The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A--I 4 al l1AdllA parks
The house in Quincy, Mass. In which
John Quincy Adams was born. and which
is TO be transformed into a museum. is
probably the only building in America
outside Of the white house in which two
presidents have made their homes
The japanese government has just
placed orders for $500 watches. not to
cost more than $50 each. They are to
be distributed among the officers and men
who distinguished themselves in the late
war and are TO take the place OF the
medals usually awarded at the close Of
national hostiliCes.
The other morning the beach for a
mile or more near Old Saybrook, Conn,
was covered in spots with hundreds of
nne soft-shell crabs The fishermen were
unable to account for the phenomenon,
but they promptly turned it to good &C
count by gathering in the crustaceauS and
shipping them TO the markets.
The California Indians bow is made
from the white or sapwood of the cedar,
the outer side of the tree being also the
outer side of the bow. The stick is scraped
and polished with the sharp pieces of OBJ
sidlan, roasted in ashes and bent into
shape Their arrows are made of button
willow twigs, of the buckeye and canes.
The New Jersey court of errors and
appeals and some of the lower courts
OF cases, some of them not of great i'm
portance, but arising from peculiar facts,
says the New York Tribune. one of them
followed an accident to a man who was
walking along the sidewalk in Atlantic
City in rainstorm and holding an UNI
brella over his head. The handle of the
umbrella was iron and the man himself
was six feet two inches in hight The
point OF the umbrella touched an cleo
trio light six feet and one-half inches
above the ground, and the electric cur
Knocked down
injuries. He obtained a. verdict of 5000
against the electric light company ana
the highest court has sustained the YER
diet although the counsel for the COM
pany argued that the plaintiff was negli-
gent IN not noticing the light and low
ering his umbrella when passing under
II, especially as he was of unusual hight.
The industrial exposition of Berlin,
which will take place in 1896. is rapidly
assuming shape. Almost all the buildings
are under roof, and the artisans are now
busy with the exterior and interior dec
orattons. The main building Of the expo
siton is enormous. 1t has a front of go
teeG while its depth is $50 feet. The floor
space or this gigantic building is 591 800
square feet. The entire construction is
OF stone and iron. while the walls are
constructed or pressed cement boards. The
only wood in the building is used in the
floors and in the framework of the DOME
which, both on the outside and inside, is
covered with sheets of aluminium. The
main building is so arranged that, after
passing two spacious halls to the right
and left of the entrance, an immense cen
ter hall, $50 feet long by so feet wide, di-
Xides the building through its entire depth.
To the right and left from this center
hall there are thirteen wings on each side
each OF $50 feet in length and 50 feet in
width.
The orr Ein of soap is a mystery, but
we have many evidences of its antiquity
1t is mentioned at least twice in the Bible
under the name of borith, at a period cor
responding to several centuries before
Christ. In the Louvre in Paris there is an
interesting old vase of Etruscan manu-
facture, whose age is computed al about
$500 years. 1t is interesting in connection
with our subject as bearing a. group of
children in relief who are engaged in
blowing bubbles from pipes. Though we
must not overlook the fact that certain
vegetable juices are capable of being
used in blowing bubbles, it is for many rea-
sons more probable that soap Of arti-
fetal manufacture was employed for the
purpose. In the unearthed city of Pom
peii, the preservation of which has been
the means of revealing to us many an
uque customs, there is to be seen a. soap
mandatory, with all the paraphernalia
pertaining to the business, also a guam
tity of soap, evidently the product of this
antique "soapery."
II am trying this winter" confided
one of group of mothers to her listen
ers, the other afternoon, says the Phila-
delphia Press, the Chinese plan to pre-
vent sickness in my family You know
they pay their medical advisers only when
they are well. With illness the fees stop
So far there has not been cold, and only
one slight attack of indigestion among my
five children. I've offered a prize to each
one of them who will preserve an I'M
broken record of health till the LIST day
of May and with this end in view they
listen patiently, and, what is better, heed
tully to my brief lecture at the beginning
of the season on how to keep well. They
don't follow their friends to the door and
stand in the cold for a little more talking;
they don't sit on the stone steps as they
did in July, and as they are apt to do
throughout the year. My 9-year-oid boy
actually came in and changed wet stock
ings for dry ones the other day, some-
thing unheard of on his part before. /
feel that for this winter, at least, while
the novelty lasts mine has been a happy
thought"
Tho latest fad which is affected by the
smart set at Hampstead Gong Island)
community is knitting, says Vogue. The
air resounds with the click of knitting
needles At the polo matches and race
meetings the fair spectators while thew
cheer their husbands and sweethearts on
to victory are busily engaged in knitting
the golf stockings. The Long Island rail-
ways and ferry boats are also backgrounds
for the same occupation, and the hume
rous steam yachts and club steamboats,
which followed the Defender to victory
were filled with a cargo of fair women,
knitting golf stockings. 1t is even said
that one enthusiastic devotee of this pom
ular fad carried her knitting into the
ballroom at the dance at Garden Civ
Fads are ineXplicable, in most cases. and
this, like Others, seems to have sprung
into life by accident-undoubtedly golf has
been instrumental in helping it along. for
what more natural outlet for the KNITTING
zeal than the manufacture of golf stock
tngs to cover the brawny calves of va
rfOus petted champions of the pet erame2
And should the daughters of American be
left behind by their sisters of France and
England? We have vivid pictures of the
woman of the eighteenth century Paris
seated in a ring around the guillotine
knitting, knitting, and seeing nothing:''
and about twenty years ago English Wo-
men took up the fad and ran it fuIiousIv
for a short time.
One of the greatest curiosities among
the domesticated animals of Ceylon. saws
London Public Opinion. is a breed of
cattle known to the zoo1ogist as the ''sa-
cred running oxen" They are the dwarfs
of the whole OK family, the largest speci-
mems of the species never exceeding 20
inches in hight. One sent to the Mar
quis of Canterbury in the year 1891. which
is still living and believed to be some
where near 10 years of age, is only %
inches high and weighs but i09Ia pounds.
In Ceylon they are used for quick trips
across country with express matter and