The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

29j ballots for a clerk without electing one.
They stopped then for recess.
THE whole number of Christians in China is
now over $1,000, while those in Japan are over
1900. In each country over 1000 were added
during 1887
IT IS ESTIMATED that at least 500 couuterfeits
of the old masters each Of which has been pur-
chased at big price are hanging in the gal
leries Of the United States.
NEWS comes from New Haven that Walter c.
Camp, Yale's big football player, is to marry
Miss Alice G. Summer, the sister of Prof. Sum-
ner, the eminent free trader.
THE Sweetwater dam just completed at San
Diego, Cal. at a cost of $500 900, is said to be
feet higher than any dam in the United States.
1t is 30 feet from its base to its crest.
SEVEN varieties of fishes examined by natural
lists of the Challenger expedition have been
found to be totally blind in the deep sea, but
can see when inhabting shallow water
THE French have now discovered an annex
able island in the PACING and have straightway
proceeded to annex it. Their acquisition is
Raratonga, which has an area of possibly fifty
square miles,
HAROLD Brown, a descendant of Nicholas
Brown, after whom Brown University was
named and member of the class of 1886 of the
University, has given 100000 for Episcopal
missionary work.
THERE is said 10 be one house in Chicago
which maintains seventy commercial travellers
in single State, and whose yearly expenses
were made $4,000 greater by the passage OF the
interstate commerce law.
TIE interest taken in art in France was shown.
this year by the crowd of people present at the
so-caied private view of the Salon. SO great
was the anxiety not to miss the spectacle that
10000 people gained admission.
CAPT Bob Cook says that on account OF her
new stroke Harvard is a more dangerous rival
this year than she has ever been before, and
that while he is not discouraged, still he can
see reason at all for any special confidence in
Yale.
THERE are queer people in this world. A
young woman in Mahanoy City refused to
marry her lover, but when he had proved his
devotion by blowing up her house with dyna-
mite, she wanted to marry him to keep him out
of jail.
THE highest recorded balloon ascent was by
Glaisher aud Coxwell from Northampton,
England, on Sept. 5, 1862 They rose to the
height of seven miles According to Glaisher,
in $500 balloon ascenSlonS only fifteen deaths
have occurred.
THE British Museum is about to issue the first
part of series of fac-simile reproductions of
some of the best drawings by old masters in its
collection. The publication is intended for free
distribution to provincial art museums and gall
leries, and the British treasury pays the ex-
penSe.
THE largest iron casting ever attempted in
America was recently made at Bethlehem, Pa.
1t was the base for the steel compressor to be
used in the new gun steel works, and 124 tons of
molten metal were used. 1t will be some weeks
before the huge casting will be cool enough to
examine
EMPRESS VICTORIA. of Germany, has turned
inventor. She drew plans from which a writing
desk has been manufactured, which enables
the Emperor to write whether lying in bed or
standing up. It is available In any position,
and the mechanism employed is said to be in
tricate and remarkably effective
SCIENCE has claimed the sponge fishery of the
Mediterranean. The native divers who could
stay under the water not more than five min
utes are being driven out by men in regular
diving armor, who can work by the hour. A
German professor has originated method of
planting cuttings from SpongeS, and is being
prosecuted with success.
A BOOKSELLER in st. Louis purchased for
trifle from a collegiate institution in that city
not long ago a number of books that had been
thrown out from the college library as worth
less. Some of them the bookseller sent to an
autioneer to dispose of and one Of the identical
volumes was eventually bought in by a repre-
sentative Of the college for 1913.
EDoUARD DETAILLE is described by writer
in the Epoch as having a military appearance
quite in keeping with his picture. He is tall and
SLENDER with a high forehead. blue eyes, short
hair, light moustache. and the bearing of a
cavalry officer Detalle's house, as well as his
studio, is filed with arms, equipments, flags
and uniforms of all epochs and countries.
SOME of the greatest men the world ever saw
were superstitious. Napoleon Bonaparte was
believer in omens the great Duke of Yelling
ton would not offer battle on any day that he
met or saw yellow dog cross his path. Han
nil 70 Of hadh o-
so as to insure good luck for the day, and Fred
erck the Great carried a rabbits foot to guard
against evil.
ADoLPH SUTEo, the California many million
aire, who is preparing to make present of his
handsome property at Cliff House to the city
of San Francisco, was poor and unknown few
years ago He conceived the idea of the Sutro
tunnel succeeded in borrowing enough money
to interest capitalists in the venture, formed
company with capital of $50. 900 COO, built the
tunnel and is now worth several millions.
CURIOSITY in Norwich, Conn, is a one
legged English sparrow, which has a nest on
the crown of a column in the front porch of the
City Hall. He wasn't worth much at building
a nest but he can help a little about Matching
and make himself generally useful on one leg
His mate had to build the nest unassisted but
he furnished her with lively advice and she
seems to think as much of him as though he
had two legs.
In respect of patronage the position of Post
master General is now the most important in
the Cabinet. The $4,000 postmasters who are
responsible for their appointment to the chief
of the department are supplemented by an i'm
mense number of clerks who serve at Washing
ton, on the railroads and as examiners and in
spectOrs all over the country. and the Post
master General is to the people at large almost
as influential a man as the President himself.
THE schooners Luther Eldridge and Emulator,
Of Chatham, Mass, while dragging for anchors
lost in last winters ice embargo, recently dis
covered Off Chatham what appears to be a large
iron chest. II is popularity supposed to be full
OF treasure, and to have been lost by foreign
frigate, wrecked here many years ago. Failing
TO raise this chest with graphing irons, the cap
tains of the schooners have engaged profess
sional divers, with whose aid they are now try
ing to secure it.
AN interesting invention is that of Mr.. Ives
who, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
exhibited recently at a lecture photograph of
a landscape in which the various tints OF green
in the foliage Of trees, the blue of the sky, and
the colors of house, barn, autumn leaves, etc,
were perfectly reproduced Many inventors
have thought that they had method Of photo
graphing in colors, but their processes have not
worked in practice, 1t is hoped that the process
OF MIR. Ives Will be more practical
THERE is grave in Pine Island cemetery, Nor.
walk, Conn, that is no less than ton feet long.
1t is that of Mrs. Mary Titus awidow, who was
laid to rest there on Fob ), 1899 little over lI0
years ago, in tho Goth year Of her age Tn
ditich has 1t that Mrs. Titus was o siantess.
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