The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The bones Of Judas IscariOt are said TO
be preserved among the relics IL the Cd
thedral at Milan.
"A duck having four wings, two tails
and -FOUR legs was recently shot d. a
hunter on the coast OF Maine
An albinO frog with beautiful pink
eyes has lately been added to the curiosl-
ties In the museum at Berlin.
Bees. in order 10 collect one, pound OF
honey must visit the clover fields not less
than $4,000 times.
AIR. Cassel, "A Pennsylvania German.
mas library composed entirely OF Bibles
The collection comprises all the old and
curious editions.
The fora Of India embraces 15.O0O spe-
cicS. almost exactly three times as many
as are found in North America.
Seventeen years ago. in 1875, Lyman
Potter OF New York state. performed the
prodigious task Of pushing a common
PADDY WhcclDarrOw across the CONT
nent. He STARTED from his home on Dane
street, Albany, y. Y, on the morning OF
April 10, lS7S, and arrived in San Francisco
on the afternoon Of oct. OF the same
year, being almost exactly l1S days thVe
hours and three minutes over, in perform
ing the wearisome feat Potter was
shoemaker. and the trip was the result OF
wager made by some friends who be-
lieved that such a trip would occupy at
least 200 days. The wager was lOol but
Potter made between three and nVe times
that sum advertising for different parties
along the route. The wheelbarrow was
made specially for the use to which IL
was put, and weighed but seventy-nNe
pounds. The distance Travelled by Potter
was exactly 4,0S53i miles.
The native inhabitants OF the Fiji
Islands believe thunder to be the bel
Toying of the great air whale mythical
creature which. according 10 their folk
lore stories, inhabits the opposite side or
all thunder clouds. If the regulation
thunder cloud appears unaccompanied by
the ominOus rumblings peculiar to such
phenomena, they take il a token that
the Great Spirit is pleased with their
past doing. If, however, on the other
| hand. the detonations be frequent and
violent, they are sure that the God OF
the elements IS displeascd and immediate
~ engage themselves IN ali sorts OF ludl-
crous incantations for the purpose of
arighting matters. Lightning Is TO them
the result of the air whale crashing his
teeth together and thus striking fire. An
other popularity of this primitive people
lies In the fact that they will not partake
OF food while thunder cloud is in sight,
fearing that the air whale Will pounce
! upon and deyour them for such i1reyer-
ance.
Some one in the Chicago Tribune
thus describes the telephone service in
England: You ring and say, Are you
thereT Are you there% is the answer.
After assuring the young woman that
you are there. she asks you what number
you want. You tell her Then you ring
off and so OUT and transact some business.
/ The same morning, if you are lucky, there
comes a ring, and then, Are you thereY
on assure the young woman, on honor,
that you are really there; she thanks
you, and then says, There you are Are
/ you there This time il is the man you
/ want TO talk to. Are you there% This
1 time you are answering him, for no self
respecting Briton will talk over the line
unless all the ceremonious details have
| been carefully carried out When each
/ becomes convinced that the other is pres
| ent in person, why, business can proceed.
! But the service you get is bad, long dis
tance and all. have almost yelled my
fra col Do 81.
+ and results would have been almost as
/ unsatisfactory if had stuck my head out
| OF the window and simply hollered across
| the channel"
/ These are the days of schemers. says
/ the New York Tribune. A Frenchman
| signing himself COmte de Clerico de Saint
German has written letter to one of the
! ST. Petersburg journals, proposing lot
| terry with himself the prize There are
| to be 100000 chances, each ticket TO cost
/ one ruble. Any young woman who wishes
/ 10 pay that amount in the hope of be-
| coming a countess is entitled to one
chance The one drawing the lucky
number Count Clerico promises to marry
and install as the chateiaine of his French
| chateau. The proceeds of the lottery he
| proposes to divide as follows: Two hun
| dred and fifty thousand rubl6s for him
sell 10000 for his bride, $4,000 for the
| Journal which conducts the lottery and
| $4,000 for the poor of Russia. The count
! argues that this will be the lowest price
one ruble-ever paid by any woman for
| bona tide title of countess He declares
| that he belongs to one of the oldest fam
| mes IN France, has a comfortable for
tune, unlmpeachable character and an un-
| suIlled name, and that he Will furnish doc
| umentary proof of his claims His for
| tune, however, he says is not sufficient
! for him to live in the requisite fin de
| steele style. Some of the French papers
] have treated the proposition seriously.
ana express the fear that the oddity of
! his proposal will attract some one willing
! TO pay 100000 rubles outright for him
| rather than the one ruble at which he
! estimates himself.
! No one who has observed the morn
| ing and evening ebb and flow from east
| to west and from west to east south Of
| Houston street, can have failed to notice
! one curious difference, says the New York
| sun. Early in the morning and late in the
/ afternoon hundreds of Russian English
/ and Hungarian tailors and garment work
| ers carry from their homes or from fac
/ tories heavy bundles Of clothing upon their
back. Their burdens seem to produce
! permanent curvature of the back
| 1t is the same, though to limited
/ extent, with women and children as with
| the men. They bend If they do not e-roan
| under their burdens of clothes or sacks
| containing material Acro>s the city. on
| the west side of town, heavy burdens. such
! as bundles of rags, bundles of clothing
| packages of fruit, and other articles az
| food are carried by scores of Italians
| Greeks, Spaniards and others from the
| southern countries of Europe These per-
/ sons, instead Of carrying their burdens
| upon their backs. carry them upon their
heads. The result is that they present
/ a much more picturesque appea rance than
the Russians for one effect of carrying
/ heavy burdens upon the head is to keen
! the hgure straight and erect. 1t is no mn
! common thing on the east side of town to
| see an Italian woman, not staggering mn.
| DER heavy load on her head, but walking
| gracefully under a burden which might
| be supposed to be of almost crushing
weight; What makes the difference in
method still more curious is the fact that
II cannot be attributed to nationality mere
ly. All colored men and women from,
southern Chimes, and particularly those
from the West Indies and South America
carry bundles on their heads and seem
| TO do ii as a matter of course whereas
| colored men and colored women born mr.
brought up in the northern states or in
canada pursue the method which has been
| generally observed to be that of the neoI
pie from northern countries In no Other
city OF the world, probably, is the differ
ence so clearly shown as it is in New YorI,
Where the Bowery is the dividing line he
tween immigrants from the north and i'm