The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

help him 10 ind what became Of a peach and
| apple orchard ne set out lately, near Farming
dale, n j. Every tree had been transported TO
| farm some miles away.
| The Nippon announces that the attempt to
Introduce European dress into Japan has been
unsuccessful TIE Japan Gdzette and some Of
the other native papers rejoice that the fad
| as they term 1t, has met such fate.
DEATH from misadventure is the verdict re-
turned in the inquest Of an English laborer who
met his death by sucking one Of number of
| pheasants' eggs laid about the grounds OF his
employer for the purpose of k ling vermin.
IN Holland an unmarried woman always takes
the right arm Of her escort, and the married
woman the left At church wedding the
bride enters the edifce on the right arm of the
groom and goes out on the left side of her hus-
band
The Paris Academy of Science is reported ex-
cited over plant called Colocasa. This plant
often presents a trembling or vibrating motion
without any apparent cause, and as many as
100 or I'D vibrations have been observed in
single minute
The list of honorary members Of the Boston
Press Club contains but two names, Henry N.
Stanley and George w Childs, but G third was
proposed at the meeting last week, that of
George KEENAN, of Washington, the well-known
writer and traveller.
The number of immigrants arriving on our
shores during April 62,6O5, about 1900
less than during April, 1888. For the first ten
months of the fiscal year they numbered 316, 3i2,
which is 54.SS9 less than arrived during the
same period last year.
A CONCERT TOUR that will extend to the Paci-
flc coast is to be made the coming summer by
the Princeton College Gles and Banjo Clubs
The New York Tribune pronounees it the larg-
est enterprise ever undertaken in this country
by student organization.
JOSHUA MULLEN, an inmate Of the Charles
town. Qnd.,) poorhouse, built wagon and ran
away with Lucinda True, another inmate tax
ing her baby and trunk along. When last seen
Mullen was in the wagon with the baby and
trunk. smoking pipe. and Lucinda was pulling
| italong.
THE bill restoring the punishment of 1oggng
with the cato nne-tails aud authorizing its in
Fiction upon burglars convicted of having dan
gerouS weapons in their possession, has passed
| its third reading in the British House of Com
mons. Its passage in the House of Lords is
| assured it IS said.
| THREE SOLDIERS who started out from Fort
Adams for a sail in Newport harbor on Friday
capszed. Miss Ida Lewis, the famous life saver
put OUT her little boat to rescue them. She
came up just the men were saved by the
crew of a vessel lying near at hand, who arrived
few minutes ahead of the heroine.
ABOUT ten days have elapsed since the caterpil-
| lar army commenced its invasion of the Canadian
| Pacific railroad in its course through Names
northern wilderness, and still the pests continue
| IN their triumphal march. There are legions of
them and the railroad men, so it is reported, are
| almost powerless in the work of determination.
| A YOUNG MAN of Poughkeepsie was SO over
| joyed at his admission to the bar that he lost
| his senses for a time. He got out Eastman's
| brass band of nineteen pieces and marched up
| and down the street ahead of the drum major,
| carrying a broom. He was arranging for fire
WORKS and other jubilations when his friends
| secured him.
| WHAT odd wills people makel An Austrian
nobeman, Count Heinrich Hardegg, left 100000
| to the Vienna University the other day for the
establishment of tellowships, but coupled it
with the provsos that the money should be left
| to accumulate for 100 years and that when the
| fellowshipS were awarded members of his family
| should have the preference.
| A NIGHTINGALE which some weeks ago took
| up quarters in tree in Leicestershire, England
| has since attracted much attention by its sing
| ing. Every night hundreds of peopie 20 to the
| SPOT or rather did up to last accounts, to listen
| TO the bird. and on several occasions, according
| to the Pail Mall Gazette, the crowd was so
| large that policemen were required to preserve
| order.
A VIRGINIA COURT has been trying case in
| which the plaintiff, who has been totally blind
| for many years. claims $4,000 damages from
the Richmond and Danville railroad for having
been smashed up in an accident last year, and
| so injured that his .egs are paralyzed, and he
has to go about in wheeled chair. But he
conducted his own case, and maintains a large
| legal practice besides.
THERE is a row in Pittsburg labor circles over
| notice given by the secretary of the National
Brotherhood Of Carpenters to the effect that
any of the members who are attached to the
Knights of Labor cannot receive either sick or
death benefits. The members of the Knights
| of Labor think this is the beginning of an open
fight for upremacy by the American Fedora
ton of Labor against the Knights of Labor.
AN OLDTowN (Me.) woman who moved into an
Episcopal church there several months ago and
began housekeeping with her Two daughters,
still holds the fort" The members of the
church have been busy ever since, striving to
prove the prior claim to the property but have
| as yet been unable to GUST her. The matter
| has reached the chief justice of the supreme
court and his decision is expected any day.
THE country around FL Paso abounds in i'm
mense rattlesnakes and bullsnakes, which are
mortal enemies and fight every time they meet.
A leading real estate owner intends to fit an
arena where such fights can be safely witnessed,
and procure from the mountains surrounding
FL Paso large number of both rattlers and
bullsnakes that will fight for the delectation
and amusement of all such FL Paso citizens as
don't go to church on Sunday.
A BRIDeEPoRr, Montgomery county, family
having gone to the circus, leaving the house in
care of a son aged 10, the youth left the front
door open, scattered clothing on the floor, hid a
| gold watch that was in a bureau and devised
other indications of robbery. Then he hid
himself till the family returned When the ex-
| citement was at its hight he came forth de-
murely and explained the joke. In the Joy at
the return of the lost treasures he escaped
, castigation.
THE London Telegraph had in recent issue
this paragraph about the condition of the Sc
, vile cathedral, which seems to be more seriou:
than was at first anticipated: "It is probable
that as many as ten or twelve OF the great piers
sustaining the vault will have to be rebuilt from
the foundations These piers are of great size
} averaging Sc feet in circumference, and the ex
pense of their reconstruction and that of the
great vault will be enormous Seville cathedral
built in the first years of the fifteenth century
is the largest mediRval cathedral in Europe
and covers an area of 124, 900 feet Its length is
about the same IS Salisbury cathedral viz: 45(
feet but IN the latter there are p bays or divis
ions, including the transepts In Seville there
are only 10; the piers, therefore, are much far
Their apart. and the great vaul5 being AS feet
high as against "A feet 1T Salisbury, and the
width OF the nave SO feet center to center of
piers at Seville against 81 it follows that the
dimension, of the piers are unusually great,
and approximate to those which we find under
the central towers of our English cathedras"
BLAKELY HALL writes in the Clothfer and
Furnisher: The profits of some of the crack
tailors of London must be very great, despite
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