The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

by blowing In the pressed glass the ar
ticles are either made by hand or ma
chine pressure, and this innovation has
done much toward making glass articles
much cheaper than formerly.
-Faneun Hall has fallen into such di-
lapidated condition that a guard has been
stationed on the second floor of the build
ing to warn visitors away from weak
spots in the flooring and TO keep them from
leaning against the rotten posts that sup
port the gallery. The building is soon to
be reconstructed.
Holland has achieved amazing success
in the culture of tobacco in Sumatra. The
total tobacco sales last year were 2O1, 800
bales, bringing $l4,51S,O00, of which $780,
000 represents net gain. our consular
agent at Eibenstock reports. that in some
years the larger SumaIra tobacco com
panies declare dividends of 20 to so per
cent
When Joseph Chamberlain son, ].
Austen Chamberlain, was first elected to
Parliament, an old servant of the family
accosted him with tears Of congratulatiOn
in his eyes: This is a great day, sir" he
said. When 1 think that I helped to put
your grandmother and grandfather in their
collins, it makes me fee proud of you this
day"
-Egbert Davidson,~a prominent citizen
of Mecklenburg country, North Carolina,
is on trial in the federal court on a unique
charge. A mail carrier has been stealing
his melons. He had stopped the carrier
in the road and whipped him. The car
rier missed the mail connection, and Da-
wilson is being tried for delaying the
mails"
The gifts to colleges in the United
States last year amounted to $13,OS6, $50,
and libraries received 81 l66,5OO. Museums
and art galleries, whose object is partly
educational, were generously remembered
to the extent of $1.472.O0O For these va
rious institutions the aggregate of gifts
was $l5.724,6 $50. in a total for all purposes
Of $23, 9S4,900
This is the way in which the CeHralia
Kan Journal editor answers a question
propounded by a stock raiser: "A rural
subscriber askes: DO hogs pay?' We know
that a good many don't They take the
paper several years and have the post
master send it back marked refused
Such a breed is usually two-legged and
Improbable"
The school children of New Albany,
Ind, have become so fascinated with the
game of craps that parents have appealed
to the police to break up the games. The
children congregate in alleys on the
school grounds and sometimes on the
pavcments and shoot for marbles, pins,
pennies, chalk, pencils or anything they
may possess.
The Medical Press and Circular dis
cusses the dietetc value of the finest Of
an English dishes'-plum pudding
arrives at a comforting conclusion: 1--WE
doubt if the vegetarians keen as they are
to ferret out any footho,d of defense, are
alive to the solid, close-packed, long
drawn, and soul-satisfying nutr3ment con-
densed so sweetly in that speckled globe
of savory delight. But stay, perchance the
eggs and the suet bar the pudding from
the vegetarian banquet. Then, indeed, the
sect is forlorn and lost beyond all hope.
The man in The street, however, could dime
wei enough off pun pudding alone that
is to say. in the enforced absence of tur-
keys and sirloins and other good things.
on general grounds we feel certain that
weight for weight plum pud-
ding must be every bit as
sustaining as beefsteak, and we feel sure
that every good housewife in the kingdom
win indorse that opinion. Perhaps some
kind hearted physiologist not quite dried
up by his scientific pursuits, win analyze
a year-old pudding, none of your pastry
cooks productions, bur made after some
household recipe that has stood the test of
centuries. The result is a foregone conclu-
siOn-scienCe win but confirm what all men
know"
Any man who believes IN the Russian
navy should keep his eyes off the Russian
bluejacket, says London Answers. A real
salorman has fingefs bent up like fish
hooks, from the lifelong habit of gripping
things The Russian sailor carries his
hands like a soldier, and cannot possibly
be handy" A sailors gait ashore has a
slight roll. This arises from the need al
sea of keeping up the windward side of a
rolling ship. And the rolling gait marks
one Of a sailors finest quaiities-balance
Unless the body poises and balances tc
meet every motion of ship the result is
| seasickness. Now the Russian bluejacket
does not rol in his gait ashore, but
marches Neither has he any sense of bal
ancing at sea, ana seasickness in The Rus
| sian flee is a source of actual weakness
and danger. The Back sea squadron car
only put to sea in the three calmest months
OF summer, and the so-caEed maneuvers
take place ashore on the Kenai peninsula
consisting mainly of battalion drill. One
more trait of the real sailor is his self
reliance which makes him fiji for facing
emergencies single handed. But the Rus
sian bluejacket has none of this. He is moi
a machine in himself but only a little bit
! of machine which cannot work without
the other bits He is huge in stature-a
giant compared with our men-but in his
| winter overcoat it is impossible to distin-
guish him from a soldier. Unhandy, sea
sick and reliant only on drill discipline, he
is utterly unfit for active service.
Indiana boasts Of citizen, skilled
artisan. who is paid liberal salary to dc
no work of any kind says an exchange
The man who enjoys this peculiar and un.
precedented situation is Aloysius Mass
man of New Albany who has just signed
! a contract by the terms of which he will
be paid $1,000 a year for the next five years
by six of The largest enamedng factories in
the country only one Of which is to obtain
the formula used in the preparation OF
enameling which Massman inherited from
| his father, who worked it out by thirty
years Of labor The other five factories are
cheerfuEy paying to prevent the secret
| from being published abroad In 1S59