The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LluEn DISCUSSION. II Is the opinion OF a
number Of lawyers that the purpose OF
the salOOnists who oppose lunch cannot
be accomplished under the law The men
in favor of the serving of lunch will fight
for their so called rights in case the city
council adopts the proposed ordinance.
One of the greatest natural wonders
in the United States is a solid mountain
OF rock salt, which is situated on an is
land in a sea marsh in Southern Louisi-
ana 1t lies near the River Teche, on the
route leading from Brashear to New
Iberia, and is said to be the most gigan-
tic mass OF exposed rock salt known 10
exist The Salt Peak is about 1s5 feet in
hight and mining engineers who have re-
Gently visited il say that there is not less
than S5,W0,OO tons of the pure saline crys-
tai in sight.
The Greek conception of their devil,
whom they call Yama, makes that per-
sOnage one of the most satanic of the
whole devil tribe. According to their ideas
or him ne is 240 miles high and the hairs
on his body stand out like palm trees on
mountain side. He Furnishes the doomed
beings submitted to his charge by put
ting them in beds of boiling oil, saving
thelr bodies IN two, pouring molten lead
in their ears and such other little pranks
as pulling out their tongues toe and finger
nails and gouging out their eyes. He is
a heartless old devil of the most devilish
kind, and has many other exquisite little
fortunes laid up for the helpless wretch
consigned to his chamber of horrors"
one of the most interesting of the results
achieved by the Russian naturalists who
wetzh in North sea laboratory has been
the discovery of a remarkable lake on the
island of Kildine in the Arctic ocean This
lake, which is completely separated from
the sea by narrow strip of land, was dis
covered by the Russian naturalist, NJ. Her
bernstein, who was struck by finding in the
lake fish which is exclusively marine in
hablt. namely the common cod. on the
surface the water is brought to the lake
by streams from a neighboring marsh.
Under the superficial layer of fresh water
"A m
tauna-sponges, sea-anemones, nemer-
tines, polychaetes, marine molluscs Chi
ton aeolis, astarte), starfiSh and pantO-
pods. The salt water is believed to reach
the lake by an underground cOmmunica-
ton with the ocean.
Experts on the subject of bread grains
say that wheat can be traced back into
the dim past across the line marked by
the advent of historic man into the dim
shades Of the Stone Age. 1t has been
known in Egypt and in the valleys of the
Euphrates ana the Tigris since the time
when history 'runneth not to the con-
trary." The prehistoric races, which for
merry lived IN the famous lake dwell
lngS which We're built on platforms sup
ported by piles driven in the lakes of
Switzerland, had their mealtng-stones,
wheat mortarsi sickles and other grain
at least 1900 years ago Wheat found in
ancient Egyptian tOmbs and in the ruins
of the lake dwellings referred to is iden-
teal with that which has so bountifuly
blessed the husbandman in the Mississippi
Valley in this season of 1895.
in Sydney there has been devised a
method of utilizing old pavement blocks.
The Australians claim for the wood they
use vast superiority of endurance over
the woods of other countries, and we
have no doubt their claim is justified by
the facts. The city council recently moved
about 500 600 of these blocks from two
important streets, and have let a contract
for cleaning and cutting them down. with
view of relaying them with close joints.
The grOuting ana gravel which has been
driven into the wood is removed by mrSt
dipping them in a solution which loosens
them, when they are removed by d sliding
blade. An ordinary circular saw then cuts
them to a uniform length of five inches.
The blocks so treated have been laid
upward OF eleven years. MIR. r. W. Rich
ards claims that the wood is still suf-
ficiently sound to last for another twenty
or thirty years, if laid with close joints
The Jews of Eastern Palestine and
Asia Minor have a queer tradition which
has survived from ancient times and tells
of a remote period in their history when
every fully-developed Israelite was equip
ped with three perfect eyes, says the st.
Louis Republic. The TWO main optics, ac-
CordinS to this curious Old-time legend,
were situated in the front part of the head
Just as Jewish and other eyes are to-day,
but the third-the one that made the early
patriarch a monstrosity-was located in
the back part OF his head, just above the
nape of the neck in the edge of the hair.
This wonderful third eye in man was not
"eVOluted' out of existence, as useless
organs generally are according TO the
ideas of the progressive scientists), but
was closed by divine injunction on the
day when Moses was given the tables of
stone on Sinai. You remember that Gods
command on the day that the tables We're
renewed was to the effect that no man
should be seen in the vicinity of the holy
mount. (See Exodus "a; 81 The believers
in the three-eye tradition say that Moses
supplemented Gods command by ordering
the faithful who were encampSd in the
valley to turn their heads from the noun
cot 4 1.nHf
to uncover the eye that was situated in
the back of the head. Moses. noticing this
show of duplcity on the part of his fol-
lowers, asked God to close the third or
rear eye, and since that day the Israel
ties, in common with the remainder of
humanity, have been forced to depend on
two eyes only.
There are style in baskets and collins
Times-Herald. The National Burial Cas-
ket Manufacturing Company sets the
fashion and all the undertakers through
out the country get in line if they want
to keep up with the times. This morn
ing regular meeting win be held in the
Auditorium and representatives will be
present from all parts of the country. The
revolution of all styles now in use and
the Introduction of novelties in hard wood
piano-pOlish casketS handsomely carved
is the main object of the coffin trust" as
the combined association of manufactur-
ers is often termed. For several years
caskets have been covered with heavy
style, but the trade gradually has drifted
away from the big manufacturers for the
reason that undertakers have copied
handsome models, covered the limitations
with inferior cloth. and using cheap, soft
woods for the purpose were enabled to
palm off at a high price poor made cas-
kets. With burial cases made of beauti-
fully carved and handsomely polished nat
ura1 woods the manufacturers believe
tina cheap limitations will be impossible
and in the event of expensive funerals
there Will be no opportunity for an under
taker to charge for what he does not hon
estly furnish. The prices for these cases
will range from $500 to $1,000. Novelties
in solid silver trimmings have been de-
vised to match costly caskets at a cost
of from $500 to 5000.
There are many ways of earning a liv-
ing in this big city, says the Philadelphia
Record. Not very long ago some wide
awake woman hit upon a new idea, which
proved so successful that not less than
dozen others have followed her lead
and are making wages far in excess of
the best paid female workers in the ordi-
nary branches of business. These women
make house-to-house canvasses IN differ
ent sections of the city, chiefly among
the houses of the medium poorer classes
and sell orders for goods on a half dozen
or more of the large retail dry goods and
general furnishing houses They charge
commission on the orders, and as an
ln0ncPmenf g.