The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


| figures Just published 4,a5S buildings were
| erecUed-a larger number than in any previous
year.
a GIANT ICE making machine was shipped
Friday from Cincinnati to Denver, Col. Il
| weighed about 300, 600 pounds, and thirteen car,
were required TO carryit. Il cost $4,000.
WILLIAM MAJoRY, conductor on the Erie
road, caught his foot in frog in the stockyarc
| at Weehawk N. y. J., and before he could ex
trcste himself was struck by q train anC
killed
FIFTY DEAF MUTEs participated at a ball al
Cincinnati few nights ago, and the Enquirer
reports that they danced and enjoyed them
! selves as though they heard every s rain of the
music.
The RICHEST MAN in Berlin rejoices in an
annual income Of 2.760OO0 marks ISL 1876, OOO).
There are. beside this Croesus. 1862 milionaires
in thalerS at markS) and 926 millionares in
marks
REPORTS from up the Hudson show that the
ice harvest is in full blast at all points north oil
Tarrvtown, and that there is now scarcely a
doubt but that nearly 100000 tons will be
housed.
A BosToN YOUNG MAN says that he wrote a
good story and it was declined by several peri
odicals. He then rewrote it, misspelling all the
| words, and it was accepted as hrSt class dialect
story by the periodicals which had first declined
| it. The Boston young man spins pretty tough
yarn.
OLD BoxEM Brown of New Mexico is a coffin
peddler. He travels with a big wagon, team
| of mules and about twenty assorted cofffns He
says he knows 100 men VINO already have their
collins in their houses BoXem well knows the
| tendency of the frontier west to die with its
| boots on.
THE culture craze" has struck Louisville,
and now that gentle village boasts no fewer than
six clubs devoted to the ACQUISITION of refine
A q los rna 1, q foo lyinrrc
| cety, two Browning clubs, an American History
| club aud a Society for the Study of Political
Economy make up the list.
FIFTEEN DARING YOUNG WOMEN of PhiIadel-
phia have formed a club of which the sole con-
| dition of membership is that the applicant for
| swear corSets. Eacn one Of the ladies COM
prising the club has consigned her whalebone
| cuirass to the names and now taxes her inge-
| nulty to provide a substitute.
THE APPLE MARKET has some queer phases up
in Maine this winter. Recently man started
from Kent's Hill with load of dried apples to
| sell. AT Mt. Vernon he was offered cents
| pound; several miles further along he could
| have got cents, but when he reached Augusta
| nobody would give him over cents. The apples
| went back.
| A CURIOUS PHENOMENON was discovered last
week, in the hills of Dry Run, Ohio, by fire.
clay digger. He was digging, and when about
| four or five feet below the surface a stream of
!
| parted was sufficient to produce steam from
| cold water. A thorough Investigation OF the
| phenomenon is to be made.
! The MEXICANs have queer way of burying
| the dead. The corpse is tightly wrapped in
century plant mating and placed in a coffin,
rented for about % cents One or two natives
| as the case may be. place the coffin on their
| heads and go in trot to the grave, where the
body is inferred, and the coffin is then returned
| The wealthy class use the street cars as
| hearseS and the friends follow beside the car on
| foot.
| Two sPINsTER SISTERS up in Maine who run
| 65-acre farm are credited with being the smart
est women in the state One of them chops
! every winter the years supply of fire wood, go
| inc into the woods early in the season and re
naming until the work is completed. She
WOrRs in the bayfield, in summer and digs from
| 70 to 100 bushels of potatoes yearly and puts
them in the cellar The other sister is the car
| penter of the family, and has added all manner
| OF improvements to the farm.
THE new House of Commons in Japan is to
! be composed of 800 members, and the right of
suffrage is to be exercised by men 25 years old
who pay an annual tax of S25 These require
ments are more exacting than those heretofore
| nxed FOR electors who are entltel to vote for
! members OF the city and pretectural assem- blies
That determine the local tax rates. In the case
| OF those electors the voting age has been 20
years and the land tax limit about s.. There
were nearly 100000 such voters in 1884.
The returns published by the Swiss confeder-
alton with reference to the development of
| telephone communication in Switzerland show
| that since the establishment of the first tele-
| phone IN 1850, sixty-one towns have been pro-
| vlded with them. and there are now 944 tele-
| phonic stations, of which 10 fewer than 500
are in Geneva and its suburbs. Most of the
| SWISS towns are now connected with one
another, Geneva communicating not only with
| Lausanne aad other places on the shores of the
/ lake. but with Berne, Zurich and St. Gall.
PIrTsBURG has new device, In the death re.
port for last week, after enumerating the
| deaths, it ends with by coke-car!h This YER
| dict will recall some funny verdicts by learned
| coroners jures. She came to her death nv
| tighten stricken her" Another, From hart
| deSeize; again, Game TO his death in the fol
| lowing manner towit: He was born dead q"
! Perhaps the most unique one was: The body
was so mangle and mutiate that tina could not
tell ennything about it, but tina think it was put
IN tina slsterne by some unknown person. -
A PARIS CORRESPONDENT says that it has gen
orally bsen supposed that the highest fall of
water used for industrial purposes was the one
utilized for generating electric power at the
| Nevada mines, in me Uuiled States, which has
| a fall of sbou 800 meters; but it appears that
wat-r power is employed near Greenole, with
| fall OF 5eJ meters, wniCh serves to drive tur-
| bne developing 1900 horse power. The diam
| eter Of the turbi.e is three meters, and tie
| Bregnet firm had TO construct mauometer for
/ ~
| that is to say, over 535 pounds to the square
| inch.
The ROYALTY Of Europe can dine no more
fneiy-so one would imagine from the facts
that are to be CLEANED at he Horticultural hall
| fruit market-than some o. the families in
Back Bay, Boston. For thirty years has the
market qu tly but luXuriously existed i'm
| ported Hamburg grapes worth $40 pound
| ana Kept all through the winter more or lass
constant supply Of Strawberries and aspara ms
a. an average OF s. d box and bunch. re.
sp9cIlE ely; ANA this with very little anxiety as
10 he ready disposal of these precious trivial
ties. STRAW berries sell well even now saws
dealer in these commodities. THE Floridss
are @2 Now. when the berries first came in
those little cups thirteen in each 81 n cup we had
en- orier for party for eighteen CUPS, or S92 !"
The speaker was busted in tenderly laying away
III box few lunches Of rich-tinted grapes
each wrapped in white tissue paper Some
| thing nice?' YES, rather; each bunch repre-
seutS S. Last week we sent SIPS worth of
fruit to Springfield gentleman"
SAYS a correspondent in the Nation lin re-
ferring to the theory as to Fridays being a
lucky, her than an I'm ucky, day.: "a few
days ago Prof. William Hoover. of the Ohio
University, found in the Cincinnati Tiue3-Siar
for Jan 49, a series OF items under the canton
Friday for Luck, that Sc med especially amen
able to a test. Dates were as signed to a num-
Der Of notable events that were said to have
taken place on Friday. Not willing to believe
and take for Granted, Dr. Hoover examined