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

suffrage was granted them. But they do
not yet receive equal salaries with men,
The owner of an ostrich farm at Ana
helm. Cal. is trying to break ostriches
70 drive in single. double and tandem
harness. HIS efforts are meeting with
a great measure Of success
What is believed to be the famous
shrine Of Mater Matuta, spoken of by
Livy. has been discovered at Casale di
Conca, Italy. The building belonged TO
the sixth century before Christ. The pedi-
ment OF this primitive temple was adorned
with splendid painted terra-cOtta statues
OF the Greek archaic type Here, too,
was the site of ancient Satricum. Sec
tons OF the walls of the city and the site
OF the. metropolis have also been found.
and further important discoveries are
looked for.
"A special from Tacoma, Wash, of
Monday says: 1T was Easter Sunday yes
terday on the Pacific slope, although nos
more than half dozen people knew it,
Those VINO did know il are ambitious
md that the first full moon after the
spring equinox put in an appearance on
TINS coast shortly after 10 O'Clock Satur-
day night, and it is a fact that the first
Sunday after the first full moon after the
spring equinox is Easter Sunday the WORLD
over. But in this peculiar case said TO be
the first instance of the kind since the be-
ginning of the Christian era, only this
part of the Pacific slope has its Easter
the world. When the moon filled Satur-
day night. reckoning by Pacific coas,
time, IL was already Sunday in New YORK
and London. Consequently for the cas-.
and the remainder of the world except
ing the Pacific coast, the first Sunday ar
ter the first full moon after the spring
day
Where do the pins go top is a COM
mon saying, but when one takes few
of ka s,,-4.
ton Where do all the tacks go top
seems to be the next in order says the
New York Ledger. The operator used a
wise and dies. A bit of metal was held
by clamp and the head was made BY
striking a blow with a hammer. Later
on machinery began to be used. and now
metal is red into an enormous apparatus
that viii cut out nearly three hundred
tacks a minute. The processes are ex-
tremely interesting, and a tack factory
mas many visitors. The machinery is au-
tomato; narrow strips of metal are fed
IN and clipped off; the heads are made by
pressure, and it literally rains tacks into
large boxes placed underneath to receive
them. They are then poured into a rat
tier which is rapidly revolving cylin-
der, through which jet of air is forced
under nigh pressure. This removes all
OF the dust and loose particles. Black
lead Is sometimes put in to give them a
polish, and then they pass on to the sif-
ter which sorts them and takes out the
imperfect tacks, leaving the good ones
to be passed on and dropped into a box
from which they are taken to be packed
by quick fingered girls A good work.
woman can pack 800 pounds of tacks in
day. When one realizes that many of
these machines are going, and that the
tacks at this rate are being sent out to
market, the wonder grows-where all the
tacks go to.
The shortest route from the old world
to the new is from Cape Verde to Brazil,
says the Geographical Journal Winds and
currents tend to carry ship across.
There is, therefore, an inherent probable
lty that a portuguese vessel should have
been driven on to the Brazilian coast. This
actually happened to Cabral in 1900 1t
might have happened at any time after
ships began to round Cape Verde. That
cape was first rounded in 1445. In 14iS a re-
markable map was made by Bianco, show
ing the most recent Portuguese discover
les. On II long stretch of coastline is
shown southwest from Cape Verde, with
an inscription saying that ii is authentic
and 1900 miles to the west. The only land
discovery must have been made between
l445 and 144S. 1t is recorded that an I'M
known island was found far to the west
IN l44I. On the first map dealing with the
Atlantic ocean after Bianco's map, a large
island is found in the position Indicated
by Bianco. The Portuguese had good rea-
son for not troubling much about such an
island, until the Papal Bull of 1893, with
It's line OF demarcation when their conduct
leading to the Tordesillas treaty of 1894 by
which the line was shifted so far that they
secured Brazil, seems to have been based
on knowledge of the existence of land in
the position of that country. Moreover
there is evidence to show that they pub
licly claimed the possession of such knowl-
edge. If the views here set forth are ten
able, the interesting and important result
| is obtained that America was discovered
by the Portuguese in or about the very
| year in which Columbus is believed to have
! been born. Without removing one iota
| from the real merit of Columbus, il would
add the browning laurel to the already
| great glory of that marvellous man, Prince
| Henry the Navigator who, 1t is pardona-
| BILE to remember, was half an Englishman
Queer scenes can be witnessed at this
season in the Hebrew quarter of the east
| side, says the New York correspondent
/ of Pittsburg Dispatch. A section of RiV-
/ lngton street is especially interesting. On
| Fridays, in preparation for the Sabbath
1 it is always crowded and busy thorough
/ fare. The sidewalks are bordered with
! push carts and thronged with purchasers
/ But in the Passover season, the charac ter
| of the wares changes. and tine throng in-
| creases so that one is jostled and squeezed
! on every side, and IL is difficult to make
! passage between the eager buyers and
/ sellers. Furniture plays an important part
1 in the Passover celebration, and the side
walks are Uttered with all sorts of new
/ and secondhand stuff. Here is a cart
filled with pots, pans and kettles; its neigh
/ Dor contains tin pals, cups and plates; an
/ other is laden with crockery and glass
ware. Other carts, presided over by VIC
/ men with yardstcks and tape measures
! hold gaily colored oil cloth, wall paper
/ LOT DOTueTS, ana gay STRIPS OF bunting for
decorative purposes. Many more contain
dried dates, prunes, figs. raisins and nuts
| which appear to be of good quality. Those
/ labeled fresh are decidedly off color
| yet they find ready purchasers. Many
vendors of horseradish and bitter herbs
/ go to swell the motley crowd of buyers
/ and sellers, who haggle over purchases in
/ way that is entertaining to sightseers.
/ Old women with strings of garlic around
their necks, and large baskets with can
| dies for sale for passover lights, elbow
| their way through the picturesque throng
/ number of peddlers are selling suspend
1 ers, presumably for those who cannot af-
| ford to buy new clothes, but must have
something new TO wear. The carts piled
| with copies of the "Hagadah" are less
crowded; probably most of the orthodox
are already supplied with these books
! of 1.-THE order" Similar scenes can be
witnessed on other streets in the quarter;
and amid the jostling, shouting bargain
1 ing and confusion it is difficult to realize
that it all means preparation for the great
/ symbolic feast, dignified by it's antiquity
1 pitiful and impressive by its tragic asso-