The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

dowry.
The bones of Stephen Tonaksevics, the last
king Of Bosnia, have been unearthed at Jaitza
and taken to Seraievo They will be carefully
articulated and placed in a glass ssrcophagus in
the monastery church at Jaitza, the ancient
city of kings.
So FAR as known the consignment Of Cape
Cod HOLSTERS that were planted recently in
| Monterey bay. California are all thriving and
| making themselves thoroughly at home. There
| are 100 or more old Holsters in the colony and a
large number of young ones.
| An ENGLISH writer declares that the custom
of pairing off guests at dinner arose in the
middle ages when there was only single plate
and drinking cup for each couple. and that
while the man cut up the meat the woman put
| the pieces Ia his mouth and they both drank
from the same cup .
A NEW GLASS recently invented in Sweden is
said TO be capable, when made into lens for a
microscope, Of enabling US TO distinguish the
204. 700, 0oOth part of an inch" II is also said
that there is great promise OF this glass produc-
ing wonderfully powerful telescope lenses and a
new departure in astronomy.
REFurISe the assertion that meat diet causes
cancer, Surgeon Major Henley reports from
India that out of 10s operations for cancer per
formed at Jeypore since 1850, forty -one were on
| the persons of the meat-eaters and sixty-One on
| those Of strict vegetarians, who had not known
| the taste OF meat from tlelr DlrtnS.
A BLIND GUITAR PLAYER named Manjon, from
| Spain, is creating a stir in the musical world
abroad. He uses an instrument with eleven
| strings. II was seventy years age that another
| Spaniard named Lor, created sensation with
| his guitar, and made perfect craze for the in
| strument, so that the piano seemed likely to be
! driven out of the field.
A DOG In Westvile, Conn, is credited with a
mania for extinguishing matches. Let any
| one light match before him and he will spring
| at it, attempting to seize it in his mouth and
| he viii catch it and extinguish IL II makes no
| difference to him whether the matches are sui
| phur or paror matches"
In New Mexico. says the Louisville Courier
Journal, the Spanish language is the language
! Of the courts, the council and the assembly
Legislative debates are carried on in Spanish
ana laws are framed in that language. English
| is secondary tongue, and person is at a de-
| cided disadvantage even in transacting business
unless he is familiar with Spanish.
A CHICAGO PAPER says: The enterprising
cabmen Of that city follow the northside cable
| cars around in the expectation that the cable
Vzu break and that they will get custom. This
expectation is invariably fulfilled The cabmen
have thrived since Yerkes began to operate his
big burlesque on rapid transit. You don't hear
them complaining about the inefficiency of the
cable service.
CATHARiNE VETLASD, who last week celebrated
the 10sd anniversary Of her birth. has been re-
| ceived as patient at Bellevue hospital, New
York. The Tribune says that two years ago
she sustained an injury to her arm and right
side, and since then has gradually broken up
symptoms Of mental alteration became more
| and more marked. until at last it was found
expedient to remove her to q hospital
THERE are now being constructed in the Can
| adian Pacific railway shops at Hochelaga forty
LII.
each, with tender of 1877 tons. The cylinders
are Is inches in diameter, and have a 22inch
| stroke. Each engine will have six driving
wheels, and the steam pressure will be $50
pounds. They are for use in4the Rocky noun
tain section OF the Canadian Pacific railway
Don ALPHoSso brother of Don Carlos of
Spain. travelling as Don Juan de Huelva, Count
de Bourbon" is in Turkestan and is astonished
at the progress made there along the Transcas-
plan railway. Az Merry, which five years ago
was crowd Of felt tents and mud huts, be
found brick houses and macadamized and paved
streets, and at the railway station at Bokhara
was luxuriously fitted up buffet with a young
and pretty Russian barmaid speaking French
and German as tiuently as her native language
Twenty years ago no christian would have been
safe in Bokhara.
A DISPATCH from Ithaca, n. Y, tells of a
dangerous adventure that. Henry Hunter of
Dryden had recently. Hunter runs a traction
engine, and in descending a series of very steep
hills some of the machinery got out of. order.
The engine could not be reversed and plunged
madly down the Varna and Ithaca hills In en-
tering Ithaca 1t attained still greater speed and
when going at almost its fastest sharp turn
in the road had to be made After flying around
this turn the engine slowed up somewhat aud
descended the rest of the incline at a more mod
crate rate, much to the elief OF Hunter
A NEW RAILWAY is projected from CONSTANT
nople to Bagdad to start from Isnid the pres
ent terminus of a short line of railroad connect
ing that town with Scutari. It's length is to be
about !, 400 miles, and the estimated cost is
S15.500O 90. the British consul of Sivas saws
that the great advantages to the country com
mercially and as a civilzing influence of such
road are too obvious to need meDtion. 1t is
predicted that it would create a new Asia
Minor, open to the trade of the world a vast
territory now closed, totally change the charac-
ter of the country and the people, and practi-
cally advance Turkey in Asia from the sixteenth
to the nineteenth century"
DR., Wolf says that, while he was ascending
the great Sankuru affiuent of the Congo, a num-
Der of the wild Bassongo- Mino, who had never
before seen a white man, suddenly POPPED I'D
out of the bushes one day, and aimed their ar
rows at the visitors as their steamer was ap-
preaching the shore, only about a rod away
He has no doubt that the next instant a volley
of arrows would have poured into the little
crowd on deck had not woman in the dress of
a native queen suddenly leaped among the
bow of one man who was just ready TO let his
missile fly. and in a tone of authority babe the
rest OF the crowd unbend their weapons The
brief command and caaGionary gesture of this
picturesque female had a magic effect upon her
warrior SUBJECTS who relaxed their bows and
grinned sheepishly at the pale faces, who were
nervously beginning to finger their revolvers"
WHILE a detective was walking about Union
depot Chicago, Saturday night, his attention
was attracted TO a well-dressed hoy" by the
awkward manner in which the latter held his
hands in his pockets. The longer the officer
gazed at the youth, who looked about II years
old, the more awkward he seemed Finally the
detectives curiosity ran so high that he called
the boy aside and questioned him. by dint of
severe Interrogation he got him to confess that
he wasn't boy at all, but q Grand Crossing
girl. who was running away from home She
said her parents were 80 cruel to her that she
could stand il no longer, and she was going TO
try the world in Boston. When she was
searched at the station house the matrou found
a frst-class ticket to Boston and $40 all I'm
silver. 1t mystihed the police a good deal when
they discovered that nearly all the money was
counterfeit The girl refused to give any other
name than Howard or to tell where her parents
lived in Grand Crossing The police have an
idea that she is a member Of q counterfeitinp
gang, who has been used TO put the bad money
In circulation.
Two foreigners, whose nationality is not
specified and who we're accompanied by lady.
are stated to have behaved in most extraordi
nary manner in Paris cafe the other day. d"
says correspondent of the London telegram.