The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| ITEMS OF INTEREST.
| RUSSELL SAGE once lost a wallet containing
$4,000 and a clergyman found and restored it.
IT is SAID there is a single county of Iowa that
raises more wheat each year than all the New
England States.
A CAT belonging to W. C. Strickhouser, who
lives near Gettysburg, Pa, killed blacksnake
three and one-half feet long the other day.
THE skeleton of six men who must have been
giants were unearthed the other day, along
with much pottery, in big mound near KanB.
akee, III.
THE class of 1877. Harvard, will place in
Memorial Hall two beautiful windows one rep
reSenting Charlemagne, and the other Sir
Thomas Moore.
EVERY MEMBER of the Blake family at Canton
O., who has died in the last twenty years, has
dreamed of falling into well about two weeks
before death came.
EUROPE has a new COIN 1t is the coin Of the
present German Emperor, and bears his profile.
The die was actually prepared IN the life time
of the last Emperor.
JOHN SMITH, of Waldron, Ark who was ar
rested on a charge of setting fire to his brother
in-law's house. was taken from jail twice by an
excited crowd of citizens
Betsy a noted performing elephant, died
last week on the street in Richmond, Va, while
en- route to the train. Pneumonia caught in the
blizzard is supposed to have caused his untime-
iy end at the early age of 3d.
CHRIS AHERNs, who has just died near Gin
ton, Ia, was nearly Z feet high, and wore coat
20 inches about the chest and so about the waist.
His weight within fraction of 400 pounds,
and a special coffin had to be made for him in
Chicago"
CARRIAGES containing a wedding party on
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Luzerne county Pennsylvania. the other day,
ran over and killed little girl. The whole
party were arrested, and the marriage did not
take place.
THE floor of an old building occupied as a
saloon in Woonsocket r. L. was taken up
recently and eight bottles of fine old whisky
were discovered. The bottles were covered with
mold and had every appearance of having lain
there for years.
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE is felt at HernoSand,
Sweden, which has just been provided with the
world. The lights there are lighted at 2;30
O'Clock in the afternoon, and put out at 1915
o clock at night.
THERE was snow bank two feet deep and
half block long in Frankfort street. New York
last Saturday. 1t was formed by snow taken
from beneath the arches of the New York
anchorage of the Brooklyn bridge. This is the
last of the big blizzard.
The British Legation in Washington has been
taught that the horse has some rights in this
country which even titled Engshmen must re-
spect Last week a member of the legation
had his horses tails locked in the English
fashion, and was fined $3.50 in each case.
ONE of the most remarkable mechanical
changes of the day is the setting aside of steel
and the readoption of iron for some of the most
important parts of locomotives on many rail
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since the change was made on most roads from
| iron to STEEL
THE Queen of England's grandson, George
| collars and Cuff is irreverent. He was
| dancing at a ball recently with pretty but
plebeian partner when his brother called him to
account. You can go and hum God Save
| Grandmother was his retort; ''I'n dance
| with whom please"
SAN DIEGO, CAL, is soon to have an orphans
home for both sexes combined with an educa-
| tional and technical school, The endowment
| amounts to S2OOO,O00, and was subscribed by
| four citizens of San Diego. The city has also
given 100 acres of Land, which is estimated to be
worth nearly 100000.
| A REMARKABLE FREAK Of nature, a mare
known as the "Oregon Beauty" was recently
| on exhibition in Louisville. Her color is a sor-
rel, and that of the NAME tail and forelock a
creamy tint The name is ten feet in length
| the foreock four feet while the tail sweeps the
| ground. Although the mare is eight years of
| age, the name and tail are Of only four years
growth having grown an average of two feet a
year during that time.
ITALIAN OPERA, so often said to have outlived
| its time in England, is once more in full swing
at Covent Garden. London, under Mr. Augustus
| Harris. There is nothing remarkable about it,
either unsteady or dramatically. Old operas
| are given with singers who are not new But
society has been good enough once more to
show interest in the matter, and the first night
! saw the house full of fashionable ladies' in full
| dress and diamonds, quite in the clden style.
| There are four operas weekly, and each per
Torrance has been thronged. Indeed, every
good box in the house was subscribed for in ad-
vance.
The OUED RIR', now becoming one of the
most prosperous regions of Algeria is great
| oasis in the Sahara. 1t overlies vast subter-
ranean water reservoir from two and one-half
| to eight miles wide, which is distance of some
! seventy eight miles from north to SOUTH is now
\ tapped by about ia French spouting wells and
492 native ones, with total discharge of g. 425
gallons of water per minute The Ouer Rir' has
| nearly 52O,OO0 palm trees in bearing condition
| and an annual date production of more than
| S50O,0OO. The population, which, like the pro-
| ductive land has more than doubled in thirty
years, is about $4,000, distributed through
| thlrty-one centerS.
BENNETrsvILLE, IND, has an electrical man
ndiLeu I1oilTy LurReiIldn, VINO becomes so
| highly charged when a storm is approaching
that flies which happen to light upon him drop
| to the floor dead, while such things as small
particles of iron or steel cling to his fingers It
| is alleged during recent storm he drew the
blade of case knife between his fore finger and
| thumb, so thoroughly magnetizing it that
heavy iron articles could easily be raised with
it. When placed in dark room thousands of
| tiny sparks are emitted from his body and his
eyes shine as brightly as incandescent lights
l He claims that he feels no inconvenience from
his peculiar gift, but will go near no moving
locomotive or heavy iron body for fear of being
drawn against it and killed.
VERY FEW PEOPLE have any idea of the vast
areas of government land held by alien land
holders in the United States. The largest tract
1 100000 acres is held by the Holland Companv
of New Mexico. An English syndicate holds
3,o00,00 acres in Texas Sir Edward Reid and
a syndicate in Florida owns 1000, 900 acres.
100000 acres belong to an English syndicate
in Mississippi, $50, 900 to the MARQUIS of Tweed
dale, 100000 to the Phillips-MarshaIl Com
pany. of London, and 100000 acres to a Ger
man syndicate. These comprise the larger
landowners There are, however, a score or
more of persons and syndicates owning less
than 100000 acres. The grand total foots i'm To
20 900 acres of government land held Inv
aliens in the United States.
A NEWPORT, Or. L. CLERGYMAN tells this of n
recent marriage he performed: The parties were
foreigners both good looking and well dressed
and appearing. The groom presented his
license and this being correct in all particulars
the clergyman began to read the service The
groom was beittingiy solemn for the occasion.