The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has consented
to stand as godfather to the ninth son of poor
workingman OF Marienburg. He has made his
prospective godson present of 80 marks.
TIE largest electric plant in the world will
soon be put in operation. London is to be-
! Illuminated by electricity, aad a contract for
the immense undertaking has already been
made.
TIE popularity of the chrysauthemums is
shown by the fact that the twenty-five or thirty
| leading dealers in and about New York have
| sold 100000 plants since last spring, and in
that time they have distributed 5000, 900 cata-
logues.
! Mrs HANNAH BRoUGHroN of Tunbridge, Conn,
| though 81 years old. the forenoon Of one day
last week spun, doubled and twisted ten knots
of yarn. And she wasn't greatly fatigued
either for the next day she worked from noon
| to daybreak dressing poultry.
NEWARK, n. J., singing society visited Edi-
sons laboratory in West Orange n. j., Tuesday
evening, and sang several choruses into a pho
tograph that is to be shipped to England and
let off before lot of scientists, if the instru-
ment wristbands the strains meanwhile.
The QUESTION has been raised by the London
Globe as to who has made the most money,
| Miss Braddon, who has written fifty novels in
thirty years, or Adelina Patti. who has been
| singing about the same length of time or Tom
King, the prize fighter, who left nearly $500 900
and all expenses paid.
THE iron chairs arranged so thickly about the
Champs Elysees belong to- the city of Paris.
There are 1900 of them. The right to control
| sold at auction, the upset price being $4,000
| francs. The buyer may demand sous for the
| use OF an armchair and sou for plain chair
| and must keep them in good order
| An old Bucksport sea captain thus describes
the way in which he dismissed an undesirable
| -,,sN4 g.. L l.
| night: Il just showed him up the companion
way ana out on the gang plank leading from
my house, and gently remarked that the wind
was OF shore and the sooner he got under way
the better offing he would get before morning.
he paid of and bore away down the street."
AN UNMARRIED MAN. of Buffalo, N. Y..recently
drew a crisp, new S. bill out of the bank.
happy thought struck him and he wrote an ar
dent love letter across the face of it in blue ink
ana signed his initials and address. Then he
| spent the S.. By Thursday he had received
fourteen answers, many of them enclosing pho
| tographs. He will marry one of them mot
the photographs, but the original of them this
| month.
The last session of Congress lasted 32f days
Ten senators out of seventy six and twenty rep
resentatives out Of 1926, to use the language of a
| country Juryman, "sot it out'' to the last The
| whole number of bills and joint resolutions
| passed at the session was 1,443, of which 1,197
| were approved by the President, ninety five be-
| vetoed and twenty three were too late to be
signed at the time of adjournment.
HAROLD M. SEwELL, United States consul
general to Samoa. says in interview, that
the American accordion has found great favor
| with the native Samoans, and that it is about
the only musical instrument used in that
| country. MIR. Sewell says the women of Samoa
are very pretty when yonng, and that they are
| fond of dancing sort of medley which is ex-
ecuted IN many different positions, and with
| graceful movement of the hands and feet.
IT Is ESTIMATED that there are $500 women in
the United States vino hold diplomas from med
| zeal colleges, either American or foreign DR.
| Elizabeth Blackwell, who graduated in ls4S is
| said to be the first woman doctor. The first one
| IN Sweden Is Karolina Wderstrom, who has
rec4ntly been engaged by the Thule Life Insur
| ance Company to examine women who wish to
| insure their lives The physician of the Mil
| Yankee county hospital is Dr. Anna Mcconnell.
| PROF. WoLLNY of Munich has lately been con-
| Quoting experiments upon the action of an cleo
| trio current on vegetation. The soil expert
| Inented on was divided into plots four meters
| qlare, plates Of zinc 30 ceutiineters broad and
meters long being placed at opposite ends of
| each square. The line was carefully insulated
| and five MeidinEer cells were inherited in the
| circuit. The tests were kept up from seedtime
| to harvest, but neither corn potatoes nor any
other vegetable or cereal we're affected in the
| slightest degree.
| EVERYBODY who attended the opening of the
opera season at the Metropolitan in New York
| last week cast curious look at the box formerly
occupied by Mrs. Hammersly, now the Duchess
OF Marlborough. When she occupied it there
was always gay party with her, and the talk
| ing and laughing there were notably loud Mrs
Hammersly bad little buffet fitted up in the
rear or the box. wher9 there WAS always kept a
choice store Of good things to cat aud drink
She sold her box two or three weeks ago for
more than $4,000.
WEDNESDAY, in Wayne county North Caro-
lima, Mack Talton and bliss Rebecca Pike. two
estimaole young people, were to be married
The ceremony was TO come OFF at the home of
the bride brother, which was her home also
Mrs. Matthew Pike, the brides sister in-law
was greatly devoted to her. Just as the bridal
compile stood up and approached the minister
| Mrs Pike Eel forward and was caught by one
| OF the party. 1t was found that she was dead
Heart disease and the emotion of the partino
| with enc she loved as a sister caused her death
DR.. G. A. SLocoMB of MilIbury. Mass. who
oflciated at the birth of the four girl babies
who came into the family OF MIR and Mrs.
Frank De Groote at Millbury on the night of
| Nov. :, has investigated the story of six chill
| dren az birth which came by telegraph from
| Texas. lie has received an answer to his in.
| quIry from the postmaster at Corsicana Ma
| varro county, Texas, which says, regarding the
| report: mo truth in ii whatever The Mill
| bury bankruptcies are all alive. but Lillian. the
smallest, Is very delicate and is suffering from
| q cold.
| bEN. buSIAfE tLCSEhET, Cne communist
| leader who was elected to the French Chamber
| of Deputies last week. in the early DAYS of our
| civil war served in the federal army He had
| seen service in the Barbary states and under
| Garibaldi, and SO gained ready admission to the
federal service at time when officers of exneri
ence we're hard to find. He began as colonel
and was promoted to be brigadier general in
October. 1862 He resigned, however in the
following spring and was chiefly noted for
carpng criticisms of all military operations OF
the time.
MISS JANE MORGAN, the sister of Mis- Middle
Morgan. the well known livestock reporter. is
an artist, and with her own hand has decorated
the interior of the unique house built for Miss
Middle on Staten Island. One room calls for
particular attention 1t is rough plastered
and while this plaster was wet Miss Jane stuck
the ceiling with the claws of Holsters crabs and
| the shells of CLANS The dado is decorated
| with the hoofs or ''trotters" of pigs, carefully
| woven into wreaths the centers OF which are
| satin rosettes. 1t /, said that the chimney of
this room is also the work of Miss Jane who.
disguised with the masons clumsy work. took
the trowel out of his hand and laid the bricks
herself.
THE strange hallucination that has taken
possession of the mind Of Joseph Freese OF San
Francisco, miller by occupation, has led to
his arrest for insanity. Two years ago he be-
gan to write letters to the widow of the million.
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