The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A GERMAN PEASANT has been detected in tap
ping a telegraph wire to cure his rheumatism.
BILL Ito regulate the sale of horse flesh for
human food" is before the English parliament.
SALMON caught on the Pacific coast had an
iron spike seven inches long, with half inch
| head, in its stomach.
CYCLING has become the rage in parts of
Spain, and large mum bers of machines are being
shipped to Barcelona.
ENGLISH ARMY AUTHORITIES are considering
a project for ensting young boys and letting
them grow into soldiers.
| A LAW SUIT between two Ulster county, New
York, men over two old horses valued at 81
each, has already cost $500.
THE bishop of Gibraltar is considering whether
| he shall sanction the establishment of an En-
| glish church at Monte Carlo.
RILLA KITTREDGE, of Belfast Me-, has written
one Of ex-President Cleveland's messages con-
| tanning 1900 words, on a postal card.
WOMEN are being granted permission to
practice medicine in Russia, with the restriction
| that they shall attend only women and
| children
| BETSY AND RUTH CRowELL, sisters, aged re-
spectively 70 and 80 years, died within few
| days OF each other In the same house in Dennis
| port, Mass.
A MAN in Western Dakota says he saw biz
ZATu OOrIl II SIdrIeu on Jue Top Oh a DdT6 ulli
and was ball of white fog no larger than his
| hat when he first saw it.
The Boston Journal reports that Samuel
Cummings of that city, while leaning against
rail in his grain MILL ''began sneezing. and
sneezed SO hard that he dis,ocated his shoulder"
A WE'LL 60 feet deep is not a pleasant place to
spend ones time in. Vic Harris of Federal,
Kan, will testify to this having fallen into one
last week and remained there from noon until
| midnight.
THE DEFICIT Of the Melbourne exhibition is
estimated at 81, 800, 900. The exhibition was to
have closed on Jan. /, but was kept open in
| the hope that some part Of the loss might be
| recovered
THIS is how the kangaroo got its name: Capt.
Cook first discovered the animal in Australia.
When he inquired its name of a native the latter
replied, kan CARGO" which, in the Australian
| language, is II don't know"
THE historic old town of Litchfeld, Mass, in
tends to preserve its antique flavor by the intro
ducton Of the old English custom of market day
once a week. The first one has already been
observed and proved great success.
IN SAN FRANCISCO last week, a man and his
wife lost their minds through the excessive use
of morphine and cocaine, and were sent to q
| hospital for the insane. OftentimeS the hus-
| bands cocaine bill amounted 10 s. per day.
THE USE of corrugated iron for dwelling
!
they would be much cheaper than houses of
| brick or stone. Being lined with wood, they
| would necessarily be warm in winter, and, to
have them cool in summer, the plan of the we'll
| known Indian bungalo is suggested.
AN EMPLOYMENT which would seem perfectly
delightful to small boys is tasting molasses.
| The molasses faster frequently has twenty or
thirty samples to experiment upon, taking care
| to swallow as little as possible. 1t is said that
only IL man with sweet tooth and a clear head
-
A WOMAN harmonized political strife in the
town of Union, Me-, and was elected to an Office
at the same time. The candidates for super
visor received a nearly equal number of votes
and there seemed to be 10 way of breaking the
deadlock. when some one proposed woman
candidate, and there was a stampede, resulting
in her unanimous election.
Two WILD CAMELs, which run away like deer
from mankind, are seen occasionally on the
ella river near Cottonwood A T. They are
the last remnant of the band imported by the
government and used on the desert, for pack
animals some years ago. The scheme did not
| prove successful and four of them were turned
loose. Two have either died or been killed.
THE wild man who has been roaming the open
country near Owingsville, KY, was captured
day or two ago by party of men organized for
the purpose. ne was almost nude, and turned
out to be a dangerous imbecile who had escaped
from hospital for the insane. He had been
without food for several days, and had gnawed
his fingers until they we're all badly swollen and
bleeding.
| A DEERsKIS MANTLE which belonged to King
Powhatan is preserved in the Ashmolean
museum, nantes of furs, and feather work
brought with it from Virginia by the first colo
nists having been destroyed. The mantle is
formed of two skins has hair and is deco
rated by an upright human figure, divided by
the span, pair of animal figures and thirty
two spiral rounds of shell work. The embroid-
cry is of beads and shells.
How sponges bore into limestone or shells is
as yet an unsolved problem. Mr.. Nassonoff
has investigated species of clion9 which
tunnels oyster and mussel shells, and he be-
lieveS that the boring of the canals and galleries
is performed solely by the soft parts of the
sponge. The penetration of the prolongation
Of the body OF the sponge into the shell appears
to be accomplished by the secretion of a cor
roding liquid, probably an acid.
THE AVERAGE cost per head for feeding the
Yale university crew, now in training is about
$14. Last week they consumed ISL quarts of
milk and 81 loaves of bread, 800 oranges and 10
dozen eggs. The men consume daily 40
pounds OF roast beef and Is pounds of
steak and chops. For breakfast they hay
steak and chops, and at dinner they have roast
beef and chicken. AT supper cold roast beef is
served, in addition to side dishes.
A BILL has been introduced in the New York
legislature providing for a commission to con-
slider whether New York city should not be ex-
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part of Queens county, Richmond county and
part of NestcheSter county. The bill does not
define any limits to the proposed extension.
Neither does it make the extension mandatory,
but it appoints n commission TO consider the
question and report to the Legislature what le =
isation is necessary.
MOST important auction sale OF oriental
porcelains is now progressing in New York At
Fridays sale the piece which brought the high
est price vas breaker shaped vase ''back
hawtl orn" of dep black axe, with fue'y
painted decorations of hawthorn blossoms,
birds, bamboo and rocks. The vase was very
graceful, an stood 81 inches high, including
the carved stand. Its diameter was IL inches
The vase was bought by Charles A. Dana for
| $1,000. Their was but one bid. The aggregate of
two days sales was SIS, 922.
PROF BAKER, of the Illinois university writes
of the sustaining strength of brick work, by
actual experiments in a testing machine, the
average strength, fro fifteen experiments of
piers laid in ordinary brick and common lime
| mortar, using the same care as that with which
| ordinary brick masonry is built, stood a few
| pounds Il am writing from memory over 200
pounds per square inch, which is equal 10 q 90
| pounds per square foot, or the weight of a
| column of brick 900 feet high; with ordinary
| Portland cement mortar, the strength WAS for