The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A CRICKET ELEVEN of Parsees are about e
leave Bombay for tour of England They
will play only amateurs.
A LIVERPOOL policeman has received five
years sentence, having been caught stealing
from jewelry shop in order to get presents for
| his sweetheart, cook.
THE Sweetwater dam just completed at Sau
Diego. Cal, at a cost of $500 O0G, is SAID to be
- feet higher than any dam in the United
States. 1t is 80 feet from its base to its crest.
MRS. L. l. SHERMAN (white), of Great Falls,
| Montana, secured a divorce from her hus-
| band, Morgan Sherman (colored). the other day.
! and Immediately afterward married her lawyer.
A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL says that there is no
| properly recorded instance Of railroad locomo-
tive ever attaining a speed greater than eighty
miles an hour, and that higher speeds are
! mythical
MRS MARGARET DUTToS, who died at Shelby.
vile, Ill, recently, at the age of 102 years, had
been an inveterate smoker until her Tooth birth
day, when she abandoned the habit for fear of
| injuring her health.
| AN East Wareham fisherman recently caught,
| at the Agawam River weir, between sunrise and
sunset, with a dip net. $4,000 herrings, or 220
! barrels, worth 81 a barrel in the Boston market
| as bait for deep sea fishing.
Mr.. HANSEN, a well known Norwegian athlete
is about to make the attempt of crossing the
vast snow fields of Greenland on snowshoes. A
wealthy Danish merchant has supplied the
| money for the unique enterprise.
A SWISS engineer named Ritter wants the
city of Paris to adopt his plan for obtaining an
'inexhaustible" supply of water from the lake
| of Neufchatel Switzerland, 312 miles away
The cost is given at about S6O,OoO,OOO.
WEDDING took place at st. Paul, Mimi, last
week, where the groom was over six feet tall
| and the bride little over two feet in height
During the ceremony the girl stood on a chair
| her head just reaching to the gro0m's shoulder.
Mr.. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT. who was pre-
| sented to Queen Victoria on Wednesday, took
| several lessons from professional teacher of
| department in regard to backing out from the
| royal presence and making the required obeis-
anceS.
In cemetery at Sacramento Cal, lie the re-
| mains of a son of Alexander Hamilton First
Secretary of the United States Treasury. Col
| Hamilton was a man of rowing disposition He
commanded a regiment of Illinois Volunteers
| in the Black Hawk war.
GEORGE F, KNAPP, of South Bridgton, Me. is
Dragging considerably about his 2-year-old
| heifer. The heifer ought to be proud anyway.
| for the other day she became the mother of
| three nice calves-two red ones and one white
| all OF good size, and all males.
SEvEN-YEAR-oLD WILLIE MCCONNELL, of San
Francisco, found bottle of whisky and tasted
| its contents. He liked it, and drank over half
pint. He became tipsy, then i'll, and in few
hours died i'll great agony, in spite of the best
efforts OF good doctor to save him.
THE British Museum is about to issue the first
part of a series of fac-simile reproduction of
some of the best of the drawings by old masters
in its collection The publication is intended
| for free distribution to provincial art museums
| and galleries, and the British treasury pays the
expense.
MRS. RoxANA PINKERToN, boarding at the
Palmer House, Chicago, went shopping. leaving
| a pair of diamond earrings in her open trunk
When she returned the door was stiN locked
| but the rings were gone. The courts have
decided that Potter Palmer must pay $40 for
| the Jewels
Miss MERCER HENDERSON, the great Scotch
heiress, is to marry the impoverished Earl of
| Buckinghamshire His lordship is descendant
| OF the patriot John Hampden, the friend of
| Cromwell. His marriage will enable him to
| restore his ancient family mansion to its his
| toric spendor.
STEPHEN MILES, rs years old, blind Of one eve,
| infirm, and parish charge. who had never
| before been charged with any offence was sent
| to jail for seven days by an English magistrate
in default of lis. fine, because he had been seen
with net beating the fur2 on a common, search
| ing for a RABBIT.
EXTREME DEsT1TUTIoN and suffering exist all
through the Lehigh region in Pennsylvania as a
result of strikes Appeals have been put forth
| by committees on behalf of sufferers which aav
that death from starvation and exposure win
| be the consequence in numerous cases unless
aid is speedily furnished.
ILLINOIS is making more than ordinary efforts
| to prevent the appearance of cholera and other
epidemic diseases in the State this wear Among
o her precautions taken, the State Board az
Health has notified all the railroad companies
centering in Chicago to put their stations and
grounds IN good sanitary condition.
RECENTLY John Leary, of Seattle. Wash. Ter
while in search of work, was stricken with
paralysis of the lower limbs out in the woods
yet managed to reach deserted cabin where
he lay for six weeks entirely without food or
| fire. and with no water until it rained, which
was some two weeks after the attack
GERTRUDE CUNNINGHAM, of Bangor, caught
her hand in the mangler at the Bangor laundry
and the hand and wrist were stripped of skin
and flesh. The hand has been saved by skin
grating, three young women friends of the
girl having allowed los pieces Of skin to he
taken from their persons for her benefit
SCIENCE has claimed the sponge fishery of the
Mediterranean. The native divers who could
stay under water not more than two minutes
are being driven out by mon in regular diving
armor who can wo rk by the hour A German
professor has originated a method of planting
cuttings from spongeS, and it is being prose,
cuted with success
A JUSTICE in Indiana, who had underworld
vainly to recover $50 he had Ioansd an ac.
quaintance, had the latter before him as a wit
ness recently, and managed quietly to stir him
up to an outburst Of ire that Just fitted a fine
of $50 for contempt of court. The Justice who
remained cool and collected (the 800 NAV ha
said to have got in his fine work
THE Vienna journals announce as a positiva
fact that peasant who has Just died at
BieltSch in MORAY via, had attained the remark,
able age of 142 years. He is stated to have Jeff
son aged ll5, and a grandson aged IS. besides
numerous children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren. The deceased centenarisn en-.
Joyed 1t is said, the best of health to the last
THE Roman Catholic priests of the Argentine
Republic are said to be on strike The Govern.
ment issued an order lowering the rates for
masses, marriages burials and other ecclesias.
tical functions and the priests determined To
resist this encroachment upon their income and
prerogatives so the churches all through the
republic are closed, and even the ringing of the
bells is stopped
BALTIMORE can boast of gu tie an original
lamplighter in the shape of boy not over 10
years old. The little fellow rides along tbe
road on a big brown horse. Whenever ba
comes to q lamp post he drives his horse IN,