The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

empire Has. Recently pctli NdllC0 upon -
pass on the proper abbreviation for 1900.
The common abbreviation for 1899 is, of
course. 90. but the German judges have
decided that 90 would not do at al for
the first year of the next century. Accord
ingly, the year will have to be written our
in fun on all German documents.
A Lima paper tells of an artillery SOL
der VINO was sentenced to be hogged, and
in default of the regulation cat-'o-nine-
tails put into prison to await its arrival,
the officer in charge being a stickler for
disc pine. 1t was about a year before the
requisitional scourge was supplied by the
authorities. ard by that time the soldier
had been dead several months
News comes from Baltimore that this
years catch of oysters in Chesapeake
bay viii be the smallest in the history of
The industry. Where years ago 100000 gal
ions was only an average crop, it is esli-
mated thai this year the yield viii be less
Than 100000 gallons. A plan is on foot 10
close he oyster beds for a few years,
thus giving the bivalves a chance to re-
cuperate and multiply.
"A prevalent sickness in Paris is attrib-
uted by the doctors to the presence in
bakers bread of salts of lead deposited on
the walls OF ovens by the old wood which
is frequently used as fuel in Paris-pav-
ing blocks, railway sleepers and beams
from Old houses. The council of hygiene
explains that such wood is usually i'm
presnatod with suphate of copper or creo-
sotc and is likely to give off poisonous
volatile salts and stringent regulations
have been passed.
Jewellers say that turquoise will he the
fashionable precious stone this winter, and
everything that is made up in brooches
rings. pins and charms has from one to a
dozen of The pretty blue stones worked in
to it somehow The newest thing in the
way of charms of the girls is the gold
mascot. 1t is d diminutive sheet of beat
| en- gold, with jagged, rough edges, and
holding in the middle tiny gem the birth
stone for the month The garnet is the
January born girls talsman. a diamond
goes with the April girl and the turquoise
is the protector of one born in December.
These charms can be bought as low as S.,
up to SO.
"A few days ago. while on their way
home from Antioch, Willis OHara and one
of his fathers hired men. observed an in
/ teres ting tug-of-war between a gopher
/ snake and a fuE-grown squirrel, says the
/ san Francisco Chronicle. When first dis
/ covered The snake had half his length
down a squirrel hole, and had the squirrel
/ by the tail and both were pulling for dear
] lie. L ne snake scented 10 nave liS Btlltt
of il until he had the squirrel about half
way into he hole, when the squirrel braced
/ his feet against the sides of it. Then came
/ the puli-a long, long pun and stronS
pull and a pull all together-untl the tail
hold broke and never did a squirrel run so
or make such time as that one did until
he reached his hole, which was some dis
lance away.
-Artie Philips of Mulvane, Kan, was
a member of the Kansas regiment which
recently got home after seeing plenty of
hard service in the Philippines Before
the regiment left the Island of Luzon Phil
/ lips wrote a letter to a friend in Null
| vane in which he said that he was home
| sick for good old Kansas apple pie. When
/ the regiment landed at San Francisco the
best cooks in Mulvane were sot to work
/ and great preparations were made for the
reception OF the returning hero. The fea-
ture of the reception, however, was a great
/ apple pie, measuring five feet in length
and two feet in width. 1t took two
| and a half bushels of apples to fill the
pie, to say nothing of ten pounds of sugar
and quantities of other ingredients. Null
vane people saw TO it that their soldier
got all the apple pie he could dispose of.
La Crosse, Wis, is proud of its loca-
ton on the Mississippi river, says the Chi
cago Tribune 1t lies in cup surround
ed by magnificent bluffs. and La Crosse
men, after travelling all over the world in
search of beautiful scenery, have inva-
rably come home disappointed at what
they have seen. Just east of the city lies
| a range of hills, the highest of which is
known as Grand Daddy" From the tCD
of this bluff three states and five different
counties lie stretched out under the eye
The location of La Cross makes it perfect
ly secure from the attacks of cyclones Or
" 1 t1r0aHnac be Inf iot, -
act as tenders, and many severe storms.
which did great damage elsewhere, have
passd over the city. Five miles north of
the city lies Rice lake, and here hundreds
of the citizens of La Crosse make their
homes in the summer time.
"A notice in the London Times Of Aug.
81 illustrates The simplicity of the English
system of preparing the final lists of the
persons liable for jury duty. ION and af-
ter tomorrow for twenty-one days" says
this notice "the lists of persons liable to
serve as jurymen in England and Wales
VIII be exhibited on the doors of the
churches and chaDels and other public
places of worship over the country These
lists are open to public inspection. Unless
objection is made to the overseers of the
various parishes during September by per-
sons who are exempt and whose names ap-
pear on the lists, their names will be re-
Will be liable to serve on special and COM
mon juries for the ensuing year. During
the last week of September the justices
hold a petty sessions to correct the lists
and to allow the notices of objection to the
OVerseers.'
W d. Hunter, special agent, has just
reported to DR.. Howard, the entomologist
Of the agricultural department in regard
to recent statement to the effect that it
was considered by entomologists that the
Turtle mountain region, in North Dakota
ana Montana, probably was a permanent
breeding ground of the destructive migra-
tory srasshopper, statement which oc-
casioned much alarm and indignation on
the part of railroads and other land own
ers. This region, therefore, was carefully
scrutnlzed by Mr.. Hunter who reports
that the migratory grasshopper does not
| breed permanently in the Turtle mountains
| in that VfaipifN ba =