The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-14
ITEMS OF INTER EST.

THE rare ruby once presented by King Louis
of Bavaria, to Lola Montez, and valued at S1o,-
OO0, is now the property of Mrs. j. b. Haggin,
wife of the California thurman.
UNDER the laws of France person who is
reported dead by a legal official must remain
dead, no matter how much he comes to life.
If he wants to live, he must take some other
name.
BLAcKBIRD has been presented to the
menagerie in Central Park. New York. It was
taken on the steamer Moravia on her last trip
from Hamburg when nearly 1000 miles from
the coast
COLLEGE OF CARPENTRY for women has been
| started in the old university town of Cam
bridge, England 1t is intended not so much to
teach the trade as to develop manual dexterity
among women.
The Arab horsemen connected with Barnum's
circus have gone home to their native desert
They folwed the show as far as Marshall
Tex, and there they an American
star ride on broncho. The season closed next
day.
ZENAs THOMPSON of Portland, Me- who was so
severely injured in the Boston and Maine dis
aster at Bradford Mass several months ago,
and man named Kimball, who sat beside him.
and was also injured, have settled for $50 900
each.
An OWL killed itself and whole green house
OSo'J
into stove pipe, thus shutting off the draft
and causing the csc ape, in the roo n, of coal gas
which is fatal to vegetation, as well as to am
NAL life.
A New HAVEN LAD broke his leg and a cousin,
who was sent to notify the boys father, met
with the same accident. The father was en-
gagged in the erection of building and the sec
ond unfortunate fell between the beams into
the cellar.
ONE grower of Sacramento county. California
about ten days ago. shipped twenty carloads of
hops to New Orleans en- route to London and
Liverpool The shipment weighed 215,000
pounds, and the local papers think it the largest
ever made by single grower at one time
Mrs. JAMES McAuLIFF of Walla Walla w T.
discovered a man hastily leaving her front door
with two cloaks which he had stolen from the
hall rack. Selling a pistol, she took aim and
advised him to return the articles to the rack
The thief obeyed without a word, and then
quietly listened to a lecture
SPEAKING of Alaska in a recent lecture in
Washington, Prof. ]. w. Chickering said that
the great obstacle to enjoying summer there
mosquitoes. Dogs are killed by them, and men
preserve their lives only by covering their faces
with thick cloths and wearing gloves.
PRUssIAN railways are experimenting with
axle boxes fitted with bear ngs of vegetable
parchment in place of brass The parchment
Is compressed before Delng USED, and IL
is thoroughly dried to prevent subsequent
shrinkage. An emulsion of water and oil ANY
of the mineral oils) is used as lubricant.
A MANIsTEE, Mich, baby which ate an
eight-graln dose of morphine, was given sew
eral antidotes, but it became unconscious and
was given up for dead. About sixteen hours
later, however while the friends stood around
and silently admired the beauty of the corpse
the baby awoke, and smingly demanded
drink of milk
APRoPos of the question, us marriage fail
ure?" it is shown by Prussian statistics in re-
gard to insanity that out of 100000 of the popu-
lation of each class there are mentally diseased
among the married IS males 'epd 95 females;
ngthe single, 1872 malesS 2atfemales; among
the widowed, 321 males, 256 feff1aies; among the
divorced, 1,071 males, 1901 females.
A NEW SAW MILL at Clinton, Ia, the largest in
the world, is about complete, and has been run
for trial. 1t cost $500 900, is capable of saving
$50 600 feet of lumber in ten hours and is sup
piled with five hand and three gang saws be-
sides other improved machinery, has two bat
teries of ten boilers each, and will employ in
conjunction with the other mill, over 800 men.
ATTENTION given to the study of animal life
time has evoked this formula from Flemish folk
lore town" or enclosure being supposed to
last three years: town lives three years,
dog lives three towns, horse lives three dogs,
man lives three horses, ass lives three men,
a wild goose lives three asses, crow lives three
a
live three stays, and the bird phenix lives three
ravens
A CoLoRED BOY named William Forest was in
the police court in Washington Tuesday on the
complaint of Julius Emner, who stated that the
boy had threatened to kill the President in case
of his reelection. Prosecuting Attorney Shil-
lington said that the President would have TO
come into court and swear that he was afraid of
the boy in order to maintain the charge. He
did not think that the President desired to come
i,,tN nor a ha ipLy ba
that he was afraid of the boy. The boy was
discharged.
THE official report as to the production of
sugar in France during the last three years,
since the new legislation relating to refineries
went into operation sho WIS that the first effect
Of this legislation was to reduce the number of
reflneries, which fell from 4S3 in 1884, to 449 in
1885, to Alb in 1886 and to 39l last year, while
the quantity of sugar refined was 272962 tons
in 1885, 265, on tons in 1885 and 444 900 tons last
year. Under the former method of refining the
best root did not yield more than SIS per cent.
of sugar, but this proportion has now been in
creased to nearly per cent.
THERE have lived in Stafford, Conn, for the
past thirty-three years twin brothers, named
Erskine and Carmine Kemp. The former was
SO hours older than the latter. Erskine, it is
told. had almost absolute control over Carmine
Whenever one brother was sick the other
would also become Ill. Such was the case alb out
three weeks ago when Erskine was taken i'll
with typhoid fever, and thirty-sx hours after
ward Carmine stricken with the same dis
ease Erskine died, and all hope of saving
Carmines life was deSpaired of, until about
thirty six hours after his brothers death, he
rallied, and announced his desire to live. He
grew better very rapidly"
A RESIDENT of Bridgeport, Conn, keeping
bachelors hall a few days, hurried out of his
home the other morning to catch a car down
town. He slammed his front door closely be-
hind him, and his flying coat tail had about six
inches of cloth firmly grasped by the door,
which had a spring lock. When he tried to get
loose he couldn't. Then he twisted himself
about and began still hunt for his night key,
which refused to be found A car went by and
he missed it. He didn't want to sacrifice a part
of his coat, but he was mad enough to take off
the whole business and come down town in his
shirt sleeves. Happy thought. He released
himself from the garment, crawled in the cellar
window, went upstairs, unlocked the door from
the inside, and regaining his garment, made
fresh and successful start. u
Forest and Streom says that the question,
what is a Treef" is not easily answered, It
adds: There are shrubs so tall and so vigorous
that they may well be considered trees, and
there are trees so low and of such feeble growth
that they hardly deserve the name of trees.
Really there is no hard and fast line which sep
arates tree from q shrub, and any classified
ton of plants which attempts to separate trees
from shrubs must be purely artificial and
therefore, unsatisfactory. The best definition OF
a tree we have seen, and one that goes long way
toward answering that perpexing question, was
presented by Mr., b K Fernow to the Botanical