The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1929 1t is good soap yet.
CINCINNATI boasts the biggest pin-pool game
! in the country. One table in a billiard room of
that city nets the proprietor over $1,000 a
month.
PETER SToNER is an employee in q planning mill
in Altoona, and he never knew that he was a
somnambulist until the other morning, when he
got up out of bed, went to the mill, began doing
his customary daily work, and woke up to find
that it was not yet daylight.
WOMAN is living in Xenia, O., at the age Of
80, who does not know by sight or name the
children OF her brother, man Of 20, who is a
resident of the same town. A quarrel eStranged
the two thirty-fve years ago and they have not
spoken nor even seen each other since.
A CALIFORNIA TRAMP has novel method of
getting money. He fixes up his arm with CASTLE
soap and caustic to represent scald, and begs
for aid on the ground that he just met with an
accident He is said to have worked this game
successfully for four years in various parts of
the State.
A Boston WOMAN fifteen years ago touched
her tongue to some I've and burned the upper
side of it. Since that time she has been troubled
with ulcers, and recently it became necessary
for the physicians to cut her tongue out. The
operation was successfully performed, and two
weeks later she was able to talk and make her
self easily understood.
AN anniversary thief, as he has been termed,
invades Portland Ne. On April n, 1884, he
broke into store in Portland but was cap
tured and put away. On Sunday laSt-four
years after TO the day-he again set about rob,
bling the same store. For a second time he fell
into the hands of the police, one of whom as
sisted at his first arrest.
A MONSTER TOAD, weighing &c pounds and
measuring nearly feet round the body, is said
to have been found at Juillac, France, and sold
Tor $3.50 to manufacturer at st. Etienne Its
croaking bears close resemblance to the bark
ing OF dog. The Inhabitants of ell the coun-
try around have been pouring into Juillac to
see the phenomenal animal.
A LONDON JEwELER recommends diamond cut
ting and polishing as an excellent employment
for women, saying that he believes that any
woman or girl with quick intelligence could
learn to polish diamond very fairly in six
months" He says the qualities necessary in this
art are great honesty, good education. quick
intelligence, great patience, and good eyesight "
A FEW weeks ago citizen of Thorp, Wis,
going through the woods near there, found two
deer with their horns locked together. One was
dead and frozen stiff, and the other had dragged
| the dead body over forty rods, and torn up the
ground and brush in its frantic efforts to get
| free 1t was still alive, but very weak, and the
hard hearted citizen killed the poor animal and
then had to break the horns in order to get them
apart.
HEAVY machinery is now run by artesian
| well power in many parts Of France, and the
experience of the French shows that the deeper
the well the greater the pressure and the higher
| the temperature. The famous Grenelle well,
sunk to che depth of 1900 feet, and flowing
| daily some 100000 gallons, has a pressure of
| sixty pounds to the square inch, the water be-
| ing also so hot that it is used for heating the
| hospitals.
| THE effects of Marie Regnault, who was muir
| dered by Pranzini, were sold at an auction in
/ Paris ropantly A bt1pdla IF nj nIo baC ,ti+h
some trashy curiOSiteS, were knocked down to
a rag and bone woman. In the lot was bus
| tie, in ripping up which the purchaser found the
$1,000 worth of debentureS which it was known
| Marie Regnault had but which, not being found
| after she was murdered, had caused a great
| deal of perplexity to the prosecution and the
| jury.
Books to the value of $500 have been alb
stracted from the Municipal Library at Evreux,
France, and Captain of an infantry regiment,
stationed in the north of France, has been CON
victed of the theft. He was deeply in debt
| This officer retained home one day with several
volumes concealed in the recesSes of his neither
garments, and calmly removed them from their
hiding.place in the presence of his soldier serv-
| ant. The majority of the works thus stolen
| have been found at various booksellers shops
| in Paris.
JOIN S. DELANo, who is in Jail at Carthage
| ILL.,, charged with bigamy, has been trying to
starve himself to death In this work he was
assisted by attack of hemorrhage from the
lungs; which left him in very enfeebled con
dition While in this state a Baptist minister
| named Daniel Deiane on his way West, called
at the Jail to see him. When taken into the cell
the men stared at each other for a moment and
then simultaneously recognized each other as
brothers. They enjoyed a religious discussion
and will meet again.
SOME ENGINEERS express the opinion, in regard
to the effect of cold weather upon railroad iron,
hat lNx,y 40 Il
strength of rails, Notwithstanding the per cent
OF breakages is so much greater in cold weather
The real reason for the breaking as given lies
in the fact that when the ground is frozen it
loses its elasticity, but when, however, the
heavy train runs over the rails something must
give way; in the summer, the ground being I'M
frozen and therefore elastic yields, but in win
ter, being frozen, it is ineiastc and hence the
rail being the weakest gives way instead
KING ALFONSO XIII of Spain, after weeks Of
| anguish, caused by te9thing, had his royal
gums lanced, and has since been as happy as
any well. fed, well-nursed baby ought to be. On
| Wednesday he had grand time. Fourteen
| thousand school children paraded before him.
| all dressed in their Sunday clothes and carry
ing innumerable flags. King Alfonso crowed with
delight, and even clapped his little hands, to the
immense satisfaction of some 1884, 900 of his
| loyal subjects, who had assembled to see the
! fun. His Majesty, however, proved that at bot
| tom he is very much like ordinary babies, mas
much as, when the time came to distribute
cayes and oranges he insisted on having his
share Of them.
| A VALUABLE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY has
been lately made in the Azamgarh district in
the shape of a copper plate, recording. in later
Gupta characters, the grant by King Harsha-
vardhana, of Stanisvara of a village to several
| Brahmins for the spiritual welfare of his
parents and elder brother. The historical value
of the record is that ii gives in detail the
| genealogy Of King Harshavardhana, who
| relgned from A. ID. 6tS TO e42 over the greater
| part of Northern India, including Kashlnir and
| Nepal, aud whose court was visited at KanaUi
| by tue Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Kiuen Kiangin
| a. d. 637. The plate has been purchased by the
| British government, and deposited in the
provincial museum at LucknoY.
AN ELDERLY INVALID in the care of a woman
nurse, who had him odt in a bath chair on the
Bots de Bologne was suddenly and mysteriously
spirited away one day recently. The woman
had left him only for few minutes, while she
went on an errand. The invalid was completely
| paralyzed 1t Is thought that some rascal kid
| mapped him and will perhaps use him to beg
| with. similar fate befell young lady recov-
| ering from n severe Illness who had been
| wheeled to the Bots by her maid, about a year
| ago. The lady was recovered almost imnedi-
ately, as the victim, although in q very wenk
| state Of health, was not exactly paralyzed and
was able to make signals Of distress which were
at last understood by the passers by