The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I ings and the amount OF work they do Each
man al the end Of the day sets down on
cara the hour Of his arrival the amount
I OF time he is out at luncheon and the exact
I details OF his days work. These cards are
eventually examined by some one IN au-
l thOrity. II is said that the record is in the
/ main a truthful one.
The camel IS generally cited as being
I the one animal best fitted TO undergo
/ thirst. Mr.. z. Earruan. however, writes
/ 10 Nature that the common mouse en-
/ dures thirst quite as we'll as the camel
lie has kept several common mice three
months without watering them On the
| first Of last October several were put aside
10 have no water. and up 10 January II,
[ they were eating heartily Of dry corn ana
grass seeds, without having had any Wa
l ter.
We are apt to think of the City Of Mex
leo as sleepy and behind the age, but the
city is wide awake in matters al santa
ton. having been 10 enormous expense 10
secure good water, and now II IS tound that
a most salutary measure would be "A more
rapid flow through the sewers OF the city
Accordingly some twenty-five windmllls
are to be built. in different parts of the
city. at a cost OF $3.50, which VIII rotate
paddle wheels in the sewers and thus &C
complish the desired object
History repeats itself. even in those in
stances where IL is most notably stranger
than fiction. The story of Rossettfs pc
ems, buried with his wife and exhumed
| that they might be published, is the story,
! in almost every detail, says the Pail Mall
Gazette. of the memoirs of Col. Planat
de la Faye. the orderly officer to Napoleon
/ l. These were edited some years ago by
| the widow. Three copies only were print
/ ed. and of these one was placed in her hus-
I bands coffin, a special order for the eX-
humation of the body having been OBJ
tanned for the purpose. Directions were
/ left by the widow for the publication of
/ the work after her death, and reference
/ was made to the two printed copies. These.
however, could not be found. Finally the
! executors determined to obtain the third
/ copy OF the book, which had been placed
/ in the coffin. Accordingly they obtained
permission to eXhume once more the body
| of the veteran. II is from the copy so OBJ
/ tanned that the recently issued work has
been printed.
Everybody knows. of course. says
SCribnerS, that the actual number of let
| tiers passing through the mails of every
1 civilized country is greater. rather than
/ less. year by year. But every one also
! feels that these letters are no longer let
| tiers. in the true sense, at all They are am
| plified kilograms, bald and bare statements
of fact; and they have the loose and dis
/ jOinted and careless phraseology of the
/ Geographic message. That sense of the mt
expression, the graceful concept, that feel
/ ing for the lucid and connected eXposi-
the very term is pre-Adamite to the end
l Of-the-century ear-that used to preoc-
cupy the best letter writer's of another
| generation, have gone from present day
/ scribblers of hasty notes, as though such
/ musty things had never been. The only
/ people who compose" their letters now
/ are cultivated old ladies'. Their college
| bred granddaughterS, Intellectually armed
| and professionally equipped, exhibit pro-
duction in that line of which, for the most
/ part, IL might be said as Henry James
| remarked of the notes of invitation of
| the London society women, that they
| have nothing in common with the epis-
| tolary art but the postage stamp. 1t may
| be held that such an accomplishment is
not, after all, of the greatest value. But
! behind 1t, there is an instinct, deep-seated
! in the race, that a widespread habit Of
| careless writing affects very directly the
| thinking of people. And this one cannot
| but believe to be the case 1t takes no in
! tellect to put plain facts into honest. self
| respecting phrases. But II takes self-re-
| straint and effectiveness, and these lead
| in time to a disciplined and coherent way
| of looking at life.
| A horny-handed workingman in Mer-
| den, whose wages have never been over 81
| a day, has saved 5000 from them, which
| he keeps at interest in the savings bank.
| He must surely have lived very closely;
| he must have been mean toward his four
! children. three girls and one boy: he must
| have cut down his family supplies to a
| low notch during the forty years in which
| he has been laying up his riches. 1t is
| time for us, remarks the New York Sun.
| TO say that we cannot hold him up as an
| example to be followed by all other work
| ingmen. II would not be well for them
| to live he must have lived all his life
! never enjoying a half pint of peanuts or a
| saucer of ice cream, never giving any Of
bis children stick of candy or a doll
/ ndfQlN ever DuNlnB a new dress for his
| wife or suit of clothes for himself, or a
copy of a Meriden newspaper. The word
| in that household from morning till night.
at breakfast, dinner and supper must
| have been scrimp. He is surely a stingy
man, something like a skinfiint; or how
could he have saved so much out of his
| small wages? We can't say that we adj
| mire his style. II is good for a man to live
pretty well, If he can afford it, and get the
| best out of his money as he goes along al
| ways, of course, avoiding anything like
/ WaStetulnpSS. always
| 1t is good for him TO put some money in the
| bank II he can; but not much more than he
can spare. 1t is right for one to feather
| his nest, but wrong to stuff it so full of
| feathers that its occupants cannot breathe
freely. Certainly, oh, certainly, you should
| lay up something against a rainy day; but
| still you need not squeeze all the Juice ont
Of life. like the stingy S2-a-day man Of
| Meriden.
The mountain region of Venezuela is the
| home of one of the most remarka ble hot a n
ical freaks to grow upon the American CON
| tinent, says the St. Louis Republic 1t is
a tree which fourishes only upon the
mountain sides, and always al the hight
| OF ABOUT 5000 feet above sea level Ii is
| lofty. and slender for its hight, and has
broad stin leaves of dusty white color,
| most dead. What is queer about this tree
| with the tall. slender trunk and dead
looking leaves and branches? 1t is odd
enough, sure, for although it is a very stu
! pld-looking forest growth, it is known the
| world over as the milk or cow tree
| the famous 'palo de vaca," which Hum
| boldt so glowingly describes. It is an ever
/ green variety, and those who have used it's
milk pronounce it perfectly delicious :"
! When the traveller, hunter or native of the
/ Venezuelan mountains is tired, hungry or
! thirsty he needs but to cut the bark Of
| the cow tree" In order to be reWa I'd cd
/ with copious flow of this milky sap which
| Is said to be even sweeter and richer than
! the milk of the best high-grade Jersey If
! collected in vessels and allowed to stand
Ior some ilttIe time, say from 8 to IL hours
| 1t grows thick and yellow, and the Cream;
! goes through the process of rising to the
! top, just as it does in ordinary milk A.
| about the time of sunrise, according TO
| Humboldt and other well known scienfists
! is the hour chosen by those acouainted
| with the trees peculiarities for tannine
| the bark. At that time the milk is he
| lieved to be more palatable and nutrjtious
| than II taken after the sun has been actinp
| for some hours upon the leaves Attenn+S
have been made to cultivate the cow tree
| both in Mexico and in the smaller Central
| American republics, but so far. ali s,icb
! innovations have been failures. AS soon
/ as 1t is removed from the mountain Sides
| even in its native land, where the natives
1 have tried to grow it in the valleys n
witherS and dies. -
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