The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

bait for rats. Traps baited at night with these
seeds viii be found crowded with Eats in the
morning
BosToE HUMANITARIASs are protesting against
the proposed slaughter of blue jays in order
Jnat their plupage may be used for the decoTa-
lion OF WOmen'S bOnnets.
NAPOLEON the Greats favorite writing table
from Malmaison, has Just been sold in Paris Il
Is rather an unwieliy piece Of mahogany, with
choice copper ornaments.
A NUREMBERG MANUFACTURES has invented
pencils in blue, black and brown for writing on
the human skin. They are for use in anatomi-
cal and chemical demonstrations.
AT the top of the Eiffel tower, for fee. spe
cially prepared note paper, dated from the sum-
mt OF the tower, Is provided, and the writer
can nave the letter posted on the spot.
The Japanese minister and Nine. Mutsu are
domciled for the summer in a cottage at Mt.
Pleasant. 1t is rumored that Nine Mutsu is
| translatlng an English novel into japanese.
The scepter of an Egyptian king has been
examined chemically by Prof. Berthelot and
proves to be nearly pure copper. with only
traces OF lead. IL is supposed to be nearly 5000
| years old.
LORD GREvIILE heads an organization in
| London that has consolidated with a New York
cattle and dressed beef concern, and between
| them they expect TO make both ends meat, with
|
THE total exports of merchandise from the
United States for the month of May were S52,-
| l69, l91; Imports Sos, 724 1894; gold exports.
Sl3, 484, 7s3; gold imports, S753 S94; silver ex-
| ports, S4,449,'T6; imports, Sl,9O6,7 29.
AN ENGLIsHMAN in San Francisco recently
purchased what he believed to be solid gold
| brick, and afterward found that the article was
| only brass. The strangers who sWindled him
hau' oil course, disappeared when this discovery
was made.
TRAMP entered boarding house in Exeter,
n. H., on Sunday, and attempted to carry off
| some clothing. The servant girl knocked him
down with broOmstlck and then chased him
| from the house with revolver. He was after
ward arrested.
WILLIAM C. CosMAy, of Middlehope, n. Y,
heard COW believing in the field the other day
| When he approached he found a swapping tur-
Tie with its jaws fastened to the cows nose.
| The turtles head had TO be cut off before the
| COW could be relieved.
| The eighth International congress of Oriental
lists will assemble at Stockholm and Christiana
| from Sept. to 10 next under the presidency
| of King Oscar of Sweden Membership can
| De secured by addressing DR.. Cyrus Adler
| al the national museum, Washington, D. c.
SEATS in the various exchanges of the country
| are quoted as follows: New York Stock, S22,
$50; New York Consolidated, $500; New York
| Produce, 81, 100; New York Cotton, $3.50; New
YORK Coffee, $500; Boston Stock. $4,000
Philadelphia Stock, S2,70O; Chicago Board of
| Trade, $1,000.
Miss LOIS ROYCE. the young school teacher
who lost both her feet in consequence of her
heroic fidelity to the pupils under her charge.
curing blizzard, can now walk on the artificial
| rect sent TO her. She is progressing favorably
| IN her studies at Cornell college, Mount Vernon
Ia, where she is taking four years course.
A LIGHTNING FLASH did freaky things at the
| house of w. P. Graham, in Juniata Pa, during
the last storm. Passing a basket full of eggs
ready TO be sent to the store il accOmnliShed
shell without spillng the contents of a single
| egg. The house has twice been struck by light
ming within five years.
A PECULIAR DROWNING ACCIDENT occurred
| lately in Pittsfield, Mass. Henry Roberts, while
| walking across plank laid over a ditch. was
attacked with an epileptic fit He fell face
downward into the ditch, and lay on his face in
about SIX inches of water. No one saw him fall.
| and he drowned before he could recover suffi-
| GENTLY to help himself.
MEMBERS of the female sex are pushing into
| journalistic work in New York almost as rap
| idly as they recently seized type-writing and
sUenography Every paper in New York now
has number of regular female writers, and
the female contributors of special articles are
| becoming legion. Some of them write too
WIFI almost masculine VlrllItV,
IT IS SAID that there is but one cry from the
Americans who are in Paris-extortion! Thew
are bled at every step; bled merciessIy. Straw
berries u'1I are p oQ plate, and you can't get a
ride IN cab unless you buy the coachman A
new suit OF clothes and another horse Hotel
bills are stupendous. EVERYTHING is inst five
times as much as in ordinary times, and the re-
suit IS American visitors are not spending a cent
more than they are absolutely obliged to.
THE IDEA If all ob,,rol.
carried out at Tunbridge Wells, England. where
the pulpit of Congregational church is con-
nected with sixteen subscribers We are told
that these included doctors and anOthecariaS
clerks working ia various parts of the town. an
invalid lady who has been obtaining console
ton from the telephone for several months and
some lazy club men, who went into the thing
presumably more from spirit of experiment
than devotion"
A CURIOUS ACCIDENT, which unhappily proved
! fatal, has befallen NJ Boutet an artist residing
| IN Paris. NJ. Boutet was working in his studio
| when, Inconvenience by the sun. he asked his
servant 10 get on the roof to pass a light linen
covering over the glass. AS the woman was
arranging this awning she slipped and falling
through the glass. alghted on the table at
| whlch her master was seated. Oddly enouph
she sustained no injury worth mentioning M
Boutet, however, was not so fortunate A nieca
OIL the broken glass struck him on the neck sew
erlng an artery. He tried to stanch the blood
anu IdllIng, ran out OF the house in the direction
OF nelghborlng druggists sh D. but he fell
down talntlng ere he reached the place, and
Two hours atterward he breathed his last.
A CURIOUS DISCOVERY has just been made at
Nimoutiers, France, by peasant living in tba
village of Cutesson. He was digging in his field
when the ground suddenly gave way, and he
fell into a hole ten feet in depth. The neassn1
had accidentally lighted upon a subterranean
chamber, the existence of which was NOT evan
SlSDaCtAd The try
ton number of human bones partially netri
| fled were found in an adjoining vanlt con.
structed in the form of a circle The homes are
| OF exceptionally large dimensions and annear
to have belonged to race of gigantic STA 11ra
and great breadth of frame. In fact the nar
sons who have studied the case on the snot ar
of opinion that the bodies must have bean in
TERED in this burial place at a very remote
period.
AN ITALIAN in Boston, who had stationed
himself close by the entrance to the circns
grounds, that he might more easily disnose of
the fruits which he had to SELL became 60 in
terested in the appearance of two Turks who
had escaped from the grounds, saws the E,ea,1
5ng IfuUeLeT, and had been strolling ahont tna
Back Bay, that he forgot all about the Iyagon
load OF bananas which we're beside him It1tii
he turned suddenly and observed a horse e+
tached TO an express wagon calmly eating from
The stock OF bananas as il they mad been 1Iacad
there for his especial benefit The spectacia 20
morse eating bananas was so amusing to the
spectators that they didn't call the owners at
tention to it, but when the Italian who oyYna1
the fruit, and the Hibernian who drove ~
hOr e, began to argue with each o+baS - eIO