The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| STATISTICS Just puotished snow that there are
2,272 soldiers six feet or over in hight in the
British army.
AT the Troy polytechnic the students have a
craze. They paper their ceilings with envelopes
of letters from their best girls.
IN Roostoen, Holland, there is a giant rose
tree belonging to Nine. Regnen, which fen
years ago held 5000 roses at the same time.
ONE hundred dollars has been offered by the
Princeton Club in New York to the man who
passes the best examination for the freshman
| class in June.
WHAT is supposed to be a meteor fell about a
rnil9 south of Tower, Mimi, Saturday, with a
loud report. Fragments have been sent to St.
Paul for analysis.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, in Science, calcu-
lates that mother in talking TO her infant
| speaks $4,000 words day-equal to about four
| hours continuous talking.
A MAN up in Springfield named David Kinsey
succeeded in killing seven out of nine black
| snakes which he found in crossing a field. They
| averaged AZ feet in length.
The expected visit of the Shah of Persia to
England recalls the fact that no Persian mon
arch ever had gray hair. Gray hair is by uni
versal custom prohibited in Persia, and is never
| seen.
JOHN d. DAVIS, a farmer residing at New Dig
gins, Ill, put his milk cans on the wood pile to
| dry. and the reflection of the suns rays from
them set the wood on fire, doing considerable
damage to his house and barn.
WHILE Israel Stops, of Los Angeles Cal,
| lay on his deathbed he said to his wife: when
my soul leaves my body and enters the other
world will let you know by crossing my hands
| on my breast" He kept his word and died i'm
medIately after giving the sign.
THE NEWEST DEVICE for killing time invented
by the Briton is to make the men at a dinner
party write out some account of the ladies'
gowns, after the dear creatures have left them
to themselves, and later, when the efforts are
read aloud in the drawing-room, TO give prizes
for the best and worst descriptions.
THERE is shooting gallery at the Paris Fx-
position where, in painted jungle, painted
hares, rabbits and other game (even includjne
foXesO run about for ths amusement OF the
sportsman. The other day a gentleman, who
had dog with him, took a shot, and rolled
over rabbit At once the dog jumped the bar
| rier and leaped into the jungle to retrieve the
painted bunny.
| A CONTEMPORARY states that DR.. Eisenmann
of Berlin, has invented a piano which, by the
aid of electro magnetism, can sustain, increase
and diminish sound. This has been attempted
| by other experts, notably Boehm, the inventor
OF the metal flute, Another novelty will be that
| by moving the electro magnets the timber of
the tone is changed; for example, from that of
vloloncello to piccolo.
CURIoCs WEDDING has just taken place at
LODI. Hungary. A young man, IS years of age
| and of good position, for some unaccountable
reason, married poor widow with numerous
family. The "bluShing' bride is in her 74tb
year, The happy" bridegroom has now II
stepsons and daughters, the Oldest of whom is
50, besides % grandchildren and % great grand
children-and all that at 49,
Dr. PINEL of Paris has succeeded in hypnotis-
ing several subjects by means of the phono-
graph. All the commands given through this
channel were as readily obeyed it is said. as
those uttered directly, and suggestions of
every possible sort were as effectually commu-
nicated through the medium of the machine as
if made UtUd r0ce. The conclusion deduced by
DR.. Pinel is that the theory of magnetic cur
rent passing from the operator to the subject
is entirely baseless, and that the real cause
of the phenomena of hypotism is nervous de-
rangement on the part of those subject to
them.
WILLIAM ladder, of Reading, has a number
of cats that beat the record for sagacity Some
time ago he placed twelve hens eggs undar the
largest cat, ard the animal stayed by them
until they were Matched. The result was as sat.
isfactory as if it had been done by a mother
hen. But the cat did not take to the chicks. SO
they were allowed to care for themselves and
they are doing nicely. Mr.. Tadde- also has two
cats that will go hunting with him. They will
ferret out rabbit with the same aptitude as a
IefFeC On6 OF tnem mas web feet, rare sDe-
cies, and will catch fish out of a stream and
| bring them to shore. There is no reason to
doubt the Veracity of this statement
WATER for drinking purposes should never be
below 500, says DR.. William A. Hammond. We
/ can almost always get it, even in the hottest
weather, as cool as this by letting it run for a.
| minute or two from any household faucet or
drawing it from any country well If NOT
| there is no objection to cooling it to the noint
mentioned. The East India monkey" which
can now be had almost anywhere in this conn
| try, and by means Of which the contained water
\ is cooled by its own evaporation, answers the
purose admirably. am quite sure that if ice
water should be generally discarded as a drink
the average duration of life would be length
ened and existence rendered more tolarable
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the Pittsburg million.
aire, in the North Americon Reuie,g. asks
why should men leave great fortunes to their
children?" and then says: IF this is done from
affection. is it not misguided affection? Obser
vationteaches that, generally speaking, it is not
we'll for the children that they should be 80
burdened Neither is it we'll for the state Re-
yond providing for the wife and daughters
moderate sources or income, and very modar-
ate allowances indeed. if any, for the sons men
may well hesitate, for it is no longer question
able that great sums bequeathed oftener work
more for the injury than for the good of the
recipients. Wise men will soon conclude that.
for the best interests of the members of their
families and of the state, such requests are an
improper use of their means"
A CARTRIDGE has been invented by Albert p.
Walker, which, when filled with oil and dis.
charged, will pacify the toughest sea The
receptacle is OF ordinary cartridge size. but ia
made of heavy paper, and weighted at the
further end with small piece of lead It viii
mold about two ounces of oil. IL is fitted in an
ordinary cartridge SHE'LL and fastened to il bv
means of cotton shreds The cartridge Is mt
into breechoader, and the trigger Is ptiIfel.
The cotton connectings the cartridge and The /
shell is ignited BY powder. 1t is burned and
the cartridge, filled with oil is sent SPINNING
away over the waves. Then. at any point the
navigator may wish, the cartridge, because of
the lea1 at its head, will sink into the waves
The oil being lighter than the water rises to
the top and spreads like film over the waves
By means of these cartridges path an eighth
of mile broad can be made through the
heaviest of seas.
TIE story is going the rounds of a retail
dealer who obtained rare bargain in ladies,
hemstitched linen handkerchiefs which he de-.
signed to sell at fair profit, at 25 cents each.
On examination of the goods he determined NOT
to give such value for so small a sum TakIng
one-half this lot, he marked each handkerchiaf
in the corner with a lead pencil 25 cents and
the other half of the lot, precisely the same
style and quality, he marked in the same wav
30 cents, and displayed the goods on the conn
ter side by side. Imagine his surprise when ha
found that two out of every three of his IadS
customers selected the BARGAINS at 40 cents
leaving him with the larger part of thosa
marked 25 cents on his cOuutar As If v,es -.