The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A scientist declares that the fine CON-
plexion of English girls is due to the fogs
which so frequently sweep over Albion.
Dampness seems to permeate the flesh and
keep the skin soft.
"A peer who becomes a bankrupt is
disqualified from sitting or voting in the
House Of Lords; a peer Scotland or Ire
land is by bankruptcy disqua flied from
representing his country
We wear away two inches of shoe
leather in year. A pair of boots that
would last a lifetime" would, consequent
y, nave TO be provided with soles from
eight to nine feet thick
AT Lille, France the police arrested
a few days ago an engineer and fireman.
who, it is believed, have been doing a
smuggling business on a large scale for
years from across the Belgian border
When arrested 10000 cigars and many
other dutiable articles We're found on their
engine.
Sarah Bernhardts Renaissance led
all the Paris theaters in receipts last year.
save three subsidized by the government
the Opera, Coincide Franchise and Opera
Comique. Her own season brought in l.
z4S6I4 francs, the Duse performances los
9o4 francs and the Dumas benefit 81 Az
francs.
Thirty years ago seventy employees of
the United States Senate were on the
payroll. To-day the number is 354. The
large increase is in proportion not only to
the size OF the Senate, but as we'll to the
increase In public business, due to the
enormous development of the country. Il
takes more employees to transact this
business.
-Matelotes and other stews, of which
rabbit is supposed to form a part, are
being Stunned by Parisians since the rab-
bits inoculated with miscellaneous disease
germs were stolen from the Aubervilliers
laboratory. The police say that they have
Traced the lost rabbits, and that all We're
eaten by the Aubervilliers people, who
as yet. have shown no bad effects.
On Hell Roarir g creek, forty miles east
of Perry, Okla, there is a settlement of a
religious sect who call themselves Homes
people. They oppose doctors and will not
allow medicine to be given to their sick
under any circumstances. Further, they
will not allow water on their persons
but anoint themselves with oil once a
week. The neighbors are asking that the
sect be quarantined.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has given his consent to the union of the
two great imperial libraries at Vienna.
the Hofbibliothek and the Kaiserliche Fa-
milien-Fidei-Comm BibEothek. The step
is taken in order to do away with the
purchase of duplicate books; but one re-
suit will be the throwing open to stu
dents of the private family library. which
hitherto has been reserved for the use of
members of the imperial household.
-Balliol, the most exclusive of oxford
colleges, has among it's undergraduates a
married Lancashire mill hand % years of
age, who worked his way into the uni
Versity by studying after factory hours
with the help of free libraries and uni
versity extension lectures. He passed his
Greek examination eighteen months after
learning the alphabet, and within six
weeks after admission to college won the
Brackenbury history scholarship, worth
500 year for four years. He is trying
for an honor degree in history.
English judges are showing disin-
clination to enforce the Sunday laws on
the statute books. A person named Will
Jams brought suit against the Times for
advertising a Sunday concert contrary to
the act of 1871. In court he declined to
take oath on the ground that he had no
ed to the law himself. The judge squirm-
ed out of the difficulty by ruling that the
statute had not been violated inasmuch
as admission" to the concert was free,
although the seats had to be paid for.
The most ingenious scheme ever devils
ed by the yankee mind was that of man
who wished to claim as exclusively his
plan for fattening hogs by a wonderful
method says the Philadelphia Times. The
plan was this: Three pigpens were built,
one having several lean scrub swine,
known as razor backs" the central one
being empty and the third one containing
the blooded animal which it was desired
to fatten. The scheme was to let the fine
pig into the central yard and let him eat
all he could out of the trough. When he
had as much as he could hold a hungry
pig would be let in, and, of course, begin
to eat 1t being a pigs nature to eat as
long as it saw another pig do so, the man
reasoned that the full pig would imme-
diately set to work again and take anoth-
er meal. When the razor-back was full he
was to be taken out and a third hungry
pig brought in, when the same perform
ance would be gone through again.
German journalism does not often
awaken suspicious of intended humor, but
Munich paper gives an account of a
newly formed London society, behind
which one can fancy huge Teutonic grin.
The society alluded to is said to be Ma
tional Club for the Propagation of Cats"
and the reason why the peaceful domestic
feline is suddenly becoming SO valuable as
to merit "propagating" is, we are told
that it has dawned upon the promoters of
the club, that the cat, possessing, as it
does, great latent electricity, is, or will be-
an excellent generator or condensation of
electricity, which may be of great value
to sufferers from homeopathic and neuras-
thenic disorders" Just how these novel
genera tors or condensators' are to be
made use of is not divulged, but the pro-
ject appears pregnant with interesting pos
sibilities from cats worn after the fashion
of porous plasters to massage with live
cats. Whatever may be intended to be
done with them it is probable that the I'M
fortunate beasts will direly need every one
of the nine lives with which they are said
to be endowed.
"A special bulletin has been issued by
the agricultural department at Washing
ton on diseases of the Bermuda or Easter
lily, which is of much interest to the
florists of the country says the Spring