The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-26
Items OF INTEREST.

parliament for extending and improving the
railway system of the monarchy at an esti-
mated total cost of nearly 157,000 600 marks.
| The Tokyo Dempo remarks that the fact that
there being so few qualified physicians and den
| fists in Japan amounts to a public grievance
| There are only seyenty-six graduated dentists
| IN STOCKHOLM they have not yet finished hon
oring Jenny Lind. A new street has just been
| called after her, and sculptor has recently
finished a statue representing her in the cos
| tune Of Norma.
| A CHICAGO BROKER was called worth S., 900, 00C
the day he died. A week later his assets were
only $2500OO. and when his debts were paid
| there was just enough remaining to put him W
$500 monument.
Down in the Bilds of Washington county,
| Maine, they have discovered tree the wood of
which is white birch and the bark hemlock.
| The natives have dubbed this queer tree the
| "mugwump Of the forest"
MRS MosLEY, the wife of an English army
| officer and former American heiress, has
| been creating a sensation in Monte Carlo this
| season by her reckless play. Two weeks age
| she lost $4,000 at single sitting
The custom of tolling the bells of steamboats,
while passing Grants grave on the Hudson river
has been adopted by few boats in imitation
of the custom among steamboat men on the
| Potomac when passing Washington's grave al
|
Local in Springfield, Mass, paper: Michael
! Long was before the police court yesterday for
biting off a good share of Thomas Foley's ear
| 1t was quite mouthful but Foley says that the
| true meanneSs consisted in Longs refusing to
| give back the piece, that it might be sewed in
| place.
| A SCoTCHAAN in the picturesque and airy cos
tune of the Highlands boarded train at Lyons
the other day bound for Nice. Two French
ladies were in the carriage, and the moment the
| Highland laddie made his appearance they
| were terrified and rushed on the platform yell
ing for help.
KRAszEwsKI, the Polish author and patriot,
who was imprisoned for years in a German
fortress, has just died in Italy. He left to his
| family $1,000 rubles a valuable collection of
! paintings a library of az. 900 volumes and a
| large number of valuable manuscripts The
| imperial library of st. Petersburg has entered
into negotiation with the heirs for the purchase
| of these manuscripts, many of which relate to
| Russia.
FEW PEOPLE would believe that there is a sec
| ton of the United States where the result OF
the presidential election will not be known until
| July, 1889, eight months after the official re
| turns are published to the world The settlers
| of St MchaelS, the sea islands and those dOmi-
ciled along the banks of the Lower Yukon will
| remain in uncertainty as to the outcome of the
| contest until after the midnight sun has come
| and gone during the midsummer of next year.
| MISS MARY ANDERSON has been considerably
annoyed in Chicago by "a seedy young man
with long hair and a sprightly air." whose card
| announces him Mr.. Ewald Holinyren, actor 3"
| What he told people was this: I'm probably
| the greatest actor Germany has ever had blIt
| I've given up everything, wealth and social DO
Sition, that might as Sist Miss Anderson IN her
! struggle for hOnors. I'm to play Romeo "
am, not to helpme, never but just for Miss An
derson's sake" His name is not on the bills
| yet
THE Prussian war minister has just published
in two volumes history of the colors of the
| Prussan army from 1897. 1t appears that in
| the campaigns of 1864 and 1866 ninety-n nine
| standards were pierced by balls In the cam.
| palgn OF 1870 the number of regimental colors
! pierced was ISL. The flag of the Seventh reyi-
| ment of infantry was hit by twenty three balls
| in the single battle of MARSHA Tour In the en-
! tire Eranco-Prussian war thirty eight Prussian
| standard bearers were killed while holding their
| colors.
THE PROCESS of imparting to wood some of
the special characteristics of metal has become
| of considerable industrial value IN Germany:
| the wood surface, by this treatment, becoming
| so hard and smooth as to be susceptible of a
| high polish, and. on being subjected to bur
| nlsher of glass or porcelain, the appearance of
| the wood is in every respect that of polished
| metal, having, in fact, the semblance of a pol
| iShed mirror, but with this peculiar and advan-
| tageous dlrerence, namely, that, unlike metal,
| 1t Is unaffected by moisture.
THE RETURNS published by the Swiss confed-
| Grafton with reference to the development of
| telephone communication in Switzerland, show
that since the establishment of the first tele-
| phone in 1880 sixty-one towns have been pro
| vided with them, and there are now {, GA tele-
phonlc stations, of which no 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 and other places on the shores of the
lake. but with Berne Zurich and st. Gall
A SPECIAL from Montreal says: The sudden
death Of c. j. Bridges, ex- general manager of
the Grand Trunk railway and Hudson Bay Com
| pany, land commissioner at Winnipeg will pre-.
| vent any dinner parties Of thirteen at WINNIPEG
| for many years to come. Justice Baires gave a
| dinner party the night before hr. Bridges
| death. IL was not discovered until after tie
second course that there were thirteen at the
table, when Joking remarks were addressed to
Mr.. Bridges, as the oldest man present. to the
effect that he would likely be the first to 90
He laughingly pooh-poohed the superstition
and nothing more was thought about it.
The Danbury Conn Netcs says: Just twelve
moths ago F. A. Mitchell of Danbury. engi-
neer on the passenger train thai leaves here for
the east at $40 a. m. on the New York and New
England road, met with a singular accident
about mile and half this side of Sandy Hook.
When running at full speed the tire on the hind
driving whee broke, crushing throu n the
l.
house and striking his right foot so severely as
to lame him for some time. Last Saturday
just year from that time-when his train
reached the scene of the former accident the
tire on the same wheel broke, crushing through
the house at the same place and again striking
his right foot, injured him more severely than
before"
DERBYsHIRE possesses what ara described as
the finest pair of old monastic doors in England.
The great doors, with wicket doorway and Spy
hole Of the Carthusian Priory Of Beauvale,
Motifs have long lain neglected at Melbourne
hall, being brought there when the old gate
house was pulled down in the last century The
present tenant of the hall, MIR Fame. has placed
them under cover They are in fair condition
the oak bolted through with great clout nails
and are carved in panels with intersectng
tracery above. The date seems to be about
13j0-l3SO. Mr.. Fame has lately brought TO light
among the Cole papers the original voluminous
charter, with great seal attached, granting the
lands OF the dissolved pri)ry OF Beauvale.
ONE Of the most remarkable engineering
feats appears to have been achieved in China.
in the face of extraordinary physical Difficult
ties, namely, the successful stretching of a steel
wire cable of seven strands across the river Lu-
mann. this feat having been accomplished by
the Danish engineer Delinde, assisted only by
unskilled native labor. The cable extends he
tween two points at distance of nearly a. 700
feet apart, the hight Of tine first support being
about 400 feet above the present level of the
river, and the second about 40 feet. The cable
in question is said TO be the longest in the
world, with single exception. namely, the
feet. There are also two cables across the
Ganges, of 600 and 2 $40 feet respectfvaIv