The morning news., 1888-07-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A LOG Of solid redwood was struck 140 feet
below gravel in sinking an aFtesian well at Wat
sOnville, New.
THE first unmarried colored woman sent out
by the American board of foreign missions is
about tO'staTt for southeastern Africa. She IS
a graduate Of Fisk university.
A BRITISH VESSEL is now surveying a route
between Australia and Canada preliminary to
laying a telegraph cable. The cable will be
800 miles long, and the work Of laying it will
take three years.
A MANCHESTER YOUNG LADY greatly alarmed
herself and family few nights ago by stepping
upon rusty nail, which penetrated her foot.
Remedies and bandages we're promptly applied,
| and when morning came it was discovered that
the uniniured foot had received the treatment.
A STRANGER who was given s25 in silver as
part of the amount drawn from a Norwich
bank the other day, stepped away from the
counter opened the package and taking each
dollar in his hand, set his teeth upon it to if
it was made of the true metal He was deter
mined lead should not be passed for silver TO
him with any show for success.
IL front of the building which is being erected
on The Strand, Rondout, is tho following sign:
'Danger-Loolt out for the brick. they some
times fall This forenoon brick manufact-
urer the sign, He read the words slowly,
and then said: Yes, brick do fall, and if they
fall any lower than they are now, brickmakers
| hereabOntS may as well crawl into their clay
banks and starve to death"
A WEATHER PRoGNosTICAroR and amateur
artist of Prague has painted landscape colored
with the salts Of cobalt. These colors are very
sensitive to moisture, and are made still more
so by mixture with geatine. With an increas-
ing amount of moisture in the Atmosphere the
blue heavens Of the picture assume dirty red
hue, and the green grass and foliage. as we'll as
the background, etc, are also strilcngy changed
in color.
SEvERALo OF the French railway companies,
and other public bodies, have adopted the prac-
tice Of having their printing done on green in
stead of white paper The reason for this alter
alton Is that they have concluded that the com
binatiOn Of white paper with black characters
eud1ngerS the eyeSight of their work people.
Black on green has always been recognized as
good combination for this purpose and many
railway tickets are so printed.
A LEADING English Judge is hard of hearing.
and recently, it is said, there was frequent ap-
plause during the hearing OF a case before him
He silenced it several times but after awhile
came an OutburSt louder than ever and in great
Indignation he exclaimed: These demonstra-
tions are most unSeemly. If they continue |
Shall have the court cleared at oncem But the
noise the Judge had heard was peal of thunder
from storm that had suddenly come up.
DURING the early part of the performance Of
"Nero, or the FAN of Rome" at St George
Staten Island, the other night the electric
| nights III tne dressing rooms went out and the
people OF the company were left in darkness
and unable to make their change of costume
for the n AXt scene. For moment it looked as
though the spectacle would have to stop and
the audience be dismissed. Mr. Kiralfy, how
ever at once ordered 100 torches from the l. 600
used in the torch ballet, used in Nero and
| light was distributed in the different dressing
rooms.
CREToNNE of the cheap sort used for deco
rating rooms, turns out to be as arsenically
poisonous as green wall paper Out of forty
four samples recently examined in London
none were free from arsenic, three had only
faint traces of it, twenty one had larger traces
eleven were classed as very bad, and nine were
called distinctly dangerous" One specimen
square yard. The greens aud blues were the
least harmful, while reds browns and blacks
were heavily loaded with the poison.
WILLIAM BLoUNT, a 14-year-old boy, has be-
gun suit, through a guardian whom he had
appointed for that purpose. against the Pacific
| mail steamship company for $4,000 damages
for personal injuries. He claims to have sailed
| from New York last April on the Newport to
visit cousin in San Francisco. At Panama he
was transferred to the Acapulco, aud two DAYS
afUerward smallpox broke out aboard. The
sick were at once placed in a lazaretto on the
| ship, and young Blount with them, though he
| did not have the disease, but merely rash on
his forehead. At Acapulco they were put on a
desert island, where they remained uutil May O.
BlOunt had to take care of four sick men and
nurse them through their illness had to row
over the Bay and get food and suffered much
hardship the island, which was barren of
vegetation. and on which the sun beat fiercelv
He says that when the captain got to San Fran
cisco he made no mention of the sick men, nor
were their names on the passenger list. The
lad thinks he is justified in demanding a good
round sum for damages