The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

BUTTERFLIEs ara flying around n Western
Pennsylvania. and pear trees, 70 rgetful Of the
| season, are poisoning in Columbiana county,
/ Ohio. Winter wheat is so far advanced that
| farmers fear IL will be ruined when a cold snap
comes
MORBID CURIOSITY will crafty itself whenever
il possibly can. Since Sept. 30 there have been
nearly 200 visitors to the Bellefonte (Pa.) jail
| nearly all of them to see Hopkins, the double
| murderer, an average number of twenty -Seven
| each day.
EMPEROR WILLIAM gives Emin Pasha only the
decoration of the second class in the order OF
| the crown, with the star He has probably
| given firstclass ones to many military men
| who have never vet done anything more formi-
| dable than to trail saber behind them and drink
much beer.
| JOHN MCCLosKEY of San Antonio, Tex, had
| been mourned as dead for nine years. The
| other night a bearded stranger appeared at the
| nome of Mrs. McCloskey. She became very
| indignant when he took her in his arms 1t was
| her husband He had been in the west and
| made great deal of money.
| THE QUEEN OF ITALY recently found a streak
of ugly and indelible green color on her fsvorite
| lap dog, and on inquiry found that King Hum
| bert, for whom she had procured from Paris
bottle or hair dye, which she desired to have
| MIN use on his gray mustaehe, had sensibly
| concluded to have it tried on the dog.
In VIENNA practical philanthropy takes the
| shape of cheap eating HOUSES for poor people.
| There are ten cooking kitchens throughout the
/ city that feed an average of 1000 people each
| and every day. The average cost of dinner is
cents, and of supper cents, both meals com
prising about the varieties the common eating
/ houses furnish.
| J. E. BRADLEY of Northborne, Mo-, offered
S35 sewing machine for the best twelve ears of
corn that were brought to him between Dec.
and l5. The corn was weighed, and Eli Circles
OF Carroll county won the machine his twelve
ears weighing eighteen pounds and eleven
raised in the county.
SOME CHICAGO MAN has lost big chance of
securing a novel show. An Englishman for
$1,000 has just bought the royal castle of
| nuremberg, containing the most complete col
lection of instruments of torture extant, costing
| 5000 in all: There is a library of 5000
volumes, giving the history Of crime and
| torture for many centuries,
| Gov. LUCE of Michigan started with much
pomp and his wife to attend the national
| grange meeting, at San Francisco a few days
| ago On arriving at Omaha he found an emf
grant car waiting to convey them. His excel
| lency made big row about it on arriving at
| the end of the journey, anu came home in
palace car at his own expense.
Two OR THREE YEARS AGO the Russian govern
| ment established credit banks for the purpose
of assisting the owners of large estates who
| happened to be pressed for money. The effect
| has been that the number of mortgaged estates
| is much greater than ever, and many belonging
| TO high MOBILES are to be sold this year for non
payment of the interest on loans.
POLAR BEAR in the Cincinnati Zoo gave
| birth to two cubs Monday night. The cubs
are believed to be the first of their species ever
born in captivity in this country. 1t will re-
qulre great patience and care to raise them, as
| their diet after the weaving process is over
| must be mainly FISH, in pursuit of which they
| usually show great power of swimming and
| diving. They also feed on birds and their eggs.
RESIDENT of Canton, o., received note
| from farmer residing a few miles distant,
stating that if he would send the farmer a box
| the latter would ship him nice pig as pres
i ent. The Cantonian sent the box and received
| fat pig, which died few hours later of
1 cholera. Now he finds out that the donor
l knew the pig had the cholera and took this
| method of getting rid of it to avoid the ex-
pense of burying it.
| frances best customers are England Bel
| GUM, and Germany; next the United States,
| Switzerland, Algeria. and Spain Italy now
| ranks after the Argentine Republic. The ex-
ports to Italy fell from 1872 100000 of francs in
1887 to 119, 900 last year The rupture of the
commercial treaty, therefore, cost France
'2,5OOO0O or 1916 per cent. of her previous
sales Italy, on her side, lost Al. IS per cent. of
| her previous sales to France.
! STANLEY's WORK in Africa is of higher value
| the more one hears of il. 1t appears that
| among the things he has settled are these: The
| Congo traced from the sea to it's head; discov-
| cry OF the watershed of the Nile and the Congo
| systems; almost absolute proof that Lake Vic
| toria is the largest body of fresh water in the
world. and that the ancient Mountains of the
Moon" have their equivalent name in the mod
| ern Ruwenzore, the highest peak of which he
estimates to be $4,000 feet in altitude. and which
\ is entirely snow-capped for 1900 feet.
THE HOUSE of Charles Ford a farmer near
| Scott City, Kan, was destroyed by fire on Dec
| 3D. In the excitement Mrs. Ford forgot her
baby until i was too late to safely return to the
house, and She was held back by the assembled
neighbors. She frantcally struggled to get
loose, but when she saw that she could not do
so she called to her dog, a large Newfoundland
and told him TO get the baby. The animal
dashed through the flames, and soon returned
carrying the child unframed in his teeth. The
dog was only slightly burned. Such is the
statement of q dispatch.
| NORTHWEST of Milan in the neighborhood of
Somma Lombardo, there has recently been dis
covered, through the drainage of the large turf
| moor of La Lagozza a lake dwelling which diff
fers in many respects from the others in Upper
Italy and Switzerland. This relic of civilization
was met with under the peat bog and the under
lying layer of mud, the former being meter in
thickness and the latter thirty five centimeters
| The building was rectangular, eighty meters
long and thirty meters broad; and between the
| posts, which are still standing upright, lay
beams and half burnt planks, the latter having
been made by splitting the trees, and without
using saw. Pieces of burnt clay, polished
| stone hatchets, flint knives, and arrow heads
were also found.
NINE. PATTI occupies suite of apartments
| away up on the fifth floor of the Hotel Richie
/ lieu, says the Chicago Herald. Usually the
distinguished guests occupy rooms on tho
parlor floor, but this elevated location was
Nine. PATHS own choice. She preferred to be
away from the noise of the street, and the i'm
pure air of the second floor. During her STAY
! she has been greatly impressed by the apparent
affluence and prosperity of the bell BOYS. When
they call in response to her ring they wear
diamonds and rare jewelry. This is explained
| by the desire of rich young bloods to see the
| fair cantatrice in her own apartments. When
she rings these swells ready TO don bell
boys jacket and answer the call, but they have
neglected to hide their fine apparel and Jewels.
They enter the rooms, take the madames or
der, CHANGING around the while, and then they
go down stairs and have this order filed by the
regular bell boy, whose insignia they have bor-
rowed. 1t is joint scheme to reach the elbow
of the world renowned songbird