The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


George II is preserved AS each dish is
placed upon the table, the name of the
cook who prepared il is announced.
-Viennese telephone girls are required
to change their clothing and wear uni
form when on duty in order that the dust
which they bring in with them from the
streets may not inJure the instruments.
There is one church for every 3s7
people in the United States. Boston has
one for every Zoo Of her population ana
Minneapolis one for every 1.0H. Twenty
four million people attend church in the
United States every Sunday.
At an auction sale In Boston the other
day hfty-nine-foot tugboat was dispos
ed OF for the comparatively insignificant
sum OF SiTo. The vessel was the John
c. Cottingham, and was built in 1872. The
former owner had spent nearly 5000 in
repairing the tug wi<hin the past year,
and the purchaser undoubtedly had the
best OF the transaction.
Speaking OF the origin of the word
"deadhead Frederick Stanley says: I'm
the Museum at Naples I was much in
terested in a case of theatrical tickets
found in a tragic theater in Pompeii.
They were made variously in bone, ivory
10 this day the gallery of an Italian the
alter is called the pigeon loft. Well, the
little tickets for this part of the audi
forum were in the shape of pigeons, while
varying devices We're used for other parts
OF the house. What attracted my atten-
ton most curiously, however, was a set
of diminutive skulls modelled in ivory.
These were used solely by those having
the right of free admission. Now. does
this not suggest the very possible deriva-
ton of the term?"
According to a Washington special IN
the New York Tribune disappointment
was expressed in the office of the third
assistant postmaster general to-day Sat
urday) when IL was discovered that the
parafine paper used for the new postage
stamp books only prevents adhesion for
a few days, probably a week, and then
it appears to lose its effect entirely, and
the stamps become glued to the pages as
though no prepare ton was employed to
prevent adhesion. The recent spell of
warm weather has brought this defect
TO light. and steps are 10 be taken at
once to remedy it, Mr.. Madden says that
no more books will be issued with para
fine leaves, and that a certain kind of oil
paper is to be used in its stead, which, it
is thought, will answer every require
ment.
Nearly every young woman" said
dentist, according to the Philadelphia Rec
ord, has white teeth. but young men arc
not so particular. They go around with
dull and yellowish teeth, claiming that
they brush them religiously. but that
smoking keeps taen from being spotless-
from resembling in the mouth as the fell
low says, snow on roses. But that Is all
lie. Laziness. nothing else, Is the trouble
with any one whose teeth are not white. I
say to such a person: Brush the teeth
FIVE minutes daily am tod: oh. 1 do,
at least that long Then I say: Well. time
yourself when you go at it tomorrow.
Five minutes may be longer than you
think And from then on the fellow
brushes his teeth sufficiently, and they are
as white as girls. Five minutes of tooth
brush pushing, you see is mighty long
while. An athlete, hammer thrower,
| told me once that when be began it the
| muscles of his neck and arms were stiff
| for week.
THE monthly cleanup of our mine
| said gentleman connected with the Carl
| bou Hydraulic Mining Companys mines on
| the Quesnelle river, British Columbia Us
about 400 pounds of gold which IS made
| into one brick and carried out by stage
to Ashcroft on the Canadian Pacific, 235
miles away. 1t may not occur 10 you
| what that little brick of gold, for 400
| pounds of gold isn't as big as a bale of
| hay, represents in bulk of material hand
| led to obtain il, but II means a lot. For
instance the pay streak in the mine runs
| q cents to the cubic yard, which near S
that 10000 cubic yards of gravel-400
pounds of gold being worth about 800, 600
must be washed out by our big hydraulics
to get 1t. AS the pay streak is about one
third of the whole qauntfty to be blasted
and washed, It would give the enormous
mass of 100000 cubic yards of earth and
10 b.a H. al iJh
nearly 10000 tons-and all this for a bit
of yellow metal that could be covered by
a peck measure. If we had to carry it
away in the same kind of six-horse ages
that we send the gold cut in. 1t would
take 10000 of them with as many men TO
drive them and 100000 horses to haul
them"
Mr.. Steve Richie of Bailtown, tells
the Bardstown KY, Observer an interest
| ing story. For years a family of owls
OF the large horned species have made
their home in big hollow tree, near the
Richie residence. Recently one of Mr..
Rltchie's sons succeeded in capturing one
of the young owls. He placed the bird in
large cage, and IL apparently enjoyed It's
| captivity. Last week young Richie con-
| Guided to capture one of the old owls and
with this end in view he attached a steel
trap to the cage containing the young bird,
| and placed the outfit at the base Of the
old hollow tree. When he went TO inves-
| tIgate next morning he found that one of
the old birds had been caught by the foot
| in the steel trap. He also discovered that
| II had, in some manner, succeeded in gel
| ting a rabbits head into the cage for
| food for its offspring. The old owl is an
immense specimen, and has horns nearly
| five inches in length. During the past
week young Richie succeeded in cap
turing the male owl. The latter visited
the cage containing the young owl, and,
after depositing q large portion of rattle
snake for its food. proceeded TO get caught
| in the steel trap. He is very large and
Is pompous old fellow. At intervals he
blows himself up and struts like a turkey
| gobbler.
The wide celebration of st. George $
day Monday gives rise to many curious
reflections. st. George has Icing been Eng
| lands patron saint, ana his name has
| long been the English warcry for many
| centuries, says the New York Tribune
| Yet not until the Hanoverian dynasty
came in was George ever a popular name
among Englishmen, es, for example An
| draw Patrick and David have To-