The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

nnofe castle III ChlcagO mas Just been furnished
and decorated at q cost of $4,000. The deco
| rations are in cream, gold and blue tints, and
The hanglQgS are of damask silk copied from
| brocades of the last century. The ceiling has
been painted and draped oy Hester in the Louis
! XVI. style.
| ABsINTHE was introduced into Western civil
zation by French soldiers after their return
! home from the Algerian war in 1914. 1t is q
| product of North Africa, and the soldiers
mixed it in their wine as a febrifuge It's man
utacture is now one of the largest liquor trades
in Europe. 1t is chiefly made at Neufchatel, in
| Switzerland, where 1000 00 gallons are pro-
| duced annually.
| THERE are in America over 100000 farms,
large and small They cover nearly 20.O00,OOO
| acres of improved land, and their total value
is something like $4,000, 100000 These figures
! are not, OF course, very comprehensive. They
| simply convey the idea Of vastness of area and
equal vastness of Importance. The estimated
value of the yearly products of these farms is
between S2OOO, 100000 and So, O0O,OOOOO0.
TWENTY YEARS AGO George w. Chadwick left
New Bedford on a whaling ship bound for the
Pacific Ocean. of Tahiti one of the Society
| Islands. he deserted swimming ashore from the
! ship. He lay hidden in the woods till the hunt
I 1or MN was given up, and then began life on
the island. He prospered, and the other day
| returned to his native city with a snug little
property, where he hopes to end his days.
| HEAVY MACHINERY is now run by artesian
| experience of the French shows that the deeper
| the well the greater the pressure, and the
| higher the temperature. The famous Grenelle
Well, sunk 70 the depth of 1900 feet, and flow
ing daily some 500, 900 gallons has pressure of
| sixty pounds to the square inch, the water
being also so hot that it is used for heating the
| hospitals.
THE MANAGER of the Hotel del Monte, at
Monterey, Cal, recently contracted for lot of
| cheap swallow-tail coats. which he offered to
supply to his walters for SO apiece at the same
time promulgating an order that all walters in
his hotel must wear dress coats. This was too
much for the free and Independent hash singers
| OF the Pacific slope and they struck in a body.
| AS IN many another strike of recent date, the
| only effect was that the walters lost job.
THE attention of the French Academy of
Sciences has been drawn by NJ. Faye, the emin-
| emit astronomer, to the apparent geological law
that the cooling of the terrestrial crust goes on
more rapidly under the sea than with a land
| surface From this he argues that the crust
| must thicken under oceans at more rapid rate.
so as to give rise to swelling up and distortion
! of the thinner portions of the crust; in other
| words, to the formation of mountain
chains.
W. W. W1LMoT, an old man who appeared on
the streets of Montgomery, Ala, few days ago
| begging for enough money to buy a railroad
| ticket to Mobile, has had q romantic history
| Many years ago he invented machine for
| crimping shoes, and soon acquired fortune
| III 100 ne lOSU q wager OF SI0,OOU that he had
on Tilden's election to the Presidency, and since
| then one misfortune has crowded closely on the
| heels of another until he has lost his entire
| fortune and his health as well
| TwENTY-sIx THOUSAND nine hundred and forty
| five students have attended the twenty UNIVERSE
| ties of Germany during the winter session which
| has just closed. At Berlin there were :. ara at
/ Munich 3,4l4, and at Lepsic 32SS. Bonn is
| seventh with 1,119 students, and Heidelberg is
| only thirteenth with S32 Rostock comes last
| with $40. Only 1,644 of the students were for
| eigners OF the whole number, 1875 students
belong to the philosophical faculty 6, $50 to the
medical, 5,791 to the theological and s. 769 to the
| juristic
| How well the majesty and reign of law protect
the world is illustrated in the cancellation of a
lease in England the other day. This contract
was between the Church of England and the
| Crown and was dated in 1888. The lease was TO
| piece of real estate, and ran for 500 years or
| what was termed a perpetual lease" there
being law against leasing realty for 900 years
| or more. The term of the lease having expired
| church. This lease was made when Alfred was
baking his hot cakes and fighting the Danes in
| England.
THE present Emperor Of China has been very
| well cared for since he made his appearance in
this world. 1t is said that when he was baby
be had nurses, rs farmers, the same number
of bearers for his palapquin, 10 umbrella
! holders, thirty physicians and surgeons chief
and 90 inferior cooks 80 walters and messen-
gers, and the same number Of dressers and
| other immediate servants, and other attendants
to the number of at least AGO. His spiritual vel
fare was looked after by corps of rs astrolo-
gers IS tutors Of high rank and so priests Not
| withstandng all this the child grew, and is now
| a very well disposed youth.
BETWEEN the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, at
distance of about $50, OO0 600 miles from the sim
there revolves some 265 little bodies whose
dameters vary from to 10 miles to 200
| Whether they are, Prof. Young once de-
scribed them. parts of planet spoiled in the
| making" or not is unknown, and perhaps may
never Be solved. But certain il is that there ara
almost numberless little celestial bodies of this
| character, whose revolutions around the SIN are
| performed as unerTingly as those of the larger
| planets. They are called planetoids from two
| Greek words, which mean resembling a planet
| or wanderer
| A JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT writes that the
Holy City is fast becoming again the city of the
| Jews. In 1880 there were not more than 5000
Jews there now there are more than 80. 900. Re-
cent Russian prosecutions have led thousands
| to make their homes there. and although the
| Turkish government forbids all Jews who are
| not residents of Jerusalem to remain longer
than thirty days, yet judicious application of
4 brides enables them to stay there as long as
! they please without molestation. Wealthy Jews
| have built hospitals and founded homes and
many or the refugees who are poor live from
| the charity OF their brethren
1T is SAID one of the first things Gen Bou-
| LANCER will take in hand as soon as he is in
power will be the reform of the French land
laws. The state of affairs in some parts of
| France is said to be worse than in Ireland and
| is capable of being materially modified by legis
| laton. 1t is gratifying to notice, however. that
| French landlords have been acting In a wav
| worthy of imitation by their Irish follows The
| tenants, although In some cases wears in arrears
| with their rent have not been harshly pressed
| for payment; and in the west of France where
the distress IS at present most severe reductions
have been voluntarily granted averaging 80 per
| cent.
| A BANGOR LADY went into a book store IN that
city Saturday evening and selected a novel 10
peruse on Sunday. The clerk knew her very
we'll. and he evidently thought that the novel
was too thrilling for Sunday reading. So when
| he went to wrap it up he deity substituted for
| the novel a Testament of about it's size and said
nothing. Monday the girl entered the book
| store white in the face. She banged the Tesla
| ment down on the counter al would have
thrown that i'll the fire, " she said 'if there had
| been any way in which could have made Won
| pay for it. | will never trade with Won a single
| cents worth again, SO there" The maidens of
Bangor evidently not quite ripe for a literary
censorship-or else the book store clerks Of that
| city are not sufficiently developed for censors
Miss JANE WYATT, bulky Englishwoman. ed.
ucsted at Kensngton and now teaching music
at Eau Claire, Wis, had a misunderstanding
with little Grocer Kneeland over his bin, and the
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