The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LIE QUESTION OF the larger introduction of
the lance into the French army is under serious
The Fifth brigade of dragons has been SUP
phed with the new and improved lance for
some time past. but upon the arrival of the
Dragons IN Paris these lances have been taken
away, Ior rear that foreign military visitors to
the exhibition should obtain a knowledge of
their construction.
The STATISTICS Of the Protestant Episcopal
Churcn, presented to the general convention.
snow OIL dioceses and IA missionary jurisdictions,
with SO bishops, 1862 priests and $50 deacons.
Inc number OF communicates is given at
45o, 10Y, an increase of 63743 or Is per cent
Inc number of baptisms during the wear was
I'I.fOO and OF combinations 112.7S3, an in
crease OF q per cent. The number of churches
ccnapes and missions is 5.777, and the offerings
Ior the last year were S33, 3l6,514
WHAT would happen if people in hotels and
boarding houses could follow their laundry
WORK to the places where it is done? The trav-
eler into town by any railroad observes that
the outer edges OF New York and of the suburbs
are whltened and set a futter with myriad
pieces OF costly linen flying from lines in the
YARDS OF the most squalld tenements, and amid
the most unwnolesome surroundings of marsh
ana NTH and goats and disorder This is the
lnen OF people who would not spend an hour
II. ~ suGn quarter for anything short of what
'neH laundry women would consider a fortune.
A RECENT Peking Gazette contains memorial
college on the necessity for re-edting the great
| encyciopediacompile 100 years ago in the reign
OF hlenlung, and of which only four copies in
manuscript are now supposed to exist Tais
Work, the index alone to whcn consists of four
eeen large volumes, contains a complete COM
penulum or the classics and includes also a
coIlectlon of everything written anG revised by
ene emperors themselves or published under
Imperial authority. It embraces, SAYS the
cnsahcelor, all knowledge under heaven, and
. g. a mir fba 4
IHE ADMIRATION aroused by the recent per-
formances of the rapid firing EIswck guns
winch can discharge in given time twice the
weight OF shot and shell that can be fired by the
largest war ship afioat, armed with other kinds
OF ordnance, is somewhat qualified by the dis
coVery tnat these guns cannot be discharged
n1ore IMAM Two or three times without being
ailoWea 70 cool. The heavy rifing and exces-
slVe friction OF the projectiles In the bore soon
put them horS de combat from overheating
Ihey are not, like the Maxim, surrounded
oy water jacket, and, after few rounds the
operator has to wait till they get cool enough
to begin again.
IHE new French chamber consists of 90 land
owners or farmers, IS doctors of laws, 116 bar
risters, 81 manufacturers or traders, 40 journal
lists or authors, 4Sdoctors, IA engineers. shin
owners, 10 ex-magiStrates, 2 generals ad-
mlrals, q retired officers, naval officer il ex-
preIec1s, IL eX- dplomatists, ex-councillors of
n,
bankers, professors, II solicitors, CLERKS
worklngmen, contractors, 3 iron masters 1
railway inspector, bishops, 1 Protestant pas
Tor, tobaccOnSt, / dentist / painter I com
posltor, veterinarian, designer, and com
poser. There are also princes, duke mar
quses, 10 counts, viscounts, and 66 mobiles
THERE is queer new club building in Phila-
delphia that looks strikingly like white mar
BILE chimney. 1t is the Manufacturers Club.
and It's wealthy members, who have established
roof garden la Casino, are said to have an
organ In Quaker City publication called the
!hdhtJdctufer This interesting publication
mas just made the discovery that Philadelphia
IS the place in which to hold the world fair Of
W. and announces in pursuance of this dis
coVery tnat she Is composed so largely of for
elgn elements that she can scarcely be called an
American city; that New Workers mismanaped
the centennial of WaShington's inauguration
ana mat tney haven't any room for an exposl
tlon, any way on their narrow, overcrowded
island
JOHN EMsLIE, farmers boy, Is years old,
who lives in Darien, n Y, about two weeks ago
went coon hunting. His dog freed a big coon
IN the pasture of his neighbor John climbed
the tree, but the coon was very savage and he
did not dare to tackle the coon 1t was also too
dark for him to see 20 use his gun. The boy
told the neighbor about it, and said he would 90
home and try to get the coon at daybreaS
After John went away the nsighbor took his
dog and gun, went down to the free huilt a fira
under it, and by the light saw the coon and shot
it. John has now brought suit before a Justice
of the peac5 for so CENTS which ne claims is the
value OF the animals pelt. T1e neighbor says
tue coon was on his premises, and refuses to set
tie. AT last accounts the justice was still con
sidering the matter.
How do army officers so often manage to
keep young shoulders under old headsY'' was
the question friend asked Capt. William N.
Tisdall senior captain of the First Infantry of
New York. few years ago on the occasion of
one OF this genial veterans visits to civili-
cation. NO man can be senior captain of an
infantry regiment of the United States army
without having served Uncle Sam long time
Llsdail looks as spry as handsome, and as young
ne did ten years ago. mot long ago said he
Il marched two companies of men from Fort
Ringgold, on the lower Rio Grande to Fort
Davis, in Northwestern Texas, 600 mics
walked right along with the men every foot of
way too, and never lost man. It was unnec-
essary after that for any one to ask where he
got his clear color and upwrinkled cheeks.
The OWNERS Of boxes at the New York Metro
polltan opera house have received a circuIarto
the effect that arrangements have been con-
cluded for the season of opera, and that an
assessment of $4,000 has been levied on each
box 1or tne purpose OF meeting the attendant
expenses. This demand has brought about
however, arrangements whereby MANY hoy
owners now divide up the use of boxes for the
week, taxing them for one night themselves
and renting them to other people for the re-
manning performances. Those who want to
rent out their boxes altogether for the season
ask 500 performance and as there are nearly
seventy performances, this would be 81 600 in
all. -Four thousand dollars pays the assessment
of $4,000 and leaves 81, 200 as return on their
Investment. The boxes cost the original holders
S1S,500
RATHER touching illustration of the mock
cry of human charity occurred few after
moons since during the convention at the Broad
way Tabernacle, says the New York Sun. 1t
was cold and clustering day, and the solons
of the church. as well as the directors of the
missionary societies, who disburse large sums
of money in various quarters of the earth had
been in council all the afternoon. As they filed
out in the street they were snug and healthy
looking lot of men. Crouchng along by the
railing which surrounds the church, where the
crowds Of clergymen were almost Obliged to
brush against her to pass by, was q woman of
perhaps 30 years nursing an infant at her breast
She had scarcely enough clothes on for de-
cency's sake, and her face was pincoed with
hunger and privation. This child looked sicklv
The wind blew her scant drapery around her
and her shawl was wound around the child tn
keep it warm. The clergymen passed her bv to
a man; not one stopped to say word nor to
bestow penny upon the unfortunate woman
and long after the church was locked she con.
tinued TO sit there, until the police sent her on
THERE is growing feeling in Wall street
says the New York World, that additional leps-
lation is absolutely necessary for the proper