The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Eugene ,NEil-kuONn
ogist and student of the antiquities of
Paris, has just made a restoration of a
druggists shop of the seventeenth century,
with articles discovered recently in Paris.
Some of them are as old as the fifteenth
and fourteenth centuries.
"A horned rabbit was killed by George
W. TerriR of Jewell county, Kansas, the
other day, and is now on exhibition az the
postoff1ce at Robinson. The horns grew
on top of the animals head between the
ears, and are three inches in length. While
not considered a rarity in that section, this
species of rabbit is by no means common.
Mrs. Mabel French of Sullivan, Ind,
is perhaps the only woman who ever made
our her own marriage license. Before her
marriage few days she was a steno-
grapher in the county clerks office. She
was there when her fiance, Frank N.
French, druggist, came for his license.
He induced her to make out the docu-
ment.
Princess Victoria Alexandra Olga
Mary, who has been reported to be en-
gagged to Prince George of Greece, is the
second daughter of the Prince of Wales,
and is 80 years old. It was rumored lasl
year that she was to become engaged to
John Barring, Baron Revelstoke. Prince
| George is the second son of King George
of Greece. He is % years old.
The military commander of Paris has
ordered that placards illustrating the evil
effects of alcohol shall be placed on all of
| the barracks in that city. These cards,
| which are hung in conspicuous places, snow
| on one side the interior organs of drunk
| ard and on the other those of a temperate
| man. Beneath is a brief explanation of
the pathological and moral effects of the
| abuse of alcohol.
| Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota
and California were the four states of the
country which, by the federal census of
| 1890, had a larger foreign born than native
born male population of voting age. The
percentages were SO, 50, 65 and 5012, re-
| spectively Wisconsin, Minnesota and
North Dakota have a large Scandinavian
| population, California has many Chinese
| residents of voting age.
To extlnguish oils which have taken
fire, the Illustrirte Gewerbe Zeitung rec
ommends the use of a fine meshed wire
net of the size of a boiling pan, which
| should be kept on hand in every varnish
| factory, etc. In the same moment when
the netting is laid upon the burning sur
face, the flame is extinguished because it
is a glowing mass of gas, which the iron
| wire quickly cools off so much that it
cannot glow any more. The use of water
is excluded, and that of earth and sand
undesirable, because both dirty the oil.
"A traveller in Siberia tells of remark
able occurrence among the frozen regions
of that country. In the intensely cold
nights, he writes in Good Words, the
silence was sometimes broken by loud
report as of cannon. This was the burst
| ing of one of the ice bubbles on a river,
a phenomenon I had neither heard or
read of before. The streams coming down
| from the hills were frozen on the surface
some six to nine inches thick. The water
| beneath flowed faster than it could es-
| cape, and the pressure, on the principle
OF hydraulic press, became irresistible.
| First the elasticity of the ice was seen
by the rising of circular mounds some six
to eight feet high. The bursting point
came at last with a report like an ex-
plosion. The water escaped, but soon
froze again. Scores of these ice hillocks
are to be seen in a few versts of the
| river.
In connection with the peace proposals
of the Car there has been pointed out a
curious coincidence between 1893 and 1899
eAAlO 5OiiiC hAtCtSollA5 anu not S6u6TdllY
| known facts are recalled, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. In the first mentioned year
the Gar and the King of Great Britain
had correspondence on military arma-
| ments, but it was then with a view to
their increase, not decrease. The idea
was to combine England Russia and
| Prussia against "our common enemy,
France" Russia was to supply the men
and England the money. The Gar in
| formed
Great Britain, that "he was ready to af-
ford their ally, the King of Prussia, a sue
cor of land forces" and that he had DIES
tined for that purpose 5000 men-infantry
and cavalry and artillery" The govern
ment of George III then undertook to fur
nish the Car with a subsidy of f75,000
month,and engaged to pay the first amount
as soon as the Russian armament had
crossed the Russian frontier. and to paw
a like sum at the. beginning of each month
for twelve months, unless peace should
first be made"
Compared with Jerusalem, Damascus
is Partisan, says Harper's Magazine. The
Jerusalem air presses heavily with its
melancholy past. Half a score of sects
make it a rendezvous for pillage or for
mummery, and its memorials of imperish-
able events have to be looked at through
the dust of persisted dynasties. 1t is mvs-
tic, solemn arcane. Damascus is practi-
cal, positive and even merry. The wall of
Israel sounds along the arid valleys of
| Zion, but Damascus sings a voluptuous
carol by means of its ice cool, tabled riv-
er. The tinkle of ats bells mingles for
ever with the gurgle of its waters and
ABOVE all you hear the sllvery laughter
of the Syrian girls and catch the dane
ing humor OF their dark eyes through their
little wells. Jerusalem has its austere
character to sustain. Its temples are
tombs. Its weight of poignant history
keeps it grave. But in Damascus Won are
under no obligations to the past that the
present cannot make you forget It's in
Vulnerable shuttles and armories call Won
back to the busting exigencies of life
The coffee bazars defy melancholy. So
this stranded city on the shores of time
the gold on whose mosques never corrode
-oasks IN the sun and eats figs merrily,
just as 1t did when Saul of Tarsus tourney,
ed that way.
| The fearful madness that ryo~ s.--.,.-