The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An Enterprise. Ore, saloon keeper, for
/ the revocation OF whose license a petit
ton had been circulated. published a card
addressed 10 his friends who had been
50 kind as 10 sign the petition asking
Z them TO please settle their whisky bills
! before he closed his place.
The Lafayette Qnd) Courier relates
| an incident Of an enthusiastic advocate
| Of free silver in that city who presented
a check at one Of the banks for $50. The
bank cordially accepted the check, hand
ed out the amount in silver dollars. the
whole aggregating nearly 80 pounds in
| weight.
"A HnlsbOro. Ore. man owes more to
| his bicycle than he ever thought he would.
| He missed the train that was to take him
/ to be married and was sore put to II,
| when he bethOught him Of his wheel.
which he mounted, and scorched TO such
| effect that he arrived just in time to cheer
/ the dropping spirits Of a willing bride.
Many persons fancy the afternoon nap
/ Is a harmful indulgence, but such is not
tho case. 1t is an arrangement OF nature.
/ When digestion is IN progress all the blood
/ In the body is called toward the digestive
| organs, leaving the brain supply Of blood
I at low ebb and making one sleepy.
| Brain work should never be attempted
| right after a neal
Policemen in Paris now carry clubs.
| beautifully decorated. They are pure
white. with yellow handles. Around the
middle is painted a double blue ribbon,
/ with the city arms at the point where
1 the ends of the ribbon cross. The white
/ color viii be more easily noticed than
! any other by coachmen, the sticks being
| held like conductors batons by the po-
! licemen in the middle of the street, TO
| direct travel to the right or left or stop
| il when needful.
1T is not generally known" says the
Golden Penny. that the greatest living
English poet, whose name the reader
| must be left to fill in for himself was
| once threatened with expulsion from a
| West End club for dancing a fandango
upon the silk hats of the other members.
| Mr.. James Mcneil Whistler, however in
| terpOsed, and saved him with his elo-
| quence. One man of genius. Mr.. Whist
| Ter urged, was worthy any number Of
| silk hats, seeing that silk hats could be
| replaced and men of genius could not.
| Then. and not till then, the irate com
mittee reconsidered its decision, and ac-
| cepted the apology which was rendered
An extraordinary story was told at an
inquest at Peckham the other day, says
London Spare Moments. Twenty-six
| years ago the dead man was speaking
with a half sovereign in his mouth. Sud
| denly he exclaimed: I've swallowed it,"
1t was true; he had and the coin was
! produced at the inquest. 1t bore date
1866, and for more than a quarter of
century had been imbedded in the left
| branch of the bronchial tube, without
| apparently injuring its holder. who died
! from diseased heart. We are reminded
1 Of the case of the peer who swallowed
half a crown while engaged in the per-
Torrance of a conjuring trick. In this
case the "hOlder for value" is alive and
well, not a penny Cor perhaps we should
say half CROWN the worse.
"A gentleman prominent in shipping cir
Giles was discussing the amount of oil
burned in lighthouses yesterday says the
Philadelphia Record. The light at Allan
tic City which sheds its warning rays al
least nineteen miles seward, burns 2,2OO
gallons of oil every year. Five wicks are
kept burning constantly in the lamp none
of which are less than six inches in diam
eter. The wtcks, like everything in the
| lighthouses, are of French design. as the
French lead the world in such matters.
particularly as regards lenses. The
| steamer Armenia is kept busy nearly the
entire year supplying lighthouses with
their needs, beginning in the south in the
winter and gradually working her way
horth. Ihere are many other lighthouses
along the coast of the first order, like the
one at Atlantic City, which is known to
mariners as Absecon light.
The following is given by the Pitts
burg Dispatch as the original discovery
of coffee: Near the middle of the fifteenth
century a poor Arab was travelling through
Abyssinia, and finding himself weak and
weary from fatigue. he stopped near
grove. Then, being in want of fuel to cook
his rice, he cut down a tree which hap
pened to be covered with dead berries. His
meal being cooked and eaten, the traveller
discovered that the half-burned berries
were very fragrant. He collected number
OF these and on crushing them with a
stone he found that their aroma increased
to a great extent. While wondering at
this he accidentally let fall the substance
in a can which contained his scanty sup
ply OF water. 10. what a miracle! The
almost putrid water was almost instantly
purified He brought it to his lips. 1t was
fresh, agreeable, and in a moment after
the traveller had so far recovered his
strength and energy as to be able to re-
sumo his journey. The lucky Arab gath
cred as many berries as he could and
having arrived at Alden, in Arabia. he in
formed the Musu of his discovery That
| worthy divine was an inVeterate opiun
smoker, who had been suffering for years
from the influence of that poisonous drug
He tried an infusion of the roasted her
ries. and was SO delighted at the recovery
of his own vigor that in gratitude to the
tree he called 1t Cahuah, which in Arabia
signifies force.
When Edison some time ago said that
he could defend fort against an army if
he were supplied with a powerful dynamo
! and a fire engine, many regarded tho
statement as one of those little Jokes with
which the great intentor loves so well to
relieve the strain of his almost incessant
serious work, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch He proposed to connect the hose
70 the dynamo and then to start borh
| Inc heaVy current would pass along the
water, and anyone advancing toward HE
fort on whom the jet played would be
instantly electrocuted. This has verv
nearly been done in sober earnest. At a
recent fire in the basement of the no1,ar
house of the Chicago City Railway Com
pany the fremen had great trouble in
getting at the blaze. They had to chop
noles IN the floor of the dynamo room he
fore they could get a stream on the blaz
ing pile of waste. Not waiting for the
dynamos to be shut dow2 they crepT
stream on the flames In an instant tbaI,
were flung to the ground with great vic.
lence, and the hose was sent fying infn
the air; A heavy current has passed
along the stream and had shocked them