The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Philadelphia book clerk tells of
richly dressed woman who came into his
store the other day, inquiring for "A Day
IN Harem" After a period of search
she was given David Harum," which she
took, with the understanding that she
could return it if it was not the book
She wanted
-Caterpillars are driving ioiterers from
the Boston Common and are becoming
more and more of a pest every day. To
women and Children especially the enforc-
ed Punishment from The popular little park
brings much regret for the time being
and they are blaming those who Destroy
ed the English sparrows last spring for
the infection.
"A Topeka QSan) man found In his
garnet the other day pamphlet which,
among other curious things, contains this
paragraph; Westward of the Missouri
river, this side of the Rocky mountains
is a great desert. uninhabited by civil
llzed society, where there is neither law
nor gospel" How the writer of that SEN
tence would stare, if alive, and go to
view his DESERT
Some interesting particulars as TO the
extent and cost of fox hunting in England
were given the other day by Lord Bath
urst There are now 221 packs of fox
hounds in United kingdom-1s0 in Eng
fand, Is in Scotland and Is in Ireland
ana these packs consist of 5000 couples of
hounds, and they necess!tate the employ
ment of 100000 horses of the value of $35
UUoWo involving an outlay of $4,000, 600
per annum for their maintenance
The gentry and generally those who
are not farmers In England have been an
a in
duciion and use of barb wire. They got
law enacted by which any fence made of
barb wire or having barb wire thereon,
adjoining a highway, may be declared a
nuisance and the occuper OF the land
forced 10 remove it, The cross-country
foX-hunting squires naturally object to
barb wire fences as an impeachment to their
pastimes, and people travelling along the
roads seem unable TO keep off it, so the
farmers who put up such fences are har-
ried both by public opinion and the law.
The actual consumption of intoxicants
on one of the large ocean steamers during
voyage from New York to Liverpool
was 5000 quarts and 1853 pints of cham
payne, 10, 491 quarts and 1910 pints of clar.
ct, $500 quarts of other Wines 4S9, 344 pints
OF ale and porter, and "a 400 quarts of
"spirituous liquors. 1t is estimated that
the number of cigars smoked by ocean
steamship passengers in a year would suf-
fee to supply the whole of London for that
period. Several of the big lines make their
own brands of cigars and their own cigar
cites, employing experienced tobaccons,s
TO work for them entirely, TO satisfy the
great demand for smokes"
1t is claimed that nearly every CONT
mental embassy and legation in Washing
ton has one or more scions of impoverished
for f1foc -1,.~ar tit.
taches without any salary whatever and
for the sole purpose of marrying a rich
American wife, They have no diplomatic
labors to perform, nor are they expected
10 report at the embassy except when the
spirit moves them to pay social visits In
deed, they would not be trusted with the
performance of the simplest diplomatic
task. Their standing with the embassy is
simply to give them eclat. 1t requires a
great deal of influence to secure one of
these honorary diplomatic posts
Journalism in Greenland is represented
by single paper. conducted by a certain
NJ. Moeller. This energetic gentleman
performs, single-handed, the functions of
editor, printer and distributor, and the en-
tire paper is the product of his own pen
tie has set up a primitive printing estab-
hshment at Godthaab and twice a month
he performs a long journey on skates
through the country to dispose of his Jour
nal. Originally nothing more than a col
lection of crude illustrations, Mr.. Moeller
gradually introduced into the pages of his
paper. first words, then sentences, and
finally regular articles on the affairs of
the day. In fact he may be said to have
actually taught his subscribers 20 read
1t is said that Col. John Sobieski still
lives in an unpretentious little house in
Neosho, Mo. He is" says the Buffalo
Commercial, sixth lineal descendant,
through the oldest sons of old
est sons, of King John So
bieski of Poland, the hero who be-
came Christendom's champion when the
Mahometan was at the gates of Vienna,
and who, when all Europe, panic stricken
refused aid went FORTH Sept. 12 1858. with
a little army of 5000 men and attacked
and defeated the Mahometan host of more
than ten times that number. The Sobieskis
figure gloriously in the romantic history of
Poland. In every historical national
movement they have been leaders 1t was
Count Sobiesk Col John Sobieskrs faith
er, who led the revolt of 1876 and died up
on the scaffold for his love of country
The family estates were confiscated; the
widow and son, the present Col. Sobieski
went to Genoa, thence to London, where
the former died. The lad, al the age of
u, worked his passag to New York When
Is he entered the Union army and fought
through the civil war In 1865 he became
a colonel in the Mexican army. OF late
years he has lived quietly in the West
&C. H. Mead, a Delaware county drug
gist, was at the Broadway Central Hotel
last night, says the New York Tribune.
I've been disposing of a lot of ginseng
root 10 an exporter in Cedar street" said
he. Nearly all of it goes to China. The
Japs don't use it, but the Chinese think
there's nothing like ginseng 1t is a slen-
der, slow growing shrub, from all through
the North, and there is good deal OF it
in Delaware and Sullivan counties. The
root, dried, brings Sc a pound here in Man
haitian. The Chinese ascribe an sorts of
virtues to it, and the value of each indi-
Vidual root depends on its size and shane
big root brings enormous prices i'm
China. 1t has no particular medicinal prop
cries. 1t mas been analysed more than
once, and the absolute absence of healing
qualities in the herb is perfectly wei
known to the druggists of this country
That makes no difference to the China