The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


-Apropos Of the revival of interest
IN artistic and picturesque posters, it IS
sald that most charming posters in the
word are 70 be seen in SPAN Well
drawn, wildly and naturally colOred and
nnely printed. they shine on walls and
boardings attracting all passers-by.
They depict the glories Of coming fairs
ana DUH nights. and are couched in terms
calculated 10 draw money from stone.
A DUH standing over dead horse gives
an opportunity TO the artist to draw the
unfortunate horse disembOWeled and "
ing on bioodstained sand, while the bull's
hide shows the marks of the lance
stained with blood. Color printing is so
good in these regions of perpetual sun
light that nearly every detail of a mat
ador's costume can be given.
"A Iightkeeper near Shanghai saw an
exciting incident not long ago near a
well known pirates lair. What appeared
to be a big salt junk came sailing slowly
along with one man at the helm and
two or three sailors loafing on the deck.
Two fast boats put of from the lair,
with about ten armed men in each. The
junk saw them and waved about, trying
vainly to escape. The boats pulled along
side and made fast one on each side of
the junk. Instantly the Junk's decks
voliey from their rifles into the boats,
then jumped down, killing all whom the
bullets had spared, and threw the bodies
overheard, after cutting off the heads
of the two leaders. The apparently harm
less junk had been chartered by a man.
DARN who vas out pirate hunting.
The Neue Wiener Tagblatt prints at
length the amazing last will and tesla
ment of a wealthy old eccentric who died
lately at Hadersdorf am Ramp. I be-
queath the whole of my property, NOV
able and immoVable" says he, ito my six
nephews and my six nieces, but under the
sole condition that every one of my nepn-
ews marries a woman named Antoine,
a man named Anton" The twelve are
further required to give the Christian
name Antoine or Anton to each first-born
child, according as it turns out to be girl
or boy. The marriage Of each nephew ana
niece is also to be celebrated on one OF
the St. Anthony's days, either Jan. II,
quired to be married before the end of
July, 1896. Any nephew or niece remaining
unmarried to an Antoine or an Anton ar
ter that date fOrfeits half of his or her
share of the property.
Here are a few instances of the many
extraordinary ways in which people find
employmdnt nowadays, says Pearson
Weekly. An aged commissionaire, to whom
the faces of all linen about town" were
familiar, recently obtained employment on
the opening of a new West End club, his
business being to simply stand at the
door and touch his hat to all the nota-
bilities who passed, in order to attract at
tention to the new venture. Giving evil
dence as a witness in n running down case,
a shabbily dressed individual recently de-
clared that for years he had picked up
living by roaming about the streets and
patching
pieces of stout leather, needle and waxed
thread, that he carried in his pocket, and
affirmed that on Derby days, bank holi-
days and such like special occasions, he
had sometimes made as much as fifteen
shillings. There is an old, and artful fish
erman who regularly, in the season, in
tests the salmon rivers of the north and
sells the results of his own Illicit angling
to London sportsmen DESTROYS of return
ing to their friends with handsome evil
dences of their skill with rod and line,
wa no n he
made sufficient every season to keep him
during the winter.
Sewing needles Of bone, stone glass
and bronze antedate all historic records
but those of iron. brass and steel are
comparatively modern. Bone and glass
needles have been found in Egyptian
tombs that are known to be over 1000
years old. and similar domestic instru-
ments of bronze and copper have been
found in the mounds and burial caves of
Europe and America which are believed
to be much older than those found with
the Nile mummies. The needle first ap-
peared in its present form in European
countries in the year 1410 but the art of
making them was kept a secret for up
wards of $50 years after the date last
given. In the year 1880 they were first
made in the American colonies, but at
what point is a mooted question among
the historians At present there are no
needle factories in America, except those
which make sewing macnlne needles, II
being considered much cheaper and more
economical to import them from the great
Redditch and other English needle facto-
ries than to make them at home. Our
great National Needle Company at
Springfield, Mass, makes about 30,OOO,OG0
machine needles every year, and the great
Redditch (English company makes three
times that many or 100000 of the hand
variety annually.
The Digger Indians and the Plutes live
in mountains and in the forests 'on the
verge of Death Valley, says the Peoria
Herald. The Plutes are known as the
white Arabs of the desert. Their staple
food is lizard flesh, which they consider
a great luxury and which they catch on
are about two feet long. The Indians call
them "chawalla and roast them as
caught between hot stones, White men
eat them, too, but dress them and boil
them over q sage-brush fire. They are
said to be very good eating and to taste
quite like frog legs. There are no birds
in this neighbOrhood save the weird,
mysterious raven, whose ominous voice
fifty croaks the fatal entrance of those
who brave the terrors OF the valley. Howl
ing coyotes add their harsh cries to the
sum of horrors about the place. Curious
reptiles, uncanny and hobgOblln in APP
pearance, are found here. The most dead
ly creatures next to the ella monster is
what the natives call 'side-winker'
snake, which is peculiar to this desolate
desert. 1t is a RATHER about twenty
inches long. which moves from side to side
with a startling spring instead of glid-
ing along. Moreover, 1t has nornS, and
I don't know but hoofs, too. 1t is assur-
las. rats, horned toads and gnats lend
their aid to render Death Valley the most
appalling place on earth. There are mice,
too-mlce which live upon centipedes-
and there are rats with huge ears, a sight
TO scare the dogs.
The loss, a few days ago, of the Span
ish war steamer Sanchez Barcaistegui,
following so closely upon the disaster to
the Reina Regente, brings to mind the
fact that Spain, once the greatest naval
power in the world, has been particularly
unfortunate with her ships of war. The
Philadelphia says that not less than 600
Spanish men-of-war have been lost by
ship-wreck since the beginning of the six
teenth century. There IS ample documen-
tary evidence to that effect, and the great
est disa sters to the Spanish fleets are here
recounted in their chronologic order: OF
the feet sent against Algiers in 1913, under
Admiral Don Hugo de Moncada, thirty
vessels foundered in a storm, with 1900
men on board. Another expedition against
Algiers, sent by Emperor Charles V, in
154l. lost $40 vessels on the rocks of Mo
rocco, $500 men losing their lives. of the
fleet that sailed in 1862 under Gen. Men
doZa, to deliver Oran from the Mussul-
mans, twenty ships, including the flag
ship with the above named general on
board, never returned A year later, in
the fall of 1868, a cyclone in the Bay of
Cadiz sent fifteen of the governments best
caravals to the bottom. In 1888 the famous
believed To he inv ,,