The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Inflated French ex-artilIery cap
} tain, Dreyfus. no lately arrived in French
Guinea, is now domiciled on q dssolate Is
4 land known as 'Ile du Diable." says the
! Hartford Times. Here house Of two
rooms has been built. one being occupied
I by the prisoner. and the other by the five
/ WarderS who are responsible for his safe
/ keeping. His rations are those OF an or
binary soldier, without the allowance OF
4 wine 10 which the defender of his country
I Is entitled in France. he is very closely
/ watched. and the greatest precautions
/ nave been taken 10 prevent escape A
/ square patch has been marked out, beyond
I the limits OF which the prisoner may not
| move, on pain OF being al once shot, ana
/ still further area round the house has been
/ denuded OF all vegetation. The lie du
| Diable is az all times most difficult Of &C
/ cess. being surrounded by reefs that make
! landing in the finest weather danger Tor
| the smaller craft.
The records of the Kew York public
/ schools show that the attendance Of the
4 Jewish children is more regular than the
/ attendance of the children Of any other
\ class. ana their standard Of scholarship
| is higher. No sacrifice is considered too
/ great by the Hebrew father and mother
/ 10 keep their children at school as long
as possible, says the New Aork AdNeI-
tiSer. A Jew who cannot read and write
/ in his own language at least is the eX-
| ception. An educational restriction on
! education would have no appreclable et-
| feet in excluding Russian Jews. The Jews
are temperate people, and the saloon Is
| not likely to become an element in their
| social and political life Instead of beer
| and strong alcoholic liquors, they drink
/ enormous quantities Of tea and coffee.
| Jewish immigration is free from the Oh
lection so commonly urged against inn
migration in general, that It increases
crime and pauperism The Jewish quar-
ter in New York, although more densely
populated than any other tenement house
district, is rarely the scene OF serious
brawls or disturbances.
1t is estimated that there are not 10000
licensed liquor saloons in New YORK city,
where ten years ago the number was in
excess of 10000. says the New York Ad-
| Vertiser. The revenue from saloon Ii
| censes. which was 100000 ten years ago,
is now Sl.70J000. The first licensed saloons
in New York were taverns for the refresh
ment Of wayfarers. AS early as 1870 liquor
licenses We're granted by public authority
in New York city TO men having sufficien,
! skill and knowledge in the art and myS-
| terry of brewing and fermentation. Before
that time a brewery. OF which the govern
! or OF the colony OF New Netherlands was
the chief owner, had been established in
what then was the upper part OF town
above Wall street. To taVerns scattered
along the roads leading into and out of
New York succeeded porter houses. They
offered no sleeping accommodations, as
the taverns did, but furnished some sim
pie articles of food particularly steaks
and chops. Many of them were kept by
I Englishmen or others who had learned
in England or Scotland the routine of a
! a few porter houses left.
II have often wondered" said an
Eighth street jeweller to the Philadelphia
| Record. lat the fascination a brilliant bic
| diamond possesses for some people.
Z | don't know how to account for it, but the
= ! commandment that refers to covetOusness
is broken every second Of the day in
, front of my window. And the erring ones
p | are not mostly women, either, as is gen
, | orally supposed, but men-some in the
/ | sere and yellow epoch of age-stand be
| fore that window and gaze upon my poor
r | display of gems with strained, bullying
2 eyes. Last week ] sold a diamond that
/ saHnH rot IlWaru~
GUS to the sale had il in the window for
a few weeks. A certain old couple used
/ | to come regularly every day and gaze for
an hour at time at the gem. II was a
p | straw-colored diamond, but was very
fiashy. The old couple would invariably
: turn and keep their eyes on the stone as
! long as they were in sight and seemed
= reluctant to leave. The next day after ]
r | had sold the gem the couple appeared as
usual and the look of disappointment on
[ | Jhelr races was keen and lingering. They
T. | scrutinized every corner of the window In
p a vain search and when they failed to
sadly away"
c Does the Eye See?-The question may
n sound odd TO you If you have never taken
[ the trouble to give the subject serious
n thought, but, says writer in the ST. Louis
I Republic, l venture the broad statement
+ that you are not able TO answer the ques-
ton of hand" 1t is an admitted fact
q 1 must confess, that the eye is the organ
S of vision, yet there is but little doubt
= even in the minds of opticians and physi-
OlOSlSLSt lnaI the Phenomena of seeing
r IS chiefly mental-in other words, that il
+ is the mind and not the eye that sees "
It How often have you seen a friend who
r seemingly, was engaged in looking in
y tently at some object on the table, at the
opposite side of the room, or at some pic
ture, who on being aroused from his day
dream would confess that he was looking
s al nothing in particular" The explanation
q of the fact that he saw nothing particu-
r. lar is plain enough if properly set forth. II
n IS because his mind is busy with other
~ times and scenes, Faces. bits of waysidt
:, scenery, etc, were being presented to view
"a in the panorama of the mind, and the
N minds eye Tor mental vision was en-.
= | gagged in eagerly scanning pictures of i'm.
4 | pressions made thereon months years. OF
- scores of years before Another test OF
: this mind vision theory is to shut your
y eyes tightly and then ply the brain to the
n task of recalling faces and forms that have
~ not been seen by the eye for years And
y, | again, if you want to know whether your
y | companion looked at his watch with his
~ brain or his eyes, ask him the time of day
o after he puts the timepiece in his pocket
r in speaking of the California lemon
: crop Horace w. Day of Sgobel & Day
who have recently returned from an eX.
tended visit to the Pacific slope saws tc
l. the New York Tribune: while this veal
h | the Californian lemon crop is small il
viii be very large in a few years. The
t lemon growers of the Pacific slope have
made mistake in the method they have
adopted for curing lemons. They have
d been accustomed to taking the lemons di
rect from the trees and placing them in
r, large fiat drawers, keeping them there fol
at least two months, the result being thai
e, | the fruit became dark yellow in color anC
dried up in appearance" The average
< annual lemon crop of California, during
il the last three or four years, was abou
10000 boxes. Nearly all of the crop was
lie consumed within the borders of the Col
den State and in the markets west of Chi
r. cago, Florida whose crop this year viii
be virtually nothing, on account of The
I destruction of trees by last winters Sc
l? we're storms, has produced in the last few
n years an average annual crop of abonf
s $4,000 boxes. Part of the crop has com,
to this market, but most of ii has beer
l. distributed in southern cities. The ag
he gregate crops of Florida and California;
I'd lemons are Insignificant in comparison
a with the immense quantities of lemon,
imported. In 1873 the receipts of lemon,
in this country from Mediterranean port.
s. amounted to 2595,90l boxes, and the re-
10 cepts this year will be Approximately q,
/ extensive. OF this immense quantity O.
B. lemons imported only about 10000 boxe,
+ come from Spain, nearly all of the res
le coming from Sicily. The number of lem
5 ons in n box ranges from 300 to 800
n In 1925 we shall be at least a nation o.
2 l40,OO0.G0; in 1860 250.0OOOOO and within