The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ Red Desert. Wyoming. They were offered $500
/ each for tie animals, but demanded more.
NEWPORT. KY. has four mayors and is likely
/ to have three chiefs of police. The muddle in
the municipal government began when the
/ mayor LETT for a vacation, appointing deputies
/ for his WORK.
As PRooE of the excellent sanitary condition
of Paris it is stated that since the opening of
! the exhibition in -pite of the vast increase in
! the population, there have been fever deaths
/ than during the corresponding period year
/ ago.
J AT BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, an s-year-olG boy
| named Randolph Niece, was arrested the other
| day. For two or thres weeks he has been steai-
! ing horses and buggies in and around the city.
| lie had been carrying on the business WITH
| high hand, trading horses to playmates for
/ goats, etc.
! NOVEL method of raising funds has been
| tried by Sunday school in Burlington, n. j.
| Some time ago $50 new scent pieces, called
talents" were distributed among the scholars
! and teachers, with Instructions to do whatever
IN reason they could to increase tn sum. Last
thursday the talents were called in. and, not
WlJhstanding all tne scholars did not make re-
turns, the sum received was S5s7.
CERTAIN taxpayers of the Town Of Lake, re
Gently annexed 10 Chicago have fled bill for
an injunction in the circuit court praying that
the Chicago board of education and the city be
restrained from taking possession of the school
prop -rty OF the annexed town. James Kelley,
an individual citizen of Lake, has also 1ed a
bill in which asks that the city of Chicago be
restrained from taking possession of or annex
Ing the town itself
THERE is no doubt that Queen Victoria is in
very bad health Her rheumatism has defsd
treatment, and she has grown very feeble. 1t is
asserted tn6t she wishes to lay her official
duties aside. Should she do the Prince of
Wales would read and sign tue state documents.
In TINS case he would assume the title of prince
regent, and would enjoy the use of Buckingham
palace and Windsor castle. Victoria would re-
tire to Osborne and Balmoral.
SAYS Philadelphia newspaper: at has be-
come subject of remark among George w.
Chiids intimate friends that he is giving more
time TO recreating this summer than ever before.
Week before last, it is said, he wasn't at his
office at all. This week, if he adueres to his
programme, the LedGer building will not know
his CHEEKY presence at all. There's no telling
what a this means, said wagGish friend OF
ms recently. 'Chllds is certainly dlssipatng to
an unusual extent"
ACCORDING to returns recently made, the
| number Of field officers in the japanese army
is 3,6S5, including general, IL lieutenant-gen-
erals, Is major generals, SO colonies, 81
observation-disclosures, 295 colonelmaiors
lO34 captains, 1,189 tlrst-claSs sub-cap-
tains, and ,O05 second-class sub-captains The
number OF nOu-cOmmissioned officers and file,
IS 2ll,2O4-49 294 soldiers, and 131 engineers in
service. and 1906 soldiers and % engineers in
reserve, and 81 ,G61 soldiers and engineer in
secozd res rye.
NOVELTY in the way Of labor-savng devices
is about to be put upon the market by W. B.
NIartindale of ST. Louis It is called the cleo
trio date and time stamp, and it is thought that
II wall soon become a necessity to business men,
railway and telegraph companies and govern
lnent officials. The stamp, which, like the or
binary stamp, records ones name, address bust
ness and the like, is peculiar in that it also
| stamps the correct date and time of date to the
minute. It works automatically, in synchrO-
nism with any clock, by means of an electric
battery ami circuit closer which are attached
to the clock. No electric STAN will be sold
By the company which manu- factureS them
hey will be leased to subscribers like the tel
ephoIe.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL, who recently en-
tered the British parliament as a member for
Fifeshire, does not seem TO have a high opinion
Of parliamentary life In chapter Of an ad-
ditional volume Of "Obiter Dicta" lust pub
llShed, he says: The avaricious man com
nences politician in the hope of getting a
pace; the loqudclouS man, in the hope of get
ting hearers; the handsome man. in the hone of
getting admirers the inconveniently rich man.
IN the hope of getting rid of some money: the
man who likes good feeding, in the hope of get
ting good dinners; the man who is bored by the
domestic hearth, in the hope of getting his
evenings out; the high born man, in the hope of
getting favorably compared with the Other sort
OF men; the lawyer who cannot obtain briefs in
the hope OF getting compensation for failures"
To which class does Mr.. Birrell belong:
SHERIFF BURY of Mssaukee county. Micbi-
gan had two wGgs OF prisoners in his iail.
While he was ate ding plug horse race the
other day, those two chaps succeeded in getting
hold of long piece of wire. On the end of the
wire they made hook, and after working for
about an hour succeeded in fishing up both the
keys to the cells and to the jail They then let
themselves out, starring at once for thu race
course. The gatekeeper demanded pay from
the men, but, of course, they were unable to
put up the co,lateral. Not to be .lismlved nv
so small thing as that, they went to the other
side OF the grounds aud sneaked in. The
sheriff was completely dumfounded when the
men presented themselves to him and re-
quested that they be taken back to Jail and
locked up. After the Ices all three returned
afordlng much amusement to everybody in
Lake City.
PsYCHoLoGIcALLY SPEAKING, Dakota is all torn
up over the discovery of eight human skeletons
in cave near Yankton. 1t is not known
whether these frames were the property of pre-
historic citizens of the great northwest or be-
lOng ID to persons who have lived since, that
gloomy period; but whoever they we're that
owned them they are now dead, and so far AZ "a n
be Jud 5ed by appearances, they died so ma
where near where thsir bones we're found If
always breaks q Dakotans heart to le I'm tbet
anybody ever did in that territory arJ mil
the most unanSwerable proofs are for hcoroa no
loyal citizen can be made to believe that any
body e. er did q e there. Yet, here are The sLel
etons. They could not have died one al a tin,a
and toted each other that cave and i, harI1D
reason tble to believe they were all blown over
together from some Overlooking Minnasots
graveyard. 1t is tie abu dance of evidence
that the prOprietors of these remains artnaIjJ
died in Dakota, which is sinking the souls of the
people up there deep into a smashing sea Of
despair. u
The ANNEXED STORY of Washington is from
the Sacramento Bee; Some time ago a partv of
gentlemen at Woodland were discussin1 tho
characteristics of George Washington, the
father Of his country, when Sam Rutland the
gorgeousness of whose imagination has nosda
him well known throughout the state braAe in
upon the conversation: You are right o .ntIa-
men, said he, Washington was cold. anst~re
man. he was as naughty as could be- and a
Sucker for formall,ie There was never hut
one occasion, so far as have heard. when he
threw aside the usual trigidity of his de,nesnor
That ms ance was narrated to me MANY vaar.
ago by my grandfather, who served under Wash.
lngton in the war Of the revolution IT, was ~.
next dny after battle in which the Britisb
troops had been routed. The colonial troDns
were drawn up in ranks, and Washington rods
down the line mounted upon the white cnsrqer
OF which You have all heard When he cans
up TO wGere my grandfather was standing th.
latter Alied out: Why, how 10 You do. pen
eral! Gen Washington refined I'D his his
charger, dismounted, threw his arms about nv
grandfathers neck and exclaim d: Rutland d.
not call me general-cali me Georger"
A SHORT StOckv VOuop man ros r+..,.