The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Cal. has this season shipped ,6S3 pounds
Of Bartlett pears, which were raised on
four and one-haH acres of ground. He
received 50 per ton for them under con-
tract made last spring.
The Chinese at Wei-hai-Wei have in
vented a new kind of cricket, says the
London Globe There are no wickets, and
the only thing the bowler aims at is the
legs of the batsman. If the bowler sue
ceeds in hitting the batsman's shin the
smiter is not !. b. W, but clean boWled.
In few years they will all be provided
with wooden stumps.
The new clock at the Great Eastern
Railway terminus will, when completed,
be one of the sights of London. for it will
be one of the very largest clocks in the
world 1t is designed TO show the correct
time to all the eighteen platforms in the
station. The case is so large that it would
comfortably hold a dining party of four
or five persons.
A new idea for the bill collector comes
from Louisville where Manuel Corsica, a
retired organ grinder. being unable to col
lect three months rent due on house he
owned and had leased. took his instrument
to the house and played it steadily until
the tenant assisted by suffering neighbors,
raised the money owed and paid it, This
new method in the case in point required
only three hours.
The New England Education League
is laboring for cheap book post by which
books from public libraries may be con-
veyed as second class matter at 1 cent per
pound. Some librarians who have been
consulted suggest that if that rate could
not he made general it might be applied
for a short carriage, as fifty or one hun
dred miles, and prove profitable to the
government, or at least cover the cost OF
transmission.
What's the weather going 10 be? The
flowers will tell you, If you watch them.
Look out for rain when the clover stalks
stand upright when the flowers of the
convolvulus, the African marigold, the lit
lie pimpernel and the dainty wood sorrel
close. Then, too the pitcher plant turns
its flower upside down. Fine weather is
foretold by the opening of the flowers
above named, and by the standing erect
of the flower of the pitcher plant.
-Overrun with rats, the city of Copen-
hagen, Denmark, is trying to reduce the
pest by offering small bounty on each
dead rat brought to the morgue. In the
first week 1904 were officially recorded rs
killed; the number grew to 1915 in the sec
ond week., and to $3.50 in the third. When
the weekly Slaughter reaches 10000 it IS
thought some impression will begin to be
made on the army of rodents. Meantime
rat catching is a popular and lucrative
sport with the youth of the town.
"A singular and interesting discovery
has been made at Borbolya, in Hungary,
where the remains of an unusually large
antediluvian animal have been unearthed,
which a Hungarian savant pronounces TO
be larger than anything of the kind pre-
viOusly found in Europe. According to this
authority the animal is a whale, eight
meters long and, judging by the stratum
in which il was imbedded he believes ii TO
be the most ancient animal yet brought to
light in that quarter of the globe.
An interesting archaeological discovery
has been made at the promontory of SUM-
UNI, now known as Cape Colonna. During
the recent excavations among the ruins
of the temple there the thirteen marble
columns of which give the place its mod
ern name, stone was found with an en-
graved Inscription, which shows that the
temple was dedicated, not, as was COM
monty supposed hitherto to Athene, but
TO Poseidon. 1t would thus be correspond
ent to the temple of Poseidon on the is
land of Aegina. which lies over against
Sunium.
An amusing paper entitled Shake
speare and Sanitation" was read at the re-
cent provincial meeting of the Incorporated
Society of Medical officers of Health, at
Stratford-on-AVon. Among other things
the author related the following: 1T is in
terestlng to find that the name of John
Shakespeare, the father of the poet, first
appears in the records of the municipality
made dirt heap with his neighbors
Adrien Quincy and Henry Reynolds in
Henly street. and on another occasion he
stood amerced' i'm fourpence for failing 10
keep his gutter clean"
For the last three years Miss Sarah
Cunningham of Vancouver, British Co
lumbia, has blindfolded her eyes when
ever she steps outside the door of the
She is a woman about 40 years old. For
years her conscience was troubled by the
sights of sin and immortality everywhere
visible as she walked the streets of Van
couver. Finally she decided that she could
stand it no longer. If she could not put
a stop to the wickedness which oppressed
her she could at least shut out the out
side world. Consequently she bandaged her
eyes. Since that day, in 1896, her eyes
have never looked upon the earth. AS a
result she reports that she is becoming
cheerful. The bright side of life now oc-
cupies her mind and, though she is aware
of the fact that there is still sin in the
world, it does not trouble her as it for
merry did.
Recent articles on the dreaded tubercu-
losis and the increase in virulence of this
ravagng disease has caused medical Jour
nails to bring forth the most prominent
articles of noted scientists. In a recent
article, "Etiology of tuberculosis" Grid
ansky says that the chief point is the
danger of Observation-Disclosures from
sweeping, and that the broom is the chief
and most serious danger, as 60 per cent
of all men die of some pulmonary trou-
bic, and the main cause of tuberculosis
IS bacilli-laden dust, the broom being the
main cause for such dust, is therefore
more responsible for this great percentage
of mortality; that the broom far from
serving any hygienic purpose is the di-
rect cause of the maintenance of. organic
matter, and. being SUCH is therefore the
most important cause for the existence
and spread of contagious diseases; that
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