The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Superstition reigns tyranically in many
rural districts in Italy, says the New
ork World Lately a fortune teller
prophesied to a young farmer and his
SISTER, living near MOTTO, Sicily. that on
tlie evening before certain feast day
both would die a violent death. This so
aIected the minds of the poor dupes
that they became insane and rushed
snrleklng through the streets A brother
Of these unfOrtunates then came some
now 70 the conclusion that the calamity
was due 10 the Witchcraft of their step
mother, anC in a fit of blind rage he killed
the poor woman with a hoe.
That the sense of taste is frequently
almost totally destroyed by an Over-in-
diligence in alcoholic beverages is a fact
wen known to physicians. and never bet
ter cXempliled than in the case of a con-
nrmed topper VINO was duped by a sup
posed friend in a Philadelphia saloon.
Inc two strolled into the barroOm to-
Sether, says the Record of that city, and
he with the red nose proposed to highten
the color of that organ with three fin
gers or SIN. While he was engaged in
fathOming the mysteries of a German
free lunch his facetiOus friend changes
the place of the gin glass and the glass
or ice water he took on the side. On re-
turning to the bar, the veteran drinker
seized the nearest glass, containing water,
and gulped down the contents, where
upon, remarking that there was nothing
like. gin to warm a man up, he turned
to leave the saloon. The funniest part
of the incident was that nothing would
played upon him.
The silver discovered at Bosco Reale
near Pompeii, having been perfectly re-
stored, IS now on view at the Louvre.
From time to time the conditions under
which this silver were found have been
presented in these columns. All the vases
mad been originally wrapped up in
wooden cloth, and some fragments of the
material We're adhering to the silver 1t
looks as If the silver was not placed where
II was found so as to conceal it, but that
when the shower of ashes or the stream
of lava were threatening. an effort was
being made to carry the plate to a place
of safety. The remains of a man were
found in the immediate proximity, and
with them were six gold bracelets, rings
and a magnificent double necklace or
gold, and, in addition, about 1000 coins
in gold of the time of Nero, Galba, Otno,
Nuellius and Nespasian. One popularity
of female head in silver is that the ears
are pierced, and the probability is that
there were movable earrings. Some of
the heavy pieces show that they had been
carefully weighed, and their weights are
engraved on the bases or rims.
Miss Lizzie Sheets, 50 years of age,
who is dying near Rochester. this state,
says an indianapolis dispatch, has been
a hermit for the past forty years. owing
to deformity at birth, which was char
acterlstc of other children born to her
parents. There were three girls and one
boy, and al birth each showed covering
of distinctly marked scales over all parts
of the body, the face, neck and hands of
each being more thickly covered than
other parts of the body The scales were
comparatively soft and of a delicate flesh
color. As the children grew up the scales
of the exposed parts of the body became
hard and firm and of a darker hue. Miss
LIZZIE is the last member of the family.
When 10 years of age she became so SenSi-
tive concerning her condition. that she
refused to be seen by any one and has
lived secluded life ever since She has
done all the work upon the farm herself.
When she hired man her communica-
lions with him We're always from room
where she could not be seen.
The correspondent in Rome of the
London Times writes: "Of the new car
dinals TO be appointed at the coming
consistory two will be Italians. two Aus
trians, two French, and one Spanish.
This leaves the numerical superiority of
the Italian element still decisive, there
being thirty-hve Italians against thirty
TWO of all other nations, including in the
list OF foreigners the most liberal Cardi-
nal HOhenlOhe, whose warm Italian
sympathies have made him a persona in
grata at the vatican for long time and
Cardinal Bonaparte, born in Italy and
resident here all his life. There remain
only three hats to be given to make the
college complete. The supremacy of the
italian vote in conclave over any posi-
bic combination in favor of a foreign
candidate for the pontificate at a posi-
bly, not remote election is assured. 1t
is said that the Portuguese incident has
made the nomination of Mgr, Jacobini
the nunciO in Lisbon. impossible, as, on
the one hand, it might Indicate that the
nat was the reward Tor an incident which
has been productive of more embarrass-
ment than satisfaction, and, on the 9TH
er, the withdrawal of the nunco from
his post might be interpreted as a rep
rimand.'
A unique occupation for a woman is
reported from Berlin. The proprietor of
a large brewery there received a request
from Russian lady to be shown the in
terror arrangements of the brewery. At
ter looking at various processes through
which the. golden beverage has to go, the
pneumatic machinery in the malt house,
which proved 10 the brewer, to his great
surprise, that she was perfectly familiar
with every detail of the entire compli-
learned that the lady, a Russian count
ess had large acreage of barley grow
ing On her estate, and in order to in,
crease her revenue from this source she
had built brewery, which she man,
aged all alone. She was interested very
much in the pneumatic mailing appar-
atus, because she could not get skilled
labor necessary for the production OF
malt on her Russian estates. Tasting
the product of the Berlin brewery, she
stated that her own beer was not much
inferior to the German product. When,
few days later, the brewer received
some samples of the lady's Russian beer
he pronounced it excellent, and not in
ferior in any respect to the best Bone
milan or German beer. This lady is be-
neved to be the only woman brewer in
Europe.
on record at which a mans voice has been
heard, says the Chicago Times-Herald
This occurred in the Grand canon of the
Colorado, where one man shouting the
name of Bob" at one end his voice was
plainly heard at the other end, which is
eighteen miles away Lieut. Foster. on
Perry's third Arctic expedition found that
he could converse with a man across the
harbor of Port Bowen, a distance of G. SOS
feet, or about one mile and quarter. and
Sir John Franklin said that he conversed
with ease distance of more than a mile
DIR. Young records that at Gibralter the
human voice has been heard al a distance
of ten miles. Sound has remarkable force
in water. Colladon, by experiments made
IN the Lake of Geneva, estimated that a
bell submerged in the sea might be heard
at distance of more than sixty miles
Franklin says that he heard the striking
together of two stones in the water half
mile away. Over water on a surface Of
ice sound is progagated with great clear
ness and strength. DIR. Hutton relates
that on a quiet part of the Thames. near
Chelsea, he could hear a person read dis
tinctly at a distance of 40 feet: while
away from the water the same could only
be heard at seventy-siX feet Prof. Tvn,
DALI when on Mount Blanc, found the re-
port of pistol shot no louder than tba
pop OF a champagne hottie Dereo,,,- -