The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE sum heretofore charged for the trans
portation of bicycles, under a rule of the
Trunk Line Association, has been abolished by
| the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on al lis
| lines.
Col JACK" HAvERLY, the once famous
minstrel manager, admits having made and
| lost seven fortunes. and says he is now trying
| 70 get together the eighth He's working MS
| mining interests in the west.
AT the Thames police court. London. some
days ago. woman. who had been convicted
~ times at that and other courts in the metro
| polls, was charged with being drums and disOr-
derIy She got five days at hard labor.
A LONDON PAPER says: There is some proba
blity Of our having india rubber roadways in
the metropolis. Two German engineers have
come over 70 consult with the authorities on the
| SUBJECT, ana should the county couacii be
agreeable, there is no reason why London
horses should not soon enjoy the LUXURY of a
soft and firm foothold especially if they are
snod with the shoe that is Intensified with india
rubber.
PRINCE BISMARCK has not a high opinion OF
the conversational powers of sovereigns and
princes regnant in general At the lunch which
he gave to certain deputies and other distin-
| gulshed visitors IN Berlin the other day he was
! TALKING OF King Ludwig II of Bavaria ssHe
was man OF nigh intellectual culture" said
| Bismarck Il once had an Interesting interview
WITH him in 1853 His conversation was far su-
perior to that of most princes which almost
| always IS like this: How are you? How are
you IeehngE Have you ever been bere before?' -
REMARKABLE GIRL died Saturday in Chica-
CO. Josephine Grabski was her name, and she
was IS years old. She was the eldest of a
FAMILY OF six children. and had never walked
| a step IN her life. She lad never seen the light
OF DAY, never heard the sound of voices and
| never uttered an Ineligible syllable She ate
wnat was given her, rejecting nothing, and
never made sign that she desired more The
| only feeling that this semiinanimate creature
| ever betrayed was when flower was placed in
| ner nand She was no larger than an ordinary
| iio-year-old child After death her countenance
| looked IKE that OF a beautiful angel in sweet
| rspose, and the lips were parted in a smile
| tAouSh sne mad never smiled in life.
| A GERMAN TECHNICAL AUTHORITY has ex-
pressed 1t as his opinion that four -fifths of the
! entire number of steam engines now at work
| throughout all parts of the world have been
| constructed within the last twenty-five years
| france Is DeneVed TO possess as nearly as possi-
oie ABOUT AZ, 800 locomobiles and stationary en-
| eihes, l,OOO locomotives, and 1850 marine en-
glhes; Germany about $1,000 locomobiles and
stationary engines, 10000 locomotives and /. 700
| marine engines; while the number owned nv
austria Hungary is said to be about 200 loco
| Inoolles and stationary engines and $500 loco
motives Inc total value of the engines actually
at work is estimated at 100000 marks for the
United states, 900, 900 marSs for Great Britain
and 4,5OJ,OOO marks for Germany.
+. VANDERBILT, of New Brunswick, N. J.. who
graduated with the class of 1S49 from Rut-
gers college, has presented to the college mu-
| scum his collection of photographs of generals
ana other oHlcers OF the late war, said to be the
| largest OF the kind in the country The collec-
| tlon numbers, over 1000 pictures, and incl ude ;
| every major general. brigadier general or high
onicer OF note. The pictures in the collection
poi one, naj Gen. A w. Whipple who
was killed in battle, and whose rank was
| raised after his death. Mr. Spader was unable
TO get photograph of this officer. but the pub
lshers OF the Century borrowed one which
| they reproduced in print. One of the print
| copies Nils the vacant place in the collection
AN officer Of the marine infantry, who COM
manded the penitentiary of st. Mary la Comte
In New French Guiana lately died of diseases
contracted at that station. The inventory of
| Che oolects he left behind him. it is chronicled
| comprised very curious cuiraSS, with STRAPS
| ana other accessories. On examination IL
| proved to be of human skin. convict had
died whose breast was covered with extremely
Deeutltul tattoolng. The commandant of the
| station knew this, and had the man tiayed he
| fore he was buried. For a moment ii was
| thought that this human relic would have been
put up for auction with the officers other eff
reefs, Dut fortunately, it oc .urrei to somebody
that 1t was rather too disgusting It was
| known that the officer had worn the cuirasS
| several times when fencing with his comrades
A SCIENTIFIC PAPER recently offered a reward
for the most correct. answers to certain
scientific problems Among others was the old
sclentinc 'conundrum. " which weighs the most,
| a pound OF feathers or a pound of leads OF
| course pound Is pound, no matter of what
substance, and when tie simple or tbouohtless
person answers that pound of lead is the
heaviest everybody laughs. Mr.. Charles Pitt
IN answering this question, claims that the
pound of lead would weigh the heaviest because
| the feathers would be buoyed up by a weight
| equal to the amount of air which thew d,snIsce
l 6uOY9d nm in ha,
future, therefore, we must refrain from
| laughing at the FOOLS answer as practically n
| Is correct. OF course, if weighed in a vaclium
| a pound of any two substances would weigh
| alike.
In family in Renfrew, Canada, there is a cat
| which is much petted One day the lady of the
| house sat down for moment. and either To re-
| leve her feelings as bit of innocent diver.
sion, gave vent TO a little whistle Immediately
the pet cat sprang up TO her lap, and with its
sheathed paw struck her blow in the face
The lady thought this strange but at first
| hardly connected it with the whistling How
| eyer, little time afterward, in another room,
she happened to repeat the whistle and i'm
| mediately The cat sprang up and strucx her
again. This time the lady thought it must be
the whlstling which was giving pussy Offences
and SO, with malice aforethought,' . whistled
again. Sure enough, the cat chastised her with
another blow, square in the face About the
only possible explanation is that in the whistle
1t fancled call was being given to the pet dog
THE following is from the Pail Mall Gazette.
few days a 20 Hogson Boazmau, cattle dealer.
Kelso, bought a 3-year-old bullock from Easr
Blanerne, and sent it with others to the market
at Wakefield 1t was purchased for the Batlev-
Carr cooperative stores and in due course the
bullock was slaughtered. In cutting The steal
bone from the Sirloin the knife came in contact
with hard substance. This was sawn throuoh
and common tin whistle was found Imbedded
in the undercut of the sirloin There was no
appearance of irritation or Inflammation. and
the meat around the foreign substance was per
fectly good. The whistle is ten inches in length
and slightly in excess of half an inch broad at
the mouthpiece The most probable explapa-
ton of the whistle getting into the muscles of
the OK is that it was dropped into the straw or
other bedding. and resting there in a verticle
position with the small end upward when the
bullock lay down, the small end, with its sharp
edge of metal was forced into the body
INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS recently took place
at Cherbourg, France, of which the Dir
Neuuieme Steele speaks as follows: 1.-THE other
day two sailors belonging to our navy were
from in the morning till in the evening
under water, at a depth of 10 meters without
experiencing the least Inconvenience Orr
readers have already OWNED that it was on
board the submarine torpedo boat Gouhet thar
this unprecedented event took place The
commission of examination were enabled to
telephone, minute by minute, to receive the
impressions of the two men When they came
to the surface at $40 O'Clock they were quite
fresh, and ready to go down again. Not drop
of water had entered the boat. and there was
not the faintest odor perceptible. 1t now re-