The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

GEN. G. B. FISK, the prohibition candidate for
| the presidency, Is an epicure in sea food dishes,
and nothing tickles his palate so much as deli
cateiy prepared fish dinner. From having made
his fortune in the fish and oyster trade he is
| sometimes known as CLAN Bake" Fisk
NEW SADDLE that had been invented was
thought worthy of Introduction into the Ger
man army. AS final trial squadron of fifty
cavalrymen are now taking four weeks ride
through Prussia under the personal command
OF a general They ride forty five miles day.
The cost of public education in all branches
In the whole of PRUSSIA is IS cents per pupil for
the year The German taught in the public
schoois OF Cnlcago cost the people S580U0 for
Ine past SIX months. This on the basis that
every pupil Is taught that language (Which is
not the case) is 7212 cents per capta-or 81 -
year.
IHE pair of trousers which J. w. Briggance
OF Gallatln, Tenn, wears on state occasions
We're made for him By his mother in 1915. She
saOhereu Inc cotton on her own farm, spun 1t
llCo yarn, dyed it and wove it. The trousers
seem in as good condition as if they had been
MADE only last year, and Mr. Briggance is proud
OF them.
AFTER century of hot discussion" the
Milwaukee Sentinel remarks I'VE are not GER
tain whether coffee is wholesome stimulant
or deadly poison; whether we should have hot
baths or cold, or no baths at all; whether we
should keep our feet dry or pay no attention to
wet feet and soaked clothing; whether tobacco
Is a blessing or curse; whether over-eat OF
under eat; whether we should eat at night or
go to bed hungry; whether we should exercise
more or should exercise less; whether we
should drink much water or little"
THE old French superstition about luck at
taching to the rope with which man or woman
mas been hanged has Just been sadly belied in
the case OF a commissionaire living in the Rue
Iiandelique, at Montmartre. He had for some
fhn hny, Ii S.F
coveted rope. Much thinking of his treasure
made him morbid. Whenever he looked at it
ne remembered the dreadful face of the young
girl whom he had cut down in neighbours
mousse one morning At last the fixed idea be-
came unbearable He got his rope out, tied it
to hook and hanged himself.
AT CAsTAGNoLA, near Lugano, in Switzerland
a woman, aged 36 years, recently gave birth to
SIX children-four boys and two girls. They
we're born alive, though prenaturely, but they
all died IN a few seconds. Their united weight
was only pounds ID ounces, and the length of
their bodies, which were perfectly formed
varied from 824 to 1014 inches The case which
IS said to beat all previous authentic records of
human fecundlty. is vouched for by DR.. Fran
cesco Vassal of Lugauo, who attended profess
Slonally on the occasion, assisted by Drs.
Blanchi Real and Solari of the same place.
AN English antiquarian has Re delviag
among old newspaper files all has discover sd
what he says is the first commercial advertise
ment ever printed in a newspaper. 1t appeared
in the Wercri,S Pofjttcus of London, dated
Sept 80. 1858 1t runs as follows THAT Ex-
cellent and by all Physicians approved China
DRINK called by all the Chineans Tcha, by other
Nations Tay alias Tee, is sold at the Sultaness
Head Cophee House, in Swecting's Rents, by
the Royal Exchange, Loudon." At the date of
this advertisement, tea had been used in Eng
land about forty years, but the price was ex-
trcmely high, often reaching ego per pound"
EIGHT big ocean steamers are being built for
the transatlantic lines, and some sharp contests
of speed are expected when they are loated,
for all are being built with a view to lowering
the record The Guion line has on the stocks
what will be the biggest vessel afloat-not in
Guiding, of course, the Great Eastern, which is
TO be broken up. She will be II 800 tons Sir
William Pierce, who designed the Oregon,
Alaska, Umbria and Etruria, is her designer,
and ho says she will cross the ocean in five
days. Her length will be $50 feet, breadth OF
beam 63 feet and depth of hold 50 feet. Sew
eral striking departures will BIZ made in her
construction