The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ALL Europe seems impressed with the belief
that peace can best be maintained by having
! everything put on a war footing.
ATcHIsoS, KAN, is believed to be the only
town in the country which persists in using
balky horse in its hose cart service.
The new Bulgarian coinage is to be struck in
England. The order is for $4,000 worth of
snail coins. Two English firms have rendered
| contracts.
IT has been ascertained, through reports from
the various county superintendent, that the
| number Of persons frozen to death in Dakota in
| the recent blizzard was l09
THE inhabitants of Platte City, Mo, drink
such penetrating booze that when they tele
| phone over the river TO Leavenworth, Kan, the
hello girls there become dizzy, they say.
A ScorcHMAN has started to trundle wheel
barrow from Glasgow to Rome, and expects TO
| complete the JOB year, which he Will proba-
| bly, do unless he encounters the foo[killer.
BALTIMORE boasts of having wealthy society
young man who can bake bread and cook a de-
licious meal. If it has any society young ladies
who can do as much it has not mentioned 1t.
A YOUNG NAN in Lewiston, Me-, never misses
an opportunity for making a little money. The
other day he sold the boots off his feet, making
a clean profit of SOC. and walked home in his
stocking feet.
The largest cotton mill in the world is said to
be located at Kranholm, in Russia. The estab
lishment contains $4,000 spindles and 1900
looms disposes of force of $500 horsepower,
and gives employment to 1000 hands.
THE nights of July y and % will afford the
young people an excellent excuse for staying
out late. A total eclipse of the moon will occur;
beginning about o'clock and ending about 2:3O
O'Clock in the morning. Choose partners
THE French army hereafter is to be ably sup
plemented by what is known as the dog
CORDS" A great number of large savage dogs
have been obtained, and are being taught to at
| tack on sight anything that wers German uni.
form.
LONDON has now several women carpenters,
and commenter remarks that thus women are
entering another new field. Well it's hardly
proper to call it a new field, inasmnch as women
have always been bent on matching and
joining"
PERSONS coming from Poland state that the
land owners there, both great and small, are in
despair, owing to the rapid depreciation in the
value of their estates They assert that valua-
tions have sunk between % and 30 per cent. dur
ing the last two years.
( Nh. BROWNING has added a short notice to the
new edition of his wife's poems just issued. 1t
tells that Mrs. Browning was born at Carlton
Hill, Durham, her uncle's house. in 1905. She
was at the time of their marriage 40, while he
was her junior by six years.
A NEW LENox QLL) BOY has two immense
Cochin-China ROSTERS, which he bitches to a
small wagon and compels to draw him about.
He not only has good deal of fun but is bring
ing the physique of his fowls rapidly up to the
requirements of the boarding house spring
chicken.
MEssRs. D. RADFoRD & Co., coal merchants,
were fined S195 by an English magistrate re-
Gently for sending out coal conveyances which
| machines for
| weighing coal as the English law requires and
| for having sent out sacks containing less than
the requisite portion Of pa pounds.
THE Enterprise, of Palestine ILL.,, says that
William Corbin picked up in the street in that
place a relic of the Mount Vernon cyclone in the
| shape of an excuse blank used in the Mount
Vernon public schools. Palestine is nearly 100
miles northeast from Mount Vernon and in the
path in which the cyclone Travelled.
| A CINCINNATI POLICEMAN got drunk and went
| to sleep in a stable. Some mean mischievous
| boys blacxened his face and telephoned to his
| superior officer to come and see the fun He
came, and the unlucky policeman, now dis
charged, says he is going ito St. Louis begorra,
where dacent man has his roights.
PLASTER CAST of fossil egg, found in the
tertiary strata of the island of Madagascar, the
| original of which is in the Paris Academy of
| Sciences, belongs to the National Museum at
Washington. 1t is 3419 inches one wav by 80
have been the egg of bird three times as large
| as the ostrich.
THROUGH lawsuit arising out of gambling
! transaction between one Fuchs and Prince
! Gustav Sayn WittgeDsten Berleburg, it has
| come out that Fuchs lost an Baden Baden iu one
! night 20), 600 thalers, of which sum the Prince
| of Wales won one-haf. Fuchs added that he
gave the Prince bills for the 100000 thalers and
| duly met them
! A. r. FRENCH, Of Kansas City, had pretty
| good luck in fishing the other day. He seated
him elf on the pier at Santa Barbara, Cal, and
| with a hook and line caught five shrzs. averag-
| ing in length feet and inches each. The
! finny monsters fought gamely for freedom and
| it took the combined efforts of three men TO get
| each on terra firma
| NJ PAsTEUR's SCHEME for the determination of
rabbits has been successfully used on the prop
| erty of Nine Pommery, near Rheims, France
| Heaps of hay were dampened with the mixture
containing the microbes of chicken cholera near
| the burrows, and nineteen rabbits were found
| dead next day, and later on the burrows were
laid bare and scores of rabbits were found dead.
THE Legitimate" cab business probably does
not pay as well the latest specimen of fine art
| felony which consists in driving hanson, and
quietly transplanting likely looking luggage
| from the roofs of cabs. A dummy fare" in
| side the hanson is prepared to swear to the
| proprietorship of the luggage if fate, in the
| form policeman, should prove unkind. This is
| practiced i'll London.
| A SooTCH CLERGYMAN recently preached that
the ballet dancers dress was appropriately
| proper on the stage He said that when elias
| COWS wealthy merchants lived in the Saltmar
| ket their daughters were not ashamed to tram
! pie blankets in tubs the public green, and
| thought no more of it than performing other
! domestic duties. They stood in natures
! breeches and never lost caste or good matches
THE Salvation Army in London, to relieve as
far as possible the distress which prevails at the
! East End have acquired large premises in Lime
| house, where they will establish cheap food
! depot. For one penny an adult receives refresh
ment and nights lodging, or broad and soup.
| For a half-penny he gets either bread or soup.
| Children are given basin OF soup for a far
| thing and bread for an additional farthng
| THIS very entertaining story is vouched for as
being true by the Cheboygan (lIich) Democrat:
| lone day George Starr and Bert Name were
doing the lumber camps the north shore.
They had been hoofng it on snowshoes all day,
and darkness had settled over the wilderness.
| A little animal ran across their track and
stopped. When they got up TO it, it suddenly
| increased enormously IN size, and turned out to
| be porcupne. As ii would not get out of the
way, Bert shot il, and from n sudden and provi-
dental, it afterward turned ont instinct, he tied
a string to its tail and attached the other end to
his belt and started of again The party had not
! gone far when they were startled by the yelp-
| ing Of dozen wolves on their trail and as the
wolves we're fast gaining on them they decided
| that the host way would be TO skin up tree
| and il the woiVes would NOT lenvn and thay