The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST

MINES of mica, said to be more profitable
than gold, are now in course of large develop
ment near Moscow. Idaho
One hundred and t. ent seven barrels of
onions were grown withodC manure upon less
than an acre of Louisiana truck farm.
IT is reported that the Car of Russia lately
presented 100000 rlbles to one Of his noble
men 10 relieve his pecuniary embarrassnents.
FARMER near Caloma, Mich, is said to have
forty Indians in his berry field at work. He
bought 100 pounds of fish for one day s rations.
BALTIMORE is Growing over her three carrier
pigeons, which few 800 miles in a little over
six hours, and so broke the record for that dis
lance.
RIVAL BUTCHERS of the village of Penn Yam,
n. Y, have gotten up a killing match for $500
a side, the winner 10 be he who Stays the most
beasts in half an hours time.
AN Iowa GENIUS holds the office of United
States signal observer, city clerk, township
clerk, United States claim agent, township
treasurer and adjutant of a G. A. r. post.
IT is said that enough salt underlies the city
of Ithaca, n. Y, to supply the world for CEN
fury, and that a syndicate has been formed to
build there the largest salt works in the state OF
! New York.
IT SEEMS that there was q slight blunder
II
| tour The business agent of the venture now
says that S61l, 200 was the sum Of the receipts
not profits.
| THE Liverpool and Manchester ship canal,
which is to cost $50 900 900 and be built in seven
years. will be dredged BY German dredging
| machines, as the English contractor finds
| nothing in England to equal them
The Jay Gould of Australia is J. G. Turnbull,
who has recently been spending few days in
4 nan ~
which he made out OF railroads, and the pioneer
railroad in that country was built BY him.
THE duke of Westminstcr is returned in
| ''Ba eman's Landowners of Great Britain" as,
| her majestyss richest subject; and the young
Viscount Belgrave, il he lives to inherit his
patrimonY, will, it is said bs the richest man in
| the world.
| ONE of the most successful "drummers''
travelling from New Orleans is Mrs. Adele
Payne, who represents the house Of Philip
| Werlein. Her territory embraces Southwestern
| Louisiana, and she takes bOokful of orders
every trip.
TwENTY-sIX ENGLISH sovEREIGNs, $40 in bills
and other small amounts in silver and pennies,
were found concealed on the person of Ellen
| O'Hara, who died in the Albany On. " aims
house on Monday She came to this country
| from Ireland about two years ago.
In NEW HAVEN, Conn, they're going through
|
men have In the building of their homes. An
| appropriation of 800, 900 was made to repair the
state house. but now as they are about begin
ming operations, it is found the proposed work
cannot be done for less than thrice the sum ex-
pected.
| For QUIcKNEss in raising money for business
enterprises Hutchinson, Kan. seems 10 outrank
some of the large cities They called meeting
| out there for such purpose, and, after the hall
| was filed locked the door A local paper tells
| that work then began, and in just one hour and
| fifteen minutes the sum of S224,000 was sub
| scribed.
BARKEYvIILE, Pa, has developed romance Of
co-education. A big class of boys and girls
| graduated from its academy June IA, and next
day the prize girl, one Miss Bennett of New
| York, IS and an heiress in her own right, ran
away and married William Steven, a fellow
| pupil, whose grade of excellence was Just one
| tenth of percent. less than her own.
AN ADVERTISEMENT in an English paper reads;
Wanted, before Advent, unmarried Priest
earnest evangelical high churchman) for small
country church, the congregation of which is
| largely composed of men. The six points. Che
raj services Open-air preaching, Cricket,
| football and working mems clubs No mus
tached or lawn tennis playing priest need
apply.
ONE of the ships thermometers at the navy
department has history. 1t was used by Capt.
| Hall on the Polaris, which was crushed and sunk
| by two cebergs off Littleton island in 1872 and
was put in a carn on the main land by the Bud
| dingtOn party. There it remained until 1876,
| when it was found by the British ship Discovery
and taken to London, and lGter returned to the
| United States.
BURGLARS are likely to give the residence of
| Mrs. Hail. in Sabine parish, Louisiana wide
berth hereafter. Apprehending one of them
| trying to force open the window she armed
| herself with a Ratchet and took up a position
| close by. Shortly the hand of man appeared
| and, quick as a flash, she descended with her
| weapon. The burglar fed, but left three black
| fingers as reminders of his visit.
MANY experiments in burning brick with oil
in place of wood are being made by manufact-
urers of brick along the Hudson river If the
new method proves to be practical it is estimated
| that there will be a saving of 40 per cent. eff
| fected. The main difficulty is in the drying
| off " process. One result Of using oil instead OF
| wood will be the preservation of thousands of
| acres of forests in the counties affected,
Recently gentleman who was travelling in
Switzerland found a veritable curiosity in a
museum in the little town of Soleure 1t was a
| bird S nest made of imperfect watch springs
| which had been thrown out of the little watch
| factories which abound in that district. Some
| bird considered them excellent material of
| which to construct her nest and with infinite
| care worked them together into as perfect a
| structure of the kind as one could desire to see
JOHN DILLON has gone to Dundalk jail for six
months under conviction of a violation of the
coercion act, and $50 colleagues in parliament
have presented him with an address Of
| sympathy in his ''unmerited Imprisonment"
| Mr. Dillon, while mentally full of fire and
| strength is physically weak-of such mold
| and mien as to be often spoken of as the ideal
| melancholy Dane" The chances are more
| than even that he will not survive the period of
| his sentence.
| AN agricultural item from the Dubuoue OaA
| Telegraph: Iowa is going to have prosperous
year. The small grain crops are practically as
sured, and the hay and pasture yield will be far
better than for the past summers, and new
| grass roots are filling the spaces in the mead
| ows burned out by last summers fervent heat
| The season is little late for corn but NOT TOO
| late, possibly. In short, the prospect is most
| fatteriug. There will be no selling short of
pigs and calves by the Iowa farmers this wear
| All this will react favoraby on the other inter.
| ests in towns and cities"
THE feature of the meeting Of the British
| Royal society last week was an exhibition nv
| Henry Burns of class Of nests of live ants
| These were so arranged that all the elaborate
| internal economy Of the insects could be fully
| observed. In one cell was the queen. with
| servants attending upon her In another were
| the aphides, or cows, watchfuly herded bv their
| keepers, and party of workers were engaged
| in walling up an intrudng queen which had
been placed in the nest that morning The
state of ant civilization was so remarkablv
| high that nobody would have been much sur-
| prlsed at party of scientific ants in spectacles
taking notes on the Royal society