The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-03
ITEMS OF INTER EST.

GUN CHEwERs should take warning from the
/ fate of a Newton, Conn. girl, aged l6. A piece
Of gum slipped down her throat, aud, lodging at
the entrance to the stomach, caused fatal Ill
ceration.
IT IS REPORTED from Yale college that there
has been notable decrease in smoking there
during the last six years. A year ago 10 per
cent. of the freshmen used tobacco; this year
the ratio is down to 10 per cent.
THE late Commodore Cicero Price, father of
the Duchess of Marlborough, who died last
week at Troy. n Y, was q tall, striking look
ing ma }, reserved in manner and thorough
aristocrat He bitterly opposed to his
daughters recent marriage
THE Manchester ship canal now gives employ
ment to $3.50 men and boys 81 steam navvies,
9S locomotives a. steam cranes, 3,22i wagons
and 104 pumping and other engines II this
| proves a financial success il is thought that
Sheffield, Birmingham and Bristol will also be
connected with the coast by means of canals.
THE city of New York spent ST. 400 4s4 for the
| relief and support of the poor last year. against
Si.032 6s3 the previous year. The total number
OF paupers received in the poor houses during
| the year was AZ, G64 and the number of inmates
now in these institutions is Q, 46.. The average
yearly cost head was S52 s. against Sl06 81
the year before. The additional cost is accounted
for as the result of raising the st andard Of
food and attendants
/
| some rather remarkable results of experiments
in cotton planting His purpose was to ascer-
| tain the result of planting in rows OF different
widths. Most of the cotton was planted in the
usual width, but five acres were planted with
the rows feet apart and he reports that the
cotton in this field did not cease growing the
| entire year and made twice as much to the acre
| as that planted the usual width
ONE of the latest features of life in Philadel-
phia is the lightning sketch artist, who takes
your likeness while you wait" drawing your
profile with crayon in three minutes for the
beggarly sum of % cents He operates in the
| bulk window of cigar store, his victim sitting
| inside and the performance naturally attracts
great crowds about the window, whose com
ments and criticisms are no small part of tho
show. On bright days business is often quite
brisk.
SAD and singular accident occurred at
Deseret. Utah. the other morning. A 21h-
year old girl, daughter of Albert Duuford, was
playing with beer bottle, which she had i'm
| provised into a doll. II appears that the little
| one dropped the bottle, breaking the neck, and
afterward fell upon it, striking her in the region
of the heart, severiug an artery and causing
death instantly. TIE little innocent was In the
dooryard at the time the accident happened.
| The mother picked her child up, but she never
| opened her eyes or spoke.
AT ST. Paul, Mimi, a colored man was ar
rested the other day who might we'll be called a
peripatetic junk shop. When he was searched
| at the station house something more than a
peck of odds and ends were found in his peck
cts. He had razor and full shaving outfit,
| several combs a looking glass, four pocket
handkerchies, gimlet. a brad awl, two pocket
knives, copy of the biblical Reason Why
| two pipes, jewsharp, three fiddle strings, a
| chunk of rosin, two Jumps Of beeswax, three
red flannel rags, plug OF navy tobacco and
| divers other articles.
REV. WILLIAM BUssE of st. Luke's German
| Lutheran church, of New York city preached
| few Sundays ago his first sermon since his re-
| turn from Europe. He left three months ago,
| intending to return in August, but was detained
by the fact that while in Hildesheim, near Han
| over, he met the Baroness Agnes HorleS-
sem, second daughter of the chief counselor OF
justice of Hildeshem, and first cousin of Count
Rudolph Won Bennigsen, an intimate friend Of
| Bismarck. Their acquaintance resulted in their
marriage and in the course of his sermon, Mr.
.BuSse referred in feeling terms to his good for
tune in finding companion for himself and a
mother Tor his four motherlesS children.
A REMARKABLE PRECIOUS STONE recently came
to the notice of the Jeiceler's Reuiew. It was
diamond, of fine white color weighing about
four carats, and handsomely cut which bad
cracked into two equal parts, revealing in its
center another diamond. The interior stone
was pentahedron, with facets upon it as regu.
lar aud perfect as if they had been cut by a
skilful lapidary. SO perfectly did this little
diamond fit into its matrix that 1t was invisible
when the three parts of the combination were
put together. The impossibility OF putting two
diamonds together in such a way by art is be
yond question. 1t was the work Of nature, but
what natural law, or perversion Of law, had
| such an amazing effect was far beyond even the
theorizing of those who inspected the stone.
AN INTERESTING WORK of restoration has been
begun at the property in Stratford-on- Avon
known as THE Five Gables" The interesting
structure is connected with the Shakespeare
hotel, and for 100 years or moro its oak timbers
Id lakl
have now been stripped OF, revealing a mag
niticeDt oak framework. The building Wa
| erected early in the reign of King Henry VII
| In removing the lath and stucco row OF loaded
lights. set in moulded oak mullons and tran
SONS, was discovered. Tho lights small
diamond shaped, and experts who have seen the
glass pronounce it of an earlier period thar
Shakespeare's time. Some portions-of the case
ment contain pieces of horn. When completed
the front will be precisely the same as when the
poet died.
| A WEST VIRGINIA CORRESPONDENT Of the Bal
timore american says one of the most cee-
brated hunters in that section is woman
named julie Raker. She can handle Win
chester with the dexterity and precision OF Old
Misunderstanding, and hundreds OF deer and beai
have ia len victims to her rifle. Bob Eastman
says he saw her plunging down the mountain
side through six inches of snow one day, with
two rifles and a bear trap strapped TO her back
| and followed by six dogs. She ran three miles
to where she thought deer in full chase would
| cross. and she got there in time 10 see her hus
band kill him She is big black haired woman
very Industrious, and has seven children. She
| Ia not pretty. lew months ago, for a silver
| dollar she CARRIED u valise weighing over 100
pounds seven miles for an engineer.
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN, in his first canvass was
elected TO the presidency on Nov G, and the SEES
sion Of congress Immediately succeeding thai
event opened on Dec. 8. This was In 1880 Nc
President has ever been elected on Nov. 6 since
1859 except Benjamin Harrison because cleo
ton day in presidential year has never oc
Cured Nov until this year. The cycle
opening of the session q congress on Dec
8 in presidential years is ordinarily com peted
in twenty eight years That is to say these
these things occurred in 1894 and 1882 as vel
as in 1850 ami 1889. They would occur again IL
1916, and not before, were II not for disturb
ing factor. Presidential years are generally
leap years and have 36e days. The year 1900
however will ma an ordinary year of 3G5 days
4 President will be elected on Nov and q con
gressional session will begin on Dec. 3 in the
year 1900.
A BROCHURE has been got out that gives Jic
lures and sketches of the famous cooks Of tn,
millionaires of New York. such as those in the
service of w. w. Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt
August Belmont, Orme wilson, Pierre Lorillard
IT., Whitelaw Reid, Mrs Winthrop. Mrs william
Beide ., W j. sloan and others. Every cook OF
display is a frerchman. and nearly ali are Par
isans. They are ,sl Of distinguished appear
anCe. Only two of them wear full teArds and
In hAp lisa aH