The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WILLIAM PINKERToN, member of the we'll
! known detective agency, is under treatment at
a New York eye and ear hospital for serious
eye trouble, said to have been contracted in a
| sleeping car
Miss FLORENCE NIGHTINeALg is now con-
irrned invalid, and is patient at St. Thomas's
hospital. London. Her services during the
Crinean war Injured her spine, and she has
| never recovered from the effects thereof. This
INDUSTRIOUS phllanthropiSt is nearly 69 years
| old.
| ST. LOUIS has no less than seventy-eight Chin
csc laundries and pays out over 500 900 annually
| to Mongoliaus TO have its washing done An
| effort is being made by the large laundries IN
| that city to form pool il order to crush out
| the Chinese and other small concerns In their
| line of business.
| THE colossal statute of John Marshall, who is
| reputed the first dscoverer of gold in Cali
! fornia, represents him as a backwoodsman,
| holding nugget in his right hand, while his
| left hand points downward The statue will
| stand Marshall hill in Eldorado county,
| where Marshall first found gold.
PETER THELAN, Greeley county, Colorado,
farmer, had completed arrangements for NOV
| ing his barn. A summer evening breeze hap
| pened along while he slept and carried the barn
| to within a few feet OF the intended site. A
| team of horses were hitched in the building, but
| their hate:s broke and they had to walk.
JAMES SELBY, a wellknowu English whip"
! has just beaten the record on tee drive from
London to Brighton, making the distance there
| anu back, 10S miles, in seven hours and fifty
minutes the best previous run having been
| Ell hit hours and a half. The drive was made on
a wager Of LOCO to $780, -Four horses were
| changed sixteen times during the trip.
AN interesting war RACES at Ell Paso, Tex, be-
tween gas company and a syndicate of st.
Louis capitalists who have set I'D in the cleo
HCDftnD business
so far that both parties intend supplying the
two illumtnants permission to erect plants to
| that end having been received from the city
councils conditioned on the belligerentS at no
time consolidating.
| SWINGING scAFFoLD, containing two
Bridgeport (Conn) painters, fell, and, in the ex-
element of attending to one of them who had
| been badly injured his fellow workman was
| overlooked. In the descent he seized rope,
dangling 80 feet from the ground, and had to
| remain IN the perilous position several minutes
| until he attracted the attention of the people
| below and was rescued.
| MONTANA MINERS are described by a writer in
| Hnrpers' Magazine as trough looking, pale,
worn and haggard. Many of them have lived
| the greater parts of their lives in the horrible
| chambers that, lined as they are with precious
| metals have still no charm for their inmates.
| Life in the mines is modern slavery. The looks
| of the men prove this; the wen faces of the chill
| dren bear painful evidence of the fact"
THERE is a wonderful mirage in Glacier Bay
| Alaska. reflected from the CLASSY surface of
| the Pacific glacier. 1t is said that Just after
| the change of the moon in June, soon after
| sunset, and while the moon is climbing above
| the sky. a city appears above the glacier 1t is
so distinct that a photograph is said to have
| been made by resident of Juneau, who learned
of the mirage from the Indians, and has seen it
appear and disappear for four years.
| ACCORDING to the annual statistical report of
| the German Jewish community, the number of
Jews in the kingdom of Prussia in 1880 was $685.
| 100. 1.33 per cent of the total population In
| 1885 the number was 800, 54S or f.29 per cent.
| There was thus an absolute increase in the Jew
| ish population but q relative decrease. The In
| crease was greatest in Berlin where, in the five
| years. IL amounted to 10, 40S. In 1885 the Jew
| lsh population in that city was "a, S55
F. PErMxcxY, son of the celebrated gunmaker,
]. c. Petmecky, of Austin Tex, is but 16 years
old He recently broke seven clay targets in
eight seconds. A brickbat was tossed up which
he hit tour times before 1t touched the ground
/ tin plate was next thrown up into which be
put five shots before it touched the ground He
| broke five out Of seven small marbles thrown
into the air, and the minutest coin he could hit, it
| seemed, with us much certainty as he could a
| larger object.
! THE new high license law that went into effect
| in Pennsylvania at the beginning Of the present
| year has reduced the number of saloons by
about one-half. Under the new law there are
| but 7,724 licensed houses, against Il, 553 uuder
| the old law About two-thirds of the applica-
| lions made we're granted in the state. though Of
the applications made in Philadelphia two
thirds were refused. The revenue from ID, 553
saloons last year was S976, 179. The revenue
from 7724 licensed houses this year is 81 1896, $685.
From this it will be observed that by diminish
ing the number of drinking places $500, an
additional revenue of $3.50, 7S4 for public uses
has been gained.
TIE new chief justice is the smallest man of
| ~ tba Inf
ing 125 pounds and being feet inches high
Associate Justice Gray is the largest, measur-
ing feet inches high and pulling the scales at
almost 300 pounds. Justices Bradley and.
Blatchford are about an inch higher than the
| chief Justice, and weigh twenty pounds more
| Associate Justice Harlan is next to Gray in
| hight, 6 feet inches being his distance from
the ground and $50 pounds his weight The
other justices are an even hight, being between
feet and 10 inches With the chief justice In
the center and the two big men at each end,
is formed when all stand In line.
ONE of the London literary papers announces
that twenty-five unpublished letters by Dickens,
which were recently discovered in curiosity
shop in a London suburb, are about to be pub.
lished in one of the monthly magazines
Apropos, London Truth remarks: st would be-
interesting to learn whether the possessor of
the letters has taken the precaution to obtain
the permission of Dickens legal representative
| Mrs Hogarth) for their publication. 1t is too
|
| to his executors, and somebody who not long ago
| proposed to publish a number written by
Dickens, principally OIL private affairs, was de-
csively stopped in that enterprise.
A BALTIMoREAN, writing from Dresden to a
friend in that city, says: 1T was here that
saw the best managed street car lines The hill
boys are men, and the faded hill horses are
fiery steeds all the companys employees are
| uniformed, and such uniforms are not on our
| police; hey look more like our military dress
The cars are spotless, double decked, first and
second class roof cheaper; first-class fare is
| pfenngs, or less than cents from end to end
| of the route, and 10 pfennigs for shorter dis.
| tances. The horses 90 like race horses, and are
| evidently not overworked. There are waiting
rooms ut numerous crossings along the route
| and the morning papers are kept on the racks
two papers to each car"
| WRITER who has explored New Guinea de-
scribes the nutmeg region. Upon fine piece OF
tableland he came upon three houses erected in
| the very heart Of the forest These were used
| by the natives for drying the nutnegs The
| country was everywhere magnificent, aud the
aroma of the spice-laden air delicious Nutmeg
| and other equally valuable trees were every.
| where growing In great profuson. The fruit Of
| the nutmeg in appearance resembles pear and
| when ripe opens and displays the nut covered
| with a beautiful red coating of mace. The NUS
are then picked and taken to the houses where
they are husked and placed on shelves They
are then partly roasted over a slow fire until ali
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