The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The 1Iaharajah' Of Cashmere has is
sued an order that no coin. except the
British rupee, shall n accepted by the
state treasures from ne beginning OF next
year.
The new woman has invaded India.
The question Of laying BUT parks in towns
for. gymnastic exercises Of Zenana women
Is being ventilated .ins 4he press OF that
According to a wholesale furn-ture
dealer. the best furniture polish IS made
OF one-third alcohol and two-thirds sweet
oil. Apply it with a soft cloth and rub
with another cloth.
Women are gradually winning recog-
milton in China. Twenty years ago one
gould buy pretty good sort of wife
for 80. Now the price is $3.50 and the
market has an upward tendency.
Cuba furnishes practically all the tim
Der for making cigar boxes. 1t is a very
fine grade of cedar, which retains the
aroma or the cigars. American cedar has
degree.
"A Chicago baker. said to be passion
ately fond of molasses, committed suicide
the other day by lying on his back on the
moor and sufocating himself by allowing
the molasses to flow from a barrel into
his mouth.
"A piece of horse radish root put into
jar of pickles will keep the vinegar
from losing its strength and the pickles
VIII not be as liable to become soft or
moldy. This is especially good for to-
mato pickles.
Mr.. Gladstone thinks the RESPONSE
bilty for Armenia now rests with Russia.
since that power. and not England, now
dominates Turkey 1t is 10 be hoped the
recording angel has made note of the
ha 1atv
DIR. Charles wardwen Stiles, profess
sor in the Bureau of Animal industry of
the Department of Agriculture Washing
ton has been elected a member of the
French academy of medicine. He is only
= years old, and the honor has never be-
lore been conferred upon so young a man.
Jefferson built his fine old mansion,
Monticello, piecemeal, beginning with a
brick wing of the house. Nearly everything
used in its construction had to be brought
from afar, the window-sashes, for In
stance, coming from London, and one lot
being delayed month for the putty to
harden.
The distinguished Japs recently tour
ing the United States were greatly inter-
ested in the exhibition of skill by the
New York fire department. They marvel
led at such machines and apparatus for
checking the fire fiend, and one of them
declared if they had had such weapons
much sooner.
The ivy is never used for Christmas
decoration. 1t was once sacred to Bac-
chus and constituted almost the sole leafy
decora ton at the Roman Saturnalia. The
early Christian clergy. desiring to wean
| far as possible forbid the use of the ivy.
and the prohibition has lasted until the
| present age.
The names of the three magi who Wis
tied Christ are variously stated by diff
ferent authorities. One gives them as
| Melchior Balthazer and Jasper; another
| Appelius, Amerus and Damascus; a third
/ declares that they were MegaIeth, Gala
| lath and Sarasin: while a fourth reject
| ing all these, affirms them to be Ator, Sa-
| tor and Peratorus.
w. ]. H. Nourse of Boston, who was
member of Gen. Wolseley's Nile expedition
| of 1884, tells some interesting stories about
| 1t. Every evening"" he says, 1--WE had a
| ration Of Jamaica rum served to us. At
| trst we were allowed to carry off our gill;
| but the men got TO saving IL up in a bottle
| for a blowout, and so we were made to
| drink 1t on the spot"
| In Korea women are not sufficiently
well thought of to be given names. A Ko-
| rean woman is known as the first or sec
| ond daughter of Mr.. So. and So; or the first
! or second wife of Mr.. So. and So. Once a
year on a certain day the women of the
| nation are marched from out the towns to
| the nearest streams for an annual BATH
This is great national feast day in Ko-
| rea.
Twenty farmers brought the tails of
9,171 ground squirrels to the commissioners
| of Spokane county, Washington, on one
| day last week to collect bounty of / cent
| tail One man brought in 1894 squirrel
| tails, and another 1,056 All the SQUIRRELS
| were killed in one not large district where
they are so thick as to almost make the
| farmers despair of making any profits by
| their crops.
The national war song of the Cubans
is called ''Himno de Bayamo, having been
written by patriot in 1865 at the time the
former struggle for freedom from Spain
on the island started at Bayamo a small
| town in the southeastern corner of the is
land. 1t is song of impulsive exhorta-
tons and the music is sweet and catchy.
It is as familiar among the Cubans as
| Dixie in the south.
"A portable crematory for military pur-
poses has been invented by a Polish en-
gineer. 1t has the appearance of the army
bake oven, but is much higher and heavier
and is drawn by eight horses. 1t is in
tended for the disposal of the bodies of
the soldiers killed in battle, so as to avoid
the danger of epidemics from the burial
of great numbers of men. Each German
army corps, it is said, will be equipped with
one.
1t is said that the attentions of King
Leopold of Belgium to Emilienne d'Alen-
con and Mile. de Merode. two Partisan
beauties whom he has sumptuously estab-
lished in Brussels. drove his unhappy
Queen to attempt suicide. Moreover, She
is terribly distressed by the knowledge
that her husband has squandered in his
Congo enterprise the entire fortune of his
demented sister, ex-Empress Charlotte of
Mexico
Statistics have been accumulated which
reveal that in respect TO color-blindness
there is a remarkable difference between
the two sexes. About S1a per cent. of
men are color-blind TO a marked extent
according to a writer in the New York
Commercial-Advert while not more
than four-tenths of / per cent. of women
are thus afflicted This difference in color
perception will strike most men who have
been sent by their wives upon shopping
embassies to match ribbons as under
4 stated, if anything.