The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


for the establishment of national jury sys
tenn. Trial by jury is as yet unknown in that
| country.
A coUNTRYNAN from Northern New York,
after visiting the ice bridge at Niagara de-
clared it was the greatest swindle he had ever
seen. Said he: ME and my wife went down
! there and by gum { want nothn' but an old
! ice jam, sech as we have all winter long in the
| creek down TO hum. Jest plain sheet o scrap
| ice stretchin' acrost, an nothing more. It's
blame fraud; that's all il is.
ANINvENTIvE GENIUS in Pocahontas, Ind, has
shown what may be done in an emergency. He
grinds together cornstalks and coarse prairie
| grass and moistens them with water. When
| this compound has been reduced to pulp he
presses it into blocks II inches long and inches
thick When these are thoroughly dried they
! burn readily, and it is claimed give greater
! heat than the same amount OF SOFT coal.
THE records of the church of San Fernando
at San Antonio Tex, show that William H.
Founce was christened on Marnh 3, f715. He is
alive yet, but doesn't know just how old he was
| when he was christened Founce was hard
| man in his day. being bul[hghter, miner,
! and a gambler Although fully l12 years old,
this veteran is reported to be spry and tough yet
! A few days ago he rode ten miles TO dog hight.
| and came back with a pocketful of money. lie
| lives alone drinks mescal steadily, but not
| whisky or beer, eats heartily, sleeps well, and
| looks like man of So.
I
sian army for 1888 is headed by Gen. Won der
| Goltz, the oldest Adjutant General of the EN-
peror. Next come the two Field Marshals-the
Crown Prince aud Count MoltKe. The former
can boast Of no fewer than seventy-four decora-
| tions. Gen. Count Pucker, eX- Notwithstanding
| being second with fifty-one. Prince Bismarck
is third as the possessor of forty nine decora-
| tlons while Count MOltke has to content him
| self with fortyfour and Gen. Blumenthal with
| thirty-sx. Count Herbert Bismarck has made
"a 1i=in Gfo tKf GfN-
THE following rules governed the guests of a
\ leap year party recently given in Nebraska
| City: Il. The gentleman whose bouquet is not
mashed in the first dance will be a witness to
| the fact that he has been held with prOprety.
| ,. No gentleman shall cross the floor without a
| lady attendant. g. If a gentleman goes for
| glass of water unattended bv a lady ne will az
once be declared out of order and will be com
PEELED to be seated. 4. Gentlemen are expected
| to be languid. to drop their handkerchiefs as
| often as possible, and make frequent calls for
| water, and behave in the most lady-lile manner
| in all things"
THE following letter, says the st. Adams Mes
senger, was picked up on the street
day. 1t shows how completely I'M
| selfish a rarely good can be in
l another's behalf: My Dear B.: The Saliva
| tiOn Army are to open here soon, and they have
| been in St arch of some particularly hard Gus
| toners to wrestIe with at the first meeting.
| They applied directly to ME; but as am very
| busy referred them to you as having the neces
| sary qualifications and being lit subject for
| them to tackle. Hope your business engage
| ments will not prevent their making arrange
| ments with you
PROF OSCAR PLErscH since the death of
Ludwig Richter, the most popular illustrator of
children's books in Germany, died on Jan. IL,
near Dresden, at the age of 81 He studied at
| the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and was
| first induced by Richter to devote himself to
| the branch of art in which he achieved his
| greatest success but he did not become widely
| known until after the publication of a number
| Of sketches from childfe presented by him to
| the Crown Prince which he had made while
| serving in Berlin as a soldier in the reserve.
Herr Pletsch one of the founders Of the
! Deu,Sche Jtge1d, a popular juvenile publica
/ ton.
| CARRIE DANES of Derby, Conn. while work
ing in a pin factory, a spirit of fun wrote her
name and address and enclosed it in a paper of
| pins. Not long afterward she received a letter
| from Arthur Pillsbury, of Kansas. He after
| ward made her an offer of marriage, which she
| refused. Then Mr.. Pillsbury turned his atten-
| tions to another Connecticut girl, whom in
| course of time he married She lived only
| few months after the wedding. II was a year
| after this that Mr.. Pillsbury again commenced
| to correspond with Miss DANES, and his ad-
vances met with more favor this time He
| again popped the question and obtained ia
vorable answer. They were married a few days
| ago
Gov. FITzHUGH LEE, of Virginia. who is very
stout, recently amused some friends by telling
the following story: "A few months ago
| friend and went sailing in a lake for the pur-
| pose of catching a few fish While we we're
/ trJ ing to get bite squat came up, overturned
| the boat, and we were both thrown into the
| water. l attempted to save my friend, but he
| sank from sight and was drowned. Being a
| good swimmer thought of my life and what
| Virginia might suffer If | were drowned so
made for the shore. While making lusty strokes
my stomach touched the bottom. and, thinking
| / had reached shore, | turned on my feet and
to my surprise found was still over my head
| got to shore all right and the country was
| saved"
| A WASHINGTON correspondent says that tn e
cleverest young foreigner in that city is prob
ably Alexander Greger, Secretary of the Rus
| sian Legation. He is well educated, well in
| formed, quick witted and genial. Though not
of noble birth, he has inherited great wealth
| from his father. who was a successful Russian
| contractor, and who died two years ago. The
| young diplomat is generous with his money and
| fond of entertaining. None is more thoroughly
| diplomatic than he; even the born diplomats
| cannot approach him in the art of saying the
right thing at the right time. In view of these
facts it is not strange that even titled foreigners
| take a back seat in the presence of Mr. Greger
| as far most young women are concerned.
| But it is said TO his credit that he doesn't hirt
and never amuses himself with attentions to
| young married women, likely 10 be harmed
! thereby.
| AT HARLAN IA, one of the oldest libel suits
on record was recently instituted. Several
! years ago young man from the country at
| tended the Southern Iowa Normal at Bloomfield
| for term. He was an ambitious and excess
| lively polite youth, and as he walked along the
streets frequently communed with himself
adding gesticulaton to his thoughts This
| habit caused a story to be set ahOat that one
day, when he was rambling along the suburbs
he had DOTTED his hat to a COW grazing in a
vacant lot and saluted her with: Good after
noon, Mrs. Cow" The story chung to him. and
when few years later he began to practice
law at Harlan and became candidate
for office local newspaper published column
done up in verse, describing the alleged episode
OF course the young lawyer became the laugh
ing-stock of the community for the time and he
promptly instituted libel suit against the
| newspaper
MAN in Silver Ridge Plantation. Me-, started
in company with another few days since to
| look for their COWS and oxen and lot of young
cattle which were out in the woods. They found
their stock and started for home with them, and
on their way they saw three bears sitting on
| their launches, ahead of them, directly in their
path. The oxen ran ahead of the cows and then
turned around shaking their heads as much as
to say, Keep back, keep back We viii attend
to those black fellows Then away they ran