The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LntIe = more eOlQ IN the sacred vessels.
medals. chains. etc, preserved at the
vatican than in the circulation OF the
whole OF Europe.
When the new clock OF St. PauFs ca
thedral, London, was put in position
about three years ago. the diaIs had their
central parts fitted with white glass for
illumination at night. The white glass
has been found TO make the dials less
olsJlnct BY day, and also not to be in
architectural harmony with the cathedral.
instructions have been given TO the max
ers OF the clock to Mt in new dark
central parts TO the dials. The total diam
eter Of the dials is about seventeen feet,
and the central parts are ten feet diane
ter.
Here are some rather clever proverbs
Of Assam: The best crops grow on
others fields; but the best sons are at
home" "A bird IS a little thing; but 1t
builds It's nest on a lofty huiung tree"
Buy land which slopes to the middle.
and marry a girl who has a good moth
err" The biggest jack fruit always hides
under the leaves" If A man slips down,
It is always his eldest wifes fault; but If
his youngest wife makes a mistake he
says he will see about it," "A hasty cook.
hasty broom, and the husband goes
fasting; a slow cook, a slow broom, and
Lemon verbena, says Chambers Jour
nal, is a plant whose otto is sometimes
extracted by the process Of distiIlation,
the leaves being covered with distilled
water and the still linked down so that
the point is vapor tight. The still is then
connected with condensing worm. and a
hre being lighted underneath. the otto
and VapOr of water distilled over are con-
densed in the worm and pass into a re-
ceiver, from which il is readily removed.
The perfumer seldom awaits himself of
this course, preferring an artificial meth
Cd, the mixture of oil of lemon grass and
recthed spirit The ''verbena" otto, so
much used in the manufacture of eau-de-
cologne, il must be remarked. comes not
from the verbena. but from the leaves of
a species of coarse grass, and rope citra-
tus. the peculiar odor of which occurs in
several species of the Australian euca-
lyptus.
Miss NJ F. Skene relates in Black
woods Magazine the circumstances in
which she was told that Sir Walter Scott
had been present thirty years after his de-
cease, at Frewen Hall, Oxford" where
her father resided. Il had left my father
alone" writes Miss Skene, for a few
minutes, sitting beside the fire in his own
room. When l went back 10 him, not hav-
ing been more than a quarter of an hour
absent, l found him with a look Of radiant
happiness upon his fine old face. oh. come
quick he exclaimed, L want to tell you
of such a delightful surprise 1 have just
had. Scott has been herei Dear Scott
He told me he had come from a great dis
tance TO pay me a visit, and he has been
sitting here with me- talking of all our
old happy days together. He said it was
| long time since we had met; but he is not
in the least changed. His face was just as
cheerful a G n no I
have so enjoyed being with him. " It
should be mentioned that Mr.. Skene was
in his 9Oth year.
"A Forest and Stream correspondent
writes from Ashland, Wis, about pack
of wolves that gathered around his camp
at night. Magua, or Ernest, the Indian
| guide, was sleeping, when all of a sudden
he leaped to his feet and began to pile
wood on the fire with a haste that sur
| prised the white man. When the flames
were crawling rapidly up through the
| wood the Indian explained that the wolves
were down in the swamp bowling. The
white man wouldn't believe it. as he had
| not heard anything. The Indian said,
| you see pretty quick!" and tethered the
| horses between the wagon and FIRE Then
the wolves came within hearing of the
white man, sending chills up his back
with their long, undulating howl The
| horses shook the tree TO which they were
| tethered with their violent trembling
| Then, suddenly, all was still. The wolves
some of which had come within fifteen
PAGES of the camp fire, sneaked away
silently, baffied in their search for horse
flesh by the flames
The head of the musk OK Is the most
! costly of mounted game heads, and next
| is the head of the bison or buffalo. says
the New York Sun. Fine buffalo heads.
Wei mounted, bring from $50 to 500. A
/ mead at 5000, however, would be one eX-
/ ceptionally large and choice, and a fine
/ head can be bought for $3.50. Fifteen years
| ago well-mounted buffalo head could
/ be bought for from $50 to 800. The in
! crease in price is accounted for by the
| growing scarcity of the buffalo, which has
| now practically disappeared from the
| United States The wood bison of the
| Great Slave Lake region of British North
| America, which inhabits woodland or
| mountain districts, are rather more nu-
| merous than the prairie buffaloes of this
country, but their numbers are lin
/ tied and decreasing. The wood bison is
| not so large as the prairie buffalo and its
| hair is straighter and very black The
! musk OK heads are held at 500 and up-
! ward. One musk OK head, owned bv a
taxidermist in this city is valued at $50
M A. c. Ditton, writing to the London
Globe, draws attention to the fact that
many persons can only sleep well when
| lying north and SOUTH and others living
| east and west. Mr.. Ditton discovered
some years ago that he could sleep much
better with his head to the west. A we'll
known French centenarian on the other
| hand, ascribed his longevity to sleeping
| in the north and south direction Recent
experiments by Mr.. Kennelley and others
| in Edison's laboratory and elsewhere
would seem to discredit the hypothesis
that the earth's magnetism has to do
| with the unquestionable influence of nosi-
| ton in sleep. Nor is it easy to see how
the earth's rotation can affect a sleeper
| 1t may be that Mr.. Ditton is right in re-
| garding it as result of Temperament
and, perhaps, also of habit. In any case
| persons who are troubled with insomni9
| or whs cannot sleep in Strange beds =
| would do we'll to investigate the mater
! and see whether the direction in which
| they lie is not to blame Mr. Dittor
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