The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t is no uncommon thing for men to
quarrel about their lady loves, and even
fight duels about them, but it is not often
that women 20 out into the dueling field
to determine which one shall have the
| lover says an exchange. Such an affair
| has occurred, and right in America, at
| that. It was in the year 1917. Two ladies
| of South Carolina were the participants.
| The combat took place in an open field
| before a small number of acquaintance.
| among them the object of the rival af-
| fectons. 1t was stipulated that the vic
| tor should Immediately marry the man.
| The duel was concluded according to ar
| engagements. One of the ladies was severe
| ly wounded, while the victor carried off
her man to the church.
Thomas A. Beckett, the celebrated
Archbishop of Canterbury, whose career
presents one of the most remarkable cpl
sodes in history, was born on Tuesday,
Dec. p, III, or $50 years ago last Tuesday,
| says the Pittsburg Dispatch. There is
| nothing remarkable in that fact; but
| there is in the astonishing recurrence of
Tuesday as a day of the week on which
| important incidents in the life of the great
! ecclesiastic took place. The circumstances
| of the anniversary mentioned falling on a
| Tuesday this time recalls the fact. Not
| only was Pecket born on Tuesday. 1t
was Tuesday when he was baptized. 1t
was on a Tuesday that he took his flight
| from Northampton, and on Tuesday he
departed for France. On Tuesday he re-
| turned TO England; on Tuesday he had
| his vision of martyrdom, and on Tues
day his body was removed from the crypt
to the shrine which it was to occupy per-
manenCy.
In one day at the Battle Creek, Shasta
county, California. fish hatchery recently
4O3 female salmon We're caught from
whom 2Ol5,0OO (estimated) eggs were strip
ped, the largest one days take of spawn
ever made at any fishery. Robert Rad
| cliff, who has been constructing big dam
at the hatchery, is responsible for the fol-
lowing statement: '"The Battle Greek fish
cry will supply the whole United States
with salmon eggs for propagating purposes
this year Already there have been over
| 100000 taken 1t is the greatest salmon
! fishery in the world. Battle creek is a nat
! ural spawning ground for salmon. Where
il emptes into the Sacramento river both
the river and the creek are very deep.
! And right at the intersection the river
makes a big bend, and at q glance it would
| appear that Battle creek was a continual
! ton of the main river channel which l be-
! lieVe il was in prehistoric times. The water
of the creek is about 4 degrees warmer
than that of the river, which is an induce
ment for the fish who are anxious to
| spawn. Consequently ten fish go up Battle
| creek where one goes up the river. Al the
| fishery about 1900 fishes a day are caught
| OF this vast number about one-fourth are
| ready to spawn Those that are nos are
thrown back into the water. After the
eggs are taken from the females the fishes
are given away to the farmers, who come
with wagons from miles around to get
their winter supply.
The other day, says the Washington
correspondent of the Chicago Record,
told about an order of fifty-six locomotives
which had been received by the Baldwin
Company of Philadelphia from nine differ
ent foreign nations Now I learn that
the Rogers Company has received an or
der from the Chinese Government for
| eight locomotives within the last few
| weeks, the Brooks an order for twelve mo-
| gus for Japan the Porter works of Pitts
| burg for twenty-eight engines for Puerto
Rico, Haiti, Finland, Guatemala, Mexico
| and Venezuela. The Westinghouse peo-
pie of Pittsburg have recently received a
| contract for a complete electrical Nquip-
ment of Sydney, New South Wales. The
! A. & p. Roberts Company of Philadelphia
has just received a contract from the gov
| eminent of Holland for a bridge costing
| $474C00 over the River Issel, near Weste-
WORT; the Erie City iron works of Erie,
Pa, is now building several sets of engines
and boilers for the government of France,
| and the bridge works of Pottstown Pa,
are shipping two locomotive turntables to
lpKorea. A report from George Horton,
| the United States consul in Greece, an
nounces that the government there pro-
poses to purchase 10000 Oliver plows from
South Bend, Ind, to distribute among the
| Thessalian refugees in order they may re-
t1yrF no Quilt ixyatA ha Iav,
doned at the APPROACH of the Turks. Thes-
| sally was practically deserted and deYas-
| tated during the recent war and the in
! habitants are still burden upon the gov
| eminent. King George has committee
at work testing agricultural implements
on farm near Athens, with the expecta-
ton of supplying Thessalians with tools
| and sending them back to their former
| homes This committee has aScertaned
that American plows are much better than
those made in Germany, England or
France, but their cost is greater because
of the exorbtant profits demanded by the
| dealers. Consul Horton suggests that it
would be a good thing if American manu-
facturers of agricultural implements would
| send agents with samples Immediately in
| to Greece. He is also creditably inform
| ed that the Minister of War is intending
to rearm the entire military service, and
will soon be ready to purchase large
number of repeating rifles.
| Hand lace has a fascinating his
tory, says the London Woman's Home
Companion. Some have supposed that it
| originated in Egypt, the land that gave
birth to nearly all the arts; but search dill
! gently as you may, and you will never dis
| cover in mummys tomb, on sculptured or
| painted wall, or in any archaeological find
| whatever, the pictorial or actual remains
| n &c moi hon &c ,lo
! umentary evidence of its presence there.
| Gauzes and nets, fine muslins and exqui-
| site embroideries, fringes, knotted and
! plated, you may meet with frequently,
! but this fabric without foundation this
| ethereal textile, named by the Italians
| 'punto in aria" (stitch In air) you will
| never chance upon. Why? Because it did
| not exist before the fifteen century; be-
| cause il was invented by the European
woman, forming her contribution TO the
| Renaissance, and was unknown to the
orientals, who have even now no love for
! its pale perfection, and do not use it in