The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Blood flows through the bones almost
as freely as through the flesh Of very
young children.
If man strikes another with a weap-
on In Madagascar there Is but one law
and that law Is death
of all the reigning sovereisns Of the
earth the Gar Of Russia possesses the
greatest number OF titles.
The smallest coal burning locomotive
IN America, 30 pounds, was made by Z.
D. Young Of Denver, in 1891.
An eagle with seven feet spread OF
wings was caught in wolf trap near
Brady Island, Neb., recently
The medura is true sea water lelly
which. when abandoned by the waves on
the beach. melts and disappears
A professor at Edinburgh University has
I an income of over $4,000 year, and MS
l chair is the most valuable IN the world.
| The Siamese have great horror of odd
numbers, and were never known to put
I ;, 7. 9 or II windows in a house or temple
Amsterdam will have next year an
international exhibition of hotel arrange
ments and accommodations for travellers.
/ At Heazig, Hungary, on Oct II, 1894.
I three perfect rainbOWs were seen-three
smaller ones inside thu main or primary
bow.
A lower floor of the crypt OF old St
/ Paurs was recently discovered by bin
| Of wine falling through from a cellar Just
/ above
The German house builders always
| contrive TO leave a small fiat place on the
roof of each house for the storks to rest
and build on.
In several European countries butter
| is sold by the yard. The rolls are yard
in length. and are sold in sections to
| suit purchasers.
A butcher in Belfast, Me, is training
| hog to harness, driving him behind a
/ sled. He has also two tame skunks which
act as tramp discouragers.
AT banquet of lawyers in Edinburgh
not long ago toast was drunk to The
| greatest benefactOr of the profeSsiOn-the
man who makes his own Will
Good Friday is a legal holiday in the
states Of Alabama, Louisiana. Maryland,
Pennsylvania and Tennessee. In many
others it is informally observed.
B F. Bachman. an early pioneer OF
Los Gatos, Cal. who died the other day,
was one of the party that discovered the
Yosemite valley, in March, 1851.
The Boston police board has recom-
mended TO the legislature the enactment Of
a law providing for the appointment Of
an assayer of the liquor of that city.
The churches in the new town of
Enid, o. T., have no bells yet. and the
town fire bell is rung every Sunday to
announce the hour of religious services.
There are several places in the west,
especially in the Rocky Mountain regions,
fectely transformed to stone, may be
found
The Guild of Arts and Crafts of San
Francisco Will erect a memorial to Robert
Louis Stevenson in the shape of a very
beautiful drinking fountain which Is to
cost $500.
Persons troubled with the difficulties
of French pronunciation may now buy a
monograph cylinder containing test
words and phrases done with the most
beautiful accent
The witch tree" of Nevada and
Southern California eXudes or eXhales
phosphorescent substance which makes
every branch, leaf and section of its bark
visible on the darkest night.
: Scores of Quaker families I'm South.
ern Pennsylvania have preserved the mar
riage certificates Of their ancestors fol-
[ many generations, signed, as is the Qua
lIer custom, by all the guests of the cere
[ mony.
An authority on bridge architectur,
, says that the longest bridge in the worlC
mot taking into consideration the famous
: Lake Ponchartrain trestleworl0 is tn,
! | SaratoVa bridge across the Nolga, Length
: 4,S2 feet.
I The temperature of the planet Nep
\ | tune is believed to be about 800 degrees
= below the zero of Fahrenheit, while tina
I ! of Mercury is much too high to admi
of a possibility of air-breathing animal
n inhabiting it.
: As a result of the examination of 400
> eyes. Dr. Miles of Bridgeport, Conn.
t found that 65 per cent required glasses
:: The women and girls far exceed the mel
t and boys The period during which tn
u people have the most trouble with thei
eyes is between 20 and 30.
d The winds which for a number o
l days blew up the Niagara river had
e curious effect on the falls. The America
r falls had but a mere shadow of thei
:, usual flow, and the water in the hydrauli
. canal fell over foot without, however
s interfering with the mills.
One of the absurdities of the time is
dictionary of 800 or 400 pages, the size of
big thumb nail, inclosed in a case c
aluminium, silver or gold and read b
case. Many persons bought them at
cents, and a few were foolish enough
take the gold-cased ones at more tina
twenty times that price.
One of the absurdities Of the applicS
ton of silver to all sorts of things is il
use in trowels for the use of the conserve
tory. Silver is no better suited for troV
els than some other and cheaper noncol
rodng metals, since the used trowel,
m whatever material is always bright; A
iron or steel trOwe1 of the best matters
and workmanship costs $780, while II
silver trowel costs from eight to tWenl
times as much.
An American in Germany was SUI
prised to find number of cripples amen
the celebrated college professors, me
whose high standard of learning max,
them famous the world over. one Berll
professor is wheeled into his lecture-rooi
every day, and there are others Similar
though for the most part less painful
afflicted. This is due partly to the IA
that under the military regime OF &c
many, when boy is disqualified for II
army he is trained for science or the lay
Writers of fiction should be carefl
how they trifie with natural science. Oh
popular novelist described with much ell
duence a tropical full moon, and repr
sented as occurring Immediately afte
ward a total eclipse of the sun, an a
tronomical impossibility at such tim
An American novelist represents one
his characters as pointing to q certa
star in the course of conversation, ar
names as the exact date of the incidel
a day when the star is visible in no pa
of the earth.
Delaware is stirred just now by
movement looking toward the suppre
sion of the trade in strong drink An j
genious man has discovered that the
Saloons of Wilmington must take in oV
(the bar more than $4,000 annually.
cover rent and license taxes before thu
can begin to make profits, which sum
more than treble what the state expenl
annually for the salaries of judges, L
state auditor the state treasurer. the Sc
retary of state, the attorney general, Z
supeq-intendents of public schools Il
state detectives and for the support
Inc insane asylum. OF course. some fol
Us will say that while the people OF "
ed mington may be moderate drinkers, DE-
RS. awaTe has an amazingly cheap cover