The morning news., 1889-03-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

and the courtyard of the Tulleries, in Paris,
have been sold for $50 francs to Prince Stirbey.
A PoUGHKEEPsIE MAN has been placed under
bonds to keep the peace. He drew a cgac
lighter on a man, the article being mistaken for
a revolver.
AUSTRALIA has just made to a projected rail-
road grant of 16, 100000 acres, or 90 0OO acres
mile. The grant to the Pacific railroads in this
country amounted to about 6, 400 acres mile.
AN AUGUSTA (iIE.) MAN had a bill for little
more than 81 against the war department. Af-
ter writing for it several time he received an
official reply stating that it would be paid as
soon as convenient.
CAPT. SAMUEL STAPLINs of Stonington, Conn.
found pearl in a round clam for which he has
received an offer of S25. All bivalves now taken
in that neighborhood have to pass a close
scrutiny for precious gems.
AMONG the famous cases of existence without
food or drink is that of a fast Of sixty-six days
just completed by a sheep on farm near Tus-
cola, Ill. The poor animal was imprisoned all
that time beneath straw stack.
A PONY is being daily sent up in balloon,
and being let down by parachute a la Baldwin,
in London, and the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals is being agit1ted by anxiety
TO know whether the pony is scared or not.
WHILE man at Carlisle, Pa. was running
planer his coat tail got tangled and was for
tunately torn off. A bit of wood in his pocket
blocked cogwheel and saved his life. The
wood was piece of John Brown g scaffold
THE school banking system was introduced in
the public schools of Long Island City, L. L,
about three years ago, and already the pupils
in the nine schools have $10,79l 95 to their
credit. Last weeks deposits amounted to
$3.50 Al.
THE Empress of Austria carries travelling
nm hat qna ic tof I-ac
on the cars. 1t has silver saucepans with gold
handles, and the empress d ciares that she can
make in it better broth than any chef can
concoct.
WHAT purports to be the skull of Darnley, the
husband whose violent death history charges
upon Mary Queen of Scots, has been found in
an English museum 1t indicates that Darnley
was coarse hbertine, and afflicted with
loathSome disease.
GREAT FLUME has been completed at San
Diego, Cal. 1t extends fifty miles from the
western slope of Cuyamaca mountain where
there is a reservoir containing q four years.
supply of water at an elevation of 4,500 feet.
The cost was 100000.
Two ENGLISH servants, Ann Warde and Eliza
Wylde, went to the Salvation Army meeting on
a Sunday evening, overstayed the time when
they should have been home. and for fear of
scolding. ted themselves together with a wool
en- scarf and drowned them selves in a canal
RUSSIAN STATESMEN from Count Tostoi down,
are aiding in the organization of societies for
the prevention and suppression of inebriety.
Total abstinence, except from light cider and
kvasS an acid drink with little alcohol is the
rule they seek to establish for too hard drink
erS.
A MAN while eating lettuce in a Boston res
Uaurant came upon piece of gravel so suddenly
that it snapped tooth off. He sued the pro
prietor of the restaurant TO- $500 damages. The
Judge gave the case to the jury The latter
found out what an entire set of new false teeth
would cost and made that the figures of their
award
CHINESE FARMER at Kinkiang was robbed
on his wedding night by clever burglar who
had concealed himself in the nuptial chamber,
and removed everything so completely and con
scientlously that the unhappy pair had to send
and borrow some clothes from the neghbors
before they could make their appearance the
next day.
LUELLA CHRIsTY, the 1S-year-old daughter of
a wealthy farmer in Kentucky, padded a skiff
across raging torrent while her father stood
on the bank she had just left with pistol in
MS hand, threatening to shoot her lover, who
was on the opposite shore. After several mar
row escapes from foundering she reached her
lover, and they hurried 10 neighboring town
where they were married.
AN ADVERTISEMENT in an Edinburgh paper
might be copied in this country: Servant
Wanted. by family living in an Edinburgh fiat
a general servant who Will kindly superintend
her mistress in cooking and washing nursing
the baby etc. She will have every Sunday and
two nights out in each week, and the use of the
drawing room for the reception of her friends.
Address A. F., Scotsman office.
MAYOR STEWART, of Texas, says that Boston
has more lecture halls, lyceums, free libraries
reading rooms, charitable societies, monuments
paintings, two-wheeled public carriages, short.
ms nrnnkAd or y-,1,noI \
handsome yet fatigued-lookng women and
more young men who keen their seats in street
cars when gray-haired ladies are standing up,
than any city of its population on the globe.
THERE are no species of sheep Indigenous to
Australia. The fat-tailed sheep is found in
Asia and Africa, in Syria, India and China, also
in Barbary, and such large numbers are raised
in the colony of the Cape of Good Hope that it
is often known as the Hottentot sheep. This
sheep is of small size, with soft and short wool
Its peculiar characteristic is the enormous de-
velopment of the tail, by the growth Of a large
mass of fat on each side of the lower part of
this appendage. This is sometimes so great
that the tail alone has been known to weigh 70
pounds or more This tail is esteemed & great
dellcacy for food, and to protect it from being
injured by being dragged on the ground, the
shepherd often places it upon a board or a
small truck with wheels, which is attached by a
light string harness to the body of the animal
THE blood orange is nero variety of the
sweet orange obtained by cultivation, and ap-
pears first to have been raised by the Spanish
gardeners in the Philippine islands, from the
capital of which (Manilla) it, together with the
well-known cigars formed at one time one of the
chief articles of export. On its first appearance
in Europe it excited considerable sensation:
ana IN the last century very high prices were
demanded for the trees which bore the wonder
ful fruit. None, however now come to us from
MANILA, our supply being derived almost en-
tirely from Malta, where great pains and atten-
tion are bestowed upon their cultivation 1t
was Tor long time supposed-and, indeed, the
IDEA is not yet quite extinct-that blood oranges
were produced by the grating of the orange
with The pomegranate; but there is not the
slightest foundation for this belief.
A SPECIAL from Martins Ferry, Ohio. saws:
Mrs. Jane Evans, known among her neighbors
as Crazy Jennie, became weak-minded after
the birth of her only child daughter Being
sent to the insane asylum. her grief became so
intense that, TO save her life, she was restored
to her home and child. When the girl was 3
years old Mrs. Evans took the notion that some
body would steal her. and since that time has
never let her daughter from her side. For five
years Mrs. Evans has never for an instant re-
laxed her hold on Nanne's wrist Sleeping or
waking about her household duties, on the
street or in the house, the grasp is never loos-
ened, the wrists of the child being dwarfed and
worn TO the size Of a mans thumb Mamie is
blonde, good-looking with golden light hair
pounds. She talks intelligently, but does not
know the alphabet, the mother resisting all her
entreaties to be allowed to attend school,
WRITING from sltka, correspondent of the
New York EUenin0 Post remarks The Koot-