The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| TO be under such rigid censorship that SEN
| fences to prison for Objectionable articles
! are reported TO be common. The duty OF
/ the jail editor, It is asserted, is TO serve
/ the sentence of the convicted editor
1t is expected that the Paris Observa-
/ tory viii soon issue a catalogue OF all
/ the known heavenly bodies, whether plan
I ct, satellite or star of the smallest mag
! nltude. Tne idea was formed at the
| astronomical congress Of 1887, and already
] 80 photographs have been taken. Some
contain only a dozen stars, while others
are crowded with them, even to the num-
/ her OF 100. The average number, how
ever, is 535 stars per photograph. Such
catalogue would be of great value to
/ all students of astronomy.
Railway Bob is the name of a IA
nous dog in Australia. He passes his
| whole existence on the train. his favOrite
/ seat being on top of the cOalbOx. In this
/ way he has Travelled many thousands of
I miles, going over all the lines in South
/ Australia. He is well known in Victoria,
/ frequently seen in Sydney, and has been
| up as far as Brisbane. The most curious
/ part OF MS conduct IS that he has no mas
/ ter, but every engine-driver is his friend.
/ At night he follows home the enGine-driv-
| er of the day, never leaving him or letting
| him out of his sight until they are back
| in the railway station in the morning,
| when he starts off on another of his cease
less Journeyings.
Here is an account from the Lewiston
| (Me) Journal. which gives an illustration
| OF what was apparently reasoning in
| BIRDS mind. robins nest and king
/ BlIu nest were situated IN dQJOlUfflR
| trees, each containing young birds. When
| the kingbirds saw the role bringing
| worm to feed its young they would at
| tack it and make il give up the food
| intended for the young robins After be-
| ing robbed a few times the robin appeared
| with a worm, accompanied by two other
| robins, and when the kingbird made his
appearance the two extra robins pitched
| in and gave him a sound thrashing, while
| the one with the worm fed its young and
seemed to be laughing all the while. The
| game was played until the kingbird gave
| 1t up, and now the robin feeds its young
| without help.
The music in the Italian churches, so
| far as my observation has gone, writes an
| American travG er, is poor, very poor,
worse than anye I'VE hear in America 1t is
never congregational, is sung by indiffer-
| ent choirs, and is almost always unisOnal.
| The attack is ragged, the voices do not
| keep together, and there is no attempt at
| expression. The organ is always played
| forte, and the accompaniment is frequent
! ly independent of the voices. The salaries
| OF organsts and singers are absurdly
| small. was told by an American gentle
| man who has resided for many years in
| Florence that the pay of the organist of
| the cathedral is 10 cents day. The choir
men of st. Peters in Rome receive $50 a
month"; and sing at two services every day.
| These salaries are exceptionally munifi-
| cent
| "A HindOo goldsmith says an English
| journal, disappeared some years ago, and
was mOurned by his friends as dead. The
/ other day, however, a nephew of the miss
| ing man met an individual whom he at
once recognized as his uncle He hailed
| him with JOY, and carried him off to his
aunt. The latter Immediately greeted the
| newcomer as her husband, and was soon
! Joined by her mother-in-law, who saw in
| him her long-lost son. The fatted calf,
| was Qiguratively) killed. the oldest cask
| was opened, the largest lamp was lit, and
| the rejoicing went on until-until the eld-
| est son of the family turned up, and de-
| nounced his nephew's Find" as an impos-
| ter, who not his brother at all, and it
| turned out that he was right, too, though
| his mother and his sister-in-law are of the
| same opinion still. and refuse to be con-
| WINGED.
DIR. Max Nordau. in recent book on
| the drinking habits of the French people,
| says that while one rarely sees French
| labOrer intoxicated, they are constantly
under the influence of alcohol, and he
| gives the following sketch of the daily
| the morning he takes a glass of liquor,
| either bitter or a stronger kind, which
he calls ''brulegosier'' throat-burner, or
| "cassepoitrine" Schest-breaker). In con-
| nection with it he generally eats piece
| of bread and a bowl of soup. About II
| o'clock he takes his breakfast consisting
| of a ragout or some other dish containing
| meat, but in insufficient quantities, with
| an enormous mass of bread and one or
| two pints of wine. He invariably finishes
| breakfast with coffee, followed by glass
| of cognac, which is called ia goutte''
| 0he drop, or ia rince gueule" Che throat
| rinser). At or o'clock dinner is taken,
| consisting of a vegetable soup, a lilliputian
quantity of meat, a salad, bread, two
| pints of wine, a cup of coffee and ia
goute" (the drop.
"A writer in the English Fortnightlv
| Review concludes that fishes can talk He
argues this from the experience of fish
| erman. He was angling in pond where
| the fish were plentiful and so little used
| to being troubled that when he threw a
! baited hook into the water all the trout
| in sight-a great number-rushed eagerly
| upon it. He caught one, and removing it
| from the hook threw II hack n he
| pond. Then he put in freshly .baited hook.
| Two or three trout only came after it.
| One of those he caught and threw it back
| into the water. Again he resumed his fish
| ing with a newly baited hook and this
| time although the pond was swarming
| with fish, it was only after a long time
| that he lured another trout to his bait
| And after a little further time it was en-
tirely impossible to catch a trout in this
other pond, equally we'll stocked and not
| throwing back any fish, Mr.. Field found
that he could catch trout as long as he
that does not know it is bad luck" to
throw fish into the water.
"A correspondent of the New London
4 Telegraph writes that with an opera
glass the other evening he was able to
| trace the outline of a woman's face in the
| moon. He writes: 1t occupies nearly all
| of the right side of the full moon, with
the face toward the center. The hair is
| black and heavy. The eyebrows, nose,
mouth, chin, neck, chest and shoulders
are very distinctly marked. The face is
turned slightly toward you, and the head
is inclined little backward. Directly in
| front of her, on the left side of the moon.
is the form of a mans head and Shout
ders. The outline of his head is marked
| by a fine golden line. His right shoulder
and the back of his head are turned
| toward you. His head is inclined slightly
| forward, but his portrait is not as distinct
as the lady's. After finding these two
pictures, 1t requires but little aid from the
| Imagination to see that his left arm is
around her neck, his left can. be seen on
her left shoulder and her face is turned
upward to receive a kiss from her com
panion. If you can imagine how a pho
| tograph of two persons in that position
would look, inclosed in a round frame
you can easily find these pictures in the
l-moon. There We're several persons in our
| party and all saw them distinctly OF
| course, these pictures are formed bv the
lights and shadows on the moon. The
| first three or four nights after full moon
| are the best nights to see them Use a
common low power opera glass. A high
power spoils the figures entirely
in various ways the circus of the nres.
| ent day differs from that of the past. saws
| an exchange, but the ring remains nm
| changed: it is always AZ feet Q inches ~,