The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE Swiss government has ordered ZOO
rifles of G new pattern from manufactory in
the canton Of Soleure-
THE Russian imperial family are said to have
made the magnificent donation of 400. 900 rou-
oles FOR the relief Of sufferers By the famine in
| Montenegro.
NEW and large Russian loan has, it is re
ported, been now really concluded with tn
Paris house of the Rothschilds It is added
thet It is to be offered for public subs cription
| before Dec. Is.
On Oct p, the new Calais harbor station
was opened for traffic, and when all arrange
Inents have been completed it will be, says a
Farls correspondent. the most convenient o.
continental harbor stations.
THE Duke of Hamilton has es ablishei stud
oil Iceland ponies in Arran. They are very
| hardy, climb clevery, aud are thoroughly sur >
footed. SO that they ought to be valuable to
| tourists IN mountainous districts
| QUEEN VICTORIA will lend large number of
pictures at Windsor Castle to the Tudor exhi-
| Ditlon. including the famous Holbeins aud the
| wonderfully interesting collection of portraits
OF Tudor celebrities which are in the private
| apartments.
| BOTH in appearance and in manner the en-
peror of Russia has become Muscovite OF the
old CossaclI type. He is a colossal figure baino
| giant both in hight and grth quite bald. with
| a nat nose, an immense sweeping moustache
| and stupendous beard, which flows over his
chest.
| The first result Of the remarriage of Cour
| and Countess Hatzfeldt has been the formal
| announcement OF the betrothal of their eldest
| dau yhter, the Countess Helen, to Prince Max
| OF Hohenlohe- Oehringen, the fourth son of the
| Duke OF UJeSt, who is an officer in the Prussian
4 guards.
| A GREAT GLOVER is about to be justly honored
In the town of Grenoble. The inhabitants of
that interesting French city have resolved to
| erect statue to Xavier Jouvin, who not only
gave powerful impetus to the glove trade
| which is the chief local industry at Grenoble-
puo was remarkable philanthropst as well.
| RECENTLY the Empress Frederick opsned two
rooms in the Hohenzollern museum at Berlin,
which are to be devoted exclusively to relics of
| Gne late emperor, among which is this banner
| Wnlch hung over his majesty's stall in st.
| Georges chapel, which the queen has sent over
| instead OF placing it in st. Georges hall at
| windsor castle The late emperor's insignia of
the garter has been given to his younger son,
| Prince Henry.
| DICKENS is to be served up once more, CO m
plete, in forty-four shilling numbers. 1t will be
a wonderful shilling's worth, each part contain
ing lou pages OF letterpresS and about twenty
pictures Dickens old publishers Chapman &
| Hall, deserve well of their venture. The ad-
| vance sheets show that the paper is good, the
|
| friends, are mostly excellent. An edition of
oo'OoO copies is being printed to begin with.
MRS CARPENTER of Palatins Bridge, N. Y,
who was on her way home on an afternoon
| train on the Hudson River railroad, Friday,
| lett The train at Fishkill, thinking she was at
| Poughkeepsie, to get something to eat. While
| she was looking for a restaurant the train
| moved out of the station, taking with it Mrs
| Carpenters baby, that had been left by her on
a car seat. Word was telephoned to Pough-
keepsle, and the baby was taken from the train
| there and cared for at the railway restaurant
| TIL the arrival of the almost distracted mother
| a few hours later.
a SHOCKING CASE OF CRUELTY to child was
| reported in Newark, n. j., Saturday The
| parents are Poles. The husband is a hard
| drinker and does no work while the wife works
at day labor and supports both Late on Fri
day night the couple quarreled over their beer
and policeman was calfsd in He found living
ON filthy bed ia an inner room male child of
| years reduced almost uoa skeleton by starya-
tlon. The officer leaTfied that the child had
IAN on the bed for weekSfshad received no at
tentlon from its lnhuman parents and suffered
even for water. He arrested the husband and
sent the boy to the city hospital When un-
dressed at the hospital the little sufferer was a
most pitiable sight. The bones protruded. the
fingers were like pipe stems. and the cheeks and
! eyes sunken- 1t is Thought the child will die
FAN Ii, the prime minister of one of the
| feudal princes of Chftia III the fifth century r
c., whose name is synoHynous with riches. is
said to have acquire part of his great wealth
| by rearing fish in spouds Fish Culture Is ex
| tensively carried ON 5insDhina at the present
day, rice fields being eonrerted into pools in the
winter season and stocked with fish, and tanks
aug Tor irrigation h1spauy contain fish. The
question or the food supply has no pressing in
| terest in this country as vet but with the in
| crease in populationfe ff3ust grow in importance
| and the vigorous efforts which are being made
| by the general government for the extension of
| fish culture meets wish recognition earn
| which are artificially reared in China. are the
most profitable fish that can be grown. They
having a small pofa can rear them s,1ccessf,,II,
| Young fish are furnished free both from Wash
| ington and by the Rennsylvania state fish com.
mission. .7v y no
| Poor old Mr. Mechi's model farm. a splendid
| and costly failure, is to be sold at last II is
| advertised as follows in the London Times: 'sTo
| Gentlemen Farmers and Others. -Essex.-The
| Tiptree Hall estate, formerly the well-known
| model farm of the late ]. J. Mechi the cele
| brated agriculturist, situated in the parishes of
Toleshunt d Arcy, and Tollesbury, near Ke We
| chester and forty-fve from London. comnr;s
ing $50 acres or Whereabouts OF sound arabic and
pasture land. we'll drained and in high state of
| cultivation, with asplendidiy situated residence
approached by carriage drive and con
| tanning eight bedrooms and three recsption
| rooms; charming pleasure grounds. conserve
tory and green house, ornamental lake, pro
4 hAOShCh SaiuOLs al excellent range of
| modern farm buildings, specially designed and
built for Mr.. Mechi, affordng every convenience
| for considerable head of stock and for farm
| ing operations on high scale; five COTTAGES.
etc. The house and farm buildings are abun-
| dainty supplied with pure spring water by means
of hydraulic ram. The house is partly fur.
nished and ready for occupation, and, il de-
| Sired the furniture can be taken by valuation
| AN OLD, OLD MAN, with hair white as snow. his
attenuated form bowed with the weight of over
so summers, sat in the superior court room at
Redwood City, Cal, on Saturday afternoon
| Few would have recognized the once dashinp
thurman, Richard Ten Brock, perhaps the
| nerviest man that ever ran horse in America
| or England He was being examined by com
mission of lunacy. Ten Brock resides at San
| Mateo with bis family. He married his present
| wife handsome middle-aged lady in Ken
tucky twelve years ago. For soma months he
| has shown indications of a deranged mind and
has labored under the impression tnat his W.T. e
| is trying to poison him, and that she has en-
ployed agents to kidnap him in order that she
may secure his property To secure himself
against these imaginary attacks he keeps
| small arsenal of knives and pistols in his room,
| His wife testified that he has threatened to xiii