The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Cedar Bayou, Harris county, Texas. were
opened and a lid of the kitchen range
was blown off by bolt of lightning re-.
Gently.
Over 200 candidates have presented
themselves for a vacant rectorship at
| Wooton-under-E Edge, England, the salary
of which is less than $1,000. The parish
| toner's have had the right to choose their
own rector since the time of Charles II.
Through the Boston Camera Club in
May last, Samuel Cabot, Jr., offered prizes
of 800 and $50 for photographs of soarins
birds. Up to Oct. 1 only a single set Of
pictures had been received, though the
| competition is open to the professional
| and amateur photographers of the world.
| Mr.. Cabot is deeply interested in the EN-
| blem of aerial navigation, and hoped to
| get hints for its solution from careful
study of the many pictures he expected
| to receive.
The famous pistol with which Aaron
Burr killed Alexander Hamilton is now
in the possession of Louis Marshall Of
| Versailles, KY. The weapon has been
| changed from a flint to a percussion lock
| 1t still shoots very accurately, says the
| Washington Post, and carries a two
ounce ball. It's barrel, which is twelve
! inches long, looks more like a section of
! shotgun than anything else, while the
| handle is marked twice with the TX" sign,
which meant, in the palmy days of duel
ing, that the weapon had done fatal work.
The fad for wearing live insects as
! jewelry seems to be increasing, says a
New York letter in the Pitsburg Dispatch.
| The Japanese terrapin is announced
as the latest victim. 1t is reported that
| the terrapin are being sent out of Japan
| by thousands to meet the demand in Paris
| and New York. A girl in a broadway
car one day last week used live kitten
for a boa. 1t nestled so quietly on her
neck that only few passengers noticed
| that it was a real pussy cat until she
clasped it in her arms when her home cor
| ner was reached.
A San Francisco school teacher says
that by observing how the hair grows
on the heads of the boys placed under her
| charge she can tell great deal about
| their character and ability. She thinks
| that when there is single point on the
| central line of the scalp just back of the
top of the head around which the hair is
arranged in a well-defined circle gradu-
ally and regularly widening, then the
owner Of the head is well behaved and
| intelligent, while if the point is ill-defned
! and especially if there are several of them
the chances are that the child is stupid,
| vicious or both.
The common purslane is one of the
wonders of botany, as far as seeds are
| concerned, at least, says an exchange A
| single seed of this plant will produce
| about twenty seed-pods in a season. The
| average number of seeds in each of these
| by actual count, is 5000, making $4,000 in
| all. AS far as we have been able to
| learn, there is no instance of similar
| fruitfulness in any plant found growing
| in this country. A single plant of either
| the jamestown weed ('jimson'), the but
| ter weed, the rag weed and some of the
| vervines produce an enormous number of
| Seeds but it is doubtful If any of them
produces one-fourth as many in a year as
| the purslane does.
"A man at Narbonne, France, lost
1OO-franc note in a funny way recently,
says the Waterbury American. He was
| in restaurant and took the note from
| his pocket to pay for his dinner when
as the note lay upon the table, a gust of
wind Topped it into the soup. Fishing it
! out, he placed 1t on the edge of the table
| to dry, whence it slipped to the floor
| just then along came a hungry little
| poodle and, shifting at the note, he got
| good whiff of the soup, snatched up the
| note and swallowed it. The owner Of the
note then sued the owner of the poodle
for the 100 francs, and the courts have
| decided that the latter must pay.
AT Mammoth Hot Springs, in Yellow
stone Park, there is a fence made of elk
horns, says the Kansas City Star. 1t en-
| closes the greater part of the grounds of
Photographer F. Jay Haynes studio. The
| fence is composed of over 800 selected elk
| horn. All of them have twelve points
and great many have the royal fourteen
points They were shed in March, 1895,
| and were gathered in June of the same
| year by Mr.. Haynes and three of his men
| within radius of ten miles of Mammoth
| Hot Springs and within four days time.
There are about $500 elk in the park now.
| Each pair of horns would bring $3.50 at
the railroad at Cinnabar, about eight
| miles, or at least $40 a pair in the east
| or south.
The next Paris exposition will con
tain "a City of Gold" 1t will be an his
torial exhibition of the progress of bank
ing. One section will show the processes
for obtaining the precious metals with
| models of the different kinds of mines.
| another will show the conversion of the
| metals into coin, and the workings of the
| mint; still another the progress of all
| kinds OF commercial papers, with repro
| auctions of historical banks from the
| Strozzi and the Medici to the Rothschilds
| and the Bank of France There will he a
| and a reconstruction of the Pont au
Change as it was in the middle ages, con-
nected with streets representing various
historical periods.
There is sometimes a curious fatality
in names, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
In the middle of the last century there
was fitted out for service the British pri-
| Vateer Terrible" Because of her name
and the facts that she was commanded
by Capt. Death; had Lieut. Devil and
a Surgeon Ghost, and had been launched
at executive dock, supersttious sailors
everywhere predicted she would come TO
terrible end. Sure enough, in her
| second Adventures fight with the "Ven
| geance," off San Domingo-she was over
| powered and almost completely DESTROY
| ed. or the two hundred men composing
| her crew, all but twenty-six were slain
before the enemy could board. OF the
| twenty-six, sixteen had lost an arm or
| leg, whilst the remaining ten were entire
! ly disabled by grevious wounds. The
| deck could not be seen for blood and bod
| les and presented the appearance of a