The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A MEDIEVAL FAvR e is to be he'd at Croy-
| don, England. in the old palace where Queen
| Elizabeth once stayed for seven days. The OBJ
| Ject IS 70 raise funds for he restoration of the
. ancient pile.
The end-gate Of wagon came out at Leaven-
worth the other day, spIliDg 400 beer bottles on
| the ground, and then, when the crowd which
rushed TO pick them up found that they were
| empty. it looked for moment as If they would
| lyncn the driver.
IT is said that Cullman county Alabama, is
the only level, arabic and fertile tract of land in
the southern states in which there are virtua ly
| no negroes. In a census population OF more
than 100, including area of over 1900
| square miles, there are only Il negroes.
a BIG FIREcRAcKER was dropped into the
water at Devils lake, ich., by the side of
sail boat loaded with people, and when the
cracker went of it blew such hole in the boat
that it sank. The occupants OF the boat were
all saved, ringing wet and hopping mad
| MAN named Cole fell asleep while sitting in
a cart in Altoona county, Michigan, the other
| day, and when he aToke both his jaws were
| broken. His head, while he sept, rested upon
| the side of the cart, and the horse walked
! u der chute, which caught the man on the
| jaws. 9e1
FEW DAYS AGO an ambitious Maine rooster
undertook to lunch on some bees and called the
hens to take part The bees gathered around
/
IN the AIR and vigorously attacked the hive. The
| whole swarm descended upon him in an instant
| ana the proud fowl was soon streaking around
| the corner with all angry crowd of bees in full
chase He won't undertake to gobble up those
| flies again.
ABOUT WEEK ago Charles Perris, a farmer
| OF Sherborne England. was out in the moving
| ned when he was called by his daughter TO hive
I a swarm of bees which had settled in the
garden. Whilst SO engaged he was severely
| Stung. he went into his house and died in q few
| nil iuteS When doctor Was called IL was
| found that bee had got into the mans throat
and stung it, and rapid swelling ensuing, he
| died OF sutfocation
FROGS covered the streets in the neighborhood
| OF Twenty-f1r and Bank streets, in Louisville
the other morni G during the hard rain. They
| came down with the ram, aud au area of about
| four squares strewn with them. The frog
shower lasted about half an hour, and, as some
oil the superstitious people were unable to ac-
| count FOR the presence of the reptiles, for a
time considerable alarm prevailed in that To-
cailty. great many of LDuisville's hard
drinkers thought they had EN-, sure.
THE HUGE ORGAN for the town hall, Sydney,
has been completed in London Its most re-
markabe feature is Ga foot stop. The lowest
note of this stop. expressed in organ builders
ian uage as "CCCCC,' is two octaves below the
| lowest Z on the pianoforte, and as it gives only
eight vibrations in second 1t cannot be per
ceived as note at all. It's effect lies wholly in
the extraordinary richness and power Of the
upper harnonics by which it reinforceS notes
given by the higher pipes.
ONE of the curious and inconvenient phases of
the interstate commerce law was demonstrated
at Washacum, Mass Friday. \ large picnic
from Nashua was planned and advertised for
July 3, but, owing to the rain. postponed
until Friday. The management then learned
that they could not hold the picnic Friday
travelling on reduced excursion rates. on account
OF the interstate commerce laws which require
the excursion rates to be publicly advertised
and tbs commissioners at Washington given
three full days notice in writing.
The conductors on the Third and Sixth avenue
surfaces lines in New York tell of the curious
clentage they have every evening from o'clock
until midnight sometimes On the open cars
| during these hours, and especially on the Third
| avenue line, whole families ride up and down
the avenue for an airing They take the babies
| with them. After awhile the babies go to sleep
| stretched out on the mothers lap. 1t costs 20
cents for husband and wife for a good long ride
Inc time consumed is two hours and forty min
| utes. 1T is much better than being shut up in
an Eastside tenement these hot nights" said
the conductor the other night.
A PECULIAR case came up before the mayor
OF Gadsen Ala, recently. A Fort Payne man
named Lively became lively and tried to
blow out the electric light in his room at the
johnson house Failing to do this, he picked
! up his hat and knocked the lamp into a thou
sand fragments. The breaking globe made a
noise like pistol shot, and Lively thought that
somebody was shooting at him. He rushed
down stairs shouting police at the top of his
voice, while the proprietor, thinking somebody
had been murdered, rushed out on the front
veranda and also yelled police The marshal
was soon on hand an arrested Lively, who the
next morning was fined SIS.
| Much SCIENTIFIC INTEREST if not commercial
value, attaches to the recent production of
chemical sugar in the laboratory of the Univer-
sity Wurzburg. Glyceriae was used a, the
starting point in the experiments. After de-
composition and treatment with various r.
agents. q colorlesS syrup was obtained which
unlike saccharne, appears to be- a genu n,
sugar, acting in evTy respect like ordinary
natural sugar. except IN being incapable of ro-
tating a beam Of polarized light The tiscoy-
erers, Fischer and Tafel are now continuing
their experiments with a view to giving the
lacking optical activity to the new product
which they have named acrose
A BERLIN JOURNAL publishes a synopsis of
German emigration since 1871. The total for
the period is 1859 297 persons. OF these emf
grants, the 'Stination of no fewer than 1913
SIG was the United States 80 443 went to Brazil
1859 to other parts of South America, IS 341 10
Australia, 4,1SO to British North Anne lea
| 4047 to Africa, and loss to Asia There
remains unaccounted for over $4,000 emf
grants sailing from French ports though it is
| believed that nearly all Of these went to the
United States The year of high st emigration
was 1881. when 22O, 9O2 Germans left their father
| land The lowest number OF emgrantS during
any year of the period is found in 1877, viz,
| 1898
A STEAMER which arrived at Colombo recently
| from Bombay, via coast ports, reports that at
Cannanore where she lay two miles from the
shore, a large swarm of bees, numberin some
| tens of thousands, settled on her forward
forming cluster about feet long by IS inches
in depth. 1t was considered inadvisable to at
| tempt to dislodge them befo the arrival of the
| vessel at Colombo, as at each of the coast ports
she lay some miles from the shore. But several
| nights after the third officer, enzeloped in a
| blanket and armed with hose, climbed the
| mast and gavethe dangerous visitors a dose of
salt water The infuriated bees flew about the
ship all night insfsearch or their disturber. but
| not finding him in the morning concluded to
| quit. They were last seen making Decline for
the northern suburb of Colombo.
A BLACKsNAKE in an up-country town in
| Queensland was owned by doctor who kept
it chiefly in order that it might eat the flies
which infested his ,establshme titles being
according to this veracious authority the favor
tie food of this species of serpent Unfortu-
nately in cold weather. when flies ran short his
Snakeship was wont te- i8Vade the henhouse
and eat the eg5sAa bad habit which eventually
led to his ruin. One day he exhibited synnp-
toms of indigestion His master treated him
but without a.ail; and after a fortni hits terri
BILE agony the poor reptile succumbed Then
the truth came out. In one Of his forays uDon
the fowl yard the misguided creature had swal-
lowed the glazed chinaegg by which the hens
were decoyed into performing their maternal