The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
WASHINGTON has about $500 bicyclists.

THE whole value of fences in the United States
may be set down at $4,000, 900, 600, and it costs
S1eO, OOO, 900 annually to keep them in repair.
| GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, is the great furniture
making center of the United States. 1t has AZ
furniture factories, which employ $4,000 men.
| THE first salmon ever caught in the Hudson
| river was taken from Newburgh bay Friday
morning. 1t weighed 9A pounds and sold
| for IS.
| THE lower classes of the Italian people con
| tinue TO emigrate in enormous numbers, and
| the government is much alarmed The number
| leaving Genoa last year was 101, 200, as against
| 81, S52 the previous year.
ADRIAN c. ANsoN. the Janus base ball cap
| tain, is SO years old, and has been ball player
since he was 49, In the twelve years that he
| has been with the Chicago club it has won the
championship six times.
| EMPRESS ELIZABETH Of Austria having been
forbidden to take equine exercise for some
| months, now amuses herself with tricycle. 1t
| is whispered that her majesty also practices,
| when in the seclusion of her grounds, upon a
| bicycle,
| A BOAT run by an electric motor was launched
in New York harbor on Thursday 1t is the
| first time that electricity has been used as
| motive power for boats and the experiment
proved to be complete success. There is no
| smoke, dust or heat, and no danger OF explosion
! THE car recently ordered that all Russian
orders and medals should rank above foreign
| decorations Kaiser Frederick has responded
| by directing that the Russian order OF 81.
| George and the Austrian order or Maria Inc,
| resa, are to be worn before any Prusslan civil
| order.
| THE giant of all guns is in process of con-
struction. Krupps works are making 139-ton
| gun for the Italian ironclad Sardegna 1t will
| be 5216 feet long, with bore of 1871 inches. 1t
will fire a steel shell of 1880 pounds, with an
| initial velocity of 2,411 feet per second or one
of ABA pounds at 5000 per second.
SINCE Minister Hubbard was appointed to the
court of Japan by President Cleveland, our
| trade with that country has grown from S13
900 900 to S25 900 600 So 800 600 in of the
| total English-Japanese trade for the same year
| 1t also exceeds the German-Japan trade by
| $40, 900, and that of France by Sl2,OO0,OO0
| A GERMAN AUTHOR, Adolph Ebeling, asserts
that he found it currently believed at Cairo that
wagtails and other small birds cross from
| Europe to Nubia and AbyssiDia on the backs of
| storks and cranes, and details the results or
| conversations which he had with several indie
| pendent witnesses, all testifying to the same
! thing.
| THE treasurer of Muskingum county, Ohio,
| received 500 in an unsigned letter the other day.
| with the request to turn the amount into the
treasury as it was for taxes on property of which
| no return had been made through mistake OF
| the owner. The county Is an OLD one Dut TINS
| is the first time any conscience money" has
| been paid it,
| In an interesting article Prof. Nehring dis
cusses the question as to the origin of the dog
| He expresses the belief that it is descended
| from various still surviving species of wolves
| and jackals. The tanning of jackals, he says
1 presents no particular difficulty, and many at
| tempts to domesticate wolves have been sue
| cessfuly made in recent times. Herr Ronge
has so completely tanned young wolf that it
follows him exactly as dog might do
THE qunne habit is gaining strength every
| day Dizziness, that you hear innumerable
people complaining of In these days, can be
| traced to excess in the use of quinine The
good effects, that it is nearly always certain Of
| are lost by excessive doses Too much qulnlne
| will also produce congestion OF the ear and vi
bration of the auditory nerve The growing
habit of taking quinine for neuralgia and other
like ailments without consulting physician, is
altogether reprehensible and may lead to very
serious results. Many cases of deafness are
produced by overdoses and long continued use
| Of the drug.
A SINGULAR case of disputed identity is re-
ported from East Saginaw, Mich. A horse car
conductor in that city, it is related, was met by
a Young lady several weeks ago who accosted
him as her brother, and has ever since insisted
that he is her brother, that he disappeared from
his home near Harrison two years ago, and that
the family had mourned ever since over his de-
parture. The father, mother and brother of
the young lady were brought to the city and
identified the conductor as Henry Schaeffer, but
he denies all knowledge of them, states that he
| was born in Saginaw and never before saw his
alleged relatives.
The Bandana Girl is abroad in the streets,
says a New York-paper, and is doing her pref
test to spread democratic doctrine with a
charming disregard of any politics of her own.
| ctr
was an object of much interest. Around her
tidy turban hat a genuine silk bandana was
wound and fastened with dainty butterfly pin.
The vest-front of her walking dress was made
entire of bandana laced in to her figure and
evidently an integral part of her bodice. The
bouffant drapery below her waist was made of
two artistically draped bandanas, and the cor
ner of another peeped caprciously from her
| reticule. Fashion has before now worked I'D a
vast amount of political feeling, and the cause
that comes home to the hearthstone Of the mil
| liner is bound to have a certain amount of
| moral momentum behind it. If there are Thur
| men in the land, there are Thur-women, also, of
| a verify.
A THRILLING incident transpired at a funeral
in Bungree. Victoria, the other day The pail
bearers and other officials were In the act of
bearing the remains of the late lamented from
the cemetery gates to the grave, and the
friends and relatives followed sadly in the wake
allowing their bitter tears to filter through
large handkerchiefs, when q One-horned bony
COW with fiery eye and elevated tail bore
down on the cortege and butted the gentlemen
who bore the coffin into condition Of rage and
incapacity; then she skipped about, frolicked
along the sideways, trod upon the procession
and wore holes in it with her solitary horn
after which the remainder of the mourners
sought comparative security on tops of tomb
stones and in other elevated positions, leaving
the dead and wounded on the field of action
The gravedigger subsequently diverted the
cows attention with a spade and the funeral
terminated with prayer.
THERE is a cat on Derby Hill, N. Y, that de-
serves.to live until she dies natural death, and
Judging from the past she will do SO. When a
kitten few years since she was run over by a
butchers cart, but escaped serious injury.
Lately, as she was growing old, it was decided
to have her killed. neighbor who owned a
shotgun was found who would do the deed and
the arrangements we're made for the execution.
The daughter left the house and went to a
neighbours the mother shut herself up in the
chamber, while the head of the house went to the
barn, urgent business demanding his attention
The report of a gun followed. Have YOU
killed himY" said voice from the barn ''To
| be sure | have, " said the executioner A shovel