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

ready the possessor of two OF these treas
ures.
The effort to popnlarize the gondola
on the Thames has not proved very sue
cessful. The surroundings. are for prac-
teal, and the gondoliers are said to be
too prosaic and too painfully clean to pre-
serve the air of romance Favored with
garlic.
Kansas and Missouri are rejoicing in
big apple crops, while everywhere else in
the union the fruit seems to be scarce.
small and of rather poor qualify. New
York buyers are reported to be swarming
in the two states buying up all the apples
in sight.
The Ohio penitentiary authorities and
state officials are seriously planning
scheme to have criminals carried by ex-
press companies in steel wire cages as
express matter, thus doing away with the
extra expense attached in sending deputies
and the annoyances connected with it,
In the house of deaf mute brother
and sister, William and Julia Barnes, who
have lived alone on a farm near Column
bus, Mo-, an investigating committee of
neighbors found, after the death of the
brother at n years, n oney TO the amount
Though the proposal to dissolve the
Richard Wagner Association was voted
down at Bayreuth, the statement was
made that a thousand members had drop
ped out during the year, the present men,
bership being BIAS. The annual dues for
each member will be reduced to 50 cents.
Aluminium neckties are on sale in Lon
don. They are fastened to the collar but
ton by a band round the neck, and ars
particularly recommended for summer
wear, since they can be easily cleaned
when soiled, while they are not percep-
tibly heavier than cotton, cambria or silk
An odd experiment in the line of a
trolly has been successfully tried at
Greenwich Conn, says an exchange AS
a result, the people there are able to ride
in a trolley stage coach that needs no rails
fol its operation. The wires are at one
side instead of being overhead. The
coach can be turned around or moved in
any direction without interfering in the
least with the ordinary traffic of the
highway. Certain property owners would
not permit the operation of a regulation
trolley over a road and this trolley stage
coach was devised as means of overcom-
ing their objections.
The shortest railway line in Great
Britain is the Brighton Dyke Steep Grade
railway, which was opened recently, adj
ding a new feature to the attractions of
Devils Dyke, says the New York Trib-
une. The Dyke, which is a favorite re-
sort of the Brightonians, is a great but
remarkably regular chasm on the South
Downs, started about six miles to the
northwest of Brighton. The view from
the table land, nearly seven hundred feet
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is one of the finest panoramic views OBJ
tainable in the country. The new line
which descends direct from the top of the
hill to a point about a quarter of a mile
distant from the village of Poynings in
the plain below is only $40 feet in length
The conduct of his highness the Sultan
of Johore, as displayed in public places in
Singapore, has for some considerable time
been the subject of general comment, says
an exchange To be intoxicated and riot
Gus, to assault harmless natives, and to
commit acts of violence, knowing full well
that the law is powerless to interfere is
not BETTING sovereign prince. 1t is
calculated to bring that prince into pub
lie contumely. To choose acquaintance
from among stable boys, to ignore the out
ward evidences of high rank, to frequent
places that are not generally considered
to be desirable resorts, and to braWi in
public places with not over-respectable
Europeans, are reasons sufficient for peo-
pie objecting generally to the way his
hignness elects to behave
"A pack of cards was recently sold at a
London stationer's for 5000, says the Phil
adelphia Record. 1t was one of the hand
soonest Italian copper-pIate card games
called 'tarocchi di Montegna," made dur
ing the fifteenth century. Another pack
of cards recently sold at Paris for almost
$400. Each of the cards in this pack is a
masterwork of the engravers art, and all
the figures in the game were historical
portraits. The queen of hearts for in
stance, represented Queen Anne of Eng
land; the king of hearts being her hus-
band, Prince George of Denmark The
queen of diamonds was Queen Anne So
phia of Denmark, the queen of clubs the
then Crown Princess of Prussia, the wife
of Frederick William 1, and the queen of
spades, Princess Anna of Russia, later on
the czarina. The Jacks in this deck of
cards represent the most prominent dip
lomats of Europe at the same time.
Considerable misconception prevails as
to the manner in which the ostrich runs,
says the New York Mail and Express. 1t
seems to be still generally held that when
running it spreads out its wings and, aid
ed Dy them, SKINS lightly over the
ground. This Is not correct. When a
bird really settles itself to run it holds
its head lower than usual and little
forward, with deep loop in the neck
The neck vibrates sinuously, but the head
remains steady, thus enabling the bird,
even at top speed, TO look around with
mistaken glance in any direction. The
wings lie along the sides about on a level
with or little higher than the back, and
are held loosely. just free of the plunging
thigh" There is no attempt to hold them
extended or to derive any assistance from
them as organs of flight When an os-
trich after a hard run, is very tired, its
wings sometimes drooD. This is due to
exhaustion. They are never, by running
bird eXerting itself to the utmost, held
out away from the sides to tighten its
weight or to increase its pace. But the
wings appear to be of great service in
turning, enabling the bird TO double alb
ruptly, even when going at top speed.
The president of the Northeast Elec-
trio street railway of Kansas City intends
that the conductors on that road shall
use fare boxes in collecting fares instead
of pocketing them and ringing them up