The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

N1ic4t; Ihere ts a Scnooi taught by young Rdy
! VINO has for SCHOLARS nine of her brotheryand
sisters.
THE town of Mason, Me-, has thfrt-four
voters. The name o twenty-five of ITEM is
Bean One year every town Office was filed by
Bean.
THE MANAGERS of tn, lowe State University
modestly ask the LEGISLATURE to appropriate
$2Go 600 for the purpose of purchasing base
ball ground for the STUD nts .
The Kansas City Star vepcts that "one-half
of the inventive genius ia hnsas runs to car
couplings, and the other hlf is about evenly
divided between churns and hcubators."
A WHEELING LADY took upthe handbook con-
tanning her best bonnet, BIT Sunday, then
| dropped it with shrek an,fed. The mouse
had got in his work, howevel and the bonnet
was ruined.
NATURAL GAS has been strue at Glasgow, Ky,
at depth of 800 feet. The ressIre is strong,
and the indications are that To well will prove
a good one. Other wells are being drilled in
that vicinity.
DOGS are playing havocam,ng sheep in New
Amsterdam, o., and the ArDunding country
Several farmers have had noe than half their
nocks killed outright and bemaj ority of those
remaining badly injured. \
An ENGLISH JUDGE recetly commuted the
sentence of prisoner to fse ears imprison-
prlsonment and two fiogglnS fe thought the
former sentence was more mrcidl.
AN ARMY OFFICER living at 0rchrd, Neb. is
said to have discovered plant cotmon to the
country which has the property of converting
mix INTO butter-one pound of he former
making the same amount of thelattr.
WoNG GIN Foo, the only Chinese fporter in
this country. has been writing up thecelestial
opium dens and gambling dives in Ne, York,
and now appeals to the police for proection
against the Chinese highbinGers, who thsaten
TO take his life.
ACCORDING to Mr.. Labouchere, Osman Diaa,
the leader of the desert Arabs, has been kil1A
six times, fatally wounded three times, severely
wounded four times, troops totally dispersed
nine times. permanently discouraged three
times, escaped once.
A WOMAN in Harlem, N. Y, has double row
of teeth, one of her sons has no teeth at all, a
daughter has head of hair black on one side
and red on the other, and the watchdog that
guards the variegated family has one artificial
eye and was born without tail.
BY the will of Paganini the only man who was
permitted to touch his violin was his pupil
Sivori The other day in Genoa. to which city
the violin was bequeathed, Sivori tuned it up in
the presence of some royal delegates, and after
playing several tunes put it back.
JOHN JACOB AsToR has just supplemented
Mrs. Astor's gift of $3.50 to Bishop Hare, OF
Dakota, with a donation of S21 900 for the
erection of a church in memory of Mrs AstoT
at Sioux Falls Mrs. Astor's gift is to be eX-
pended upon the Indians under the Bishops
care.
A PRACTICAL JOKER in a Cincinnati barber
shop, who offered $40 for luxuriant growth of
beard, was very Unexpectedly buffed. The
owner of the beard took the Joker at his word
forthwith had the appendage shaved off, and
q obac no lott nt
last accounts was eager to dispose of his white
elephant at big discount.
PATROL WAGONS in Chicago are not used alone
for carrying law breakers to jail. Late the
other night, upon a prisoner escaping from the
station house, the patrol wagon. whose stable
ad1olns. was quickly gotten in readiness, and
with 1t chase given. The offender was followed
until he fell from exhaustion, when he was
picked up and returned to the clutches of the
law.
OUT in Detroit favorite method of reward
ing policemen for drunkenness is to take a
slice off their salaries. At times the slice is of
| no mean size, either, as in the case of three
officers, who were each reduced in pay from
$500 to 5000 a year for inlbbng while doing
duty at a wedding. Another bluecoat was
mulcted two months salary, and still another
his wages for fifteen days.
BRIDEwELL a noted horse whose record for
high jumping is said still to stand unequaHed
| closed its career-in rather inglorious manner
in New York. After being the property at
| various times, of probably a dozen persons it
came into the possession of a peddler While
drawing his wagon on Friday. it fell from ex.
haustion. consequent upon old age, and to end
its suite ing was put to death.
IN REMOVING his goods display from the side.
walk to the store, New York furniture dealer
| was amazed to find snugly tucked away be.
tween two mattresses, slumbering tramp The
latter on being awakened didn't seem in the
least alarmed at his discovery, and subsequently,
explained that he had been sleeping there since
noon, and had daily for more than a week. en-
| joyed the comfort of the free bed
Won DER GoLTz PAsHA is said to have brought
the Turkish army to high state of efficiency.
It is now said to be the best instructed force in
Europe in the knowledge of tactics. 1t is init
mated that there is to be a complete revolution
in the scheme of drill and general tactics now
employed in the German army. which change
has been suggested by Won der Gotz's great
success with the troops Of the Sultan.
AT THE SALE, in New York city of coins be-
longing to the collection of Gen. Rush c. Haw-
kins. proof set of United States of the wear
1883 comprising the dollar. half and quar- er
dollars. dime, half dime, three cents and one
cent nickel, brought the highest price, $40 A
set of 1912. without the three and one cent
pieces. brought $50 So cent of 1894 brought
S3 05, aud one of 1895 50 %. A half dollar of 1894
went for S3 80. and one of 1901 for So 20, and
CENTRAL EUROPE still has some immense
tracts of uncleared forest lands. In some Aus
TRAN provinces such as Croatia and Slavonia.
the proportion of woodland to the population is
so great that if it were divided among the in
habitantS nearly two acres would fall to the lot
of each person. In the three principal wood
producing districts there are nearly 1900. 900
acres of forests, the yearly increase of which is
valued at more than $3.50 600. The EXPORT of
wood is large item in Austrian trade.
In A LECTURE delivered before South Baltimore
working men, W. p. Trent, of Johns Hopkins
University, pointed out that some of the fea.
lures of modern industrial and social life were
in full vigor in ancient Greece and Rome
There were tenement houses in Athens with
several families in one house, he said There
| were corners i'll the iron market and in the olive
| oil industry, brought about pr tty much as cor.
ners are managed now, and there was a slave
insurance office, by which an owner could he
insured against his slaves running away.
THE total amount on deposit in the savings
banks of the United States. according to the
latest reports-1sS6-7--is 81, 235 247 371. The
banks of New York and Massachusetts held
S773 6S4 $50 while all the rest of the Union south
and west OF the Alleghanias and below the Ohio
held but sos, ISS, 762, California holding about
$50, 100000 of this sum. New England held
S545 532 42f leaving but about $780, 900 900 for al
the States and Territories between the Allie
ghanies and the Rockies The smalIness of the
Vests deposits is explained by the fact that
farm mortgages in ten Western States aggre.
gate in value to 50, $4,000