The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In Germany tney nave discovered
jailer who made his prisoners so comfort
able that they would not stay away, all
though he gave them every opportunity
to get out, says the New York journal.
lie is now to be prosecuted by the heart
less authorities. His name is Bader, and
he was the chief warden in the Marien-
werder prison, in Leipsic. He Is accused
Of having turned the Jail into a comforta-
BILE private hotel for all and any of his
prisoners who could pay for the privilege
NOT only did he supply them with money
playing atds, liquor, newspapers and TO-
Dacco, but he entertained the most liberal
oil the prisoners in his own house, and
used one OF the cells as bar and supper
room. For considerable bride he al
lowed certain of his boarders to go home
3t night, escorting them back in the
early morning, while others received their
wives to an at-home in their cells.
Uncle Sans mail clerks run across
many queer things in the many thousands
Of missives that pass under their notice,
says the Philadelphia Record. Poetical
superscriptions upon letters, for instance,
turn up occasionally. At the postofIice at
Bridgeton, N. j., few days ago, a letter
arrived evidently from some love-lorn
swain, which was addressed in this fashion:
Hello, Uncle Sam, may go in your mail?
I've taken a notion to ride on the rail-
In the state of New Jersey there let me
drop.
In the county of Cumberland there let me
stop.
In the Bridgeton postofice there let me
lay,
Until the good letter carrier takes me
away.
At So Oak street, there let me meet,
Miss Mile Delaney. looking so sweet.
T1,ara &c q ,,o,,nrr dao+ie+ l., 49, rro...l..
loin who knows how to advertise, says
the New York Press. He counts his money
at dinner time in well patronized restau-
rant. His younger brother is his collec-
tor The dentist, his wife and perhaps
several other ladies dine in the restaurant.
About the time coffee is reached the broth
err comes rushing in with what one is led
to believe are the collections for the day.
The dentist takes the money ostentatious-
ly and counts it. There is usually a roll
of bills too big for any but a top coat
pocket. On the outside there will be
twenty. Next will come one then a five,
then two then twenty, then ten and
then one. The ones predominant. After
the counting the dentist receives a bag
or two of gold, stuffs the roll in his top
coat pocket, dons his high hat, goes to
the cigar stand and buys a cigar such as
Svengali used to smoke. and takes his par
ty away. Meantime the dinner of everybody
else in the restaurant has grown cold.
The first horse tax in England was es-
tablished in 1884. Virgil says that "the first
driver of a four-in-hand was Erichthoni-
us" The favorite war horse of the Duke
of Wellington was named Copenhagen.
The first horses in New England were in
PRODUCED into Massachusetts, in 1929 or 1880.
AS late as the ninth century European
| horses were shod only in the winter time
1t is tradition among the Jews that Solo,
mon had 10000 chariot horses and 12,000
| cavalry. Assyrian monumental records
show that cavalry and war chariots were
used at least $500 B. C. Historians believe
that the horse was first domesticated eth
er in Central Asia or Northern Africa. The
| first king in England to establish royal
| stable for breeding purposes was Henry
VIII. Horseshoe'ny with iron was I'M
known in England until introduced after
! the Norman Conquest in 1865. Fossil ami
mails, bearing close resemblance to our
| horses, have been found in many parts of
the world. Arabian horses were intro
duced into Europe during the crusades;
| the Barbary horses during the Moorish
| occupation of Spain.
"A new terror has been added to life,
| says an exchange. The latest develop
ment OF the bicycle craze is its employ
ment as a means of cure. This does not,
| indeed, sound formidable; but, says In
| Vention the news comes from Paris that
! the wheel is to be tried as a curative
measure for the insane, and the suggcs-
| ton opens up possibilities not always of
| the most pleasant kind 1t is asserted that
| on the other side of the Atlantic exercise
/ on the bicycle has been attended with
| wonderful results in cases of disease, and
| it is now stated that French specialists
are about to try the plan for the cure OF
| the insane. This is all very WELL and
| there is no one who will not heartily de-
sire that the new method should both
| have fair trial, and be crowned with
| unlooked-for success. But the prospect
| thus opened up of lunatics sprinting along
| outside the precincts of their asylums in
search of sanity is not quite a reassuring
| one. The unpleasantness of encounter
| ing on the highway a mad manor wo-
| man-engaged in this exercise, would
hardly be compensated for by the thought
| that he. or she, was being restored to
health by means of the bike cure.
--Storks, which show their delight In the
upper regions Of the air by their habit of
soaring for hours at vast attitudes, are
| also noted for their determination to oc-
| cupy the highest possible point when at
rest, says the London Spectator. AS sew
eral species of stork prefer to live in the
| society of man, and frequent great cities,
this tendency may be observed without
difficulty. In India the ad1utant storks
| always prefer to stand on the topmost
pinnacles of high buildings. In one town
| it was noticel that an adjutant always sat
on the top of the pediment Of native coll
| lege An Englishman who was engaged in
examining another part of the roof no
ticed that a single brick had been laid or
| the parapet Of the pediment and that the
adjutant, anxious to gain a couple of
inches in altitude, was standing On this
brick-poised, according to custom, on one
leg. A crow slipped up behind, and pulled
the stork's tail, upsetting It twice from its
post. AS it approached to do this a third
time the adjutant caught sight of it, dart
ed down its enormous beak, caught the
crow, and swallowed him whole, after
which, with noli me tangere air, he re-
occupied its brick pedestal.
by far the most important compensa-
ton for all effects of fatigue is sleep, says
the Popular Science Monthly. Everybody
even the man mentally most inert, develops
when awake a mass of mental effort which
| he cannot afford ron tinuOiIS1v x1yitbo,,t -,,f