The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Davenport, Wash, has enforced the
Sunday law in a very exemplary man
ner. A number of citizens of that town
called on the saloonkeepers and business
men and asked that they close their places
on Sunday as a matter of courtesy, to
Oblige the citizens whom the committee
represented. There was a prompt and
general compliance with the request
Two Aka girls from Central Africa
were brought to Europe some years ago
by Dr. Stuhimann to be civilized. They
were sent back, and recently German
lady who came across them found that
they had reverted TO their savage state.
She could attract them to her for a short
time only by bribing them, though they
remembered the things they had seen in
Europe.
Woman is not the only deliberately
dressed creature in the human race. says
an exchange. There are English bishops.
a bishops full ceremonial attire is some
thing marvellous. There are the rochet of
fine cambric to which the lawn sleeves
are attached; the chimere-the long,
straight coal, gathered at the back
Of black satin. and the broad scarf of
black silk. A certain African bishop once
ordered a chimere of scarlet instead CT
black, IN order to subject the natives. The
lawn sleeves are subject to fluctuations in
style, as are those of frivolous woman
kind. 1t varies in its fullness. For some
time these have been getting smaller as
WOman's sleeves have increased. Now a
return to the balloon sleeve of Bishop
BlOomfield's time is expected. AS regards
a bishops ordinary dress, the apron is a
relic OF the full silk cassOck of the eigh-
teenth century, having been gradually cur
tailed. In its Independent state it resem-
bles a long pinafore, with holes for the
head and arms. and strings behind. For
court dress a bishop wears a purple coat
adorned with many buttons.
The curious point is made by writer
in the Scientific American that, if a chan
mel of sufficient size and depth were cut
from the Caribbean sea to the Pacific
ocean, the Gulf Stream would no longer
flow across tne Atlantic and warm the
shores of Europe, but would pour into
the Pacific ocean. The islands forming
the Caribbean sea act on the principal of
a breakwater or dam, holding the water
that has been forced into the sea by the
tides and trade winds, and cause the
waters to be higher in that sea and turn
into the Gulf of Mexico, which becomes
the reservoir or fOuntain-head whence
the Gulf Stream flows like river from
lake, being the equalizer of water as
well heat and making its way i'm the
direction of the greatest deficiency in that
element. Further the warmth of this Won
derful stream is accounted for by the
fact that its waters are supplied from the
tropics, the tide waves acting on the prin-
cipal of an eddy, so it has counter cur
rents also, this theory resting on the as
sumption that the water is higher on the
east than the west side of the isthmus of
Panama; and the continent of America
being the great dam in the ocean that
forms the Gulf Stream, by placing the
continent of America so that it would lie
east and west, there would be no Gulf
Stream.
j. II. Grairo, a Singhalese of Colombo.
Ceylon was in Buffalo the other day, and
is thus quoted by the Express of that
city, The preaching of Christianity l
have found all right, but it is so seldom
practiced. We Buddhists practice our re-
ligion as well as we preach it. Have many
of my countrymen been converted by
missionaries Yes, quite a number. But
there is an interesting fact in connection
with this Those who have been convert
ed to other religions did not know the
religion of Buddha thoroughly. | do not
ignorant classes who yield to the exhorta-
tons of the missionaries. What l mean is,
not one, in my opinion, who has known
what Buddhism is and means, who has
known II by heart, who has caught the
true spirit of it, who has been one of its
steadfast followers, who has thought and
read and studied, has ever turned from it,
but has loved it so well, has believed in
it so thoroughly that his love and his be-
lief could never be shaken. And vet we
never trouble the missionaries. They are
free to preach in Ceylon as much as they
please, and it has been so always. / have
listened to them, and / know the argu-
ments for Christianity. but my faith has
never wavered. | think Buddhism will
last forever, even through we have mis-
sionares always with US"
Finger rings, says Harper's Bazaar. -e-
main the favorite bit of jewelry for gem
eral wear The slender marquise medal
lion ring is being replaced by the hoop
ring with row of stones going partly
around the finger, by seal-rings the Louis
Seize ring with characteristic decorations
and by carved gold band rings. A single
stone embedded in bright gold of Louis
Seize design is very effective in rings some
of them having small diamond or other
precious stone, costing from So 80 upward
Girls and young women wear hoop rings
of six small amethyStS, which cost from
IS to $l2. These are a delight to February
girls as the amethyst is the stone of their
birth month, while November girls wear
topaz rings worth $40 and upwards. A new
gift for a girl or young women is a small
seal-ring of duh yellow East India gold
carved in Indian design all around the fin
ger except on the small medallion left for
initials, monogram, or crest The ring
costs $40, and a dollar is added for each
initial. A motto or crest may be engraved
without great eXpense-perhaps IS. Carved
rings of East India gold are straight bands
the size of wedding-ring, the color of the
metal and the decoration being thoroughly
Oriental. The green demantoids are among
the most effective stones for rings that
are not costly, and come in hoop rows or
singly amid the Louis Seize bright gold.
No note out of the $4,000 or 6OCOO now
issued daily by the Bank of England is
eyer issued twice, says McClure's Maya
zine. If, as depositor, you should draw
any amount in notes at the bank and
pay them back into your account ten
minutes afterward, they would be can
celed. So also any other notes received
by you from any other bank in London
are always new ones. crisp from the
Bank of England presses of the daV he
fore. The signature is cut off inTne-
dlately a note is paid in, and the cancel
alton department proceeds to file them
in their regular order, taking notice and
keeping account of all notes which have
not been returned. One of the curiosities
of this department is a twenty-five pound
note which was paid in after being out
for III years The bank note library is
also here, with albums containing old
bank notes of various large amounts
with the names of the noblemen for
whom they were issued. There is also
the million-pound bank note, a Bit of
paper which, in its day, was worth
$5OOO,OOO, and was issued for conyenienca
in closing an undertaking of unusual
moment. The records of this department
are of invaluable assistance in checkinS
forgery, and the Cancelled notes whicR
are kept for period of about five wears
before being burned, are constantly mn
der examination by Scotland Yard de-
tectiVes in search of stolen money or
other people whose notes have been lost
The strange stories of single notes which
this department can furnish are MANI
and are ready-made plots for any num-
Der of romances, but they are foo NJ
merous to be told in this article. -'U-