The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Birmingham. England, turns out every
week 100000 600 cut nails, 10000 900 buttons,
40cO miles of wire of different size, five
tons of hairpins. 500 tons of nuts and 90
900 pairs of spectacles.
of the $50 stamps which have been is
sued the values have ranged from / cent
to 5000. Five dollars is the highest val
ne among postage stamps, but newspa-
per stamps reach the 500 mark, while
revenue stamp may represent 5000
of the candidates for the British army
who fail to pass the tests four out of five
are rejected because Of defective vision.
The ''eyesight' test consists of being able
to count correctly with both eyes, as well
as each eye separately, number of small
black dots exhibited on a card ten feet
from the candidate.
"A plant grows In Assam. the botani-
cal name of which is gymnema syivestre
and which has the peculiar property. when
cheWed, of temporarily neutralZing the
sense of taste as regards sweet and bitter
things, while sour and saline substances
remain unaltered. The Hindoos claim
that the plant Is an antldote to snake
bite.
Paris has, apart from two places where
paupers can spend the night. fourteen
asylums for the homeless, which last year
lodged 1A037 persons, of whom 10, 557 were
women and 2,606 children. Among the
dodgers were 246 professors and teachers,
Is students, authors, 5 Journalists, 120
actors and singers, 80 musicians and 16
music teachers.
There are 1,500 people upon the German
emperor's list of employees including $50
female servants, who are engaged in look
ng after the twenty-five royal palaces and
castles that belong to the crown. Their
wages are small. The women receive not
more than $12 month, and the men ser
wants, who number over 500, from SIS to
$25 month.
There are 10 mountains in Colorado
whose peaks are over 1900 feet above the
| ocean level Forty of these are higher
than 1900 feet, and more than half of
that number are so remote and rugged
that no one has dared to attempt to climb
them. Some of them are massed with
snow, others have glaciers over their ap-
proaches, and others are merely masses
of jagged rocks.
Perhaps not one of the songs of the mo-
ment will live, though the rising generation
ways, says the Philadelphia Ledger. Each
one of them is a kind of reminder of some
tune that went before it, and it will be the
| httest, the really most original and salient
| of the resembling tunes which will be the
| one to live. The succession of tunes re-
naming in anyone's recollection is like the
| succession of human acquaintances. Some
stand out boldly and inffaceably in the
memory, having something, either In their
| own quality or in our sympathy with them
| TO command our thoughts and hold our
sense; Others meaning not much tot us
| soon slip their mornings in our souls and
| drift out to the sea of oblivion. We take
! up friend, as we pick up a tune be-
| cause other people we known are taking
| him up, but in due time if he does not ac-
| cord with our own internal harmonies he
| is forgotten.
Long and constant experience with in
fectious diseases has developed in the resi-
| dents of Havana the unfortunate ability
| TO race any ordinary epidemic with COM
| posture, but even in that city there NAV
well be panic IL dredging operations are
| begun In the harbor, says the New York
| Times. This must be done if the floating
| dry dock just purchased in England is to
| enter and lie under the guns of the
| Cabanas' Since 1919, or for 37s years. a
| steady and ever increasing stream of filth
| and most of it is there to-day forming a
deep layer of sediment too horrible for de-
| scriptton. For years ships have not an
chored at Havana If they could possibly
help it, as disastrous effects are produced
| on the health of a crew when the bottom
is subjected even to this slight distur-
| bance. If large quantities of that dread
| full mud are brought above water and ex-
| posed to the tropic sun, the name of Ha-
| vana as place of human residence might
as we'll be erased from the maps.
| -Cartridge-shape shells, which open up
have been designed to facilitate the pack
ing of money by bank cashiers. saws the
! Boston Journal of Commerce. The shells
are made for any kind of money, different
| colors for the outer covering being used
| for gold, silver, nickel and copper re-
spectively. Sits in the sides permit the
| counting of the coins contained in the
package. When the two sides are held to-
gether, and the gummed cap of paper pro-
Jecting over one end is moistened 1t will
| close the cartridge, which will then con-
| tain the full amount marked on the out
| side. In the exchange of money from
bank to bank, such cartridges can be
! counted for full, for from the outside the
| number of coins contained therein is evil
dent, and for the contents of each pack
age the bank, the name of which is mem
toned on the outside, is responsible. These
| cartridges Will do away with the rolling
| of coins in paper packages which have to
| be opened each time they are inspected
| while with the new cartridge this can be
done wit hOut destrOViner the urranDar