The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Some extraordinary bidding took place
on a doll auctioned off at a charity bazaar
held at Whitley, Surrey. the other day.
The puppet was only worth about shil.-
ings, but the bids came rapidly, and a
Mr.. LabOuchere mot the Mr.. Labouchere
of TRUTH finally secured the prize for
$3.50.
Tests with liquid fuel are now being
carried on in the British navy, and the ex-
periments appear 10 be very encouraging.
Trials are to be made with different kinds
of oils, and in the new torpedo destroyers
that are being built the question of adapt
ing the boilers for the use of liquid fuel
is being seriously considered. The trials
SO far made have been in torpedo boat,
and it has been found that there is but
little change of structural conditions nee
essary, in case the boat is to burn oil or
coal, and the few minor notifications es-
sential can be made without laying the
boat up for any length of time.
The Cinnamon of Seattle have taken
up the cry of equal rights and opened
a war with the white gambling houses of
that city The police have been making
it warm for John, and ne declares there
has been no end of invidious distinction in
favor of his American fellow craftsmen
SollC6 lL5 dulNOTlltSS nave StOpptu HIS
gaming, have collected barrel of opium
outfits" and left every Joint like "a pan
quet hall forsaken," the downtrodden Gel
estials have begun a crusade against ma
tive industries, and swear to have raided
every white gambling house in the city
They claim that the talk of a Highbinders
Association in Seattle is but of the many
base canards originated by Jealous Ameri-
can professional rivals and they threaten
sffts faf
little game" whose address they can by
any means procure.
Few of Englands noble families have
been so honored as have the Percys, and
tne Percys have always held as their
dearest right that whereby they can
curry dead in Westminster Abbey. The
space for interments in that old pile has
finally grown extremely limited and there
We're not lacking those who broadly hint
ed that the Percys would gracefully add
another to their services to the state by
waving their right to burial in the abbey
and thereby making room for the coun-
try's more iLustrious dead. But, with
hereditary stubbornness, the Percys have
continued to hold on" The late Duke
of Northumberland was himself a Percy
in the female line, though in the male
Smithson. AN idea has prevailed" says
family were new people, OF ignoble de-
scent, but that is not the case. Sir Hugh
SmithsOn, before he married the heiress of
historic Northumbrian family, was a bar
onet of ancient family, and large proper
ty at Stanwick, in Yorkshire. The found
er of the famous Smithsonian Institution
at Washington was a natural son of a
Duke of Northumberland"
Sir James Sawyer of Birmingham,
England, has laid down some rules by
following which one may, says the medi-
cal compiler reasonably hope to reach the
century mark. There may be people who
want to reach it--one has read of such
so here they are: /. Sleep eight hours a
day. 2 Sleep on the right side. g. Open
the windows of ones bedroom at night
L. Put a screen i'm front of the door s.
Place ones bed away from the wall. g.
Take bath the temperature OF the
body every morning, not cold douche.
Z Take exercise before breakfast. 8.
Eat little meal and make sure il is thor
oughly cooked. 9 (For adults. Do not
drink milk. 10. Eat much grain in order
to noursh cells which destroy the germs
of disease. IL Avoid intoxicants which
destroy these cells. y. Take daily exer-
else in the open air. 49, Keep no animals
in living rooms. They may have the
germs of disease. A. Live as much as
possible in the country. Is. Drink water.
avoid humidity and the neighborhood Of
sewage pipes. 16. Vary ones occupa-
tions II. Take from time to time a short
holiday. IS. Limit ones ambitions 49,
Restrain ones natural character There
you are. Sounds simple. doesn't it? A
child could do it. Nobody else would
Indeed. if they did, what would become
of DR.. Sawyer-of unhappy name-and
the rest of his profession?
"A sensation has been created in Ha-
vana, says a cable from that city to the
New York Sun, by the report received
there from Madrid stating that when the
casEet containing the supposed remains of
Christopher Columbus was opened in Ma
drid it was discovered that the Spanish
coins OF gold and silver the gold cross and
other valuable relics which were inferred
with his remains were found to be miss
ing. The remains, it will be remembered.
were taken from the cathedral in Havana
and shipped to Spain after the agreement
made by the Spanards to surrender Cuba
It is asserted that the record of the arti-
cles placed in the casl1et containing the
body has been kept among the archives
of the cathedral in charge of the arch
bishop of Havana, and that they show
that the caSket contained some of all the
gold and silver coins of Spain then exist
ing, as well as a cross of solid gold and
number of other relics of great vaIue
Where they have disappeared TO is now
mystery, as, so far as can be discovered
there is no evidence that the casket was
disturbed yet on the other hand it is ar
gued that they could not have been ex-
tracted except by removing the lid in some
manner and then covering up all traces
of the work. 1t is charged that robbery
has been committed, and as the remains
were in charge of the priests they are
held responsible, but as nearly 400 years
have elapsed since the interment of the
body 1t is impossible to accuse any one of
the theft. However, there is much disap-
pointment over the fact that the valuable
relics have been lost.
The green ray" an optical phenome-
non which has been made the foundation
of story by Jules Verne, is a flash of
greenish light seen as the limb of the sun
rises or sets under certain conditions of
the atmosphere, says the New York