The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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able.
1T is computed that this years corn crop, If
loaded for railroad shipment, would fill 2,s7s,571
cars, and make train that would reach 16, 440
miles, or two-thirds of the way around the
world.
SERGT. KENDALL of the British army can ex-
hibit forty eight different wounds received in the
line of duty. A bursting shell inflicted two of
the wounds at one time, and one bullet left
three scars.
LAKE STEAMER that was sold to firm in
Honduras has started from Chicago for Belize.
She will go down the Illinois and Mississippi
rivers, and then through the Gulf of Mexico to
her destination.
The coin collection owned by NJ R. T. Ora
ham of Pine Creek station Pennsylvania, is
considered the most complete in existence in
this country. 1t comprises 5000, besides dupli-
Gates, and was begun in 1910.
DENMARK is an immense dairy. The export of
butter last year amounted to $50 900 pounds,
and its quality is said to have been excellent
and wonderfully uniform. The business is con-
Quoted on scientific principles.
MAJ H. A. PEAsE of Bozeman, Mont, while
out hunting recently. killed an elk with six
point horns, using a 32-caliber rife with bullet
or lS3 grains. 1t is rare that such large game is
Killed with so small a projectile.
THERE are 1913 mountain peaks in the United
States more than 10000 feet in height The
highest mountain east of the Mississippi is
Mount Balsam Cone. in the Black Mountains of
Carolina; that is 6,671 feet high.
In MANY towns in Germany and Switzerland
| are found hotels owned by shareholders, which
are entirely under the management of the
evangelical union" In some of them there
is evening prayer at $3.50 every evening, con-
Quoted by the house.
THERE are 5000 women telegraph operators
In England, earning anywhere from $500 to
Sl.OO0 year The telegraph being branch of
the civil service in England, it is necessary for
them to pass competitive examination before
| employment is given them.
CAPT. WARREN TAYLOR of Saco. Me, alb
stracted from the stomach of whale he capt
ured off Bryants Rock, a few days ago, five
| pounds of ambergris, which is worth S. an
ounce Ambergrls is secretion of the liver of
| the spermaceti whale. The largest piece ever
| found weighed 1872 pounds.
| Is THE old habit of playing truant entirely
| confined to schoolboys: So the Boston papers
wish to know In their city every Saturday
| AFTERNOON there are seven theatres, five dime
| museums and couple of base ball games all in
| full blast. Where do the people come from;
Does no one neglect work?
THE other day BoStan man received a letter
| on the envelope of which were the words
Blood! Blood! Boodr' in big red letters
thinking that it contained a threat to kill him.
| he gave it, unopened to the police When they
| opened IL, they found it was harmless appeal
| from Salvation Army crank.
FROM the shipyard of the Herreshoffs, Bristol,
| K L., has just bee launched new steam Yacht.
| the Ballymena, which is expected to be the
| fastest craft of her size ever built in America.
| Her owner is George S. Brown, Baltimore
banker, and she is named from The place in
Ireland whence the family halls.
THE people of Hillsborough, N. H who passed
Mr.. Eaton's house, on Hendker street, used to
wonder what caused the concrete pavement to
swell up in certain spot, where an elevation
like cone had formed. Finally they opened
The cone and found that a modest toadstool had
pushed up the thick and heavy concrete while
growing
JACK WELLS, a hunter of Livingston Mont
while shooting on the Crazy mountains the
other day, ran on three sver-tip bears He
turned loose his repeating rifle and killed two In
their tracks. The other was wounded, and at
tnat moment the main spring of his rifle broke
He tried to defend himself with the gun as a
club, but was fatally hurt.
The daughter of the King of Shoy has re-
Gently married the eldest son of King John of
Abbyssinia, with a splendor unparalleled in
modern ceremonies. The crown worn by the
bride Is regarded as the one which decked the
head of the Queen of Sheba. According To the
native records, it has been in the possession of
the Ethiopian kings for twenty-five centuries
A TELEGRAPH WIRE which workmen were
stringing ever houses in Providence R. l..
| Stacked down in the street Just as horse came
| dashing along. 1t caught the animal sauarely
| in the mouth as does tire bit. but fortunately
| the horse was not injured in the least, though
| the contact brought it to q sharp halt and
| tossed its head back in a way that alarmed the
| driver
| KING OHIO of Bavaria is sinking deeper and
deeper in his religious mania. He remains SO
long in kneeling posture to be unable to
| rise without assistance. He frequently sum-
| nous his priest to his bedside at night in order
| to confess, and exclaims to those about him
| You do not know what sins was guilty of
| yesterday. l dare not close my eyes until |
| have received absoution.''
ACCORDING to the Roman Catholic returns for
| 1888 there are in England and Wales 2314
priests as against ,72s in 1875, serving .904
| churches, chapels and missionary stations In
| Scotland there are bishops and 1874 priests
| serving 327 chapels. churches and stations. The
estimated Catholic population in England and
Wales il ,354O0C; in Scotland, 326, 900: in Ire
land, 1851, 900; total, 5,6i1000
SIR WILLIAM HARcoURr has addressed the fol-
lowing letter to a correspondent who drew his
attention to the statement made by Mr. Cham
berain at the Uniohist conference at Bradford
that the proposals which the Gladstonans were
supporting amounted to agrarian revolution
which would lead to the confiscation of ali
pr, 'rty in land: Il agree with you that the
sta. ements by Mr.. Chamberlain In his speech at
Bradford are complete misrepresentation of
the views of MIR. Gladstone and the Liberal
party with reference to the land question in
Ireland
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Times
writes from Sitka that Alaska can never be-
come an agricultural a pastoral country of
any appreciable value. II the summers and
exceedingly moist climate were not against
agriculture, the topography of the entire terri
tory IS. 1t Is altogether too mountainous The
valleys are simply boys where vegetation can
not find footing. The rough nature of the
country likewise renders numbering unproGt-
able except on the shores of the inlet lie also
speaks very disparagingly Of the mineral
resources of the territory.
A THOUSAND PERSONS were entertained in n
curious manner Tuesday in City Hall Park, New
York. A stocky brown horse between the shafts
Of a small cart, was standing on the sidewalk
near Broadway. Atop Of the cart was a force
pump. man, who held twelve foot bamboo
pole, to which was fastened a small rubber hose
was squirting thin stream Of LIQUID contain
ing carboc acid against the trees to XIII the in
sects. The man who worked the force pump
told a newspaper reporter that he and his mate
went to all the parks in New York and treated
all the trees to a shower bath twice every year.
A NEW YORK PAwSBRoKER says that ''proba-
bly, more overcoats are hung up at the pawn
shop for a number Of months at time than any
other article, and that many well dressed Young
fellows of expensive habits or shallow purses
seldom have more than one change OF apparel