The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| w E. Brown, of Waukegan, Ill, owns calf
| that is covered with fine fleece of wool. He
| will see how the animal develops, and, if posi-
| Bile will attempt to raise woolbearing dairy
cattle.
OVER 200 horses, owned by single street rail-
way company in Toledo, Ohio, have been strick-
en- the past month with disease that partakes
! both of symptoms of diphtheria and pneumo-
mia. 1t is said that if not treated in its early
| stages, the malady is certain to result fatal
| THE Duke of Sparta, who is shortly to marry
daughter of the Prince of Wales, has been
| provided with an estate in Morea worth &3 600
year. He is tall. fresh-compexioned, blue
| eyed, and welmannered. The young man has
never been free from the supervision of COVER
| nor.
EVERY STATE and Territory in the Union is
represented among this years batch of students
at the University of Michigan, and, in addition,
there are students from Ontario Japan, Eng
land, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Sandwich
Islands, Italy, Turkey Costa Rica, Quebec Rus
STA, Scotland and United States of Colombia.
HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY of China is not at all
uncompaisant. schoolboy of Insterburg,
Germany, recently wrote to the Emperor of
China, asking for some Chinese postage stamps
for his collection. A few days ago the Chinese
Embassy in Berlin forwarded to him letter
from the Emperor, inclosing the stamps which
he desired
G. c. BRoHARD, who lives near Pennington,
w. Va, has lamb in his flock with one mouth
two noses. two separate sets of teeth and four
eyes, all fully developed and ready for use. 1t
is great curiosity and bids fair to become as
famous as the little lamb that Mary had. Mr..
Brohard not long since had a chicken Matched
with four feet, two tails and several other op-
pendages.
M. DEJARD1N, recently appointed French Con
sui to Chicago, has been in the diplomatic SER
vice since 1843, when he became an attache of
the New York consulate. He was Chancellor of
the French Office in Boston from 1858 to 1861
when he was appointed Chancellor of the French
legation at Washington. He held this post until
1879. Then he was transferred to Charleston,
5. G., where he has since been.
FREDERICK AUSTIN, who until recently was
Postmaster at Oak Mound, H., has determined
to settle in Arkansas, and in order to get there
as cheaply as possible he is building fiatboat
to convey himself and his household goods to
the desired point. His craft will be launched in
the Spoon river, tributary Of the Illinois,
which In turn empties into the Mississippi, and
ne expects to have plain sailing all the way.
w. w. PARSONS, of Burlington, Ia, has wife
that is not afraid of burglars. The other night
Parsons caught fellow who was trying to
sneak into rear window of his house, on the
roof of a shed. A desperate struggle ensued
and Parsons seemed likely to be thrown from
the roof, when his wife appeared on the scene.
She grabbed the burglar and held on until her
shouts for help brought the police and the thief
was secured
AS the years roll by the spring freshets in the
Schuylkill river increase in volume, and the
summer supply of drinking water correspond
ingly dimnishes. The change of conditions is
due to the stripping of the timber lands in the
upper Schuylkill. A recent report to Philadel-
phla Councils shows that of late years the vol
ume of water that has passed over the dam
during the spring floods has been 40 per cent.
greater than 1t was thirty years ago.
JOHN W. MACKAY does not appear to be made
of the common cloy of which most millionaires
are composed. A writer in the Salt Lake
Tribune once heard the bonanza king say when
a strike was threatened in Virginia City: Il am
sorry that these men who are receiving 81 a
day do not save more of their money. | rolled
rocks in Huba river fourteen hours day for
months al a time, and went to camp every night
soaked to the bone, and did not average So a
day, but no one ever found me quite broke or
ever heard me complain"
A MAN named John Beal committed suicide
at Waukon, Ia, last week because a widow of
that town refused to marry him. Before doing
so he said he would return to earth and haunt
the object of his affections. Since his death the
residences OF the obdurate lady has been sub
jected to nightly vsitations of a strange char
acter. Unnatural lights are seen, and weird
sounds heard in the mansion, and it is the gen
eral belief that the ghost of the unhappy sui
eide is fulfilling its ante-mortem threat The
town is greatly excited over the matter.
AN out of the way quarter of the world is the
Mexican State of Yucatan, to most travellers.
but 1t appears to have caught the spirit of prog
ress. A recent traveller writes that the taxable
property of the State is valued at So ISL. $50
The public schools supported by the State num-
Der 2l2, and are attended by upwards of 1000
pupils. Colleges are located at Merida for the
study of law and medicine, and Valladolid has
an institute, conservatory of music and acade-
mics. The postal service of the country is good
and telegraph and telephone offices are being
rapidly multiplied.
FROM the advance sheets of the forthcoming
annual report of the Board of Education of
Chicago, it is shown that the total enrolment
of pupils for the year "a, 902. and a daily
average attendance of 81 1856 The school eX-
pendtures for the year amounted to 5000 737.
Two new school sites had been purchased and
four new buildings erected There are ninety
five school buildings, five assistant superinten-
dents and 900 teachers, besides one general
superintendent, twenty-one principals and 11S
teachers in the evening shoots. The average
cost per pupil per year is SIS 20.
NEW kind Of glass has been invented in
Sweden. 1t contains no fewer than fourteen
substances, whereas the common kind of glass
contains only six. Phosphorus and borax are
included, and they are not to be found in anv
other glass The result is, according to those
who believe in the new invention. that whereas
the highest power Of an old-faShioned micro
scopic lens reveals only the 1-40O OOOth part of
an inch, this new glass will enable us to distin-
gush -204, 100, 000th part of an inch Stupen-
dous-but, then who on earth wants to have a
look at the l-20l, ,OOOth part of an inch?
Miss DoLLNG, the lady in charge of the
nurses attending on the Emperor of Germany.
is an Irish woman of good family, many of
whose relatives are well known III London. She
formerly lived on Merton Square Dublin. where
one OF her brothers now resides. but left that
city and place in fashionable life to learn
nursing Ia EnRlGnds capital She is an accom-
pllShed lnguiSt, refined and intellectual
woman, and, above all as her present charge
shows, an excellent nurse She is in good cir
cumStanccS from financial standpoint but the
entire family have suffered a reduction in their
incomes because of their inability to collect
rent from their Irish tenants
THERE have been scores of explanations as To
how the term Let her go, Gaiagher!'' origi-
mated, but it is safe to say the correct explana-
ton has never been made. Daniel J. Gallagher.
well-known printer of Philadelphia. is really
responsible for the phrase. Some wears ago he
became stage struck, and in order 10 get be
hind the scenes daily consented To assist in
lifting and lowering the curtain The ropes be.
came entangled in the hands Of the typo and at
critical moment the curtain refused 10 dr3p
The dying villain on the stage prolonged the
agony as long as he could, until the stage man
ager became frantic, ana, seeing that the novice
did not understand what to do shouted in full
hearing OF the audience, Let her 60 Gala
CHER! Let her go" And from that day for
ward the phrase became a street slang.