The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

and wrecks in the last thirty days have been
/ greater than u e aggregats losses from those
| causes during the preceding twenty-five years
II the Ohio democrats fail to capture the
legislature this year the state viii be without a
Democratic United States senator for the first
! tiIne 10 eighteen years. There was Thurman,
| Iheh Pendleton, and now Payne.
TIE EMPRESS OF GERMANY has an army Of
searnstresses, but it is her delight to preside
| over aud assist N the Manufacture OF her chill
| drens garments. She is a person OF. great
| taste, and generally picks her own ADD her
children hats to pieces aud makes them over,
alter receiving hem from a renosnsd Ereach
IN both white and colo s, and Is as Industrious
as many woman OF limited means
ONE of the most interesting Of recent events
in Paris was the meeting between President
Carnot and Marshal MacMahon. Th Y met in
| the nan of tie Society of Help totbe Wounded,
! or which the marshal is president, and aecosted
| each other with frIendliness highly satsfac-
| tory 20 French republicans Mac Hano Is still
| as agile and active a young fellow of 40. He
| goes to the exposition nearly every day with
| his wife and takes a turn on horseback.
| a GREAT IMPETUS has been given to Russian
| industries within the last teu or fifteen years.
Thus, in 1879 all the cotton mills in that coun-
\ try contained about :, 1000 spindles while
| there are now, according TO the atest reports,
| ll5.OJO,OOO spindleS, divided among siXty-seven
i HILLS Inc nQlDeF OF cOJlOn weaving cSLaO-
lishments in Russia is said to be 48S, giving EN-
ptoyment to more than $4,000 hands, the total
annual production being estimated at sc, 000,0 900
roubles.
GEN. W. S. RosEcRANs, register of the United
States treasury, has particular one-sded ex-
| preston of face which has history to it. Few
people know that Gen. Rosecrans was the first
man who ever refined petroleum. He expert
mented with it forty years ago People said he
was tool, but he went on with his experiments.
Presently as though to prove what they said,
| ms petroleum blew up and burned his face in a
| serious way. He has suffered from that injury
| ever since.
AS AN example of the spirit which animates
| the German army, and which doubles its force,
Prince Kraft Hohenlohe tie Is a fine story. At
| the battle Of Chateaudun battery found itself
| with out ammunition under a heavy fire What
| was TO be done? The officer commanding,
| ordered the gunners to rake their places on the
| lmbers and sing the ''Wacht am Rhi le," in
| order as Prince Kraft says, that they might
pass the time agreeably While waiting for fresh
cartridges
THE Italians of New York city are determined
that the monument in honor of Christopher
Columbus, which they are preparing to raise
| shall b a work of art worthy of Italy. They
say That the parks and squares there are
statues OF Germans, English men and Scotch
| men. and other Europeans, besides Americans,
| but that the gr at Italian, to whom we owe our
country, has been neglected. The Columbus
monument is likely TO be a majestic pile and
honor to Central park. Both Italian and Amer
lea sculptors have been invited to offer designs
Tor it.
| CORRESPONDENT calls the New York
Tribltne'S attention to "a state of things which
| concerns everybody" He says: THE Saratoga
springs are to-day way below the mark The
cause Is that everybody has been boring down
INTO the natural reservoir; at every opening "a,
is escaping; so that below, it has no longer
power to force the waters through rocky
| assures, sucking mineral particles and, thus
| laden, force them TO the surface No artificial
| boring should be allowed within at leas. half
| mile OF a natural mineral spring of national
reputation. II the springs go, Saratoga goes. -
| a PECULIAR ACCIDENT occurred the other af
ternoon to a st. Paul youth named Eph Wells
| Wells and another lad proceeded to a lake near
| the city early in the morning on a fishing excur-
| sion, and angled during the entire forenoon
| without getting a bite. Wells was fishing
without rod, and had the business end of h
/ line adorned with a large frog, the other end
| being wrapped round his finger Suddenly a
large fish seized the bait aud made such de-
| termlned ru h Herewith os to cause the strain
on the line TO cut the young fisherman's finger
| almost to the bone. Surgical aid was obtained
and 1t was at first thought that the member
would have to be amputated. Operation has
been deferred, however, and it is now hoped
that the finger may be saved without resorting
TO amputation.
JOHN EGLINGToN BAILEY of Stretford, Man
chester, who died last year, accommodated the
best shorthand collection in England; and it has
bean bought and presented to the Manchester
Free References Library the Bailey Short
hand Collection" w lerever book or MS, on.
in, or about shorthand in any la nguage was To
be had, Mr. Bailey would secure it if he could
In several instances every edition Of the same
work was bought the entire list finally amount
ing to 1000 volumes. He was himself an ex-
pert stenogra. 5her and possessed singular in.
signt into the mo It grabbed of shorthan Is He
succeeded with ease in deciphering some of I =
most apparently bewdering, including that
used in Samuel Pepys diary. His collection
began with "Bright's Characteristic" of the
time of Elizabeth.
LAST YEAR, while some workmen were an
gagged in drainage operations at LochavulIin
Scotland, for the purp )se of forming public
park, they discovered what was believed nv
experts to be al ODD ''crannog," or lake dwell
ing. Arrangements wer9 made bv the town
council for its being properly investigated and
preserved as far as possible, but the weather
| rendered operations impracticable till WITHIN
the last few days. Workmen are now engaged
in excavating round the place, and recently it
was visited by Cochran Patrick, under secre
tary for Scotland, Malcolm Mcneil of the
board of supervision and Prof Heddie of ST.
Andrews Among the articles thus far found
are stone bullet such as would have been
used IN the sings of the period in which the
dwelling Is suppose to belong, and portions of
the waffle used IN the construction of the dwell
ing.
A CALL FOR MONEY to build a new hospital in
Jerusalem, issued by the London Society for
Promoting Christianity Among the Jews. has
| rolsed vehement protest from the Jews. The
influence of the hospital, they say, is resorte1
TO for the purposes of conversion, and as a mat.
ter of fact the hospital is not needed The pro-
verbal care of the Hebrews for their own
people has not been lacking toward those
crowding into Jerusalem. There are alreadv
two hospitals and 5000 has just been collected
In Europe for enargiug them or for building
another. Besides that, the Rottschilds hay,
built very fine one without the city walls II
happened that the medical superintsndent of
tie Rothschild hospital. Dr. Israel d'Lrhela
was at Zanzibar when Stanley started ON the
Emin expedition. The doctor yacCanated the
great explorers baud, and was the LAST Furo
pean to bid him farewell.
PRINCESS LOUISE SOPHIE, of SchleswiT.Hol-
STEMS marriage to Prince Frederic Lsopold.
| son of the ked Prince, Frederic Charles Of Prus
| sa, presented several interesting features.
First, the bride was one of the most perfect
types OF Teutonlc beauty known in the Horth of
Europe. 1t was Leppold's father, also. who
was the commanding couQ1eror of Schleswig-
Holsteln In 1867. Then in the Fackeltanz. or
torch dance, an indispensable conclusion to
weddings at the PrusSian court, Her Won Putt
kamer, who had retired from the ministry of
Emperor Frederic, appeared again as minister
of state by special invitation of William TIE
Fackeltanz is an odd performance The minis
tiers form the dancing party. They enter, two
by two, holding torches made of long way ia
pers, abou the thickness OF a mans wrist.