The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Ex1aaATIox to Canada last year reached
70, 1eS, against "A, 406 in 1887.
The national bank repositories now hold
$40, 6l5349 government funds, exclusive of dis
bursting officers balances.
HINT that thu silly season is coming around
is given in the story from YOUNGSTOWN. o., that
turtle which disappeared last July has been
found alive in the craw OF chicken.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT Jay Gould and Mr.
Aston own the largest, the swiftest ard the best
yachts afoat, and it is said that each expends
500, 900 year in yachting recreation.
THE WISCONSIN w. C. T U. has sent a letter
TO Mrs. Harrison asking her influence to Danish
all kinds of alcoholic liquors from the white
house during her residence as mistress.
OUT near San Diego. in California, where
there is much coarse sand rock, covered by a,
thin layer of soil, the experiment is being tried
Of blasting holes into which to plant shade and
fruit trees.
COUNT Won MoLTKE, though Sc years of age,
fully retains his love for music. and hardly ever
misses q court concert. He used to be a fire.
qHent performer on the piano, too, but has re-
formed in that respect
HANNIBAL HAMLIN remarked the other day
that only four persons were now living who
were in congress when he entered it. These
are WI. Df6IouIy Ol AIdlHe, MI FIUCu Oh AICll-
gan, jefferson Davis and himself,
A RAGGED STREET GAMrN, holding up at arms
length an old rubber boot from which pours a
stream of water, is the design for a work of art
for the Common, which the Boston aldermen
have just approved, according to a New York
paper
OF THE 100000 or more Of cattle in the
United States, Texas is estimated to have 4.724-
053. the value of which reaches the sum of $685.
5lS,S60. There are more cattle in Texas than
any other state, but in value New York, Hi
noiS and Iowa lead
AN INDIANA CITIZEN, though he made his v-
ing from the sale of drugs, always refused
medical advice, and even in his last sickness
would not consent to see a doctor. Erie nds,
though insisted on calling in a physician, who
found the sufferer pull eless and dying.
AS AFFoRDING some idea of the amount of
light gold now in circulation in London, it is
stated that recently financer of that city &C
cepted f1000, largely made UP OF half-sover-
eigns, and that, on the amount being weighed
at the bankers, it was found to be short by &19.
FRED A. STEWART, mate Of schooner, which
recently arrived at Portland, Me-, was sleeping
in his berth, the other night, when he felt soms-
thing scraping his face. He grabbed it with his
hand and threw it on the floor, and, getting
light, found it was good sized rat he had killed,
which had be n gnawing his face
Mo, which is doing a rushing business. The
factory pays at the rate of n cents for Ia inch
COTS and 10 cents for 115Incl cohs. 4 man
hauled a load the otter day of 1H-inch cobs
which brought him S64. The time may yet
come when the people will raise wheat for the
chafT
Mr.. MARGoL1ouTH of Oxford has just been
elected Laudan professor of Arabic. While he
was still an Undergraduate he was reputed to
be one Of the six learned men Of Oxford, ard ne
established panic among the dons who had to
examine him. He swept away all the prizes
which are open at oxford to the students
learned and devout.
AN ENGLISH PAPER recently published the fol-
lowing advertisement: 'Notice-To ladies of
position: viii any lady of good social position
receive another her house for a week during
next May, and present her at the last of the
May drawing rooms Satisfactory terms to be
arranged, and good refe. ences. given. Strict
confidence will be observed"
Boston is harder hit by the copper collapse
than any other city except Paris. 1t is the one
great owner of copper mining stocks and thu
loss in the market value of their stocks in the
asst six months is not less than 500 010 0Ja As
muca more has been lost in Boston by the fall
in western railroad stocks, that in the aggre-
gale a heavy fine has fallen on the security
holders of the city
The GEoGRAPHERs are all at sea regarding the
geographical center of the United States TAX
ing Quoddy Head, Me-, as the most eastern
po.nt, Alton Islands the most western, Point
Barrow Alasaa, The most northern, and Key
West. Fla, as the most southern and forming
a parallelogram, it appears that the & 4ograph-
icai center of the country is 270 miles west of
SAN Francisco in The Pacific ocean.
THE GORGEOUS MANSION in Hopkinton Mass,
which Mrs. Searle, formerly Mrs. Hopkins has
had built, boasts an organ costing $4,000 Its
cas- is of English ash to correspond with the
finish of the pYQyIiStalV rvad 1vir n
moldlng, IS over 30 feet high, and is probably
the most costly organ in any private dwelling
IN America. The music room is large, over 40
feet hlgh with paneled ceiling of terra Gotta.
OVER IN New Jersey they have found an old
colonial law, unrepealed, which provides that
all women of whatever age rank profession or
degree, whether virgins, maids or widows. who
shall impose upon, seduce or betray into mat
rmony any of bis majesty's subjects, by virtue
of scents. cosmetics, washes paints, artificial
teeth, false hair, or high-heeled shoes, shall
Incur the penalty now in force against witch
craft and like miSdemeanorS."
A SHOE MANUFACTURER in Portland, Me- being
asked to assist in providing bread for the suffer
ing poor said he would contribute to the extent
OF 100 sac s of flour and 100 bushels of meal
one sack of flour and one buShel of meal to be
given to every man in Portland VINO neither
kept dog, drank rum, nor used tobacco and
was in need of bread. According to the local
papers the first man had not appeared up to
day or two ago to claim the gift.
PRoF. KIRcHoFF of Halle estimates that the
language most spoken on the globe, for the last
thusand years at least, is Chinese, for it is
without doubt the only one that is talked by
over 4010OO,000 of the human race; the next
language most in use Out at very great dis
lance behind Chinese) being Hindustan spoken
by over 1O0,00O,000 Then follows English
spoken by about 100. 000000), Russian lover
1O,O0O,000, German (54,0O0000) and Spanish
(over 410O0,000).
RUSSELL HARRISON, shortly after he went to
Montana, was one day walking in the street in
Bozeman when he sud lenly ran into the thick
of a dispute in progress between two citizens
There was a scufle, and one of the combatants
walk. Mr. Harrison picked up the revolver and
but another person who observed the action
thought Harrison was goingto shoot, and gave
him smash in the left eye that landed him on
his back. Harrison had badly discolored
optic for several days, and was never known
thereafter to interfere with territorial amuse-
mentS
A CORRESPONDENT writes the London Times
as follows: A curious case came under my
notice lately which, think, is of public value
children's party and Christmas tree resulted
in most Of the little people, and many of the
older ones, being seized with symptoms of
mineral poison ng. The fact of several who
were present VINO had not partaken of food or
liquid of any kind being in the number of thosa