The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| CAPT JAKE vASDERsILr, only surviving
brother of Commodore Vanderbilt, visits New
York every day by a morning boat from St.
george touaten ISland) and returns in time for a
| spin behind his trotter. Boston Boy" Though
over 81 years old Capt. Vanderbilt is said TO
loJa HUGH Is younger and TO be as hale as though
only half that age.
THIS STORY comes from Boston: lady op-
posed to corporal punishment visited a school,
not in a fashionable part of the city Just as a
| boy was being logged. Before going away she
| SPOKE 70 the culprit, aud asked him to come
ana see her on certain evening, promising to
| MAKE 1t pleasant for him AT the appointed
| hoor boy. dressed in his best, came, and for
] an hour and more the lady and her daughter
i iala themselves out TO amuse him. Then the
oenaVlor and obedience to rules, when the boy
| interrupted her: "Oh. l amt that Teller! He
| u me ~ cents to come instider him"
HE steamship Nanticoke left Baltimore on
March 10 for Caratasco with a load of emil
| grants After discharging there she loaded
Ihree weeks ago, at Ruatan a cargo of bananas
ana cocoanuts and few plantains. They left
Nuatan with nfty-seven tons of English coal
supposed to be sufficient for ten or twelve DAYS
run. Win American coal it required but five
70 nVe and half tons day, whereas with this
Ehgnsh coal they consumed from nine to niue
anu haI tons The captain discovering that
us coal would not hold out TO reach Mobile,
started Tor the Dry Tortugas. They were then
100 miles west OF that point when the coal gave
OUT. Bulkheads, life preservers, mattresses, old
rope, OILS varnlshes, five bales of oakum, the
roof OF the cabin and matches were each in turn
USED IN making steam. Finally, by using 1900
GocoanutS, they were enabled 10 reach Dry
Tortugas.
CORRESPONDENT writing to Paris cotem-
porary from Montrichard, in the department of
Lolr-et-Cher, says: "A learned monkey named
Bertram was deeply attached to its owner who
among other tricks, had taught 1t 10 fire a
pistol while galloping on the back of a dog
me master OF the animal, it seems lately met
WIN CERTAIN domestic troubles, and, in de-
lected frame of mind few days ago, he sent
bullet through his head, death being instan-
taneouS The monkey was present at the
death OF his master, and probably took in
every particular In any case, when doctor
was called in to see if life was extinct in the
man, ne was astonished to find himself in
presence of double suicide. the monkey g
| body being stretched beside that of his master
with the revolver clasped between ITS fingers
IL IS stated that the animal picked up the pistol
after his master had blown out his brains and
| ttniGated what he had just seen done, sending a
bullet through his head precisely as the man
1 had done.
| The Indianapolis Neeos has now taken up the
| cudgels against tight check reins, saying in a
recent issue: Some people appear to try to
make their horses look as much like camels as
| possible, for while horses neck is naturally
| arched and the nose pointed downward, they
| check MN up to such an extent that his nose
| polnIs stralgnt out and his eyes are so placed
| tnat ne cannot see the ground on which he is
| travelling. This Is surely not only inhuman, but
| RIDICULOUS. The many horse owners do not even
take the trouble to uncheck their horses while
| tney are standing, for you may see the
poor animals hitched outside churches
| or business houses with the check
rem rem ga as ST tight as possible, while
| they are trying to find relief by swaying their
| heads from side to side. If any one doubts the
| suffering horse is subjected to let him try it
on himSelf-allow some one to tie his head
oack SO that he appears to be star-gaZing and
remain IN that position say for fifteen minutes;
that VIII be enough to convince any one. The
use OF these check-lines In England lin q milder
form than many used here now was thought SO
lnhuman that some years ago the ROYAL Society
Tor the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals pro-
cured the enactment of law prohibiting them,
and they are now entirely out of use. Such q
law would be unnecessary if there were not so
many people who not intentionally but
| SO Ihoughtlessly cruel to dumb animals"
The April number of the volapuk paper, pub
! iished at Constance by Schleyer, the inventor Of
\ the proposed universal language records the
end OF the first ten years of the existence of the
| language, the publication of the hundredth
| number OF the paper, and the issuance of the
tnousandth diploma to teachers, Of the Ian
| guage. Schleyer says editorially: 81 look
back on these first ten years of Volapuk with
| mingled feelings, First with great Joy over the
remarkable spread Of Volapuk on the whole
1 Sdi vi, anu OOCduSc VI IuO OF
| our young universal language of only ten years
| growth; but, second, also with touch of sad
| ness, because these very years have been years
OF hard work, years of deprivation, of sick.
| ness, OF trioulatlons, OF poverty, of Strifes,
| OF scorn-few. indeed viii believe the hard
| ships l have endured The language
whose invention caused Schleyer to be de-
| rided as crank, has of late grown
! remarkably in favor even among the
English speaking peoples, who have been re-
pelled by certain peculiarities of VoIapuk, espe-
| clally certain difficulties in pronunciation, and
| who have been the last of the leading civilized
| nations to take up its study and use with earn
| eStneSs English Volapuk dictionaries and hand
books have recently been published, volapuk
| newspapers are printed in this country, and
| books of TRANSACTIONS into Volapuk appear from
| time to time. The latest publication of this
| character is translation of the Proverbs of
| solomon into the universal language and the
| words of the Man of Wisdom now address them
| selves to the Volapukist. whether he be a China
man or an American. The advantages of a sim
pie, common language by means Of which the
| whole world may communicate, without, how
ever, the surrender of any of the existing Ian
| guages, are so obvious that the general use for
| International communication of Volapuk, or a
| modified Voapuk, or a substitute Of some sort
for Schleyer's language, is among the strong
probabilities of the future.
| THE ITALIAN EMIGRANTs who come into the
New York port give very little trouble to the
| customs officers. Once in while there is a row
| kicked up on the contract labor question when
a dozen or score of bootblacks are brought in
and it appears that they have been brought
| over here in opposition to the law. But there
| probably never has been seen at Castle Garden
| such a case as that which recently troubled the
| customs officers at Boston. One morning NOT
| long ago a steamship landed a number OF
| Neapolitan artists consigned to one Sig Petro
| Grossi They were parcel of interesting girls
| who gave the names of Nellie Roccameo. Agnes
| Fay, Jane Flanagan and Eliza Wright There
! were also two men, Gaetano FranerseI
| Guglielmi and Saverio Zanetto. Nellie Roc
cameo said that she was born In Brighton. Eng.
land, and that before embarking on the Scythis
| the steamer that brought her over, she turned
tue crank of a hand organ and took in pennies on
London streets. Agnes Fay claimed that she
was a native of London, and that she had been
a waiter in restaurant. White there she
met Grossi, who volunteered to pay her passage
upon the understanding that when she arrived
| in this country she would pay him back Jane
| Flanagan told a holder story. She said he1
| mother gave her &5, and that she had paid her
| own passage. Eliza Wright was on the pas
| Senger list under the name of Antonio Ventro
| 1t is generally man who wears that name and
she said the reason why she took that title was
that man for whom she had worked as an
| organ grinder was going to sail on the ship. but
| missed his connections. So she came in his
stead. The funny part of it was that in this
| party of consigned emlgrants four hand organs
| were found 1t was difficult to tell exactly who
| owned them, and it was suspected that Grossi
| himself had paid for them on the other side
| and was endeavoring to get them in here free