The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

can IN tTenty-four hours put $4,000 soldiers In
the Held prepared for war
IT is a significant fact that Of those who
have committed suicide in this country during
the last eight years two-thirds were of foreign
birth.
QUARRY Of paving stone in which the slabs
are streaked with red, white and blue has been
discovered near Meshoppin, Wyoming county,
Pennsylvania.
RUSSIA has fixed doctors charges. Physicians
making $3.50 per year will get As cents per visit.
Others . cents. In country towns 10 cents Is
the usual charge.
ALTHOUGH there are seventy-three different
| languages and about 800 dialects spoken by the
American Indians, the sign language is equally
understood by all the tribes.
IT has been found that a nickel plated bullet
will go plump through man, where one with
out will stop short, and England will hereafter
nlckel-plate all her bullets.
&The Chicago Farmers Reuiero estimates the
probable wiuter wheat cropof 1889 at 313, 31s, 900
bushels. and the yield of rye at 2S,951. 900
ouShels, the largest crop since 1884.
LYDIA FERRIN celebrated at Charlestown,
Mass. a few days ago, her Tooth birthday in the
home to which she went as a bride when %
years old She is reported well and active.
smoking after meals is injurious Since it is
already established that smoking before meals
IS more injurious the only refuge is to stop eat
ing.
A sTINeY HUNK of Burlington, Vt, drew up
some valuable papers and used ink of his own
make TO save expense. The other day he found
the writing had faded out, involving him in a
loss of 81 900.
FREEDOM SHELMAN of Garrett county, West
Virginia, expects to make his fortune some day
by extracting gold from the teeth of dead
bodies. he says there are millions of dollars
thus going TO waste.
ENGLAND has over 100000 invested in the
manufacture of idols for heather countries, and
yet the churches Of that country are continually
Gaining for more money and more missionaries
to suppress idolatry.
The court decided against St. Louis in a suit
against the Western Union for S. each per year
for poles. 1t was decided that the city can
not impose the tax, although it can regulate
the placing of the poles.
HE DUCK is to China what the Goldfish is to
the rest of the world. The natives eat duck raw,
cooked, boiled, fried, baked and every other
way, ana they worry over the duck crop the
same as we do over the wheat.
A CINCINNATI SALOON KEEPER the other day
paid 81 for sealed envelope containing drec-
lions that would enable him to sell more beer
When he opened it. he found on small card the
words, Don't sell SO much froth."
RAW HAM and bologna sausage had for years
been favorite articles of diet with Joseph Palmi
aged "a years, of New York Last Wednesday
he died at Bellevue hospital of trichiniasis His
muscles were literally alive with the parasitic
worms.
n. BRACE of Roseville, Pa, is slowly conva-
lescing from innumerable blessings. During
the late high water he found his hives floating
of, and, while trying to save the swarms, they
used him up so badly that he left them to their
late.
Col. HAM, manager of the New York elevated
roads, says that 80 900 New Workers are out of
town from June until the middle of September
He says he arrives at this conclusion by a close
computation OF The daily traffic on the elevated
roads.
VERY LARGE SAFE and vault factory is to be
erected in Pittsburg shortly, which is to be
under the supervision of and conducted by the
majority of the bank cashiers of Pittsburg and
Allegheny. Twenty shareholders have sub
Scribed 500, 900.
The TIME KEEPERS in the Cambria offices esti-
mate that from 400 to 500 of their workmen in
the Gautier and Cambria Iron Works were lost
by the Johnstown flood. Counting women and
children dependent on them they put their loss
of people at 1900.
The emancipation of slaves in Brazil is said to
have one very curious consequence, that of ex-
hausting the supply and greatly raising the
price OF corsets. All the negro women and girls
don the corset as an insignia of d-liverance
from bondage, although in so doing, they re-
sign themselves to another bondage.
THE wife of Jacob Hooker of McKeesport
Pa, is recovering from fever of peculiar type
Her whole body shed its skin. The skin of the
hands and arms came off like a glove, and the
hair, toe and finger nails also came off This is
the third time the lady has had the affliction.
AN ENGLISH PAPER reports the discovery of a
humorous" plant. 1t has a small, sweetish-
tasting seed, and small doses of these pulverized
seeds. says the authority give rise to peculiar
manifestations. The person laughs bolster
ously, sings, dances and cuts up all kinds of
fantastic capers
AN ALBANY SYNDICATE has purchased the
Durant tract of land IN the Adirondacks paw
ing $500, 900 for it The tract embraces 3s9 900
acres, and contains 570,000,000 feet of spruce
lumber. 1t is stated that the object of the syn
dictate is to make corner in this lumber, which
IS much used in making wood pulp.
A MONEY ORDER CONVENTION between Germany
and the United States was signed on Saturday
by the German minister Count d'Arco-VaIlev
and Postmaster General Wanamaker. II in
creaSeS the amount of a money order that can
be sent by either country to the other from $50
to 500.
OUT in Nevada electricity runs the very deep
mines, and has Increased production 25 per
cent The men who work LOO feet deep live
about two years, notwithstanding the fact that
they work only two hours per day They pet
more pay than the eight hour mon. They work
fifteen minutes and rest forty-five
THE habits of the crow form an interesting
subject for the study of the ornthologist. The
crow has larger brain than most birds. and
all his energies are directed toward procuring
food. Grows will destroy the nests OF quail and
other birds taking the young from the nests in
the absence of the old birds. The favorite food
of young hawks is frogs.
New York JEwELER has two Jewels an
parently diamonds, in his window, with the
simple inscription over them: Which is pen-
u ne:" Two young men, after holding a heated
discussion on the question. made the ieweler
the umpire of a wager. The latter was com
PEELED TO acknowledge that both stones wera
genuine. 1t was merely an ingenious advertise
ment.
FROM Lexington, ILL.,, comes strange snake
story: Mr.. Kennedy, formerly supervisor and
the cashier of the Lexington bank. one dav
last week opened the different doors of m
vault, and finally reaching the cash box oDened
that, when, TO bis alarm, long garter snake
crawled quickly out The snake was nurslIed
and killed, d it measured three feet siT
inches 1t must have crawled into the cash
box the day before and In closing I'D was i'm.
priSoned.
THERE is remarkable specimen of deforned
humanity at Paradise, in the northern part of