The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| CARDINAL GIBBONS is the youngest cardinal OF
them all. He was bishop at 3S and an arch
| bishop at a.
.ENGLAND's swiftest steel cruiser, the Media
has just been launched. She will steam 20 knots
| or over % land miles
| THE University Of North Carolina has con
ferred the degree of LID on Bishop E. r. Hen
dirk, of the Southern Methodist church.
A MASSACHUSETTS quarrying company has
| received a government contract for supplying
5000 head-stones for the national cemeteries.
| AN Au Train, Mich, man claims he has found
over fifty dead deer in the woods since the
wolves.
NEAR Chambersburg, Pa, 5-weeks- old baby
was attacked by rat and so severely bitten on
| the mouth and gums that it is feared the child
will die.
ELI ADAMS, a great-grandson of John Adams.
| second President of the United States, has
| just been buried at Latimberville, Marion
county, Ohio
NEAR Waterloo. Ia, a man undertook to whip
his 12year-old son, and when the boy ran off
| from him pursued knocked him down and
chopped off his head with an ak.
A HoMING PIGEON released at Liberty, Va,
last Saturday morning, reached its home in
West Philadelphia, a distance of 295A miles,
within five hours and nine minutes
A NEW York STUDIO is dimly lighted as dusk
| comes on by pile of skulls smeared with phos-
phorus. To the topmost one is fastened bone
containing candle. 1t is a lady's studio, too.
A CHANCERY case which has been on the
docket OF Washington county, Arkansas, for
twenty eight years, was decided last week, but
a prompt appeal to the supreme court was
taken
THE British government is about to abandon
| the Island of Ascension, 7S0 miles south of st.
| Helena, which it seized in 1915. solely for the
purpose of preventing the possible escape of
| Napoleon.
AT Elm station, on the Pennsylvania railroad,
! John Condor the Chestnut street philadelphia
tailor, as an amateur horticulturist, has sue
ceeded in raising some StupendouS strawberries
that run forty to box.
THREE statues of Roman art we're discovered
at Athens on May 30; one of the Emperor
| Hadrian, another of Anuonius and the third a
small Bacchus All three are well preserved
and of excellent workmanship.
THE authorities at Long Branch, N. j., being
| determined to abate the tramp nuisance, have
| purchased a number of chains, equipped with
shackleS and forty pound iron balls. All tramps
| are to wear them while working on the public
streets.
A NEW FIRE ESCAPE in England is sort of a
| chair that slides down ropes, and the host of a
| house possessing it often entertains his guests
| by permitting them to take ride. At the
| Italian exhibition in London it is expected to
prove great rival to the switchback railway.
A RIPPLE of excitement has been caused in
the usually placid town of Dartmouth, Mass,
| by the posting in public places of notices signed
| by the selectmen, forbidding all persons doing
work on Sunday, unless it is necessary for a
| charitable purpose. A fine, not exceeding $50,
| is the penalty for breaking the law.
THE extreme ritualists in the Episcopal church
| are much troubled over the alleged intention of
| the Rev. Father" Maturin, rector OF ST. Glenn
ent's church, Philadelphia, to Join the Catholic
| church. Father Maturin has been the most ex-
| treme ritualist In this country He was mem
\ Der of the society of st. John, and was famous
as a mission preacher and an organizer of
rituals.
Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA of Spain, who will visit
| England for the first time this season, has an
| income of 100000 year. but is said to be
| always in debt. She maintains no house in
Paris, but always resides at hotel. She spends
vast sums in horses. Her executive ability is
clearly shown by the ease with which she con
stantly spends more than her enormous income
amounts to.
AN extraordinary experiment was made at
| Bone, in Algeria, on May 90, after the the exc
cution of a native who had murdered his
brother and the latter's wife and father-in.law
| AS the head fell from the guiotine doctor
| took it up and spoke few words. Various
movements of the mans eyes and mouth
| seemed to show that the words had been heard
and understood
| YOUNG lady of New York amuses herself
with humming birds as pets They build their
nests in the lace curtains, and have raised lttle
| families in the parlor. There are plants for
| them to fly about in, and every day the florist
| sends a basket of flowers for them to extract
| the honey from. They are like little rainbows
4. .INn hA oW,A
head of their dainty mistress with perfect
| freedom.
MRS SUE WEAVER of Baltimore, Md, has an
old 15shiling scrip. On the face it reads.
This bill shall pass current for Is shillinos
within the province Of Pennsylvania according
to an act of assembly made in the thirty second
year of the reign of King George IL " II iS
dated april Is 1859" and is signed by Peter as
Reeve. Joseph Morris and H. Harrison. On the
| back of the note is tree and the inscription
ITO counterfeit is death" 1t was printed by
"B. Franklin and d. Hall, 1859"
FRANK FRAYNE's pet hyena, LILLY Lanetrv ;,
escaped from its cage on the actors grounds, in
New Jersey last week, and after ''eating cat
and its nine kittens, together with the leg of a
dog" it entered a swamp at Norton's point At
last accounts there it remained and MIR Fra vne
says he will let it do so until the next moon.
light night, when he will go down to one of the
glades of the jungle and lasso her as she starts
out for her evening meal" In the meantirna
others are retarded from dispatching the anil
NAL by threat of the owner to sue any nerson
| shooting her for her full market valueES3OO.
EVERYONE has noticed while driving how
| rarely horse steps on a stone, even when going
| very rapidly. writer quotes an old cavalry.
man as saying that horse never stems on
man intentionally. 1t is a standing order with
cavalry that should man become dismounteJ
he must lie down and be perfectly still If he
| does so the entire company will pass over hin,
! and he will not be injured. A horse noticas
| where he is going and is on the lookout for a
| firm foundation to put his foot on II is an in
| stiuct with him, therefore, to step ovar q nros
| trate man. The injuries caused by n runa,yov
| horse are nearly always inflicted by the animal
knocking down men, not by stepping on them
SPEAKING OF Mr.. Gaugengigl, the Boston
artist. writer IN the Boston Gazette saws
| They tell me he has been in Boston sometime
| like twelve years, and has become unite a p
| American in feeling and affection | wish Won
| could see him; slight, graceful and blonde be
| looks as il he had stepped out of one of bis
| his clothes are of the latest cut and aiwovs
| fresh and immaculate without being fnicol
| Y on would like him at once for he has the most
| charming manners | have met in America
Perhaps that is because he is not an American IS
or MIR. Frederic Z. Vinton the same writer re-
marks: "Ninton is an American; cordial and
| pleasant. He has delightful studio and a
| charming wife, and i fancy does we'll in a
worldly sense; but he does not take in This
| money-grasping and money.making nation the
position his art and talents would give him In
Europe" D- -
THE British consul in Cuba writes to bis ,x,