The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dutch omnibusses are fitted with letter
boxes.
of $1,000 breweries in the world, $500
are in Germany.
The first large iron bridge in the world
was built over the Severn in III.
Scientists assert that the fly can make
600 strokes second with its wings.
-Noseow's orphan asylum. founded by
Catherine H., is supported by tax on
playing cards.
The Visitor states that the new Cath
Ole cathedral in London will be completed
by the year 1900.
HOLSTERS have a great dread of thun-
der. and when peals are very loud will
swim to deeper water.
A hot fight in cell at the Bath (NIe.)
police station the other night was started
by one of its tramp occupants calling the
other lazy.
The British War Official is inqulring
into the fact that the uniform of the Sal
walton army is very similar to that of the
Cold-stream and Grenadier Guards.
-Neteors rush through space at the rate
of 26 miles a second. They are not usually
larger than pebble, and on striking the
earths atmosphere they Immediately dis
solve into gas.
The British museum contains the old
est specimen of pure glass which bears any
date This is a little lions head, having on
it the name of an Egyptian King of the
eleventh dynasty.
The culver of the aspen leaves is due
to the fact of the leaf stalk being fiat on
the sides and so thin about the middle that
the slightest breath of wind sets all the
leaves wagging horizontally.
-Flogging has become so indispensa.
BILE in Russia that some inventor has per-
fected a machine which saves the human
arm. Under the fiagellation of the ma
chine taxes and arrears are to become
speedily collected
-Hartland, in Devonshire, has had only
three Wears since 1850. The present vicar
has held the place since 1859, his prede-
cessor held in for sixty-two years, having
served as curate for ten year before, and
succeeding an incumbent who served thir-
ty-seven years.
-Cranberries are not injured by freez>
toba in open box cars. When they arrive
they are frozen into solid blocks of ice.
The sides of the cases are knocked off and
the berries are exposed in a solid mass,
like cakes of ice.
r -Tyburn was the place of execution in
London for felons, and was used for this
purpose from the reign of Henry IV-1399-
1413. The bodies of Cromwell Ireton and
doh Of t.,
80, 1861. The last execution at Tyburn
took place in November, 1888.
A novel flower has been found at the
1sthmus of Tehuantepec. In the morning
1t is white, when the sun is at its zenith it
is red and at night it is blue. The req
White and blue flower grows on a tree
about the size of a guava tree, and only
at noon does it give out any perfume.
No sovereign of the United Kingdom
was ever crowned in Ireland; but double
coronations of English monarchs have not
been infrequent. Henry II was crowned
at Westminster, and again at Worcester,
Henry III at Gloucester and Westminster
and Henry VI at Paris and Westminster
One hundred and seven witnesses were
summoned to appear in the Court of Com
mon Pleas at Ravenna, o.. in the case
wherein Mary Ellen Rogers sued Volney
Rogers for divorce on the grounds that
having lived with her for forty years, ne
never took her anywhere, not even to
church.
The Gold Coast is a long way from
the Cape of Good Hope. The latter is one
of the termlni of Eastern Africa-the for
mer is wholly in West Africa. The Gold
Coast takes its name from the precious
a hnx fnr hAn 4
abundance by che early Portuguese and
English navigators.
The simplest public railroad now oper-
ated is thought to be one between Atamf
and Odawara, in Japan 1t is a narrow
gauge road, and is run by man power
The cars have seats for four persons each.
who sit back to back. A train consists
of two or three cars, and is drawn up hill
by half dozen coolies.
1t is said of the Aberdeen Journal.
which has recently celebrated its 10th
birthday, that IN one of its earliest num-
bers, now unhappily lost from the files
a participant in the battle of Culloden
was interviewed two days after that his
toric combat. 1t was about the earliest
newspaper interview on record.
In the reign of Edward III there were
at Bristol England, three brothers, who
were eminent clothiers and wooden weav-
ers, and whose family name was Blanket
They We're the first persons who manu-
featured that comfortable material. which
has ever since been called by their name.
and which was then used for peasants
clothing.
Chief Haddock of the Bureau of Build
ing Inspection in Philadelphia recommends
that the hight of buildings in that citv
be limited by law and that none, even on
the widest street. have a greater hight
than $50 feet. Otherwise, he saws the
ciiy's narrow streets may become gloomy
canyons, unsanitary. with the light of day
virtually shut out
One of the greatest wonders of Java
the fire island" large lake of boiling
mud, is nearly two miles in circunofer-
ence, and in the center immense columns
of soft, hot mud may be seen continually
rising and falling, like great black tim
bers thrust forth and then suddenly with
drawn by giants hand. Besides the
phenomena of the columns there are two
gigantic bubbles near the western edge
which I'LL up like huge botIoope apd