The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-The village bells of POtzbach, Germa-
ny. have not been ringing since New
Years day and the people have awakened
10 the fact that the mana teach er-who
has done the work heretofore, has been
paid only 1924 a year. and has struck for
higher wages. The people of the town
have discovered that the bell rope hangs
in the teachers bed chamber, and that
he will not allow anybody to disturb his
early snooze by entering and pulling the
rope.
Concerning Thomas Dover, physician
and gentleman adventurer a writer in a
medical journal remarks that Thomas Do
yer, the doctor, has drifted into our mod
ern life on a powder label while Thomas
Dover, president of the Council of the
Duke and Duchess-privateers of the an
Gent and honorable city of Bristol-dis-
coverer of Alexander Sell1lrk (the original
Robinson Crusoe) in spite of more en-
during claims to our gratitude, has been
forgotten.
The window sashes which were re-
moved recently at the Machias (Nfe.) Con-
gregational Church, TO give place to the
new memorial windows, were found to
be perfectly sound and free from blemish
of any kind Notwithstanding the fact that
they had been doing service for sixty-two
years They were made from old-growth
pumpkin pine The nails used in the cas-
ings We're hand made, and were probably
the handiwork of some local blacksmith
of we olden time"
Careful estimates of the force of a cy
clone and the energy required 10 keep a
full-fedged hurricane in active operation
reveal the presence of a power that makes
the mightiest efforts of man appear as
nothing in comparison. A force fully equal
to 470, 0O0, 900 horsepower was estimated as
developed in a West Indian cyclone. This
is about fifteen times the power that is
creatble by all the means within the range
of mans capabilities during the same time.
Were steam water windmills and the
strength of all men aud all animals COM
bined they could not at all approach the
tremendous force exerted by this terrible
storm.
Theodore Stanton, said recently in
the Independent that at one of the meet
ings of the peace commissioners, Senior
Rios said he had in his pocket a copy of
the paragraph about the destruction of
the Maine in the Presidents message, and
that Judge Day then said to the interpre-
ter Tell him he'd better keep it there"
Judge Day writes TO the Independent
out the proceedings" he writes, "the
American commissioners studiously avoid
ed any word or act which might wound
the susceptibilities of the Spanish COM
missiOners, VINO met the American repre-
senta tives in the same spirit, and observ-
ed with perfect courtesy the amenities of
the occasion"
During the last season a popular torea-
dor in Spain took part in sixty-five fights
and killed 1873 bulls, says the New York
Tribune. His net profit was 100000, and
the only injuries he sustained were
bruise on his foot and rather bad wound
in the leg. The risks are, of course, great;
but the men are so extraordinarily agile
that grave accidents seldom occur. Some
times one will be badly gored, but a week
or two of hospital will generally set him
on his legs again. These men, often uned-
ucated and proceeding from the lower
classes, are courted and feared, and even
the larger newspapers of Madrid are care
full to give nothing but praise to them, for
fear of mourning their enmity.
The Mayor of an English town said
in his inaugural address that ''he hoped
he should hand down the emblems of the
office to his predecessor as untarnished
as he had received them. Upon resum-
noticed there was some tittering Did 1
make any mistake? His friend who vas
a bit Of a wag said: you mentioned
predecessor, where you should have said
ancestor" The Mayor said Il now see
1 should have done So" Another some
what dullwitted Mayor attended a dinner
at which his health was proposed, and
the speaker referred to the Mayors great
success in life. Replying, the worthy
sf.,l
and was extremely thankful for it, He
hoped his sons would be more successful
than their father, and his daughters more
virtuous than their mother.
Consul Ayme, at Guadeloupe, has
transmitted an interesting report TO the
state department on peculiar plant grow
ing wild on the island. He says that if
any leaf be broken from it and
pinned to the wall in warm
room each of the angles in the
undulations of the leaf begins to
throw out a number of white threadlike
roots. Next a tiny plant begins to sprout,
and this in two or three weeks attains
a hight of two or more inches. When the
leaf begins to shrivel, which may take
from six weeks TO three months, the young
plants may be cut out with scissors and
put in the ground, where they rapidly at
tain full size When cultivated they at
tain a growth of four feet and produce
graceful rcd and yellow flowers. The con-
sui expresses the belief that it will make
a desirable dollhouse or garden flower His
report, with specimens of the leaves, has
been submitted 60 the agricultural de-
partment.
-Mummies of three Incas-ancient rul-
ers of Peru-and many other antiquities
from South America were destroyed in a
fire at IA Courtlandt street, says a New
York telegram. The collection, which
was valued at $4,000. was composed of
$1,000 pieces. Walter l.. Isaacs, who has
been lifelong collector of Central and
South American curiosities, spent nine
months in gathering the antiquities aided
by natives, who found and mounted the
pieces. The collection was about to be
sold to the Museum of Natural History
in this city, and was only partly insured
In 1t were agricultural and hunting imple-
ments, costumes, musical instruments,
idols and pottery. The three smummies