The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


NeVay to the medieval castle of Chiffon
one may ride in a trolley car propelled
by the power of an Insignificant little rill.
Few people have an idea how much it
costs to support the convict element in
Massachusetts. Each man at the state
prison entails an expense of 1857 her week.
The women at the reformatory come
cheaper, 1913 per week, but the BOYS at
Westboro are the most expensive, s4.I6 per
boy.
in medieval lines rhinoceros horns
were employed for drinking cups by royal
personages, the notion being that poison
put into them would show itself by bulb
bling. There may have been some truth
IN the idea, as many of the ancient poi
sons were acids, and they would decorn-
pose the horny material very quickly
A citizen of Brooklyn has the largest
known collection of bills of fare There
are over 1900 in the collection, embracing
everything from the cracked slate of a
mining camp dugout to the extended en-
treGe5 with which Queen Victoria fatten-
cd her subjects on jubilee day and the
car gorged his starving thousands
Proof money passes through an aston
ishing number of hands. When at the
bureau of engraving and printing it is
received as paper it is handled by five
dlnerent divisions, with eighty-one hands.
by them it is counted twenty times. and
before the treasury department gets it.
one month later just 101 persons have
done some work on the note.
Horses are valuable in Alaska. They
are driven up over the divide from the
Canadian plains, and then have to he
transported eight to sixteen miles by wa
ter. The freight on them for this distance
Is ~ cents pound, so that a 10OO-pound
morse gets TO be worth 81 a pound by the
tlme ne nears place where he can be
OF good service. A good strong dog is val
ued at SIS.
housewives in Norway and Sweden
have started scheme to encourage SER
wants to remain in their places. Mis-
tresses pay into a general fund what
ever they can afford for every servant
that has remained with them for twelve
months. The money is registered in the
servants name, so that when age over
taxes her, and she can no longer work.
she has comfortable annuity to fan
back on.
"A real active ghost is said to have
taken possession of a graveyard in
Michigan town. and its nightly vista
tons to the churchyard nearby are caus-
ing no small amount of excitement. 1t ap-
pears, so rumor has it. in the shape of
ball of fire. and cuts the ceciIian circle or
some other merry-go-round every night
between the hours of and II, rain or
shine Sleighloads of curious people from
various towns have visited the place, and
all sorts of speculation is rife as to what
the spectral body is, and property in thst
vicinity is already beginning to deprecidte
in value,
-Perfumed butter on the dinner table is
the latest fad of wealthy people in London.
The diaries where this butter is made are
as odorous as a florists shop or the lab
oratory of perfumer. In the first place,
the butter is made on small pats like those
in ordinary use. Each pat is wrapped in
Bit OF fine muslin and placed on a bed
of rose-ieaVes specially prepared in an
earthen jar. On top another layer of the
fresh and delicate rose-leaves is placed
before the jar is filled with a solid chunk
of ice. Then the jar is placed in a refrig-
orator and allowed to remain there for ten
hours, when the pats are ready for the Gus
toner.
The people of the gypsy tribe-and
everywhere your real gypsy is alike in
nature, thought and Observation-Disclosures
lieve that coin or shell or pebble car
ried by person becomes imbued with his
or her personality. For that reason the
Maria Theresa dollar is sought after by
Romany people throughout the world. In
all lands this piece of money is held in
high esteem for magical purposes. From
one to another the notion has been trans
ferred, and travellers and traders are
often puzzled to know why the gypsies
want this coin above all others. From
Russia to the Cape of Good Hope it is
the same story.
Very few people know the extent to
which the "crank" tries to make his in
fluence felt In national legislation. There
are people who seem to think of nothing
else but formulating bills to be presented
to congress and the legislatures. Some
times the wag tries his hand, knowing
that in the pressure of business his Joke
may bear full fruit. Senator Blair of
New Hampshire was a notorious victim
of the wag. Twice in one session was he
Victimized. In one case Mr.. Blair in
PRODUCED bill to enact a law causing
parallel lines to meet" and in another
law authorizing that thereafter 1.-The
foot rule shall measure ten inches in
length" Both bills were introduced and
referred before Mr.. Blair found out what
they really were.
History records, says Harper's Week
ly, that Capt. Robinson built and rugged
ketch. as they were then called, mast
ed and rugged it in a peculiar manner;
when launched the peculiar motion she
made as she glided into the water from
the stocks caused one of the bystanders
to exclaim, oh, how she scoonsr Robin
son instantly dashed a bottle of rum
against her bow and exclaimed, "A
schooner let her be- And thus the
schooner originated" This event happen
ed In 1913, and three years later mention
is made Of the employment of "scoon-
err" in the fisheries Off Cape Sable. Nova
Scotia. The invention of the schooner
was an important event to the New Eng
land fisheries, for its rig has been found,
after nearly two centuries of trial, well
adapted to fishing vessels employed in the
Western Atlantic. 1t has been materially
improved however, since It's adoption
and the lofty. yachtlike fishing clipper of
to-day bears little resemblance 10 its an
cient prototype, even though the rig re-
mains the same in principle.
The Sweating" of gold coin is rather
an unknown industry at the east, but on
the Pacific coast, where gold pieces form
the universal currency, it is common
enough 1t was introduced there nv the