The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

6 hy ~ inch eggs.
TAG Authorities 10 Holland lave decreed
that women c. mot serve 90 a school board In
Sweden it has been decided that they can.
Tas first talsE George Sheldon Of Indiana
did wte1 te got a legacy CT $50 600 was 10 bay
$4,000 WORTH Of diamonds a1d a thousand
dollar team.
Minnesota has passed alsw providing for
exec-tOns before sCCr.se, aod allowing the
cordemced to invite three persons TO witness
his taking off.
WEDDING 10 Selma County Kansas last
week, the groom charged tie guests 50 cents
each for supper and sod them popcorn at
cents package.
The Souther11 Journal of Homeopathy says:
For COO years Rome existed without physi-
clans. Within Goo years after its first physician
the Roman empire had ceased to exist"
Tue mammoth hotel at Rockaway Beach,
which is 1 $50 feet 10 lg and four stories high.
coutai 500 edrooms, and cost over $1,000 900,
was sold at auction the other day for $4,000.
ONE DR.. THEN1Us of Vienna has invented
process by which he declares that good heavy
sole leather can be made from the wood of old
red beeeh trees. He has applied for patents.
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Tennessee, has taken
new and very practical departure in Offering
to instruct, free of charge, one highway official
from each county in Tennessee in road engi-
neering.
MISS n. TRoYER. a teacher in the San Fran
cisco schools. succeeded IN retaining her posi-
ton and keeping the fact of her marriage a
secret for five years, when it was revealed by a
divorce suit.
A PAPER contains the following in adver
tisement: "Coffins and Casksts. | will sell 20
per cent. Cheaper than any other Party. Ladies
and Gentlemen Laid Out at any hour of the
Night or Day
The making of veueered diamonds is a new
Partisan industry. The body of the gem is cut
from quartz and then by galvanic action coated
With solution made from diamond chips and
stones too small for cutting
Miss BErsEY QUINBy, of Thetford, Vt, who
gives her age as nearly 103 years, has a full
head Of hair reads without the aid of eye
lasses, and IS, she says as clipper as you
please. Her only infirmity arises from
broken hip, received in a fall forty years ago.
OLIVER SHEPHERD, lad of t6, living near
Champion, Ind, had an exciting experience
With a black snake the other day He was
passing along the road near Lis home when the,
reptile appeared from some bushes and at
tacked aim. The boy started to run. and was
closely pursued for nearly a mile by the
snake.
TIE RUNNING ASHORE Of the steamship SANTA,
of Portland, near Halifax, was fore hadowed.
it seems. by the ships cat before the vessel
OF blttenS, but Ieaped from tie deck to the
waters of the dock and escaped. From that
time on the su picious members of the crew
were on the lookout for mishap,
SMALL BOY in Springfield lost his leg by the
falling of a signpost belonging to a railroad.
and sued the company for damages. The com.
papy, OF course. resisted perhaps thinking that
the loss Of their post gave them the right to
take stand, but the contested value OF the
lest member was decided at a second trial to
amount to over $4,000, thus putting the boys
Leg on better footing.
TIE COPENHAGEN wHALER IcEBEAR has Just
started for Greenland in order to bring back
from his temporary dwelling place in the re-
glons OF eternal ice ami snow the daring ex-
plorer, Dr, F. hansen Of the museum at Bergen,
who has for the first time succeeded in crossing
Gree land IN g direction from tine east to the
west coast. The Ice ear is expected bacz at
the beginning OF Ju e, when a three days festi-
val in his honor viii be held at Copenhagen
ALTHOUGH ATTEMPTS to mine coal al the
mouth of the Kennebec river have heretofore
been unsuccessful, vet every tins a lump is
washed ashore II eXcltes SO M one with les re
to ivestigate farther. Portland paper tells
OF lump weighing about twsuty-slX pou DIS
that ecently was washed up on Popham beach
and thinks that a Portland syndicate will make
another effort this summer b find the source
whence these pieces have come for the last
sixty years. The opinion has frequently been
expressed that the Jumps ara broken from a
rich vein beneath the sea.
The trip which the Emperor William pro
poses to take to the North Cape provides occ1-
patton for him durs1g the coming autumn.
whl.e tn journey to England viii nj a part of
the intervening period. With these plans in
store it LOOKS Y r much as il the coming year
IS expected by him to be one Of peace The
Gar, also IS said to contemplate a visit to the
Paris exhibition. thereby Settins a good q Sc
ample to those of his fellow-potentates who. no
mater nov much they might Ike 10 see TIE
show. fear that it would not 10 to co .ntensnce
a Qualification of the revolution of 100 wears
ago. The Shah OF Persia will on be on his
travels so That busy season is at hand fortle
chroniclers of the movements of enperors.
THAT fine organic particles suspended in the
atmosphere will form explosive mixtures as
dangerous as fire damp or coal gas was recently
again Illustrated says the Chemist ana Dun
gtst. London, in Paris bakery. There as ia
most bakeries, a CLOTH shoot was EMPLOYED for
bringing the flour from the storeroom unStairs
down to the kneading troughs in the BAKERY
Somehow movea lie gas JET came into con
contact with the clotu, and burned a hole
through, when terrific explosion took place
blowing out the front windows and making ne
whole snop a perfect wreck Unfortunately
besides material damages, the accident caus ID
sew re personal Injuries to two men, one Jour
neymau baker, whose face was badly burned
an sser-by who was wounded in the head
by tie flying debris"
SURAr was lately visited by disastrous fire.
in which 5000 houses were DESTROYED. The
damage sustained is estimated at 100000 rupees
and 25,0l0 Of the PEG lie were made homeless.
Toe water supply was deficient and the engines
were detective, while the iremen, it appears,
"oolted. Surat was once the principal COM
mercial city OF India, but its prosperity has
within the last fifty years, been greatly on the
wane, owing IN great measure to the severity OF
the disasters, both Of fire and flo d. to which it
has been subjected. In April, 1881, 10000 houses
were burnt down, and later, 10 the same year,
the p ople suffered additional loss by the Hood
ing OF the Taptee, three fourths of the city hav.
ing, 1t Is said, been anDnlated. In 1884 the
place again suffered greatly from foods In
1881 the annual value of its Seaborne commerce
was 4l,OI}22, while in 1854 this had fallen
away to &i6},3]G In IS ! the population num-
b9red 25OOJ2, and in 1881 only 109.SH. In the
present case { IL fire greatly assisted BY the
dried grass, the houses themselves being con
structed almost entirely of wood
AN UNUSUALLY LARGE NUMBER of cases of
women passing for men have recently been dis
covered IN Great Britain and France. The most
remarkable tor length Of time during which the
deception was maiutl Aimed was that of person
who, during voyage from France TO the island
or jersey acted in a strange manner and finally
fell unconscious. doctor found that although
dressed as a mao il was really wo an. After
being sent to a hospital in Jersey she told her
story, which was that az the a e Of IS she had
en- lett an orphan and had then adopted male
clothes, which sbe had ever suce worn without
discovery. She was IS years old an1 had there