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

A YOUNG MAN of Michigan wonders whether
he can vote at the next general election. He
was born on November :, 1867, at O'Clock in
the evening Whether the POLLS close at
O'Clock in the afternoon or at shutdown he will
still lack several hours OF being q years old. He
wants to know.
WILLIAM B. O'DEIL, coal-black negro
astonished Brooklyn police justice the other
morning by speaking a rich Irish brogue. O'Dell
says he was born of negro parents, at Ballyslo
naturalzed since his arrival in America, was
still an freshman.
LAST WEEK another woman was mysteriously
murdered in London making the third who has
suffered that fate in the metropolis within few
months The general suppoSition there is that
numerous maniac is at large. All three
| crimes were committed within radius of about
half mile, and, since the last one, rimid resi-
dents IN the neighborhood lear to leave their
homes unaccompanied after dark.
Mrs. WILLIAM SLOAN. nee Vanderbilt, will
give at Lenox, on Sept. 10, what the Boston
Transcript expects will be the most magnifi-
cent ball ever given IN America. The Hunga-
rlan band will come up from New York to play
Tor H. ad the favorS for the cotfilion have zen
imported expressly for this ball which is given
20 introduce Miss Louise, eldest daughter of
Col Elli-t F. Shepard, to society,"
THOSE moving in court circles whisper that
the attra tive Ksiserin Elizabeth of Austria is
losing her beauty. ald that no one is allowed to
approach too near Tor fear he may remark the
ravages OF time. However that may be, when
she drives her ROYAL and imperial majesty is
completely nu lied in silk and lace. holding in
front of her a thick parasol TO shield her from
the sun, but which entirely conceals her fea-
lures.
THERE are more ways than one of making
money and there is man in Chicago who is prof
iting by one of the other ways All photograph
n tod J, q aiI SOlI
ton. TINS man makes periodical visits to the
pinot graph galleries and secures this paper.
de burns it and refnes the ashes, securing a
large amount of silver. His bargain is for 20
per cent. OF the silver produced, and some weeks
he secures over 800. 1t is hard work, but he
makes fair living at it.
The OWNER Of some homil / l icons at Hamm
bet that on q fine day twelve OF his bees would
heat ike number Of carrier pigeons In II ak
ing the distance Zone hour tween Hamm a ID
the town Of Ithynern. Twelve pigeons and
twelve bees -four drones and eight working
bees, ali 'wdeyed with four were taken TO
Rhynerl, and simultaneously set flee. \ white
drone arrived home tour seconds in advance OF
the first pigeon: the imaining three drones
and second pigeon al ived together. and the
eight working bees proceeded the ten pigeons
by length.
FROM Bar Harbor. by way of a firm of iron
and steel men in Boston. comes this brief but in
strGctive tale: "a good looking and well
dressed young man, tri,, and alert in his car
riaSe, wished ID be conveyed somewhere, and
asked the price from d livery stable keeper
-Four dollars was the calm reply, "$4?'
echoed the young man. ''Oh, pshaw! You evil
IDENTIFY think I'm a summer boarder I'm a
drummer. down. here to sell iron to the quarries
round these parts" oh, UNI. replied tae sta
bic keeper WIN a new respect in his manncr
Wei, guess we can send you over for 81 j0''
AUSTRIA is the finest sporting country in
Europe. The number of preserves. not count
ing those in Hungary, is stated at Ii, 76l, ard on
these there were shot in 1857 - bears 113
wolves "a lynxes, $3.50 stays. 90, 252 roebucls.
200 chamois, 1905 wild bears, II, all foxes.
9,729 poiecats, 1.055 otters, 2,6i2 badgers, 3}3
marmots, and no fewer tnan ,439. Ga h.res
1900 villa geese 74S pheasants. 1886 ga
partridgeS, 81, 44S quails, 1862 wooGcock, 1914
snipe, and % 914 Wild ducks. The birds of prey
owls, and 106,3j3 hawks, kestrels, kites and
vultures.