see the lobster thus brinG
ing the profits up to 100000. He saws he
has been approached" with MANY fiat
tering offers from dime museum men The
lobster which has thus had greatness
thrust upon it, belongs" said Mr., xii
duff, ito the male gender" He was
caught in Provincetown, Mass, in August
OF last year, and turned over to a taxidar
mist Tor permanent preservation When
captured the lobster weighed from az to
40 pounds. He measured 40 inches in
length when Strengthened out. and is
now from q to % inches wide when meas
ured from tip to tip like a bird Tbe
right claw is 10 inches long and IS inches
IN circumference on the large end Mount
ed in stained white ash case. the ion
ster IS, says its proud owner. most beanti-
ful to look upon, clean and wholesome
pleasing to the eye, and we'll worth n
cents or dollar of any mans mOnev -