The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

lndn the DINER hymns, and has no musical
notation. 1t contains much historical IN
formation.
There is considerable agitation in Ohio
IN regard to changing the method Of In
| netting the death penalty in that state
Inc secretary of state, certain members
OF the board of pardons and others are
advocating the substitution Of the eiectr.-
cal chair in place Of hanging, and bill
embodying the proposed change will De
introduced in the next Ohio legislature.
According to a correspondent in the
chicago Record, the japanese workman
can make anything he has ever seen. Give
a japanese tailor a pair of old trousers,
tell MIN you want pair like them, ana
he viii reproduce them exactly. with
patches and darns included 1T is that
faculty, says the Chicago Record, which
mas enabled Japan to make such rapid
progress in civilization"
"A writer in the Boston Transcript says
that there IS no truth in the statement
that the grave of Jenny Lind is sadly
neglected and unmarked. On the contrary,
"a handsome and Costly monument in the
shape OF cross tells the passer-by thar
there rests the body of that noble wo-
man, renowned not only as the most Won
dertul songstress of her day, but for her
almost unparalleled generosity and saint
~ character"
1t is truly singular discovery that the
outlines of the Defender are almost pre-
elsely identical with those of an ancient
Egyptian boat 5000 years old, recently
found by De Morgan and Meir at Gizeh.
1t has the extreme OVerhang at bow and
stern which IS the chief characteristic of
me 1879 racing yacht. Perhaps says the
| Springfield Republican, if we could find
the ark We might set some pointers for
our transatlantic liners.
We can hardly realize the fact that it
mas only been but little over 100 years
since counterfeiters We're publicly burned
at the stake in London, the present boast
ed center of civilization" saws an ex-
change. On March 49, 1883 Christianio
Murphy was executed at NeWgate Tower.
LONDON, Tor the crime of coming" She
was wa, bound to stake seated on stool,
Inc main tle being cord around the neck.
Inc funeral pyre was then lighted by the
eNecutioner and mis- deputies, one of the
latter of whom finally jerked the stool
from under the wretched creature allow
ing the weight to fall on her neck With
ing ~ minutes the body was entirely re-
duced to ashes and buried in a hole on the
spot where the execution took place.
There was a demand on the sub
treasury Wednesday for $1,000 which took
as much labor to satisfy it as a with
drawal of 100000 in sold for shipment
by one of the large banking firms saws
a New York letter. A big double truck
drawn by powerful horses pulled up at
the rear of the sub-treasury in the af-
ternoon, being sent by r.. H. Macy &
Co. to get 5000 in pennies. The sub
treasury officials could hardly believe
their eyes when they saw the order
The lightning calculator among them
calculated that the firm wanted just
| ~ miles worth, or enough to reach from
| Fourteenth street to the Harlem river
| if the pennies We're laid side by side in
| straight line. Several strong men pro
ceeded to cart thirty -five-pound bags,
| each containing 5000 cents, out to the
| truck until 100 of the bags were piled on,
making about ton and a half altogether.
Recent Investigations by German doc
| tor showed that only one person in fifteen
| has both eyes in good condition, and that
| IN seven cases out OF ten one eye, generally
| the right, is stronger than the other Ii is
/ also true that Just as people are right or
| left handed, so are they right or left sight
/ anDaTfntlV
| ing with both eyes, they often really use
only one, and out of twenty persons whose
| eyes were tested, two only were found to
| be left-sighted. The reason of the greater
| strength generally possessed by the right
side OF the body generally-which seems
| natural tendency-has something to do
| with It. In using weapons, for Instance.
| mankind have been taught for ages to as
4 sumo attitudes in which the right hand
| ana side most exercise a discipline which
| mas doubtless had its effect on the eve it.
| SELF. GunSmths now carefully allow for
right or lett-sightedness in making fire
| arms 70 order. Old sea captains, after long
| use of the telescope and other instru-
| ments used in making calculations at sea,
| often find their right eve much stronger
| than the left-the direct effect, evidently
| OF exercise drawing the sight, as ii were
/ into the eye most used.
A lunatic of a particularly dangerous
/ kind is at large in Paris, saws the London
! Daily News. He seems to have a mania
| for cutting off the lobes of peoples ears.
| ne facts have come out in a strange way.
| dc Reuilly and asked for glass of bran
| dy 1t was noticed that there was blood
on his face and clothes and before any
! questions could be asked of him he fell
! in sWOOn. The lad was carried to the
| 81. antoine hospital, where it was found
| mat his ears had been cut with sharp
! instrument When he recovered con
seriousness he gave his name and address.
| ana described q very unpleasant adVeu-
! ture he had met with. While walking in
| the street an elderly, Well-dressed man
| spoke to him, and in the course of com
| versation said: You have a spot on your
| nose. You must be careful or il will pot
worse. II you like | will remove it for
! you by rubbing it with a little harmless
nuid; The lad who took him for a be
neVolent Doetor' went with him to a lone
! ~ spot IN the BQis de Nincennes where
| after making some pretense of examining.
| the nose, he suddenly took out a pair of
| scissors and cut off the lobes of the lad s
ears, one after the other, and then ran
away.
The number of bergs given off IN
Glacier bay, Alaska, says the Century
| varies somewhat with the weather and
| the tides, the average being about one
| every nVe or six minutes, counting only
! nose large enough to thunder loudly
| ana make themselves heard at dis
| lance Of two or three mics The largest
| however, may under favorable condi-
| lions be heard ten miles or even farther
| w len a large mass sinks from the upper
/ INSURED portion of the wall there is first
! q Keen, piercing crash, then a deep de-
nperate, prolonged laundering growl fol-
/
| clashng sounds from the agitated bergs
! that dance in the waves about the new
! conner as If in welcome. and these again
/ are followed by the swash and roar of
! the waves that are raised and hurled
against the mOraines But the largest
and most beautiful of the bergs instead
| of thus falling from the upper wealth
| cred portion of the wall, rise from the
| submerged portion with a. still grande
| commotion springing with a tremendous
voice and gestures nearly to the ton
| of the wall, tons of water streaming like
! hair down their sides, plunging and ris-
| ing again and again before they finally
/ settle in perfect pOise, free at last after
| having formed part of a slow-craWlinsy
| glacier for centuries.
| Noting some curious acts of parlla-
ment, the London Gentleman's magazine
| says: The act regarding 1.-THE right pack
| ing of salmOnd," and against clandes-
| tine ana unlawful marriages." are fair
| specimens of the paternal legislation of
the time. The latter act makes the con-
| tracing of such marriages punishable nv
J stocks and irons" which pains CORPORAL
! shall no ways be prejudicial to or derogat
/ from the orders and censures of the kirke
| to be inflicted against the delinquents. +"
| The act for the prevention of fire pro
! vides that mo hemp, lint, strae, hay.
| hedder, or BROOM be put near or above
| the fire in houses within town" and