The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a steamship bound for La Guayra
has just left New York with a shipment
OF several thousand buttons, similar 10
the ordinary campaign badges, with
small satin American flag attachment.
on the top of the button IS a picture OF
President Monroe and the words: Amer
lea Tor Americans; One County one
Flag. One God" This shipment would
seem to imply that there are a few live
Yankee .sfakirs" in Venezuela who in
tend to turn patriotic enthusiasm into
profitable channels
The rabbit in Australia has developed
from being a serious Inconvenience to a
question of grave importance. In New
South Wales alone over 100000 acres or
land have been abandoned because OF the
impOssibility of keeping down these rap
idly increasing pests. This colony has
spent over $4,000 in waging war against
the rabbits, and in one year paid Tor ~
O00,000 rabbit skins. Fifteen thousand
miles Of wire netting have been erected
and thus far nothing else has been invent
wholesale slaughter and incubation with
disease germs have all been unable to
check the increase The importation OF
the domestic cat, who, it is gratifying 10
learn, did good service, proved only an
other palliative Of the evil.
According to Miss z. z. ThOyts. who
has contributed an interesting article on
Ancient Watermarks to the Antiquary,
about the earliest date at which they
were used was 1901. The paper of the first
books printed in England by CaXton bore
the water mark of a small black letter,
which was used from the time of Duke
Philip Gle ROmiere in l349, says London
Invention. As the marks came TO cistin-
guish various kinds and size of paper
they soon gave their names to the kinds
of paper, as ''foolscap,' pot, post,
hand" and other designations still Ia
miliar The water mark designating
"foolscap" has been traced back to 1873
In the middle of the eighteenth century
figure of Britannia was substituted for
the FOOLS cap in our country.
-Netrly every civilized country in the
world has bands of gypsies wandering
about within its boundaries, and their flu
tility and apparent lack of any definite OBJ
JeCt in life, so characteristic OF this pic
tureSQue nOmadic race, gives peculiar IN
terest to statistics concerning them. From
hungary, the center ana starring point
of the race, we learn from a census that
their total number in that country alone
amounts to 27494O. About half of them
were settled in towns and villages, while
the other half led n constantly wandering
life. Altogether there were 1047J0 gypsies
who proIessed hungarian as thelr mother
tongue, 6I,G6 ROumanian, 1881 the SloVak
tongue 1861 the Servian. 1896 the German
and ZOOS the Ruthenian language. The
number speaking only the Czigany or Ro-
many tOngue-that is, the gypsies who did
not amalgamate with other nationalties-
was S2,0i5, or about 80 per cent. of the
whole.
"A German naval captain has invented
a new life buoy. 1t consists of a large
cork ring capable of floating three per-
sons, and provided with a kind of net
which offers a support to their feet. Its
principal feature, however, is that it is
lifted with an electric light, fed by a
small accumulation which can be readily
charged without dismounting il, from the
electric plant with which most large YES
sells are now fitted; II will store sum
Gent electricity to keep the lamp alight
ranged so that it will always remain in a
vertical position, Independently of the os-
citations Of the buoy, and is placed at a
hight of forty inches above the water
level, thus rendering the buoy conspcu-
Gus at night for two and one-half miles
all around. Underneath it is a receptacle
containing small supply Of provisions
and water, an alarm whistle, and a switch
for turning off the electricity in daylight.
A case entirely new to medical science
came under the observation of the physi-
clans at the Maryland University hospl-
tai recently, says the Baltimore Herald.
James Tymon was the patient, and he was
afflicted in a most peculiar way. Tymon
at the bakery of d. w. Lord,
h at 10 Camden street, and is about 10 years
|, Of age. While at work he accidentally
! -tPll upon his right arm. He felt an acute
! pain in the member, as if ii had been frac-
\ tbre1 The pain was intense, and finally
! Tymon's employer sent him to the hos
| pital, where he was examined by the ply
sIclanS in charge. To their surprise they
! discovered that, instead of being broken.
| the bone of the forearm was bent so as to
! form almost a. circle and was firm in that
| position. 1t was something that the ply
| sicians had not come in contact with be-
| fore. 1t is supposed by the doctors in at
| tendance upon Tymon that the bone had
| become softened in some way either
| through constitutional weakness or a pc
culiar diet
1t is only in Philadelphia that enough
brotherly love prevails TO make a grocer
| tell his customers what he sells them
says the New Orleans Picayune. Every
| where else we eat what is set before us
| and ask no questions, believing that where
! ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise
| about what is put in the hash. The hon
| est Philadelphia grocer says: "If | had
| my just deserts l would be in the peniten.
| tiary for selling adulterated groceries
| So would every other retail grocer.
don't think one-fifth of the Stock 7 sell
| is what it is represented to be. Take cod.
| fish Mine is either hake or haddock and
| | sell 1t for cents. Real Goldfish costs
| 9ls cents pound, wholesale. sell a
| brand of tomato catsup for cents a bot
| tie, and four-fifths of it is pumpkin Ny
stale cakes are all taken back by the man.
| ufacturer, who makes them over again
| into fresh ones. Take those cheap ginger
| snaps. There isn't a speck of ginger in
| them. The manufacturer couldn't afford
| to put ginger in them at the price Ca.
| yenne pepper is used to give them that
| sharp flavor" And the repentant grocer
paused to sell a customer two pounds OF
| Coffee that probably wasn't coffee at all
1t is said that the ex-Empress Eugene
has more godchildren than any other per.
son in the world they number, or rather
| did number, $500. OF course some are
now in the middle of life, but the ex-Em.
| press has an exact list of her charges
| and is said TO have set aside some sou,
venir or gift in money for each one nov
| living, says the Outlook. There NAV be-
J surprise that the empress was godmothe;
to so many persons. 1t came about in this
way: In 1856 Paris was awaiting the roar.
| ing of cannon, which was to announce the
who were then at the hight of their popu
| larity When the cannon shots begar
they were counted by the listening thronC
knew that the baby was boy. OF course
there was great joy at the event ana
| crowds about the palace found a placarG
posted at the gates with the following an