The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Mr. WILLIAM Pool of Limestone Hill, w. Va,
has powder horn that Gen. Washington gave
to his grandfather 100 years ago, Mr.. FOOL
| prizes this treasure very highly.
AN elastic hat has been invented. 1t will be
great thing for the man who has been out all
| night and finds in the morning that his head
cannot accommodate itself to the ordinary hat.
GEORGE W. COOPER, a grocer of New Haven,
| Conn. has just patented what he calls an 'au-
| tomato steam peanut rooster" He Will take
| high place in the list of great public bene-
| factors.
| AN Ohio farmer found his bees getting ready
| to swarm and he sweetened a gallon of whisky
and put it out in pans. The bees got drum
and he had no trouble in handling seventeen
Swarms.
IT takes more than forty days for some IDEAS
to go around the world The roller skating
craze has just reached Australia and mana
gers are grumbling that the Kinks are injuriDg
the theaters.
THE right name of Emin Pasha (or Emin Bey,
as he is more generally known) is given as
Schnitzler. He is a native of Austrian Silesa,
IT. Is asserted, and he entered the Turkish army
as surgeon.
The damage done by the earthquake at Vos-
tizzi, Greece, amounts to 100000 Large GUAM
titles of bread have been sent from Athens to
relieve the distress among the people, all the
ovens having been shattered.
IMPORTANT mining operations are carried on
in the Arctic circle. Crysolte is mined in
Greenland and shipped to Philadelphia for max
ing candles. Extensive copper mines have been
worked for long time in Finland.
ADvrcEs from India say that the widow of
Brahmin near Cawnpore recently burned her
self to death upon the funeral prye of her hus-
band. She mounted the prye unnoticed after
the departure of the funeral party.
BIDDEFoRD (ME.) MAN dropped a 5O-cent
piece into the fare box in the horse car the
other night, and couldn't get it back; but he
was a man of resources-he rode all the even
ing until he got his moneys worth.
THE tax collectors receipts of the ancient
Egyptians were inscribed on pieces of broken
crockery. Some of them from the British
museum collection have been translated, and
show the tax in Egypt under the early Caesars
Mr.. GLADSTONE, who is one Of the best exam
pies of physical preservation extant, eats sim
pie meals, with claret for lunch aud claret or
champagne and always port for dinner A for
mlla of his is to chew every morsel thirty three
times.
A FRENCH TRAVELLER in French Guiana says
there are in Upper Guiana fifteen Indian tribes,
forming group of at least 90, 900 persons, who
are not mere nomads, but are sedentary in their
habits, and have attained a certain degree of
civilization.
Col. E. G. W. BUTLER, who has just been bur-
led at Pass Christian, was the husband of the
daughter. of Washington's stepchild, Nellie
CuStis Lewis. He was the son of Col. Edward
Butler, who, with his four stalwart brothers,
served with great distinction in the revolution.
THE Colt arms factory at Hartford. Conn,
will soon begin the manufacture of 5000 navy
revolvers for the United States government.
The new piece is a fve-shooter 3S-calibre Be
sides being self-cocking, all the cartridges may
be instantly removed by a pressure of the
thumb.
THE Thirteen Club, of New York, tempted
fate still further on Thursday evening last by
celebrating their seventy-ninth dinner in a
Chinese restaurant in that city. The dinner
was wholly Monaghan in character, served by
Chinese walters and eaten with chop sticks
while Chinese band of music situated in one
corner Of the hall, increased the terrors of the
evening.
For some little time the wife Of Harlan Harri-
son, well-to-do farmer of Milford Otsego
county, New York, has exhibited signs of mental
instability She said she and everybody else
knew she was insane, and feared she would be
sent to an asylum. The other morning she
went up stairs and cut her throat. dying within
an hour or She said she did it to avoid the
lunatic asylum.
AT certain hour every day-from to 6 p.
m.-from 10000 to $4,000 persons leave New
York city by railroad. Between 40 10000 ard
so, 100000 persons enter and leave the city
every year. Nearly 1,70o regular pas
senger trains enter and leave the depots
of New York and her sister cities daily, ex-
elusive of excursion trains. Ten years ago
Their were not 500
HIS ExCELLENcY DR.. STEPHAN, secretary Of
state in the imperial German postoffice-to give
him his full official title--is also the official phil
ologist of the empire. He is the Bismarck of the
German language, and insists with pedantic Sc
verify upon the publication of every word
ana phrase used IN the postoff1ce He is credited
with the authorship of all the new words now
in use in that institution.
LEOPOLD BLooM aged 90 years, is worth $780,
900 in tangible property and real estate, made
in a few months In speculation in grain and real
estate in Chicago. He had little or nothing to
begin with His good luck began with buying
q cali for 100, 900 bushels of corn which made
| him $4,000 During the hour he was having
| the run of luck number of others were having
quite another experience
TIME and the wearing'toi of daily newspaper
work do not change the appearance of Miss
MILDLY Morgan, the live stock reporter of the
New York Times, and the best judge of cattle
in America. Every afternoon Miss Morgan may
be seen vending her way through The crowd on
Park Row, dressed in a costume resembling the
uniform of the Salvation Army in everything
but the distinctive colors of that eccentric garb
In the home of Maj. Rowland, commandant of
the soldiers home at Quincy, ILL.,, there is
piano that was brought over from London about
100 years ago, and taken to Illinois when the
state was but sparsely settled 1t is of rosewood
beautifully inlaid and decorated, with a kew
board hardly longer than that of a child's piano
of to-day. It's strings give forth a harp-like
tone when struck. 1t is the oldest piano in the
state.
SINCE the receiving ship Wabash has been
lying off Boston there have been several curious
applications from men who wanted to enlist
One man said he'd enlist If he could do work to
which he accustomed He wasn't enlisted
for he was a paper hanger. Another wanted to
| enlist and take care of the captains horse
| gardener would enlist if he could find work and
| another candidate wanted to be the ships
roofer
THE jury of Munich International Art Exhi
btion bestowed gold medal upon James Nc
Neill Whistler. He wrote to the secretary of
the jury as follows: Il beg to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter officially informing me
that the committee award me a secondc class
gold medal. Pray convey my sentiments of
tempered and respectable joy TO the gentlemen
of the committee, and my complete apprecia-
ton of the second-class compliment paid me-"
MASSACHUSETTS, is beginning to rank high as a
beer drinking state. According to the internal
revenue department, the revenue from malt
liquors manufactured In Massachusetts, for the
fiscal year just ended amounts to 1868 942 The
collector at Boston says: This represents con-
siderably over 1000, 900 barrels of malt liquors
containing 81 gallons each. The population of
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