The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

don last Wednesday, said repairs 10 caDles
since the war had cost more than S4ooyo'
and the directors were about to bring the
account 10 the notice of the government
Of the United States.
The phenomenon of people seeing
stars" in the daytime is not at all an un-
usual one. says the Westminster Gazette
As a rule, however, the circumstances I'M
der which these heavenly bodies become
visible by daylight are not Of the sort
which make the sight of Them desirable
But to see rainbow al midnight, and IN
der conditions which deave nothing TO De
desired is a much rarer occurrence. II
was witnessed a few nights ago N S"Itl-
erIand. The moon was shining IN a brli-
hantly clear sky and round 1t spread
circle, an which all the colors OF the ram
bow cleaned. Ard any loyal and literary
Switzer witnessing The phenomenon might
we'll be proud of seeing IN real life the
strange and wondrous token" which, so
Schiller says, shone on the night When
Tell and his friends swore the great oalh
on the Ruth thousand years ago
Last Saturday." says a correspond
ent of the Chicago Record, 1.-The territory
of Oklahoma was ten years old, and II IS
a unique example OF nineteenth century
civilization. 1t did not appear in the last
census, but in the next it will probaoiy
show something like $4,000 population, for
the last count made by che local enumera-
tor, in 1897, was 3l1,4OO. The anniversary
was not celebrated in any formal manner,
except at the town of Kinghsher, but II
was a great day for "reminiscences, ana
the old settlers, who came in with the
rush, told US incidents of the great event
when 10000 peop.e, at the boom OF a gun,
started over the borders of Kansas ana
Texas in a mad race for homes and Tor
tunes. The wave from the South met the
wave from the North at the Canadian
river, so that the northern half of the ter
ritory is settled by Northern and the
southern half by Southern men, but am
told that the latter have been leaving and
going back to their old homes in large
numbers. The southern counties of ok
lahoma at first cast an almost solid Dem
ocratic vote, and the northern counties
were quite as strongly Republican during
the first few years. but the Southerners
are selling out 20 Northern Immigrants,
and the Democratic vote has rapidly de-
creased"
For years, says ST. Nicholas, the Great
Eastern held the record for size, and it
was thought that she was too large to
be of serVice-eXcept for the one thing
that has made her famous for all time, the
laying of the first Atlantic cable. But
now comes the Oceanic" successfully
launched last January, and dwarfs the for
n1er giant. The Great Eastern was $50
feet long; the Oceanic is 704-three city
blocks! The Oceanic needs twenty-five
feet of water to float her, even when I'M
| loaded; fifteen and a half feet sufficed FOR
the Great Eastern. The latter vessel dis
placed an amount of water weighing H.
| 844 tons. The new ship adds $500 tons
| to these figures. She is 6S feet wide and
| 40 feet deep. The Oceanic is not expect ted
| to be very speedy, in which she differs
| from the Hai-Lung, a torpedo boat de-
| stroyer built in Germany for the Chinese
| government. This vessel made 40S miles
| per hour in a heavy sea, which IS by far
| the fastest time ever made by a boat,
and is almost equal to railway speed. II
| is pleasant to add, in speaking of ships
| that ship-building seems to have taken a
new lease of life in this country. Many
| Americans regret that most of our enor-
nous foreign trade is carried by vessels
| built and owned in other countries but 1t
| is probable that this will not be for long
| This country now ranks first in the pro-
! duction of modern ships. Therefore, we
ought to be able to compete with the world
in this business Many millions of dol
|
| structed in our shipyards.
"A correspondent of the New York Sun
writes as follows: Noting in Sundays Sun
an article on the removal of warts by
COMPUTATION I want to add as a testimonial
that the thing can be done, and l would
like to have some one explain how it is
| done. When l was a yOungster of ten years
| l was visited by plague of warts. From
| my earliest recollection 1 had had on my
| middle finger an Old daddy Wart, but at
| the age stated this had multiplied to forty
or more, one being on my lip and one on
| my chin. 1 was considerably worried over
| my growing family of excrescences, and
one say a woodchopper in my fathers en-
| ploy, who acted queerly, never wearing a
| hat, for instance, said that he could take
| the warts away with him. l was quite will
| ing to have him try, and he took me off to
| quiet spot under a willow tree. from
| which he cut a number of small branches
and these he cut again into little bits OF
| an inch in length, making notch in each
one, and this notch he set down over each
| wart, having a last collection of forty
or more OF these little notched sticks. The Sd
he put into his pocket, saying that the
warts would go away. l could never say
just when the prophecy was fulfilled, but
| Wltnln SIX weeks IneTe WASH Wart on
my face or hands, and there has not been
one since that time. What l want TO know
now, as did then-and the conjurer would
not tell me-is, what did it? l have spoken
to many doctors about it, but they merely
laugh, as though l was giving them 'pipe
talk" and yet the warts went away, and
all the medicine l had ever tried on them
had no effect whatever.
The seventh son of a seventh son is a
born doctor, according to Irish belief, says
the Chicago News, but he must never
take money for the cures he achieves, and
to insure recovery he should be sought
before sunrise or after sunset on Friday
There were seven wise men and seven
wonders of the world while the ancierts
not only noted the Importance of seven
as an astronomical period, but also con-
nected the seven metals then known with
the seven planets and the seven colors
Thus copper belonged to Venus and the
color green; lead to Saturn and the color
blue, gold and yellow TO the sun. and Sc
on. 1t is not really spring until you can
| put YOUR foot on seven daiSiae Of ono -,