The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

John Sheffield OF Manchester, y. Y,
made a successful deal with green
goods operator in Jersey City the other
the man for & couple OF weeks. and fin
ally agreed 10 meet him ia New York and
buy 500 worth Of his stuff They went to
dealer threw Sl690 Of the supposed green
goods on the bed. Sheffield said that that
money was good enough for him. and,
SEEING II, knocked the ether down with
a club The green goods man fed from
the room, and accused Sheffield OF rObbing
and trying 70 murder him, but when the
matter came 10 be Investigated, Shelf
field was allowed TO go with the money.
which was all good sreelbacEs. ana was
consra tulated for beating the rascal at
his own game. 1t is thought that he had
been beaten before, and took this method
TO get even.
There are already signs of widespread
popular ignorance as TO the date when
the present century ends and the next one
begins. says the New York Tribune. Peo-
pie are writing to the newspapers to find
out, and If every newspaper should state
the fact accurately a hundred times 4
year from now till the nineteenth century
Is ended, every community would still
contain persons insisting that Jan. ! 1900
will mark the beginning OF The twentieth
century. 1t is rather disCOuraging, in
view OF the general misapprehensio
which exists, TO see so intelligent a man
as Or. Fellx Adler saying, as he did in a
recent lecture-f accurately reported
that there are five years more in this cen
tury It would be an excellent thing II
teachers in the public schools everywhere
should take special pains to impress on
their pupils the fact that the new century
will not arrive till Jan. ], 1901. The lesson
VIII need to be repeated many times, IN
order to make the impression lasting. Per
haps state school superintendents might
wisely issue a circular letter calling atten-
ton to this matter at an. early date.
Every mans life, no matter how hum
Bile, would furnish an interesting book If
cleveriy written, says the Atchison Globe.
You can't always tell by a glance at a
man what his past has been. There is an
humble carpenter in town who was the
prize orator at an eastern college Not
far from the home of the writer Of this
there lives an ugly decrepit old woman who
was considered in her youth the hand
soonest girl in Kentucky. Poems were
written about her, men went crazy over
her, and duels were fought by jealous ad-
mirers. Yet she married a worthless man
who got drunk and abused her. The in
tensely religious life followed by another
man in town is the result of remorse over
having caused the death of a comrade a
great many years ago. 4 woman who
was once presented at court in England IS
not admitted to the best society IN Atchi-
son. highly respectable citizen sends
@,O0U year away to the conscience fund
at Washington. Young people. are inter
estng for what they are, but the older
folks are more interesting for what they
have been, if they could be induced to tell
the story.
Chicago is not only the greatest grain
market in the western hemisphere re-
marked the retired pork packer to q. New
York Mail and Express reporter, but it
Is also the most extensive market for
hog bristles in the world. Do you know
that in those two by-products of the pig
his lair and his bristles-We do a bust
ness of $4,000 a year out in the stock
yards? As the saying goes, nothing IS
wasted about the pig except the squeal.
The untrammeled life and predatory
grubbing habits of the American hog
give a snap and substance to his bristles
that cause them to be valued by artists
more highly than those of the tame,
domestic European swine, except, OF
course, the wild boars of the Hercynian
forest. Along the shoulders of the pig
from between the ears clear to the mid
die of his back, run the stiff, spnous
bristles which are used for the painter s
brush. Each hog viii yield about half
pound Of them, as Well as quantity
Of fhair which goes into felt hats. But
that's another story. The packers in the
yards get about cents for the hair and
bristles of each hog. The bristle dealers
have their own men at hand 10 scrape the
slaughtered porker. Then the brstles are
/ separated from the hair and cured for
the market For six months they are
spread out to dry winter and summer.
over the fields in the suburbs of greater
Chicago acres and acres are thus COW
cred. 1t is better if the bristles can be
scattered on a shed roof or raised plat
form of some sort The breeZes blow over
them without turning the bristle But
when the wind sets in from a certain
quarter the hair grows agitated, and un-
initiated suburbanites mile away talk
about thistledown."
The discovery of the mountains on the
moon by Calico were among the first
| results of the invention of telescopes, says
| HarperS Young People. A very ordinary
modern glass reveals them; and a tele-
| scope of four or five inches aperture shows
them in much detail; an endless delight
for the observer. over 10000 of them have
been charted on maps of the moon! Near
~ all of these mountains have rinslike
form, with the central area depressed,
often to a lower level than that of the
surrounding country, as is known by the
relative length of the internal and exter-
nal shadows. The diameter of the rings
varies greatly, some of the larger bens
fifty, one hundred, or even one hundred
and fifty miles, while the smaller look
like little dots in large telescopes. Their
hight above the surrounding plains may
be as much as three or four miles; this
being less than the highest of terrestrial
mountains, but greater in proportion to
the size of the moon than any of our noun
tains are to the earth. On account of the
resemblance of these ring mountains to
certain terrestrial volcanoes, it has long
been concluded that they were produced
by volcanic action, although no certain
sign of volcanic activity has been detected
by direct observation. This conclusion is
very generally accepted; yet there are
reasons for questioning it, or, at least,
for holding an open mind with regard to
the origin of the rings and craters of the
moon. In the first place. nearly all the
volcanoes of the earth have a large cone
and a relatively small crater, Whlle the
reverse is true of the moon. 1t IS true
that in certain terrestrial volcanic dis
tricts the upper portion of the cones has
been in some way destroyed-blown off or
fallen in-leaving a broad and deep de-
preston, called a caldera, enclosed by
ringlike walls. For example, in Italy sew
er1l calderas contain lakes Of roughly cir
cular outline. Similar basins occur on the
Azores, in Sumatra, and elsewhere; but
by far the greater number of terrestrial
volcanoes are of the large-cone and small
crater variety. Hence, if the ring noun
tains on the moon are of volcanic origin,
they represent a phase of volcanic activ-
ity that is exceptional, and not prevalent
on the earth. There is one very curious
thing about the movement of the moon.
Although it goes around US once a month
or moonth, as 1 like to call tive see
only one side of it. The other side is
entirely unknown, as it is always turned
away from the earth. Some persons argue
from this that the moon does not rotate
on its axis; but such an opinion implies a
wrong underst landing of rotation. Rota-
ton consists in turning so as to face in
every direction SUCCESSFULLY all around the
compass. The moon certainly has this
motion, for during the period of a month.
while it is moving around the earth, it
turns its visible side toward us from all
directions. The curious point here in