The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An eminent German pencil maker, now
dead. has over his grave a gigantic stone
representation of half a lead pencil set
as tombstone It is Of red sandstone,
with core Of graphite eight inches IN
diameter.
"A drummer for a Portland. Ne, drug
concern lakes a bicycle with him from
city to city and uses il in riding around
to visit his customers He is the hrst
drummer to adopt the plan of carrying
wheel around with him on the train.
Naturalist W. Victor Lehman of Ire
mont, Pa, has just sent to the Smithson-
ian Institute at Washington the first fOs-
sll insect ever found in the Southern
Pennsylvania coal field. The specimen
was found in the coal mine and is a very
rare one.
"A farmhouse and lands in Noting
hamshlre, England, which twenty years
ago was sold readily for 10000. have Just
been put up to auction in thirteen lots,
every one Of which was sold, but the
total amount realized fell considerably
short of 1900.
Isaac Brewer. who is fond of telling
that his wife has deserted him fOrty-twO
times in twenty-five years, is an inmate
OF the Stroudsburg (Pa.) Jail. Brewer
entered the store of Mayor Hiram W.
hlsler 10 purchase cigars and afterward
became obnoxious. He struck the mayor
ana was locked up. His many marital
misfortunes have Completely upset
Brewer, so local paper states.
The echo organ at Westminster Alb
hey which Mr.. Clarke of yachting fame
some ume ago, undertook to provide, has
now been fixed in the triforium above
I emmy son monument says the New
YORK suns London cable. The new i'll
strument is electrically connected with
the main organ. A new keyboard has
Deen added to the already complicated
organ, making i've manuals, and there
are electrical contrivances in great va
rlety, by means of which the couplings
ana stops are put into and our of action
Inc erect of touching the keys on the
ha aph r
organ is as sensitive in responding as is
the main instrument, The effect is found
70 be charming, but the instrument viii
not pc Drought into general use unit
Dr. Bridge, the organist, returns from his
holiday, week hence
According to Independence Beige
me cashier OF Niennese bank me. with
his death short time ago under circum-
stances as remarkable as they are hap
ply rare. Having TO count a large num-
per OF used bank notes, all more Or less
solled and difficult to separate from each
other, he incautiously, and in spite of a
friendly warning regarding the risk he
was thereby encOuntering, endeaVOred to
facilitate his work by moistening his
fingers and thumb with his saliva. The
same evening he felt a tingling pain in
his lips, but did not pay much attention
to the symptom, thinking it would pass
away. The next morning, however as
MS mouth and tongue We're hot and swol-
len, he began to feel alarmed and, with
out loss of time, consulted a medical
cised the tumor. Notwithstanding the
operation, the patient died three days
subsequently from the effects of the pois-
on which he had absorbed.
The fashions and practices of mourn
ing, says the New York Sun, have won
derfully changed with women in the last
few days. Only persons of Anticipated
ideas now pretend to wear black for a
relative outside the immediate family cir
Gle and even for a member of ones own
household the orthodox theory of crepe
and social isolation for twelve-months
IS being rapidly set aside. Mourning, as
seen on the streets, grows lighter every
year and more infrequent. The long crepe
vel, with its heavy hem, has all but dis
appeared, and the most SOrely bereaVed
widow orders this chief of her weeds only
six inches below her waist line, and then
OF creped chiffon. According to the latest
fashion, the veil is obligatory only for
widows, though a woman who has lost
her parents or a child may wear one; but
gJOd. taste has deruded her gown entirely
OF all the ugly bombazine or crepe trim
mlngs, ana many materials have been
added to the mourning list that ten years
ago were not permitted in the wardrobe.
Sweden has doctors, Dut no doctors
bills, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. If you
nave occasion to call a physician you will
find him not only skillful in his profess
sion, but highly-educated and most hon
orable gentleman You will also have an
other proof of the honesty of the Swedes
and their friendly confidence in each other
Swedish doctors send no bills to their pa
tients. What you shall pay your physi-
clan is left entirely to your own choice
The rich pay him literally whether they
| have need Of his services or not, if he has
| been once retained by them. The poor pay
| him small sum, and the very poor pay
| him nothing. Yet he visits the poor as
| faithfully as he does the rich. On the last
| day OF the year you put into an envelope
addressed to your physician, a sum OF
money which you think not only sufficient
| to compensate him, but in accordance with
| your own position in life, and inclosine
| your card with the money, send the envel
| ope by servant TO your doctor. The ser.
want returns with the card of the doctor
| in sealed envelope directed to you. Thi.
| shows that he has received your money
and no word about the matter ever passe!
| between you. Should you send him moth
| ing he VIII come and prescribe for you al
| the next year and as long as you live anC
! ne IS too diGni1ed ever to say wore
| about it.
Many towns have little dingy estab
lishments where cob pipes are made a.
| side issue, says the Washington, Mo
correspondent OF the st. Louis Republic
| but in this town cob-pipe manufactur,
| IS the leading industry. In round mum
| bers 100000 cob pipes every year ar,
manufactured by two firms in this city
| That means one pipe each year for every
! voter in the United States. All othei
| cob pipe factories in the United States
| are one-horse affairs when compared L
| the two concerns here. These pipes ar,
! FAMOUS and dear as well to every pipt
| smoker on the continent. The brier roo
| is to the Missouri meerschaum what ;
| stoga is to a perfecto. Throughout tn,
| year 140 persons are daily employed a
| Washington in manufacturing corn-col
/ pipes. One big addition, the handsomes
| in the town, is known as the "Corn-col
| Addition" 1t contains the palatial home!
| of the men who have grown rich in man
| ufacturing corn-cob pipes. why is 1t
| If corn-cob pipe making is such a gooC
| thing. more people in the United State,
| are not engaged in the industry?'
| asked Anton Tibbe, a member of a bis
manufacturing concern. Imagine my
amazement when he said: 1T is almos
| impossible to get hold of the raw ma
terial." Unless something of an expla
nation is offered this statement Nigh
| be taken for a joke. Continuing MIR
/ Tibbe explained that while any old col
would make an excuse for a pipe Ger
| tain kind of corn must be cultivated il
order to produce an al article. Then HI
| told me that the H. Tfbbe & Son Manu-
| acturing Company paid last year $500
| for cobs, and that scores of farmers il
| Franklin county made a speciality of tn,
| kind of corn required, and that S12 ;
wagon load was the price paid. on,
| farmer had allowed his account to run
I for some time, and while we were at tn,
| establishment he called for his check
| He was paid-S6l5. The corn-cob pine
manufactured in Washington range ii
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