The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The maximum age assigned to the pine
is 200 years; 10 the red beach, 2i5; to the
oak, 40 and to the ash l45 years.
Near Stockton. Cal, is an Arab coli
ony which cuitivates Indian hemp and
manufactures has-heesh from II.
An ounce Of pure gold is worth S20.64
Therefore ton Of pure gOld which must
contain 1900 ounces, is worth exactly
Sss5.9eO.
Observations recently made on a crimi-
nal beheaded in France proved that the
heart beats continued for six minutes after
the AK fell.
Sir William Turner has compiled ia
bic which shows that a whale OF 80 tons
weight exerts 145 horsepower in swimming
y miles an hour.
Among every 1000 inhabitants in the
United States there is an average Of 81
who are under Is; in France there are only
279 such to the 1000.
in 1892 the cost Of the election in Eng
land was 1855, so, an average OF a little
over four shilling a vote. In 1874 each
vote cost fourteen to fifteen shillings ana
in 1853 over fl. Wilberforces election at
Hull in 1897 the costliest that England
ever saw, is said to have cost alto
gether 100000. which is doubtless an ex-
aggeration.
The colored people living in Berlin
held festival in that city recently, which
attracted many of the prominent people
OF the capital, says the New York Tribune
One Of the best speakers made an address,
as became a good adopted citizen, in eu-
logy of the German emperor. Negroes in
the Fatherland have reason to be content
with their lot. They are received on an
equality with whites, and are often called
"brunettes."
"A novel scheme for selling furniture
on the installment plan is being carried
on in the poorer tenement districts of New
York. Huge vans containing all sorts of
household goods make regular tours OF
the streets Ihey send runners ahead
through the tenement houses announcing
their coming, and these men not only
drum up considerable trade, but satisfy
themselves Of prospective customers hon
esty before the vans get around.
"A number of enterprising college girls
OF Hillsdale, Mich, are earning money
during the summer to pay next winters
tuition by serving as walters in a sum-
mer hotel at Little Traverse Bay. They all
went on strike recently because beef
stake was dropped from their bill of fare
Tor breakfast. In one day after their
withdrawal the landlord realized the val
ue of his fair handmaidens services, and,
accordingly, acceeded to their demands
1t is said that now the best that the house
affords is at the disposal of the independ-
ent young women.
Iceland has from time immemorial en-
jOyed a strange immunity from reptiles,
says the New York Tribune. This seems
to have grated upon the nerves of two
German naturalists, who, emulated by the
same spirit which induced the Chicago
contractor to send an offer to the town
council of the Italian city of Pisa to
straighten the leaning tower, which is
the principal attraction of the place, are
now devoting their energies to introduce
ing reptiles into Iceland They have al
ready Experimental with frogs, both Dan
ish and Prusstan, and as the pioneer SER
vice of these humble handmaidens of the
biologist has proved successful, cargo
of able-bodied snakes is about to be dump
ed on the island, unless King Christian
sees fit to resist this altogether novel
form of German invasion.
A recently published article on the
-
il as being of Welsh origin, giving "ffedd''
as the root word. A New York Tribune
correspondent writes on the subject: The
word lad, is manufactured word not
given by Worcester. 1t has been in use
only a short time comparatively, and,
while 1t may be derived from the Welsh,
II is more probable that it is made from
the initial letters of the words for a day.
The word tip ii is said, originated in
that way. The story goes that in an old
time English tavern a recepticle for small
coin was placed in a conspicuous place
over which appeared the legend, To in
sure promptness.' Whatever was placed
Other taverns followed the example, and
soon the words were written, IT l. p
everybody knowing what they indicated.
Ihen the punctuation marks were dropped
and the word tip was born. Fad and
tip are of the same class and kind"
William Sawtre. or Sautre, priest of
81. Margarets church, Kings Lynn, is
repeatedly referred to as the first mar
n.
l4Ol, says Notes and Queries. But in the
Advertisement" to Bales Select Work !"
Parker Society, 1919. find: FOX express
~ says Stature was the first and he is
followed herein by Bishop Burnet and Mr.
Collier. But the latter of these had for
gotten what himself had told us under
Henry III of a deacon that apostatizing
to Judaism, was first degraded at a coun-
ell at Oxford, A. d. 1902 and afterWard
sentenced s.. zee to the stake by the secular pow
er' ana there is good evidence of a more
early example than even this A chronicles
OF London mentions of the Albigenses
burned A. d. l210, (Bale, De Script Brit.
Cent. Ill. cap. XIV III Append.) And Cam
den probably alludes to this when he saws;
ELK quo regnante jeanne Christian in
e,.ii5 Spud nos hamInis saevire coep-
erunt. Ihe nifty first and fifty-second
or Langton's Constitution of 1922 are di-
reeted against the Jews.
The popular impression concerning the
lighthouse Keepers is that they spend their
leisure time in resting their heads on their
hands and gazing far out to sea watching
for shipwrecked mariners, sea serpents
and other things. AS matter of fact
manner than they can help, says the Bos-
ton Herald. They have their domestic
operations just the same as people on
shore. In favored locations they are even
able to cultivate little ground and raise
their own vegetables. But they are really
very often lonesome. and were more SO
until recently, when ii occurred to some
philanthropic government official that If
would be good idea to provide these
watchers by the sea with something in the
way of reading matter. The idea took
shape in the construction of portable libra
ries, to be filled by the government, sent
to one lighthouse station and at regular
intervals TO be called for and passed on 10
the next one on the list. The library now
furnished to lighthouse stations is says
the New York World, about two feet high.
two feet wide and eight inches deep. of
shellacked white pine, strengthened with
heavy brass trimmings. 1t has two shelves
Its two doors are secured, the one with an
inside bolt and the other with mortised
lock. On the sides are hinged handles
When locked the library cases can stand
rough handling. The cases of the libraries
are so constructed that they make a neat
appearance when set upright on a table:
when closed and locked they are ready for
transportation. Each contains on an
average about forty volumes of a proper
admixture of historical and scientific
works, besides poetry and good novels An
exchange of libraries takes place once in
about three months. usually at the time
when the lighthouse inspector makes his
quarterly inspection. Each station to
which a library is furnished thus has the
use of about $50 different books each wear
There are now about 200 of these libraries
in circulation, and more are in prepare
fiOn Preference q ofyar1 In hot