The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Is q charity fair recently held at Vienna.in the
Princess d Aremberg's palace. an English mill
iouaire paid 1000 forms for tie pleasure Of
kissing one cheek Of the princess
WARDEN Toner. of the New Castle Del) jail,
has received bushel Of plug tobacco for dis
tribution among the prisoners. The donor signs
himself: zone who has been there.
BARON LIEBIe, the German chemist, says that
''as much -four as can lay on the point of table
knife contains as much nutritive constituents
as eight quarts of the best and most nutritious
beer that Is made.
AN ESGLIsH PAPER says: Here is chance
not often to be met with, set forth in
weekly organ Of the spiritualists: To Wealthy
Spiritualists-A lady medium of tried power
wishes 10 meet with an elderly gentleman, who
would be willing to give her comfortable home
and maintenance in exchange for her spirit
ualistic services, as her guides consider her
health too delicate for public sittings-
ONE of the easiest wavs to reduce weight is
to wear a short flannel sweater and ride on a
brisk trot. If the horse trots roughly, and the
rider bounceS up and down in the saddle, so
much the better Ten pounds a week can be
lost by this process. The best kind of sweater
Is made by taking four, six or eight tnickneSseS
of flannel and wrapping them around the loins
and lower part OF the chest Tine upper chest
should be left free
some idea may be formed of the vast quantity
of water discharged by South Fork lake into
the Conemaugh valley when compared to the
flow over Niagara Falls. Estimating the Niagara
supply at 100000 tons of IS cubic feet per
hour, ana taking the measurement of the lake
to have been 312 miles long by IA miles wide,
with mean depth of 80 feet, We have the
enormous volume of 100000, 100000 of tons of
water, which would require thirty hours in
passing over Niagara Falls
AT RENIcKENDoRy, a village near Berlin. it
is reported by Building. a consumpuve santa
rum is to be erected on a novel plan, utilizing
the supposed therapeutic influence of assOcia-
tion with certain animals. A large S5--z--5TIcaI
building will be occupied in the~apper parts by
the patients, while the grouZ1 floor will be given
up to the accommodation of large numbers of
mich cows, the exalatioAs from which VIII be
conducted to the apartments above. whey
and buttermik diet VIII also be contributed by
the under boarders
TIE entire property of Tuxedo Park. has been
decided in trust to Mr.. Lorillard's grand chill
dren, and if it keeps on increasing in value and
popularity for twenty-five years as it has dur
ing the past two years. it will be a veritable
kingdom in itself. There are now more than
| nifty cottage owners and nearly 400 club mem
bers, giving net income of more than $4,000
per annum. The village at the station is also
| increasing in due ratio, and as the club is now
| self-supporting Mr.. Lorillard's guarantee
against loss for five years is being entirely de-
| voted to Improvements, which are visible in
| every direction.
| WHILE Pennsylvania railroad train was
on its way to Jersey City one day
| last week Engineer Holt deserted two
| children walking on the track The train
was brought to a standstil and the chill
/ dren we're picked up and taken to Jersey City
| and handed over to the police. Chief Muir phy
| teephoned the Newark police, aud Ern est
/ Meisun of No. 264 Eighth avenua, who had re-
ported the disappearance of the children, was
| sent on, and recognized his children sleeping in
| each others arms at police headquarters. One
was thres and the other years old, and neither
| could speak English
| THE EsoUIMAUx of Hudson's straits are in the
habit Of making offerings of various articles to
spirits, and scraps of food, powder and shot, to-
| bacco, and the like, are to be found on the
graves of their dead. But they are anxious to
| concilate all the known supernatural powers as
well as the unknown. aud therefore they made
similar offerings to a beacon in the shape of
man, recently erected in that region. When
| two cannons, undoubtedly lefc upon the shore
by some early explorers, were stood on end.
bull IS, shot and lot of other rubbish fell out,
which, the natives explained. had been put there
| as IAN offering to the spirits"
NJ. ToPINARD has been making statistical in
quiry into the colors of the eyes and hair in
France. and from his fSa, 900 observations he de-
duces many interesting results, one of the most
curious being that whHre the race is formed
from a mixture of blondes and brunettes the
hereditary blood coloring comes out in the eyes,
and the brunette element reappears in the hair
To this tendency probably is TO be attributed
the rarity of a combination of light hair with
dark eyes. Several Observers have asserted
that the American people, who are prominent
ly a mixed race, are becoming dark-haired
ana olue-eyed nation and II this be true such
development must be owing to the working of
the law formulated by M. Topinard.
CANON WILBERFoRcE writes to a London news
paper that his belief in miracles has been
strengthened by miracle performed upon him.
self by means of amounting and prayer. my in
| ternal aiment, he writes. was of such nature
that leading surgeons declared it to be incurable
except at the cost OF very severe operation;
At last sent for elders-men of God full of
faith-by whom | was prayed over and
| anointed and in a few weeks the internal all
| ment passed entirely away" The canon takes
pains to say that he is confident that he was
| healed by THE Lords blessing upon his own
word; but, as in so many cases. there was suf-
| fcient margin of time and possibility of change
of tissue between the amounting and the recov-
| cry to justify the skeptic in diSconnectiny the
two
HERE are two startling snake stories from
Maine. The first comes from Waterville, where
| post norton examination Of a horse that died
| from unknown causes revealed in it's stomach
| a SNAKE AZ feet long, with head and eyes per-
| feet, six incaes in circumference and the color
of blood, with the exception of a white stripe
on the back Another snake icame from the
stomach of Mrs Frank Kenner of Portsmouth.
| n H., who was in Biddeford under medical
treatment In August. 1866, at camp meeting
in Alton Bay, she drank water from brook
and afterward became i'll. She was treated for
cancer of the stomach, but stoutly insisted chat
something moved within her. The other dav
by means of a powerful drug, "a light-colorei
snake 1875 inches long was disgorged from her
stomach and she has gone home happy
THE old Roman wall of London, laid bare by
the excavations for the new postoffice at st.
Martin Sic Grand becomes daily more interest
ing to antiquarIans as further portions are I'M
covered. The London Illustrated Ne.cs notes
the fact and then goes on to say: From the
better view now obtained, 1t is evident that the
Romans dug down about feet into the London
clay filed I'D the trench for feet with a MKT
ure of clay and hintS, surmounted this structure
with feet of the hardest concrete, aud then
laid the tiles in sets of three courses each sepa-
rated by 2 feet of stonework. Apparently the
been found at the northwest corner of the
ground exactly coinciding with that marked on
the map of Stripes edition of Stow in 1855 but
seemingly of later work than Roman times
probably medieval. Many pits have also been
found filled with animals bones which NAV
either have been used for the rubbish of the
city, or for the refuse of the slaughter houses
in the butchers colony, which, from Saxon
times, existed close by in Moorgats street, ETC.
When the site of the French Protestant church
is excavated, it is expected that complete sec
tion of the wall and the ancient town ditch may
be discovered.
THE SINGULAR FACT is mentioned that while