The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-11
ITRMs OF INTEREST.

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IT Is SAID that Jay Gould has in the course of
his life given 81, 900 to churches he once having
purchased bell costing that amount for little
wooden church at Roxbury, !. Y, near which
the millionaire was born.
A PHILADELPHIA in moderate circumstances
recently gave poor woman two 25-cent pieces
to hold down the lids of her dead husbands eyes
just before the funeral he sent his man around
10 secure the return of the coins.
AN INTOXICATED MAN, who died on New
YORK doorstep Thursday, was subsequently
identified as an ex-millionaire merchant of New
| orleans -Four years ago he began dissipating
and his wife, now living in New York on that
| account left him.
FEW YEARS AGO the Argentine Republic
raised hardly enough wheat for home consump-
ton. Last year it exported 1901, 900 bushels
| Immense tracts of pasture are being converted
! into farm land, and the country is becoming a
| great graln-growing region.
TOURNAMENT, modified after the jousts of
the middle ages, is soon to be held at Ham.
mond, La. The participants will dress in
| medieval attire, and the chief feature will be a
passage at arms between knights in armor
There will also be troop of archers to emulate
the deeds of Robin Hoods men.
ADvIcEs from Victoria, B. c., give the total
catch of the sealing feet this season as 19o3s
skins, falling off from last year of ID, 762 This
the unsettled feeling regarding Behring Sea-
In value the catch of this year is less than last
| by nearly $4,000.
HE public schools In Jersey..City are SO over
crowded, and there are so many children I'M
able to gain admittance, that the board of edu-
catlon IS considering the propriety of adopting
plan to have halliday sessions onehaf the
children to attend school in the morning and
the other half in the afternoon.
AT WEsTTowN PA) a cow fell 20 feet into
an unused well, and though it rested in the con-
tracted quarters, and with its head scarcely
above the water, all night, the bovine was alive
| derrick 1t could not walk, however, and ap-
| parently had received fatal injuries.
HIGHwAYMAN In Kansas City, who snatched
| a pocketoook from woman, upon being pur-
| sued by policeman, ran to the top of a bluff
| ana sprang of, distance of 80 feet, but was
not badly hurt: The officer, seeing him start
away a!Cer allght1ng, made a similar leap, He
was badly shaken up, but managed to catch his
man.
| IHE state department at Washington has
been informed that Mr.. Everett Frazar has
been decorated by the Corean government.
This honor is conferred upon Mr.. Frazar for his
faithful lt1 discharge of the duties of American
consul general TO Corea. 1t gives him the rank
| OF nobleman of the second class, with insignia
OF handsomely carved gold and jade
| COMPETITION among the grocers five in num-
ber) of Milledgeville, Ark, became so brisk
| that one of them offered excursion tickets TO
81. Joseph to all of his customers who would
promise him their trade for the next three
| months. This was bid for long term of Gus
| tom, and before the other grocers could recover
themselves he had monopoly of the trade.
No LESS than three of the London theaters
| are managed by women. Grace Hawthorne is
| the lessee and manager of the Princess, and is
soon to have another theater buIlt for her
Wood DrGSidaS he al Of . a
New Court theater and Mrs. Lane runs one of
the most f1ourishing theaters in the East End
MISS Edltn Woodworth has also shared the
management of the Globe with Edgar Bruce
CHARLES GEIGER of Lyndhurst, n, j., while
talking politics to a couple of neghbors con-
verted an empty barrel into seat by laying
Single across it. During the heated argument
which followed Geiger shifted until the Single
slipped, and he went down into the barrel with
MS knees doubled up under his chin. The two
neighbors tried to pull him out of the barrel.
forgetful of the fact that double row of nails
extended into it from the top hoops. He yelled
Win pain, and then the barrel was taken apart
MRS. HENRY SMELL who lives at West Med
way, Mass, was found Tuesday in a starving
condition, surrounded by flock of hens and
twenty cats. She had locked herself in the
house, and when an entrance was forced by
neighbor she showed fight. There was no food
in the house, but there was plenty of fuel with
which she could have cooked a fowl Mrs Smell
had mania for cats and each of the twenty
| five answered to a name. She had trained the
animals ANN 70 ran IN line and come forward to re-
| town authorities have taken her in charge
CHARLES Huffman, an expert photographer of
| Cincinnati, about year ago grew melancholy
| because of the accidental death of his father.
| an old and wellknown steamboatman and at
tempted suicide by cutting his throat with a
razor a1 HIS mother 9th coming upon him in the
| however, before he had so wounded him self
| that he barely escaped death. Huffman subse-
quently went to New York city and obtained a
| good position. A few days ago he repeated the
attempt at suicide by firing three bullets into
his head above the right eye, none of which
| strange to say, killed him.
MONUMENT has recently been unveiled at
Corbell, France, to the memory of the Galig-
| mani brothers, founders Of the Paris newspaper
known by their name. the brothers. Anthony
and William, were born in London, sons of an
Italian teacher of languages and an English
woman. They bought summer residence at
Corhell in 1927, and William was mayor OF the
place for thirty-four years. They gave away
5000, 900 francs, Of which Corbell got about one
third for schools, an orphanage and hospital
They also left money for retreat for authors
and printers at Neuilly, Just outside Of Paris
which is nearly completed.
MAX o'RELL says that he has had an assistant
in the preparation of his book on America in
the person of Boston elevator boy. Max
O'Re questioned the boy one day about his
experiences with the queer pc ople he came
across, and the little iell ow told one or two
very original anecdotes. He was promptlv
taken into partnership. An agreement was
actually drawn up between Max O'Rell and the
elevator boy, by which the lad became a col
laborator in writing the book and will get 81
on every thousand copies sold He wrote ont
his own anecdotes, and his copy will 20 to
the printers. The boy has often given me a |
lift" said Max ORell land thought it would
be only fair to give him q lift SO took him
into partnership"
POTTER PALMER, the Chicago millionaire, lives
in house that is said to be more like castle |
than any house in Chicog). No two rooms are |
alike in style or finish The house is built with
a rotunda surmounted by Moorish dome and |
all the doors open in a circular hall The sup
porting pillars, and the balustrades are made Of
polished marble An elevator, pannelled with |
plate glass and upholstered in SATIN carries the |
occupants of the house to the upper rooms MIR |
Palmer has two sons, lads of ~ and II years of |
age, who have their gymnasium shooting gal
lery and playrooms in a house built specially for
their Use, and they are taught all the accom-
plishments as well as the manly arts.
TIE Dutch statesman, Simon Vissering. who
has just died at the age of 20, became dis
tinGuished forty years ago as one Of the cham
pions OF the Liberal party and contributed
largely with his pen TO hs adoption of a liberal
constitution. He was a Jealous furtherer of adj
vanced economic legislation, and from 1850 TO