The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| SOME woRKMEN, while engaged in digging a
| driveway at Iuka, Mo-, came in contact with
the trunk of petrified tree about go feet from
the surface of the ground.
THE mayor of a municipality in Kansas ap-
pointed city marshal whom the council didn't
want, and the latter, to get even, fixed the mar
shaIs salary at 81 per month.
THE threats of the Yale faculty to curtail the
athletic sports unless the boisterous manner of
celebrating victories lately INDUCED in are given
up, have led to the organizing of student
| police force.
| A wELL-KNowN LONDON FIRM of refreshment
contractors recently advertised for 1900 addi-
tional walters, and $1,000 applications we're re-
ceived in response, the whole of the candidates
claiming to have had experience.
Mr.. ARBUTHNoT of Beaver Falls, Pa, fed his
| 20-year-old horse on brewers grains for awhile,
and from being the staidest animal in town, the
/ horse has developed an idiosyncrasy of running
| away that makes folks think him crazy.
JOHN W. MAcKAY, the bonanza king, has a
dinner service worth 100000. The silver was
furnished from his own mines, and, upon the
completion of the set, he bought the dies out
right, in order that the set might never be dupli
Gated.
| JOHN Guy VAssAR, founder of the Vassar
| Brothers Hospital, who has been seriously ill
for months. and whose obituary was printed in
| several newspapers, is now well enough 10
appear in his carriage on the fashionable drive
of Poughkeepsie 1t is said Of him that recently,
! while confined to his bed he made $4,000 in
| stocks.
| PROCEEDINGS in the New Mexico courts of JUS
tice are usually conducted in the Spanish Ian
guage, and it very often happens in a trial, it is
| said. that not single iuryInan can speak En-
| gsh. The two lawyers who stand at the head of
tEe criminal bar in the territory, owe their sue
| cess almost entirely to their fluent command of
| Spanish,
| ROSWELL P. FLOWER, whose barrel of money
is famous, began bis life work at the age Of II,
when his brothern-law agreed to pay him S.
| month and his board for tending store in
| country town in northern New York. The bulk
of his fortune has been made in railroad stocks
| and lands and by investments in coal and iron
| properties.
SPooKs are disturbing the piece of mind of the
family of William Roberts, a farmer near
Princeton, Wis. Things are taken from one
| place'and left in another, but are not removed
| from the premises. The ghost goes through
| the pockets of the members of the family and
puts their contents in odd places. Pocket
| books are also taken and concealed.
IN the grand production of the Fall of
Rome, - which is to be given at st. George, S. l..
near New York soon the scenery will be moved
| on railroad trucks and tracks. There will be
| 1900 people in the company 200 horses will
prance, the corps de ballet will number 900
the chorus will number 500 and the orchestra
| 100 pieces. The stage on which the perform
ance will be given is about 500 feet square and
800 costumes will be used in the various scenes
SIEvING BEACH SAND for valuables lost is an
occupation followed at most of our Watering
places, chiefly by youngsters. In Pekn China,
| something like the same business gives employ
ment to about 300 men during the winter
months, and they are said to make q good living
| at it. The one difference is that the CeestialS
screen the street dirt. Their finds are for the
greater part the baser metals, but it is told that
now and again pieces of gold and silver and
| sometimes precious stones are run across.
THE poiceman's life In New York is not a
healthy one. The police report for 1887 shows
that there was an average of eighty eight on the
sick list every day out of force of 3232. Their
ailments chiefly of these kinds that are
| caused by exposure to the weather, especially
during the night service such bronchitis.
| rheumatism and malarial fever. No man can
| secure place on the force unless he is strong
| and healthy, and the records give evidence that
the climate IS very trying. Two-thirds of the
| men on the force are native born the number
| of these being 2 123, the number of Irish birth
| 9l7 and Of German 135.
GLASGOW has a system of automatic telephone
call boxes. There are seventysix of the boxes
scattered about the city, and every subscriber
has key to them. A non-subscriber wanting
| to use them must first ring up the exchange and
| ask if the connection he desires can he made
If it can he drops the fee, which is either three
pennies or six, according to the distance he
wants to talk. into a hole in the box The
pennies as they fall break circuit and ring a
bell at the central office. When the bell has
rung the required number of times the central
office makes the connection At the end of
the three minutes allowed for conversation the
| connection is broken automatically TIE
| average time taken to put two persons in tele-
phOnic communication in Glasgow is thirty-five
seconds, in Birmingham forty. in Liverpool
| thirty-two, and in Dundee twenty. This was
| aScertained from the results of calls N each
town.
THE BRIDGES over the Tay and the Forth in
Scotland have attracted much attention as
| engineering works, the first named viaduct
being notable as the largest bridge in the world;
it is only one link in the line of northern travel
The second, Forth bridge. from North to
| South Queenstown. and which is scarcely less
| important, will have the distinction of being
made of steel throughout its entire length of
| more than 5000 feet, and when completed &C
| cOrding to the vast and admirable design of IFS
projectors, will be one of the greatest marvels
| of engineering construction which Europe can
| show The island of Inchgaryie, in the middle
| of the arm of the which it crosses enables
the bridge to be in four spans, only two of
| which are over water; these two principal spans
are each of about !, 700 feet and the hight above
| the sea of each of them is 200 feet all of the
most massive masonry.
JUDGE MCGOWAN, an old California pioneer. ia
| a well known figure about Washington Like
| all men who have lived any time on the Pacific
coast, he is dead against the Chinaman. DIR.
| Vow is a member of the Chinese legation and is
quite favorite among the society young ladies
| OF the national capital. He is a gallant Celes-
tal and is often seen at the theaters and other
| places OF amusement accompanied by at least
| one pretty young lady, and sometimes by more
than one. Last Saturday evening he was on
| the way to the National theater with a young
| lady. The Harris house is near the theater
| and Judge McGowan, with number of other
| gentlemen, was sitting in front of it, When
| DR.. Vow and the young lady approached, Judge
MCGOWAN became very much excited. lie
| jumped up, excaiming: my God. has it come
to this" With upifted stick he made break
for the Chinese diplomat He was sci ed how
| ever, before he could strike him The China
| man and his partner went hurriedly on TO the
theater, scared, but uninjured.
BRILLAT SAvAR1N might have added another
page or two to the fourth meditation in his
| 'Phvsologie du Gout," wherein he discants on
appetite and gives proof of the prowess of GER
tain big eaters had he witnessed what han
pened in a famous restaurant onthe boulevard
| in Paris the other night. Three rather gigantic
natives Of Hindostan dined at the restaurant
| preparatory to their attendance at an adi0cent
theater They had banquet fit for three Gorgons.