The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


/ tiful flowers are discarded because ordina-
| rily they are classed a weeds says the
4 Boston Herald. A woman who had plenty
of land and taste for experimenting made
/ a weed garden" this year which is a grear
| success. She doesn't know the names of
! al The Outcasts she has gathered in bIt
/ she noticed last year all the wild things
/ tnat grew and lowered neglected by The
/ wayside. and transplanted those thai ap-
( peaied to her most strongly. The main Iea-
/ son. she urges, That they attract so lit
/ re notice when growing Wild is that they
1 are not massed and arranged as We pace
I cultivated flowers to get the best effect.
/ Now, that is what l have done. A W ID
/ flower, or a weed, as II is scornfully term
/ ed THAI is TOO fragile 10 be thought mucn
! of will make delicate. feathery mass
/ which VIII be vastly admired when planted
/ together by the score or more Even such
/ a despsed thing as the common ragWeed
| is worthy of admiration if you happen 10
1 look al IL Alright, and il is finely effective
! as foliage for cut flowers This weed gar
| dener has provided for a succession of
! blossoms from ViOlets and dandeons to
/ golden rod and late fall grasses, and moth
/ ing has repaid the gardeners efforts with
! better results than these absolutely free
| flowers.
! There is more than $4,000 of the peo-
pies money locked up in postofice keys,
each and every keyhoider being required
! TO put up with the postmaster a deposit for
! his keythe amount deposited being return
ed when the box is given up and rent paid
| says the Washington Times. Postmasters
! are required to keep strict account of the
| key deposit fund, while the pos office de-
/ partment mere has a regular division set
| apart for keeping this account. AS pos
tai official puts it, there is a great deal of
/ trouble and no money in the transactions,
and the final outcome of the keyless locks
! which are to be tried in the principal Of
| fees Of the country is eagerly looked for.
| The department has long wanted a key
less lock but none of the lock inventions
until the present was regarded as in any
way calculated to prove acceptable. Con-
| tracts nave been made for supply of the
new locks, which will first be tried in New
! York, Boston. Philadelphia, Chicago and
st. Louis, as the largest and most import
| ant offices, and then in St Paul Mimi.
Cleveland, O.. Hartford, Conn, Madison,
Wis, and Rockford, Ill. These offices will
| be fitted out as soon as the factory can
complete the making of the boxes. If
| they prove in every way satisfactory 10
| the department and to the patrons they
| will be placed in offices throughout the
country, but not TO the entire exclusion of
| the lock boxes. II is the belief of the post
office department lock experts that the
keyless box viii prove a blessing.
Consul Heeuau writes from Odessa
Aug. Is, 1885, l saw the other DAY a Gu
rious device attached 10 the mooring rope
or cable of a steamer which was loading
at this port the cable was run through
a piece of iron pipe about foot in length,
and welded on the end of The pipe was a
iange or funnel which looked like the end
of a trumpet, with the wide end facing he
snip. The iron pipe was stuffed with oak
UNI, to prevent it from slipping and also
to prevent rats from passing through it.
This novel constructions was quite close
to the ship. On inquiring what purpose
this device served, l was informed that
the Russian authorities furnished these ap-
planes and Obliged all ships to use them
whenever they came from a port infected
with the plague, in order 10 prevent the
rats on the ship from coming on shore. Il
is generally conceded that the plague has
been carried and spread by rats which
| have left ships coming from infected ports
| 1t is known that rats make use of the ca
bic TO come on shore, and this iron pipe
with its funnel-shaped arrangement was
| employed to prevent such visits, if posi-
Die. These devices are attached TO cacn
cable by which the ship is moored. In
addition to this precaution, the master OF
the ship is obliged TO take down his load
ing stages every night and erect them
again the following morning, in order to
prevent the rats from coming on shore dur
ing the night l do not know whether this
device is known to our sanitary authori-
ties, and l send this description of il in the
hope that ii may be of service.
Through some historic accident, never
yet completely explained the English have
never made of birth the dividing line says
the London Spectator. few Of them
! nor so many as is fancied-greatly respect
good birth, but with the majority the di-
viding lines are wealth and rank: and
wealth and rank are attainable, as far as
either law or custom goes, by any man.
Every Englshman desires wealth for
himself, and rank if he ever thinks of it.
and therefore is content that minority
should attain either or both. Who cares
to remember Lord Kitchener's grandfath-
err or the father of Mr.. Millions? When ne
! talks dialect, as ne does when giving his
real opinion, the Englishman says of the
rich man that che lives upright" and of
The man of rank that 'he is swell" ana
in either case not only forgives but likes
him. The inequality, which he quite per-
ceives does not strike him as an oppres-
sion, but as a fact and a fact which makes
life more picturesque and lively than it
would otherwise be. If the coachman in
wig orders The carter in a smock to get
out of the way, the carter stops in the
| way but if ciVilly entreated he moves off
and greatly appreciates the hammercloth
and the bays If he were ricn he could
have them TOO; nobody stops his getting
|
mre. He is not sweet-tempered fellow
by any means, and very jealous of his
rights" as he conceives them-just watch
him when a right of way is stopped up
but he is not euvious, rather thinks it
pleasant that there should he rich folk
about. Nothing incommunicahle gives a
claim 20 tho carriage only brass" which
anyL ody may have if he is luck enough,
! aud therefore the Englishman feels no de
sire to pelt the carriage folk.
In making the little pieces of silver
money commonly called dimes the silver
bullion is first melted and run into bars
that weigh two pounds each. These bars
are then run between great rollers, and
are thus flattened into strips of Inc thick
ness required for dlme-makiug The strips,
after having been treated with a kind of
taHow preparation to keep them from be
ing scratched, are put through a machine
that cuts them into the proper size. The