The morning news., 1889-05-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE NEXT CENSUS YEAR begins June this
year and ends May 81, 1890, Anybody who dies
within the period covered by these dates will
therefore count in the census of 1890.
FIFTY THOUSAND PERSONS visited the new
! ocean flyer, the City of Paris, during her re-
cent stay at her New York pier. Her magnlfi
cent saloons were crowded from morning until
night.
! A PORTLAND (7dE) BUSINESS MAN lost a $50
| gold coin on his way to work few days ago
and, returning at night, found the same piece
| on the pavement, where it had remained un-
noticed all day.
A SOLDIER belonging to detachment of the
Australian army in Pennsylvania was recently
killed by bullet from a Manlicher rifle dis
charged during target price at a distance of
more than 212 miles.
JOE HOWARD says the majority of the rich
men of New York city are not educated, but
/ their faculties are sharpened on the lines of
money getting Their principal amusement
| outside of business is in devotion to horse
| flesh.
| The MAHARAJAH OF JUDPoRE has ordered two
| of his minister's to discuss the advisability of
| abolishing polygamy. AS the maharajah has
| his own harem established on firm basis, the
discussion is apt TO be more theoretical than
| practical
| SOMETHING described as petrifed snake was
unearthed by farmer while plowing at Ohio
! vile, W. Va. The piece was about as thick as a
mans wrist aud II inches long 1t is supposed
70 De part OF the remains OF reptile at least 10
| feet IL length.
| y SHAVING MATCH took place in the first week
of this month between two prominent English
| BARRIERS for e25 side. The winner shaved his
twelve men in three minutes aud 40 seconds,
and then shaved two bRdfolded in two minutes
and ten seconds. 5!--Y isv
A RUSSIAN NAVY OFFICER has invented a
method Of searching the seaor coast by night,
which does not reveal tbe pQsittSn of the ship.
mortar, fires a blioYa1t Shell containing
compopnd which igsr1it S On reaching the water
and lights up the surrounding area
CONGRESSMAN ARCHIE BLISS of BROOKLYN re.
Gently remarked at costs money to be mem
Der of the House. have been congressman
for hfteen years, and have spent $1,000 year
outside of my salary. 1t has cost me S150,000,
therefore, to represent my constituents.
ONE AFTERNOON, while Nellie Sawtelle of
Smith1ed Me-, was sleeping on the lounge a
pet cat of the family threw across her neck an
adder which measured feet in length She
threw it on the floor, where it showed fight, so
as to keep her a prisoner until a neighbor
arrived and killed it.
A YOUNG PITTsBURGER actually attempted to
pawn horse, asking loan of 81 on it. The
pawnbroker, instead of making the advance
notified the police, and the customer was
taken in custody, being unable to give a salts
factory explanation as to how he came into
possession of the animal.
PRINCE WILLIAM of Prussia, the eldest son of
Prince Albrecht, the regent of Brunswick, is
living at the German legation at The Hague,
and is to be educated in Holland. 1t is quite
understood that this lad who was born in
July, 1874, is destined TO marry Princess Will
hehmina the future queen of the Netherlands
The SAILORS of the old frgate Brooklyn, now
probably retired forever, have given her flags
to the city of Brooklyn One is an ensign, 40
feet long and p wide; another, jack, 21 by II
feet, and the third a pennant. 1t is only II
inches wide at the head and tapers to a point.
1t is regarded of the handsomest pen
nants ever made, and one of the most costly.
DoN JOSE ZoRRILLA, known as the Spanish
Victor Hugo, will be crowned poet laureate of
Spain on his 6Oth birthday. The cere nony is to
take place at the Alhambra palace, which is to
be decorated in ancient style at lavish ex-
pense and an official representative of the
queen regent will present the crown. The
Duchess of MedinaCeli is to foot the bills, which
are estimated at over S250OO.
AMONG the people of South America there is
in proportion even greater exodus to the Paris
exposition than from the United States or it is
possible, from any other part of the world
gentleman ri ght from Ecuador says that in
the principal cities of that country nobody
would be found in July but the children and
their nurses outside of the government officials
and employees and the regular troops Of the re-
public 1t is estimated that even now there are
100000 Americans in Paris, plentifully supplied
with money, of course. 1t is estimated that
reasonable figure for computing the amount
which Americ ms will spend abroad his year
would be from $500 1000 20 $780, 100000.
Mrs. HARRIErT HUBBARD AVER of Recamier
Balm fame has got into legal squabble with
Mr.. Seymour, the father of her daughters hus-
band, whom she charges with having got hold
of large number of shares of the money-mak-
ing company of which she is the president at
salary OF 81 900 month. She also alleges that
Mr.. Seymour and her son-in-law conspiIed to
have her declared insane and unfit to manage the
business, and intimates they gave and hav,I given
to her excessive IS of bromide of lithia and
sulfornal. Mr.. Seymour states that he was
given the shares in question in.return for moneys
advanced to the company and that he had pre-
nted them to Mrs Ayers own daughter the
wife Of his son. Mrs. Aver, he says, has already
drawn out as salary over $4,000.
THE new law which has just gone into effect
| in New Jersey forbidding any person from mar.
rying minors except in the presence of guard
ians or parents, or unless a properly authenti-
Gated certificate of their consent is presented,
will seriously affect the marriage business of
| Camden and all the other Jersey towns across
tue Delaware from Pennsylvania How Cam
n has been sought by Pennsylvania couples
! who couldn't or wouldn't get the required IL
censeS in the Keystone state is well known to
! a mo { everybody. The Pennsylvania law com
pellng the prospective bridegroom to get a for
NAL paper of authorization TO marry the girl of
his cn0lce from the pF'thoBotary or some other
officer was first enforced few years ago Mauv
| young folk, who could not legally obtain the
| license, and many others who thought the state
ought not 10 interfere such matters used to
go over the Delaware to Jersey and get tied to-
gether there. Camden's ministers Immediately
had new and large source ofincome Various
things have helped lately TO lessen the number
of these Jersey m 7rriageS and this new law will
have similar effect.
WITH regard to the accident which occurred
to the war vessels at Apia, says the British
Journal Of Photog apply it mi ht be advisable
TO refer once more to the theory of Dr. Zenger
of Prague, who suggested TO make use OF pho
tography for the prediction of the weather
According TO the doctor, photographs of the
sun taken on orthochromatic plates offer most
IN ailible means TO indicate with almost abso
Lutte certainty the approaching atmospheric and
suoterranean disturbances at least twenty four
hours before their setting in In these photo |
graphs zones are often to be seen around the |
sun dIsk-i. g.. rings Of circular or elliptical |
form, OF white or grayish c0lor-and II these |
Zntsa dpRRg of very large diameter. and of |
ualIs iaf aeasi1esS this indicates that violent |
shoruls, IN -haes stoJnS or magneCical disturb |
auceS, will sOol set Ia al the place of observa-
tlon. At every ships station should therefore |
be established a small photograph C laboratory. |
IN wnich photographs of the sun could be taken
as often as possi ible. A much more reliable |
prediction Of the weather would be Afforded bv |
this means than by the aid of the barometer
now generally in u-e for this purpose and |
precautions cOult therefore be taken in good |
time.
II is quite popular belief that the captains