The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

-FOUR hands We're exposed they were found
to be royal flush 10 the king. a royal
flush to the queen, four aces and king
fun
There is talk in Canada Of manufac-
turing news paper at a cost not exceeding
1 cent a pound and of competing in the
market on this side of the border It is
considered that such a thing is possible if
the manufacture be conducted on large
scale. News paper produced at a cost of
a cent pound, even with duty and
freight charges added, would be a disturb
ing element in the New York market for
example, and would compel our manufac-
turers 70 do some very close figuring.
A missionary to China comments upon
, the heart breaking experience he had at
the Nankin arsenal, where he observed
modern, up-to-date equipment of English
machinery employed in making obsolete
war material The Chinese military Off
Gals are just now taking pride in their
most important production, a breech-load-
ing Mauser which they state with great
pride and acclaim is capable of driving a
bullet through four inches of wood. Trey
imagine mat this is the most powerful
weapon of its kind in the world.
AT Pine Ridge, S. D.. Conquering Bear,
the old Indian chief who had been victori-
Gus in a hundred battles with the Sioux,
has just been buried amid the wailings
of six widows. with faces painted black
for mourning, aud 12S children and grand
children, the most numerous direct fam
lily of any known Indian. II is rather Gu
rious that after going unsca thed through
so many battles he should succumb to the
perils of the trolley system. having got off
car head foremost, showing a disregard
of conventions much more Independent
than judicious. The mourning for the old
chief win he kept up a week, which from
the aboriginal point of view will not be
beyond his deservings
I'm Switzerland a death is attended by
a custom which calls upon all charitable
and Christian people to show their sym
patty. A notice edged with a wide black
line appears in the daily papers setting
forth the day and hour when sympa-
thizers must assemble before the house of
the deceased. Al the time named a little
cloth-covered table supporting a good
sized jar is stood before the house-table.
cloth and jar all being of the same SOM
Der, ebony hue-and into the latter small
mourning cards bearing the name and adj
dress of their owners are deposited. The
day the funeral takes place is the day Sc
lected for the exhibition of the jar. No
ladies are allowed to follow at a Swiss
funeral.
Berlin furnished an extraordinary eNIll-
bition of the collecting mania recently. The
German postoffice uses numbers for the
months in stamping letters, and on Sent
collectors determined to obtain the usual
sequence of mines from district Office No
SO, whose stamp on that day would read
99.99,99. A mob of over a thousand per
sons stood outside the Office when it open
ed, so that the police had TO be called in
TO keep it in order and all available help
h.
handle the mail matter. The rush contin-
ued through the day and a night the po-
lice had to use force to dispense the crowd
that was waiting after the closing hours
and to enable the officials to leave the Of
flee. Sixty thousand pieces of mail were
stamped during the day.
Senator Vest, says the Louisville Cour-
rierJournal, is in West Virginia catching
mountain trout and cooking them as his
friend Wade Hampton, taught him TO
cook them in East Tennessee and WesC
North Carolina. First catch your trout
though, in the meantime have a good fire
on the bank of the stream that YOU can
roast a potato in the embers. Dress your
trout before the life is out of il. dip in
cold spring water until it is cold Put a
rasher OF bacon inside it, with butter pep
per and salt; inclose in a green corn shuck.
from which the roasting ear has Just been
=
the shuck and fish, cover up with hot
embers and live Goals, and by and by YOU
have fish that Lucullus would have given
ransom for That is what Vest does
every summer vacation, and there is no
telling how long a man who does that is
going to live.
Consular reports for Oct states that
the French people are using American
dried apples largely in the preparation of
''piquette,' a sparkling, fruity beverage
made by fermenting together dried apples.
| raisins and water. The use of wine in
France is diminishing, largely for the rea-
son that French wine is believed bv the
masses to be adulterated. This may or
may not be true, but the belief promotes
the consumption OF cider made from an
pies and pears. Piquette is mild cider
and has the merit of selling for 2 cents a
glass. For 20 cents man may drink for
two hours without feeling the effect of the
little alcohol he will have consumed. The
drink is, in fact, a family Triple" being
commonly made by adding five pounds
of raisinS to five pounds of dried aDDles
and five gallons of water. After ferment-
ing in a cask the product is bottled with
little sugar, or may be consumed with
out bottling. In 1898 France produced So
100000 gallons of this beverage.
There is an Interesting little exhibit at
tlIc I1ApOlb bAEOSlliOn NnlCn ddIlN At
tracts a large number of visitors. saws the
Philadelphia Record. They do not come
to see, nor yet TO hear, but rather TO graz
ify a recently acquired taste for peanut
butter, which the kind Old inventor of the
butter making machine hands out in small
amounts on djminutive soda crackers. The
inventor, who is kept busy grinding out
the alluring product, is just such a look
ing old fellow as one would expect to in
vent a contriVance that makes everybody
who approaches happy and comfor able He
is kindly eyed and smiling His voice is like
the sound of bubbhng soup, and his idea
of happiness Is to have everybody open
wide his mouth. pop inside the bit of
cracker smOthered with peanut butter. and
then raise both eyes ecstatically smack
his lips audbly and say: "Wow, but that's
good"' Every motion of the consumer is
keenly noticed, and if the verdict is favor
able the old inventor is your friend for
life.
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