The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Up TO the end of August Il, $4,000 tickets
were taken at the Paris exposition. In 1878 the
number WAS only 7,125,OJ0.
Az ESTE .PaIsISG BOOKSELLER of Toxic las
decided to op-n book stalls at the principal
railway stations II The G. ip re.
On recent holiday 500 men in the Birming-
ham England worklouse were flowed to 90
out or tie day. Oniy Afty returned sober
DURING the last month 1,4n cremations took
place ia Tosio, twenty-five of the bodies thus
disposed of having been those of persons who
died from Infection diseases
THE pris Jners in the Texas penitentiary raise
sugar cane anu refine its juice After paying
all the costs Of food, fuel shelter and clothing
So', wv mas been turlel iato tne state from this
work
A MILLION MannIicher rifles have been ordered
by the German government from the oteyr fac
torres which have been working exclusively for
tue Austfo-Hung trlan government for nearly
year past o. oct the whole army aud the
Landwenr will be armed with them.
The MAN who has been goins around Orange
township, o., clipping the hair off the tails Of
horses has at last been caught. He turns out to
oe Insane he eXplai ned that ne wanted the
halr to make a bed. and took mis- captors to a
cave IN the woods where he had three bags fun
Of hair
IHE AMOUNT of water passing over Niagara
rails varies with the hi Sht of the river Prof
W. D. Cunning es mates the average amount
" loOJJ,UtO cubic teet per minIte. Allowing
o-12 pounds to tue cuJIc foot, this would Civ a
total of 500 tons per minute, or 253l2, 500
tons IN n mi .utes, OF watch somewhat more
imam two-tlirds asses over the Horseshoe falls.
Other estimates place the tOta amount passing
over botn falls as high as 100 000, 900 tons per
hour.
HE otal coal consun ption of the world is
said to amount to upward of 100000 cwt. per
hour. OF this quantity about 10000 cwt. are
requir per Dour IN order to heat the boilers
Tor stationary and marine engines locomotives.
etc. The production of pig iron absorDs 100, 00J
c"t ana that OF other metals $4,000 cwt per
nour. The average hourly consumption Of
household coal is rccloned ~ 1000 0 cwt. but
the total prod Iction is estimated at 30 coo, 900
cWJ- 10 33O0OO0O cwt per diem, SO there is con-
siderable margin.
THERE are two Chinese individuals in Hong
Kong who own the majority of tue native
no ,ses between tn m, and who, by a system of
regular rent raising. are simply rolling in
wealth. One as Lad a great deal of family
trouble lately, and his wife in her circulation
consulted the oracle at the temple to learn tn
reason or the anger of the gods. T trial BY
drawing lots according to the priests, showed
that tde cause % as the IMPOSITION OF increasing
odruenS on the tenants. The result OF this has
been th Il III many cases the rents have been
put up further. an IS to the good old oracle
ONE of the meanest men of the age lives at
Dexter, Me. He took pi CO of LAID of poor
widow, this year, to pl ant on halves TIE land
was planted in potatoes, and the crop was a
cool one This mean man came by niyht dug
INTO the sides of tie hills and removed fro n
each a TIE tubsrs with tie exception of few
struggling oneS. his eft the tops flourishng
al arently a vigorously as ever. At tie off
cial digg ing' lew days ago, the widow was
sadly disappointed at the paucity of the crop
and W en- the p tatoas were divided her portion
wa mite" indeed. II is surely to be hoped
that this man viii long continue to hold the
championship uncontested, on this record
A GIeA TIC BONE, part of the fem or thi IL
bone of a mastodon or some tn .r huge pre-
historic ami nal, is on exhibition in a Portland
Ore, store. 1t was purchased from nan y1o
declined TO state eX3ctl. where he foun it, as
ne says there are Their bones around the place
ami he expects TO find other parts of the skeL
eton OF the huge beast. The bone, which is well
preserved is nearly three feet long, and the
:ead which fitted INTO the socket in the hip is
10 ty-two inches n circunfere zee Many who
saw 1t and who nad seen bones of other nasto-
dons said this was the largest they had ever
seen. It IS certainly who per and must hay.
belonged to a gigantic specimen of the masto-
don gigauteus.
WHEN the storm was at its hight soon after
dark on Tuesday night couple of fishermen
called at tbs house of the Rev. Mr. Van SAINT
voord, at Seabright, to warn the family that
the house was in danger. The waves were
driving against tle house and cutting away In
sa I'D beneath it. and it seemed ia Inomentarv
danger OF tum Ollug over. Three servant, only
were IN The house Aided by the fishermen the
girls got their trunks to the stable over near
the Shrewsbury. On reaching this point one of
the girls remembered that 10 canary had bean
left IL the house. Ia lite Of tue storm She
started back for it, but the rest stopped he
why said a fisherman "Ihe ird Wonldn't
live ten minutes IN this gale" Ten minutes
later the house was knocked to pi ces and She
furniture aud sllverware strewn over the sand
ABOUT an hour later still John Van Brunt came
along with lantern. Reaching the wreck of
the cottage he found a bird Gaze about ten
roIs from the house with the canary which the
girl had worried about alive and wei He car
ried 1t to the stable NJ. Van antvoord gave
Van Brunt $40 for saving the bird.
AwRIrER in the Chicago Mail says: Cant.
Meredith John itchie and George Shields
known as old bosses and old timers SAT
around in the Press Club one afternoon re-
Gently and talked about the times of the war
and told OF the funny capers that cannon ba ls
and musket lis cut. Capt. Meredith said ha
once found a dead confederate behind a tree
Tue dead man was resting on one knee in a
position to shoot. His muSket was in his ha dc
the outt OF the gun was against his shoulder
ana one eye was open squirting along the p1ln
barrel There wasn't mark on the body bnt
the man was stone dead. There was n ten
pound ca mon bail buried in Tia tree The man
had been Killed by the conclusion Mr. S ,ieIds
said that he a cannon ball 20 into the
ground about POO yards in front of where he
was standing. He thought that was fine en-
of the matter, but in about three SEQ
onds the ball came out of the o onnd
nifty yards beyond the place it struck IL then
III its fight, struck st mp carromed or
broke soldiers leg. and, rolling on few wards
further, upset a mp kettle ana scaidrd n
man hands. John Richie said he saw a man
1t with spent cannon ball He walked over
to where the man lay to see what he could do
forhlm-giye aim drink out of his canteen. or
was Wis bic was mass of about 100 pounds ~
flesh and blue cloth, mixed up like sausse.'
with an eye md two teeth stickng out on ton
Ca t. ). eredith said that speak n of cam n
ball, o of the most novel Sigh, : he witnesse
during me war was cannon uall about S biz
as a -four barrel going through II rse Iengtl
"lse--that lengUhwise of the horse Their
was left of the horse its head its four feet AID
the lower inches of It's tail When it reach 4
this stage saw that there vas a disposition q
break down the ropes and let very6ody take a
hand in the lying, so got away before was
crippled"
PawntroIers are as keen as lightning flash
in detecting stolen goods offered them. a a
tn y have further safeguard in the descrip-
ton furnished them daily from police head
quarters of all valu able, rep 1rted MISSING ar
stolen. Yet broker on Ridge avenue saws the
Philadelp la lnQui er, was recently tricked nv
shrewd scoundreS, the discovery of WHOSE de-