The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

REPORT has 1t that the management OF the
Morris county IN. j. poorhouse last year was
SO economical and judcious to yield proht
OF II per cent. to the county upon the value or
the property.
A PACIFIC COAST PHYSICIAN advocates the
passage of law requiring that the bodies of
persons dying Of leprosy be cremated, on the
grounds that the remains often exhibit vlSo-
fous leprouS bdctui year after burial
THERE was passed in the synod Of the Re-
formed Presbyterian church at Pittsburg last
week resolution directing the sessions to
prosecute, according TO church discipline, mem
oers who advertise in Sunday newspapers. The
synod also confirmed law requiring all mem
oers to give TO the church one-tenth of their
earnings
SIR EDWARD BANEs is said 10 be the Oldest
active journalist in Europe. He is 85 years old
and his paper is the Leeds Mercury He began
ms career journalist three years after the
battle of Waterloo, but was present as a re-
porter 1or the Mercury at the battle of Peterloo
N loI9, and has been continuously in newspaper
life ever since.
A FRENCH COMPANY, with capital Of $1,000
o0O is said to be waiting for permission from
the Russian government to begin work on a
canal that will unit the sea of Azov and the
BLACK sea. The canal will be 1.S kilometres
long, VIII take five years to construct, and will
9eIent the southeastern districts, which pro
uuce grain, salt, minerals, and fuel.
THOMAS ANsELL, aged SO, and his wife, aged
n, were poor and proud at Deptford, Eng
land. They wouldn't go to the workhouse, and
Che parish wouldn't give them but eighty cents
a week 10 support them on the outside. OF this
my III cents went for rent Thomas has just died
OF starvation, and the poor law officials say it
served him right for being so proud.
A PARIS CosTERnoNGER quarreled with his
mother, and to get square, hung himself from
nail on the wall. He pulled his hat down over
MS eyes ana held his pipe in his mouth, that
she would think that he shamming until
she went up TO him, and would be scared at
nnding him dead. His scheme worked per-
Iectly, and the mother nearly had fit.
THE TRUSTEES of the Lick estate have con-
veyed Mount Hamilton observatory to the
board of regents of the California state uni
versity. The buildings are all completed. The
Instruments 1t is said, cost upward of 100000,
while $500 has been expended in the erection
ana equipment OF the observatory. The regents
nave set apart $4,000 a year for the main
tenance of the observatory.
FLORIST Of Montgomery, Ala, named James
Caldwell, who has been suffering for twenty
years past from supposed pulmonary com
plant, coughed up pin from his right mng the
other day. He has now distinct recollection
OF swallowing pin forty years ago in
: Glasgow, Scotland, when seven wears of age
| lie remembers the anxiety of his family at the
TIME and that his sister was dressing in front of
the mirror. The pin is an inch long.
| THREE of the prisoners at the county farm of
Wilton, N. H., tried to escape during a recent
| night. They were confined in the fifth story
| and tied nine sheets together, fastening one end
| 10 a bedstead The first two men reached the
| ground safely, and made off in tie darkness
| While the third was sliding down the frail rope
1t parted, and he fell heavily to the ground and
| II Is thought, cannot recover from the injuries
| received His more successful partners have
since been captured and returned to the institu-
ton.
DR.. PRINCE,o WALES, a venerable arch druid,
80 years old, a notable figure among his coun-
trymen, has made all arrangements for the dis
position of his body when the vital spark shall
| have fled. He wants the body burned and has
| written out 1875 sound reasons why cremation
is desirable. He has chosen spot where it is
to be burned, an historical druidical pile and
| has specified the fuel to be used. In the paper
| containing these instructions the venerable man
| goes on to denounce vaccination and the wear.
| ing of stockings, and concludes with a protest
| against matrimony, which he thinks is degrad-
ing to women.