The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| ITEMS OF INTEREST.
| Speaking of the new subways, the Bos-
ton Transcript says: 1T is hard to realize
| that the street is overhead, and that the
| light and air that one enjoys are not the
| open air. Its peculiar diffusion, and the
| feeling that the light comes from all
| around one, as it does out-of-doors, is GER
tainly triumph Of lighting, or engineer
ing or something, and it's fine uniformity
| suggests wish that the air and light up
| in fremont street could always be al good
| One almost envies the ticket-takers, start
| ers and other imperturbable West End
| functtonaries who live down there. The
| pleasing effect recalls Bulwer's under.
| ground country in the Coming Race,
| where the world without a sun was
bright and warm as an Italian landscape
| at noon, but the air was less oppressive,
| the heat softer. "
Japan possesses a remarkable time
| piece. 1t is contained in a frame three
| feet wide and five feet long, representing
| MONDAY landscape. In the foreground
plum and cherry trees and rich plants
| appear in bloom; in the rear is seen
| HILL from which flows a cascade adj
| mirably initiated in crystal From this
point says the Pittsburg Dispatch
threadlike stream meanders, encircline
| finally losing itself in a stretch of wood
land. In miniature sky a golden sun
turns on silver wire, striking the hours
| on silver gongs as it passes Each hour
Is marked by creeping tortoise. A bird
OF exquisite plumage MARBLES at the
close of the hour. and as the song ceases
| mouse sallies forth from neighboring
grotto and, scampering over the hill to
the garden, is soon lost to view
Times, has written from the British Con-
sulate at Annoy the following letter to the
secretary of the Association of Chambers
| of Commerce: MY long residence in the
east has taught me that the Chinese and
| Koreans are very superstitious; they will
| often buy small articles like biscuits,
sweets, cosmetics, needles, thread, match
| es, soap, scent, medicines, ETC., for the
| sake of lucky label; and they will as
| often refrain from buying an article be-
| cause it has to them an unlucky label
The coioring of a label is as important as
| its design. Some colors and combinations
| of colors are to the Chinese and Korean
| mind unlucky; other colors, though not
unlucky, are considered only as APP
| propriate to certain commodities. !" This
letter was accompanied by a series of sug-
gested trade marks and labels, which the
consul believed would meet the tastes
and not offend the superstitions of the ma
| tives of China and Korea.
lon Tuesday says the Harrodsburg
Democrat, J. Hal Grimes caught musk
rat in the freight office at the depot Joe
Booth thought his pet coon could "do"
| the muskrat, and in order to see which
| was entitled to the belt the two were
| placed in a Slated box car, the coon be-
| ing favorte at SO to 81. They had hardly
| touched the floor before they had began
| feinting and sizing each other up. Fin
! ally the coon lit on to his opponent, forced
him to the corner, and it looked like he
| would be a square victor, and the odds
| jumped to S. to 81 in his favor. But in
| round No. the muskrat put on his fight
| ing clothes and no coon ever before got
| such a walloping. His childlike screams
| led a number of residents of the neigh
! berhood who didn't know what was going
! on, to believe that some mother was
whipping her baby at the depot. AT the
| first pass in the third set-to the coon ran
up the Stats to the top of the car and re-
| fused to fight, while the muskrat walked
| about the floor as if to say: Bring two
or three more just like him"
The fastest and longest run without
| stopping of any train in the world drawn
by an oil-fred engine, was that accom-
| plished last week by the Croner express.
| on the Great Eastern railway, says the
| London Engineer. This train covered
| distance of $50 miles in $50 minutes, or
! 1915 miles per hour which is a remarka-
| BILE performance for an oil engine and
| fully demonstrates the pracuca bility of
| that form of engine for long runs and
| quick service During part of this run
a distance of 1872 miles was made in 40
minutes, which is very nearly mile
minute. No equally fast train in the
world is worked with such ease to the
| ffremen as the Croner express and in
| proof of this statement 1t is only neces-
sary to say that the ordinary coal-fired
! engine would require the handling of some
two and half tons of coal on each trip.
| This engine is run with a usual train
| and its ability to handle the heaviest kind
of traffic is shown by the fact that at
| holiday times it has pulled as many as
| seventeen coaches at one time.
According to theosophy said DR. A.
| w. Coryn, according to the Essex Times.
the human will was a definite force, and
when strongly moved by desire 1t was
| able to accomplish visible results al
| though no apparent action had been TAX.
| en-. The desires of men were constantly
| affecting their outward circumstances, and
even II. as in the case of a man wish
| ing for wealth. no immediate result IL
| seen, the ultimate effect would be that
| in another earth life he would be born
amid wealthy surroundings. 1t always
| happened, however, that when the COW
| eted boon was obtained some unwelcome
| and unlooked-for circumstance accompan-
| led it, and so the wise man avoids definite
wishes about his future. recognizing his
| ignorance of what is really best for him
| and patiently accepting the destiny melted
| out to him by the just law. George Muller
| of Bristol supports a large institution for
| orphans by prayer. The venerable founder
| retires into his room, and mentally form
ulates his wish for definite sum of money
to meet a pressing engagement. Thoughts
were things, and once the idea strong
ly vitalized by his WILL passed out into
the ether, it fioated about until attracted
| to the congenial soil of the brain of some
wealthy philanthropist, who, ''struck by
the thought sends his check for the re-
| quired amount.
"A perfect face of delicate Jewish cast
was discovered in a small stone about as
large around as ten-cent piece found