The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A mouse nest was discovered the other
day in the Springfield Railroad station
made up of over 81, 900 worth of railroad
tickets and 81 bill.
"A Brooklyn pastor has declared
against shutting children up in stuffy
classrooms Sunday afternoons, telling his
congrega lion to teach their children week
days and take them walking Sunday af-
ternoons.
Oakland, Me, has become such fav-
orite resort for tramps of late that the
town authorities have voted to purchase
and use Baker primitive chair" kind
OF modernized stocks. wherewith to make
it interesting for visiting wayfarers.
Factories in this country are now en-
gagged in manufacturing eighty-one loco
motive engines for the Trans Siberian
Railway, thirty for the Midland Railway
OF England, twenty for Sweden, fifteen
for Egypt and ten for French state rail-
ways
Organ grinders in Verviers, Belgium,
are by law compelled to appear every
morning before the police superintendent
and play their instruments. The organs
which chance to be out of tune must be
the street will be granted.
The Royal Academy of Sciences of
Amsterdam has paid a delicate compll-
ment to the English-speaking world by
ordering that it's transactions shall in fu-
ture he printed in English instead of the
native Dutch, in order that they may be
more available 20 the scientific world at
large.
The weights of classes of students be-
fore and after examination have been
made the subject of recent investigation.
In high classes, where naturally the exam
ination was most felt, several pounds
were lost, showing how the mental strain
was felt. In lower classes the loss was
not so great.
The belief that Friday is a day of bad
luck arose from varied reasons. One SUI
persdtion is that It was on Friday Adam
and Eve ate the fatal apple, and then it
Is agreed that Christ was crucihed on Fri
day. 1t is believed to be bad luck to cut
the finger nails on Friday, and manicur-
lists say their business is lightest on that
day.
When one receives an invitation to
wedding in Cairo, Egypt, it Is an important
event, because, instead of being asked for
a ten-mlnute church ceremony, or a brief
evening reception, the invitation reads for
three days. There is feasting during all
this time, and the house and street are
literally decorated with flags and Ian
terms.
While the Byron memorial is probably
a. failure, and even the Gladstone fund
comes in rather slowly, the Charlotte
Yonge memorial in England seems TO be
an undoubted success. OF the $4,000 ask
ed for the establishment of a scholarship
at the Winchester High School over Sc 900
has been subscribed. "A memorial has
also been suggested for William Black. to
take the form of a life-saving station on
the wild Scottish coast he loved so well.
Mayor Quincy of Boston has suggested
that the city should possess facilities for
incinerating the bodies of criminals, pau
pers and others whose burial devolves
upon the city. The idea is to do away
altogether with the potter's field It is
asserted that the city should be able to
cremate bodies at cost of only 81 each,
while it costs SO to dig a grave. The pres
ent potter's field will be filled before the
expiration of the present year. The buri-
ais are Increasing in number yearly.
The movement for the study of the
Irish language in Ireland has met an OBJ
stacle in the opposition of a number of
prominent Irish educators, among whom
are DR.. Mahaffy and DR.. Atkinson both
of Dublin University. DR.. Atkinson is re-
garded as the greatest living authority
on the Irish language and literature and
might have been expected to favor the
proposed renascence. But he takes the
surprising ground that the mass of extant
Irish literature, including the modern folk
lore, is too indecent for popular teaching
The newsboys of Boston are required
to take out licenses to sell papers, the doc
uments costing 25 cents each 1--WE ex-
pect to license 1000 of them this year"
said the clerk who issues the certificates
the other day. Last year we had 800
and then the bars were taken down al
together and anybody was allowed to sell
papers during the. war. 1 shall have a
superintendent and two men on the street
now, however, and any boy found selling
papers improperly will be reported to the
committee on licenses, which has said 1t
will take away the licenses"
The old London banking house of Cos
ling & Sharpe, which in by-gone days was
known by the sign of the Three SQUIRRELS
has been pulled down, and boarding re-
mains around the site, while new premises
are being erected in which the bankir Q
business, now amalgamated with that of
Barclay, Bevan & Co, will continue to be
carried on and where the ancient sign
formed of three little iron squirrels, which
had been displayed upon a window bar of
the goldsmith's and bankers premises. up-
on this spot for more than 800 years, will
still have a place.
England finds 1t impossible to dock her
biggest battleships outside of Europe. The
hong Kong Dock Company has refused to
take the risk of docking the Victorious, as
the battleship is only six inches narrower
than the dock entrance. She must, there
fore, return to England to be cleaned I'M
less she can get into the Malta dock. The
Victorious, it will be remembered, ran
aground at the entrance to the Suez canal
on her way to China, and was floated again
with difficulty. The reason given at the
time was that her anchors were not big
enough to hold.
Some years ago Rev. Mr. Sheldon of
Topeka Kan, made the odd experiment of
writing a serial socialistic novel called In
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