The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


tiles in Great Britain each week.
Edward Atkinson, the economist says
that 80 per cent. Of the business of the
country is of such nature that it must be
done whether the times are good or bad.
The Key Monument Association of
Frederick, Nd, now has total of $S,6S9.97
toward $4,000 required to place a suitable
monument over the grave of the author
of The Star Spangled Banner"
For seven years the st. Lawrence river
gradually decreases in depth; then for
seven years 1t gradually increases in
depth, the difference in level being about
five feet. Why 1t does so no one has yet
discovered.
One Of the reasons why the army of
no other nation is clothed in scarlet in
the same way as the British is that ma
terial of this particular color can be
manufactured only in England. The wa
ter of the west of England lends itself to
the dyeing of this cloth as no other water
does.
Women interfered with the removal of
the parish priest at Santa Marina, in the
Abuzzi, recently, so that the carabineers
killed, several others wounded, but FIN
ally the priest was literally dragged from
their midst" and escorted to his new
parish.
There are 5000 children attending
private schools and 10000 attending public
schools in New York city. There will
soon be room for 49, 900 more in the pub
lie schools This will make a total of
24S 900 attending the schools, but there
are $4,000 more who are of school age, but
not going to school.
-Frenchmen consume more alcohol
than any other Europeans, according to
figures put before the Basil Congress for
Alcoholism In the computation the
amount of alcohol in light wines and beer
is included. The average annual con-
sumption Of alcohol per head of popula-
ton is 13 quarts in France, 10 in Switzer-
land, Belgium and Italy, in Germany
and England, in Sweden, 8 in Norway
and in Canada.
The corpse plant is the name of a re-
markable carnivorous specimen that
grows in the colony of Natal. It's princi-
pal feature is a bell-shaped throat open
ing into a hollow stem. 1t is almost
black and covered with a thick glutin-
Gus secretion, while it's odor is very Of
birds to it. and once they alight on it
they are lost. Their claws become en-
tangled in the secretion, the bell-shape
mouth folds up, and they are literally
swallowed.
The smallest passenger railway ever
built has just been opened on the Isle of
Man, at Groude not far from Douglas,
says an exchange It Is just one mile long,
and the gauge is only twenty-four inches.
The railway has been constructed for the
conveyance of passengers from the en-
trance of Groudel Glen to the seashore.
The engine is very small indeed, but pow
erful and well made, with telescope
tubular boiler. The open cars are strong
ly built of pitch pine and oak. They carry
ten passengers each.
1t has recently been discovered that
sparrows have particular dislike to GER
tain colors, such as purple and blue, says
the Hartford Times. a naturalist states
that some Gagged sparrows he had would
not touch their food if he put strips of
blue paper upon it; that they manifested
a discourteous dislike to ladies who came
into the room wearing blue dresses, and
that several of them were cured of the
vice of pecking at certain part of a wall
they had access to by pasting a piece OF
blue paper over it. AS sparrows are
grain-consuming birds, here is a sugges-
ton for farmers.
A parliament in which the discussions
are carried on in three different languages
is probably unique, says the Hartford
Times. The country where this singular
fact occurs is Switzerland. The languages
spoken by the members are French, Ital-
ian and German, Italian, true, is not as
often employed as the other two, the mem
bers for Tessin "a. canton in the south)
very often delivering their speeches in
French AS almost every educated Swiss
speaks French and German, members are
therefore able to understand each others
speeches, although spoken in a different
language to their own. 1t often happens
that when a French-speaking member
wishes to make a stronger impression on
the German-speaking part of the house,
he delivers his speech in German, and vice
versa.
The freight trains on the Pennsylvania
railroad have carried many a strange as
sortment of "hoboes" through this city
since the inauguration of the ball-and-
chain ordinance, but to-day there was a
combination that broke the record, says
the Railway correspondence Of the New
York Tribune. A freight train bound east
stopped at the water tanks near East
Railway this afternoon, and, fearful of
arrest, a squad of forty-three tramps
poured out of the box cars and made
tracks for the woods on the city limits
Special officer Giese was watching the
Migrants when he was surprised to see
two of the "hoboes" lift bicycles out of
the car, and rushing to Scott avenue
mount them and make a hasty exit from
the city toward Elizabeth. Tramps on BIZ
cycles are entirely new, even for this sec
tion where they are seen in all varieties
shapes and colors.
Eleven feet is the length of the hair
of Nancy GARRISON, a negro woman, who
lives near Holly Springs, Miss, says the
New York Journal. No other negress in
the world who has ever been heard of has
such hair. Until 1878 Nancy had the usual
short, kinky hair of her race. But in
that year. after having suffered severely
from yellow fever as soon as she became
convalescent, her hair began to grow rap
idly. In years time it grew from three
inches to three feet in length, thickening
as it grew. A few years later and the
crispy mass of hair fell below her knees.
About that time a change of color took
place, and her jetty locks turned white
as snow, and so remained until about two
years ago. Since then the hair has grad
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