The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ut Ch41ADOS ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF
having the Worlds Fair is that 3.7322 PA hogs
were slau -hterei IN that city in 1898
In order to replace the field laborers who have
emigrated to Mexico and South America, a CON-
pany has been formed in Havana,to make con-
tracts with number OF work men in Spain and
orihg them To Cuba with their families.
WHEN Mrs Hastings of Carlisle, n. Y, passed
over the dark river her husband had an epitaph
all ready for her monu nent. portion of il
reads: she never borrowed one single thina
from her nelsh0or during her thirty four years
! Of welded life"
The YOUNG LADIES of Burnett, Wis, have
formed The Heavenly Foot society, the OBJ
! Ject OF which is to do away with the practice oi
wearing numb-r2 shoe on a number foot
| Inc OBJECT Is about as praiseworthy as the ma
| J0flty vi suca societies now existing.
VERY CURIOUS COLLECTION of ladies' garters
is Kept at the Hohenzoiern museum at Berlin
whenever there is wedding in the Hohen
Zplierh Ianlly, numoer OF these short silk
ga rs, VIII the initials of the newIy-married
princess, are distributed among friends.
TIE proudest boast among Cuban women is
the dainty smallness of their feet. They re
qulrs notning larger in the way of foot-geaI
than No size for American women. This De
cuuar endow nent is perfectly natural; no
plhchlag or PRESSURE OF any kind is used.
On Rice street. st. Paul. lives an old lady
ma ed French. She is nearly 30 years old and
totally blind, and has bee SO for he past forty
years. Yet en- remarkaOls memory has she
ana so well verSed on the BlOle that she is able
10 quote whole chapters from any part of the
scriptures.
KIND STRANGER helped George Ohlinger, of
Aurelus, Mich, to board train at Lansing the
other evening and was thanked for it, but no
stranger VIII ever attempt to be so kind again
anu escape without scars, for this one picked
MI o nSer'S pocket of S. in cash, some rail
ROAD tickets ami check for Sis
BROOKLYN sALooNKEEPER named Koerner a
few days ago gave two beers to a seedy-looking
and impec Inious individual for the mercantile
equlval mt OF lottery ticxet. Mr. Koerner
uhtll Saturday, when he learned that tho ticket
was "a WI iner, and a biz one at that. being
worth exactly 5000.
ONE OF the numerous and miscellaneous s'only
genuine and original tattooei girls in New
York dime museum is faithfully declared to be
20 years d, and 1t is further asSe verat I'd that
the cutcuar adornment of her person was ex-
ecuted when she was an infant. Yet the most
conSp!cuous feature of the panorama is q like
ness OF Liberty Enlightening the World as seen
on BeCloo'S island.
The TEMPLE OF HEAVEN at Peking containing
the ragon throne, has be-n DESTROYED by fire.
it was five stories high, surmou ted by a dome.
like no T. The Interior was pa ticulary note
worthy for nu nUer of pillars supporting the
roof. WI ca were facet with gold and otherw sc
splenddly adorned. The temple was sur
rounded oy number of spacious buildings
IN ISL OF IN I'm de oted TO the services of the
priests attached to the sacred ediice
GEN OBaoUrcHEFF, the chief of the general
staff of the Russian army, submitted to the
car last slmmer q report urging that a second
line of rails be laid TO the western frontier. In
spite or the opposition of the minister of
nnance the P opoSal is being carried out
Eignt m lion pools of rails and 300 locomotives
nave been ordered lor delivery in MAY This
measure completes the strategic network of
Kussial railways. increasing their capacity to
mass troops on the G rman frontier.
A GOSSIP WRITES that new London freak is
Tine Peace Society" The members assemble
for tea in fashionable studios, languidly look
through collections of sketches and Ian mildly
Listen 10 music, and tuen, with continued Ian
guor, discuss que stiJ s Tor bansaing IDEAS of
war from the youthful mind. One idea i, to
treat war as merely an incident in textbooks of
history This is the society which, some time
o, began its Self-appoi tied miss on by recon-
mending the banishment of drums and tin
soldiers from the nursery.
GERMAN long resident in London. who left
home at 20 years of age, thereby evading serv.
ice in the army, has sent to the English papers
communication received from the authorities
In the Fatheriand' in answer to an app tcACI n
to be permitted 10 visit his father ere he died
come by al means was in effect the austere
reJoin Ter, out you will have to pay fine of
t6 los, undergo six week. drilling and spend
six months in a fortr S." This was a It'll foo
muca Tor the C )rre ie1t's filial instinct 1t
would nave been a great Joy to ms to I'VE soen
my father" he says, out under these circum
Stances we shall meet no more"
THE British museum has come into nossession
of a vase only three inches high which is con-
sidered the finest example of the so-called
Corinthian ware in the world 1t is near
snap d. and has for a mouth a lions head with
Sttnded jaws. The decoration is chiefly in
black on warm cream paste, with red olive.
and purple touches on the black Figures in
lively action encircle it in five bands of nneoual
| depth, divided from each OF Ter by strong lines
| notwithstanding their minute SIZE, the warriors
| depicted in combat on one hand the horses
| backed by boys in race on another and the
hunting sc mes on third a e said to be oraW n
| with genuine dramatic instinct and a mastery
| capacity for sign.
How many thieves, regular out-and- out rob
| bers,' said Government Detective James TT
| Pryor, do you suppose have boxes in the safe
| deposit companies vaults of New York; PLENTY
Oh en- ana when they maze good haul Of
sWag there's nothing in the world to prevent
their going straight down to their vaults as any
millionaire nigh and quietly cachng the goods
until they get good aud ready to dispose of
| them. Never thought of that did you? Wealth
and responsibility are not ALWAYS nnnlie1 hv
bank account any more tnan they are by a
lagallzed hid ng-p zee with safe deposit com
pany, The thieves know it is hard ii not nrac
tlcally impossible, for the law to follow their
booty there. Suppose you were bank cas- ,ier
or even Napoleon of finance ami put AWAY a
million before the crash, or flight. or arrest
why shouldn't you pat it in your regular safe
deposit vault or in some other name with soma
other SAT deposit company? There you have
safe fund 10 IRA on for lawyers fees and for a
frolic or two when you doff the stripes and
come out into the gay world again!"
IT IS an interesting and significant fact that
all the larger firms in New York which deal in
books have constant and considerable call for
"Burke's Peerage," De Brett's volume on the
English atistocracy anu works of a kindred
nature: The books are all imp orted and even
IN England are very expensive, but this seems
to have no deterring 1uence GA the demand
Tor them Burke's Peeragen sells for some
thing over SIS, and yet it is understood that
nearly every fashionable family il town is POI
seSsed OF copy, and at Immediately prior TO
contemplated sojourn abroad thew study il
with remarkable and edifying industry. The
story goes that in some families ''Burke's Peer
;e' used to be one of the ornaments of the
drawing room, but after frequent con u.tations
the book began to take on such evidences of use
That its chara ter as an ornament was DESTROYED
and it was cgatad to the recesses of one of the
library shelves There is also shilling peer
age-that is to say, a little pamp let got up in
England, giving digest of the larger books of
refere .ce-and it sells herA for 20 cents but the
demand for it is comparatively light.
FRENCH OFFICER, in speaking of melinite to
a representative of the Nav Vow yJ,;.,oo eo;l