The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| while nshlng he tied MS me ABOUT MS
ankle and went 10 sleep on the bank of the
river. A twenty-one pound carp which
| seized the hook pulled the man or the
bank into the river. He was rescued just
| in time and the fish landed.
of ,178 bills passed by the last United
| States Senate, 517, or less than one-ha.f,
were passed by the House of Representa-
| tives, but in the next Congress IL is COM
.puted thai more harmonious relations will
! exist between the two branches in conse-
! quence of the fact that there viii be a
| large infusion of Republican membership
in the upper branch giving the Republ-
cans there good working majority
"A blue rose is described by the German
gardeners in Slavonia, Chwoika and Bitz,
who are cultivating it. Reports came of
| blue roses that grew wild in Servia and
| specimen was sent to them two years ago,
J with beautiful violetblue flowers. They
| have been experimenting to see whether
| the color is retained under cultivation or
| whether it is due to the soil of the moors
J where it is found. If the roses retain
their blue the plants will be for sale in
1901.
The house at Falkirk, Scotland, in
which Prince Charlie slept before the his
toric battle of 1746, was recently removed.
! The pulling down of The structure resulted
| in an interesting find of coins. There are
| twenty-one old coins, mostly belonging TO
| the reign of George III. The most inter-
| estng is one dated 1881, bearing on one
side the arms of the city of Edinburgh
and the inscription, Edinburgh half-pen-
| NY, and on the other repsentation of st.
| Andrew, the Scottish thistle and the mot
to, Memo me impune Iacessit."
"A dispatch from Sycamore, ILL.,, says:
Lyle Smith. son of Deputy Sheriff Frank
Smith, died here, aged 80 years. He was
born with imperfect valves of the heart
so that the venous and arterial blood We're
| not separated This caused his complex
ion to be very susceptible to the changes
| of the weather. In pleasant weather lie
was of a fair color, but when storm was
| approaching he would begin TO show signs
of changing before il was visible. and
| gradually became a blue color, the nevous
| blood predominating Physicians had
studied his case and predicted his early
death
! in a pretty Wisconsin town not far
from Milwaukee there is a spite fence
which tells its own story to all the world.
| 1t is a high and tight board affair, and
| cuts off a view across number of beau
| tiful lawns. The man who lives on one
side of it evidently feared that the fence
| would bring down on his head the con-
| demuation OF his neighbors. Not wishing
| to be unjustly blamed, he has therefore
painted on his side of the fence, in letters
that can be read a block away, these
words He built this fence. l didn't do
it," The man on the other side also had
| no idea of letting a false impression get
out. Accordingly he has painted on the
other side of the high barrier: Il had to
do it."
A correspondent, writing in the Spec
| bA
| Sharavatti river, in South Kanara, India,
are larger and more magnificent than Nj
| agara He says: THE river is $50 yards
wide the clear fall is $50 feet. The Ger
! soppa Falls in the rainy season are in
| comparably finer than Niagara in every
| respect. The roar of the falling waters is
| simply terrific; the whole earth shakes,
and the thunder is so great that it COM
pletely browns the human voice. When 1
visited Niagara and told my American
| friends about Gersoppa they replied with
| polite incrcdultiy, We never heard of
| Gersoppa' 1 replied: Make your mind
easy; the people at Gersoppa have never
heard of Niagara If Niagara could see
Gersoppa she would wrap her head in a
| mist"
One of the few Englishmen whose name
is known all over the world for his scien-
tiic discoveries is Prof. D. E. Hughes
| HIS pruning Telegraph instrument, now In
! use throughout the continent dates from
| 1857; his microphone dates from a paper
! read to the royal society May 8, 1878; his
| discovery of the remedy for induction and
| cross-talk on telephone wires by the use
| of twisted wire arrangements, now uni
| versaly used, from March y, 1872 his in
| duction balance from May 5, 1879. Since
then he has read numerous papers before
| the royal society and elsewhere, upon mag
| netism and the like. His whole early ca
reer was devoted to establishing his print
ing telegraph instrument on all the i'm
portant telegraph lines of the continent,
for which the different governments have
bestowed upon him nine of their highest
decorations. He very generously aban~
doned to the public his rights over the
celebrated microphone out of which he
might have made large fortune.
Jewels once worn by the Queen Regent
of Spain are now the priced property of
two American women, says the New York
Press. David Moffat, Colorado million
aire, while abroad recently, purchased "a
diamond necklace for 100000 and a dia-
mond tiara Tor $4,000. Both had been
given to the Spanish treasury by the
Queen Regent during the war with the
United States, and Mr. Moffat, after much
trouble, succeeded in obtaining them He
| kept them as surprise for his wife and
niece, and presented them on Tuesday
night. few friends were invited to dine
with him at the Fifth Avenue hotel and
after dinner the presentation was made.
Mr., Moffat could not be seen at the hotel
yesterday, as he and his family had gone
to the seashore, and it was said they would
not return until to-day. The purchaser of
the jewels made most of his great fortune
in silver mines. He has often figured be-
fore the public. Once he gave S21 900 to a
robber who entered his bank with sup
posed bottle of dynamite. The bottle was
filled wish castor Oil He made himself
| popular with New York walters last year,
when he took Thomas Gay, the head wait
er of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, to Europe,
making a travelling companion of him
Although 'pidgin" English, 'Iingua
Franco" and other come-b chance vocab-
ularies do not extend beyond their origi-
nal homes, and all conscious attempts to
| found a universal language-such as the
now moribund Volapuk-are doomed to