The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE Union Pacific road offers s2o00 cash 10
any paSsenee- On any train who viii shoot 9
train robber, and several parties ara making
frequent trips. In hope 70 get saot-
Az Australian, who was hanging TO the bsam
Of bridge and realized that he must fall, made
q verbal vii 70 q companion, disposing Of about
5000 worth Of properly, and the courts sus-
tanned IT,
On the death of Jacob Kimes Of Columbia,
lately, his hunting dog would touch no food
Until the fuueral vas over and his parrot,
which had b=en garrulous. has not spoken
word since.
AZ ESGLIsz DETECTIVE, after search Of four
months has found in Sydney pi &c of silver
plate stolen from London house, and which
he was instructed To recover a. any cost. It
IS a rare specimen OF perSlstsntly -cDased silver
ware.
NEW INDUSTRY is developing on the island of
Gaudsloupe. There are now about 5000 wild
goats there, and they are being killed for their
skins and tallog. Steamers have already ar
rlved at san Diego. Cal. with cargoes of goat
skins and tallOw.
TIE Piute Indians in Nevada are in worried
frame Of mind over the prediction Of one Of
their number that great food is soon to sweep
over then territory. Tley have deserted their
| tam towns, carrying provisions along
TIE experiment OF going down the Idaho
mine, at Grass Valley. Cal, in submarine armor
! TO put out the fire. has heen unsuccessful The
neat was too great, and gas passed under the
helmets OF the two men who descended They
reached the sOO-foot level, or within 100 feet of
the fire.
TIE New York Times reports that Fisher
man Michael Hennessey of North Lonr Branch
caught 1900 pounds of fish on Monday. The
| catch compFis d sea bass sheeDshead poryieS.
| salmon and butter fish The bulk of these
was shipped to New York and Philadelphia
| markets.
The news Of the last race for the Derby was
| telegraphed to New York in the unprecedented
time of two sec nds, and within two more sec
/ onds Boston and intermediate poiats Buff 10
| and intermediate points, Chicago AMI st Louis
| points, ana the offices of the various newspa-
pers In New York were. in possession of the
news
BOY Of IS, who is pretty sure to break his
neck one OF these warm days, is David Picker
Ing OF Newark, who IS aid to clear bar five
| feet three inches above the ground head fore
most diving over the stick, Ian ling first on his
| hands and then on the buck of his neck. with
out even the comfort of a mattress TO break the
violence OF his fall.
IN the Office window of a Luther (Mich.l paper
hangs saber captured 10 the Mexican war 1t
hangs 80 that just the point touches the glass.
! saw lnll Is over 80 feet distant, but the
| minute n gang saw starts the point of the
saber begins to tattoo on the glass An increa e
OF I'VE pounds OF steam is noticeable in the in.
| creased noise on the glass When the saw has
pas 'ed through log sne sabsr notifies the PEG
! pie IN the Office instantly by keeping quiet.
LAST YEAR 2s2is adults and S62 children went
to the top of Bunker Hill monument The
receipts were $56S5 30; expenses between So OCO
ana S0.ON The mum ler of visitors from
| foreign countries was as follows: England IT,
| Scotland 90. Ireland 20, Germany So South
| America %, West Indies IS, Asia 2s Australia
| IA Norway and Sweden IS Sandwich Islands
| ~, France ID. TurSey I0s Switzerland g. India 2
6ew Zealand 4, Belgium, Denmark, Italy and
| Russia, EACH
4 The automatic arrangement which shuts off
| the water in the reservoir in the Utica. n Y
| government building failed to work the other
| day and the occupants Of one of the fices
| were threatened with deluge The water was
shut on before serious damage was done An
| examination showed that a wad of paDer had
| been placed on top of the float which works the
valve and prevented its closing when IN reser-
| vor was full. 1t is supposed that some one put
In the paper maliciously.
| AT HawkN1Sville, La. thu oSaer day, a COW
b longing to II. s. Taylor had her tongue
bitten off by his horse. The horse and COW
between the panks, and it is supposed that the
| COW licked her tongue through the opening,
and the end-a piece about Inches long-was
| bitten off. Hugh Taylor found the piece of
tongue lying in the STALL and ne has it in alco-
| hol. The cows MANNED tongud was treat, d
| and she seems to be getting along well, with a
| good prospect of recovery.
N the portrait of Lord Harrington exhibited
| in the Royal Academy Qondon), writer to an
| English exchange maintains the artist has
made an heraldc rista5e by giving his lordShip
| the coro let of a marquis to his coat of arms
| The eldest sons of duGes rank above ears, AMI
| have precedence amongs. the nselves in accord
| ance with the creation of the dukedom These
1 vi hxyo
amongst them the earl OF Arundel and Surrey
ranking first. Whatever the ii lie my be, they
| each and all bear an earls coronet only.
| THE natural soap mines of Owens lake, Cal,
| are accounted for by the following theory: The
/ water OF the lake contains strong solution of
borax and soda In taese wa ers there breeds
grub that becomes a fly. The flies die in the
| water and DRIFT ashore, covering the ground to
| the depth of a foot OF more. The oily sub
| stance OF the flies blends with the bora < and
| sofa, and the result is a layer OF pure SOAP.
| These strata, repeated from year TO year, form
| the soap mines, where large forces of men are
1 now employed. THIS theory. as the Italians
| say, If not true is well founded
"YoU arn't SO flsshy as you was, be you 9,
1 was a remark recently overheard by ''Tay-
| erner'' of the Boston Post who thinks of off. r
1 ing a reward for example of bad English
eauaiing it, The Buffalo Courier quotes an old
one said to have been utt red oy some children
who were told that their mother was calling
4 to she, but does not vouch for the actual occur
renee of the incident Besides these the his
| toric remarks of the Secretary of Agriculture
| in rega'd to the Milwaukee riot Il seen INV
| duty, and done it, pales ineffectuil fires
! DURING the last eighteen months the Metro
politan hospital. in the east of London. has
adopted the provident principle, says London
1 correspondent. This means that persons living
within mile OF the hospital who are really too
poor TO pay the ordinary fees of medical men
| can, by paying small monthly cha rge all the
| year round in health as well rs in sickness be-
| come entitled to all the rel eff whea a general
| hospital affords The new principle has been
| found TO work extremely we'll During the
| short time that il has been in operation s 654
m membership books have been issued. represent
ing more than II 900 lives.
IT is well known lat ships boats suffer from
being slung up at the davits aud kept there for
long periods expos d 10 the weather IL .ot
infrequently hap 9ens taat when N arb and
sometimes at sea in c 81 of en- rgency-a
boat which has been for so ne time exposed 70
such deterioratinS influence is lowered into the
water, it is fou ID to be leakv. Ships boats
hanging at the davits are also in danger of be-
ing smashed by seas breaking Oh board. In or
der to meet the fogS and danger arising from
such conditions, it is proposed to co .struct
boats of Steel aad what is still more novel out
of single Places a company is being formed
to carry on the manufacture.
THE Electrical Reuielc is responsible for the
following: 'The latest novelty in which cleo
triciy plays a part is one of the ,at-your.
money-n-the-sl t-and-see-it-go styIe. It is
higher priced than its predec sSsors but Won pet |