The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TRADE is surely drifting southwark. ALynch
burg jeweler has just completed a $4,000 con
tract for rings for the West Point graduating
class.
1T Is said that a tavern in Sweden bears the
sign English and American spoken here y
Some Englishmen say there is more truth than
poetry in the notice.
THE French are acknowledged to have the
finest guns and projectiles in Europe. Their
Fermiuy shell has been shot through an armor
plate 20 inches thick, and come out with its
steel point uninjured.
THE money spent for drinks in American
city of 200 900 inhabitants is put down at SOS 900
per week the year round That is $780, 900
| thrown away and worse, and seven-tenthS of it
comes from day laborers.
LARRY JEROME now 20 years old, was pros
trated by attacks Of vertigo while hunting with
the Duke of Marlborough in the Adirondacks
the other day He tried to tramp thirty miles a
| day with the youngsters.
As soon as the nomination of Cleveland was
announced in Wall street some of the croakers
began to bet on the result of the election Sew
| eral bets of 800 to $50 that Cleveland would be
| elected were made on the floor of the stock ex-
change.
Cooks of old.were considered a sacred race;
| even their fingers were consecrated to the
deities. The thumb was devoted to Venus, the
| index finger to Mars, the middle finger to Sat
| urn, the next to the sun, and the little one to
Mercury.
ADMIRAL HEWITT of the British navy, who
was drowned the other day, was very success
| full blockade runner during our war. So were
| Hobard Pasha and Capt. Burgoyne, who com
| manded the ship Captain, which capsized about
| ten years ago
Mrs. JULIA WARDi HOWE apparently did not
| look upon her marriage as an end of her school
days, for since her marriage she has learned to
speak, French, Italian and modern Greek
fiuently, and has acquired a profound knowl-
| edge of the works of Kant, Hegel. Spinoza,
| Compile and Flchte.
THE Duke of Sutherland is conceded to be the
best dancer of the highland fling in all of Scot
land He recently dned with the Duke of
Edinburgh on board the flagship Alexandria, at
| Malta and after dinner the two dukes danced
| the '"Tullochgorum" for an hour, to the delight
| of the officers and ships company
THE case of the watch formerly belonging to
Louis Napoleon, prince imperial, who was killed
| in South Africa, has been sent to London 1t is
| slightly battered. 1t bears the young princes
| monogram and crest. The watch was given to
| him by his mother, ex- Empress Eugene. An
| Englishman recently purchased it of a Zulu
| THE beautiful young Hessian princess. who
| has just been married to Prince Henry of Prus-
| sia is known here and in England as Princess
| Irene but in Germany she is always called
| Princess Ella. She is the most popular member
| of rather unpopular family, but her personal
| charms and worth would make her an idol any
4 where.
| A LARGE owl flew against one Of the windows
of a car in a train on the Cumberland Valley
| road near MELVILLE, the other night, breaking
/ the glass and creating some alarm among the
| passengers, who thought the train was being
| stoned. Their fears were allayed when the
| conductor captured the owl and exhibited it 10
| them.
| THE natives of the Arctic regions have
barbarous. but effective, way of dealing with
| the wolves which are a pest there Sharp
| blades are stuck in the ice and bated The
meat freezes, and in thawing it out with his
| tongue the blade cuts the tongue, ultimately
preventing the beast from licking the snow, and
| thirst finally kills the animal
ACCORDING to geographical computations, the
minimum age of the earth since the formations
of the primitive soils is $1,000 900 years, allow
ing G. zoo, 600 ears for the primordill formation
G,400.000 years for the primary age 100000
years for the secondary age, 100000 years for
the tertiary age and 100, 600 years since the ap-
pearance of man upon the globe.
SOME of the handsomest old mansions in the
country may be seen in Annapolis, Nd where
they have stood with but little alteration since
the early colonial days. A few of the houses
date back to the seventeenth century, but the
more imposing of them were built just prior to
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a refined and wealthy community.
MILE. HELENE LARocHE member Of the bal
let corps of the Grand opera of Paris, not long
since drew one of the first prizes at a lottery,
amounting to 2000D francs, the ticket having
| been bequeathed to her by an aunt. She do
mated the entire sum to the Paris orphan
asylum, declaring in the deed of presentation
that she was happy to give to the needy what
she would otherwise have squandered in friv
olous expenditure.
A BATTLE ak of great size that was once the
property of some prehistoric chieftain was
recently dug up near Bradford, O., in a neigh
borhood that is rich in Indian relics The ak
| is made of gigantic elks horn, and, singularly
| enough, there is engraved upon it the date 1909
go 80 years before the discovery of America by
Columbus. The IS deliberately and bealiti-
fully carved, and furnishes an interesting puzzle
| to the local antiquaries.
W. J. Towns, of Winter parish Louisiana. is
a defaulter to quite an amount; but, strange to
say, there is no hard word for him among the
people. For years he has been tax collector.
and in each of the many cases where enforced
| collection would work hardship he gave re-
ceipt in full, and himself became resp1nsible
| for the money to the authorities, who will find
| it hard to convict delinquent whose failing so
| leaned to virtues side.
| PROF. CHARLES RICHEL of Bridgeport Conn.
is completing a seemingly wonderful mechan-
! 16-year-old youth. An exhibition of its ability
| was given to a number of New York gentlemen
| which included the removal of a watch from its
| pocket and then, after listening for the tick
| the announcement in an audible tone that: "It's
| just $3.50. gentlemen" After that the time
| pieces returned to the pocket.
| Dr.. THEODORE GAY, who attended ex-Vice
President Wheeler during his last Illness has
| presented a bill las is a bill" to the estate. It
amounts to about S14s0O. The items are in
| part as follows: For attendance from ADril
1885, 10 Dec. 81, 1885, at Sl5 per day; for attend
ance from Jan. l, 1886. to Dec. 81, 1886 at $40
| per day; for attendance from Jan /, 1887 TO
June /, 1887, at S25 per day; for keeping a horse
| two years, So 80 per week; for use of carriage
| two years, 300. Mr.. Wheeer's executor has
| refused TO pay the bill and the matter will 20
| to the courts.
WRITER in Economists Francois estimates
the total loss to France from the ravages of the
| phylloxera since 1875, when this scourge of the
| French vineyards first made its appearance at
the enormous sum Of 10000 900, 900 of francs or
| about $500 900. This estimate is based upon
| French official statistics giving the aggregate
area of vineyards destroyed In the country al
about 2,5OOOOO acres and on the assumption
| that in addition 10 the acreage OF vines thus
uttsrly destroyed, the extent of VINEYARDS more
| or less infected with the phylloxera amounts TO
about 100000 acres making thus together 3, O00,-
900 acres.
THOMAS A. EDISON. the inventor, IL now
dividing his time, says the New York Tribune.