The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A LONDON journal states shirts of chain ar
NOR, which cost about $500. are now worn BY
more than one distinguished person on the cor
tiuent
THE magistrates in Adelaide, Australia, have
cautioned a bookseller who has been GU. raging
the public sense Of propriety by exhibiting in
MS WIDOW a volume OF Zolo and Sankey S
hymns side by side.
TIE JAPANESE are learning how to eat meat.
In loS5 only 10000 head OF cattle were slaugh-
tered In all Japan. In 1876 the number in
creased TO 10000; in 1885, TO 1880 in 1855, to
100000
VERY coNsIDERATE THIEF who entered ].
P. BeckIey S house at Glassboro, n j., night
ortwo ago stole SIG from Mr.. Beckley's trousers.
but left s. bill on the char with this note;
IN not hog"
WHEN John Orr got home in Camden from a
trip to Wilmington, d l., his wife asked what
had become of his son Charles. Then Orr re-
membered that be had forgotten the boy, who
| was found some time on Friday night Gy Phila-
| delpnla police.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN of Blue Earth CITY.
Mimi, is the only member of the G. A. R. who
lost both his arms and legs il the service. He
| served IN the Minnesota cavalry from 1861 to
| loj5. Last week ne attended the national re-
union at Milwaukee.
| PROF HUXLEY contributes thought for
September: Il suppose he says, in speaking
| OF the oyster, that when this slippery NOR lei
! Sildes along the palate few people maggie that
| they are swallowing a piece of machinery far
more complicated nan watch"
SENATOR FAIR of California has given orders
to have the monument to Frederick, who was
! killed by t late Judge Terry, renovated and
Cleaned The monument is of marble twenty
ieet nj q, aid stands on the highest point of
14aurei HID Cemetery overlooking the Golden
| Gate. Senator Fair was an intimate friend of
Broderlck and life-opponent of Judge Terry.
A CONDEMNED CRIMINAL in England must be
| allowed to see three sundays between his sen
tence and his execution OF course, he can thus
be hung in little over two weeks but the
Uhree sundays must pass over his head before
tae gaIows claims him. Tn custom is a relic
or medl8val times, when a criminal was al
loved that much OF a respite to prepare for
death.
A WONDERFULLY ambitious bantam hen is
owned by the register of deeds of Ionia county
| at his home in SeOewa. Mich. The hen has
adopted litter OF kittens, and cares for them
Win Tue most unremittng solicItude. Let
proving 4og approach aud try to worry her
brood, and ne is most Thoroughly henpecked: a
growh cat is handled with the same devoted
courage, while in times of peace the little hen
covers the kittens with her wings, and keeps
| them as warm and comfortable as ever sue
could brood OF her own Matching.
IHE LIBRARY of a Manchester collector con-
tains copy Of what is probably the smallest
volume ever engraved, printed and bound. Ii
measures IL inch inch hight by IS in in width.
conialnes Uhlrty-two leaves or sIxty-Iour plates
Is covered IN crimson md gilt roam aud has lit
edges. 1t was publish d ia Paris, at the Black
Cat, 81 Saint Dennis street. The contents of
| tue book are entire,y in French, and consist
OF eight chanSonetteS, each illustrated by a
vignette.
Two Lawrence (Mass.) men laid a wager last
July as to which could make the quickest trim
to London and return and not pay a cent for
travelling expenses, ana Thursday the winner
arrived home from his journey He succeeded
IN making his way by boarding freight trains
and slowing himself away in steamers acros,
and back He appeared on deck after the
ships were under way and was allowed to work
mis- passage. The trip occupied thirty-eignt
days
AN ENGLISH PHYSICIAN in writing about
drinking water says: If in any hotel or
summer resort to which thes. lines may come
there shout occur single Case of typhoid fever
or dphtueria, test the drinking water or have
1t done at once few pence will buy an ounce
OF saturated solution of permanganate OF potash
at CHEMISTS. If, when a drop of this solution
IS added to tumbler of water its color
changes to brown, it is unfit to drink; if il re-
mains clear or slightly rose-color after an
hour, 1t is, broadly speaking, safe.
AN IMPORTER of Shetland ponies is authority
for the statement that wrong impression pre-
walls that these ponies are bred in the Shetland
Isles, whereas. there are fewer there now than
probably in any other quarter of the glooe.
There was time wnen some rich families in
that group of islands. with recollections of
feudal times used to take great pride in sending
ponies to the lords and fine gentlemen Of
the southern ooroughs. Now the average Shet-
lander is so poor Unat tue breeding of Shet-
land ponies has given way to the smoked-6sh
INDUSTRY.
The DRExEL COTTAGE at Mount McGregor. in
which Gen. Grant passed his last hours, is kent
just as it was when he died, with the exception
of the removal of a few personal BELONGINGS of
the family. The two big leather covered easy
chairs in which he passed so many painful DAYS
are draped In black and left in the same posi-
ton they were in when he occupied them The
clock the mantel has been silent since the
moment of his death, when the doctor stopped
it. and the writing tablets he used when sbee,.h
was prohibited are in a case on the wall, to-
gether with his pencil and couple of MESSAGES
in writing to Mr.. DreXel.
The BLAcKBIRDs have organized a camn
roost, or conclave of some kind in the eastern
part of the town of Washington, ILL.,, which is
something remarkable They have assembled
in countless numbers and the noise and racket
which they keep up and the whirrng of their
wings have become very troublesome The
mayor has given permission to shoot the birds
and thousands are slaughtered every evening
the time when they concentrate Strange 70
say the shooting does not seem to brighten or
disturb them in the least, nor do their numbers
seem to diminish These blackbird camps are
quite common in Illinois, but one of such mag
nitude as this is very rarely seen.
THE greatest known depth of the ocean is
midway between the Island of Tristan d Acunha
and the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. The
bottom was then reached at a depth OF DO o36
feet, or eight and three-quarter miles exceed
ing by more than II 900 feet the hight of Mount
Everest, the loftiest mountain in the world In
the north Atlantic Ocean, south of Newfound
land, soundings have zen made to a depth of
1880 fathoms, or % ,4S0 feet while DEPTHS canal
ing 3iOUl feet, or six and one-half miles are re.
ported south OF the Bermuda Islands The
average depth of the Pacific Ocean between
JaDan and California, is little over 1000
fathoms, between Cali aud the Sand witch Is
lands, 1900 fatnoms, and between Chill an
New Zealand. 1870 fathoms. The average
depth of all the ocean is from 1900 to ). $50
fathoms
A SINGULAR INSTANCE of snake-charming is
reported by Maj. Schueler de Buol. of Galena
Ill. A few days ago the major started OH in
search of hen which had a nest in some weeds
a short distance from the barn. After n Dro-
tracted hunt ne suddenly came upon the hen in
bunch or brush, and was surprised to oh
serv that she made no attempt to get away
but stood perfectly still, and was trem
bling and shaking as If with the ague The
next instant he espied a huge att.esnnke a faw
feet away, which evidently had charmed the
hen. The major was not long in dispatching
the reptile. and then endeavored to drive the
hen away, hut could not induce her TO move
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