The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Alaska Indian is eeminently the dude
Of his race. He is always clad in handsome
furs or blankets and carries walking stick
which is often a beautiful specimen OF elaborate
carving.
SIR KENNETH CUMMINGS the son of Gordon
Cummings the great lion slayer, is back in this
country after a years absence during which he
visited Central Africa and killed three hons and
several leOpards.
WILDCATS have been encountered frequently
in the mountain regions Of Ulster county, New
York this winter. large one was caught in a
trap by George 3 Rseley at Shandaken recently.
II weighed over thirty pounds.
IT Is estimated that the annual product Of
building bricks in the United States is 5,oOO,OOO,
OOo, employing in their manufacture 100000
men, and the product being worth S50,oO0,OO,
requiring capital Of S15,0OO,0OO.
A NUMBER Of young ladies in Hastings, Neb.,
met in council one day last week and passed
resolutions declining 10 attend balls with the
young men unless the latter consent to supply
them with invitations to the opera occasionally.
GEORGE FAwcETT Rowe is again familiar
figure on New York streets. He has been away
IN England for several months, but now returns
to New York 20 enliven the Lotus Club and re-
sumo his place as writer and actor or popular
plays,
England turn out 10000, 100000 pins yearly, and
that other factories in the States bring the num-
Der up to 1900 900 900 This is equal to about
one pin a day for every nhabitant of the United
States.
IT is understood that Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland receives $4,000 for her two years
services and the use of her name as the head of
Mrs. Reeds well known school in New York;
There are however, Some expenses to be paid
out of this sum.
PERSONS troubled with tendency TO stoop,
and who are becoming round shouldered, are
advised to walk with the palms of the hands for
ward, the thumbs outward. will dot wonders
toward Strengthening bent form, as any sol
der will testify.
THE annual honey product of North America
is about 100, 900 pounds and its value is
nearly S15,OOO,OO0 The annual wax PRODUCTS
about 500,000 pounds, and its value is more than
10000. There are about 100000 persons keep
ing bees in North America
A MINIATURE castle, carved ont of block of
Tennessee marble by one of the members of
the First Michigan engineers during the war,
has been deposited in the State Military Mission,
at Lansing. 1t is one of the regiments histori-
cal relics, and weighs 800 pounds.
A MAIL POUCH that was thrown off at Augusta
Ill, struck stack of barbed wire, bounded
back under the wheels, and was carried for
three Mules, the letters being scattered along
the entire distance. One man found $50 ana
another 1914 which was in the pouch.
BERLIN will soon be the most brilliantly illum-
mated city in Europe. The electric light is be-
ing fitted all along the Inter den Linden. and
the IelpZiger straSse, which is upward on mile
in length, is already illuminated throughout by
electricity, which is to be introduced into all the
principal streets and squares.
A PHILADELPHIA BRIDE complained that in all
her 200 wedding presents there was not piece
of silver or a lamp. She had been given more
cut glass and brc-a-brac than she had room for,
while forks, spoons and the like they really
needed. and these" she said, I'VE had to go
out and buy for ourselves"
BosToN correspondent says the mania for
hotel living is rapidly reducing both New YORK
and Boston to cities of hotels rather than of
homes. 1t is getting to be only the two ex-
tremeS of society who keep house, the very
wealthy and the poor. All the well-todo
people, professional, BUSINESS and the men and
women of leisure are adopting some form of
hotel life
On Sept a Springfield man mailed a postal
card with the idea of having it make tour of
the world. In ninety-five days three hears and
thirty minutes ne received il again. Ii bore the
poStmarks of San Francisco, Sept. -; Hong
Kong, Oct. p; Liverpool, Nov %, and Spring
field again, Dec 10. out Of this time the card
was held six days at Hong Kong and twelve
hours at Liverpool.
A PERSON who speaks ten languages really
well is not commonly met with, though men
who speak four or more all equally badly, may
be found anywhere An Anglican divine. how
ever-Dr. Thomas Salpy French--who now holds
the bishopric of Lahore, in the Punjah, India,
is able to preach with fuency in ten different
languages, and is popularity known as the
many-tongued man of Lahore"