The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE Countess de Cotlogon. formerly Miss
George Blake. of Boston, is living in Paris in
the strctest retirement since the recent death OF
her husband.
A PROVIDENCE GIRL, aged a, committed sui
eide last week. Some time ago she began read
ing stories of frontier life, and subsequently be-
came dissatisfied with her home and wanted to
go west.
LONDON Truth declares that the enlisted men
in the British army do not receive the amount
and quality of food to which they are entitled
by law, aud says that Italian soldiers are much
better served.
Mrs. SARAH HEAD of Chester, n H.. a widow,
81 years of age, moved and put into her barn
this summer one-half ton of hay. For the
last five years she has cut her own firewood,
and her barn is the best kept in the neighbor-
hood
The latest thing in barometers has three lit
tie landscapes representing a stormy, fair
and a variable sky The rise or fall of the mer-
curry causes 3 thin mica plate to cover or reveal
these pictures, in accordance with the indica
tions sit
DR.. BENJAMIN S. BARRows, of Manchester,
Conn, while patient in the New Haven hos
pital, was carefully attended by Miss Beardsey,
head nurse, and the acquaintance thus formed
r1pened into courtShip and, now, the couple
marriage adi
~A-' O4'bi'NF4'NE 10 EcAuAuS III NLiSdSO AiihnitS
it a misdemeanor for any person, excepting
agents of the board of health to gather de-
cayed fruits in tue streets of that city. 1t is
charged that certain street vendors buy and sell
the stnff. tr.
A NOTABLE foreign social event in October will
be the celebration of their diamond wedding by
Duke Macmillan and the Duchess Louise of
Bavaria Their four daughters are the Empress
OF Austria, the Queen of Naples, the Duchess
a. Alencon and the Princess of Thurn, who will
all be present.
The TRUSTEES of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, have filled the chair of analytical
chemistry by the election of DR.. Edgar F.
Smith, PHI ID. (Gottingham), formerly instructor
In analytical chemistry in the university, and
recently professor of chemistry in Wittenburg
college, Springfield, o.
TWENTY YEARS AGO Josiah P Griswold left his
home at Madison, Conn, with only So 90 in his
pocket. He had failed at every thing he under
took Last week he turned up in Madison to
look over the scenes of his younger days. He
came in his private car He has made 81, 900, 900
through his own enterprise in the west.
THE unwilling of the monument to Grilipar-
ger, the greatest dramatic poet of Austria,
which was to have taken place at Vienna on
Aug. Is, the birthday of Emperor Francis
Joseph, had to be postponed until next May, as
IL was found impossible to replace in time two
large marble blocks intended for the monument
which were buried last winter in a landslide at
LAS.
MEAT INSPECTOR has been appointed by the
city council Of Atchison, Kan, under the pro-
vision of an ordinance requiring all meat to be
inspected ION foot before it is exposed for sale
in that place. correspondent explains that
this is known AS the Bismarck plan of prohibi-
ton and is adopted by the city for the purpose
of keeping Kansas City die ssed beef out of the
Atchtson market In former times Atchison
was good local live stock market, and the
butcherlng industry was very important one
but by the introduction of Kansas City dressed
meat the market fell to nothing, local butchers
closing slaughter houses and buying Kansas
City meat in preference to killing it themselves.
1t is to revive this industry and re-establish a
local market that the Bismarckian policy has
been adopted"