The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

HE information comes via Madrid that SGcci,
an Italian, has just ended thirty days fast at
Barcelona. At tire conclusion of his seIf-im-
posed ordeal ne partook of soup, sardines, roast
FOWL, beefSteak, fruit and wine, afterWard IN
dulging In a smoke.
A. CoNIcH, a cigarette manufacturer in Ply
mouth, Eng, has just finished, after eight
months work. NINA ture of Mount Edgecombe
house, the residence of an English nohleman OF
tnat name, and 1t is made entirely of CT ;arettes
he says he has put 0,C0) of them together to
make the toy.
THE Re UMBERro, which was to be launched
at CastelIamare, Italy. this week. will be the
most formidable offensive vessel in the world, it
is thought. It's displacement is 10 900 tons and
It carri guns over forty feet long. The
draught OF water is greater than that of the
Great Eastern.
The OTHER DAY workmen, while engaged in
demoshing the Dinwiddie (Va.) county court
house, found under the floor of the kitchen a
skeleton. together with n canteen and muSket.
It is supposed that the skeleton is that of sol
Gler, VINO, while SICK or wounded, crept under
| the floor, and there died
A WORKMAN in Greensboro KY John William
son by name started out the other morning for
a days hunting, and in trying to ''see if his gun
was loaded" unfortunately found that it was,
| as the weapon was SUI 1denly discharged and a
oulet entered his mouth. AT last accounts
Wlllamson's death was momentarily expected.
THERE are two rival jewelry stores on Green
wich street. in New York. the propretors of
| which bear the same name. The elder, being
| Jealous of his younger rival, has displayed this
! sign IN his show window: This concern was
| established in 1858. when - (the younger
rival was eight weeks old, etc. We do business
on our own reputation"
WILLIAM WATSON, an old settler living eight
miles northwest of Windsor, H.. died at his resi-
| dence, at the age of 76 years and was buried in
| cofnn that he made sixteen years ago for him
| self, 1t is o. walnut wood, and he has kept it
In ms house ever since, and two weeks before
his death had it brought into his room and
| placed at the foot of his bed.
BERNABD MEYER Of Omaha recently felt a
slight pain under his left shoulder. The pain
soon became intense and doctor was sought
An examination of tie spot revealed n hard
| substance, which, on being extracted, proved to
| be needle in good condition. Meyer has no
recollection of needle having entered his
| body, but his mother says that it occurred when
he was an infant, fifty-four years ago
A SYRACUSE man lost costly gold watch at
the county fair. young lady found and ad-
vertised it. He called, pocketed the recovered
| watch, and then said he was sorry he hadn' I
| enough money vita him to reward her. She
| said she want no reward. but would be con
| tent if he would rein bur5e her fo- the 81 she
han sp MT in advertising his property. He
| fun bed i'll his vest pockets and paid her q
| cents on account.
last report, states the great hope of the colony
| is now in the cul ivation of vines. During 1897
| the area planted was about 10000 acres, md
| the amount of wine made was 3 9 1870 hectic
lltres. against $40, 257 in the previous year. In
the three departments, AlglerS, Gran and Con-
| stantine, the total under vineyards was
| about 19O,C00 acres, yielding nearly 100000
hectolitreS of wine.
LAST April a citizen Of North Adams, Mass,
| discovered, in the southern part of Adams, out
! crops of p!unbago, promising rich returns He
secured CO. troi OF large tract OF land GOVERN =
| the deposits, interested thee others in the
| scheme, and began sinking a shaft At the
| depth of - feet, it Is low reported, the
| men have uncovered what appears TO be a large
| vein Of rich plumbaSo, similar in quality to the
| Siberian black lead used III pencils.
The following is from Grass Lake (NIich)
| daily: Last Monday morning while a small
| knot of men were talking together at the Cen
| trail depot in Jackson, The peep of a chicken
| was distinctly heard. Thereupon one of the
| number opened his vest, and in an inner pocket
was revealed a chicken just Matched and still
| partly in its she'll He reported that he had
carried an egg for twenty one days on a $40
| wager that it would hatch from the natural
warmth of his body.
| PROF BUTLER of the Wisconsin State Uni
versty, is great believer in outdoor exercise,
| though his flesh is not always as wiling as his
| spirit. 1t is related that recently, as he was
| irving to walk around Lake Mendoza his legs
| began to swell and so he stopped not far from
| the insane hospital, and sitting on the ground.
| placed his feet up on rail fence 10 reduce the
| swelling. While in this awkward posture two
men drove up in wagon, and, after Il whis-
pered consultation, jumped out, pounced upon
| the professor, hanucuffed him, bundled him
| into the wagon, and, in spite of his indignant
protestations, carried him to the hospital,
| thinking ne was an escaped patient.
A FRENCH opera manager was in despair at
the prospect of having to produce ''L'Asrcaine"
with white negroes in the ballet because the
dancers refused to black their faces, for fear
| it would injure their compexions He issued
| an order. however, that ali the young and
| pretty girls must color their faces. because it
| would do them no harm, while the old and
| plain would be allowed to appear without
| black faces, because they had more need to take
| care of their looks. The result was that ever
| blessed one Of the girls tried to get on more
| black than any of the Others, and, when the
| ballet was ca the stage G halt do en- extra cal
| ciums had to be used to keep the audience from
thinking the lights had al gone our.
| ONLY one Bible has ever been translated into
| English, but many transla; ions have been made
some from the original Hebrew and Greek.
| some from other translations. An English yer.
| sion of the Psalms made in 1880: Wickliff.
| translated the New Testament in 1880 aud the
! old Testament in 1884. John Purvey revised
| Wicklifes translation in 1889, and in ;525 Will
lam Tyndale printed his We sion of the New
| Testament. C5Verda es Old Testament ca me
! out in 1885 Matthews Bible, Cranmer's and the
Great Bible followed In 1860 and 1876 appeared
| the Bishops Bible, in 1911 appeared the old YER
| sion, and IN 1880 the revised New Testament
| followed in 1885 by the revised Old Testament
| The Douay Bible was finished in 1902
| JAMES PAYS, the novelist and CORE spondent.
| has come to he conclusion that the only saliva
| ton of our writer's, and literary classes in gen
eral, lies in going TO bed early getting ten hours
| of sleep, and understanding that brain WORK
needs more complies and certain recuperation
| than ordinary physical labor. The Office and
necessity of sleep is getting to be better appre
cated Little is heard nowadays about burn
| ing midnight oil. Obedience to physiological
| laws alone will enable a man to escape mental
| breakdown at early age. Genius cannot
! override nature 1t is impossible to turn night
| into day, or TO habitually do two days work in
| one. Common sense and method are better
than brilliance, and judgment is, in the end,
ahead of genius.
| DISPATCH from Chicago, in referring to the
new syndicate which proposes to remove Libby
prison to that city from Richmond, Va has
the following: Nv. Fl. Gray, treasurer of the
present organization, stated concerning the
failure of the first syndicate that the prison was
originally purchased by HIM for SEQ 800 last
February, Shortly afterward he sold the
property to Rollin c. Nickerson. Charles J.
Haines, George Wright and Malcolm VI. jamie
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