The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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hustle of passenger on the Werra last week
was searched, and twenty four bracelets three
breastpins and nine pairs of earrings were
found.
ONE of the successful farmers of Iredell
| county, North Carolina, Col. Julian Allen, is a
Russian nobleman. His true name is Julian
| Alenski, and he was exiled from Russia in 1870
1 because OF his political principles. He a
colonel in the federal army, and In 1875 he set
tied in lredell county, where he has a splendid
| home and farm.
THE only gift, so far as known, that Jay
| Gould ever made to church hangs in the belfry
| of little wooden church at Roxbury n Y II
| is large, deep-toned bell, which cost Mr.
| Gould $4,000 The villagers are very proud of
the gift, and they still point out to visitors
| weather-beaten farmhouse, about four miles
from town, where MIR. Gould was born.
PRETTY young lady of Seattle, W. T.. re-
| Gently went into an employment office in that
city, and said she was the owner of 100 acres of
| good farming land in Suchomish county with
| sixty acres cleared. She also said she had a
small sum OF money, and her object was to
secure husband who would work the farm and
make her good consort. She left her address
| with the agent and solcits correspondence from
any one who wishes to secure a steady situa-
tion' a home and pretty wife at the same time.
| GERMAN JOURNALISM has just entered on it's
| third century. In 1888 Christian Thomasus,
| who thought that the exclusive use of Latin was
see Germany free from the influence of schol-
| astic pedantry, established at Leipsic q
monthly periodical in the German language. in
| which ne showed great skill in dealing with the
| questions which interested him. Thomasus'
monthly lived two years. and was the first
journal or periodical printed in the German
language.
ELDER JOSEPH HARVEY of Pittsfeld, N H.,
who recently preached sermon on the 50th an
niversary Of his ordination as a preacher has
| m an III in
the state. if not In New England and the record
| OF his work is remarkable. He has averaged
four sermons week during those fifty years,
and the Total is 10, 400 dfscourSes He has con-
Quoted 900 funerals, and SO many weddings
| that he has lost track of the number; and he
has preached in every town in the state, in nine
teen states and territories, and in three of the
| British territories.
| NORWICH, Conn, man had great horror of
being buried alive. and several years ago he left
| directions as to the manner of his burial after
| he should have seemed to have died. His body
| was to be kept three days before being placed
| moved, and the vault so closed that person
| could readily get out. A hammer to be
| placed near his right hand, and lamp was to
| burn In the sepulchre for three days and three
| nights. Not long ago he died and these instruc-
| tons were carried out to a letter. He has not
| been beard from since.
| ONE of the remarkable women of the age is
Miss Cornwell whose success in deciding upon
and estimating the properties of mines, has
won for herself the title of 1.-The Princess
| Midas" She is English, but in babyhood was
| taken to Australia. Five years ago she began to
| visit mines and to ask questions She listened
| to the explanations of theorists and got practi-
cal miners to teach her what they knew. To
| the theories and facts thus obtained she added
| her own intultions and judgments, and thus de-
| veloped such a remarkable faculty for deter
| mining the values of mines that many persons
| think she has the gift of second sight.
|
the American small boy, says: He abounds in
| Paris he is common in Italy and he is drug
| in Switzerland He is not only restless himself
but he is the cause of restleSsness in others He
has no respect for the quiescent evening hour,
devoted to cigarettes on the terrace after the
table d hote and he is not to be oyerawed by a
look 1t is a constant source of wonder to the
| thoughtfully inclined how the American man is
evolved from the American boy. No one need
desire pleasanter travelling companion than
| the American man; it is impossible to imagine
one more disagreeable than the American boy
ELECTRIC PRosrRAr1oN" may be called a
new disease. 1t troubles workers under electric
| light, Severe cases are reported from Creusot,
France, where an electric furnace is used for
quickly heating metals The light exceeds
| 100 900 candle powder, and the men suffer from
| it, and not from the heat After one or two
hours the workers have a painful sensation in
| the throat, face and temples, the skin becomes
copper red, and eye Irritation begins that
lasts forty eight hours, the discharge of tears
| being copious. After five days the skin peels
off. Dark colOred glasses somewhat mitigate
| tirely.
| JOIN BOYLE O'REHAy, poet. author and fen
merly editor of the Boston Pilot, has had sofd6
| thrilling experiences in his lifetime. At 81 he
| was sentenced to be shot for disseminating
| Fepian ideasin the ranks of the Fourth Hussars,
| of which regiment he was member. The SEN
| tence was committed to twenty years penal
1 ID Aust 19n To-
end of the first year and secured a berth ON a
| whaler, which after a six months cruise again
| landed him in Australia. After a number of
| romantic escapes from capture he finally sue
| ceeded in embarklng for America and reaching
| Philadelphia.
A STORY Illustrating Verdi's eccentricity
comes from a small bathing place in Germany.
| whittier the composer had gone to recuperate
/ himself. A visitor calling on him found him
| quartered in o very small room, which from ap-
| pearances served as dining, dwelling and bed
| room. The guest expressing surprise at this
| arrangement, the composer explained: "Oh |
| have two other large rooms, but l keep the
articles hired by me in them, and he arose and
showed his astonished visitor ninety-five barrel
organs, remarking: when | came here all
these organs played 'RigoIetto' 'Trovatorei
and similar stuff. I have hired them from the
owners. l have paid about 1900 lire, but now
/ can enjoy my summer rest without being dis
turbed." He had hired every barrel organ in
the district.
AN EXCITING SCENE in the Chicago Chamber
of Commerce recently is thus described by an
eye witness: just as the wheat market began
to sag to-day, after its long continued upward
movement, p. B. Hutchinson, the eccentric
Spectator, commonly known as Old Hutch
startled the board by apparently reckless buy
ing. The old gentleman made two or three
purchases himself, and then his broker, Frank
Maginn, began to chaff with Dealer Bloom
about December wheat Bloom, in a bluffing
spirit, said: III sell you million December at
1855 GI93l3. I'll take that, said Maginn quietly
All trading ON the board stopped Immediately
and the brokers crowded breathlessy around
the two daring operators while they arranged
for a $4,000 deposit for margins" The deal
is the biggest that has been made in recent
years.
AN English correspondent, writing of the
London success of the play THE Still Alarm"
where a scene in an engine house is represented
SO well that the spectators howl with delight
says: THE play is American, the firemen are
American, the engine has been brought over
expressly from New Y ork but every one should
know that what looks so very wonderful on the
stage might be seen any day on the Southwark
Bridge road. The American and English sys.
tens differ by the merest tribe Our flrenien
may not be permitted TO sing Christy minstrel
part songs IN dormitory; the watch do not
sleep on an upper floor, nor are compelled to
side down posts To their work. but are kept on
the same level as the engine; but as regards
speed In getting out. Harvesting horses opening |
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