The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


A NEW CASTLE YOUNG MAN had his whskers
shaved off and had finger ring made for his
sweetheart out of the hirSuite growth.
A SULPHUR SPRING has been discoverednear
the end of the old dry dock, at the navy yard,
Brooklyn, which is thought to possess valuable
medicinal qualities.
A GOLD WATCH which Missouri farmer lost
last fell, and for the theft of which he sought
to send his hired man to prison, was found in
the stomach of one of his COWS which died the
other day.
A BAD CORN caused the death of Mr.. Peter
Baer of Frederick, Nd. He cut with a knife a
troublesome corn on one of his feet and gan
CREME developed in the wound which caused
his death six weeks later.
ONE of the horses used on stage line near
Albany, N. Y, has heavy moustache. People
who have examined the horse and the remark
able growth of hair on its upper lip say they
never saw anything to equal it.
SOME forty-fve Yokohama artists are doing
large business in coloring photographs, at
which they can earn from five to thirty yen
month. Japanese colored photographs have
been gathering prizes in America, and it is
stated in vernacular paper that photographs
are received from abroad to be colored in Yoko-
hama
In GERMANY recently, an unfortunate tele
phone user lost his temper at being kept wait
ing by the central Office, and, when explanations
were made, he told the telephone official per
telephone to shut his CAB and not lie about it."
He was afterward sued, and the court gave him
60 marks fine and twelve days in jail as warn
ing AGAINST a lbelous use of a scientific con-
venence.
THERE'S a 12year-old New Highlander in
Gardiner who will be careful about playing ON
the cars hereafter He fried to jump from a
freight train on which he had been riding, and
caught his foot and was thrown under the cars
The end of an axle struck his head and XII ocked
it away so that 1t wasn't injured, but the hous-
ing of the car split his jacket up the back, and
one wheel passed over the heel of his boot, cut
ting it off.
PARIsIANs are wearing new sort of ear
ring to which they have taken kindly-an
arrow or q feather fixed almost horizontally
across the lobe. The arrow is generally en-
riched with single pearl The feather has a
cluster of small colOred stones. Long drop ear
rings have also come ia again. to the delight OF
women who possessed such trinkets and have
fastened to eXhume them from the cases in
which they have lain 50 long.
e. FRENCH INVENTOR has applied the miniature
electric incandescent lamp to watch dials, the
current being supplied by a small pocket bat
terry. The dial is of round glass, and the lamp
behind it lights it up the effect being enhanced
by fiat reflector, key is included in the cir
cult to close the current when the light is re-
quired. 1t is obvious that there circum-
stances in which such a device will be useful,
and where it is ineXpedient to strike a light to
see the time-such places as mines or in mill
tary operations. The apparatus is equally ap-
plicable to clocks.
WATERS in restaurants, particularly where
table d'hote is served, say they can always tell
a lady who has been reared in the country.
The lady may have been city bred for quarter
Of century, and the sharp brilliancy of her
diamonds, and general adornment NAV convey
10 n Of
the city. but when she gets to her claret it is all
up with her The walters say that nine out of
ten such ladies' put sugar in their caret. Per
hapS the walters discover her at the start, when
she tackles the oysters. Many ladies whose
girhood homes were in the rural districts insist
on using vinegar, pepper and salt in big doses
on their oysters.
SOME YOUNG MEN of Boston went fishing up in
| the country few days ago, and arrived at the
| fishing grounds asked an ancient inhabitant if
| he could, and started off. Three hours after
| ward he appeared with ten-quart pail full of
| angleworms The boys were alarmed lest there
| should not be money enough in the party to
pay for such wealth of bait; but they put on
a bold front, and one asked, How much do we
owe you?' We'll, don't rightly know, -
| answered the old man. The ground is kinder
| solid an the worms is far down an it's been
hard on my back to dig EN- But I've half a
| notion to go fishin' myself ter-morrer. an if
you'll give me half the bait we II call it square "
LIEUT.. NJ. E. HALL, U. s. N, has been expert
menting with an automobile torpedo, invented
1 by himself at the torpedo station in Newport,
l. The torpedo, which is made of aluminium
| brass. presents some novel features. The diving
| rudder with the intricate mechanism common
| in fish torpedoes is done away with. The flash
| containing the motive power occupies feet of
| the length Of the torpedo. which is 70 feet long
| The engine employed, owing to the novel way
| of mounting it and its automatic character
utilizes the full expansive force of the COM
pressed air. In the runs that have been made
| the torpedo developed high speed although
only one-third of the maximum pressure was
| carried. and the diving device has answered its
purpose as far as it has been tested. Some
| further trials are to be made shortly.
AT MONTE CARLO the players who stake their
fortunes on the turn of a wheel have many queer
superstitions. They believe money rubbed on
a corpse, particularly that of a suicide to
possess some potent charm, and when some
months ago an old Italian, who had lost his last
centime, leaned back in his chair and shot him
self through the heart, his fellow gamblers
| tlocked round to rub their money on the dead
| man, and insisted on the game proceeding
almost before the corpse could be carried away
| II a crOSs-eyed person comes to play at their
| table they will leave it in disgust. They also
believe there is luck in the innocent hand Of a
| child, and one sees frequently sweet little
| children brought in by their mothers and
| grandmothers and held up to the table with
their tiny hands full of gold, to be wagered on
| some chance of the game.
81 WAS talking with a physician the other
| day about the Kaiser throat," says a Washing
| ton correspondent. "In that connection he
| told me of a serious effect it is having In this
country. He said that the constant publication
concerning the Emperor's trouble, coming after
| all the talk the illness of Gen. Grant provoked
has caused general fear among public men
who do much talking, that they may have the
| same trouble He told me that since this mat
| ter has been much agitated he has had a
score of members of Congress and Senators to
come TO him to have their threats examined for
cancer. None have actually been threatened
with that dread disease, but he has had dif6-
Guilty to convince some or Inem that they were
not already beyond cure. Some have stopped
| smoking for fear that might produce the dis
ease, and they consult the doctor very often
AS matter Of fact, throat trouble is very com
mon among the orators in Congress, but it is
not of a cancerous character"
IT Is SAID Of the Chinese executiopers TINT
they can strike off the heads of their victims so
skillfully that the poor fellows themselves never
discover their loss until moment or two after
they are dead There is also a story told of n
German executionor. Upon one occasion n
criminal asked as a last request that he might
be permitted 10 play game of nine. pins, which
was his favorlte game, before he died The
Judge granted his request After plavinp
while, the Sheriff, observing that he showed
no inclination TO desist, made a sign TO the
executioner to strike the fatal blow, while he
stopped for bowl. The eXecutioner did SO but
with such exquisite dexterity that the culprit
did not notice or feel it. He thought indeed
That breath OF cold air was blowing on his