The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-14
items OF INTEREST.

while fishing Sunday, caught large muskrat,
which bit at a sinner and became fastened to
the fish hook.
TIE German emperor seems to be imbued
with the most Spartan notions of parental dis
cipline. The crown prince, aged 6, and his next
brother, Eitel Frederick aged s. have only -
hours recreation during the day.
RUBENsTEIN. the great pianist, is more frank
than polite in the manner of giving advice An
ambitious yoong lady went to him one day
played for him, and then asked what she should
do. Get married, . was the reply
MISS MARY ANDERSON owns farms of $50
acres which lies on the Lafayette Knobs, five
miles north of New Albany, Ind, and on it she
is going to erect magnificent residence after
the style of the English country house.
BISHOP WILLIAMS, of the Protestant Episcopal
diocese OF Connecticut. has approved project
for erecting in Hartford, where there are 600
Danes, the first Danish church in New England
in which the services will be conducted entirely
in Danish.
A STRONG freproof room has been constructed
outside of Hawarden Castle, and in this will
eventually be deposited an enormous mass of
correspondence extending over the whole of
Mr. Gladstone'S public life, and consisting of
upward of 60 900 letters.
USUALLY throughout the winter in Northern
Michigan there is an abundance of snow, but
'NNe'SAA
ing been very scant, frost penetrated the ground
to a depth of several feet, and farmers, there
fore, anticipate late spring.
THE drift of emigration to the Pacific coast
has undergone change during the last few
months. Two years ago 1t set strongly toward
Southern California. Now it largely follows
the line Of the Northern Pacific to Washington
territory and the eastern part of Oregon.
A FLASH OF LIGHTNING from a clear sky struck
an Ontario Cal lad, Willie Van Wig, last week,
burning his hair, eyebrows and eyel7 She's His
clothiny, too, was much damaged. But he will
recover. The San Francisco Chronicle contends
that Willie is the first person ever struck by
tghtnlng In Southern California.
ACCORDING to a report from Sunderland,
Mass, there is certain farmer down there in
very hard luck. A flock of cartridges has taken
possession of his orchard and its apple buds
They are so tame that he can't drive them away
with club, and, as the law won't permit him
TO Kill them, he is at the mercy of the birds.
They are talking of having omnibuses in
London, especially for those who want to smoke
when they ride. Apparently there is a yankee
in the scheme, for it is said that the vehicles
will be fitted up with racks of newspapers, and
also with drop-a- nickel-in-the- machines
thaC VIII deliver cigars, cigarettes, tobacco and
matches.
A NEWSPAPER in Vienna called the Schauarz-
qelb has just been suppressed for publishing the
saslnaUed for political reasons, and the Prince
of Hesse-Cassel, who, on the 14th of October in
a trip from Batavia to Singapore, jumped over
board and persisted. was not ms 4ne, but Was the
victim OF political plot
The jacket which the Empress of Russia
wore at the time of the railroad accident at
Borld recently, has hole as large as a hand
torn IN the left side, and the buttons have been
crushed, evidently by a shock. She has ordered
duplicate of the garment, minus these re-
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dressmaker who made the original.
ADVERTISEMENT in an English paper: Want
ed, an able bodied man at country rectory.
willing to make himself generally useful; must
have thorough knowledge of chickens, pigs
and understand milking; must be able TO drive
horses and groom them; ring the church bells.
dig graves, be cheerful mOurners and not OBJ
Ject to carry coffin; where parlor maid is kept
ACCORDING to NJ. Laveran, of the French
Academy of Science, malaria is due to an
animal parasite, which belongs to the lowest
sort of animal life. Most infectious maladies in
man. says NJ Laveran and NJ. Bouchard, who
explained LaveranS theory to the academy the
other day, are due to vegetable microbes but
marsh malaria must be attributed to an
animal
The latest use of photography is to make a
cannon ball take picture of its own wabblinas
Al arrangement something like a camera is
placed IN the forward end of the projectile, and
when it is fired directly at the sun the light
traces lines upon the sensitive plate from the
direction OF which it can be told whether the
proJectile has kept in one position or has wa
vered to and fro during its flight, The scheme
is largely theoretical as yet.
In regard to the recent discovery that the
glass bottles in which wine is kept sometimes
affect its quality, NJ. Pelligot the chemist. saws
That such changes ara due to the action of the
ingredients employed in the preparation of the
glass; thus an undue admixture of lime and
which ora ,b-+;t, 4 9
and potash being cheaper, acts iniuriousIy
upon wine, while it improves when the pro
portion of lime does not exceed IS or 20 per
cent.
Down in Massachusetts, not far from Sage
more, on the line of the Cape Cod ship canal is
the Topper farm. The remarkable thing about
the farm IS that 1t was purchased, or secured
or pre-empted in 1924 by the founder of the
Upper line, Thomas Upper, who settled on
the land when the place an Indian village
known as Shaun, and that his will still in ex-
istence, has kept the farm in the Upper family
without break for six generations. There isn't
much pomp about the Upper family but
they We got lots of pedigree.
THE Army and Nary Journal prints letter
from naval officer who suggests that the
ancients, who knew the value of oiling troubled
waters, learned this method from observing the
sea birds. All fish eating birds cane pigeons
petrels, and the like eject oil from the mouth
Whe3 captured. In the South Atlantic and
floating in spaces of comparatively quiet water
when the sea around was rough The Unusual
smoothness Of the water was evidently due to
considerable quantities Of oil deposited by the
birds. van
In 1888, during tour in Europe Dom Pedro
H., the Emperor of Brazil, spent some time at
Cannes. 1t is said that the editor of a French
scientific magazine waited on his majesty one
morning and begged him to write a series of
papers on Brazil for the periodical The en-
peror was quite willing to comply with the re-
quest, but asked what he would be paid for the
articles. On the editor naming the price which
he was in the habit of paying, Dom Pedro said
that 1t would do very well, and then went on to
tell why he had raised the que ,tion of payment
You see. he remarked. 81 would gladly write
for nothing but am not at liberty to do so. az
ever Since | began writing | have given every
penny have earned by my brain to an orphan
asylum in Rio de Janeiro."
THE Paris correspondent of the Secolo of
Milan reports an interview with NJ Naauet, in
which the senator says: "Bouanger hasn't at
his back either an Arcola or Marengo; but
who knows? they may come yet. Bouianger
will never renounce the rights OF France TO
against Germany, because he knows that IL
France attacked Germany she would have all
Europe against her He will wait for Germany
20 begin the attack. Only one circumstance
might force him out OF the line of prudence
and that is declaration Of war against Ger
many by Russia Then certainly he would
attack Germany on the Rhine with the entire
French army. The triple alliance exists still
and 10 would be absolute malness on orr nart