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

at home is floral umbrella, under which the
happy pair stand.
A FRENCH INVESTIGATOR has come to the CON
clusion that women have larger proportion OF
brown eyes than men.
THERE are thiTty-seven tunnels Of more than
1000 yards in England, the longest being that of
the S9vern-7,6 6f yards.
THE custom of going bareheaded one day in
the week (On the "Shabbat' or Saturday is o.
served by the Mingrelians.
TIE late Kaiser Fritz ever after his marriage
with the English princess royal kept the ami
versary of Waterloo as fete day.
THE great game Of Japan is Go" 1t is some
thing like chess and the masters of it sometimes
take twenty-four hours for game.
A 500-acre farm in Essex is held by the pres
ent owner at the nominal rent of 81. A few
years ago the same tenant paid $500
AT Halifax, recently, perfectly formed egg,
shell and all, about the size of a robins egg,
was found within the yolk of hen S egg.
THE circular of a London wine firm says esRe
cially that Lord -, one of the partners, is to
be found in daily attendance in the Office
SAMUEL. BOYER of Liverpool, o.. fell dead
Sunday, as a fit finale to six weeks drunk, in
which he had consumed just forty eight gallons
of whisky
the three largest companies in Cape Town has
been purchased by London merchants to be
held for u rise
AN Australian family of freaks has just been
brought to England, consisting of four children,
the youngest of whom is years old, feet II in
hight, and weighs $50 pounds.
THE prize of 10000 francs offered by the city
of Paris for the best musical composition was
kept back for the reason that not one of the
compositions was considered worthy of it.
NJ MoLIER the wealthy Parisan who amuses
himself and the fashionable world with an anna
teIr circus, has now a rival in Touraine whose
establishment is said to be as fine Moer'S.
A BRIGADE was divided into two battalions for
for sham fight at Aldershot Just before
operations were to begin it was discovered that
one of the battalions had been supplied with
ball ammunition instead of blank
IT is worth knowing that dry rot" in timber
is contagious and can be carried by saws and
other tools which have been in contact with in
fected wood, aad thus vitiate sound timber such
tools afterward come in contact with.
LADY GEoRGISA LEsGE made up a woman's
eleven for game of cricket with the girls of
the Birmingham high school, and the match
was played on the Earl of Dartmouth's grounds
before large and select company. One player
made thirty nine runs.
THD Countess of Munster writes about En-
glish Ballad Singers and English Ballad Singing"
IN the Homan's World for the current month,
giving her reasons why, in her opin-
ion, amateur ballad singing is so seldom salts
factory, and giving some practical suggestions
to wouldbe ballad singers
ALUMINIUM is coming into use as a material for
dental plates. 1t is nearly as light as rubber,
but little more than one-eight the weight of
gold; has neither odor nor taste is not affected
oY the elements of food or the secretions of the
mouth, and costs, bulk for bulk, about one-sixth
the present price of silver
IT appears that, besides having ships with no
gums England has cavalrymen with no horses.
For example, the Third regiment of household
cavalry has but $40 horses for ! 300 men and
1900 dragons and hussars have but 10. 900
horses In the German army the usual proper
ton is 1000 horses to 700 men.
THE aYPsIEs af the Pennsylvania teach Young
bears to dance by placing them on heated iron
plates while the trainer plays on the fiddle The
bear, lifting up its legs alternately to ESCAPE
the neat involuntarily observes the time marked
by the violin, and eventually learns to lift his
legs whenever he hears the music
MEMORIAL WINDOW to Bishop Mathew Simp-
son, paid for by American admirers. is about tn
be placed in the famous cradle of Metho1ism in
the City Road chapel, where John Wesley
preached and in the ad joining house to which
he died. The window represents Elisha receiv.
ing the fallen mantel of Elijah, and is said to he
an artistic success.
The POPE has decided that all his Jubilee
presents which are of sacred nature are to
form Leonlne museum, which he intends to
establish in the BaSilica of st. John de Iaterau.
The royal presents and all the secular objects
are TO be permanently placed in one of the
halls of the vatican, and will be left as heir
looms of the papacy.
PHILADELPHIA Is greatly alarmed over tba do
cline in its grain shipments. Very little wheat
or corn has been shipped on foreign account
this year and it looks if the latter half of 1885
would he duler than in the first six months
me, me decline IN wheat alone is over 4,OO0, 600
bushels, ana corn about 100000 bushels as
compared with corresponding period in 1887.
CHARLES PrNKERToN of the town of Corina
Mimi, in digging for a cellar, came across the
remains of seven persons in a good state of
preservation. They were found in a kind of
mound, were buried with their heads down and
were from seven to eight feet in hight. and mist
have been placed there at least 200 years ago
as on top of the mound was the stnmn of an
old elm tree two feet in diameter
Mrs. JOHN FLICKINGER of Sandy Hill Parry
county, Pa. had two disagreeable surprises last
week One day she put her hand into notato
bin, and, feeling stinCing sensation. Withdraw
It. coppcrhead snake that had fastened its
fangs i'll her hand came with it. She killed tho
snake and doctored her hand Next dav a hig
backsnake lifted Its head from the w6odnje
where Mrs. tlicknger was STOPPING. She killed
that fellow, too.
IL WaGner's new opera. 1.-THE Fairies" thero
are seven tableaux in act first, which tol,ss
place in the garden of the fairies. There is n
ballet like it in ''Tannhauser" The second act
takes place in the palace of the Arindal and in
act third there is a terribly deserted place with
precipces and perpendicular cliffs and then tbe
final scene IN the palace of the Arindal. The
story is akin to "Lohengrin. king Arindai"
loves the fairy Ada" She promises 70 be lie
upon one condition. that never shall he ask her
who she IS nor whence she comes. He promises
hut an old witch, JANA" makes him forget al,
word. There is dreadful noise in the orchaq
tr and Ada dsar p 'ars. The king of tha
fairies condemns her to wander alone on tbe
earth unit! some human being comes to delivor
her.
ONE may get some idea Of what railwavs
mean in the saving Of time and money To nas.
sengers by taking the case of London. II is
estimated that about 100000 persons, or about
one-tenth of the population of the entire area
of the metropolis, require to travel to and from
their business every day all the year round. If
we remember the distances it is not too nnucb
TO assume that the railway will economize for
each at least two hours in the week-or. say,
five days per annum each This over 200 oo0 -
people means $500 900 days-or an economv ~
$500 years of 800 working days each, SupDosa
the average earnings Of these 500 900 peonie to
be ElOO per annum eaCh-nOt too high mn nvor
age when we remember the number OF million.
aires included in the total-we shall see n totaI
money saving in the sense OF time being