The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-17
ITEMS OF IN EREST.

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one after another, providing buildings for the
treatment of hydrophobia according TO Pas
| teurs system. and the municipal council of
Rome has lately decided to devote the } eces-
sary sum OF money to furnishing a Pasteur in
stitute there.
SINCE 1870 the aspect Of Rome has consider
bly, anged. The narrow. winding streets are
a tnlng OF the past, and are replaced by large,
| woe tnoroughfares. Blocks of the old houses
| nave been knocSed down. and large modern
palazzl have sprung up in their stead. The mar
| row CorSo OF old times will soon be no more, SIS
IL Is gradually being wideaed by half a gain it ,
| original width.
| AN invention has been made which promise
10 revolutionlze completely the industry of
china decoration. A proc IS has been discov-
cred in which it is possible to obtain in a few
| minutes the same artistic effe.t which cost
the hand-p7Inter on china days of labor. Land
scapsS, groups of figures and portraits are re-
p,oduced oy his means on vases, plates and
plaque IN their natural colors, even to the
| most delicate shade.
The PRONUNCIATION of French phrases, which
nave come into common use by people who
haven't much knowledge of French, is rather
an interesting stuJy. In the restaurants for
instance. there is generally as much confusion
ao Jut the names or French dishes as there is
over French names on the American stage.
Lnere Is an uncertainty as to the plural of char
lotte russo, for instance. which is generally rem
a
waiter so vel this question, though by calling
out when two CHARLOTTE rusSeS had been ordered
Two Charley RoSses!"
REGULAR old days siege is going on of
regular old-fashioned Irish castle, with walls
feet thick. Mrs Barry, widow, tenant of Nc
nanimy castle, which has been forfeited to re-
slst eviction, owes rent amounting 20 $500. The
cdstie is over 40 feet nigh, ar the village of
killavullen. The widow was assisted by the
people. Day after day they assembled, and
some OF them remained at nj hit until it was
put IN dghtin order even cutting down the
Trees. All the family Rave left tie castle except
the WIDOWS only son, who remains to defend
IT, ana who will have plenty of help.
WITH REGARD to the petition of the Eu-
ropeans in the New Hebrides to the governor
or New Caledonia. for tne annexation of those
islands to France, it is stated in a Lo don paper
That th reason for this request is that the state
OF AFFAIRS there is quite ntolerable. Murders
OF Europeans have of late been of increasing
frequency, especially in Ambrym. In that
place French cocoanut dealer killed by
cannlbals few months ago, whereupon the
other cocoanut merchants were taken for safety
TO Port Sanwich An nglish and q Frenc
man-of-war are, it is said. to be sent to Ambrym
to chastise III natives guilty of the murder of
the trader referred to.
The RATE-CUTTNG MANIA is spreading in the
west. Jefersonvile, Ind, is the Gretna Green
OF runaway Kentucky couples, and very com
Portable business has been done there in the
Tying or the matrimonial knot. For 81 80
el0p RS could be married. the sum including
license, magistrates fees and the service of q
witness to swear to the ladys age. But the
spirit of competition get to running riot in the
Two matrimonial agencies. The old firm to
meet competition, cut the rate to S.; then the
opposition came down to 81 which was met
with ID; then, in the madness of rivalry the
new firm agreed to provide all the Off ial
requisites for nothing, and now has all the bust
ness.
ONE or the LATEST men in the country is John
Curtis, who is serving a three years sentence in
the state prison at Salem, Ore. Curtis worked
in the foundry, and about three months ago
took off his boots on the.plea that they hurt MIN
and then burned els fooc so severely that he
was laid up. When the burn was healed he mt
vinegar on 1t, and aggravated II to prevent its
getting well The prison physician threat ned
him and managed to cure the wound Curtis
was set to work again. He worked four DAYS
and then with a Ratchet cut off his left hand
1t took two blows. One cut through the feshy
part of the hand the other cut clean through
the wrist joint. He confessed that he did it to
avoid work.
GEN. GEORGE A. SHERIDAN, speaking in
Washington the other day about Gen. Buffers
disappointment at not being able to sell the
government the tone for the new library build
ing, said Il once saw man in this city more
disappointed than Butler. He was Mulberry
Sellers sort of chap, who told me that he al
discovered stone that was absolutely imp r
vious to heat, genuine fire-stone Just wnaJ
was wanted 10 government buildings, of course.
on account of is durability, and, consequently,
WIN millions IN 1t. l asked him to bring me
samples of the stone He came next day with
three or four little cubes IT was winter and
had base, nurner glowing in the room, with
great iSinglass doors | opened one of them
stirred uD the Goals, and thrust two p eces Of
the stone far down into the mass Then Judi
ciouSly retired to a far corner of the room and
awaited results. They came in about twenty
CaPnn1S "a uC IN o. MI 1rbr. III,
every pane of isnglaSS in the stove. NV man
stood there aghast, with both hands appraised.
while he exclaimed BY thunder! another
million gone 10 potH"
AS is well known, the queen is in the habit of
keeping locked up rooms which have been oc-
cupied by deceased relatives The apartmc It's
at Claremont in which the Princess Charlotte
died more than seventy years ago are vigorously
closed, and nobody is allowed to use them
Prince Albert's apartments at Win lsor. Os
borne and Balmoral are all kept precisely rs
they were when he was alive; and on the wall of
the room in which he expired there is a tablet.
with an inscription recording the TACT that
this apartment was the scene of his demise
The Duchess of Kent's rooms at Frogmore are
also shut uD-an arrangement which renlerS
that abode alb olutely useless as tney are the
best in tie house. The queen has al 20 kept John
Browns rooms at Winasor entirely closed since
the death of that domestic aud large brass
has been erected in the apartment in which he
expired, with an inscription common Grating
his virtues and deploring his loss
Rocco MAUPoNI. proprietor of the drug store.
No. 1913 Mulberry street, New York, in the
Italian quarter, is not by any means an athlete.
But he made such good time in chasing one of
his countrymen on saturday last. that almost
the entire colony turned out and applauded
He was leiSurey perusing q paper behind his
prescriptio counter, when Dominica Lorenzo
of No. zoo Mulberry street, came in and asked
for twenty five cents worth of medicine He
tRndArAH a iua1 tba alo
Then he left the store After his departure, the
druggist looked at the bill, then with a wild
cry dashed into the street and after the fly ng
form of his customer, wno was just turning the
corner The chase was a long one but the
druggist won, and held him until the arrival
of tn officer. 1t was confederate pill and
for trying to pass it Lorenzo was ye teriay he'd
for trial i'll the Tombs police court. In his ex-
cite nent in CHASING the latter Mauponi left the
store to take care Of itself.
A wELL-DREssED MAN dropped INTO fash
iolaole uptown saloon last evening, says the
NV York Star, and iaking canary bird from
L. II