The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the daughter OF a reigning Prince were
among the 1000 thieves professional and
unprOfessional arrested in Paris during
the last twelve months.
One of the most novel and radical de-
partures from ordinary methods of intro
ducing new improvements in railway man
agement is the formal announcement by an
electric headlight company that it is ready
to guarantee railroad companies from any
loss from head-on collisions occurring al
night where the locomotives
are equipped with our headlights
The ingenuity of the counterfeiters now
appears TO be chiefly devoted to the turn
ing out of bogus copper and nickel coins,
rather than those of larger denomination.
According to the report of the United
States treasurer for the last fiscal year,
no less than 1926 pieces of this character
were detected last year, and they circu-
lated chiefly in Boston, New York and
Philadelphia.
The Lucerne Vaterland thus de-
scribes the dietary of the peasant laborers
of that region, no lack of abundance or
variety appearing in the rustic menu: At
4 o'clock in the morning the laborer arises
and takes first a glass of schnapps or
wine with eggs and bacon; a he has the
first breakfast of bread, butter, milk, cof-
fee, and something TO go with il, some
times soup; at comes the znuni, bread,
cheese, cider or coffee; at 10 a second
znuni, cider and bread. Between II and
he eats his dinner, consisting of soup, two
kinds of vegetables, meat, sometimes two
kinds, cider and bread; at he has milk
and coffee with bread and butter; at 5,
what he Gals "zifunfe' IS o'clock tea"
of cider and bread; at Z supper of coffee
or soup, vegetables and usually meat Be
tween meals he takes an occasional glass
of schnaps or beer, or a cup of black cof-
fee, the wolf hunger being thus kept at
bay with diligence and vigilance which
it would be hard to excel.
There are all sorts of odd industries
in Southern California" said Mr.. E. Y.
Kearby, of Los Angeles, to the Washing
ton Post. THE Chinese are the boys to get
onto the utility of gathering in these odds
and ends of nature. They catch horned
frogs and dry them for export tothe Celes-
tial empire, where they bring good prices
for medicinal use. They also collect funny
looking shellfish, which they send home
after drying, to be used as table luxuries
though American epcures would pass
them up. One of the greatest favorites in
this class is the abalone which the Chi
nese hunt at low tide, but which ofttimes
proves dangerous quest. The hunters use
sharp-pointed iron bar to prize the she'll
fish away from its home of rock, to which
it clings with tremendous tenacty. 1t has
been known to happen that a too eager
Celestial, by making the endeavor solely
with has hand, has had it caught by the
abalone, and so strong was its grip that
the Chinaman, unable to extricate himself
was drowned by the incoming tide
The Cologne Gazette relates that dur
ing his visit to Jerusalem the German
Emperor visited the so-called grave of
David, by special permission of the Sui
tan, and that he is the first Christian who
has ever approached this spot. a circum-
stance that the Imam, who held CONVEX
sation with the Emperor called to his at
tention. Thereupon the Rev Johannes
| Winker writes III lie Volksblatt of
| Linz, Austria, that he contests the honor
with the Emperor. He says that he was
| at the grave of David on April % of this
year. in company with Raphaele Loren
| 20, well konwn in Jerusalem A back
| sheesh of a franc made the Mahometan
| attendant friendly in his disposition and
! when Herr Winkler allowed him to ex-
! anime his white coat, which pleased him
| greatly, he opened the grave without even
| being asked to- whereat Mr. Lorenzo was
! greatly astonished. The grave was mark
ed at that time by a catafalque, covered
| with a valuable old rug. Through an IN
J glazed window Herr Winkler could see the
| Vale of Credon and the region about the
| Dead Sea. When he visited the same
place thirteen years ago it was not even
! allowed to peep through the door into
this chamber. He concludes that he, and
| not the German Emperor, was the first
| Christian TO visit the spot
Kings clothes at second hand are not
a common article of merchandise. so when
the other day an auctioneer in London ad-
| vertised for sale "the beautiful pale blue
silk vest worn by Charles I on the scat
| fold" quite a number of persons were
present TO bid The documents which went
! along with the garment-if a waistcoat ca n
| deserve that name-were apparently au-
| thentic. It is known that Charles donned
| an extra vest ito keep him from feeling
| the cold so that they who looked on should
| not think he approached the scaffo}d
| trembling from fear" says the London
| Times. ION the execution of the King the
vest passed into the hands of DIR. Hobbs
his physician, who attended him upon that
| occasion; the relic then passed from the
doctor to his daughter, Susannah Hobbs.
who married Tempe Stauger, of Raylins.
| in the County of OXfordshire. 1t passed
| through many hands, but apparently new
| er left the family and it was left at the
| death of Temple Hardy to Admiral D'aeth
| of Knowlton court, Kent who died in 1873
| Its subsequent history is not explained
| The bidding yesterday started at ten gum
cas- and the hammer fell a 200 guineas, the
purchaser being Mr.. Brocklehurst" Happy
Brocklehurst! Doubiy happy first in the
possession of that vest, and second, in the
fact that the headless ghost of a certain
! gentleman by the name of Stuart does
not seek to fill again his quondam clothes.
but contents himself with treading the
aisle where he was secretly buried.
The Service of benedictions" for the
dead of the First Illinois Infantry lost
in camp during the war with Spain was
held in Chicago last week and could hard
/ ly be rivaled for what one may allow
ably cali impressive and picturesque
/ solemnity even by that terrible scene of
a similar nature which Kipling so strik-
! ingly reproduced in Captains Courage
GUS" Six thousand persons througed
| the galleries of the ragipo entail arvoo,.--