The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Joseph jefferson has been elected an
I honorary member Of the Massachusetts,
I horticultural Society.
/ 1t is estimated that a capital Of $780,
/ eoe0 Is invested in the linen industry IN
I Ireland. which gives employment 10 an
army OF skilled workers al its $4,000 spin
] dies and 5000 power looms.
/ in a paper read before the scientific
] congress at Paris IL was stated that $780,
I 90 years will slip around before the noun
tains OF the earth. which are cons tanIly
/ decreasing in size, disappear from view
/ 1t is odd what turns the collecting
mania will take, says the Buffalo Times.
] There Is a man in New York who never
{ goes TO the theater, but has for twenty
I five years collected programmes Of each
/ New York play house weekly Not only
that, but he has clipped from each Tues
| days papers the criticisms of the new
plays. All this vast quantity OF data he
has carefully preserved. 1t IS odd how he
started in the quest Of theater pro-
I grammes and data of the drama. In 1870
I he was In very bad health His doctor
I told him he must exercise more. 50 he
decided that he would walk around to
! the different theaters and ask for pro
] grammes. The walking he found Of ben
eft to his health. ana il is an interesting
fact that in twenty-five years he has not
missed day 10 make his rounds of the
! playhouses. He IS q very shy old man,
and as he has grown older his walks have
been heightened out, since new theaters
nave sprung up all over New York at
considerable distances apart.
-Gesa Berger. the actor and newspaper
man, has picture in caligraphy that
has a remarkable history, says the New
YORK Advertiser It is in size 80 A.
inches, and is the work OF Joseph Loew,
the most noted counterfeiter the Austrian
government ever knew. When an apph-
cation is made for a pardon in Austria
the red tape policy of that country COM
pels the applicant to address the en-
peror with all his titles Emperor Fer
dlnanI had about forty titles. Loew en-
SraVed all OF these names together with
his petition for a pardon, on a cherry
stone. The letters were so fine that il re-
CURED the aid of powerful microscope
| 10 decipher them. One day when the
/ emperor visited the prison Loew in per-
son presented a cherry stone to the en-
| peror and told him what it contained.
Inc emperor made an examination, and
was so amazed at the work that he
/ gave him an unconditional pardon. Not
| only did he pardon him. but gave him
| position as a detective to trail down coun-
! terfeiters. LeOw was a well informed
\ man in all the arts and rascalities of
/ counterfeiters, and in less than two years
/ after his pardon he ran to the earth al
/ most every counterfeiter in Austria. and
/ died a few years ago covered with de-
| tectve honors. The picture, although
made fifty years ago. is in a remarkable
state Of preservation.
About $50 years ago, says the St. Louis
/ Globe Democrat, ship returning from
| the islands in the Atlantic which people
/ then called the Fortunate Isles, but which
/ were undoubtedly the Canaries, went
| ashore on the coast of Italy, near Leg
in these Islands was broken and the
| birds were liberated. Through some ca
price they did not take refuge on the
! Italian mainland, but went to the Island
/ OF Elbe, where, in due time, they nestled
| and bred and increased in numbers. The
| Italians discovered that they were admir-
| able singers, and began to capture them
1 and sell them in cages. This gave rise
/ to traffic which soon completely cleared
! the island of Elbe of canary birds so that
( not one was left there in a wild state.
From that time the history of the canary
has been one OF perpetual imprisonment
| and of the transformation of his ap-
/ pearance and character. He has become
| what may be called an artificial bird
Every nation of Europe has produced a
canary OF special type. In the natural
state OF canaries, as they still exist in
/ the Canary Islands, and other Atlantic
islands, the birds are of a grayish green
or greeninSh brown color, and are not
remarkable for beauty; but they are such
energetic singers that they have been
known to break the membrane of their
throats IN pouring forth their song.
Sleep is a greater mystery than in
somnia, says the London Lancet. We
hear much of the latter state in these
days. But il is more wonderful that we
sleep so well than that we are occasion
ally Wakeful. We hear more of sleepless-
ness than our forefathers did. 1t is a
| remarkable fact that in scarcely any of
the older recognized textbooks of prac-
tce of physic is there any formal notice
of insomnia per Sc. In later works, and
! especially in those devoted to treatment,
the subject of insomnia does receive con
siderable attention. And every now and
again the sleeplessness of a great man
IN the world of science or in that of pol
tiles reminds us that eminence has its
troubles, and of a sort which seldom
AFFECT the poor man. 1t is probable that
| this evil of wakefulness is more common
| than it used to be- The eXcitements, and
especially the worries. of life multiply.
Many of the arrangements of society are
of nature to drive away sleep Even
the very pleasures of life are so taken
by many as to rob. them of one of the
greatest pleasure of allan eight hours
sound sleep; for we MAINTAIN that this is
what everybody should aim at 1t may
seem long time to spend a third of ones
lie IN sleep. But If the other twO-thirds
are used we'll there is little cause for
blame No rule for all can be laid down
but it would be well for most people in
the intensive days in which we live to
| devote eight hours to the cultivation of
the mood and act of sleep, and to resist
the domination of all habits and fashions
that are inconsistent with this purpose.
A tragic occurrence has brought TO
an abrupt close a trial on which a pro-
vincial assiZe court had been engaged
far full week, says a Paris correspon-
dent. The prisoner was Maitre de Ia
Montague, a lawyer, who was charged
with having defrauded a num-
Der of his clients. 1t being
asserted that he had during the
past four years robbed them of more than
100000 francs. On the day when his CT
flee was searched he was in Paris, whetn-
er he had betaken himself with the sum
OF 00,OOO francs for speculation on the
bourSe During the examination OF
Maitre de la Montague the judge reminded
him of the luxurious manner in which
he had lived. He denied himself moth
ing in his travels, undertaken ostensiblv
| for business purposes, and when he was
at home at Mort he ordered down from
dealers in the metropolis brandy for which
he paid 29 francs a quart, and strawber-
ries for which he gave as much as al
francs. He had put down upward of IS
francs for dozen peaches and 30 al
monds. Last year he had spent $40 francs
han
asked him if he had any idea of the
amount of ruin he had wrought. Some
OF MS victims would give evidence, but
| others could not appear, as they ha0
! gone mad with despair or had cnnaIni Il