The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE telephone disease has been discovered
by Prof Wnborstldt of Berlin. The use of the
instrument produces disorder in the vibratory
chambers OF the air, generally in the left ear.
SINCE the first tidings of Nine. PATHS debut
in Buenos Ayres to 800, 900 audience, nothing
whatever has been heard of la diva. She is due
at her Welsh castle before the beginning of Sep
TENDER.
THERE is a Waterman In the New York post
Office whose chief duty is to collect the keys of
lock boxes that are left in the locks by careless
men and boys Generally there is some sharper
on the lookout to steal keys that are left in this
way.
LORD ALBEMARLE the Waterloo veteran, is
the sole survivor of the eighty-four officers who
sat down to the duke of Wellingtons last Wa
terloo dinner. He is 80 years old and gives
reception every year on the anniversary of that
great event.
THE news comes from Buda Pesth of the en-
gagement Of Miss Emma Black, the rival of the
beautiful Miss Chamberlain, to wealthy
American. Miss Black, so the gossips declared
last season. might have had the place that has
fallen 10 Mrs. Hamersey.
REV. CoLwELL PRICE, a colored Methodist
minister of Kansas City. aged so, has married
Mrs. Wylie Bell, aged 70. This is Mrs. Bells
fourth matrimonial venture, and she wore the
wedding dress that was given her fifty years
ago for her first marriage.
Mrs. CAIN of Tyler Tex, seeing burglar
break into the cabin occupied by her absent
cook, telephoned her husband to come home
and when he got there it was to find the robber
helpless and covering at the muzzle of a pistol
in the hands of his intrepid wife.
New YORK woman, Mrs Schaffner has been
giving bail for so many people at the tombs
that the other day the recorder refused to ac-
cept her as surety He said: 81 think Mrs
Schatfner has mania for going bail She will
go all to pieces some day and won't have cent
lief, in the world refuse to accept bail from
/ her"
A SOCIETY called the Columbia has started a
carrier pigeon service between Strasburg and
Vienna, and recently a number of pigeons were
started at the latter city at o'clock one even
ing. and the first of them reached Strasburg at
6 O'Clock the next morning having Travelled at
the rate of over thirty-one miles an hour all
night.
MODEL VILLAGES for manufacturing opera
tives are cheerful products of the time The
last experiment is Mr. Hartey's village for 400
operatives of the jam factory at Liverpool
Great attention is being paid to the picturesque
grouping of the buildings, and when completed
the village will have plenty of garden and air
space.
MODERN French custom at baptisms is that
of presenting all the guests with donation of
sugar almonds in bonbonnierc, which has the
appearance of a roll of parchment. On this roll
are inscribed the names of the child, of the
parents, god parents, the date of the birth and
christening, and the name of the church where
the ceremony was performed
The Houston Post claims that Texas can pro-
duce within its own borders food amply suffi
Gent for the support of 25 GOO 900 people, 1t has
a climate not only adapted for the productions
of the temperate zone, but to those of semi
tropical character as well. 1t has timber, as
well as coal, silver, copper, and other minerals
| in almost exhaustless abundance
Lucy LARCoM (who was factory girl in
Lowell before she wrote Hannah Binding
| Shoes'O is on a visit to Chicago one of whose
writer's describes her as having "a placid face.
with quiet eyes and gray ,tinged hair knotted
| her home in Beverly, Mass. and went to live for
| some time on the Illinois prairies.
AUTOGRAPHS of William II. have gone I'D
from so to 1aO francs in Paris There are very
| few to be had even at that price, for the young
| emperor has not been writer. Autogra phs of
| his grandfather sell at Is francs. Those of
| Frederick at 120 francs. A signature of DR.
| Mackenzie goes for 20 francs. which is large
| price. Those OF the Italian minister, Crisp are
now worth 10 francs
| A GERMAN WOMAN has established dolls -
| hospital in New York. She has a constant
stream of patients dolls with broken legs, arms,
/ backs dolls with the stuffing knocked out of
them; dolls whose compilations have been
! ruined by sporting lives, bad treatment and un-
wholesome surroundings are taken in cared for
| and in few hours turned out as sound, smiling
| and coquettiSh as ever.
| ANCHovIEs are SO plenty at Trebizond that
! they are sold for q cents hundred weight for
| food for paupers and for fertilizipg pIlrposes
and during the first part of the season each year
| so many are thrown away that the whole city is
| pervaded with the smell of their rottenness
| Porpoises are also very plentiful, about 10000
| hundred weight year being caught, according
| to the British CONSUL which yield about half
| that weight of oil.
AN interesting family reunion was held at
Davisville, r. l., recently, by the descendants
| of Mrs Elcy Chase Vaughn who assembled at
the residence of her eldest son to celebrate her
| 9th birthday Early in the day her children,
| grandchildren and their families began to ar
| rive, until by noon she had gathered about her
| party of seventy eight, five generations being
| represented. Two of her sisters, aged re-
spectively SO and II years. were also pr esent.
AN AGITATION is going on in India against the
| slaughter of COWS for food for the soldiers. 1t
is pointed out that it takes over $4,000 COWS
| every year to feed the soldiers, and that the
| HindooS themselves very rarely touch meat,
| living upon rice, vegetables, and milk. Once
| even the poorest could have all the milk he
| wanted for his babies and himself, but now it is
| impossible for the villagers to get milk even for
| infants whose mothers breasts have failed, and
the failure of the breasts is due chiefly. also, to
| the lack of cows milk. Thousands of children
|
| DEER in a park at Stackpole, Pembroke
shire, Eng, recently got its horns entangIed in
| the seat of q swing, 10 inches by 8 in size, and
| carried IL off He scared all the other deer In
| the park nearly to death, and the keepers
| started after him. He hid for a day in the
| space between O fallen tree aud pigsty, and
| when discovered started off like mad, and for q
| beginning leaped a gate feet inches high.
| The wall of the park, 6 feet high was next
| taken, and then he swan O lake. When he was
finally shot he still bore the five-pound handicap
| of the swing board on his horns
THE Sacramento Bee and Waverville (Cal.
| Journal report that phenomenally large and
| bright meteor was seen to all in the direction
] of Butte county on the evening of July H. and
| the Gridley (Cal) Herald says: About o'clock
4 Saturday evening a huge meteor fell into
| Feather river a mile or so below the bridge The
report of the seethinR mass when it struck the
water and apparently burst into pieces was dis
tincty heard in the city, distance Of over four
| miles and many thought the boiler OF an engine
had exploded near by. Parties who have visited
| the scene tell us a cottonwood tree over three
feet in diameter was literally riddled into splin-
tiers, having evidently been struck by the satel-
lite in its descent.
CAPT. THoRoLD of San Francisco Cal, shipped
eleven sea lions captured at the Farrallonas to
various museums east. They will make the
trip in tanks of sea water. Fourteen sea lions
| in all were captured by the sailors under the
| captain, but two escaped at the wharf by diving
| off the schooner when released, and another
was killed in fight with fellow seal in the