The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITALY has opened its universities to women,
and Switzerland, Norway, Sweden and Den
mark have done likewise.
BREACH OF PROMISE suits tried in the school
houses are the latest thing in the way of enter
tainments in Cass county, Missouri
c. W. HAsKINs of Oakland, Cal, is making a
list of the immigrants who went to the coast in
| 40. He estimates the number at G0,O0O.
FRANCE Austria and Germany have adopted
smokeless powder for their armies, and are con
| Quoting exp sriments 10 secure an explosive as
| nearly noiseless as possible
PIGEON missed seven times at a shooting
match in New Jersey finally broke the string
| attached to its leg that it might be used again
as target, If not hit-and flew of.
"a SUPERIOR HOUSE PARLoR MAID who can
| teach elementary music" and "a plain cook
under25, who knows shorthand" were adver-
tised for in recent issue of an English paper.
A NEW YORK LAWYER named Doolittle once
unwittingly entered into partnership with a
brother barrister named Steele, but lack of
! clients soon became painfully noticeable and it
| was found advisable to dissolve.
THE ANNUAL SALES in Marshall Fields great
dry goods store in Chicago aggregate $30,00O,-
900. This vast business employs 5000 people
| and is personally directed by Mr.. Field. who is
| at his desk from O'Clock until 5.
A BOY living near Abilene, Tex, was recently
bitten by snake and was soon taken with con-
WILSON'S An old Mexican scraped out the bowl
| of a brier pipe, applied the scrapings to the
| child'S wounds, and the next day the boy was
well.
INsrALLMENr DEALERS are aghast at a recent
decision by Louisiana judge that in that state
title to any goods passes upon the payment of
first installment and that after that is made
the purchaser may do what he pleases with the
goods.
THERE has been a great developing of lum-
boring in the south since 1880. There are 100
more sawmills now than then. 1877 per cent.
more capital invested. Syndicates are rapidly
buying up all the southern timber lands that
they can get their hands on.
ACCORDING to a UNCONVENTIONAL paper it cost
this government 81, S4S 900 to support 2,200 Da-
kota Indians for seven years while they were
savages. After they were chrstianized it cost
$3.50, 900 to care for the same number for the
same time, saving Of S1,72S,0 600.
A MAN AND HIS WIFE, aged 20 and rs years re-
spectively, walked from Bradford to Pittsburg,
last week. They told police official in the lat
ter city that they were bound for st. Joe No,
to take home with daughter, and that they
intended walking the entire distance.
THERE are said to be more than 100, 900 varie-
ties of butterflies. One of the finest collections
of butterflies in the world is owned by Berthold
Neumogen of New York. Only two others in
the world can compare with it. One of them is
in the British museum and the other belongs to
a public institution in Paris.
ONE of the sleeping car companies proposes
TO build and run second-caSs Sleepers plainly fur
nished but provided with good beds and good SER
vice. They will be run in additio1sto irst-class
seepers, but with decided difference in fare.
Flrst-clasS fare from Chicago to San Francisco
IS $l3 So second-class fare will be 81.
HUNDRED POUNDS of glycerine were ex-
ploded in an abandoned gas well, $500 feet
deep, in Canton, O., without causing flow of
the lllumlnant, or even salt water. People in
the neighborhood, expecting there would be
terrible explosion, left their homes but there
was only slight rumbliEg noise. The well is
said to be the deepest in Ohio
A CASE OF religious mania in family of five
persons is reported from Lower Austria The
family in question were singing and praying for
three days and nights without taking morsel
of food, ana peasant girl who happened to
visit the house was forced to Join them. Quite
an armed expedition was required to rescue the
girl and convey the five lunatics to an asylum.
GRADUATES of the class of 1887, at Colby uni
versity, in Maine started a class letter, which
was to be sent to each surviving member in
alphabetical order, to be filled by him and sent
again to the man next on the list. 1t travelled
for nearly two years, finally reaching China. On
its journey there the mail steamer, San Pablo,
was wrecked but the letter was saved and it has
just come back again.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Koln isshe Zeitunq
has discovered in Prussian Saxony village of
chess-players. Chess is regularly taught in the
schools, and every year there is a public exam
nation in the game distribution of prizes in
the shape OF chess boards, and KIND of chess
tournment and festival at which the best six
players in the locality are publicly feted and
carried home in triumph.
A 13-YEAR-oLD BOY, who described himself as
William F. Cody No. 2, attracted attention in
the Pennsylvania railroad station at jersey CITY,
last week, on account OF his peculiar costume
which was that of a typical cowboy. He said
he had been with Buffalo Bills show in Eng
land, but ran away. The employees about the
station raised enough money to send him to
Washington, where he said he had friends.
A CURRENT PARAGRAPH explains that the
average watch is composed of 175 different
pieces, comprising upward of 9, 400 separate and
distinct operations in its manufacture. The
balance has $4,000 beats or vibrations per hour
IL, 060 $50 in thirty days, 1871 go 900 in one year
it travels 1900 inches with each vibration
which is equal to 919 miles in twenty-four hours
1924 miles in thirty days, or 3,55SN miles in one
year.
a BOSTON PAPEg which unthinkingly referred
to a bank cashier as the youngest" in the
country has since been flooded with letters
from persons claiming that honor. Thus far
the youngest cashier heard from is Stephen W.
Holmes, of Natick, Mass. He gives his age as
nte-OcS tueiu lllicu Ine position or
cashier for two years. Communications from a
large number Of cashiers were received under
30 years of age.
CHICAGO is preparing for a great celebration
Of the centennial Of the adoption of the con-
stitution, and it is expected that fully 100, 900
people will take part in the exercises which are
TO take place in nearly every public hall in the
city. The exposition building, the board of
trade Central Music hall, Battery D. and other
buildings have already been engaged The
children in the public schools also will have
commemorative exercises and an effort is being
made to have the school children throughout
the state engage in similar celebrations on the
same day.
AN ENGLISH CRoss-CHANNEL steamer met with
peculiar accident the other day. When about
half way across something went wrong with
the engines, The go-ahead eccentric refusing to
worS. Every effort was made to get 81 @ matter
put right, but without success. 1t was found
however. on the engines beng reversed that
they worked well enough, and after knocking
about till d Wight the captain erected a tem-
porary rudder on the stem to assist in steering
and made for shore stern first. Tue unusual
spectacle of vessel steering stern first caused
some little amusement among the people who
witnessed her from the shore of the coast towns
DIME MUSEUM FAT WOMAN, weighing 400
pounds, who had imbbed too freely of strong
first street and Eighth avenue, New York
night or two ago. Patrolman Kennedy endeav-
ored to arrest her, but found bis hands more
than full with the job. The fat woman was
good natured, and insisted upon hugging the
policeman, almost SmotheriuE him with her