The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The late Mrs. Morgan paid $3.50, 900 for neck
lace Mrs Hicks Lord is the owner of dia-
mond necklace whick cost S25O,OOO.
| IT has been estimated that after a lapse Of
| ID, 900 900 years the sun cannot give out sufh-
| Gent heat to support life on the earth.
! ACCORDING TO a Richmond paper, girls there
go TO school Juggling twenty pounds of scholas-
/ tic literature and wearing a three-foot hustle. "
BERLIN, Cologne, Elberfeld, Dresden, Breslau,
| Frankfort-on- Oder and Glauchau are already
preparing to erect monumental statues OF the
! late Emperor.
| 1T is estimated that to collect a pound of
honey from clover 81. 900 heads of clio yer must
| be deprived of nectar and 3,750,0OO visits by
! bees must be made.
A SKIPPING ROPE has just been patented in
England which plays music, the act of turning
| the rope setting in motion small musical box
which is fixed at the end of one OF the handles.
JUDGE H. E. PACKER, of Mauch Chunk, Pa,
| has in his dining-room a Sideboard which cost
! 81, Goo 1t covers the whole side of a room
and is a model of elaborate and beautiful cary
| ing.
| A ROCHESTER PA) WIDOW has brought suit
for 100000 damages against the wealthiest
man of the place, because he called at the house
| four times within year and will not marry
| her.
| WILLIAM SPENCER entered into his fourth
matrimonial venture recently at the age of 7S,
while his bride, aged "A, is INDUCING in her
| sixth Both are in robust health. They live at
| Shelbyville, Ind.
THERE are q crematories in Europe, of which
| 10 have been built within the past year There
have been 600 incinerations in Germany and 800
| in Italy. There are crematories In the United
| States and in process of construction.
The throwing of rice at weddings is evidently
in md of her
countries to this day rice is showered on the
eYpectant youth when he goes to the house to
| get his bride Rice is the emblem of fruitful
ness.
JUNGLE NED MALLEY, Of Parkersburg, w.
Va, is SO years old, and has no wasted oppor
tunities to regret, as he has never missed
horse race, dog fight or cooking main that came
| in his way in the course of his somewhat pro-
tracted existence.
Miss KATE BISHOP, an actress in Australia,
wears silver bracelet on the left arm night
and day Her only sister locked it there before
she sailed for America to get married The
ship went down with all hands, and the key is
with the drowned girl.
In the savings banks of Rhode Island the
deposits amount to So, 100000. The population
is a little more than 300 000 so that the average
| savings represented by the deposits in the
| ings banks alone are about Sl77 per capita for
every man, woman and child i'll the State.
A SAN Francisco NEWSPAPER says that Mr..
Freddie Gebhard paid 1888 900 for his ranch of
8, 300 acres in Lake county, where he intends to
| breed race horses and fancy stock; that Eole Is
to be sent there from the east, and that S., 900
bull has been bought and will follow Eole.
SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE examines the throat
Of the Crown Prince with an electro lamp. The
lamp is appended at the end of what looks like
a long slender penholder and the proportion
al ei W SlnnliaS q
ty is worn about the examining surgeons neck
LAWN BALLOON is a novelty in games, and
meant as cricket for ladies. Light balls and
equally light hats are used instead of the hard
balls and heavy bats employed in cricket. No
| bowling is required, while stopping is also rem
dered unnecessary, and large number can
| play it.
BIRDS NEST was found recently in South
Africa in a skull, probably that of some I'M
fortunate Kaff1r. One portion of the skull had
already fallen away, exposing the hollow cavity
| of the head, when the Cape wagtailS in search
| Of a sheltered and cosey place selected it for
| their nest
| A WONDERFUL LANDSCAPE on exhibition in
| Paris has been executed in European and for
| eign insects Every desired tone is supplied by
| s. 900 cOleoptera in the foreground. and 400C
| varieties of the insect tribes for the remainder
| of the pictures. The work required four years
| of the artists time
| NEAR the Ponte Fabricio, in Rome, the river
| bed has yielded agreat quantity of terra Gotta
busts, many of which have openings and show
| within rude representations of the lungs, heart
| etc. They are considered dedlcatOry gifts il
| thanks for a return to health, perhaps once
| placed in a temple of Apollo
| JEM STEWART, champion boxer of Scotland
after giving an exhibition in Coatbridge re
/ Gently, was attacked by two women, one of
| whom was his discarded wife. Stewart at.
| tempted to make off, but his wife stuck to him,
| ana while upbraidipg him for his unfaithfulneSs
so belabored him that the police had to be called
| to his assistance.
| NJ. LIE Bee a French savant says that ''the
nose is gradually losing its power to discharge
its traditional function in the case of the civil
| lied peoples; when the sense Of smell vanishes
| altogether as will infallibly be the case one
| day, the organ itself will follow the example
| sooner or later, as nature never conserves use
| less organs, and the nose must 60" The olsac-
| tory sense is keeaer in the savage than in the
| civilized man.
THE Earl of Derby, whose seat is in the
| suburbs of Liverpool, is pronounced klepto-
maniac His lordships particular weakness. is
| for old silver and the greater it's antioutv and
| beauty the more certain it is to find its way
| into his pocket There is a story to the effect
| that while kneeling at the communion table he
| put cup in his pocket, and,when he got up it
| fell with such crash that the sexton had fit
| when he saw who the distinguished thief was
A COMPANY is now being formed in London to
| bridge the English Channel from Dover to
| Calais. The bridge is to be 20 miles long. 100
feet above the level of the sea, and the span be-
tween the piers is to be 1900 feet 1t will carry
four lines of railway track, and the cost is esti
| mated at f32 900. 1t is to be constructed
entirely of iron in open work, combining light
ness and strength and offering the slightest
surface to the 1t will require 1000 900 tons
of iron, and can be built in six years.
THE garden of Eden, it is now claimed, was
located in Central America Nine. Alice lie
Plongeon, wife of an eminent man of science
is the prophet of the new belief and she is also
believer i'll the submerged continent of At
lants. She says that among the manIscripts
of the Mayas, the prehistoric inhabitants of
Yucatan, is an account of the sinking of At
lantis, which once joined America to the west
ern coast of Africa and Europe. Other MAYA
writings give U.S. she asserts, the whole history
of the intellectual development of the human
family.
SEVERAL DAYS AGO Lee Mackey was blowing
| on the farm of c. S. Maxwell, near Buffalo
village, Pa, when he stopped to dig away the
sod about a stump AS he pulled back the first
flap OF grass he was surprised to find Under
meath 1t a fiat stone, which evidently hadn't got
there by accident. Mackey proceeded TO in
vestigate, and was still more astonshed to find
coin to the value Of nearly $4,000 Mackey re-
signed his job the next day and left for his
home in Greene county to enjoy the fruits of
his good fortune, The money Is supposed 10
have been hidden by Robert Dryden, who many
years ago occupied u cabin near nv and ,tae