The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

MISUNDERSTANDING is the
classical name of a locomotive owned by the
Lacawanna Iron and Coal Company at Scran-
ton.
IT is announced that the land in Fredericks-
burg, Va, on viii Oh is the grave of the mother
of George Washington, VIII BE- sold at auction
IN Washington next week.
A PRACTICAL JOKER in Bridgeport, Conn, ig-
nlted an acquaintances lair with a cigarette
and when the flames were extingushed the I'M
fortunate mans head was entirely bald and his
face baIIy burned.
SEVERAL WATCHES and knives and 30 gold
rings were found in an old grist mill at Bar
Harbor, Me-, by the wOrkmen who demolished
it. The structure is supposed to have been used
as hiding place by thieves.
THE body of man found hanging to a tree
in Missouri had this card pinned to it: II die
because am too burned lazy to live If the
rest OF you fe i as | 60, you will let me hang
here until my bones drop of their own accord
Fer long time the fox hunters of Mont
gomery, N. Y, have been annoyed by farmers
who Saoot foxes from in front of the hounds
and make away with them. 1t is very de-
moralizing on the dogs and exasperating to the
hunter
THE curfew tolls the knel'' no more in Mons
From this week forth the curfew bell will cease
to be rung at II O'Clock. 1t is believed that
Mons is the last town in Belgium to have kept
up this ancient way Of warning the citizens to
retire TO bed.
THERE is living near Sycamore, Mass, a
family that occupies farm that is said to have
been handed down from father to son for six
generations When the father of this line,
Thomas Topper, settled on the land in 1924. the
place was an Indian village known as Shaun.
A MEDIUM-sIzED BEAR bound for New Orleans,
broke from its cage near Birmingham, Ala,
and attacked George Engle, an employe of
the road who was in the car. After
severe tussle, during which Engle was knocked
down and bitten, the beast returned to its
cage.
The OTHER DAY teacher in Boston school
showed little girl picture of fan and asked
her what it was. The little girl didn't appear
TO know. What does your mother do to
keep cool in hot weather." asked the teacher.
Drink beer was the prompt reply of the lit
tie girl.
The so-CALLED JOSS STICKS" the burning of
which supplies incense for Chinese religious
ceremonials, are made Of the powdered leaves
of L{nderd Programs, mixed with the powdered
roots of BiOtG. Lihderd trdgrGaS is a shrub of
me me true laurel family La14dceel, and its
Chinese name means Incense Leaves"
AMONG the birthday presents received by
Edison, the inventor, was a cake from his serv-
ants. 1t was about feet in diameter and ~
inches high 1t bore the Inscription: Thomas
A Edison, 1889" in frost work, and around its
edges were IL tiny incanlescent electric lights
supplied from a battery placed in a cavity in
the center OF the cake.
THE Calling company's new factory in Eng
land can turn out 100000 cartridges a week
and 600 machine guns year Thirteen hun
dred is the full complement of employees and
the company. which has secured from Dr. Cat
ling the right to supply the eastern hemisphere
With his guns, is alrea ynegoti2tin : with nearly
all the gov ernments of Europe and Asia.
HERE is the routine of specimen Maine log
ging camp: The men turn in at O'Clock p. m.
At 8 o'clock a. m. the Transfers are up and feed
their horses; at the breakfast bell rings. and
ut $50 the word is given to hook on. No man
moves until the bell rings, and then such
rally, says a New England journal, which AYERS
that the ten-hour law has not taken to the
woods yet.
JAPAN apparently leads the world in the num-
Der of houses destroyed by fire. Quit fire.
quently twenty-five or thirty buildings go up in
smoke, while several times within the past
year the number mas been thirty times that
great Late in January flames swept over
fourteen streets in Ichibancho, and 900 houses,
including schools and temples, were reduced to
ashes. A few days later 500 buildings were
damaged at YokoSuka.
AN outbreak of yellow fever is reported from
Versailles, France. The infection is said to
have been brought in the feathers of certain
parrots imported from South America. This is
bad news indeed. The world has lately heard
on high authority that the familiar, domestic,
diphtheria is often due to poor pussy and her
inquistive Investigations into neighboring
premises; but it is much more startling to hear
that such far Oft foe as Yellow Jack may be
lurking in the plumage Of pretty Poll
A WEE BABY, whose eyes had just opened on
this big world. was left Saturday night on the
doorstep of the Babies Home in Milwaukee
The baby is supposed to have laa there from
midnight until daylight Sunday morning, vita
the thermometer 12o below zero. Its cries at.
tracted the attention of letter-carrier, who
called Matron Jones to the door. The babe was
wrapped in a common cloth and two old shawls.
The tiny hands Of the babe appear to have been
frost-btten, otherwise it was ali right.
Mr.. MULLER of Chicago, has recently in
vented new explosive compound which he has
christened ''grisoulite," probably from the
French word grsoll. meaning flredamp. Apart
from its great power the principal advantage
possessed by "grsoul,te is the alb Solute alb
sence of all danger in its manipulation, and as
1t emits no flame, this product will probably be
found Of great use in mining operations Mr.
Muller's idea is based on the introduction of
water in a solid form into the explosion. which
he effects by mixing it with certain salts, gem
orally carbonate of soda orasulphate of magne-
SiI.
THE entire population of Paraguay only
amounts to 239,T74 persons of both sexes, of
which 221 COO are Paraguayans. the remainder
being mostly composed of Argentnes Italians.
Brazllians and Germans. The census taken in
1857 showed that the population then consisted
of upward or the 49,, 900 souls, so that more
than 100000 inhabita ts persisted through the
war that was carried on by Topaz and Jourdan
TIE proportion between the male and female
population Is now as 100 to 40. In the entire
country there are only 80 Al Paraguayans and
3,S26 foreigners who read and write say
about 20 per cent. of the natives and 80 per
cent. of the foreign settlers
THE Russian papers are publishing various
statements according to which the Russian
branch of the En- ylish family Lesley has re.
Gently inherited in England a legacy of some
9l0,0O0000 sterling. The legatees are however,
according TO the papers. requested TO become
British subjects before the amount Is paid to
them. One of them, Gen. Lesley. who only
short time ago was appointed chief OF a igade
M Nerni, in Asia, has just arrived at Kieff He
has told some friends tuat it would not be con
venieut for him a Russian military officer to
become a British su jet, but that there is a
falr nope tat about 100000 rIbles will be
paid without the obligation being o forced
NOVEL KIND of duel, with a tragical termi-
nation, has just taken place outside Paris be-
tween two rivals IN the affections of the buxom
blrnaid of q wine tavern The rivals were
brothers, and they resolved to drink copous
locations of fiery and u1diluted rum until one
or both should ~ overpowcred. The alcoh3 ic
art Gle sold as pure Jamaica in Partisan tay-
ems s bad enough when well watered but when
taken neat and in large quantities it is worse
than the p isonoIs aDsnthe with which too
many Frenchnen ply themselves. The brothers
began their rum duel' before the ewes of their
damsel, who supplied them with the deeteriou,