The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

plans to carry out the erection of the BLACK
diamond palace during the coming sea.
1T WAS NOTICEABLE at the Paris exposition
this summer how rapidly two-wheeled vehicles
IN France are supplanting four-wheelers There
| were $4,000 four-wheeled and 100000 two
wheeled vehicles in the country in 1874. The
numoer OF the latter is now 10000. while that
| OF the more aristocratc conveyances remains
Just what it was fifteen years a. CO.
lSDEETED WRITING upon iron has Just been
successfully done by John Farrar, an eastern
| foundryman, by the following process: The i'm
preston on the iron is made by writing back
ward on thin paper, pinning the paper in a
mold, and then pouring on the iron The
writing thus transferred to the plates when the
IRON Is cooled is wonderfully clear and distinct,
| tempt at erasure.
| JAMES SHIELDS of Creston, Ia, arrived in
| Kansas City the other evening With his bride of
a week. Leaving his wife in the ladies waiting
| room OF the union depot. he went across the
\ street TO lind hotel. When he returned his
| WIe was gone. He spent several hours looking
LOT ner, and finally reported the matter TO the
ponce; Inc missing woman is IS years of age
| Snlelds. who had never before been in Kansas
City. went there to reside
THERE are 5000 medical women in the United
states whose incomes range from $4,000 to
$4,000 year The number is increasing every
year. and the supply of LADY Doctors bids fair
a. An 9e as great as that of the male physicians.
austria is the only civilized country in the
world which PROHIBITS women from entering
Cne medical profession. Russia and China per-
mt them, and the Queens of Italy and Rou-
mama employ women ,lIysiciansl
THE chief of the bureau Of statistics reports
that the total values OF tie exp6rts of mineral
| oils from the United StAtss "a llhribs the month
of September, 1889, and dirin I the nine months
ended Sept. 80, 1889. sDe6mpared with similar
eAports during the corresponding periods of the
$50 SssSea s1 year were as follows: September,
1898 S4,5I6,56S; September, 1855, $4,O0l 374
Nine months ended Sept 30, 1889, $50 1917 sis:
nine months ended Sept. so. 1888. $34, 699 O67.
COMMON as slate pencils are, and extensive as
is their use in all the schools of the country.
their manufacture is one of olirmost peculiar
industries. There iss only, dene- slate pencil
factory in all the United States. 1t employs
slate pencils day. 1t hardly seefns that this
quantity would be sufficient bit Since chewing
gum has come into such general vogue the
consumption OF slate pencilsO has evidently
HENRY ExALL of Richmond, Va, claims to
have suggested tower similar to that now
known as the Eiffel tower as long ago as 1879
He says: II have yet my plans and only last
year proposed to the mayor of Chicago to put
them in the hands of some of the rich and enter
prlslng men IN that city, where the tower
would make a grand show near the edge of the
lake. and over large extent of country The
mayor replied that the city government could
not enter on such scheme, and he did not pro
pose TO favor it so much as to propose it to the
citizens
The VANDERBILTs are known at Bar Harbor as
people who do great deal of good in q quiet
way. helping the deserving poor on frequent
occasions without making any parade OF the
matter. During the past season they purchased
al one shop, through an attache Of the cottage
9oO worth per week of common clothing for
n s.
philanthropy was sadly abused. They had pro
vided destitute family with lot of furniture.
among other things, and not long afterward
FOUND that the shiftless recipients sold
the goods for ready cash.
AT THE JERsEYvLLE (ILL.) FAIR, the other
day, about 1000 children were treated to a sur
prise entertainment that made the little ones
wild with delight 1t consisted of mock we'd
ding of two little 7-year-old children-Lester
Daniels or Lord Fauntleroy," and Jessie Finch
as his bride-Marmaduke Fox 10 years old.
oInciatlng in clerical robes The little bride
was arrayed in beautiful dress of cream alba
tross, en- train, with garniture of flowers and
wreath of orange blossoms. They came upon
the grounds In an elegant close carriage, and
after the ceremony rode around the ring in a
splendid dogcart drawn by a Shetland pony
with Senator Chapmans 5-year-old boy as
driver.
A CERTAIN LEWISTON (ME) WOMAN is in luck
| Recently she sat counting some bills to the
| amount of $50, which she had Just taken out of
her pocketbook. Near at hand was flower
stand, and, noticing some dead leaves on her
plants, she picked them off and mechanically
crumpled them and the bills in her hand thrust
| the whole into the stove, laid in kindlings.
turned on kerosene, lighted the whole and went
| into another room. Suddenly searching for
her bills to replace them in her wallet she
| thought of what she had DONE and Selling a
upper OF cold water. turned it upon the fire
IN about as quick time as ever she did ANYTHING
Truly time was money" with her Just then
And she actually rescued the whole amount nm
damaged except one bill, the edges of which
were slightly scorched
THEY have the color line drawn in the ward
room" said an old sailor to New York Herald
reporter, on board a maui Of war at the Brook
| Ign navy yard yesterday. ''They don't want
| to associate with black man, even if he is a
| minister going abroad to represent the nation.
But we poor shebacks have to put up with the
colored mon they pile in on us before the mast
We have no choice. Have we any objection to
colored sailors? Well, it don't make any differ
ence whether we have or not we have to put I'D
with EN- The docks are full of the 'black
scorpions'-that's what we old men-of- wars
! men call 'em. Yes; they make pretty fair sea
men, but they amt our race or color Fore the
war there warn't so many Of EN- as there are
to-day; now we pear to take anything in the
shape OF a man that comes along. The navy of
| the old wooden ship schoolwas the best for the
marlin spike and topman, Regular yankee man
of-warsmen, but times change and we are going
aloft to another sphere to make way for the
new-fangled invention Of the times It's ali
right, suppose, but amt what it used TO be
fore the war. 3s sIa W
THE tallest and heaviest ntati who has passed
through the entrance of the Hotel LAFAYETTE for
many day, says the Philadelphia Inquirer,
bent his six feet and a quarter of stature
over the desk yesterday when he regis
| tered as Hugh Ferguson, Charleston, 8.
c. He is sheriff of his county, and in the
political scales OF Lhe state from which he comes
| he weighs as heavily as he would in any merely
mechanical balances = He Has decided the turn
ing of the beam iii afaays d. critical contest in
the Democratic party Of south Carolina, in
which he Is manager of the firsB Importance In
| his black suit, which hangs loosely on his mas
sive figure, and his soft, black felt hat, he is
| more like the southerner of the days before the
where the tailor's art is not far
behind the northern patterns, Mr.
Ferguson is a strong man in that faction of the
South Carolina democracy which counted the
late Capt. Francis W. Dawson as big section
of its brains; but he and his associates have NOT
lost their party grip because of the killing of
Dawson by DR.. Mellow The sheriff has brother
living in Philadelphia, to visit whom is the prin-
cipal incentive of his northern trip.
LAUREL, Nd, has haunted mill The othe
night persons standing near it heard agonizing
groans in the direction of the old building. and
light was discovered in one of the upper stories.
Several people had been attracted to the spot
by the light, which shone brightly from che