The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

early Rome of hurting wheat after newly
married brides and bridegrooms.
An ingenious halter of Paris construct
ed a house of felt made out of 1900 old
hats. This house consisted Of parlor, din
ing room and bedroom; also kitchen.
At recent Hancock county, Me-, fam
lily dinner. dinner was announced by
pounding on the ancient warming pan, and
coffee was served from the delft coffee pot,
over 100 years old.
"A small piece of cheese and an cleo
trio wire form the latest rat-rap. The
cheese is fixed to the wire and the instant
the rat touches the cheese he receives
shock which kills him.
The cult of the beard according to the
ancient Jewish writer's, started in the Gar
den of Eden. Adam, they telleus, was of
prodigious hight and was furnished with
long beard which reached to his middle.
"A strange tree, styled the "moosanga,"
grows in the Kongo. 1t belongs to the or
der ''Urticaceoe. When the tree is cut
a a hight of about feet large quantity
of water is observed to flow from the sec
ton
The use of dogs for the purposes of
draught was abolished as regards London,
by an act of Parliament, passed in Au-
gust, 1885, and the prohibition was extend
ed to all parts of the United Kingdom in
July, 1854.
The great speed of instruction in the
English language in Japan has naturally
led to a growing demand for English
Itch IF all
classes were imported last year, as against
$4,000 in 1896
Most of the cutting of whalebone is
done in Paris and Bremen, some in London
and the rest in this country, where there
are seven establishments for this purpose
-four in New York, two in Boston and one
in San Francisco.
The Countesses Eugene and Ina Kap-
uist, who had such miraculous escapes
from the charity bazaar disaster have been
in Greece. where they acted as nurses in
the Turco-Grecian war, and are now about
to return to Paris.
"A tragedian recently playing "Richard
III in a small town was waited on after
the show by an honest farmer, who said
that 'if the gen'rm who wanted horse
to do business with him"
About 10000 pounds of eiderdown are
collected annually I'm Iceland 1900 being
exported to foreign countries. Formally
the peasants used to receive over p shill-
>ings a pound for it, but the price has
now fallen to half that amount.
1t is rather trying for a young woman
to be asked by young man to select an
engagement ring that will fit her, and
when she has made the selection to be in
formed it is for another girl. Such was
the experience of a White River Junction
Vt0 damsel a short while ago.
The largest waves are seen off Cape
Horn, rising to As feet in hight and 765
feet long from crest to crest. Waves in
the North Atlantic have been observed to
rise 4S feet in hight In the German ocean
the hight does not exceed 1872 feet, and
in the Mediterranean 1412 feet.
Mrs. John Reinard of Louisville. KY,
insists that she has a live frog in her
stomach, and that when it is hungry it
kicks and scratches until she partakes of
food to satisfy its hunger. She thinks she
swallowed a tadpole while on a visit to
New Jersey, and that it has developed.
In the reign of Elizabeth the wearing
of hats was considered a sign of luxury
BY an act of Parliament every person
above the age of years, and under a Ger
tain degree, was obliged on Sundays and
holidays to wear a wooden cap, made in
England and finished by some of the fra
ternity OF cappers.
Queen Victoria is said to possess some
very old watches. Among them are two
little gold ones, by Breguet, supposed to
be 100 years old. One is a repeater, the
other a blind mans watch. Both of these
are in constant use and keep good time.
They are about the size of a two-shilling
piece, and have silver dials.
AT the birth of a japanese baby a
tree is planted, which must remain un-
touched until the marriage day of the
child. When the nuptial hour arrives the
tree is cut down, and a skilful cabinet
maker transforms the wood into furni-
ture, which is considered by the young
couple as the most beautiful of all orna-
ments of the house.
st. Louis, the greatest brick manufac-
turing center in the United States. is head
quarters for the hydraulic-presse brick
company, which has in St. Louis the two
largest yards in the world and eleven
great factories in other places. the whole
having a yearly output OF 300 600 600 bricks.
or enough to lay a two-course wall around
the globe. Its ST. Louis warehouses are
miles in length, and it takes three DAYS
for a well-versed brickmaker to go
through either of the plants. The com.
pany owns ffty-eight railroad CLAY cars.
with a capacity of $4,000 pounds each.
Power is supplied by fourteen boilers ana
sixteen engines. 276 mules and go men.
the other 125 mules and $50 men. The ma
chinery is all patented and made by the
company which owns its own blacksmith
and machine shops, foundry. harness
shops and wagon works and turns out in
its own plant everything it uses.
While the delivery of milk in glass
jars may not be pronounced perfect sys
tenn, says the New York Post, it has been
generally regarded as superior TO the
dip" system from cans or pals. omen To
the flying dust and doors of the stree.
and liable to contamination from the
hands of the deliverer There is some
surprise, therefore, in learning of an or
ganized movement in Philadelphia 10 per.
suade the Board of Health to forbid that