The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

J fr5m the sale Of postage stamps During
the last year Ss4,ooo0o0 worth Of these
Z offices throughout the country. Fifty nh
[ lion dollars OF this output was composed
Of ordinary postage stamps. and the re-
mainder OF stamps for newspapers, perl
Z odtcals, pos age due stamps and special
E deliveries. fact which strongly Illus
trates the growth Of the postal service in
tbs country is found in the official returns.
The sale q postage stamps has more than
doubled ~ the past thirteen years. the
total sales in 1881 having been less than
-Fornosa. which japan will claim and
probably get as part of her war in
demnity, lies about 100 miles OF the Chi
nese coast, between the 10th and 21st de-
grees OF latitude, almost within hailing
distance OF the cities OF Canton. Annoy
and Iuchan, and will be surrendered by
China with more reluctance than any
amount of money she is obliged to pay
over. The island is about 400 miles long
and nifty wide, inhabited BY a mixture Of
races. some OF them not Yet emerged from
tneh primal barbarism, and II Japan
gets 1t her first duty will be to give 1t a
Civilized administra ton and bring its
/ wrangilng tribes into subject.On, which
/ the chinese have never been able to do
/ II IS IN the main noun famous and rug
geo territory. not very fertile nor other
wise valuable, but it is OF great stragetic
/ importance, lying between China and east
/ ern seas, and will give important naval
advantage TO the country that possesses
| II. France has interests in those regions.
!
/ transfer, and perhaps other countries will
/ pc represented in the discussion. But
Japan has earned 1t. says the New York
/ IfiDune; II Is important to her, and she
will probably get It,
An English exhibitor of trained ami
mails. Mr.. Leoni Clarke, is reported as
saying that, though he has educated all
sorts of animals, from lions downward.
| ne mas found that the most difficult OF
| them all is the cat SAYS the New York
Ilmes. He has to treat these creatures
| with extraordinary care. dog is sensi-
| pie, monkey accommodating and a rat
/ either forgives or forgets-but a cat! She
| Is hopeless bundle of sensibilities Strike
neT once, II only by accident, and she
viii never perform again. Kindness is
| not only polite, IL is absolutely necessary
In the training Of cats. Although thirty
cats are sufiicient for his entertainment.
ne mas sixty or more with him, for cats
are very skittish creatures, and when
| they take the within into their heads
| 1t is useless to take them on the stage.
When Mr.. Clarke enters the stable the
| mewing is prodigious, and he is instantly
buried in a moving mantle of cats. II
LOOK MN Tour years to train some of his
animals before he could put them upon
the stage. A parachute cat. which climbs
up rope to the roof of the theater. and
flies down by parachute. is the second
too fat, and fell into bad ways 1t is
now Jim Corbett,and boxes Mitchell night
ly. A curious feature of the show is the
way in which the cats walk over rope of
rats and mice and canaries, stepping gin
gerly between the little fiuttering bodies.
This mighty forbearance is brought about
by training Up the cats from kitfens in
the same cage as the rats and birds. There
are only six of his cats that Mr.. Clarke
dares trust among his rats. The rats
and mice come from Java.
The latest in the way OF an electrical
girl is one who lives i'm the Buffalo Gar
country, near this place. and who like
Samson. of old, has all her power in her
hair says an Abilene, Tex dispatch In
the Philadelphia Times The young wom-
an is q years of age and says 1t is only
recently that her singular power became
black variety and so exceedingly long
and thick that when she suffers it Ia
hang down Il completely envelopes her
person and the curling ends sweep the
floor as she walks. 1t crisps and crackles
and sDarl0les when she combs It, and a;
night gives out strange, weird light. In
point OF fact, she possesses a genuine arti-
Gle of shining hair" So strong Is the
current of electricity playing constantly
through her hair that one strand OF il
Will convey a. shock to the person who is
so bold as to touch IT. She discovered
her singular power one night recently
when she stopped down to fondle a pet
kitten. Her loose hair fell all about this
cat with a cracking noise, killing the
poor creature instantly. Since then only
a few people have had the hardihood tC
experiment with the matter. but all who
have touched her hair are convinced of its
electric power. A young physician in the
neighborhood, who went to test the case
the repeated shocks he received thereby
The young woman herself is greatly an
noyed at the sensation she is creating
and threatens to cut off her hair If PEG
pie don't stop bothering her about 1t, bu
her father and mother look upon II a:
a miracle, and are afraid for her tt
"tamper with 1t" as they say, lest some
injury will befall her.
If any one will take the trouble t
wade through the civil service estimate.
for the coming year, contained in a portly
blue book of more than 800 pages, he viii
be repaid by finding a number of curious
items, says the Westminster Gazette
Here are few taken at random: Tit
turncock at Buckingham palace is paiC
IL IS a weeF, with f8 for acting as ra
catcher. The Windsor castle rat catche
has an honorarium of f10. Payments o
Kew include $50 to experts for naming
| cryptogramS. The cost of warming, venti
lating and lighting the House of Parlia
ment Is estimated at f15, 920 for the year
For busting the books in the House o
Lords library ESQ is to be paid, or FL
more than last year. In the sergeant-at
arms department allowance is made foi
two fire lighters at f65 a year each. and TO
two housemaids at $40 each. At the treas
ury women typewriters are paid from los
to 25s a week, the superintendent receiv
ing from 26s. to Dos. week. A tame book
binder receives f105 a year, while the for
eign office wages for the bookbinder 4
f25 and piecewOrk. There are nine queen
messengers who go abroad. All but on
receives f40 a year, and he has half tina
amount An additional allowance is mad
to these mysterious personages of q ,
day while abroad. The stationary offic,
returns the cost of supplying parliament
airy papers to free libraries at f10O a year
and the cost of note paper and envecoet
! for official use at 1880. Those who cor
respond with friends in the civil service
will be SURPRISED at the smallness of thi
amount The profit obtained by the pub
lication of the London, Edinburgh am
Dublin GaZettes was SIG last year, O
falling of of nearly Fl .165 Most peopl
have to do with uShers in the law court
now and then. The ushers in the court
of chancery are paid f1O0 a year or e
less than their fellows in the queen
bench. The inspectors employed by tn
Historical Manuscripts Commission in Wis
iting collections of manuscripts receiv,
guineas a day. Over IS, 300 is spent b.
the state in encouraging horse breeding
-1,7fO in queens premiums a horse show
In Great Britain, and Fl 500 in queen
plates run for at Irish races. Why doe
not the government, it may be asked e,
PEASANT, make the same wise change Ii
Ireland as it has in England? Anon,
the receipts of the state are includet
f1G0 obtained from fees paid by visitor
to Glasgow Cathedral, and ESQ obtaine,
in fees for inspecting lime Juices Sucl
an ola podrida as this awaits the up-to
date Autolyoos.
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