The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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The authorities OF the Johns Hopkins
hospital Of Baltimore have built a cold
storage room in which dead bodies will
be kept for the use Of medical colleges IN
winter.
A Dutch court martial has decided that
II is not insubordinate for a soldier TO re-
fuse TO wash his face when ordered TO do
so by his commanding officer. and the high
military court OF the kingdom has con-
hrmed the decision.
The British authorities in India have
been obliged to discontinue the bounties
on dead snakes because the natives went
into the business Of breeding the reptlles
on a large scale in order 10 secure the re
ward paid for their dead bodies.
One cubic inch Of the clay used in
Belgium for polishing glass has been
found TO contain Al 10000 fossil shells of
infusoria and others Of the animalculae
The mOnad, the simplest form OF lpfuso-
rial life varies from l-24,O0th TO l.
50Oth of an inch in length according 10
variety.
The majority Of grown people, as well
as the children, in ancient Rome rarely
lighted a candle unless at dawn. The bed
time in Rome, Athens, Egypt and other
parts of the Mediterranean shore was be-
tween z and 9 o'clock in the evening, ac-
cording TO the season. The Turks go 10
bed early and get up early TO this day.
That the Jews in Germany appreciate
the value of a university education is
proved by statistics just published. Every
10000 PrOtestants in the German empire
send fifty students to these higher 1nSti-
tutiOns of learning; every 10000 Roman
Catholics send thirty-twO, while every TO-
90 Hebrews send the remarkable number
of 333.
And now it is claimed that the jaw
bones of civilized peoples are gradually
becoming attenuated, chiefly owing to the
prolonged use of knives and forks. There
need be no fear however, that we will
chewing gum will soon restore these por-
lions of our anatomy to their pristine
strength.
The United States consul at Rheims
France, says that English horse meat IS
put up in cans in Holland; and after Amer
lean labels are pasted on the cans, they
are shipped to France and other neighbOr-
ing countries When horses in England
have become so old and worn out that
they are no longer of any use, they are
shipped to the canning factories in Hol-
land. About 5000 horses are used in this
way every year. OF course, says the New
YOrk Tribune, the stuff is not sold as horse
The young woman Of Nashua Ia, who
started the Boies stampede in the Chicago
convention tells a Chicago paper about
her post-conVention fame. It seems that
the people of Nashua haven't made much
of her, because they are gold bugs" But
she gets a heavymail, many of the letters
containing offers of marriage. One cler-
gyman in Canada, with dark brown hair
and dark slumbering eyes, wrote her that
n wi WI " Ina ON
his hands and knees" to see her. She
tells many other similar incidents, and is
evidently proud Of the part she is playing
on the worlds stage.
There is a very narrow valley in Stat
fordshire called Narrowdale, hemmed in
by steep and lofty rocks, the inhabitants
| Of which do not see the sun for about
three months in winter. Its first ap-
| pearance in spring is made at about
l o'clock in the afternoon. At a little
| collection of six houses at Routenbeck,
] on the western end of Bassenthwaite
| lake, in Cumberland, England, If an in
habitant were confined to the house all
| the winter he would not see the sun from
| the middle Of December to the middle of
| February, though, If the early days of
| February were fine, he might see the
| sunlight on some of the chimneys.
"A remarkable incident is reported from
the state of Chihuahua, Mexico On a re-
explosion
| was heard and an enormous mass of burn
| ing matter was seen to fall from the heav-
| ems, striking the side of a mountain and
| bringing down with it in it's course entire
| cliffs and finally plunged 200 feet into
une ground, making a hole from which
| boiling water still issues. One of the most
| singular phenomena observed was the
| heavy rain falling from the sky immedi-
| ately after the descent of the meteor. The
| people are very SuperStitiOus. as this is
| one of the many realizations of the proph-
| ecleS of the ViSiOn-seeing girl of Tabasco
| The same meteor destroyed the house of
a miner, killing his two children"
"A Los Angeles man is thus quoted in
the Washington Times: THE largest
! brandy still in the world is in Southern
| California. 1t is located on the famous ri
! Pipal vineyard, and has only been com
! pleted about one year To look at the
! great concern one sees only a conglomer-
| alton of pipes, boilers and tanks When
| running in full blast the still is capable
| of converting 5000 gallons of wine into
brandy every twenty-four hours. When
| one looks at 1t he cannot help wondering
what becomes of all the brandy that must
| be manufactured in the world In a
| month they could turn out enough of the
| stuff TO put the whole population of a CITY
| like New York under the influence of Lin
| uor. II required over four years to put IN
the STILL ~
Once in while, says the New York
Evening Sun, the dead letter Office gets
a chance to pay tribute to the epistolarv
habits of women. A young woman of this
| city recently wrote letter
to her father, then travelling
in the west. 1t was an impors
tant letter filed with questions to which
the writer. after the manner of women
| wanted an answer right off" No clew
as to the sender appeared upon the en-
| Velope, however, and even inside the girl
| simply signed herself Your Iovine
| Daughter" The only reason that the al
dress, No. - West Blank street, was not
omitted was because it was slammed
! upon the stationary. It so happened +hat
this letter failed to reach its destina lion
| until after the father had left STbe
young woman, therefore. received no an
| swer to her many questions Not min
| after her fathers return, however did
she learn that he had never so much ae
seen the epistle. Chagrined as she v,ae
| at having so intimate missive go asfrav
| She OF course, never expected to besr
| from the thing again. Not so a Few
| days later the original missive came bacp
| to the girl from the dead letter offic.
And on the envelope containing If Was
| the superscription: Loving Danebter
| No. West Blank street, New Yorl,
| City"