The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

- SCSlSAJ NOAhth VI A1OW4tilB
Green, o.. led by the wife of prominent
state senator. have donned calico dresses
and begun work peeling tomatoes at three
cents bucketful. They do this to set an
example to many girls of the place who
need employment, but are too proud to
seek 1t in canning factory
THE Burmese" says a writer in the
Pail Mall Magazine, will sacrifice any
prospect of money making to go to a
feast. These are called pives, and often
the entertainments is elaborate 1 remem-
Der going to one in Upper Burma. There
was good deal of dancing, but neither
the host nor his guests danced; that would
have been undignified. The dancers were
paid, and they twirled lazily or jumped
excitediy as occasion required. Most of
the time, however, was spent in chatter
ana smoking Smoking is the only thing
at which the Burmese are Industrious
They start smoking at the early age of
3, and they smoke themselves into the
next word. Girls smoke quite as ardu-
ously as the men, and as the cigars are
very big, many pretty mouth is strained
to accommodate giant cheroot"
1t is curious, by the way, how the
| heat has diversely affected the interests
of various trades, says the Paris Messen-
| ger. While the cafe-keepers and fruit and
| vegetable merchants have been getting
rich, butchers and dealers in perishable
commodities have been suffering heavily
| AT the halles the fish and meat sales
| men have fallen into a terrible pessimism,
] ana many have declared that If the heat
| continues they will shut up rather than
| do business under the conditions imposed
| by the tropical heat Not merely does
| the consumption of fish and meat fall off
tremendously in hot weather. but the
| losses from putrefactiol are enormous
something of the extent of this loss may
| hER hrraeae nod
| Aug. no less than seventy tons of meat
| have been condemned by the sanitary in
| spectors to say nothing of 40 tons of
fish and 1,4O6 chickens.
In the Philippine Islands, under Span
ish rule, all males over q years of age
must pay a poll tax that equals about GA
| OF our money, and the women must pay
| e, says London Tit-Bits. A man must
| pay license 10 sell cocoanuts from his
! own trees or indigo of his own raising
| Every article of furniture that costs half
a sovereign is taxed. The curtain never
| goes up at the theater unless e. is paid
| to the government, and for every act of
saughtering his own animals, clipping
his own sheep, or telling his own trees,
the Philippine farmer must pay fee to
| the government. There Is exacted gov
eminent tribute for getting married and
for getting buried, and at every step and
turn of his life the tax collector holds out
his hand to him, and il is not a demand
| that can be refused. No wonder Spain
| wishes to keep a possession that yields
such return; no wonder also that the
last sixty years have developed seventeen
rebellions in the Philippines.
Twin babies with healthy appetites and
lusty lungs, but together weighing only
twenty-four ounces, have been born to Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Ormsby of Oakley ave-
nue., Chicago. Joseph and Josephine they
win be christened. Joseph weighs eleven
ounces and Josephine thirteen. A quart
measure makes a comfortable cradle for
the pair. Mrs. Ormsby, the proud mother
of the midgets, says the Tribune, can slip
her wedding ring over the arms of her
tiny progeny up to the shoulder. The
clothes which awaited their advent are I'M
used, and the babies are attired in dolls
clothing. The mother confidently expects
her wee son and heir to grow up into man
hoods full estate. and her tiny daughter
to develop into mature woman. The di-
nninutiyeness of the little strangers is not
unexpected to the mother, She says that
her mother when born was easily put into
a quart measure and that she herself
weighed but five pounds at birth. Her
brother is now SIX feet tall and she weighs
lao 2ounds.
An ingenious Frenchman has invented
a sleep-disturber which is warranted to
thoroughly rouse the heaviest sleeper. His
scheme utilizes clockwork and the phono-
graph Instead of the changing bell that
rings, stops and rings again, and finally
| becomes useless because one gets accus
toned to it, the Frenchman's scheme con
| templates calling a man in the morning
with all the force necessary to awaken
him and keep him awake by means of a
powerful photograph. Some of the new
| speaking clocks have been exhibited in Pa
rls. One is timed to shout at O'Clock in
the morning, Get up; it's 6 o'clock Don't
so TO sleep again" This can be repeated
until the sleeper is awakened, gets UP and
turns off the machinery. Other calls are
more emphatic; in fact there is no limit to
what can be said by the new clocks, for all
that is required is for one 10 talk any de-
sired message into the photograph cylin-
der and set the mechanism so that the vo-
cal pyrotechnics may be exploded at d
siven time.
"A curious feature about this evolution
in methods of hunting was the hesita-
ton with which gunpowder was taken
up by the great mobiles, says writer in
the Pail Mall Gazette. Not only did it
take quite a century to familiarize hunt
erS with it, but the evidence that has come
down to us shows that the humble classes
were the first to use il for shooting game
| Macmillan, ardent sportsman that he was,
tells US himself that he could shoot fur
Their and with greater accuracy with his
cross-bow than his keeper could with the
fre-tube. To prove this, he tells us the
well-known story of a certain channels
standing at a distance of 200 fathoms,
which, after being pronounced too far off
by his henchman, who was armed with
one of the first sporting firearms mention
ed in print, comes tumbling down, pierced
! at the first attempt by the Emperors bolt.
From other sources we learn of strict
measures being adopted to prevent poach-
ers and ''woodloafers' using firearms; and
| this a a ppFiO6 when nfiQCQS still used
| the cumbrous cross-bow and spear. 1t
: was only in the last quarter of the six
teenth century that firearms had ousted
other weapons for certain forms of the
chase, the deer-battue being among the
: latter
The ever-youthful appearance OF the
members of the dramatic profession is a
constant source of surprise to the public
at large, says the New York Ledger.