The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A REVISION of the Austrian military service
law is announced. The age Of liability to mill
tary duty Is raised from 20 to 81, and other
minor changes are made.
THE largest savings bank in the world is the
Glasgow Savings Bank. The last report shows
funds in hand Of 94,6SG 900, and R4622, 900 are
due 10 depositors who number 1924.
SOME fashionable women in Philadelphia have
the backs and seats of bedroom chairs up
holstered with silk and filed with broken bal
sam boughS, which give fragrance for the whole
| season.
A YOUNG GIRL at Keokuk, Ia, fell on bridge
and, being Unable to rise Immediately, her
| tongue froze to the iron railway, and remained
! in that condition until she was released by
passer-by.
a CENSUS has been begun of the French car
rier pigeons. They are regarded now as Of such
| importance in the event Of war that all owners
are obliged to report their pigeons under max
| imum fine of 2000f
WHEN Emperor William first met Won Moltke
after the dawn of the present year. he asked
him whether he had begun it asleep or awake.
ASLEEP" said Moltke. well, then" said
| William, Il think you may sleep it out"
For long while the London houses never
changed their appearance. Now, when house
needs rebuilding tn e front of it is apt to be re-
modelled not in the staid old style which has
| fashion.
A GOOD WOMAN in Deer Isle, Me, chrocheted a
baby'S sacque for a church fair. The sacque
was ratified off, and she took a share and won
She offered it to the fair again if they give her
chance. She won again. If the fair had kept
on, she would, too.
A SAN Francisco LADY has a cat which she
brought home with her in a sailing ship from
Calcutta. She SAYS that every time the ship
bpp1lmp6 during
tried to get her cat and throw il overheard,
thinking that by doing so they would bring
wind.
AN Anti Celibacy Insurance Company has
been established in Denmark, in which young
women, beginning at the age of 10, can insure
| themselves for a tritling sum- If they marry
they forfeit all claims but if they remain spin,
| sters until 40 they are entitled to small
annuity
A HANNIBAL MAN says that he went into the
woods few days ago and painted black circle
on the end of log, and when he went back to
| the spot an hour laterhe found 300 dead rabbits
there. They had mistaken the circle for hole
| in the log and dashed themselves to death
| against it.
| A FARMER in Clinton county, Missouri, found
out that the grand jury were going to haul him
up for working on Sunday. He at once had his
! four sons summoned to appear before the jury
| as witnesses against him. He was fined 81 and
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amounted to 81 60 each, total of $40 10.
SOME of the young people of Cairo, Ill, had a
candy-pulling the other evening, and everybody
was having a jolly time until suddenly the
| house cat slipped from the shelf above the
stove and fell into the boiling molasses. 1t put
! such a damper the entertainment that the
| party soon broke up. The cat died.
| A SCoTCH TERRIER owned by C. Graeme, of
Watertown, Wis can at a glance detect a
| IL
| days ago he was taken to a bank and a handful
of good dollars mixed with bad ones was placed
| in pile on a table. The dog jumped on the
| table, scattered the money with his paw and
| quickly picked out all the good dollars. The
| bad ones he would not touch.
| AT recent sale OF autographs in Boston, one
of Isaac Allerton, who came here in the May
flower, fetched S2S; an autograph poem of Viii
| liam Cullen Bryant, 81 letter of Robt Brown
| ing, 81 25; of Henry Ward Beecher, 81 Is: of
! JEFF. Davis, 81 IS; and of Gen Carried 15c
| Three pages of manuscript signed by Henry W.
| Longfellow were sold for So %; one page of
| James Russell Lowell, 81 SIS; two pages Of IIar-
riet Martineau, 81 81; two pages of Christine
| Nilsson, 81 II; and two pages of Wendell Phil
| lips, S712c.
| THE Catholic population of England is est
mated at $4,000; of Scotland at 1926, 900, of
Ireland at 8. 1861 0oO total 5,6H,O In the Col
| ones there are 10000; in Asia, $50 900 in
America. ?, 300O in Australasia SIS, 900 Cath
Ole British subjects. AS Queen and Empress
| her majesty reigns over 9,6s2 go Catholics
! They are represented in the Imperial Para-
ment by thirty-two peers and by five English
| and seventy five Irish members There are nine
| Catholics in the Privy Council, and there are
| forty Catholic peers. fifty-one baronets, and
| twenty lords, with courtesy titles
| CoQUELIN, who soon will seek American favor
on the stage, gave two performances during his
stay at Constantinople in the presence of the
| q mn onar of no
| dlplomatlque and numerous audience. The
| plays were Les Precieuses Ridicules' and La
| Depute.' There was no end of applause and
| many recalls, Coquelin being summoned before
| the curtain seven or eight times after his most
| affecting scenes. The Sultan enjoying himself
\ immensely, applauded the famous actor great
| ly, it is said, and presented him with the Os-
| mand Order at the end of the first performance.
A YOUNG MAN of Indianapolis who prides HIM
self upon his popularity among the young
women, really deserves it, for he. studies to
please. He carefully reads the society columns of
the newspapers looking for the names of Young
| ladies from out of town who visiting fami-
| lies where he ha calling acquaintance. When
| he finds such name he goes to a newspaper
Office and looks over the exchanges to find news
! papers published in the town from which the
| visitor comes. Then he reads up on the local
| news of the place, gets familiar with the names
! of citizens, through the advertisements and
| thus supplied with information he calls on the
| young woman and interests her much by his pa
| parent familiarity with what is going on at her
| home.
IT APPEARS that about 200, 900 tons of coal
| per year is the amount yielded by the chief coal
! districts of Great Britain-Newcastle South
| Wales and the Cloye country-and, assuming
| this to represent the average annual consump-
| ton for many years to come, it is estimated
| that the British mines will not be exhausted in
! less than 800 to 800 years. II is further calcu-
| lated that drawing upon only one of her fields
| the WeStphalian, Germany will not be able to
| exhaust her coal supply in less than 900 years
| and she has, in addition the riches of the Ba-
varian, the Aachen and the SIlesian coal dis
| trCtS. 1t is claimed, therefore. that, ndepend-
! ent of the resources of other countries Great
| Britain aud Germany could supply Europe with
| coal for an unlimit o. period
| WILLIAM BETHEL died a member of Parlia-
ment in 1870, and left his property to his son
Christopher, should he attain the age of rs. or
| to his wife and children, should he die before
reaching that age; and in the event Of his diving
childleSs, diverted the property t. his brother a
| younger son OF the decedent teStator. Christie
| pher Bethel went to South Africa and there
| welded a kaiflr girl, killing an OK and sending
| the head TO the girls mother and going through
all the other rites and ceremonies recognized as
| concluding marriage in the Barralong com
nunty, where the event took place Teepoo
was the wifes name, and she bore him a son
! Then ne died, and now the English courts are
deciding whether Teepoo S son is legally Rethels
son, and entitled TO the estate which includes
much land in Fuplaud Or WI hor tho a., e