The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A single glass eye can rarely be worn
more than year without being polished,
for the surface becomes roughened by the
acton Of tears. etc.
James Northrup OF Anamosa. IA. who
had suffered with asthma. got up one
night last week. dressed himself in clean
ralment cOmbed his hair and then lay
down again Calling his wife. he told her
ne was going 10 die and wanted 10 be bur
led Just as he was. He went 10 sleep and
ia less than thirty minutes was a corpse.
The children at Bethlehem are told
by their mothers that on Christmas eve
choir of angels always sing above the
place where Christ was born. Travellers
say that on this evening scores and some
times hundreds OF children may be seen
in the open air looking up into the
open sky, waiting 10 hear the angels
sing.
A human skull with red incandescent
bulbs in the eye sockets is the device with
which Police Lieut.. Rank Of Chicago
station Scares culprits into making con-
LESSONS. He darkens the room when he
turns on the lights in the skull producing
a greWsome effect and a confession in
nearly all cases.
in China, in times of pestilence. per-
sons are permitted to witness gratuitous-
by theatrical performances. and displays
minds may be distracted from the pre-
vaillng epidemic. In large towns places
are provided in which those who in
desperation give up the battle of life may
quietly lay down and die.
The dressing Of Goldfish is an operation
requiring skill and rapidity A man call
ed the "thrOater" cuts the fish's throat
header" who removes the head and
entrails; the splitter" then splits the
FISH open and takes out a part of the
backbone, and the "salter' piles IN The
fish in tiers in the hold of the boat and
salts them.
There is movement on foot in Lon
don among a number Of young men, who
find it very hard to get to business in time.
TO start a Lazy Club" Their idea is Ito
esta bish dressing rooms in a caravan,
thus enabling him to finish his toilet in
the van on his way to business" 1t is
further hoped TO attach a restaurant to
the van some day"
When two Negritos. a people of the
Philippine Islands. are united. the whole
tribe is assembled and the affianced pair
climb two trees growing near to each
other; the elders then bend the branches
until the heads of the couple meet. When
the heads have thus come into contact,
the marriage is legally accomplished, and
great reJoicings take place, a fantastic
dance completing the ceremony.
The great bustard is the rarest bird
that comes under the head of game. This
bird formerly haunted all the level coun-
ties OF England and was particularly com
mon on Salisbury Plain. From the reign
Of Henry VIII repeated measures were
passed in order to protect it, and it is
expressly included under the head of game
in the statute of the first year of the
reign of William ", which codified and
reformed the laws relating to game.
In the Highlands of Scotland at the
present time the osprey usually makes its
nest on the fiat top of a pine tree; but
formerly it just as frequently selected
a battlement or a chimney of some ruin,
generally on an island The nest is pile
of sticks, as much as four feet h,gn and
as many broad-the accumulation of many
years-intermXed with turf and other
and finally with grass, much of it often
green.
Mr.. Dickson, the British consul at
Jerusalem, says that many visitors to
Egypt visit the Holy Land also, the result
being that money is brought into the coun-
try and employment is given to a numer-
Gus class OF the population who otherwise
would remain idle. Hotel keepers, drago-
mans, guides, shopkeepers, stable owners,
carriage drivers, muleteers, etc. all look
forward to the tourist season as a means
of acquiring a livelihood, and should any
unforeseen circumstances occur to hinder
the usual influx OF LfdVelerS-dS, Tor exam
PIE, the recent imposition OF quarantine
on arrivals from Egypt-it is looked upon
as something little short of a disaster by
the inhabitants of Jerusalem and Jaffa.
As an instance of the effect which the
annual arrival of tourists has had upon
the progress of the country, it may be
mentioned that twenty years ago there
existed only one decent hotel in Jerusalem,
whereas now there are a least six good
hotels in the city, two being first class
besides several boarding houses and hos
m n a ~ nj inns.
Fifteen or twenty years ago, says an
exchange, the Island of Jamaica was a
perfect hotbed for venomous snakes OF
all sorts and conditions. The verdure of
the island is intensely tropical and the
garden hedges and fences made of mag
nitcent cacu almost seemed to generate
under their nettleS hordes of frightfuI
reptiles the bite of any one meaning sud
den death. But a governor general Of the
island had sent out to him from England
half a dozen of the mOngoOse and turned
them loose. 1t was his theory that if a
mongoose would keep an English farmyard
clear of rats why should not a number
of them punish the snakes in jamaica?
The results were entirely to his satisfac-
uOn. Ine mOngOOSe took to the snakes
as kittens to hot brick, and every year
the statistics OF deaths from snake bite
became lower. To-day snakes are abso-
lutely rare on the island. 1t would be a
sensible thing if some one would turn loose
hundred of so of these queer little quad
rupedS in Louisiana, where the moccasin
and rattler invade the very doors of the
farm houses.
Nothing in bird life is more thrilling
than the down sweep of hungry hawk at
some sort of prey. The Badminton Mag
aZine has a drawing by Archibald Thor
burn that shows in detail a little Euro
pean blue hawks dive at a wounded duck.
Wild fear is shown in the position of the
ducks head. Trailing from the hawks
talons are a lot of feathers. But the hawk
has not turned its head to see what has
become of the bird, feeling itself evidently
Independent of any such idle curiosity and
knowing that the duck cannot escane
One hot day last summer three woods
men were walking through pasture down
on the flats of the Adirondack stream of
the West Canada creek. A few rods awav
near a fair sized elm tree, were a number
of robins picking about for insects. In
noticed. q small hawk was sailing about
high overhead. All of a sudden there was
a roar as if a strong wind had suddenly
hit the elm tree, and robin cried ont
in mortal agony. The hawk had dropped
head first from a tremendous hight with
closed wings and only when within q few
feet did the robins notice the hawk.