The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OsTRIcHEs sell for ST. 600 per pair in California.
! Four OR FIVE of the head porters in the lead
| ing Chicago hotels are collectively worth over
| 100000.
DR. EDWARD EVERETT HALE is practically the
| head OF the Chautauqua assembly at Weirs, n.
| H., ana Is featuring there daily.
THE sculptor st. Gaudens is to get S25 900
! for his statue of Peter Cooper, and has three
years In which to execute the work.
New York has number of grown women,
between 30 and 80 years of age, on the streets
selling papers. New York is following the ex-
| ample of Paris.
| JOHN GENNADIUs, Greek minister to this
| country, asserts that the Greeks of to-day are
as strong physically as their famous ancestors
| OF classic times.
| PRINCE BISMARCK has given evidence that he
| is still a skillful marksman While practiciny
with rifle at 100 yards recently he hit the
| bull s-eye every time.
| FRAU WAGNER appeared at public perform
ance for the first time since her husbands
death, when the "Meistersinger" was given at
| Bayreuth on Monday last
DEATH from sunstroke is said to be almost
unknown in Portland, Ore, where the recent
| decease of a citizen from that cause is looked
| upon as peculiar occurrence
PENNIES are now eagerly demanded by the
SVS'SHA N@N
and the 100000 of pennies made at the Phila-
| delphia mint last month were not equal to the
| want.
A CARRIER PIGEON loft has been established
at the United States training station, in New
| port, r. l., by private citizens by permission
| of Commander Higginson, in charge of the
| station.
| CHARLES II. STEARNs, the veteran fireman of
| Boston, says that he has attended every circus
l..
| three years He consumed pint of peanuts at
each performance.
ISAAC S. MULLEN of Boston. is said to be the
first colored man ever appointed by Massa-
chusetts Governor to q position on the district
| police force. He took the oath of office and was
duly qualified last month.
A SEAL which came up the Charles river at
Watertown Mass, with the rising tide,
was shot and killed by man living in the
| neighborhood who will have the skin of his vic
| tim made into a waistcoat.
OSCAR LEPINE, a planter of Raceland, La,
| had two spans of zebra horses which were con-
sidered a great curiosity and which he would
not part with for any money. Last week all
| four ANNALS died of sunstroke.
REV. b. WAUGH, secretary of an English
| society for the prevention of cruelty to chill
| dren, is credited with the assertion that many
| children are murdered every year in England
BENEVOLENT PERSONS in London are moving
to establish fund to support nurses and hos
| pital workers after they break down. The
| work of nursing is so wearing that dozen years
uses up the strength of an average nurse.
THIRTY YEARS AGO insanity was almost I'M
known among the southern negroes, but now
| the number thus affected in North Corolina
alone Is estimated at 900, and the asylum for
their treatment at Codsboro has just been en-
larged.
THE LONG LIST OF deaths due to exposure
during the memorable March blizzard is still
| being added to. Last week William O'Brien.
aged 81, of Jersey city, died. He had been
badly frost bitten, from which he never re-
covered.
PROF. LOTUS of the Syracuse IN. " univer-
sity, made, few days ago, the quickest ascent
| to the summit of Pixies Peak, Colorado. that
| has been made in many years. He reached the
| top in six hours and made the descent in less
| than five
MISSOURI FARMER who sent for an adver
| tised % cent potato bug killer received two
little wooden mallets, with instructions to catch
| the bug and smash him with the mallet, and il
| he did not kill the bug on the first attempt to
| try, try again.
THE AGES of nineteen married couples who at
| tended the old settlers picnic Of Polk county
Iowa. aggregated 3,095 years. The average age
| and the average married companonship about
| fiftyseven years.
| IN HIS ANXIETY to make death doubly sure
| to use popular phrase, one Johnson of Provi-
| dence, last Friday swallowed sufficient strych-
| nine to kill 200 men. after which he informed
| his wife of his action. She hurrIedly emptied
| the contents of Kerosene can down his throat
| and then summoned a physician. The latter
] thinks johnson will recover.
AT GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, the other day, an
applicant for marriage license, misunder-
standing the questions put to him, gave the
name of his deceased wife as that of the lady
| he was about to marry. When he showed the
| license to his prospective bride her consterna-
ton was unmistakable and the crestfallen
| groom-elect soon reappeared at the county
building and had the mistake rectifled
THE stupendous plan for supplying the city
| of Liverpool with water involves the removal
of a whole Welsh village. including woods, cot
tages, churches etc, this immense space to be
| devoted to reservoir four and one-half miles
| long by half mile to a mile bread, and eighty
| feet deep. There are to be three lines of pipe,
each sixty eight miles long, with filtering beds
and secondary reservoirs and the cost of the
aqueduct alone is estimated at SIS, 100000
AN INTERESTING FAMILY REUNION was held at
Davisville, R. l., recently, by the descendants
of Mrs Elcy Chase Vaughn, who assembled at
the residence of her eldest son to celebrate
her 9th birthday. Early in the day her chill
dren grandchildren and their families began to
arrive, until by noon she had gathered about
her party of seventy eight, five generations
being represented Two OF her sisters aged
respectively 90 and Y years, were also present
ENGLISH LAW carefully regulates the subject
of the sailors grog Every ship must carry a
quantity of lime or lemon juice as an anti
scorbutic, containing Is per cent of palatable
fruit spirits that is sound rum of n specific
gravity fixed by the statute, sound brandy of
a quality similarly fixed. The board of trade
tells how the grog shall be mixed. One ounce
of the lime juice is to be mixed with one ounce
of sugar and at least half q pint of water, and
must be served out in time for dinner.
Tom WALKER and William Tucker, Alabama
farmers, were walking along the railroad track
near Birmingham when a thunder storm came
up. Walker wanted to leave the track and take
to the woods. Tucker said that II the lightning
was going to strike him, it would be just as apt
to do so away from the track rs upon it,
Walker left the track, and had hardly gone ten
steps when a fash Of lightning struck Tucker
apparently killing him, and knocked Walker
unconscious. Walker recovered just in time to
see an express train come along and strike
Tucker, severng his head from his body Every
bone in fuckers body was broken.
A MARVELLOUS flash OF lightning scared Paris
out of its wits a few days ago. It struck some
where about Montmartre and seemed to fill the
air with electricity. An omnibus at the entrance