The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NINE. DE NALSAYRE, Jne leduLuS va
womans rights in Paris, has turned her ener-
gies to influencing the ladies' tailors in IA
vor of the divided skirts. She makes little pro
gress.
| AN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SPIRITUALIsTs
will be held.in Barcelona this month. Several
eminent European scientific men will attend.
Spiritualism is very popular in Spain, especially
| IN the army.
A woNAN's Knights of Labor assembly has
been organized ia Toledo, o. 1t has established
a cooperative association for the sale of knit
| goods, handmade garments, clothing and
| various home products.
THE ficus elastica, from the milk of which the
| India rubber of commerce is made, grows we'll
in Southern California, and preparations are
| making TO cultivate the trees. great many
| will be planted next winter
AN Irish NJ. P who caught glimpse Of John
| Dillon in his prison garb at Dundalk, says that
the darling of the Irish people is really very ill
| indeed, unable to sleep in a close hospital room,
| and that his nerves are giving way
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL, naturally enough, now
tends this way. On Saturday four steamers
which left New York carried but about IT'S cabin
| passengers, while two arriving vessels had be-
| tween 6JO and 700 persons in their cabins.
In CLEVELAND O., there is a lady who is to-
tally paralyzed by every thunder storm. She
| house where she lived as girl was shattered by
| lightning and she was paralyzed but recovered
LoUNGiNG around New York in seedy attire
| is a short gray-whiskered man who attracts a
| good deal of attention in the parks and other
| resting places. 1t is Andrew j. Carney, Boss
| Tweeds old henchman, who turned states EVIL
| dence.
THE RICHEST MINE in Australia, if not in the
| world, is the Mount Morgan Of Queensland,
O,,, 80 A. ID 4
| for it and the offer was refused. Its value is
| variousy estimated at from S60000,000 to
| $500, 100000
WILLIAM R. MERRIAM, the republican nominee
for governor of Minnesota, is 80 years old and
graduate of a college at Racine, Wis. He was
spea ker of the last legislature of his state. His
nomination was due to mis- being backed by the
| young men of his party.
| PREVIOUS to the recent earthquake shock the
we'll upon the place of Charles V. Weber, at
| Winthrop, Maine, was entirely dry, and had
| been so for some time. The following day he
| 70 nd plenty of water in it, and there has been
no lack in it since, so a local paper reports.
On Thursday week a Pttsburg domestic
| visited fortune teller who Informed her that
she had dear friend who was treacherous to
her. AS her dearest friend was her beau, the
| intelligence caused the girl to become de-
| pressed in spirits. On Wednesday last she sui
| cided.
A LONDON PREACHER placarded the city with
notices that he would preach in Surgeons tab
| ernacle on the subject "-;-:-?-!-." There
was a large congregation, to whom he an.
nounced the text: stand thou still awhile, "
and then said that his subject was The pauses
of life."
Two SCHOOL BOYS out in Kansas City settled
squabble by duelling with knives. 1t appears
they fought according to rules. Each drew his
weapon and at the signal began action. Both
dueliSts were injured, one very seriously. He
was stabbed in the neck and fell exhausted to
the ground from the loss of blood.
AN Italian organ grinder of Newark beat one
of several pets which assist him in making a
| living Afterward he offered the chastised ami
NAL a nut, whereupou it bit him on the right
| thumb. The arm began to swell, at the same
| time turning greenish color, and it is now
| feared part Of the member will have to be am
| putated.
| AN INVENTIVE GERMAN has devised a coffin for
| the convenience of those who have dread of
| being buried alive Ii is provided with a valve,
/ by means of which fresh air is admitted in
quantity sufficient to support life, and there is
| an arrangement of wires, by means of which
| the least movement of the body sets an electric
| bell ringing.
RESTAURANT KEEPER in New York, who
charges cents for a cup of hot water, explains
! that he was forced to do so by an increasing
] army of customers, who bought 2 or cents
| worth of crulers. then called for the hot water
| and made lemonade, using their own lemon
| Juice and the restaurateurS sugar. And such
| people, he says, would generally appear about
| noon, to the great Inconvenience of profitable
| customers.
| MALARIA RACES in the villages on the lowl lying
| lands along the Northern railroad and on the
banks of the Hackensack in New Jersey
| Whole families have been Frustrated at once,
| aud the local doctors have far more work than
| they can attend to. They report the disease
more in the nature of typhoid malaria than the
well known "ehills and fever" 1t does not
yield readily to qulnlne, and is dangerously akin
| to typhoid fever.
| TELLER MARLER, of the sub-treasury Office
| New York says that "a certain way to tell good
paper money from bad is by means of two small
| blue silk threads. which run through the good
| bill lengthwise, and which may be plainly seen
by holding the note to the light. These are woven
| into the paper by a secret process, and have
| never vet been successfully counterfeited the
| usual imitation being by means of a mark drawn
| across the paper.
| THE question as to the sale and publication of
| the DE Cameron of Bocacoio recently came
up in the English courts. The publishers of the
work set up as defense the fact that the book
| had been recognized as work of high literary
merit for the last 500 years; that during that
period it had never been out of print, and that
| the British Museum possessed 200 copies of it.
| The magistrate, recognizing the truth Of these
| claims, dismissed the case.
| COLUMBIA, PA. is to celebrate the centennial
anniversary of its founding on Sept. 20, q and
| 81 The programme calls for a parade on each
| of the three days, shooting tournaments exhi-
| bitlon drills, etc, and is printed upon paper
| found covered by rubbish in a loft Of the Ivory
| mill, in Chester county, by workmen engaged
in demolishing the structure. The mill was
| erected early in the eighteenth century, and the
| paper is therefore supposed to be in the neigh
| borhood of 100 years old.
THE magistrate of the mixed court at Shapg-
| hal lately had before him complicated family
| dispute about land, which he settled in this
unique way: Finding that only one lawyer was
| engaged in the case he had this gentleman
| brought before him and soundly whipped; then
| he invited the ltigants to dinner with him en-
| livened the repast by having the sermon from
the sacred edict on the benefits of harmony be-
tween relatives read out. and lectured the par-
ties severely as obstinate blockheads.
ACCORDING to Building. the new law in Berlin is
very strict mo building can occupy more than
two-thirds of the ground, nor be higher than the
width Of the street. None can be occupied as a
dwelling until six months after il is built. and
the number of persons to be permitted in each
sleeping room is to be prescribed by th e SAM
rary inspectors by the rule of so many cubic
feet of space for each person. No unventilated
or unlighted room is allowed TO be used for
personal occupation, Severe penalties are ex.
acted for violation or neglect of the rules"
THE car and czarina have left their captal
for sojourn of two months at Gatschina. It