The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

chief dish at a state dinner recently given
by the Prince of Montenegro. 1t was
served smoking hot. Inside the boar was
turkey, and inside the turkey was a
snipe, which had been shot by the host.
1t is said that runaway horses are al
most unknown in Russia. No one drives
there without having a thin cord, with
running moose around the neck of the
animal. When the horse bolts the cord is
pulled, and the horse stops as soon as it
feels the pressure on its windpipe.
Artificial ears are made of a specially
prepared rubber. Flesh-colored in the
rough, they are painted by hand in exact
imitation of the remaining ear of the
unfortunate customer, and as carefully
touched and marked over as an artists
picture. The maker gets 800 apiece for
them.
Street cars can be ventilated by means
of a new device consisting of a rotary
fan. run by the motion of the car, placed
in the car roof, and connected with an e&-
haust fan placed in the end of a pipe, and
running to the interior of the car, the in
tention being to exhaust the foul air in
the upper part of the car, so that pure air
can enter from the outside.
The profits of the Coincide Franchise
for the year 1896 were $4,000 francs, of
which 1900 were put into the reserve fund.
The shares for the societaires entitled to
participate in the profits are 24O00 francs
each. The members complain that their
portions are smaller than they should
have been, on account of the large num-
Der of new members appointed-a greater
number than in any previous year.
About Jan. there always turns up for
redemption at the United States sub
treasury lot of mutilated money in bills
of small denominations, says the Spring
field Republican. From its regularity in
arriving at this season the employees have
called it holiday money" Since New
Years more than 5000 600 has come in,
most of it as the result of house cleaning
in the banks. The bills, in packages of
5000, are shipped to Washington and
there ground into paste and returned tc
circulation as statuettes of the Washing
ton monuments.
1t would take a. whole page, says the
st. Louis Republic, to catalogue all the
queer superstitions about the beard and
the curious laws that have been enacted
for it's protection. Russia had an old law
by which one who pulled but a single hair
from another's beard might be fined four
times as much as if he had cut off one of
believed that a beardless man would new
er be admitted to paradise, and the Rus
slams, although they profess to despise
everything Turkish, declare that mo
beardless son of Adam can ever enter
heaven"
Everybody, says the Washington Post,
who knows how Congressman Cannon of
Illinois, waves his hands in the air when
he talks, and how Brosius of Pennsyl-
vania fills the air with noise when he
makes a speech, will appreciate the follow
ing dialogue: Cannon-You make a good
speech, Brosius, but why don't you lower
your tones? 1 can hear you just as well
out in the lobby as I can in the House.
Brosius (sadly)-Yes, Cannon, 1 know it.
l do talk a little loudly, but when l get
excited L really have to let my voice out.
I cannot help it. Cannon Geprov-
ingly)-But Why don't you cult
Brosius (placing his hands on Cannons
shoulder and speaking deliberately)-Wen
to tell the truth, Cannon, l cannot lower
my voice any more than you can keep
your hands down when you talk. And
Cannon moved off in deep thought.
While unpacking a sample order of Chi
Navarro from Germany the other day
Frank c. Young, a Second street Phila-
delphia importer, discovered a blue en-
velope tucked away in a vase. On opening
it letter written in German was disclose
ed. Being an expert German scholar, Mr..
Young translated the mssive, which read
as follows: ITO whom it may concern:
My brother, Wilhelm Bletzner left Carls-
bad, Germany, two years ago for Amer
lea, where he intended to engage in the
china business. After a. short time his
correspondence abruptly ended, and after
that all our letters were returned I'M
claimed. I am packer in china house,
and have been placing these notes in every
order to America, in hopes that they might
be seen by my brother or some one that
knows him. Trusting that the person
who finds this will convey any information
which would aid me, L remain, very truly,
Cora Bletzner Carlsbad, Germany"
Some of the antiquities of this coun-
try, says the Philadelphia Record, which
find their way into museums are rivalled
in age by living creature at the Zoo.
1t is an alligator terrapin, or Mississippi
snapper, whose $50 pounds of substance
have been accumulated in a lifetime of
five centuries or more. At least, that is
what the scientists calculate, and they
say that there is no reason to doubt that
it was padding around as a little turtle
in the Mississippi when De Soto first
gazed upon that river. The giant terra
pin measures about five feet from snout
to tip of tail, and during it's residence of
seven or eight years at the Zoo it has
grown not a particle. 1t is too lazy to
move about much, and so nature has en-
dowed it with special facilities for catch
ing food. When hungry it lies in the
water with its mouth wide open, and the
bright little red tongue looks so much like
a worm that 1t serves as a bait to at
tract fish, on which the terrapin feeds.
Lexington CKy.) has citizen who
must be trying to beat the record of Baron
Munchausen as a prevaricator. His name
is Jerome q. Frazier, and here is a sam
pie of his soaring fancy taken from the
Lexington Argonaut: II am very fond of
domestic animals and fowls, and the pos
SCISSOR of fine intelligent fox terrier, who
answers to the name of Fanny. l attend
ed a sale some months ago and bought a
Poland duck. L brought her home and put
her among the other poultry in the yard
In few days l noticed that Fanny and
Miss Poland were on good terms with
each other, and in a few weeks they were
inseparable. Finally Miss Poland thought
she had loafed long enough and went to
setting. Fanny made regular visits to her
and seemed to take great interest in the
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