The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! IHE BTlllSu government is making eLoTlS 10
| cultivate oysters on the shores of Tasmania,
and is said 10 be meeting with good succe S.
IT IS SAID that Alaska will become a great
mining country within few years. and will
furnish canned salmon enough to supply all
! creation.
IT IS estimated that in the last ten years North
Carolina has expended S3,OO0,0OO for CONNER
cial fertilizers. while the value of the crops has
| been only Sl5,O00,00O
| THE performances of the Irving company in
this country are regularly advertised in the
| theatrical advertising columns of the London
papers just as thoughthe company was appear
| ing in its own lyceum instead OF Adv or o,uOO
miles away.
BOYS AND GIRLS born in Rome last New Years
day will be called Leo and Leonie, for the
reason that to each Leo and Leonie the Papal
Jubilee Committee has promised savings oank
pass book with 100 francs placed to its credit, as
a souvenir of the jubilee.
THOMAS MAST tells Portland Oregonidn re-
| porter that he was in favor of Gen. Grant for
| third term, and when Mr.. Curtis raised the cry
of "Cesarism' he (Nast poo-poohed II IN hi. bus
cartoons, but the cartoons were returned to him,
and not used by Harpers.
CHINESE FIRMS doing business in New York
| city during the last year paid the government
$250000 In customs duties. The celestial mer-
| chants complain because there is no one in the
custom house who can talk with them properly
either in pigeon English or Chinese.
A MULE that weighs 1880 pounds and lacks
only two and a half inches of being six feet tall
is owned by a St Louis firm. From morning
until night Jumbo trampS away the time in
| twohorse tread mill grinding feed for hundreds
| of horses and mules and grows fat with the
| exercise.
THE queen of the gypsies was crowned Satur-
day night at Fort George. D. T., twenty miles
below Pierre, the Sioux reservation. The
queen is Mrs. Douglas Carlin, the intelligent In
dian princess, recently married to q white man.
The queen was loaded down with presents, and
looked as pretty as picture.
THERE are to be grand doings at Marlborough
House on the night Of the twenty-fifth anniver
sary of the Prince and Princess of Wales we'd
ding day. The various institutions with which
the Prince is connected will offer him memen-
toes, ana there is talk OF Illuminating some OF
the principal streets of London with mOdlfica-
tions OF the jubilee devices.
TIE Secretary of State for war in England
announces that he is prepared to receive ten
ders for troles, rails trucks, vertical boilers,
ballast wagons, fish plates, chairs, bolts. wash
ers, and other strangely named things which
formed part of the famous railway which be-
gan at Suakim, known "a the Suakim and Der
Der Railway, and never got to its destination
during the war against the Mahdi
THE Secretary of the Navy decided to name
cruiser No 5, the contract for which was re-
Gently let, the San Francisco. The name is re-
garded with a certain amount of superstitiOus
fear by sailors. The reason of this is that four
vessels bearing that name have been lost either
| by laundering at sea or by being cast ashore.
One of the latter, the Pacific Mail steamer City
of San Francisco, was lost off the coast of
Lower California some time ago.
THE marriage Of Maurice Bernhard and
Princess Terka Jablonovska was brought about
by pocket handkerchief Sara was playing
'Frou Frou," and Terka was so agitated that
she dropped her handkerchief into the pit
where it alighted upon Maurice. He sent it back
to her next morning with portrait of Sara and
dedication written by the latter herself. That
brought Terka to Sara's residence where she
met Maurice and loved him at first sight.
In THE Chinese language, coutsil, spoken with
rising infection means trousers; with falling
infection, fruit. One day new missionary
gave a dinner to some of her foreign friends,
and, among other things, ordered her native
servant to have coutsil for dessert The dinner
proper passed off pleasantly, but what was the
ladys horror ct the close of the meal to see her
servant enter the dining room bearing on a large
waiter three pairs of her hlISbands trousers
AN UNKNOWN MAN swindled number of Atchi-
son people by means of a scheme that is entirely
new He had obtained an express book and
utilized it by calling, in business-like manner
at private residences and notifying individuals
that there were packages for them at the ex-
press Office lie DXSu Ine charges 10 suit him
self. collected the amount. usually 81 for each
package, and gave receipts, which he directed
the parties to present at the express office and
obtain their goods.
THE Albany Journal states that there seems
to be no doubt that the flow of water from
some of the famous mineral springs at Sara
toga is failing, and that unless the persistent
boring for new springs does not cease they will
be perhaps permanently injured. The volume
of water seems to be as great ever, but the
continued drillings have supplied openings for
the carbOuic acid gas, which gives the waters
their zest. 1t is thought that if the drillings
cease the old springs will be in perfect condi-
ton again by next summer
CAPT. GEORGE B. LEAvrTT, of Deeling, Me,
who has passed two winters at Point Barrow
in the Arctic ocean, thus DIES cribes the climate
there; in the summer months which are July
and August only butterflies and bumbiebees
are common here. These are not the only IN
sects 10 be found here; flies are plentiful and
mosquitoes are so numerous and large that
they drive herds of deer into the water for shell
ter from their torment. This may seem a little
drawn for an Arctic story nevertheless it is
strictly true. The coolest day during the win
ter of 1867 the mercury was 1919 below zero
and the warmest the past summer 10 above"
The negroes of certain districts on the west
coast of Africa are said to be subject to a singu
lar and invariably fatal malady. The person is
seized with sensation of drowsiness which in
creases rapidly in spite of all efforts to throw it
off. until he sinks into a profound and seeming
ly natural sleep, which continues for about
three weeks. when death occurs During this
time the patient may be easily aroused for a
short time, will take nourishment, and answer
questions nationally. All the bodily functions
continue i'll natural manner with the execution
of the abnormal tendency to sleep. There is
nothing to indicate disease and though careful
post-mortem examinations have been made no
trace of disease could he found.
A PROOF of the remarkable durability of
Roman buildings was found in the resistance
offered by the foundations of the pillars ON
which the bridge rested which led from the
Roman settlement of Maguntia (modern Mainz)
over the river to the right or eastern bank of
the Rhine. There were fourteen stumps of
pillars under the water resting upon piles sur
rounded by beds of stone to prevent undermin-
ing by the current. The woodwork had been
destroyed to depth of not more than an inch
or an inch and half, and having been taken
out and dried it was found unusually hard and
well adapted to fine furniture The expense of
removing these pillars is SIS 900, or nearly
81, 100 each, on account of the great amount of
time and labor that had to be spent on them.
A RAILROAD vELocIPEDE is at present expert
mented upon by the military authorities of
France 1t is wagon of very light build and
little weight and has four wheels of 90 inches di-
ameter with rims constructed for running on
rails. One man can move it at a speed of forty
to fifty miles miles an hour. BY means of n
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