The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

No one without a license is allowed to
Philadelphia The license costs nothing,
the idea being only to prevent irresponsi-
BILE persons from annoying those who may
not desire to be publicly photographed
The monument erected by the Chester
county Pa) Historical Society to mark
the site where Lafayette was wounded
at the battle of the Brandywine is incor-
rectly located, and the government con-
templates erecting a new and more endur-
ing shaft.
A Presbyterian of Toronto protests
against the use of amen in Presbyterian
worship on the ground that it is an Epis-
copal idea Whereupon an Anglican re-
marks that the Episcopaliaus must have
written the Bible, since the word is used
in that book.
An abandoned railroad tunnel run
ming for mile under the streets of Edin-
burgh has been used for some years as
mushroom farm. It turns out nearly $500
pounds of mushrooms a month, and has
put an end to the Importation of foreign
mushrooms into Edinburgh.
French railroad rules are strict. A bad
accident, in which several lives were lost,
took place on the line from Paris to Mar
settles recently When a lady, who es-
caped uninjured from the wreck applied
for her baggage the day after her arrival
in Paris, she was charged 10 centimes for
her delay.
Right in front of the entrance to the
office of Secretary Long in the navy de-
partment there is a model of the battle
-J,s CD in Ipnofh inclnGQ6 in
a glass case. II is perfect likeness of
the vessel as she appeared when she
went into commission, and her miniature
flag is now displayed at half mast.
"A rumor was started not long ago that
a sword factory at Chicopee, Mass, has
an order for several thousand swords to
be furnished the United States govern
ment Immediately. The real basis of this
war rumor was the fact that this COM
pany has been hurrying up an order for
few scabbards to be used by a secret So
ciety.-
A sect of star worshipers, numbering
only a few thousands, has been discov-
cred in the region of the Lower Euphrates
and Tigris The missionary who de-
scribes them says: Their religion is
compounded of Christian, heather and
Jewish elements; the language they speak
is entirely different from that of their
neighbors. They are a moral, peaceful
and industrious people,"
There is soon to be exhibited in Cleve-
land, o., remarkable collection of trans
lations of the Bible made by American
missionaries and published at the expense
of the American Bible Society. These
tTanslatons bear witness to the monu-
mental labOrs of patient and studious men.
A great number of them are in languages
the very names of which are almost I'M
known. Altogether about 200 versions of
the Bible or parts of it have been made
during the last sixty years.
"A petition has been presented TO the
Rhode Island legislature by a number of
clergymen requesting a reduction of the
fees for marriage licenses, which are
larger in that state than in neighborng
commonwealth. As a result of this con-
dition of affairs licenses are obtained and
marriages contracted by many thrifty
Rhode Islanders outside of the state, to
the detriment of the petitioners, whose in
comes have been greatly lessened in con-
sequence of the practice.
"A young Lawrence, Kan, doctor took
his best girl to the opera not long since.
The curtain was late in rising and the
young lady complained of feeling faint
The doctor smiled sweetly upon her, took
something out of his vest pocket and whis-
pered to her to keep "the tablet in her
mouth, but not to swallow it, She shyly
placed it on her tongue and rolled it over
and over, but it would not dissolve; she
felt better however So when the show
was over she slipped the tablet in her
glove, being curious to examine at home
this tasteless, indissoluble little substance
which had given her such relief in the
opera house. When alone in her room she
pulled off her glove and out came a.
pants button.
-Supt. Miller had heard that there was
a pepper plant in the collection in Horti-
cultural hall, in Fairmount Park, and
finally found it hidden from view by a
group of cacti, says the Philadelphia Iedg-
err This he said, lis the Piper nlgrum,
which furnishes us with that culinary req
uisite, the ordinary black and white pep
per. Few of those who now purchase il
for few cents per pound realize the enor-
nous value that was formerly set upon it,
and the very great influence which the de-
sire for regular and plentiful supplies of
it eXerted on the history of mankind -
Neither flower nor fruit is TO be seen on
the shrub in the conservatory, nor does il
appear to be in good condition "At home. -
DR.. Miller continued sit bears broadly
ovate five to seven nerved stalked leaves
In its native forests of Travancore and
Malabar, in India, it is a perennial climb
ing shrub, growing to a hight of twenty
or thirty feet. Both black and white pep
per are produced by the same plant, the
former being the unrlpe berry-like fruit.
and the latter the fully matured berries
when freed from the dark outer layer of
pericarp. THE word pepper is derived
from the Sanskrit name for
one variety of it, pippali,
the change of 4 into r. having been
made by the Persians, whose ancient al
phabet contained no t..
The chemical and toxic properties of
the poison of the honey bee have been
a subject for long study by a German sci
enlist. DR.. Joseph Zanger. During his in
vestigations DR.. Zanger employed 5000
bees. He found that the fresh poison is
clear, like water of an acid reaction, bitter
taste, and a fine aromatic odor. On evap-
Grating and drying at a temperature of leo
| degrees centigrade (212 degrees Fahren-
heiD a gummy residue is left. II is solu-
BILE in water; with alcohol 1t forms an
emulsion-like mixture. The aromatic odor
is due to a volatile substance which dis
appears on evaporation, and is not poison
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