The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In Mexico the word God does not appear in
the constitution or laws. Consequently a con-
stitutional protest, which is equivalent to the
| oath of Office, is used at an installation.
| NEw BEDFORD (MAss) CITIZEN, who lost a
| $40 bill several months ago has Just received it
| from the finder. with a note saying: Il needed
1t very badly at the time and returned it as soon
as l could"
| NEBRASKA has its Paradise valley, Milk river,
Honey creek, Thunder canyon, Lightning fork,
| Doughnut prairie, Baker reef and Cake Basket
precinct. For variety and style of product, this
commonwealth has no rival
No ONE who sees the Turkish m mister, Ma
vroyni Bey, would take him to be a Turk, and
he is not of the Turkish race, but of the Greek.
| There is no longer-headed. graver-faced diplo-
matlst known to Grover Cleveland.
| KING IA JA the deposed West African mon
arch, captured some six months ago by the
| marines of the British man of war Icarus, is
| still prisoner on the island of st. Vincent In
| the West Indies, where the Icarus landed him.
The disuse of bobtail cars in New York must
be considered the result of agitation. The en-
tire stock of fifty-two discarded bobtail cars on
| one road was recently trundled away for trans
| portation, much to the pleasure of their New
| York patrons.
PoTAToEs are drug in the market at Colfax
section. The best price to be got is 10 cents a
oushel and one farmer offered to give friend
a wagon load of choice ones if he would take
the trouble to send for them
The Vermont legislature having refused
women the right to vote in municipal elections,
certain women have sent in petition declaring
that" taxation without representation is tyran-
ny, and asking to have all taxes removed
from property owned by women.
Tur r-rrpr ,rt, rr.pv ic O,ita Sevare
as the German one. The age of CONSUMPTION Is
raised from 20 TO 81 grave interference with
mans work; and the duration of service is
fixed at ten years. three of them in barracks
and seven with the regular reserves.
TIE American residents of Honolulu, and the
officers and crews of the Brooklyn and Alert
voted for President Nov. 6. The residents gave
Harrison 223. Cleveland 1874, Fisk Z, Curtis g.
The Brooklyn gave Harrison Sc, Cleveland 173.
The Alert gave Harrison 40, Cleveland 80
The CELEBRATION of the seventy-fifth ami
versary of the establishment of Dutch indie
pendence has taken place recently in the princi
pal cities of the Netherlands. In Rotterdam
there was grand allegorical procession, with
representations of historical episodes and per
sonageS signalzed in the Dutch annals
MAGGIE WILSON, of Cincinnati, who died there
short time since, left a clause in her will,
which read as follows: 1T is my will that the
two china dogs now in my room, be separately
put in a box with glass fronts, both alike, and
one placed on my dear husbands grave, at
Spring Grove. and the other on my grave, and
all to be paid for out of the money leave"
IT is reported from France that the Hugue-
nots are very actively engaged in evangelical
work there, having established GOO stations or
headquarters In the American chapel in Paris
one OF their leaders recently said in the course
Of an address that the Huguenots could not be
crushed out, but would live and work until
crir U rec her
st. Bartholomew.
THE OLD Edward Everett house in Dorchester,
Mass, is to be put under the auctioneers ham,
mer The house, it is said, was built before
ITO by Lieut.. Gov. Oliver, of the colony of
Massachusetts,, and was occupied by Gen. George
Washington while the tortltlcatlons at Dorches-
ter Heights, now South Boston, were being
thrown out Edward Everett was born and
spent his early days there
IT is ESTIMATED that there are 2, 500 women in
the United States who hold diplomas from medi-
cal colleges. either American or foreign. DIR.
Elizabeth Blackwell, who graduated in l649 is
said to be the first woman doctor. The first
one in Sweden is Karoiina Widerstrom,
who has recently been engaged by the
Thule Life insurance Company to examine
women who wish to insure their lives The
physician of the Milwaukee county hospital is
DR.. Anna Mcconnell.
THERE is lively movement in France in ia
ally, and NJ. Pasteur has just signified his ap-
prevail of It in letter to NJ. Paschal Grousset.
who is one of its chief promoters. The eminent
chemist declares that no one is better qualified
10 appreciate the value OF physical education"
than he is himself, for he entirely neglected it
in his youth, and he attributes the extremely
poor health which has been his lot for some
years past to his neglect of proper exercise.
LIBRARIAN SPoFFoRD is competent to testify
that of the making of many books there is no
end. The accessons to the congressional
library for 1887 from copyright sources we're:
Of books, 1865; periodicals. 6.70S; dramatic
compositions, $780, musical compositions, 7,144;
photographs 1850; engravings and chromos,
l,S4S maps and charts, ,3s2; miscellaneous, in
Guiding prints, designs and models. paintings
and drawings, 1880. No wonder a new con.
gressional library building of immense proper
tons is required.
A HAWAIIAN CONVICT who was condemned to
death had his life spared on condition that he
should be inoculated with leprosy by way of
experiment The incubation took place three
years ago, and the unfortunate man, who would
surely have done better to 60 to the scaffold, is
now a tubercular leper. The experiment was
perhaps hardly necessary. The fact that
Father Damien has become a leper since he
went to reside in settlement Of lcpers is surely
proof enough that the disease is contagious
Now, however, there is no longer room for any
doubt which may have been felt upon the matter
at one time.
Lon HOUSTON and Joseph Lakewood, two
citizens Of Elco, H., have been cunning for each
other for some time, aud each threatened to
kill the other upon sight. Last Sunday Hous-
ton was attending the services of the Methodist
church of the town when he CHANGED TO look up
from his prayerbook and saw Lakewood They
both nodded rose quickly, drawing their pistols
as they did so, and glided down the two aisles
OF the church TO the door keeping their eyes on
each other all the time. At the door each
turned and fired The congregation rushed out
four more shots were heard, and when the
congregation reached the place both were NOR
tally wounded,
II HAVE BEEN SLEEPING with a corpse for
three days without knowing it," said a tramp
to William Steele, milkman, living on the
cotch Plains road near Planfeld, ~ j., the
other morning. hay barraci owned by Steele
mad been the tramp's bed for several nights
and every time ne lay down or got up he
noticed that u strange bedfellow lay by his side
seemingly sound asleep. To-day he found that
the stranger was dead, and that he had evil
IDENTIFY been so all the time. County Physician
Westcott notified. Undertaken Patrick
Casey removed the corpse to the morgue in
Plainield. On the body YVES a paper bearing
the name william Taylor. A sailors jacket
marked 'Dauntless' was one Of the de id mans
garments. The mans arms and hands were
tattooed. The county physician will make an
examination on Tuesday. The tramp is under
arrest.
THE following facts about wool may be inter
esting: OF the composition Of wool this est
mate has been given; Carbon so per cent; by