The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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TIE experiments with the electrical motor on
the Brooklyn City railroad have proved 50 sue
cessful that the public trial trip will be made to
tort hamilton some day during the coming
week.
JOIN ST. MAUR, Lotta's business manager,
died Monday from the effects Of a sunstroke, at
Tennersvi!le, in the Catskil mountains. He
was born in England. and was formerly a jour
nalist IN New York end Chicago
NINE SARAH BeRNHARDT has christened an old
| liquor with new name. She told an interviewer
| laJely Eat she invariably took a little aconite
| before gong on to the stage to steady her
nerves. 1t turned out that this aconlte was the
prllneSt Scotch whisky.
ENGLISH PAPERS say that the swallows are
scarce in various parts of the country where
they used to be abundant. In some localities
| they are hardly seen at all, This is attributed
| to the rain. which has deprived the swallows of
| the necessary supply of winged insects, which
| are fostered by sunshine.
| AN ECCENTRIC FRESHMAN in New York has his
monument in Calvary cemetery all erected, and
| his lot made ready for the time when he shall
| be borne thther Every few days this patriotic
| and thoughtful Irshman visits the cemetery
| and reads with pride the Inscription on the base
| OF the monument, ITO outlast the British Mon
| archy."
| WHILE friendly sparring match between
brickyard hands was in progress on a hotel bal
| cony at Marlborough, near Poughkeepsie, n.
| Y. an acquaintance of one of the participants
| appeared, and, thinking the men were lighting
| in earnest struck his friends opponent knock
| hIg him to the rocks, thirty feet below. The
| fall broEe the mans spine and he died the next
| morning.
SEVERAL TIMES during the past year party
| of Kansas City residents gave picnics and So
| CABLES and at the greater number of them there
were Internationally exactly thirteen persons
no fiptvN -lOk. to 10.
| come Superstitious, became not a little bothered
| by the coincidence, but the feeling soon passed
| Off, only, however, to be brought back by the
| death of one of the party Not long after
| otherSuccumbed, and on Friday last third
was murdered
GUsTAvE GuNDERsEN steward of the steamer
| Thingvalla, survived six ocean disasters prior
to the recent disaster between his vessel and the
| Gciser- Beginning in 1866, he shipwrecked
| on the coast of Norway; The next vessel on
| board which he served fouudered off Cape St.
Vincent in 1868; the third was wrecked in Aus
| traia in 1872; the fourth was dismasted off the
Cape of Good Hope in 1873; the fifth was lost in
a great gale on the voyage from New Zealand
| to Australia in 1874, and the sixth was run down
| and sunk off Port Adelaide in 1877.
TEN YEARS AGO a London clergyman, appalled,
| by the indifference to marriage rites among the
| poor of the East End established plan of free
marriage at the Rid church, Bethnal Green
| They have been in vogue there ever since, and a
| bank holiday is great marriage day. On a re-
| cent Monday there were hundreds of couples
standing in line dressed in their best, while their
| friends, who crammed the church, made the &C.
casion one of unusual inerfiment They were
| married in patches of from four to eight
couples at time. There unlimited kiss
ing, and voleys of old shoes were at times dan
gerouS.
REGARDING the recent charge by a southern
newspaper that Mr.. Whittier an enemy of
the south the venerable poet wrote to a friend
Il was never an enemy to the south or the hold
erS of slaves. inherited from my Quaker an
ceStry hatred of slavery, but not of shareholders
To every call of suffering distress in the south
l have promptly responded to the extent of my
ability. | was one of the very first to recognize
the rare gift of the Carolinian poet Timroi
and | was the intimate friend of the lamented
Paul Fl. Haynes, though both wrote fiery lyrics
against the north. am sure no one Pejoices
more heartily than do at the prosperity of the
southern states"
A NEW RAILWAY is projected from CONSTANT
nople to Bagdad, to start from Ismid, the pres
emit terminus of a short line of railroad connect
ing That town with Scutari. Its length is to be
about 1 400 miles. and the estimated cost is
So, SOC, 900. The British consul of Sivas says
| that the great advantages to the country com
mercaIly and as a cvilzing influence of such a
road are too obvi ous to need mention. 1t is pre-
dicted that it would create new Asia Minor
| now closed, totally change the character of the
| country and the people. and practically ad-
| vance Turkey in Asia from the sixteenth to the
nineteenth century.
GEN. HUGH J. CAMPBELL now of Yankton
D. T., desires to have his name go rafting down
through future ages the De Witt Clinton of
| the western praries. He wishes to have eight
| or ten canals dug through the territory Of Da.
kota for the purpose of affording the enterpris-
| ing settlers opportunity of sending their
grain to market at cheap rates. He would not
| limit his canal system to Dakota. He would
a ~ mn al of
| the Missouri river through the state of Mime
sofa to the Mississippi river and Lake Superior
| He desires to have direct and continuous water
communication from the bad lands and alkaI
| plains of Dakota to the great cities of Europe.
| DR.. DowNEs of Lakeport, Cal, had pet deer
| to which he was very much attached Last
fall it ran away to the mountains, and that was
| the last he saw Of it until the spring, when one
| day it appeared In the door yard, and, walking
straight to the doctor, laid its head on his arm
| and seemed greatly pleased, as was the doctor.
| It hung around him rather unusual way
and finally disappeared. The next day it came
again. and acted as though it wanted the doc
| tor to follow it, and he did so. The deer led
| him some distance from the house directly to a
little fawn which lay hidden in the bu hes The
doctor took the little thing in his arms and car
| ried it home, the mother following and showing
Enthusiastically that that was Just what she
| wanted
| A PARIS PHILANTHRoPIsT induced q number
| of generous merchants, manufacturers and
tradespeople to take into their employment
such unemployed men as he should send with
| letters of recommendation. Then he advertised
| for men out Of work, got together great
| thronC talked TO them Of dignity Of labor the
| blessings of economy, the dangers of intemper-
| ance and then directed them to call for letters
| of recommendation which would put them in
| the way of getting work Mt the minimum rate
of 50 cents a day Immediately more than half
of his throng of 73 unemployed men disap-
peared. and that was the last he saw OF them
or tho remainder some took letters and never
presented them; some worked half n day and
then wanted the wages of that time, and at the
end of threa days oDly eighteen men were at
their posts, and these were all genuine artisans
and laborefS.
HERE is a whopper from North Carolina:
The other morning while street gang we're
cutting some weeds in Wilmington, N. c., they
came across two beautiful spider webs. which
were. inhabited by four very large yellow spiders
When the weeds had been cleared away so that
| the webs could be plainly seen, the discovery
was made that each had the words "Wilmlng-
ton. N c., printed across the face as if photo
! graphed there. Every one VINO saw the curious
spectacle was struck with wonder, aud at least
twenty-five people, white and black gathered
around to get n glimpse of the curiosity The
words were sufficiently plain for each to readily
read them, and one of the webs which was
placed on piece of paper, retained the outlines
for considerable length OF time. The two
webs were about five feet apart when discovered