The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

sAo4lerds and Inilkmaids-
"A London paper says that the coroner
OF Islingtoa held Al inquest the other
day on the death or Sarah Glendinning.
30 years Old. woman Of INDEPENDENT
means, who died from Syucope. IL was
stated IN evidence than this ancient dame
had had good healrh. was extremely act
I've, and was an excessive brandy drink
eE, sometimes sak.as as m3ch as a bottle
and a half a day"
The suafiowcr crop is one OF the best
paying in Russia 4 good crop is worth,
as il stands in the field. So per acre. The
seeds are sold by the farmer for from -
10 Is pound; then the merchants salt
them ana retail them for rs a pound, and
az every street crossing IN Russian pro-
Ninclal cities are stands and pcddlers
with baskets, selling TO the passers-by the
is eaten.
-LOndoners who patronize the buses
find themselves in embarrassing and ex-
citing situations from . TO 10 o'clock when
trade is dull in the evening. The habit
has arisen among the bus drivers of rae
ing each other at that time and timid
passengers cling to the seats and pray
for deliverance while the big vehicles go
swinging and banging around corners and
people on the sidewalks hail the drivers
IN vain. No serious accidents have as yet
occurred.
Throughout the ffty-eight years of Vic
toria's reign the picture OF her used on the
postage stamps of the kingdom has re-
manned the same. Recently it occurred to
the Niger coast prOtectorate to issue
new set OF stamps with the portrait OF
her majesty as she is to-day. This was
done and a very handsome set is the re-
suit. The India government has followed
suit and now nearly all the English colo
MES have signified their intention of call
ing in their present stamp issue and using
the later picture of her majesty
The largest mule than ever walked on
American soil is now, or was recently, the
property of George H. Johnson, a farmer
living a few miles east of Honey Grove,
Tex. His muleship is exactly 1872 hands,
or feet inches in hight, being exactly
IA inches higher than the famous Los
Pecos (Old MeXico) mule, which was so
widely advertised in 1S90-lS91 as being the
most gigantic specimen of the mule fam
lily the world has ever known" The
Honey Grove mule is not slim and raw
boned, but is built in proportion to his
hight, weighing 1873 pounds.
The pastor of the Nazareth church.
of Berlin, Germany, refused to confirm
a class Of children the other Sunday I'M
less they removed their button-hole bou-
quets. On hearing this some of the par
entS eXhorted their children not to obey
the pastor, while others went into hys-
terics. In the meanwhile the pastor READ
minatory passage of scripture, which
increased the excitement, and then he
sent for the police. Finally all were con-
body left the church feeling angry or un-
happy
IA swindle which evidently is new in
Missouri is being worked with great sue
cess in many towns there. A woman book
agent appears in town and goes from
mouse to house leaving books for eXami-
nauon. Next day man calls 10 see if
the books are wanted, and if they are
not he takes them away with him. Usu-
ally they are not wanted. A few days
later the woman agent a again
and on being told that the man has taken
away the books, weepS cOpiOuSly, SAYS
| the villain has been collecting her books
all over town, pleads poverty and so on,
and accepts the proffered compensation.
"A firm of English jewelers. has just
been swindled in a new way by some en-
terprising thieves. One day a man, Mr.. A.
entered the shop bearing an antique case
which he said he would sell the firm for
go, although he had once been offered f2s
Tor II, but could not get the offer repeated
| The firm said 1t would keep the case and
sell 1t on commission. Mr.. a. left the an
tique case. Next day in came a stranger,
Mr.. b., who asked to look at antiques
Among other things this case was shown
him and he offered to buy 1t for f25 Then
| he dicoyered he had left his purse at
home He told the firm to keep the case
| for him till the end of the week and he
would leave a couple of soVereigns as de-
posit Next day in walked Mr.. A. with
| the news that he had an offer of f25 for
! the case and wanted it back The jewel
ers extricated themselves from their di-
| lemma by buying it from him for I'D. OF
course Mr.. IS. never came back and the
! two SwindlerS were nearly go ahead The
case, it turned out, was worth about 70.
Nervous persons who do not own bur-
glar-proof safes or have no confidence in
| them if they do, says the Chicago Record,
| hide their Valuables in various out-of-the
| way corners and are happy, forgetting
| that even in the matter of concealng gold
and silver there is nothing new under the
| sun, and consequently their secret would
| be no secret to the shreWd burglar should
| he chance 10 make them can. favo-
| rite hiding place for money, especially for
| bills of large denominations, has always
| been the family bible or the unabridged
! dictionary. This is still common in rural
| places. Old shoes standing in their proper
! place directly alongside of new ones are
| likewise much esteemed, for a great deal
| can be pushed down into their toes with
out giving the slightest evidence of the
| value therein. An old lady living in a New
| Jersey town had set of large stationary
| drawers topped by cupboards built into
one of her huge closets. The lower draw
| er, instead of resting directly on the floor,
| ran on grooves perhaps two inches above
| it. She would pun out this lower drawer,
| place her jewel cases in the space left be-
| low and then push in the drawer, which
| she kept filled with linen In all proba-
| bility no burglar would ever think of hunt
| ing down there, even if he should find he
| had the time So is the practice of stick
| ing money, snugly away under corner of
/
| piece of furniture. This is a method that
| has much to commend it. Tea caddies and
| sugar bowls make excellent temporary
! safes. Another hiding place is the old
| fashioned country clock, which is almost
| historic as a spot for tUcking away little
| bundles of valuabes. 1t is safe to say
| that the number of women who put away
| Jewelry in pocketbooks under a mattress
| for safe keeping, afterward carefully
| smoothing the bed down, can be numbered
| by the thousands. The pocket of an old
| dress that hangs in an unconcealed way
| in a closet is regarded by many women as
| one of the safest places imaginable for
! spare rings, brooches and bracelets, and
even for a pocketbook. Equally shrewd
| was another woman who, whenever she
went out, put her money and jewelry in
! the coal scuttle covering them up care
! fully with several layers of coal. This
! might have proved a rather risky expert
ment in the winter months. when the fire
/ had to be fed, as not even the housemaids
knew what was below the 'tblack dia-
! monds" but their owner felt that no bur
| glar would ever think of looking there for
| plumber and was perfectly satisfied.
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