The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a young man camping III the oleTTdS
discovered and captured a butterfly of an
unknown species. He sent it to the Smith
sonian Institute at Washington and re-
ceived for it a check for s1,54O with the
request to make careful search for other
moths of the same kind 1t was an in
dividual of fossil species supposed to be
extinct, and great was the excitement
among the scientists at the discovery that
one Of the race had been recently alive.
Although diligent search has been made
by men paid for the service. no other
specimen has been found.
1t is stated that the Bismarcks first
made their appearance in Brandenburg
as cloth merchants In 1880 or there
abouts il is believed that one Claus Bis
marck advanced sum of money to the
Margrave Ludwig, which was secured up
on the customs of his native town The
citizens, however rebelled against this ar
rangement. The margrave assigned to
Claus bismarck the f1ef of Burgstall and
1t is IN this manner that the nobility of the
family began. In the middle of the six
teenth century the Bismarcks came under
the sway of the Hohenzollerns, to whom
they remained faithful vassals.
In comparatively short time, it Is
said, one of the Oldest of the European
coins viii cease to become legal tender
ana its only use win be as a specimen
or obsolete coinage for the riifnisnla tist.
a rev weeks ago the Austrian kreuzer
was withdrawn from commercial circu-
iatlon on account of the convention MAX
ing the copper currency over all parts
or the country of an equal value AboDt
eighteen months have been allowed for
the entire circulation to be called in but
with the advent of the twentieth century
the coin will no longre be accented as
legal tender. The kreutzer has, however.
mad a very long life having been in ex-
lstence since the middle ages, and took
its name from the cross which it bore.
The Church of st. Mary the Virgin In
London, which is soon to be destroyed. is
one of the most interesting buildings in
the city, and Hall Game has made it the
scene OF John Storms attempt at REFORM
ing London. 1t was built in 1877 by Jo-
seph Georgeirenes, who was archbishop of
the island of Samos and was driven from
ms see by Turkish tyranny This event
Is accorded in an inscription still to be
seen over the west door. In its erection
ne was assisted by DIR. Nicholas Bare
pone' who was a son of CromwelPs cele-
brated Praise God Barcelona" For five
or SIX years the church was occupied by
the Greeks and then 1t fell into the hands
successfully of Huguenots and Calvanist
Paedobaptists. In 1919 it was proposed to
convert it into music hall but il was
saved by the rector of ST. Anne's. who
hau IL consecrated as a chapel-of-ease 10
the mother church.
tine Pennsylvania Railroad Companv
has given a contract for a number of tel
egraph poles of unusual hight. The noIas
are to be used on the Washington end Of
the railroad, and hight of sixty-five feet
IS necessary to get above the tree ions
of
cent interview, said: THE average hight
OF telegraph pole is thirty feet. and tbe
distance between each pole is fifty wards
or 100 feet, exactly. This is the distance
between them on a reasonably straight
road and the number to a mile on such a
ROAD Is forty. There are some roads, how
ever, with many curves and twists, where
we are obliged to put fifty to a mile. On
the ordinary road you can always count
about forty poles to a mile. A man who
knows this and knows how many Yards
between each pole can easily calculate the
rate of speed his train is moving if he has
a watch. The pole should never be less
than seven inches at the top and as big
as possible a the bottom The average
cost of pole, counting from the time it
IS taken out of the grove until the wires
are strung on it, is hardly over 81
Speaking of the future of Spain, now
that her colonial possessions are a thing
of the past, the current London Spectator
says: "Spain's geographical position en-
tirely precludes the possibility of her
sinking into mere impotence and insignifi-
canoe. The future of Spain is bound to in
| terest the world. Judged from an alb
stract standpoint, there are many posi-
bilties for Spain. For example, if Spain
| possessed a really great statesman, and if
! she would intrust herself freely to his
hand, he might in twenty years so reor-
| ganiZe the nation that she would be lar
| richer and stronger than she was before
the Cuban revolt. A Spanish Peter the
| Great, by repudiating the major part of
| the debt, by substituting an efficient
! standing army of 10000 men for the pres
! ent force, by cutting down taxes by hang
| ing corrupt officials and by getting for
| eigners to develop the minerals and The
! wines of Spain, might still make a power
| full nation-for Spain in her hardy noun
! taineers and her brave seamen has always
! the raw material of a great people. We
! fear however, that the chances of any
| such savior of his country arising are alb
! solutely nil
There's one form of kleptomania that
we hotel men suffer from continually"
said the manager of a large hosiery in
| New Orleans to the Times-Democrat Il
refer to the differing of soap The guam
| tity carried off from any large house is
l perfectly duldZinS. Inlnk sometimes
| that certain guests must be making SOIL
| venir collections of cakes from all over the
country. Sometimes they don't draw the
| line there, either, but purloin a few tow
| els, and one fellow had the audacity a
| few months ago to pack up the lace cur
tains from the windows. The housekeeper
| caught him in the act and made him dis
gorge, 1t frequently happens that these
soap fiends accidentally leave cakes taken
! from other houses, and down in the store
| room l have a lot of samples bearing the
names of hotels located all the way from
Bangor to Los Angeles. Only a week or
SO ago a very digniied elderly gentleman
! was settling his bill here at the counter,
I and CHANGED TO open his hand sachel to
! get out a time table. As he did so out
/ rolled a cake of soap. 1 never saw a
man so chagrined in my life, and just to
| teach him a lesson I took his bill and
! told the cashier to add Is cents for soap.
He paid it without a murmur and left in
stanter"
August Is a particularly favorable