The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A minister in Alameda, California, has
resigned his pastorate because so much
gossip was excited by reason of his wear
ing brown suit, smoking cigars and at
tending the theater at Oakland.
Perhaps the most curious fire insur-
ance claim was made by an English lady
who considered herself entitled TO the
sum of half guinea, the value of plum
pudding and saucepan that had been
burnt in her kitchen. The accident had
resulted from the omission of the cook to
put any water in the saucepan.
Signs are often misleading, says the
New York Times. This is due, 1t has been
said by somebody, to the supposed fact
that ultimately all bad spoilers get into
the sign business. There is a restaurant
on one Of the little known east side streets
that makes a speciality of serving oys-
tiers and nsh. Above the door is a sign
that reads: "All odors executed with dis
patch"
Arabian laws of loneliness say that to
be beautiful a womans physique must
tally exactly with the following schedule
Her hair, eyebrows, lashes and pupils
must be black; skin, teeth and globe or
the eye, white; head, neck, ankles arms
and waist, round; back, fingers arms ana
large; eyebrows, nose and feet, narrow;
ears, bust and hands, small.
The color of turquoises, which origi-
nally is a very beautiful blue, is liable
to fade after certain time, and be-
comes almost green, a process which the
jewellers call the dying" of the tur-
quoise, says the Philadelphia Record.
When faded, or dead" they look any
thing but attractive, and with their color
gone their market value also fades into
insignifcance. Nothing is easier. how
ever, than to restore to these gems their
original color; it is but necessary to dip
them into solution of carbonate of soda,
when they will turn blue again This
color is not lasting, however, and will
stand outside influence for limited num-
Der of years only. This applies to the tur-
quoises in the general market, but not to
the very scarce Oriental turquoises, which
never deteriorate, always keeping their
beautiful blue tint, but the value of which
is correspondingiy high.
If ever brave man deserved "a statue.
says London Sketch, it was Gen Charette,
shot at Nantes a hundred years ago last
March. Close to the town which witness
ed his death, and in the beautiful corner
OF provincial France, where even now
the recollection of the ''holy war; still
lngers the monument has just been erect
ed, in the grounds of one of the hero's
collateral descendants, a brother of the
soldier nicknamed at home and abroad
Papal Zouave Charette. The long hope
less struggle in La Vendee is one of
the few really fine chapters in the his
tory of the French revolution, and it was
not disfigured, as was the in many ways
similar rising in 1S4S, by either treachery
or incompetence. Had Louis XVI and
Marie Antoinette succeeded in their at
tempted flight from Paris, their ultimate
hope would have lain in the man whom
republican France now honors with a
statue.
The big battleships of A. 800 tons or more
that England is building follow one an
other into the water rapidly in these DAYS.
says the New York Sun. Only very short
time ago the Caesar was fioated out of
the dock at Portsmouth, and now the IL
lustuous has been launched at Chatham
She is the last of the three built at the
latter port, the Magnificent having already
gone into service, while the Victorious re-
Gently had her trials making an average
of nearly IL knots in eight hours under
natural and 1877 knots in four hours under
forced draft, whereas the contract called
for only 1874 and 171a knots, respectively.
1t is true that the 1877 knots We're reached
only by log, which is much less accurate
than our system of the long, measured
course. Besides the four vessels mention
ed, England has. either built or building.
the Majestic, Mars Jupiter, Hannibal,
and Prince George, of the same heavy dis
placement
The Russian cruiser Rossia has lust
been launched on the Neva in the pres
ence of the car, says an exchange The
Rossia, which is entirely built of steel has
three screws. She is 480 feet 6 inches in
length bNre & inc IL.
placement is 1900 tons. She is being fitted
with vertical triple-expansion engines, to
be supplied with steam from ten Belleville
boilers. The engines are to work up II 600
horse power, and it is expected that the
vessel will attain a speed of 10 knots per
hour. The boilers are designed so that
petroleum can be used as fuel The CEN
trail screws, when worked alone, will pro-
pei the vessel at speed of 9 knots per
hour. Rossia will be able to carry $500
tons of coal, and her radius of action at
an average speed of ten miles per hour
is estimated at 1900 miles. The Rossia
will carry twenty-six large and thirty-six
small guns; sixteen of the large guns will
be quick-firing She will also carry four
lance torpedo tubes.
In some of the western territories
bounties were formerly paid for coyote
scalps, but in time, as a result of the des-
tructlon or ITS enemy, the jackrabbit over
ran the land, and an oppressed population
pinned for the restoration of the outlawed
coyote, says the New York Tribune Not
only was the bounty for it's destruction
suspended, but new laws were passed en-
couraging the breeding of the animal, with
the gradual result that the jackrabbit was
reduced to his normal consequence. No
such protective reason exists for increas-
ing the East Indian output of snakes. but
the natives there have been breeding them
in like manner for the sake of the govern
ment bounty, which is now withdrawn.
leaving the reptile to it's natural increase
the supply being always much in excess
of the demand without the stimulus of a
public reward for its production. In fact.
the plague of snakes in Hindostan is a
permanent one, vainly battled against by
all rulers there, from Chandra Guptra
down, and, because of climatic and other
reasons, sure % defy the efforts of all
who may follow them. They are a good
deal worse than the jackrabbits, though
not so injurious as their civilized cousins
which have overspread Australia.
"A new way of collecting bad debts is
reported from Paris saws the pbioAal