The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-25
ITEMS of INTEREST.

mery went tenantless at $3.50 per acre,
now lease for 81 per acre for cultivation
of the sugar beet.
English women, as a rule, are taller
than their American sisters, and the
yankee ladies in their turn can look down
at the gentler sex in France.
Palermo, Sicily, has an average of
167 cloudless days a year, and sixty-two
of partial cloudy and partial sunshine,
which elsewhere would be classed as fine
| days.
The porter of the Paris bourse recently
died, leaving a fortune of $4,000 He had
been employed thirty years at salary
of $40 year. He evidently got rich on
tips.
The following death notice appeared
in the Edinburgh Weekly Magazine of
March ?, 1775: FEB. 12.-At New Reay, in
the county of Caithness, much regretted,
Francis TAFT, parochial school master
there, in the one hundred and second year
of his age, a man of an athletic form, OF a
saturnine complexion and his size about
foot. He lived chiefly upon vegetables. was
a favorite of the muses. and at times drank
freely He was no less distinguished for mis-
piety than for the good order he observed
in his school, for his easy method of teach
ing and for infusing into his pupils laud-
able spirit of emulation. He retained his
senses 70 the last"
"A consular report states that several
factories have been established in Ger
many for the purpose of manufacturing
a coffee substitute from cereals. The in
Vention relates to an improvement in pre-
pairing the same, which consists in apply
ing to the grain, during the sleeping pro-
al nj TO-
to the quantity and quality of the grain,
| whereby the proteid substances existing
in the grain are altered in such a man
ner that, i'll the subsequent wasting pro-
cess, only a small quantity of the pro-
ducts of decomposition las pyrdine ana
| its derivatives which are objectionable
to the taste) can be formed, a substitute
| pleasant to the taste being obtained I'm
| der this patent factories have also been
established in Austria, E'dnce. Italy and
sweden. Application has beer made for
a patent in the United Stl'as
A successful lynching took place on the
farm of Jerome Butler south of Marette,
Mich, the other day, says Grand Rapids
! Herald. In the barn a swallows nest was
! seen clinging to the side of BEAM from
| which was suspended an English spar
| row, hung by the neck with hair from
horses tail. While Franklin Butler and
|
they noticed a sparrow go into the SWal-
| lows nest, from which he began pitching
| the young birds. Three swallows attract
| ed by their cutlery, Immediately pounced
| upon the intruder. After combining him to
| the nest for a few minutes, they threw
| him out. He dropped about a foot, there
was a jerk, and Mr. Sparrow was hanged
as nicely as though an expert hangman
| had been in charge. The hair was wound
| around his neck several times, and after
a few Intellectual struggles, he kicked his
! last.
1T is generally thought that man
cannot live very long after getting a bullet
in his heart" said a South Carolinian to a
| Washington Star reporter, but there is
| an instance on record in my state of a man
! carrying a bullet in his heart for five
| weeks before death. The matter is fully
| authenticated, the pOst-mortem eXamina-
| ton having been made by DR.. Curren b.
| Earle, a nephew of the late United States
Senator Earle. The wounded man was
| named Tom Ferguson, and he was shot by
negro named Dock Chancey, at Green
| VILE S. c. Ferguson lived five weeks and
! at the postmortem examination a 32-cali-
! Der bullet was found firmly imbedded i'm
| the exterior wall of the heart. The cause
| of FergusOn's death was the nundation
! of the pericardial cavity, which impeded
| tllc dCNlOu VI lit HedIls WHICH III pam
| English means that the cavity surrounding
| the heart was punctured and flooded to
| such an extent that the heart was pre-
| vented from beating. This carrying a bull
| let in the heart is a rema bic case, but
| the physicians were not able to say, with
| out tedious research, whether it has like
| in the medical records OF not. A patient.
it is said, may live several days with a
| wounded heart, and a metaphorical wound,
| however severe, may not shorten his life
| at all, but the cases, if any, where one
| carried a bullet IN this sensitive organ so
long are few and far between
An engraving machine, said to be the
result of years of study and practical APP
plication, has recently been put upon the
market, and is, in its present form. an in
| valuable adjunct to the equipment of the
| progressive jeweler says the Cincinnati
Enquirer. With its aid the jeweer can,
after a few days Of practice, engrave an
initial letter on spoons, knives and forks,
mark silver novelties, engrsve monOgrams
| or special designs on glassware, engrave
coffin plates for the local undertakers.
| souvenir spoons and the thousand and one
other articles which he IS called upon to
| treat This latest model is "a happy COM
bination of simple elements, doing away
! with all belts, puleys or cams, and com
| prises chiefly a swinging vertical arm, 10
70
This, with the bracket which holds the
work, Is substantially all there Is to the
machine. BY very simple adjustment
| the graver can be set at any angle de-
sired, thus presenting a broad cutting sur
face and producing bright. fashy cuts.
This is feature found only in this ma
| chine, other machines having a vertical
! graver which can cut only on the point
and make thin, scratchy lines. Another
new feature that will specially commend
itself to the busy man is a scale placed on
the vertical arm, so that the machine can
be quickly changed TO make different sizes
! of letters from the same pattern of type.
| BY consulting the letter gauge which H.
sent with the outfit, showing he various
sizes. the machine can be set TO the de-
sired size in less than half a minute
Travelling from Finland TO Alaska
without speaking a word that any one
understood, without a single travelling
companion or without meeting a person
who knew him, from one end Of the Jour
ney TO the other, is no small undertaking.
! but Il has JUS been completed by an s.
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