The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE HUNDREDTH YEAR Of the existence of the
| firm OF Messrs. A. & F. Pears was celebrated by
I banquet in London recently.
THE celebrated Mcneil collection of pictures
and sketches, relating to Frederick the Great
and his reign has been placed in tie ROYAL Ma
tlonal gallery at Berlin.
IT - PROPOSED TO organize line OF merchant
steamer between Naples Palermo and London
Which would receive a subyention from tie Bank
OF Naples and the Bank OF Sicily.
TIE indianapolis Sentinel modestiy asks this
IN the way of a supreme court for Indiana:
What the state Of Indiana needs is a supreme
court that has some knowledge of law an
enough honesty to decide what it knows to b.
the law
RECENT WIDESPREAD FAILURES the tea trade
In China have had curious effectoh the ruined
merchants. Five of them have taken refuge in
monastery in preference % meeting their
have disappeared : -
They have taught deaf mutes toitalk in Paris
ms result has been accomplished after years
ot labor, and NJ. laval, director" of the
Natlonai Deaf and Dumb Institution has given
Sne PUBIC an example Of the ability of some of
ms pupils to speak. al =,
GAMBLING especially of a low kind-has
assumed such large proportions in Paris that a
special brigade of detectives, under the direc-
tlon OF VI. Rossignol. who superinten led the ex-
hloltlOn police, is about to be formed for the
purpose OF dealing with it.
1T Is REPORTED from Europe that the italian
government has found among its archives a
clrcumstantial, exhaustive and authentic &C
count OF the martyrdom of Giordano Bruno.
anu Will pubhsh the documents. This is said
Vatican. - - ~ VIZ
A CERTAIN YOUNG LADY in Cincinnati is sorry
she bet on Foraker. She agreed to wheel her
sweetheart about town in wheelbarrow at
loohtime IN case she lost, and now in the horri-
Die reality of the thing tho gentleman has con
senJed to allow the performance to take place
at O'Clock in the morning. when the streets are
not so crowded.
AN electrical instrument has been invented
which is designed to remove the pain incidental
TO the extraction of teeth. It consists of ad-
Justaole, ptvotaly-connected prongs carving
buttons and connected with an electric battery
the buttons being placed on the face over the
nerves leading from the teeth to the BRAIN and
circuit established the moment the tooth-ex-
tractlng instrument touches the tooth to be re-
moved
ACCORDING to an official report just issued of
the 39,41S people whose marriages were regis
tered in Massachusetts last year, SOB were men
ana 24o women who had reached their 5Oth year:
IL men and women were over rs wears of age
ana men and women were over so The total
number OF males under 20 years of age were 1868,
ana or females 321S. Two females were 10 2
were IL, II were IA and 81 were IS wears of age
one male was Is, and there were none under
that age
FROM the other side of the water has been
cabled the engagement of Miss Mabel Sands.
daughter of the late Mahlon Sands by his first
wife, Miss Edith Minturn, to Clarence G. Sin
clair, son and heir of Sir John Sinclair Bart
The marriage will take place at an early date
and Mrs Sands is expected to spend a part of
the winter with her uncle, the Vice President
OF his home in Washington This time il is
only baronets son. Presently we shall be
getting down to plain misters with no expecta-
tiOns.
HENRY CABY, whose real name is Kish-ka-ko,
lives up in Arenac county. Michigan, is great
grandson of an Indian chief of the same name
and he sets up claim that in 1919 his royal an
ceStor was, by treaty with the government
given sections 2S and 20 on which much of the
most valuable part of Bay City stands and now
his lawyers propose to get tue land for him or
the money value thereof. 1t is alleged that the
treaty records show no further disposition of
the land has ever been authorized since the
treaty of 1919
AT RECENT MEETING Of the Association of
American Physicians, Dr.. Peabody read a re-
markable paper on a case where pin was
found in the heart, where it had evidently lain
for an indefinite p5riod. The point of the Din
was distant five millimetreS from the external
surface OF the heart. The pin seemed eroded
and was broken by the scissors in dissection,
without, however, becoming displaced There
was no evidence of recent local inflammation
but the endocardium in the neighborhood of
the protruding head of the pin YVES greatly
thickened and snow white, and firmly adherent
to the edge of the head
A STREAM near Benton, Tenn, is said to be
full of phantom fish. Standing on the rocks
and looking down into the water the eve can
see hundreds of trout, some of them remark
ably large, darting about the pools or resting
with the gentle motion peculiar to their tribe
The angler casts his line ia one of these pools
literally swarming with fish, to all Appearances
and no matter how attractive the fly, or how
skillful the fisherman, he never gets bite AS
plentiful as they seem to be no one has ever vet
been able to catch O trout in that stream The
fish pay no attention to the hook or line and
when the bait is thrown at tn m or an attemDt
| is made TO spear them the instrument has the
appearance OF passing through the fish, but ne
is not caught; when the barb or spear is re-
moved he is still there.
A MAN whose locks were sprinkled with the
frost of rs winters, with slow and solemn de-
meanor, strolled into Castle Garden the other
| morning and said to Detective Peter Groden.
now known as the wise obtainer" that he was
Jonathan McReynolds of Greenwich Conn
| where he has farm valued at $4,000 He
wanted a wife, not n giddy girl. but plump
Irish lass who would love him for himself alone
Detective Gruden told him to take seat and
then trotted out Mary McGown, Just arrived
from county Tyrone, Ireland. Her looks and
general appearance satisfied McReyuolds but
her solicitude about his worldly and financial
affairs made the old man suspicious Mary was
allowed to depart, and Detective Groden is now
watching out for another candidate for Mercy
| nolds' hand and money.
| THE COMPANIES owning the drop-a-pepny-in-
| the-slot machines are having a hard time of it
| with the devisers of new schemes to beat the
game. Somebody evidently has gone into the
| business of turning out round pieces of metal
which serve as well as coins when put in the
slots. AT one of the elevated railroad stations
in Brooklyn, day or two ago, the collector who
was making a round of the machines found in
| the box Of candy machine many pieces of lead
the size of penny. Nearly fifteen of these were
| in the box of the peppermint department, and
| perhaps were thrown in by some dishonest pep
perInint tend who is i'll the habit of using that
| station. The collector said that stealing was
going on everywhere the companies had
| automatic machines, and that for some reason
| or other the thieves could not be caught.
AMONG the curiosities to be found in the Min
| nesota state library are two volumes of the
| colonial laws of Massachusetts, 1850 to 1772
| They are, of course, reprints, but I'VE olden
Style has been faithfully reproduced. The
ode of laws in vogue in those provincial DAYS
was truly very crude 1t was then that the
whipping post was resorted to as mode of pun
ishment but it is stipulated that mo man shall
be beaten with above forty stripes, nor shall
any true gentleman. nor any man equal to a
gentleman, be punished by whipping unless bis