The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

III.
the result OF a blow from base bali year
ago.
The WINE LIST on the bills of fare used in
dining cars on railroads crossing Iowa has this
notice at the bottom: mo liquors sold in the
state of Iowa"
The GRAVE of a woman buried in Cohoes, n .
T., IS years ago, was opened recently, and the
body found petrifed. The features looked as
natural as II the woman had just died.
PLAGUE of monkeys aflicts Tanjore, in
Southern India The creatures do so much
mischief that an official monkey catcher re-
ceiVes rupee for each monkey captured.
The HEAD of the London Walters Union says
that the tip system has developed to such an
extent That in some restaurants the walters pay
shiillngs day for the privilege of waiting.
SILAs EMERSON of Santa Clara, Cal, who died
last week. was worth s1O,OOOOOO. He left his
native town CHarrison, Me.) in 1s49, because a
young woman Tilted him on account of his pow
erty.
W. CLARK RUSSELL, the marine novelist, who
is now hopelessly crippled by rheumatism, lives
at Brighton, England, and has most of his time
TO put In IN a wheeled chair. He was born in
Philadelphia
IN HoULToN, Me-, lives lady who never wore
an article of jewelry, a piece of lace, nor a
collar, even in the days of courtship. which ex-
perience she has passed through more than
once, having been married twice
The MONUMENTS of antiquity at Athens are
being cleansed from the dirt and rubbish of
ages for the approaching royal wedding. In
oomg thls several entire streets of the modern
town have had to be pulled down.
The FRENCH are now able to put in the field
seven armies of total strength of 1900, 900
men, equipped for prolonged campaign and
supported by an ample reserve. This is five
times the force that Napolean III. could muster
in 1870.
FARMERS IN the vicinity OF Anderson, Ind,
are excited over the appearance OF gang of
young wolves in their wood lots A number
OF sneep and chickens have been killed big
hunting party has been organized to kill off the
providers.
Two "BREEcHEs'' BIBLES. dated 1910, in an ex-
celent state or preservation, belonging to the
Rev. G. Pratt, late member of ST. Margaret's
hertS, were sold by auction at Hartford, Eng
lana, and FETCHED 30 shillingS and so shlings
respectively.
The PAIL BEARERS for Mrs. S. L. NJ Barlow
were eight of her old employees, the same who
had performed like service for the late Mr.
barlow not four mouths ago. They all wore
sashes o. white fastened at the shoulder with a
black roSette
DEALER IN CIDER at Toledo says he con-
| tracted for twenty barrels OF the pure quill.
| hired man to sleep in the cider mill while it
was making, and yet when delivered a test
showed that eight gallons of water had been
added TO every barrel
| STURGEON fourteen feet long was caught in
the Sacramento river, near Chico, last week.
Instead of killing it the fishermen fastened a
rope to the body aud turned it loose in the ri yer
to get fat. They feed it on the entrails of sal
mon, and the captive likes the treatment.
| ONLY SIXTEEN SURVIVORS of the battle of
| Balaklava attended the annual dinner in Lon.
don on Friday evening. Five of these, who par
| ticlpated in the charge of the Light Brigade
| are Lord Tredegar, Sir George MCDOWELL, Sir
| william Gordon, Maj. Cloves, and Col Mus
| sender.
THE TALLEsT SMOKE STACK in the United States
was finished Friday. 1t will be connected with
the forty boilers of the four new mills of the
Fan River Iron Company. 1t is $50 feet in
| hight, and cost $4,000. Two chimneys in Glas-
| gov, Scotland, are higher, one being 454 feet
| ana the other 435 feet
DR.. j. A SHANNON of Canandaigua, N. Y.
was arrested and locked up a couple of days
| since for running over woman. Her injuries
| were not serious but, thinking he had killed
her, he grew frantic. He was then released
| Next morning his wife found him dead from an
overdose OF morphine, which he had taken
| habitually to ease pain.
WHEN the German emperor reached Hanover
lately he saw with pride an arch inscribed:
! welcome to his imperial majesty" He was
| so charmed with the evidence of LOYALTY that
| after passing under the arch, he turned about
\ to admire its beauty again with his
| majesty OF Saxony. But what was his surprise
| to read on the reverse side the words: "JoRanp
| Bach best brewery in the village. Beer, cents
quart" They both laughed over it long and
| hard.
| A NOTABLE DECREASE has taken place in the
British convict population. In July last the
| total number in custody under sentence of penal
| servitude had dropped to 6,405, as compared
| with II, 600 twenty years ago. The number of
| women sentenced to penal Servitude has fallen
| very much below even recent years, the numbe
| in 1883 being 81, and in 1888 1856. The whole
number of women In England and Wales now
under sentence of penal servitude is only 4O2. or
| less than third of the daily average female
| convict population of ten years ago.
MAYOR BEAUREGARD of Montreal has sued La
| MtnerUe, the organ of the dominion govern
ment for libel for having asserted that he has
no right to the declaration of the Legion of
Honor which he received when Gen Boulanper
| was the French minister of war The chief
justice of the province, Sir R. R. Dorion has
| been asked TO Issue peremptory order that
Gen Boulanger come to Montreal at once to
| testify that Beauregard's decoration is legiti.
| mate and was given by President Grevy of
| France. AS Boulanger is now on the Island of
| Jersey, it is held that he must answer a sum
mons from British courts.
| 1HE PUBLISHERS OIL the Century Magazine
makes the following announcements: "a pass
age in the Life of Lincoln, to be found in the
| November Century, shows as nothing else can
how great friend was lost to the south when
| Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 1t is the
| first publication ever made of the draft of a
message and proclamation which the President
| submitted to the cabinet on Feb. 5, 1865 In it
| he proposed the payment of $500, 00OO 600 as an
| indemnity to Shareholders, complete pardon for
political offenses, and the release of confscated
| property, except under certain circumstances
Such magnanimity was however, too much for
| his councillors, VINO unanimously disapproved
Along with the document is given full account
OF this best kept of cabinet secrets. -
THE full decision of Judge Clark, sustaining
the constitutionality of the pharmacy law of
| New Hampshire, has just been received in that
| state. The law was passed in 1875, but its con-
Stltutionality was not tested until this wear in
| the case OF a Manchester firm. At the SEES
| sion of the supreme court, held at Nashua thew
were indicted for unlawfully engaging in the
| business of retailing and vending drugs med-
| cnes, and chemicals other than proprietary
| medicines without license or authority from
| the commission OF pharmacy. The defendants
| claimed that the legislature had no constitu
| tional authority to prohibit them from vending
| drugs, medicines, and chemicals. The Question
| OF the consttutionality of the law was sent to
! the full bench, where the demurrer was over
| ruled, and the court then imposed fine of $40
| together with costs of prosecution.
| COUPLE of ST T,ouis Iauvarr ,.ao...