The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

director of the Census Merriam s love
for horses is wei. known, but few are
aware that he was the first 10 oppose the
theory that swift horses could not be rails
ed in the extreme Northern states, and to
prove what he maintained by acrual prac-
tice.
A paper entitled Shakespeare and
Sanitation" was read a the recent pro-
vincial meeting of the incorporated Society
Of Medical Officers of Health al Stra ford
on Avon. Among other things the author
related the following: 1T is interesting
TO md that the name of John Shakespeare,
the father of the poet, first appears in the
records OF the municipality as owing fine
OF twOpence for having made a dirt heap
with his neighbors Adrien Quincy and
Henry Reynolds in Henley street, and on
another occasion he stood amerced' in
foulpence for failing to keep his gutter
clean"
An extraordinary case of theft is re-
ported from The Hague, the victim being
no less a parsonage than Queen Wilhel-
NINA herself. The cufprit appears 10 be
the person TO whom the safe custody of
the young Queens valuables was intrlsted.
The stolen articles consist of very valua-
bic gold and silver toilet pieces and seem
10 nave been absttacted from her maiesty's
dressing room. Their disappearance was
the cause OF inquiries being made, and
when the bulk OF them We're discovered IN
the possession of a silversmith, he stated
that he had bought them from the official
IN question, who mas now absconded.
Every ship in the North Atlantic
Squadron can boast of bail nine, and
these different mines have formed a league
known as the North Atlantic League. At
every opportunity match games are played.
and there * oIrxr CT, al,
the championship of the league. Up o
recently the nine representing the New
York were i'm the lead. but the Massachu-
sets held them a safe second. Just prior
to the departure of the squadron for Phil
adelphia d series of games was played AMI
the Massachusetts men forged ahead. The
latter expect to stay in the lead for the
balance of the season, thereby winning
the championship.
French BARRIERS arc very progressive.
They have tried the sanitary scheme and
now have something newer than germ
proof instruments. According to Elec-
tricity Paris barber shop has recently
been equipped with a most elaborate cleo
trio plant, The water is heated electrical
ly by means or a German-siver tube in a
soapstone case The tubing is electrically
heated, so that the water is nearly boiling
when 1t passes out of the faucet The
curling irons which often used to burn the
hair, are no longer used for curling The
electric curling irons which take their
place can be brought to any temperature
which they retain indefinitely. The hair
Is cur by clipping machines actuated by
electricity; electrical devices are also used
to sihge the hair, which are much better
than the me-honored taper
A London cable of Oct. 3 saws: DR.
Manson, in the course of his inaugural adj
4,
caused sensation by declaring that the
ordinary rat is responsible for the major
ity of plague outbreaks. He saws that
rats are peculiarly subject to infection. ana
1t one arrived at the port of London on a
snip mailing from a plague port aud d'ed
mere the body would TEEN with plague b9-
GILL. This would be eaten by other rats
or fieas that would transfer themselves TO
other rates, which would in turn be ONE
infected with the plague Al the present
Juncture." he continued. were | the re-
sponsibee sanitary head Of any town in Fu-
rope | would, in anticipation of this posi-
bility, compared with which the horror and
destructiVeness of a general European war
would be trife, do my utmost to have ev-
cry rat, and, if possible. every mouse in
my district promptly exterminated." In
view of DR.. Manson's position and repu-
tation for it was he who first suggested
that mosquitoes are responsible for ma1o-
idea started of universal raid on rats in
all the large seaports of England
All noted authors were not born with
an instinct to grasp the pen, says the Chi
cago News When Walter Besant was
young man he was talking with friend
about some one of Dickens stories The
friend said jokingiy, IF 1 give YOU the
plot for story, Besant, will you write
it?' Besant said he would try and very
soon his first brilliant novel was half done
Rider Haggard was reading law neariy
two decades ago when il occurred to him
he might relieve the monotony of his ex-
lStence by putting on paper some of his
South African experiences. 'The Witchs
Head was the result and king Solo
mons Mines" soon followed Grant AL
len is primarily a scientist and was as
much surprised S any one when he found
he could write novel as well as a scien-
tific treatise and make more money at it
The stage experiences and rowing life of
Jerome X. Jerome suggested 20 him the
book ION the Stage and OFF" He wrote
it 10 vary the mOnotony of A teachers
and clerks life. Zangwin took 90 writing
because he got sick of teaching and Marie
Coref was training for a musical career
when a curious experience ed her 10 write
"a Romance of Two Worlds" Loneliness
inspired Olive Schreiner in South Africa 10
write her novel of an a frican farm An
Oxford tutor suggested to Mrs. HunDhry
Wards mind the character of Robert Els
mere and so she wrote that famous novel
Mr.. w. Hale White, author of the
Il Autobiography of Mark Rutherford
made his first essay in literature with "A
paper in Chambers Journal, March 6, 1858,
on the prosaic subject of Births Deaths
and Marriages" no doubt suggested bv
his official work in the registrar oaparaI,.
office, where he spent the first few wears
of his professional life. The business of
registration in England previous to 1897
when the work was in the hands of the
clergy and thoroughly mismanaged is
there explained. The civic duties of relig
ious bodies, the writer remarks. are nearly
always performed in a bungling manner
and nowhere is this more apparent than IN
the old parish registers. Alterations. inter
lneations, erasures to suit the convenience
of interested parties were not
infrequent The good old davs
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