The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

rained small toads for half an hour, much TO
the confusion and disgust Of the inhabitants
THE growing scarcity of whalebone is tempt
ing many an old whaling skipper TO leave his
freside 10 again try his luck in the Arctic
! regions.
ANNE PERKINS, of Cleveland. wears boys
clothes, subsists on oatmeal, and sells papers
for living. She is 30 years Of age and a
! poetess
GUTHRIE, Oklahoma, with its suburbs, now
has $1,000 inhabitants, six banks, eight news
papers. Jhirty-seven lumber yards and hundreds
Of stores.
ORDERS have been received at the Portsmouth
navy yard to put the historic frigate Co lstitu-
ton in condition to be lowed to the Washington
navy yard
PARNELL is reported to be suffering from in
somnia. He has changed his room half dozen
times in consequence without being able to
gain much relief.
AT LEXINGTON, KY, a lawsuit that was begun
in 1911 has just been settled. 1t related to
land claim, and the sum in dispute was origi-
naly about IS, 900.
DECATUR (MICH.) SHOEMAKER evaded the fire
limits ordinance by constructing shop on
wheels, and it now reposes serenely within the
prescribed territory.
FRANK STAAB of Louisville was attacked by a
350-pound BLACK bear in that city and nearly
torn to pieces. The animal was a pet and be-
longed to his neghOor
HYPNoTIsM is now frequently employed at tie
Hotel Diru Hospital in P Iris to facilitate surg
ical operations. One woman, hypnotic against
her Will, SayIn that she preferred chloroform,
chatted gayly during a long and daDs erouS OPP
GRAFTON.
A SEA TURTLE 10 feet long, feet wide and
weighing 1000 pounds was caught recently in a
trap off South Harwich, Cape Cod. This mon
ster is estimated be fully 200 years old. AS it
! stands the distance between its fore dipperS is
| over 10 feet.
BROOKLYN may be slow and uninteresting
| town, but 1895 building permits, involving
cost of Sl5 1856 have been issued for tue first
SIX months II this year, to 2,117 at S12,76i,4IS,
| for the same period last year. Evidently some
| body lives there.
| LIGHTNING struck the house of Col. L. N.
| Edwards of Oxford Me-. knocking a kerosene
lamp into thousand pieces and taking metal
| ciocN fro II the wall of the room and hurting it
under the coloneis bed. Nothing else in the
| house was disturbed.
FIFTY NINE PERSONS attempted suicide in Ber-
| lin during June-more than ever before in one
month. One boy, 20 women and 80 men made
| up the number. TTen, y-two sought death in
| the water IA bS hanging, u through bullAts, 5
by POISONING and by jumping from windows.
The news comes from the University of
Padua that Prof. Gravenigo has succeeded in
| grating the cornea of a barndoor fowl on the
eye OF human subject. The operation is
| spoken of as most successful, the transplanted
cornea being transparent, glossy and convex.
| ~ r. be as is said there is new hope for many
| blind people.
BUFFALO MOTHS and carpet bugs are making
| housewives weary along the Hudson river. The
havoc wrought by these pests during the past
rev weeks has been extensive In Rensselaer,
| county and elsewhere the carpet bugs are said
| TO be so vOraciOus that they actually, in some
| instances have eaten off the cords by which
| mirrors and pictures were suspended.
TIE celebrated Kong mountains of Africa are
| about to follow the Mountains of the Moon,
| which have been expunged from the maps.
| lheSe mountains were supposed TO be stretched
across Africa for 100 of longitude about 200
miles north of the Gulf OF Guinea. Capt. Binger,
VINO has now returned from nearly a two years
exploration in the almost unknown regions
north of tie Gulf of Guinea, says there is no
| such range as the Kong mountains.
ACCoRDI,G to an English newspaper the $50
| banks in the United Kingdom report 1900, 900,
900 as the sum of the depo its liable to call 1t
is estimated that at least fifth of this amount
| will never be claimed by the owners or their
| representatives.. Many persons there, this
country, deposit money without intimation of
the fact to Others, and then dis .ppear from the
| scene The English banks earn large revenue
| from notes burned, lost at sea; OF otherwise de-
| stroyed.
IT is gratifying in these days of contested
| wills to notice one marked exception to the
| general habit. Joshua Jones, of New York
left an estate which realized $7,S40,OO0 in re al
| estate and various sorts and kin OF securities
| de died sixteen months 40 The estate has
| been turned into money, realizing IS 0J0, 900
| instead of S6,00O,000, as was estimated, aud mas
| been divided am ng an enormous multitude of
relatives, and the executors now ask decree
| OF discharge by the surrogate.
| The congress of the Three Americas, which
| will meet IN Washington in the autumn, is at
| tracing good deal of attention in England
| and on the Continent. The state department
has sent out circulars, explaining the purposes
| of the meeting, far and wide. These circulars
| state in subSta ce that it is proposed by a con
| greSs of representatives. of all the American
| governments to improve commercial relations
| between the different countries, to establish
| system of arbitration i international disputes
| and to adopt uniform mon ,tary system.
Mrs. BAKER of Richford. VT, went into her
dining room the other day, and discovered
snake coiled snugly under the table. She
| ard, securing kettle of boiling wa'er pro
| ceeded to persuade the snake to leave. When
she approached, his snakeship rebel ed against
| the hot water treatme t. and made ready tn
spring upon her. But MN Baker, noting the
| snak s ope mouth, gave'hlm generous dose
| OF the kettles contents and scalded him to
death.
| AN INTERESTING TABLE exhibited at the Paris
exposition shows the relative civilization of the
several countries from the postoffice standpoint.
| by showing the number or letters per capita
| passing through them. Great Britain leads
| with 40 per head. Australia is next with IS aud
| Switzerland with 30. The United States, Ger
| many and Holland have 20 and Belgium leads
| them at %. The other countries of Europe
| gra iualy descend IN the scale till the TO
mark Is almost reached in Russia, which reports
| only two letters year per head.
| ARTHUR ELMER HATCH, who recently grad
| uated from Bates College, in Maine mas been
| blind since childhood. His lessons we're learned
by the aid of his mother and his fellow studenis
! His mother read his Engli h studies to him
| until he had them firmly fixed in his memory
| and mis- Latin and Greek he learned with the
assistance of the other buys. When his turn
| came to recte instead of reading the text from
| the book himself the teacher would read a
| passage and he would then translate and give
| It's grammatical construction. Geometry he
! mastered by means of a cushion upon which
he outlined the propositions with pins and
| Irvine.
| AT the recent meeting of the American Phil
| osophical Association in Easton, j. Fl. Hall
narrated some legends from a Syriac manu-
script received from Persia few weeks ago.
| The manuscript contains an account of Moses
| col oquy with the Lord on Mount Sinai; of tue
! letter which fell from heaven upon tne hands of
! AJnenasias patriarch of Great Rome (Which in
! documents OF this sort means Constantinople or
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