The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IHE Portland lne-l Advertiser has applied the
postal-card test to prominent republicans in
that state. and finds that the sentiment in favor
OF ballot reform is very strong
NINE. SARAH BERNHAKDr has definitely an
nounced her intention to play the role of Joan
of Arc in the drama Of il. Jules Barber The
trageoienDe says that the part of the peasant
girl OF Donremy often tempted her, and she
read up nearly everything that has been written
about Joan, Including Schilsers JHngfrAu Won
Orleans, from which NJ Barber has sought in
spirauon-
TIE SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL LIBRARY at STRAIT
ford-on Avon has received an important gift of
books from the Indian government. In response
to letter sent to Lord Dufferin at the time he
was vlceroy, The government has been at con-
siderable pains to collect all the TRANSACTIONS OF
Shakespeare's works published il India, and
have transferred them as a donation to the NJ O.
mortal library.
SENATOR WATSON Q. SQUIRE of Washington
has scarcely yet warmed his seat in the Senate,
but he IS already called upon to fight for re-
domination. The legislature that will elect his
successor VIII meet the first Monday in January.
1891. There are already four opposing candi-
dates In the field, with several counties yet to
hear from, and dispatches from Olympia say
the fight will be a hot one.
The new London hotel on the site of Water
loo house will be nothing If not American. The
plans have been prepared in consultation with
Two we'll known American hotel managers: there
Will De an American exchange, and an Ameri-
can bar with American drinks; the hotel will be
worked at rental by an American syndicate.
and IL viii be opened some eighteen months
hence, with the hosting OF the stars and stripes
as the Hotel Columbia
A NOTORIOUS BUENos AYREs bandit named
Ippolito Andre has been captured in Genoa, to
which place he had escaped. His recent rob-
berries are said to amount to 1000 900 francs.
lie was taken on board the steamer on which
ne arrived. In his possession were found 80 900
francs In gold, two receipts for large sums of
money lodged in a French bauk and box con-
tainlng articles of iewelry of great value. He
was accompanied by his wife and children
A GOAL PALACE $50 by 800 feet and three
stories high, is to be erected in East St. Louis.
ms palace will be a decidedly novel structure
me coal companies will furnish the material
TOT the superstructure-black coal OF every
klno, ana wrought ont by saw, by mason S
hammer and into artistic forms by the carver's
chlsel. The first floor will be polished coal and
pillars OF coal will support the floor-coal, coal
everywhere. The purpose of the building will
be to continually exhibit the agricultural and
mlnel al products of Southern Illinois.
The MODERN GAME of baseball is an American
institution and not, as some might believe, an
exotic of foreign growth which has come to us
from the older civilizations of Europe and the
east. The game from which our present sport
Is derived had its origin and development among
the oborlgines of the American continent who
played with bat and ball ages, for aught we
know, before the dream of new world filed
the imagination of the Italian adventurer 1t
Is mus American TO the core. OF course. the
game has Undergone great notifications but
recent archaeological investigations prove the
truth OF the above statement.
The NEW BADGE of the American Federation
of Labor is disk of copper or gold, half an
inch in diameter, enameled to represent a hem
lsphere as shown in maps of the world, in blue
or black, but marked by only eight meridians
in gilt These are indicative of the demand of
the Federation OF Labor for work day of eight
hours. Above the disk is a sscroll with the let
tiers A. r. OF l. Underneath is pendant In
scribed Labor Omnia Vincit," emitting as is
usual the word "Improbus'' from the quota
ton. On the disk at the north pole is the Inquire
g, " and at the south pole is tho word hours d"
More than 100000 of these badges were struck
off last week
OBJECTS discovered in and near Rome by
excavators will henceforth be placed in the
Baths of Diocetian. there to form Museum of
Urban Antiquities, while those found in Etruria,
Latium. and elsewhere will be placed at the
Villa Giulia, on the F'laminian Way beyond the
Porto del Popolo, named from the famous art
patron, Pope julius III. This will be called the
Museum-w ithout-the City. 1t is not in Rome
writesRaffaele Erculei, thatone finds antiquities
that give an idea of Rome before the age of
Augustus it is in the towns and villas outside.
Rome itself was changed by Augustus from
city of brick to a city of marble, and from
Latin to Greek city.
SOMETHING OF A PANIC was created Saturday
in ST. Louis court. when a leper was produced
on writ Of habeas corpus. The writ was di-
rected against the city officials, who were di-
rected TO bring the leper from quarantine in
order to demonstrate to the court that the man
was really a leper, and was not being unlaw-
fully restrained of his liberty. The Judge took
one glance at the loathSome creature whose
body was covered with blue and white blotches
we Qnfl drOsN
He was Immediately convinced that the man
was a genuine leper, ordered him back to quar-
antine, and adjourned court to give the janitor
a chance to fumigate and air the place.
THE OBSERVATORY AT PEKING is the Oldest in
the world, having been foundedin 1879 by Kubla
Khan, the first emperor of the Mogul dynasty.
There are still in it three of the first instrr,-
ments Of observation. These were used for the
observation of Haliey's comet, i'll 1928, and may
be used when, twenty-five years hence. this
comet again appears. The Oldest observatory
in Europe is that founded by Frederick III. of
Denmark, on the island of Hveen, in the sound
and when the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe
carried out his celebrated observation-disclosures
Others that of the bright" star 10 Cassiopeia
The Paris observatory was established in 1871
and that of Greenwich three years later.
JUDGE WELLS of Rapid City, Dak was the
victim of a peculiar runaway few days ago
Two of his cows escaped, and he went hunting
for them in buggy. He found them, and
tying ropes around their horns, attached them
to the back of the buggy and started for home
He had not gone far when the cows concluding
they were going the wrong way, turned and
made off in the opposite direction dragging
the judge and horse and buggy after them at a
lively rate Finally the horse was pulled off
his feet and rolled over in ditch, piing the
judge and the buggy up In promiscuous heap
by the roadside. Fortunately no damage was
done except to the buggy. After tying the
cows the judge went home and sent a small boy
after them.
EVEN THE MUcH-DEsPIsED TRAMP has often
more honor than he's given credit for, as wit
ness the following from New Jersey: -Four
teen years ago tramp knocked at the door of
Daniel Palmer, in South Orange township,
Essex county, and asked for hat. By mistake
one of the daughters gave him her fathers best
silk hat, discovering the mistake just as the
tramp started away with it. An exclamation
by her sister apprised the tramp of the prize he
had received. Little thought was after given
to the matter until a few mornings ago, when
clean. new hat box was found on the front
porch. 1t contained new silk hat, and this
explanation within a slip of paper: TO re-
place your fathers best silk hat, taken by me
fourteen years ago."
Mr.. VANDERBILT has begun work on his prop
erty near AsSeville. N. G. His.chateau will
crown the central eminence of the estate. 1t
will present front of 300 feet, and will be built
of fawn-colored Indiana stone taken from his