The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WITHIN week three attempts have been
made to chloroform and lzdnap Miss Barnett OF
Canton, o. rejected lover is supposed to be
at the bottom Of it.
A MONUMENT in memory of the late Sir Bartle
Frere was recently unveiled in the Westward
Gardens of the Thames embankment The
ceremony was performed by the prince OF
| Wales in the presence of many distinguished
persons.
In A RECENT French murder trial the bones of
the murdered man were brought into court and
placed before the accused The man turned
pale, but over the CHASTITY relics reiterated his
protestation of innocence; nevertheless he was
convicted.
THE lumber from which the gallows was con-
structed on which John Brown was executed is
owned by resident of Harper's Ferry, who is
| waiting for some relic hunter to come and take
| it off his hands. The modest sum of $500 is
| asked for it.
| Miss JOSIE CARROLL young school teacher
at Birdseye, Ind, was killed by fright on Friday
night, near that place. Boys made ghost, y"
which they placed in her path as she returned
alone from a neighbours house. She was thrown
into commissions and died on the spot.
A TURTLE has been found at Eau Claire, Wis. 4,
with the figures 1910 cut on its back. Several
| turtles bearing such ancient dates have been
| met with in Georgia at various times, and some
body asks if it is not likely that one of these,
| taking Horace Greeey's advice, emigrated to
| the west.
The young Princess Wilhelmine, of the
| Netherlands, who is years old, is being edu-
| Gated in democratic way. None of her teach
ers is allowed to address her as royal highness"
| or even as princess during school hours, and
she is allowed to play on equal terms with street
| children.
| A New York house which, ten years ago, en-
ployed 100 travelling statesmen now does its bust
| ness entirely by illustrated catalogues and cor
| resnondence and its trade is ahead of what il
| used to be. Others are moving the same way,
| and i'm O few years hence the drummer will drum
| less numerously.
| VIENNA PAPERS figure out that Dom Pedro's
thirty@fve days stay at Milan-which includes
the period of his illness-cost him 400, 0O0f.
| About one eighth of the sum went for telegraph
| ing to Rio .Ianeiro The full fee of one physi-
clan was 40.0O0f., while another was paid at the
rate of 1,200f per day.
ONEof the sights of Chicago is Potter Palmer's
house. on the Lake Shore drive 1t is built of
| Ohio sandstone looks like a castle and covers
| sixth of an acre. Each of the numerous rooms
| is of different architectural design, and the
| house is filed with mosaicS and decorations
onyx and marble. The house was designed by
| Mr. Potter himself.
| THIS is the season when stories about 'freaks
of lightning" appear in the newspapers. Dur
| ing a storm few days ago, lightning struck a
|
| building in PENNSYLVANIA town, and left the
| date 1899 imprinted on one of the walls. Next
/ day the same thunderbolt. suddenly discover
| ing its error, returned to town, and with one
| well-directed blow. obliterated the figures
1889" and left 1888 in their place.
| ONE of the most interesting recent acquis-
lions to the British museum is an Egyptian
| papyrus of the Book of the Dead" exceeding
| almost any hitherto known alike in beauty of
| color and freshness of preservation and in the
/ H,,l.x Nf nrfn and lltrCf rot fnno
| precious roll was discovered last winter in a
| tomb at Thebes, and opened in the presence of
| Mr.. Bridge, assistant in the department of
| Oriental antiquity, by whom it was conveyed to
| England.
| A PORTLAND, Me-, lady, who is with her hus
band salmon fishing near the eastern shore Of
| the Province of Quebec, has Just had novel
| and interesting experience She hooked a large
| fish and after full hours fight with it finally
| won the battle. The salmon when landed was
| found to weigh forty-two pounds, probably the
| largest salmon ever caught by lady. Her
| husband says that if the fish could have held
| out half hour longer he would probably have
pulled her into the river.
A BRIGHT METEOR, drawing after it "a train
of twenty three clearly defined stars" having
| shot across the heavens above Columbus, o.
the other night, its course being from southeast
| to northwest, las though from Washington to
| Chicago, persons of a superstitious nature as
Sert that the incident carries with it a predic-
| ton about the coming presidential election
| According to one theory 1t means that Cleye-
| land and Thurman will carry twenty-three
| states, while another theory is that the reverse
may be expected.
| THE Chicago art institute stands on Michigan
avenue, facing the lake. Its facade is as i'm
posing as any building in the city, in fact more
so. 1t is art itself. But across this the man.
/ agement of the institute has stretched white
cloth on which Is painted information to the eff
1 during III
/ lection of art studies can be seen for p cents
| Rather cheap thing for an art institute to do.
About as cheap as it would be for Potter
| Palmer to hang banner on his outer walls an
| nouncng pie at cents per cut.
PEARLS have been discovered, it is Just an
nounced, in several of the Irish rivers, and
| gentleman who is chairman of the Omagh town
| commissioners has arrived In London within the
/ past day or two, bringing with him packet of
| the gems which have been found in fresh water
l musses of county Tyrone. Some of these
| pearls said to be of very fair size, measur-
i ing over a quarter of an inch in diameter while
/ others range downward to the size of small gun
/ shot They are asserted, moreover, to be of fine
| quality, and to abound in the stretches of water
1 where the pearl-beari muSSelS have now been
| discovered.
| IT is given out that a relic of the revolution
has been found in Washington. 1t is the
original pass of Major Andre, given by the
traitor Arnold and signed by Gen. Gage, when
| Arnold had determined to surrender West
| Point to the English. The possessor is a direct
| descendant OF Paulding, one of the three
soldiers who caught the spy Andre. One matter
In connection with this affair may be here
| mentioned The three original northwest
counties of Ohio, Williams, Paulding and Van
| Vert were named for the three soldiers who
| captured Andre. Subsequently the county of
| Defiance was cut out Of Williams and Paulding.
| named after the celebrated fort at the junction
of the Maumee and st Josephs rivers.
| THE news comes from Dakota that "a n atural
soap well has been discovered sixty-eight miles
west Of Buffalo Gap. The soap is skinned
from boiling spring and hardens by exposure
to the air. 1t is like soft clay, and can be gath
cred with shovel and Is supposed to be q mix
| ture OF alkali borax and the lubrcating oil
| found in many parts OF Wyoming. A sample
has been tested by prominent Chicago SOAP
| Manufacturer and he reported the discovery
worth the full weight Of the manufactured arti-
| Gle. Parties surrounding the springs have used
| the natural article as axle grease y adding a
little Of the oil discovered there and it is pro
nounced the finest material ever used for that
| purpose. The soap will wash in the hardest
of water and leave the hands much qoftar m