The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The following notice is posted prominently in
downtown Office in New YORK: I'VE Have
! time for Business or Social Calls but our Opin-
| IONS on Religion, Politics and Baseball Are so
settled that We Do Not Wish TO Discuss Them.
IT IS ESTIMATED that it will cost $21s,79e to
pay for the city printing of New York next
year, exclusive of advertising and salaries for
Costlgan's staff of office holders and an in
| creased appropriation for the publication of the
| city record
A LOBSTER weighing twenty-five pounds was
| caught at Pier /, North river, by small boy,
who, being hungry sold it to New York res
taurant proprietor for cup of coffee and two
rolls. The restauranteur put the lobster on ex-
holtion IN his window.
The TAILOR GHADIo, at Pesth, who attempted
to commit suicide after having poured molten
lead into his wife's ear has recovered He con-
1esses TO having tried TO murder his wife, not
only with the molten lead but also by giving her
needles in her medicine.
A NEBRASKA man has organized band, con-
slsting OF concertina, triangle, two drums,
a pair OF cymbals and mouth organ. He plays
the entire combination himself, and would make
a mighty snowy organization if he could only
AFFORD to hire drum major.
The second woman to coast down the Mount
Washington railway was Miss H. winslow of
New York city, who, with Mr.. Brice of Boston,
went down in eleven minutes This included
TOUR stops one in the middle of Jacobs Ladder
where they got off and rested moment.
AN IMPROVEMENT on the sewing machine" is
sold along the streets of New York for 10 cents
IL consists of long spring, which when prop
erly attached to any sewing machine IL Is
claimed, will do away with 20 Der cent of the
e4eftlon expended in working the treadle.
PROBABLY the richest college professor in
America, if not in the world, is Prof E. E. Sails
oury OF Yale He is millionaire, and his for
tune was made from investments in Boston real
estate Prof. Salisbury is about 20 years old, is
| a man Of courtly demeanor, and has Travelled
! over nearly the whole world.
THE British consul at Bilbao reports that
Spain is making steady and remarkable prog
| ress in commercial and general 'prosperitv
| Large shipments of minerals are made, and ex-
| tenslye IRON manufactures have been estab-
| nShed Railways are multiplying, and indus
| Tries In general are on the increase.
NJ. RENAN lives in rooms at the College of
France, of which he is provost. The stairs, in
| tnelr dreary plainness, are as collegiate" as
| they can be, and are painted a coarse Indian
| req. But the provost's fiat is as snug as Dutch
| interior Nine Renan, though her husbands
literary adviser, is not above housewifely cares.
THE ship Macedon, which reached Montreal
on Monday from the Philippine islands, was
manned by full crew of Japanese. They were
| shipped at Kobe, Japan, where the first crew
| composed principally of English and Ameri-
| cans left the vessel Maritime records at Mon
treal are said to show that no other exclusively
| Japanese crew ever entered that port
A wAX-woRKs EXHIBITOR at Brussels has an
| nounced that he will shortly add to his gallery
| representations of the brothers. Leon and Ar
| mand PETER, noted murderers, one of whom
| Is dead and the other serving a term in prison
| The living one has hired lawyer and brought
suit to compel the Snowman to forego the ex-
hlbltlon as wanton insult to the PETER family
| PASSENGER on a west bound train. from
Chicago, hid his money in of his shoes, on
retiring for the night, and then placed the shoe
and its mate in the aisle near his berth A
| porter, having subsequently blackened the shoes
and found the hidden treasure " returned il to
the owner who is said to have demanded light,
so that he could count the money and see if the
finder had taken any.
SIG. BRIN, Italian minister of marine. at a
dinner, given by his electors, said that the navy.
which in 1866 was valued at $50, OO0O OO is now
valued at S70,000.000. The recent maneuvers
bore testimony to the fact that a large portion
of the feet could be manned without recourse
10 unusual recruiting measures. The progress
made in naval affairs was very satisfactory con
sidering that Italy did not aim at an aggressive
policy.
The Spanish government has ordered its
engineers to report on the condition of the
cathedrals of Burgos, Barcelona Leon and
Santiago, which are in a very unsatisfactory
state, until parliament can vote in the autumn
session the supplies necessary for repairs
Seville cathedral will require 100000 and several
years to rebuild the part of the nave which re
Gently fell in. The pope has sent e4OO, the
Comtesse de Paris 81 200, the Due de Mont
pensier 81 500, and the local nobility 81 200
LITTLE GIRL, aged years, the daughter of
Malmesbury CEngland) baker, was playing in
a yard when she was suddenly attacked by a
pig, which seized her by the thigh and swung
her several times with great violence against the
wall. The little ones cries attracted the atten-
ton of the neighbors, who, arming themselves
with sticks and other weapons, compelled the
animal to loosen its hold 1t was then found
| that the chds thigh was broken her legs
| much lacerated and her body bruised all over
francis NEWLY, a coachman at the ROYAL
| Hotel, Attleborough, England, dreamed that
| he would meet his death near certain lodge
| gate. 1t impressed him so that he took every
| pains to avoid the place. and even when once
| he had to drive by there, got lady in the car
| riage to hold the reins until the spot was
passed. the other day he had to go past the
| spot with remarkably kind and gentle horse
| Just in front of the gate something in the road
| upset the cart he was driving, and he was
| thrown out and killed.
THE scattered fragments of the big log raft
| that went TO pieces in the Atlantic last year
| still attract the attention of passing vessels
At last accounts the more enterprising logs
were at least 700 miles east of many of their
fellows. which were still circling around in
the western Atlantic in a bewildered sort of a
way. A large bunch of the deralicts was last
| seen north of the Azores, and it Is not improb,
able that they will get into the south branch of
the gulf stream, and go to Africa to exc out the
timber resources of that continent.
NJ CHALIAMET, who has written book en-
titled "L'Ecole Maternelle, g." says that children
like to a certain extent, to be treated seriously.
and he observes that they are generally pleased
when they are asked to do something that is
useful. "A baby that can scarcely toddle will
carefully carry some little trte intrusted to il
to be given to some other member of the
family; the child will go straight to the person
indicated; there is not the slightest chance that
he will drop or forget the articles given to his
keeping. He feels the responsibility OF having
something to do, and will seriously acquit him.
self of his duty"
A GENTLEMAN who attended the Charlestown.
Ind, fair, related how great many persons
secured whisky while at the place. The town
does not afford a saloon, and an enterprisng
individual hit upon novel plan for satisfying
the thirsty load of watermelons was pur.
chased, and upon the under side of each melon
plug was taken out of sufficient size to hold a
half pint flask, which was filled with vile mix
ture claimed to be old Bourbon. The man