The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


given $4,000 to the astronomical observatory
of Harvard, to be devoted to the purpose OF
telescope Tor celestial photography.
a PUMPKIN Weighing 100 pounds took the
first prize at the West Chester county fair q few
days ago. On the closing OF the exhibition it
was promptly purchased by a large New York
hotel.
WOODEN MILL at Charlottesville Va has for
three successive years obtained the contract for
furnishing the cloth for the fall and winter
uniforms of the Philadelphia letter carriers
between 800 and 800 men.
AN umbrella-maker of Birmingham, England,
has perfected a transparent umbrella which
will allow the bearer to see what Is directly in
froht and escape being run into. 1t is sensi-
Die as well as novel Improvement.
The FRENCH GOVERNMENT announces that 50
far the American exhibitors at tho Paris EXPOSE
tion have been AWARDED SO grand prizes 100
gold medals, al silver medals, zig bronze medals
and 20 honorable mentions, and the fist is not
nearly completed.
d MEXICAN LION has been seen and heard by
various parties during the past three weeks in
the neighbOrhood of Alder Branch, Tex A
grend hunt was organized by the farmers of
that section last Friday, but the beest eluded
All search and still roamS at large to the terror
OF many Of the denIzens of that section.
The SMALLEST coRNF1ELD in the state of New
York, if not in the whole country, is in a tsne-
ment house window on South Fifth avenue 1t
IS m soap box, and three or four good thrifty
staiks are growing in it. People passing on the
elevated are greatly interested ia watching its
growth, and wondering when the crop will be
harvested, and whether the folks will have
husking bee.
THREE members of the sophomore class of
Yale college were about to be expelled on
Thursday for hazing freshmen, when the class
n,,n. 80 ,..s..
lsed that if the sentence was not executed they
would refrain from haZing for the present On
these conditions the faculty agreed to suspend
punishment until the next offense. The strain
on the students in the meantime, however, is
something intense.
The COINAGE of gold dollars at the Philadel-
phia mint is limited to 5000 year, and they are
put in the possession of the treasury to make
exact change in paying depositors of gold bull
ion. Application is being constantly made TO
the superintendent of the mint for different
amounts OF this coin for the purpose of convert
ing them into charms or other articles of
personal adornment But the SUPERINTENDENT
invariably declines to fill such orders.
AMONG the dishes served at the wedding
luncheon of one of the rich Cinnamon of New
York the other day were the following: Broiled
tendon OF ducks feet, with chicken liver and
Sweetened lotus seed. served with waterm elon
wines stewed goat tails with chestnuts, served
with hardshen crabs in garlic and Chinese
vinegar; pigeon bones fried to crisp, then
brOlied with bamOOO-shOotS and mushrooms
and fried duck,' tongues, with imported ham
and sharks fins, with caulihower.
NJ. CHRIsTIcz, the Servian minister to Berlin,
who has achieved an unenviable notoriety
through mis- complaisance in permitting his
wife, beautiful Greek, to live in the most open
and fragrant manner with King Mian has been
placed on the retired list. He has been Stunned
by the representatives of the other continental
refused feCaiVa aif
socially or automatically. In the meanwhile
his wife, ArtemiSia Christicz the daughter of
the sultan's millionaire architect, is now living
with the ex-king as his wife at Carlsbad
A PAMPHLET has just been published in Paris
in which it is attempted to show that the first
inventor of the phonoEr&ph was not Mr.. Edison,
but Frencbman, the late NJ Charles Cros On
April 30, 1877, he sent to tue Academy of
Sciences, as the minutes of that body are said
TO show, seated letter, the contents of which
may be found in the transactions of the academy
of Dec. Of the same year. when it was read at
the authors request Toe communication was
the description of an apparatus for registering
and reproducing sounds by means of sounding
plate. needle, and cylinder.
DILLINGERsvILLE, small farming village ten
miles south of Allentown, Pa, is enjoying the
unusual spectacle of a young cat adopting her
self into family If young pigs. Levi Shelly,
a large farmer, is the owner of the cat which
was so shy that the family was unable to make
litter of ten pigs and the cat at once made
friends with the new family. Ever since then
pussy has been with them, taking nourishment
from the same source as the little porkers, and
apparently enjoying their society as much as if
she actually was one of them.
JOAQUIN MILLER says that ''in Spokane Falls
at the Grand hotel 1 saw a little box with a few
dollars of change in it out on the end of the
counter in the midst of q dozen or two of the
daily papers from various places No one, SO
far as ever saw, was in charge of either the
papers or the money. Any man who wanted
paper took it, tossed his moaey into the box
and took whatever change was his. | set this
down as an lncontestable sign of prosperity
and-let us admit, we bow our heads in hui
mility to the need of that portion of the Lords
prayer which says lead US not into tempta-
tion'-of honesty, which is the first-b born Of
prosperity
APRoPos of the alarm which has been ex.
pressed by business men, says the Wal Street
Ne1s, the director of the mint has prepared a
statement of the goll and silver coin in the
United States at present, which shows ia round
numbers $o17 C00,000 in gold in $40 600 900 in
silver dollars, and S76000,000 in subsidiary
silver coin, besides So, 600 600 of gold bullion
held in the Golfers of the treasury as security
for its equivalent in paper certificates. The
statement will show that American tourists in
Europe this year have drawn on their American
bankers nearly S70,000,000; in fact, the state
ment of the Bank of France from Jan 1, 1882
shows an increase of $4,000, OOO-aImost the
amount exported from the United States.
THE MODES OF EXECUTION in the different
countries, according to *" in American
Notes and Queries" are: SIN Austria. gallows.
public; Bavaria, guillotine, private; Belgium
guillotine, public; Brunswick, AK private:
China, sword or cord, public; Denmark, gull.
lotine, public; Ecuador, musket, public; France
guillotine, public; Great Britain, gallows, pri.
vate; Hanover, guillotine, public; Qtaly, capital
punishment abolished; Oldenburg, musket,
public; Portugal gallows, public; Prussia,
sword, private; Russia, nusket, gallows or
Spain, garrote, public; Switzerland fifteen
cantons, sword, public; two cantons, guillotine,
public; two cantons, guillotine, privata
United States, other than New York, gallows,
mostly private.
A cLEReYMAN is the defendant in an interest
ing divorce case that opened in Judge Tuleys
court in Chicago on Wednesday. TIE complain.
ing party Ia a handsome little woman of sIiyht
build. She said her husband had failed to sup-
port her properly. She said she cherished the
idea of having happy home, but he did not
seem interested that way at all. He would do
nothing but talk religion she said He told
me, - she added, with burst Of tears that his
home was in heaven, and he was striving to Law
| up treasures there. He wanted me to ioin the
| church, and accused me of being irreligious and
said was opposed to his church. was never
| opposed to religion, and in all my trouble aud
| trials have tried to keep my heart right but
| never could satisfy my husband" Some OF the
| letters produced were affectionate but thew
were flied with religious exhortations to his
| wife to repent and flee from the wrath TO come