The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST

TIE Louisiana Lottery Company has offered
to assume the state debt Of SIP 600 900 for an ex-
| tension Of its license for fifty years
THERE are only two women living, it is said,
who have gowns embroidered with real pearls.
They are Queen Margherita of Italy and Mrs.
Bonanza Aackay-
AMONG the curious things exhibited at the
Royal Society's conversations in London the
other evening was the tail Of Japanese barn
door COCK II feet long.
FRANZ MORSE. of Bath, Me-, died recently of
catarrhal pneumonia, induced by excessive
cigarette smoking. after short illness. aged 10.
ms Is another warning to cigarette smokers.
ONE mode Of selling turquoises at Nishni is
curious. a person. on payment Of a fixed sum,
Is allowed to plunge his hand into a bag full of
IheIn and to become pcssessor of the handful.
In sixteen-page love letter exhibited in court
In Providence the other day the word darling"
| occurred thirty seven times. and yet the girl
| tle.'
GORILLA in the Bombay geological gardens
| takes bar of iron two inches thick and bends
it double in his hand, and with one bite of his
| wood.
| Ten thousand eight hundred and ten persons
assembled TO the top of the Washington Monu-
nent last month, making a total of of 1lO.SS2
since oct 9. 1888, when the structure was
opened 70 the public.
A PAINTING of the Madonna, dated 1884, has
been discovered in the village Of Messembria,
| an old Greek colony near Bourgas II has been
| removed to Sophia, where it will be placed in
the National Museum.
SIX MEN were recently convicted of murder in
| the Punjab. Some legal question was raised,
and the case went up on appeal to the chief
court. Shortly afterward the murdered" man
turned up alive and WELL
OF sixteen applicants for charity who were
| followed about by an officer in Chicago, every
one proved to be base impostor, and twelve Of
them had stolen articles from houses where
money mad been given them.
A New YoRK PHYSICIAN names these among
| otner evils to be guarded against at summer
resorts: Over-fatigue and undue exposure to
the sun, irregular eating overlooking on food
| 70 whlch one IS unaccustomed. sitting or lying
On tne ground, and necessary exposure 70 the
| dew ana dampneSs after nigbtfall.
| PROMINENT CITIZEN of Parsons, Kan, deter
mined to sup with party of friends against the
| will of his wife. He was resolved that he
would and she that he should not 20. His
| friends missed him, and Just for fun invaded
nis residence, where they found him and
| ms wlfe sitting in the chairs fast asleep He
had given her an oplate that he might slim
away, ana she had given him one that he might
/ not.
MERRILL E. SHEPARD of Haddam Neck, Conn.,.
IS the owner of hen which made its nest in
| the woods near his home, and laid several eggs
| only TO desert them finally. A partrid 20 Unen
| appeared TO usurp the claim, and, after laying
| a rev egg, settled down for the usual three
| weeks stay. Five young chickens first ap-
peared on the scene, but these were removed
Dy Mr.. Shepard, in hopes the bird would stay
anu AM present MN with some young partrIdges
0lSAnnnIDfnH ht1e fha.
clpie that fair exchange is no robbery the par
| fridge eggs were Matched by hen.
The French court of appeal has confirmed
| a Judgment annulliHg the will of Frenchman
| named Louis August Travers, who died in 1893.
and left his money to the London workhouse or
poor He instructed his executor to consign his
body TO the deep just off the English coast de-
clared that France had always oppressed him
that the French were nation OF dastards and
fools, and that he only wished that he might
give them to the English, the born enemies of
stupid France. The court held that the London
poor and workhhouses had no legal representa-
tves and that such nti-patrotic sentiments in
dlcated insanity.
THE relative hardness of wood is calculated
by the hickory, which is the toughest, Esti-
mating that at 100, we get for pignut hickory,
50; white oak, "a; white ash, n; dogwooI "a;
SCRUB oak, 70; wn.ts hazel re- apple tree 20;
red oak, So; white beech, IS; black walnut IS;
black birch, 62 yellow and black oak 60: lard
IT. II. Y,
30; yellow pine So; che, tnut, SO; yellow poplar
81; butternut and white birch, 43. aud W nte
pine, 3d. According to this foIm lla woods
possessing degree of hardness equal TO only
about 40 per cent, or less than that of hickory
should not be classed as hard woods Sue
woods are. however, limited in quantity and
are not of sufficient Importance to Justify a
classification, anu the trade will continue to
construe hard wood to mean everything except
white pine.
In PARIS LATELY physician was arrested for
practicing medicine without a diploma. He
had large and lucrative practice, and at the
trial several patients testified that they had
been ordered by the defendant, as cure for
their ills, TO hold copper rod on their hands
until it fell off; to stand on one leg etc Such
disclosures didn't unnerve the doctor in the
least, and when asked what he had to say to
the great surprise of ALL produced diploma
| showing he was a regularly graduated physician.
| He then explained that for five years after
| leaving college he had vainly tried to make a
hvlng by regular practice Then, to avoid
| starvation. he hit upon the quackery dodge
and made considerable money. But now thai
| he had been obliged to show his diploma the
trick would work no longer, and he would be
oonged 10 move to some other locality where
| he would not be known as a regular physician
THOMAS ALTON of Johnstown, who is now on
the ''tin-star police force, will not, it is reason
| able to assume, die from violence He is an
old-time ra broader, and has been in many
wrecks. One time be was on an engine that
burst boiler, and, though two men wers
| killed, Tommy" as he is Familiarity called. es-
| capped with but sig t inju les. Ano her time he
| actually had MS head crushed bet cen two cars
| and he recovered. This brought on paralysis.
| and he was compelled to quit railroading. Al
| the time of the disaster he was EMPLOYED as a
messenger by ]. NJ. Schafer,a Pittsuurg ieweler
| When the flood occurred Alton was in Johns
| town and his en- loyer Immediately dispatched
| a man there to learn of his fate. Nothin could
| be learned of him. and he was counte among
| the dead until the other day, when Mr. Schafer
| received letter saying that Alton was safe and
was now member of the police force in Johns.
town,
THE Boston Traveler relates that three for
| lorn looking urchins were observed on one of
| the busy streets of that city asking passers-by
| for pennies. A benevolent looking lady. who
was evidently touched by their ragged clothes
| and general condition, asked one of them for
| what he wanted the money. He hesitated a
moment, and then said: ITO buy candy with. s.
| His honesty pleased the kind-heart d lady, who
Immediately opened her pecketbook, hoping to
| find penny for eacn little fellow bu there
| seemed to be nothing but scent pieca. T is
| she handed to the smallest of the trio suggest
| ing as she did so that he divide the purchase
with the Others No sooner mad the little one
received the money than his friends pounce