The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

2 ems TO take away Inc nlgnlaDQ soldiers hll anu
the highland soldier threatens to make row IN
return.
TIMOTHY BACON, who voted for Andrew Jack
son and all Democratic Presidential candidates
since, is living in Barre, Mass, hearing the
weight Of lO2 winters. His health is good and
| his mind clear
WASHINGTON RUSSELL, one the jurors trying
a case in a Jersey City court, accidentally swal-
| lowed piece of glass while taking drink Of
water from a broken lumber, and is now in a
precarious condition, the glass being still in his
| throat
| SEVERAL FARMS recently put up at public sale
! is Salem county, New Jersey, have been with
drawn, not even a bid being made in some in
stances. At a sale in Pennsgrove, \. j. recently
| the highest bid was but half the price paid for
the property twenty years ago.
DURING the first three years of the civil war
the Federal navy was increased from seventy
| six to nearly GOO vessels, of which eighty were
| of iron or iron-clad There was an increase from
| $500 to 5000 guns many Of them of caliber
! hitherto unknown, and from 1000 to 5U,OoO
sailors.
| The French government has again taken up
| the building of great armor-clad ships Eight
are now being pressed forward to completion,
Admiral Pallu de la Barriere has caused vess !
to be built incaSed with cOcOanut fiber instead or
| armor plates. 1t is said to have greater power
| OF resistance than steel.
THE young folks of West Deer Isle, Me, have
organized the Tongue Guard Society whose OBJ
| iect is to guard against saying anything I'M
| proper to about any one. Each offense Is
| punished by fine of cent, 10 be placed IN
! box in the church, the fund 10 go towards BUY
| ing circulating library.
DR.. E. PARxLY Brown of Flushing, L. I,was
charged before Police Justice with cruelty TO
dog. DR.. Brown, in his own behalf, declared
! that he was friend of dumb animals. and cited
! a case which happened fifteen years ago when
he made a set Of false teeth for an old cow
However, he had to pay fine.
Ac1TIzEN of Belfast, Ne, who thought that
| his wife was inclined to judge of wearing ap-
parel by The price took home two muffs, first
changing the tags. He told her to take her
choice. She said that the high priced one was
beauty. but that she knew he couldn't afford It,
and she would take the cheap one. Now he
doesn't know whether this was due to economy
| or shrewdneSs.
Mrs. EUGENE FARRAR of North Brookfeld,
Mass, is in a terrible state of mind and no
wonder. She took down a revolver which, of
course. was not loaded, and proceeded to show
| it to her TWO little children. When it went of
which of course it did, the bullet entered the
| centre of the forehead of her 4year-od daugh-
| ter and ploughed its way under the skin clear
\ around to the back.
THE largest Chinese mining camp in the
/ Northwest is at Warren. Ida Hundreds of
| Chinese have been at work there for several
! years, and each year from fifty TO seventy-five
| 90 back to China with from $1,000 to $1,000, a
| fortune for them. Most Chinese min rs work
| over old mines. and are very expert at cleaning
| up every particle of gold; but at Warren they
| are ground, and their careful system re-
| suits In large yields.
7 CHARLES EDWARD LESTER, an old-time writer
| and journalist in New York, and for eight years
United States Consul at Genoa. Italy. was last
! in, lor I'm N4tr
! York and taken care of by his friends. He is
| an old man-72 years old-and one OF his best
works was THE Glory and Shame of England,
| published in 1871. His latest works are Life
| and Services Of Charles Summer" and Our
! First Hundred Years
! THE sEEDLEss RAIsIx is a smallish cream
| colored fruit about the size of a gooseberry
! and is used with an unbroken skin. 1t comes
| from Smyrna. II is grown seedless simply by
| arresting one Of the laws of nature. When the
| grape is about balf-ripe the end of the vine Is
| bent down and buried in the ground. This pre-
| vents the formation of seed and the full de-
| velopnent of the fruit but it ripenS all the
| same and has delicious flavor
| THE German Crown Princess was taking a
walk the other day near San Reno when she
saw two boys who had fallen into the road from
| a high garden wall and had injured their heads.
| The Princess asked ner attendants to carry the
| boys to a neighboring villa, and meanwhile went
| herself for a physician. Before departing she
| gave each OF the boys q rev francs, TO the great
| CONSERVATION Of the police Captain, who ex-
| poets that there will be falls from garden walls
now every time the Princess takes a walk.
| AMONG the many peculiar marriages in
Camden, y. j., the latest is that of John Wal
tiers, Some time ago and prior to his marriage
Walters commenced calling on Miss Emma
Smith the daughtec of Mrs. Mary Smith. About
| q year ago her father died, and instead of
| marrying the daughter, Walters, who was but
| % years old, married the widow, Mrs Mary
| Smith woman nearly twice his age. At the
| time of his marriage he had no work and has
done nothing since. His wife had him arrested
| for non-support, but the case was dismissed as
| the defendant is not of age.
A PRECIOUS STONE of much interest is an
opaque white hydrophane discovered in Color
ado. The finder has named it magic stone, -
because, as usual with this mineral. it possesses
| the property of becoming absolutely transpar
ent If water is dropped slowly on it from one to
| three minutes. 1t Is porous that it viii alb
| sorb its own weight of water. 1t quickly recov-
! ers its opacity The finder suggests that the
stone be used for seals, rings, and scarf pins as
| by reason of its opacity 1t would completely
| conceal portraits notices, or mementOeS which
| could be brought to view when desired by the
! application of a little water.
THERE is some talk of publishing Talleyrand S
memoirs in Paris this year. The papers are
ready for the printer, but the legal period of
delay-twenty years-does not expire until
| May. The memoirs together with which will
| be published the correspondence of the Due de
| Talleyrand, will form about eleven volumes
| The publication will depend upon the Due de
| Sagan, the chief representative of the Talley-
rand family, whose leave must be granted be
fore decision be taken by the executors respect
| ing the publication. There is a copy which NJ
| Bacourt secretary to the Duk-. left to NJ
| Andral, a barrist II, and TO NJ. Chatean, a
notary while NJ. Andral has made private
| copy for safety.
| HARRY FLAxMAN, a clever pottery-worker in
Providence R. l., undertook the feat of making
an entire tea set of fortyfour pieces in the short
| space of seven and half minutes. He began
! his task in the presence OF a large audience The
| pliable clay was manipulated with def and
| skllful fingers, and twelve cups and saucers
| adorned the board in short order. Then twelve
| plates were piled upon each other and then four
| large plates teapot sugar bowl. end two other
| vessels sprung up, all shapely and almost per
| fectly formed When the last piece was finished
| the hands on the majority of the watches indi-
| Gated the lapse of eight minutes from the time
| of starting, and the remarkably quick workman
| rested, beaten by half minute.
The following are excerpts from the school
examination papers and essays of Original
thinkers" in grammar and high school grades
! given by the Boston journal of Education
| ''Jaundice a scandal" Mosquito. n child of
! white and black parents" 'Herodotus was a
! descendant of Herod the Great, and he was king
! of the Jews The ATyans spoke the French
| language" Virgil was a great American
author "Diogenes was great philosopher