The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In the RTduu court Oh the hrtHllln, at MUSEUM
there is about 10 be erected monument in
mory of the late Car which will cost
S650,0O
ONE YANKEE PUBLISHER, who uses 100000
envelopes year, has sailed for Germany after
1900, 900 envelopes, with which he proposes to
crush the envelope monopoly.
A DISPATCH from Mason county, Illinois,
dated April %, says: Condition of winter
wheat growing worse every day; with every
thing favorable crop could not make over 60
per cent.
A CHICAGO MAN sued his wife for a divorce on
the ground of cruelty. The cruelty consisted
| in the wife rushing upon her husband with
pair of scissors and clipping off his long, flow
ing beard. OF course the man got the divorce.
THE English government can get horses suit
able for cavalry service in Canada for ESQ, and
| has to pay f74 for the same animals raised in
| England An attempt is being made to turn
the minds of English farmers toward horse
| raising.
WHEN it comes to talking of bigness, Texas
has good reason to put on airs. A Fort Worth
newspaper shows that the Lone Star State
| would make 241 States the size of Rhode Island,
| or six the size of New York, or nearly seven
| Kingdoms the size of Portugal.
THE latest thing in paper is paper chimney
at Breslau, "a feet high. 1t is made of solid
| blocks of paper Joined with a special cement.
| The structure is considered to have many
| valuable characteristics not possessed by brick
chimneys, one of which is that it cannot be
| struck by lightning.
A HANDSOME relic of the mound builders, con-
| sisting of a piece of carnean beautifully
carved in the shape of boat, was recently dug
up near Alton, Ills 1t is about five inches long
and gem Of artistic lapidary work. 1t has
been identified as a sacred badge stone worn by
some prehistoric chief.
REGULATIONS have been established in the
coffee districts in Guatemala by which farmers
are required to build furnaces on their lands,
| and, whenever a signal is given to indicate tn Q
danger of frost, to light in them fires of tar,
pitch, or other substance likely to make great
| smoke and keep away the frost.
IT has been the custom for small vessels
| known as ''copers'' loaded with all sorts of
grog, to cruise about among the North Sea fish
ing fleets selling liquor to the sailors. Five
| European powers have now entered into an
| agreement for the suppression of this business,
and have declared rum selling illegal upon the
high seas.
If the Emperor Frederick should get well the
Sultan will take no small part of the credit to
himself, for he has sent the Emperor collar
| consisting of nine hazel nuts with inscriptions
from the Koran over which the dervishes and
shelks of the palace had prayed, and which, as
the Sultan assured Frederick, would cure him
without doubt.
Two GENTLEMEN, recently elected to the Ok
ford and Cambridge Club in London, had been
waiting nine years for their names to be
reached on the list of proposals, ana at another
London club a gentleman just elected had been
proposed so many years ago that he had for
gotten all about it, and was surprised when he
received notice of his election.
SCRANTON hens thrive on strychnine.
druggist of that city placed quantity of poison
in meat which he scattered near the chicken
house bait for rats, with which the place
was infested. The hens Immediately ate the
meat, strychnine and all. and the next day
were lively as crckets, although they had
partaken OF poison enough to kill 100 rats.
OrTo HEGNER, the new piano prodigy, over
whom London is going into raptures, is said by
careful critics to be gaining the hearty ap-
| proval of professional pianistS. He looks
younger than his alleged II years, and is a
pretty boy with curly black hair and intelli-
careful training from Hans Huber. of Basic.
FORTY YEARS AGO Isaac Litchfeld and Henry,
his son, built little shanty at Sandy Cove, Co
hasset, Mass, and there for twenty years lived
| in seclusion. Then Isaac died. Henry kept up
| the hermit business, and became widely known
as The Hermit of Sandy Cove" He fished and
| hunted and kept a few hens and thus provided
himself with food until q few days ago, when he
died in his lonely cabin.
THE Supreme Court of Rhode Island has de-
cded that the prohibitory law Of the State does
not apply to liquors kept for ones own use, and
not Tor sale; tnat ~ does not apply to liquors in
process of transportation through the State for
| sale in another State; that it does not apply to
liquors stored in the State to be exported for
SALE and that it is not in violation of the consti
tuition of the United States.
SOME ONE has been asking help from the Chris
tidn Union on the great and vital question Of
whether Christian should patronize base ball.
| This is the answer he gets: There is no reason
| why base ball should not be redeemed from the
evils which are incidental, not essential to it.
P,rf 1ylhatN h hriGt
| withstand these influences and redeem the game
| from them We will not judge
SPAIN is the place for electricians Just now
The government has deoreed that all the
thesters in the kingdom shall adopt the electric
light within six months. Experts say that
| danger is in this wholesale edict, for there are
not men and material in the country to do the
work in the required time, and if there should
be a general influx of electricians the work is
likely to be too hastily done to be safe
A CHICAGO MAN named Dean is lecturing on a
theory of evolution that annihilates Darwin
He believes that man is a development from
plants through the brute kind. The Cninaman,
he says, sprang from an alligator, the alligator
from pine log and the pine from electricity
in the earth. The negro came from the gorilla,
the Englishman from the bulldog the Irfshman
from the terrier and the German from the
| goose.
A MAN was found dead on the top of a Liver
pooltramway car several days ago. Nothing was
| found on him to lead to his Identification but he
had with him a couple of carrier pigeons. To
one of these was attached piece of paper with
| the words, "Come to the detective Office at
once " and the bird was set at liberty In half
| an hour man arrived at the detective office
| and stated that the deceased was his father.
| and had been very sick. He had gone out for
| exercise and to fly the pigeons.
THERE are some thrifty citizens left in Maine.
even these degenerate days. One of them
got married the other evening. Before the cere
| mony some paper bags containing a few pea
| nuts and lots of candy were distributed among
| the guests, and after the ceremony the bride.
| groom announced that the supper would be
| served at the hotel. This was entirely salts
| factory until at the close of the banquet each
| guest politely, but firmly, told by the
| waiter that he must pay for his own supper
ELLEN MANNING, a fashionable and wealthy
| woman of Stapeley, Eng, was recently arraign-
ed on a charge of having stolen sixty pounds of
straw from her neighbor, Ms. Horribly, the
| famous cricketer. She pleaded not guilty but
| a boy employed by her testified that the fodder
| running short she had directed him to 90 at
| night to the yards of various neighbors and
| steal something for the cattle to eat, and that
| when he told her he had done so she laughed
The case was adjourned to give a chance for
| settlement.
ENGINEER CHARLES S. HOMER of the Old Col
ony road, who recently died in Providence, r.
| L. was a soldier under Gen Butler When tha