The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-13
ITEMS INTEREST.

"A novel means OF defense mas been
tried az the town Of Holguin. Cuba. As
proof against a sudden onslaught that
Town has been surrounded BY thousands
Of yards Of barbed wire.
Mr.. GoslIng. a well known London
banker. who died recently, left S4.5O0,O0O
70 be divided among seven sons and seven
daughters. He was himself one OF twelve
children, and represented the fifth gen
Grafton of bankers of his name
The olive has been grated on juni-
per, apples on-plums, a rose on an orange,
peaches on myrtles. and mulberries and
red and white grapes with peaches and
apricOts on the same STEM for, as the
buds are distinct, the stem furnishes nu-
triment for all
A Buluwayo South Africa paper re-
Gently contained the following news item:
IN consequence of the local baker de-
parting suddenly from our midst, regret
ted by all his friends, except his creditors,
Buluwayo has been without bread the
greater part Of the week"
The oldest postmaster in New England,
in point of continuous service. is believed
TO be Samuel S. Fuller of Mansfield, Conn
He has been postmaster at that place
during the last forty-five years. He is a
democrat, but his place has never been
threatened by political considerations.
Among the Sultan's possessions there
is a toilet table. the top of which is
made of lapis Iazuli. and the feet of
which are claw shaped, the claws being
made of diamonds, emeTalds, rubies and
carbuncles. Big diamonds hang down
from the top of the table. and along the
edge. of it there is a deep fringe of dia-
mOnds.
An immense log boom, claimed to be
the largest single boom in the world, was
finished on the Menominee river, Mich, a
few days ago. II is ten miles long, and
is stretched along the main channel of the
river TO prevent logs from going adrift
INTO the rats this spring, when the big
annual drive. which will this year COM
prise several hundred million feet of logs,
comes down the river.
Sir William Thomson has recently been
making experiments to discover what the
effect Of a canonade of quick-fring guns
would be on board the vessel firing and
the ship subject to the fire. He finds
that after fifteen minutes firing the sur
Vivors of the crews of both vessels would
be reduced to a state of mental if not
physical lncapacity, owing TO the concus
sion of the projectiles on the sides of the
vessel and the noise of the guns.
The town of Wenatchee. Wash, is to
be moved two miles from its present loca-
ton to a point on the bank of a river.
1t is pretty fair-sized town, too All
the buildings will be moved the usual
way TO the new location. There is not
an adequate supply of water where the
town now stands, and in addition the
citizens are incensed at the avarice of
owners of the present town site who have
fixed the price of property at very high
figure.
The mileage of the blood circulation
reveals astounding facts. Says the Chi
cago News: 1t has been calculated that.
assuming the heart to beat 60 times
minute at ordinary heart pressure, the
blood goes at the rate of POI yards in a
minute, or seven miles an hour, 16S miles
a day and 81, 800 miles a year. If a man
"a years OF age could have had one SIM
gle blood corpuscle floating in his blood
all his life it would have travelled in
that time $4,000 miles.
Eggs are now imported into Great
Britain from Russia, shelled, beaten up
and preserved in Theoretically sealed tins,
from which they are drawn off through a
tap. Eggs in this condition are principally
used by pastry cooks. and the advantages
claimed for the system are freedom from
damage in transportation and long-keep-
ing qualities. The tin or drum is packed
with straw in a wooden case and holds
the contents of 100J to 1850 eggs. the white
ana yolk being mixed together, poured
into the drum and the aperture closed with
bung and sealed.
"A burying round belonging to the late
stone age has recently been discovered
near Worms. Up to the present about
seventy graves have been examined, but
found Arm-rings of blue and gray slate
were buried with the bodies. In hardly
a single case was there missing from the
Women's graves the primitive corn-mfll
consisting of two stones the grinding
stone and the grain crusher. The mems
graves contained weapons and imple-
ments, all of stone, with whetstones and
homes for sharpening purposes. They con-
slst OF perforated hammers, sharpened
hatchets, axes and chisels, as well as
knives and scrapers of flint.
"A new animal has been discovered in
Australia, small MOLE but it seems to
belong to some remote period. 1t resembles
the kangaroo, as the female has small
pouch in which to carry its young. 1t is in
color pale gray with silvery and golden
tints. Its face is the odd part; it is simply
horny plate crossed by dividing line
and having two holes where there is no
nose The mouth is beneath this plate
There are no eyes. 1t has forty teeth. 1t
uses its forefeet with such rapidity that if
once lost in the sand it digs it's way
through with such rapidity 1t can never
again be found. No tunnel marks its pas
sage as with its hind feet it covers its
tracks as rapidly as they are made.
-"Deliver u.s. says the Boston Traveller.
from the New Workers. use of the letter
r, as it occurs in church. FIRST bird
or as it appears when they pronounce the
words Cuba or banana. The New Yorker
speaks of his 'chuich,' tells how he was
rust, loves the pretty buds and be-
HeNeS IN the cause OF 'Cuber.' We must
concede that we are bit off in few words
grass being one of them. The New York.
er pronounces grass as it is spelled the
Bostonian drawls it out as 'grarse.' For
all our shortcomings there is less slur-
ring in our pronunciation than anv other
city, and it is a well known fact among
our English cousins of the better sort
that Bostonians speak cleaner English
than citizens from any other ely of the
union"
The life of the lone saloon keeper in
the far west seems to be not entirely
barren of interesting incident, SAYS the
New York Sun. Meyers Falls. Wash.
hS/ but one saloon. Last week an In
dian came to town and got very drunk
and much wrought up, and broke the
peace very badly. The town is without
Jail, and the citizens were in a dilemma
as to what to do with the red man. Final
~ they decided that the saloon keeper.
being responsible for the Indians condi-
tion, must also be responsible for his do
ings. The saloon man locked up his store
and led the Indian mile or two outside
the city limits on the way to his wig
wan. An hour or two later the Indian
returned, and only consented to go home
when the saloon keeper had given him
his overcoat to keep him warm on his
trip across the prairie. In the early
hours of morning the Indian came back