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


"A New England woman has had the
temerity to declare in Boston. that self
satisfied center of advanced ideas, that the
new woman is a freak. and ought to be
ridculed out of existence.
In Wauneta, a little town in Kansas,
there is a doctor who is proprietor of the
drug store. justice of the peace and con-
stable. He sells the boys liquor. and then
arrests and fines them for drunkenness.
One day recently he had three of the five
voters of the town in his court at the same
time.
"A farmer of Clare county, Michigan,
says the New York Sun, has found that
he can increase the egg-iaying abilities of
his hens by feeding to them old newspa-
pers torn to bits and soaked in sour milk
until the whole becomes a pulp. The hens,
it is said, like the new food and the inven-
tor expects to see almost any day one of
the freak papers come out with the picture
of hen that sets type.
The King of Sweden enjoys the envi-
able distinction of being the tallest and
handsomest monarch in Europe, says Tit
Bits. His majesty is simply adored by
the Swedes who frequently find them
selves brought into closer and more famil-
lar relations with him than is usual be-
tween subjects and their sovereign. AS an
instance of the kings determination to be
a good father to his people, his majesty
is lat home,' in his palace at Stockholm.
every other Tuesday afternoon, to such of
his subjects as care to come and see him.
The only formality consists in the visitor
sending up his card, whereupon he is inn
mediately ushered into the royal presence
and received with a simplicity and friend
illness which entirely do away with nerv-
BUSINESS.
The American Bible Society has re-
ceived the annual report of it's agent In
Siam, the Rev. John Darlington of Bang
kok, says the New York Tribune lie
says that the translation of the Book or
Ecclesiastes out of the Hebrew into the
Siamese language has been made, and an
edition of 1000 has been printed. He ana
his son have made seven tours during the
year, reaching seventeen provinces, five
of which they worked over twice. IN
part of the field people said that no mis-
Sionary selling books had ever reached
their place. Fifteen or sixteen towns on
the Gulf of Siam had never been visited
by missionaries before. The Bible Soci-
ety's books have entered gambling houses,
opium dens. distilleries, markets, stores,
workshops. barber shops, various boats.
floating houses, saw mills, rice mills,
Buddhist temples, homes of the poor and
well-to-do high and low, wayside places,
farms and gulf towns.
-Conquerors rarely stay long in their
tombs says the New York Tribune. That
of Alexander was early untenanted; Cae-
sar never had one, being buried in the
Forum, no urn bringing down his ashes
20 posterity. Mahmound of Ghezni found
no enduring sepulchre upon his fortress
rock. Whether Attila sleeps yet under
Al a. II -.
give him entombment is question ad-
hitting of no historic certffication. Even
the pyramid could not hold its occupant,
nor preserve the memory of the big wars
which made his ambition virtue. They
are all transitory tenants of their mortu
airy habitations, some holding a longer
lease than others, but all finally evicted.
Grants imposing and massive temple of
memory promises to enshrine his relics
for long ages. Unscarred it may be un-
der the drums and tramplings of many
conquests, but when he has been buried
as long as Sesostris or Hezekiah, who
cast a bank against Jerusalem, or Sem
nacherib whose sons "smote him between
the altar Stones it may be that the trav-
eler from the antipodes will seek the relics
and their resting place in vain. But he
will find the river, the sparkle of crea-
tion's dawn upon its wave, though it
flows through reeds and ruins, and will
be worth coming long way to see.
Two sailing vessels have recently
reached the Pacific coast with stories
about encountering flocks of humming
birds while far out at sea, says the New
York Times. A deep-water captain now
at Portland, Ore, says this is no uncom-
mon experience. He may be quite truth
full in the assertion, but it is a pity that
in bolstering up the yarns of his brother
captain he was moved to explain the phe-
nomenon by saying that "humming birds,
in returning to this coast from their win
ter migration to Asia, often get tired, and
come aboard ships to rest" If this is so,
all the bird books are wrong, for, accord
ing to them, the Trochilidae find the
stretch of country between British Co
lumbia and Patagonia quite large enough,
and, like the good Americans they are, do
all their searching for a change of scene
and climate within the limits of the New
World. This makes one heave a sigh at
the probable ultimate fate of a man who
Ike this same captain, says that once his
ship, when half way between Tahiti and
San Francisco, was literally smothered
under a vast cloud of humming birds,
which settled down on it in an exhausted
condition, and covered everything so that
the men could not walk the deck or pull a
rope without killing lots of them The
sailors made potpies of them till they were
tired of such fare, and they saved enough
of the feathers to make feather beds for
all on board. One of the men saved
enough of the red patches under the throat
of the birds to make him a waistcoat.
which. when he reached England, he sold
to the British Museum for a large sum
Such stories as that will excite the savage
jealousy and just resentment of fishermen,
for they are clear infringement upon an
cient franchises which should be as much
Of monopoly in Oregon as elsewhere.
1t is mistake to suppose that the
vision is impaired by reading of itself:
the mischief is caused by reading under
improper conditions. says the New York
Commercial Advertiser Many people
with naturally strong sight ruin their eyes
before they are aware of il by the viola.
ton of a few simple rules. All persons
and especially those whose eyes are not
strong should avoid books and papers
poorly printed, particularly those having
a blurred appearance, reading with insuf-
hcient light or with the light falling d.
rectly upon the eyes. reading with the
head bent over and the book IN the Ian
or in any position in which the muscles
OF the eyes are strained and reading fta-