The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NeNAA man SAlOulu QflIlk q cocktail LOT
every state bulletined for Mckinley
VIII | ever" he asks drink any more
| cocktails during the residue of my stay
on earth? Not if 1 should live to be as
| old as Methusaleh. The absorption of
about thirty in one night has all but made
me a prohibitionist, and with the recol-
| lection of my feelings on the morning OF
| Nov. still fresh, think I'd even chance
free silver rather than another cocktail"
Election bets of the freak order are
being paid in all directions, but a really
interesting one is reported by a Frank
ford men. who writes to the Philadelphia
| Record IAN election bet was made in the
| Twenty-second division of the Twenty
| third ward, on the Ashbridge- Crow con-
| test. The loser of the bet was to pay the
| other one grain Of corn if the winning can
didate had majority of one vote in the
| division; two grains If two majority, four
| grains if three majority, eight grains if
| four majority and so on, doubling the
| amount with every vote in the majority.
| Now it happens that Crow had, l think a
| majority of Ga votes in the division The
! day after election the Crow man put in
| bill for his bet and the Ashbridge man
| was staggered to find that he owed the
! Crow man 1,942, no, 735 95S, 379 00S grains of
| corn, more corn no doubt than there is in
the whole state The Ashbridge man, filled
with alarm, is trying to figure out how
|
| corn"
The days of glass bottles are number
ed, says an exchange. They are to be
superseded by unbreakable paper bottles.
| Paper bottles can be manufactured for
| about half the cost of glass bottles, ana
can be made water tight as well as air
| tight. As brewers well know, it is no
| easy matter to make a glass bottle that
is alright when beer is the liquid it con-
| tains All kinds of experiments have been
| made to accomplish this result but none
have succeeded. With paper bottles the
matter will be compare lively easy, as the
| paper viii give when the cork is driven
| into the neck of the bottle, and will be
sealed perfectly. Glass bottles, too, Will
| freeze and their contents spoil. In the
| paper bottles the liquid can defy the eff
| forts of the frost king. This will mean
| a saving in more ways than one There
| is no occasion for the laborious packing
in straw that has to be done in the case
of glass bottles. The paper bottles be-
| ing practically unbreakable, there is no
need Tor straw as safeguard against
| rough treatment while in transit and as
the papier-mache will keep the contents
warm, there need be no packing to keep
the cold out.
1t has often been a matter of wonder
that articles of japanese manufacture.
such as toothpicks and fans, could be sold
at such low prices. The small fans are sold
at a cent apiece, while the dainty little
| toothpicks command the same price per
bundle says the jewelers. Review. When
one examines either of these products and
speculateS upon the amount of labor that
must be spent to make them in any guam
tity, the natural inference is that the we'll
known smallnesS of Japanese wages con-
ta!ns the explanation Such skilled work.
ers as watchmakers get but a trifie more
than dollar a week for their services,
and the less skilled and more mechanical
trades command a pittance that to our
western ideas seems incredibly small. But
small as the wages of the Japanese worker
may be, there are considera tions that in
dictate at once that some other cause must
be found. There is duty on both the ar
tlcleS mentioned, and in addition to this
it must be remembered that Japan is a
good piece away, and that, in the natural
course, freights would give a considera-
BILE price in this market to articles that
were entirely without cost in the Orient. A
visit to several Japanese importing houses.
which deal exclusively in fine Satsuma
and other native wares and in Japanese Gu
| rios revealed the secret of the prices at
which the small wares could be offered
here. The large vases, which form the sta
pie import of the concerns called upon re-
quire the most careful packing. lest on
their long journey they come to grief; and
here is where the toothpicks and fans not
only work their passage, but legally es-
cape duty. Packed in and around the
| vases are many thousands of these arti-
| cles and by this use they lose their charac-
ter as merchandise and become merely so
much packing"
The New England method of bird fish
ing is very interesting, says the New
York Journal. Two men go out in a boat
and throw pieces of cod liver on the water.
| These al once attract the stormy petrels"
which are very numerous along the At
| lantic coast. They gather in flocks around
the floating food and tear it to pieces
They are soon perceived by their larger
| relatives, who infer that there must be
| food to be got, and so come hocking to
the scene. One of the men In the boat
| stays forward and the other aft Each man
is provided with a line twenty-five or
thirty feet long, at the end of which is
little hook of the variety ordinarily used
| in mackerel fishing. A piece of cod liver
| large enough to cover and float the hook
is used for bait. The feathered victims
are only too anxious to become the prey
of the fishermen, and they fight fierce
ly among themselves in their eagerness to
get large pieces Of liver. These pieces
they swallow at one gulp, the most vora-
cious bird of all being the hagdon. OF all
| bird fishing, however fishing for alba
tross is the most exciting. To catch one
| VI bAGSe powerful DlIuS Is the night of
joy for the avian angler. Albatrosses can
be most easily caught in stormy weather.
because that sort of weather keeps them
from getting their regular supply of food
| and hunger overcomes the tmidity that
Is so natural to them. In this sort of fish
Ing the angler uses fat pork for bait The
birds are fished for with a long line The
| fisherman bats his hook and pays out the
line with sufficient celebrity to keep the
hook stationary on the water. Soon, how,
ever, the progress of the boat brings the
cord to an end, and the pork moves away
as the albatross is about to take It, Then
the huge bird will sit on the water and
watch the boat for minutes at a time, final
ly rising and following it, In a few min
utes, it catches up with it again, and.
presto! the pork disappears. In a mo-
ment the bird finds that is has been
hooked. Then it sits upright upon the
water and beats it. wings at a terrific rate.
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