The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A Paris woman has a papier mache
nose.
1t is strange that cities grow up with
out any system in naming their streets.
A Philadelphia board charged with bring
ing order out of the chaos has made l 80
changes in names of streets the past year.
Some quaint and curious toys, 1900
years old. were recently found in child's
grave in course of some excavations made
in an old Roman cemetery in Rheinhessen.
Germany. Most of them were made of
glass.
A man well up in dog lore counsels in
tending purchasers of a puppy to let the
mother of the puppy choose for them. In
carrying them back to their bed the first
the mother picks up will always be the
best.
The populist legislature of Nebraska
has repealed the bill passed two years ago
placing a premium on the destruction of
the russian thistle. The weed makes
fair fodder and does not spread as rapidly
as some of the farmers would like.
An indianapolis man, who was spoken
of as a respected citizen, made a wager
that if Mckinley was elected he would.
leave town for two years. He left, and
has just been arrested as a tramp in Mis-
souri, ana sem % jail for thirty days.
Anna Hadley. 20 years old, a pupil in
the Indiana State Deaf and Dumb Insti-
tute, recently inherited a fortune by the
death of grandmother, conditioned that
she learned to read and write. Owing to
the disadvantages of her early days Miss
Hadley is making slow progress, but she
no Loo "a 10 L.
sort OF way, and she purposes to persist
until she can fully comply with the terms
of the will.
The machines used by the government
for counting and tying postal cards IN
small bundles were made in Connecticut.
and the two are capable of counting 500
OGl cards in ten hours and wrapping and
tying the same in packages of twenty-five
each, says the New York Tribune. IN
this operation the paper is pulled off
drum ty two long fingers" which corle
up from below, ard another finger dips
into vat of rlucilage and applies Itself
to the wrapping-paper in exactly the rignt
spot. Other parts of the machine twine
the paper around the pack of cards, ami
then thumb presses over the spot
where the mucilage is, and the package
Is thrown upcE a carry belt ready for de,
livery.
1t is believed that the largest plant
in the world is the gigantic seaweed, the
nerescytis which frequently attains the
hight of 800 feet. The stem is as strong
as an ordinary rope and large quantities
are dried and used as such by people of
the South Sea islands. As soon as a plant
takes root pear shaped balloon is form
ed, which grows with the stem. This
balloon often has a diameter of six or
more feet. II keeps the stem growing
upward until soon it floats upon the sur
face of the water. The weed sometimes
grows in such quantities as to impede
navigation. The ropes are used for build
ing purposes and the balloons make ser
viceable vessels.
Sir Isaas Holden, the millionaire mem
Der of parliament from Yorkshire, now
nearly 80 years old, believes with John
Wesley that phosphates of lime, in which
-four is so rich, are good for growing chill
dren, young people, young mothers, but
shorten the life of the elderly by making
bones dense, and weighty muscles rigid,
Turing the large blood vessels like an
old boiler and Choking the capillary ar
teries.' SO he eats hardly any bread, his
favorite food being oranges, bananas and
meat When he eats the latter he eats
nothing else. Roast apples, with a tiny
pinch Of bicarbonate of soda, to correct
the acidity, and milk similarly treated,
are important items of his dietary.
The Washington Star quotes physi-
clan as follows: "A great majority of the
cures effected by drinking the waters of
the fashionable and questionable me-
Gicinal springs in various parts of the
country would have resulted if the same
amount of plain, wholesome, everyday
water was drunk by the people who rush
to these springs, and while there drink
from eight t. twenty large glasses of their
waters in 4 day. Whether there are any
medicinal virtues In the waters, this treat
ment does them good, on account of tho
extra washing out they give themselves,
and it is the water instead of the constit>
uency of the same that does the work
Tic same people, If at their homes, would
pass many and many day without drink
ing one glass of water. 1t is, in my opin-
ION. the waite" that cures, and it is water
that is needed
In speaking of the new municipal adj
ministration of Chicago. the Times Herald
says: Here is the way the new council
will start: "A gambler and saloon-keeper
for leader and chairman of the finance
committee; a saloon-keeper for chairman
of the committee on streets and alleys
south; a saloon-keeper for chairman of the
CoiIilllNee Oil HlIttlS anu dlleyS west a
saloon-keeper for chairman of the COM
mittee on elections; a saloon-keeper for
chairman of the committee on gas, oil and
electric light; a saloon-keeper for chair
man of the committee on license. There
is not another standing committee in the
council, except the committee on streets
and alleys north, that will pass upon an
ordinance granting a franchise and that
committee may have a saloon-keeper for
its chairman. The taxpayers can guess
how council organized in this way will
finish"
In the time of the sultan's predecessor
the seraglios buildings stretched along the
banks of the Bosphorus for mile and
half, and contained some 1000 persons, the
household order and arrangement being
much as they are at present, says the New
York Tribune. The sultan's mother, when
he has a mother. receives a servfle ODE
dence from all its Inmates; then comes
the Hasnadar Ousta, or mistress of the
treasury. generally a Shire wd old woman,
promoted from the ranks Of the servants
for her talent for housekeeping and gos-
sip. II the sultani Valide dies, the Has
nadar succeeds her. Under Abdul Meidid
the geranlio was long rl1tad nv "a mech