The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! WAGONLOAD OF squirrels was SOU az IoD
! Springs, Ark. few days since, the vender sell
ing them by the bushel,
"CuRRENcY GREEN" is a new shade, the tint of
freshly printed s. bills, and can only be worn
! by the whtest skinned blondes who also have
color
THE collection of old and rare coins is now
said to give employment TO a number of travel
| ing men from each of the large cities of the
| country.
THE last penny Of the 100000 which Buffalo
| proposes 10 give as a prize to the man who in
| vents feasible method of Harvesting the i'm
mense water power OF Niagara has been sub
| SCrbed.
| A HoTEI-K KEEPER at Knoxville Tenn, has pre-
sented Gov. Taylor, of that State, with violin
said to be 100 years old. Gov. Taylor is a famous
| fiddler and owes much of his success in politics
TO his skill with the bow.
THE Mineral Wells (Tex.) Herald says: Here
after our postmaster will blow horn thirty
minutes before the mail leaves and will also
| blow soon after the arrival of the mail as It
is distributed. This will be quite convenience
ST LOUIS sports matched game chicken
against an eagle, and the bird of freedom was
vanquished in very short order. The first pass
| made by the chicken cut the eagles head nearly
| off, and another blow settled him, The chicken
| did not lose a feather,
| A GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, MAN killed 106 En-
glish sparrows one day last week, took their
heads to the authorities, and received a bounty
| of 1c. on each. Then with 81 O6 in his pocket
| with which to buy the proper seasoning, he
went home and dressed the birds. The next day
| he and party of his friends dined on sparrow
/ potpie
THE Pilgrims Progress has been translated
into the Japanese language 1t is proflisely
illustrated by native artists, and the pictures
| appear to be very comical to European eyes
| Christian has a cloSe-shaVen head The dungeon
| of the Giant Despair is one of the large wooden
| cages well-known to Eastern criminals and the
angels waiting the further side of the bridge
less river to receive pilgrims are attired In the
| latest Yokohama fashions.
| The Egyptian cobra is unlike the Asatic
| species, wanting the curious, spectacle-hke
mark that distinguishes the latter. 1t is of a
| somewhat dark and greenlsh hue marked with
| brown, and attaining length OF from Ito
| feet The Egyptian conjurers know how to rem
| der this serpent stiff and imnOvable by pressing
| the nape of the neck with the finger and throw
| ing it into a sort of catalepsy. The serpent is
| thus apparently converted into rod or STICK
IT has long been known that gold is to some
| extent volatile at high temperature; but it is
evidently far more volatile than has hitherto
| been believed Mr.. Crookes mentioned incident
ally at the last meeting ofthe English Chemical
Society that he has found gold to boil violently
when heated in the oXhycrogen flame and, IN
| fact to be so volatile that there would seem to
be no doubt that it might be distilled in an APP
paratus similar to that employed by Stas in dis
tilling silver.
EVERYBODY has heard the story of two duel
lists, one big burly fellow, the other a small
slender one, and the suggestion of the latter
that his size be chalked out on his antagonist
and that the shots outside these marks be not
counted-a remark variOuSly aScTibed to cee
brated people, and most commonly perhaps to
John Randolph on the occasion of his duel with
Henry Clay in 1926. The origin of the story
comes to the surface now in the first volume of
The Early Life of Samuel Rogers. just pub
lished. 1t occurs in his diary of a trip through
Wales in 1900. where he records it as happening
at swansea between two farmers few weeks
before his visit.
SOME IDEA of the scale of the tunnelng opera
tions under the bed of the Harlem river in con
nection with the new Croton aqueduct. may be
formed from the fact that the shaft which has
been sunk on the nOrtherly bank of the river to
meet the mouth of the tunnel is 426 feet in
depth-more than the length of two city blocks.
1t is 36X17 feet IN length and breadth, with two
elevators running day and night each capable
of accommodating twenty men. Excavation is
going on at the rate of niae feet per day. So
far the tunnel has progressed $50 feet into the
bed of the river. The distance to be COM
pleted is 100 feet. The tunnel is lighted by
electricity from dynamo above ground.
SINCE the slave trade was abolished in Egypt
an asylum for female slaves has been main
tanned in Cairo The slave trade is still carried
on surreptitiously to some extent. and efforts
are especially made to procure inmates for the
harems of the wealthy. In 1886 no female
slaves intended for the haremS were rescued
and provided with home at the asylum. Most
of these women were negreSseS but some of
them we're pretty CirCaSSian and AbySsnan
girls. All these women are retained at the
asylum until they receive some education, and
are fitted to support Themselves by work pro
vided for them. During the year thirty slave
dealers were found guilty and sentenced to
prison
THE number of deranged people trying to gain
| access to the Emperor of Germany is remarka-
BILE. Hardly day passes without such an oc-
cuTence. The other day two such unfortunates
entered the palace simultaneously. 1t was a
man and woman. The latter was the wife of
a poor boatSman. asserting that she near
relative OF the Emperor and had to him
after years of absence. The man was well
dressed, with look of distinction about him,
and flow of white hair on his head and long
whiSkerS, altogether a venerahle-loOking, sym
pathetic figure. He said he had engaged to
marry the daughter of the King of Italy and be-
ing German and a subject of the Emperor he
had to obtain his majesty'S permission before
perfecting the marriage. Both persons we're
taken to the insane ward of the Hospital of the
Charlie at Belin.
THE Baroness Burdett-Coutts has written an
introduction to a report of the third year S work
of the London Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty TO Children. The variety of cruelty
which the committee has punished and tired to
punish is as follows: Immersing dying boy in
a tub of cold water for nearly an hour ito get
this dying done; breaking a girls arm while
beating her with broom stick then setting her
to scrub the floor with the broken arm folded to
her breast, and whipping her for being so long
about it; hanging naked boy by tied hands from
a nook at the ceiling, there fogging him. saw
agely beating with ioin-belt telling with fists
and then kicking in the groin, on the abdomen
and face with working boots; flashing a 3-year-
old face and neck with drayman' S whip; a 3-year-
throttling boy, producing partial strangula-
ton to stop the screams of his pain; beating on
scarcely healed old sores, then thrusting the
knob of n poker into the lads throat, and hold
ing 1t there TO stop the row.
Two FISHERMEN, father and son. with two
boys, sons of the latter, went in boat from
Neustadt in Holstein. Prussia, to sea- When
turning about the boat was swamped, and the
four people were thrown into the water None
but the grandfather could swim He was lust
Selling hold of the elder of two grandsons when
his son embraced him. holding him tight with
arms and legs. He begged of the son to let him
go, as they would otherwise all four be drowned
The son let go, and sunk Immediately out of
sight Now the old man succeeded in lifting
the boys into the boat and got in himself The
boys lay as dead; they did not breathe and were
cold and stiff. wave broke over the boat fill
ing it TO the brim and making il sink, Half nm
conscious, the old man seized the two bows and
threw them overheard again thus enabling the