The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

scent their food for distance of forty
miles.
The elephant does not smell with his
trunk His olfactory nerves are contained
in single nostriI, which is in the roof of
the mouth, near the front
The wings of birds are not only to aid
locomotion in the air, but also on the
ground and water One bird even has
claws in the elbows" of its wings to aid
in climbing.
The war has had a very damaging
effect on the Belfast linen trade. Ship
ments to the states have shown a great
drop, trade with Spain is said to be hard
Iy worth mentioning, and the exports to
the foreign West Indies are down to $500
week against $500 last year.
The Kennebec journal prints a story
Of a witness who refused to tell the
amount of his gross income. Finally,
when the judge ordered him to answer
the question, he said You honor. l
have no gross income I'm fisherman
OF Machias Bay, and it's all net"
-Humming birds are domesticated by
placing in their cages a number of paper
flowers Of tubular form, containing a small
quantity of sugar and wafer, which must
birds partake and quickly become appar-
emily contented with their captivity.
Mr.. Kensit, the London bookseller who
started the new militant anti-ritualistic
campaign, was a choir boy in a ritualist
church at the age of 15 He then be
came firmly convinced that ritualstic SER
vices were no better than mere imita-
tons of Romanish services" and took to
street preaching.
Moscow Cathedral, next to st. Peters,
at Rome, is the costlest cathedral in the
world. On the exterior of the building alone
800 pounds of gold were used. OF its thir-
teen bells, the largest weighs half as much
again as Great Paul" in London, and the
doors of the cathedral, of which the larg-
est weighs thirteen tons, cost $4,000.
Last year Pennsylvania took the most
pennies-11 900, 900. New York came next
with a demand for 100000 and in New
Mexico, where the penny is little used, only
$40 were asked for. 1t Is estimated 100000
pennies year are lost in various ways
children put them on railway tracks to be
fattened, they roll down cracks in floors
and walks and manage to elude the vigi-
lance of their careless owners.
"A Mounet-Sully scandal Is exciting
Paris to the exclusion even of the Dreyfus
affair The tragedian is a member of the
jury to decide the yearly assignment of
prizes to the pupils of the Paris Conserva-
toire. AS his brother, Paul Mounet,
teaches one of the classes, the minister
Of public instruction suggested that it
would be better taste if NJ. Mounet-Sully
did not sit on the jury, and the tragedian
agreed with him. Unfortunately some
persons chose to look on the request as
an insult to man of Mounet-Sullys char
acter and the boulevardiers are QUARREL
ing over the question whether NJ Mounet-
Sully has been subjected to insult or not.
Rightly considered, a SPIDERS web is a
most curious, as well as a most beautiful,
thing. When we were children the ma
jority of us supposed that the SPIDERS web
was pulled out of its mouth, and that the
little insect had a large reel of the stuff
in his stomach, and that he could almost
instantly add feet, yards or rods to the
roll. The facts are that spiders have a
regular spinning machine-a set of tiny
tubes at the far end of the body-and that
the threads are nothing more nor less
than white. sticky fluid which hardens
as soon as it comes in contact with the
air. The spider does not really and truly
spin" but begins thread by pressing
his 'spinneret" against some object, to
which the liquid sticks. He then moves
away and by constantly ejecting the fluid
and allowing it to harden forms his ropes
or wonderful geometrlcal nets.
"A Washington paper notes the fact
that on July 20 a Virginia postofice was
named 'Hobson," which indicated a
proper regard for heroism. Pope county,
Arkansas on July % secured new post
office, which it called "Sigsbee,' show
ing that it remembered the Maine and her
commander. North Carolina came along
on July % with a postoffice in Randolph
county. which it called Dewey" and on
July 26 with a Sampson" postoffice, and
on the 18th Florida named a postofice for
Dewey and Kentucky secured one named
Manila" Just what idea controlled the
people of Woodruff county, Arkansas, in
asking to have an office named Fakes
does not appear. The favored name since
the victory of May in Manila harbor has
been Dewey" and it is expected at the
postofflce department that the popularity
of the admiral of the Asiatic station will
not be exhausted until something like ten
Dewey postoffices are named. When
that number has been reached it will be
up to the average. Very few public men
have named more than ten postoffices.
Every now and then a newspaper story
goes the rounds describing the immensely
choice and expensive cigars said to be
made to order for European crowned heads
and American millionaires, says the New
Orleans Tmes-Democrat. The cigars that
figure in these yarns cost from 50 to IS
apiece. and are made from the rarest cul-
lings of specially grown Geaf. A New Or
leans expert, thoroughly familiar with the
subject, pronounces all this a fairy tale.
"At $500 a thousand, dealers prices" he
remarked the other day, zone buys abso-
lutely the best cigar that can be made on
earth. The highest human skill and finest
imaginable material cannot possible pro-
duce anything worth more. All over that
figure goes for the style of packing and the
name. OF course there is no limit to what
may be lavished on the box, and the maxi
ers of a well known brand that sells for
81 900 are particular to specify fancy pack
age" in their catalogue. These goods are
very large and weigh forty pounds to the
thousand. For the standard size, l repeat
that $500 is the top limit" Apropos of high