The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| A LONDON PAPER says that the art OF the gold
smith is disappearing, owing to the cheapness
/ of diamonds The value OF jewelry now de-
ponds upon the precious stones 1t contains
rather than upon the beauty OF workmanship
| SINCE Little Lord Fauntleroy," the play
has been a success, no less than fifty stage
| struck children have offered themselves to play
! the part Of the hero. And the manager says
| that most of them were thoroughly competent
! for the part
! A DIAMOND owned in Buffalo, and known as
the Buffalo gen." weighs 50 carets, and is sup
| posed to be the largest in the United States. 1t
| is about the size of an almond, and before cut
ting weighed IS carats. 1t was bought In
| Amsterdam for $50 O00.
| A UNIQUE SPORTING EVENT was reported to
occur near Englewood, Kan, on Sunday. 1t
was "roping tournament" purse OF $1,000
was made up, and the boy that saddled his pony,
| roDed his Texas steer and tied him down the
! quickest was to take the money.
| A RECENT NOVELTY is an invention designed to
facilitate the manufacture of durable bootheels.
| By its use a heel-shaped leather shell is made
| and filled with solid body. 1t has also novel
device for pressing the leather into the approx
| mate form and for moulding and working IT.
THOUGH nearly a million Lebel rifles have
| been turned out in France, the government
| workshops are still turning out 5000 day
more. The reason for this is that, according to
the PLAN each soldier of the line and the reserve
| is to have four rifles ready for him when the
great mobilization comes.
GEN. BoULANGER's one idol in life is said to be
his mother She was with him in 1859 during
the ten months in which he was in danger from
| a wound received at Solferino, and which has
never entirely healed. He spends every sunday
afternoon and evening with her, and if away
always sends her a telegram.
MGR. LIE CoMrE ANTOINE PIERRE DE PoLKozIE
PoHosKI, distinguished priest and linguist
has arrived in Waterbury, Conn. and is the
guest of the Catholic clergy there. He comes
from Rome on special errand directed by Pope
LeoS vicar at the propaganda, to look after the
spiritual welfare of Russian, Polish, Italian and
Hungarian children Of the church.
Mrs. JACOB GREENUP of Bonnie Terre, NO.
thought she heard her eldest son, a man of q,
singing a fayorite song in his bedroom. She
knew he must be at work at a sawmill and
feeling nervous, started out to see him. AS she
stepped through the front door men were carry
ing the ifeless remains of the son into the yard
| He had been killed by the bursting of a saw.
Mrs. CATHARINE DUFFY of Pittsfeld, N. Y,
gave a family party to $50 relatives Christmas
night, in honor of the Tooth birthday of her
| father, Edward Shannon, VINO presided at the
table and led off in the dancing which began
after midnight and lasted until morning. Mr.
shannon IS a native OF Ireland, who came to
North Adams in 1850 and to Pttsfield in 1861
| He worked in the WOODEN mills until he was 95.
A TELEGRAPH OPERATOR in Minneapolis has
| invented a word-counting machine which may
| be used by itself or attached to a type writer
| 1t is much the same sort of thing as pedome-
ter, only it is more accurate II is as large as a
small CLOCK. The works are inside the nickel
case, on one side of which is the face. The
machine will count up to 2, 500 words, and can
b. used for any number by keeping tally of the
lumber OF times 1t passes the 900 mark.
Mrs. NANCY COLEMAN re lched Cincinnati last
weok after walk Of over $50 miles from her
home on the Big Sandy river, IN West Virginia
She had with her two children. one Of whom is
so young that she carried it the entire distance.
She told the police pitiful tale, to the effect
that her husband deserted her for another
woman, taking the children along She fol
lowed him, and recovering the little ones set out
on foot for Cincinnati. hoping to procure work
there She was entirely out of money.
The loss to Great Britain from the bad har
vest of this year is indicated in the statistics
just issued from tine privy council office. These
show that while $50, 600 acres more were devoted
to wheat growing than in 1887, the yield is less
by nearly 2,500,0J0 bushels. This represents
direct loss OF nearly 4500,000 and there is a
rule, being inferior in quality. Barley shows
rather better yield than last year, both IN total
and acreage, aud oats slight decrease in each
of these respects.
ZEBULoN HANcox, aged 70 years, of Stoniug-
ton, Conn, was Tilted by a village maiden
years ago, and since that time he has lived in
| little hut, cooking his own food and wearing
rags. By fishing he has accumulated money
sufficient to build nine good houses, which he
rents and $4,000 more, which is lodged in the
| StonngtOn Saving Bank He never purchases
anything he can make. Buttons on his cloth
| ing are whitfield from pine wood; ne weighs his
! fish in WOO len balances of his own making and
in catching eels ne uses wooden spear. His
I RtTr laos Fl,..,,
IT is not often that fire is put out with wine
This was done last week at Kreuznach on the
| occasion of fire which broke out at night in
| the house Of a large wine merchant, soon en-
| veloping the whole building. Some sixty hogs
heads of wine in the store could not only not be
| saved, but burst, and their contents ran into
| ditch in the garden behind the house Here the
| firemen placed their engines, with which they
| poured streams of wine upon the burning build
ing, and succeeded in getting the fir under CON
| troll The fumes of the wine were so strong
| that the tiremen had to be repeatedly re-
lieved.
The most illustrious victim of the massacre
| of st. Bartholomew is soon to have grand
| monument near the Louvre. Admiral Coligny
will stand on cenotaph, with his right hand
| clasped and held to his breast his left on the
pommel of his sword Symbolica female
figures of patriotism and religion are seated at
| the foot OF the cenotaph with large open Bible
| between them. The three statues are by
| Crauck. On the cenOtaph is the sentence from
| Montesquieu. Admiral COligny was assassin
ated with nothing but the glory of the state in
| his heart" A plaque setting forth that Coligny
| once lived there has been affixed to No la Rue
| dc Rivoli.
THE second stage in the competition for the
new front of the Milan cathedral has been
| brought to a conclusion. Fifteen architects
were selected from among those who competed
| in the first stage, and further designs invited
| from them. The jury has finally awarded the
prize Of 10000 lire to Sig Giuseppe Rrantauo, a
| Nilanese. His design is for q facade without
towers, which shall differ only in the style EN-
| ployed and in the details of its use from the
| front now in existence. The well known Frenc
| architect NJ. Duperthes had to be content with a
| consolation prize. There is no certainty that
either Sig. Brentano's PROJECT or any other will
| be carried out.
ONE Of the most terrible, at we'll as most
| thrilling, tales that history has to tell is re-
| called by the announcement in the Scottish
papers of Miss Edith Brydon's marriage In
| Inverness cathedral. This lady's father was
| the famous DR.. Brydon, Of the Afghan mas
Sacre Of January lS42-the one survivor who
wounded, and faint and weary, after a most
| perilous ride reached Jellalabad TO tell Cen
| Sale the piteous story Of what had taken place
| IN the knyber Pass. They were 16,000-or,
| counting women and children, 26,000-who set
out from Cabul on that i'll starred Journey, and
| he was the only man who had escaped. Be-
tween the dark crags Of Jugdullak the murder
| Gus Afghans had their AL Of blood.
A RECENT INVENTION FOR examining rocks. to
determine the existence of metallic ores, has
one pole of battery connected with one termi-
| nal of teipphOne racpivar nv t,,aa nc Of uyira