The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| IT is the rule at the New York Metropolitan
museum of art that students who are allowed
TO copy the pictures there must not reproduce
| them in the original size.
DURING the last twenty four years 2, 400 bulls
| and 1,700 horses have been killed in the bull
| fights in the City of Mexico. Two picadores
nave been killed by the bulls in that time
The salmon fishermen on the Penobscot bay
devote their spare time to hunting seals. the
! latter being very destructive to the salmon.
One man reports that he has killed over 400 seals
| thus far this season.
A CoRKED BOTTLE containing piece of white
paper, with the words, Lost, May G. Long of
! Fire Island, Aug. 6, 1888; give UP all hopes"
| was found Tuesday by boys in the slip at the
foot of Forty third street, Brooklyn.
| THERE are now left but three witnesses Of the
Alamo massacre Nine. Candelara, in whose
| arms Col. Bowie slain; Mrs. Lazavo, who
| resides at San Antonio, and a woman. name I'M
| known, who lives in the country near that city.
PoTATo WHISKY apparently is becoming more
| popular with the English, to the great worri-
ment of certain of them, who contend that few
| forms of alcohol are so mischieyous as iC.
During the first half OF the current year the i'm
| portation of potato whisky by the United King
dom increased nearly 100000 gallons.
ACCORDING to late advices from China there
is no doubt now but that the breach in the
felow river emoanklnent, which caused the
terrible lnundation of last year, cannot be re-
pa ell before the next floods There is there
fore, nothing TO prevent similar foundations to
those of last year during the present autumn.
ISRAEL Coz of Waterbury, Conn, will be "a
years of age in November. In 1920 he stumped
the Nutmeg state for William Henry Harrison.
He recently wrote to Benjamin Harrison to that
effect. He is in receipt of an answer in which
Candidate Harrison says that Mr.. Coe is the
Oldest Harrisonian enthusiast he has yet heard
from.
THE young democratic battalion of Philadel-
phia has secured a number of old campaign
flags. which were recently found inside the
cushions OF st. stephens church, in Philadel-
phia. They have been used as Innings for The
cushion covers by thrifty upholsterer, who
had bought them for a song. The flags had
been used in the campaign of 1860
A GENTLEMAN and lady are now stopping at
Bar Harbor hotel who have had a queer expe-
rience. They met on the Atlantic ocean, he
proposed in Sweden, was accepted in Russia
asked her fathers permission in England, the
marriage settlements were drawn up in the
United States, they were married in Algiers
and are now spending their honeymoon in Bar
Harbor
THE question of uniforming the newsboys in
the City of Mexico is just now being discussed
in that metropolis. Some time ago the city
government presented numoer of the fra
terntv" with uniforms with the understanding
that the boys would replace them ut their own
expense when worn out. Those suits have long
since served their time, and been discarded and
not single one, 1t is asserted, has been replaced
by its owner
REAR ADMIRAL HENEAGE, the officer COM
manding the British Pacific station, is earning
the epithet of "Sir Joseph Porter" He has
forbidden any officer or man to walk on the
poop of the flag ship while be is there and in
ssts on the crew uncoveriug their heads as
long as he is on deck. He also reqUe It's his
officers to wear white kid gloves at divisions
on Sundays, and to have their frock coats and
tunics buttoned on all occasions.
Mr.. BARRY a talented New York barrister,
has been the observed of all observers at Fen
wick Hall this summer His costumes have
been marves of the tailors art His morning
costumes are especially striking. He is a man
of middle age, but, attired in a blazer and
flannel shirt, with a silk scarf around his waist,
his years seem to flee away the fog before
the morning sun. His bathing costume is his
especial pride. 1t makes him look taller than
he really is, and as he gambols in the waves he
appears even handSomer than when decked out
in evening dress.
AN AGED Leominster (Mass) citizen, who re-
tires to bed early, was aroused about midnight
by loud talking that caused thoughts of bur
glars to run through his mind. Unmindful Of
his advanced years, he grasped his pistol and
left his bed determined to put the ntrudels to
flight. After thoroughly searching the upper
descended to the parlOr where the talking was
again heard The sound camo from the direc.
ton of the front steps, and the old gentleman
opened the door very cautiously only to find his
daughter and her beau carrying on the ami
mated conversation.
A NOVEL swINDLING SCHEME is being practiced
in New York by gang of sharpers. The mo-
dus operandi is as follows: One enters an Office
and, assuming an air of semi-intoxication saws
he met q few friends-hic-and whooped up
things little Can't get home-hic-w wouldn't
the proprietor advance a dollar or so on his
watch chain. He is ashamed of his predica-
ment, but the loan is merely temporary one
which will be-hic-lifted the following morn
ing. Then. with multitude of hics, he de-
clares his gratitude for the loan, goes away
with the money, and after day or two the ac-
commodating business man discovers the chain
is the cheapest of bogus jewelry,
AN extremely interesting discussion took
place at the recent meeting of the Institution of
naval architects, held in Glasgow, upon the sub
iect of the centerboard. 1t was stated that ex-
periments made by Mr.. Froude proved that
the leading part of plane moving obliqueIy
through the water had much greater resistance
per square foot than the remaining part of the
plane. The triangular centerboard of the
American yachts, having long leading edge
was most advantageouSly placed in this respect
and it's resistance per square foot at a given
speed was much greater than that of the shin
proper, or of any draught she could be given,
Watson the designer of the Thistle spoke, and
maintained that a keel boat would still beat
Centerboarder
SIR JOHN SAvILLE, G. C. B.. late British Am
bassador in Rome, and a benefactor of the
English national gallery, has just made to that
institution q very welcome gift. 1t consists of
small sketch by Murillo, three pictures of still
life of the highest quality, and fifty nine small
copies in oil colors of pictures by Velasquez at
lrta M,rfllg 70 hnaY, I'll