The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

MORE than 10000, 600 acres of land in Wash
ington Territory, or nearly one-half the whole
area, remain unsurveyed.
THE Erie railroad has taken five dead tramps
| from its trains during the winter. Stealing
rides in cold weather is not very safe opera
ton.
| IT has Just been discovered that out of $500
| native Kanakas in the Island of Noumea, 4 900
| are afflicted with leprosy of the worst sort.
Efforts to stop the scourge are under way
THE RESULTS just published of the census
| taken Dec. 1, 1888, show the population of
| Switzerland at that time to have been 1896,
057-an increase of more than 100, 900 since 1880.
| THE programme of recent concert at St.
| James hall, London, announced that Mme So
and-So would sing - She Wandered Down the
| Mountain Side, accompanied by the composer.
The COLONY of South Australia has, changed
it's taxing ssytem by providing that hereafter
the lands alone shall be assessed, and not the
betterments, such as houses, barns, workshops,
etc.
| THE London and Northwestern railroad has
| put dining car upon one of its trains, and the
whole English nation is open-mouthed with
wonder at the progress railroadlng is making
in Great Britain.
A YOUNG GIRL at Ujhely. in Hungary, has
been to the doctors at Buda-Pesth to be cured
of sneezing She sneezes nearly all the time
| and recently she kept it up for twenty-four
hours on a stretch
SCOTLAND has a gold fever, the discovery of a
bit of gold in the gizzard of duck recently
killed on a farm in Forfarshire. having been
followed by the finding of gold-bearing quartz
in the same neghborhood,
GERMAN BANKERS are said to have opened
negotiations with the Prince of Lichtenstein
for the purpose of getting grant of his land
at Vaduz for the establishment of great inter-
national gambling hell to rival that at Monaco.
A YOUNG WOMAN Of Owingsville, KY, whose
father objected to her marrying the man of her
choice, eloped, clad in an old calico dress, and
without any head covering, her father having
hidden her clothing. She rode eighteen miles
on horseback. when friends furnished her with
suitable garments and the wedding took
place.
PROCEEDINGS have been begun before the
Ohio supreme court to set aside the verdict by
which one William Gaines sentenced to life
| Imprisonment for the murder of one Patrick
Hughes. The claim upon which the proceed
| ings are based is that the jury which convicted
Gaines being equally divided as to his guilt or
| innocence settled the question by Tipping up a
| COIN
Mrs. ALEXANDER HANNA, of Apollo Pa, was
| born on March 9. She was married on March g.
| Two of her children were born on March Q, and
| one died on that day of the month. brother
| the ninth anniversary of her marriage Mrs
| Alexander started to visit relative. AS she
was crossing one railroad track to get to a train
on another, she run over by the Eastern
| express and instantly killed.
THE LEGISLATURE OF NORTH CAROLINA has
passed law to pension the disabled ex-con-
federate soldiers of that state, no matter where
they may now reside. The pensions are ac-
cording to the extent of disability Widows of
soldiers killed in action, or who died of wounds
n RAJ fn6 Iuhilo in iaa txil
receive S25 annually. A tax of S105 900 per
year is assessed to pay them, being cents on
the 500 of valuation and 10 cents poll tax on
every citizen over 81 years of age.
THE oldest of all the obslisks is the beautiful
one Of rosy granite which stands alone among
the green fields on the banks of the Nile, not
far from Cairo. 1t is the gravestone of great
ancient city which has vanished and left only
this relic behind, The city was the Bethshe-
mesh Of the scripture the famous On, which is
memorable to all Bible readers as the residence
of the priest of Potipherah whose daughter,
Asenath, Joseph married. the Greeks called it
Heliopolis the city of the sun, because there
the worship of the sun had its chief center and
its most sacred shrines.
DR.. KAYsER has succeeded in obtaining pho
tograph of the aurora borealis from the sum-
init of Mount Rigi, in Switzer and This is an
interesting fact, it having hitherto been re-
garded as impossible to photograph the aurora
for want of plate sufficiently sensitive to be i'm
pressed by its rays. Gunther in his well known
physical geography, declares it to be utterly
impossible to photograph the aurora, the most
carefully prepared plate remaining neutral
when exposed to the aurora'S rays Dr. Kayser
resorted to special precautions and employed a
colored dry plate-the azalin trocken-platte.
THE names of the ladies who are to dance in
the opening quadrille at the Centennial ball in
honor Of Washlngton's Inauguration have at
last been chosen. Ward McAllister, manager
of the ball, has been authorized by the COM
mittee to invite the following: Mrs. Charles
E M;'1ich, Ad dHo Mrs William Aston. Mrs:
Folsom Cleveland, Mrs. Frederick ].
DePeyster, Mrs. Elbridge It. Gerry, Mrs. Alex
ander Hamilton, Mrs Benjamin Harrison, Mrs.
Lucy yes (Fife of ex President Hayes, Mrs.
John Jay, Mrs. Archibald Grace King. Miss
Garcia Livingston. Mrs. Levi Parsons Morton,
Mrs. Schuyler. Mrs. Henry Van Rensselaer, and
Mrs. Sidney Webster
B. p. SHILLABER, better known as the ire
pressbe Mrs. Darlington, now lives at Chelsea,
one of Boston's many suburbs. He IS "a years
of age, and crippled with rhuematism. He
walks about the house with cane and goes out
of doors only in a carriage. He has not been to
Boston for seven years. He began life as
printer, entering the Boston Post in 1888 He
once gave two or three years of his life a lee
turing tour, and, though he was successful, he
regretted it, feeling himself not cut out for that
line of work. He Travelled 5000 miles without
an accident. Now, as he says, he goes nowhere.
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from years end to years end, patient as may
be, receiving my friends and wait for the better
life"
THE new British gunboat Spanker has been
successfully launched at the Davenport dock
yard having been but ten months under con-
struction from the date of the laying of her
keel Not only was her hull completed in this
time, but considerable portion of the vessels
machinery, including the uwin-screw shafting,
was fitted on board before launching. Her ma
chinery being nearly all ready for her it will be
comparatively short time before she is ready
for her trial trip, and she is expected to make
q knots per hour. The designers are expecting
great things of her, and mean to strive for the
record made by the American cruiser Vesu-
ylus. The Spanker has everything in her
favor, since she is intended for $500 horse
power, and displaces but 735 tons. Her length
Is 23Otee and her beam q feet. Her load draught
of water forward is 8 feet. and aft feet
inches. The battery of the Spanker will con-
Sst OF two 36-pounder and four 3-pounder rapid
fire guns, one bow torpe 10 tube, and a pair of
torpedo tubes on each broadside. The two &C.
Founders are mounted, one forward and one aft
aud can be fred at considerable angles, abaft
and before the BEAM so that, if necessary, they
could converge on to the same object The
enormous amount of machinery intended for
the Spanker will take up fully two-thirds of her
tore and aft length. Her coal carrying capacity
Is 80 TONS necessarily small because of lack OF
bunker space. The designer of the Spanker is
M, HI. White F. r. s. assistant contro1er and