The morning news., 1889-05-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


the ordinary bottle being TOO small.
ALuNATIc who escaped from his caretakers.
entered a church in West Cornwell, Conn.
about midnight, and after vigorously ringing
the bell lighted all the gas and attempted to
play the organ.
SHOWER of fresh water crabs or crawfish
fell in Findley O., during recent heavy thun-
der storm. They were alive and many of them
were picked up and kept in cans of water. A
dispatch says that they must have been
taken up in waterspout and carried many
miles.
OF the &2o, 100000 Of personal property left
by wills in the first quarter of 1889 in Great
Britail, the portion left TO charity was but
436S, sos The three largest estates were MIR.
hylandS Manc9ester manutacturer and ware
house man, E2,574, 922; Sir William Pearce's,
Glasgow ship builder. El ,069669 and w. j.
Cooksons, chemical manufacturer, 9585. 900.
THE reappointment of Herr Stoecker as court
chaplain at Berlin is followed by the statement
which NJ. Blowitz says has the appearance of
authority, that he has now yielded to the de-
mand placed before him by his superiors and
elected TO refrain henceforth from all platform
agitation in the field of politics. which pro-
baby means that he will not extend his noto-
riety for jew batting"
Two MEMBERS of the Melbourne Bicycle Club.
Messrs Bourston and Stokes, have reached
Constantlnope from Egypt, after travelling
III.
They will proceed to Italy and thence continue
their wheeling tour to the British channel
After visiting England, they viii return home
ward overland by q new route. Tney hope to
complete the trip by the autumn of next year.
CONGRESSMAN FARQUHAR of New York intends
to make a serious effort to get through the
new congress his bill granting a subsidy of 80
cents per ton to American vessels engaged in
the foreign trade H5 will modify the bill
somewhat from the for it bore in the last
congress- the most important change being a
gradaton of the subsidy on diminishing scale
from the tenth year to the end of the twentieth.
Mr.. tarquhar believes that considerable num-
Der OF the democrats from the southwest will
vote with him this time, and he has hopes of
carrying his measure through the two houses.
A DISPATCH from Sioux City, Ia, says: j. R.
Barr was arrested last April for selling liquor
wtho license. The grand jury indicted him,
and he pleaded guilty. The whirlgig of time
brought the indicted man to Sioux City to sit as
a juror Friday. Six indictments had been re-
turned by the graud jury against Juror Barr, to
which pleas of guilty had been entered. The
court presented these indictments to the Jury
Friday, with Instructions in each case TO return
verdict of guilty. The Indictment of Barr,
With his plea, was among the batch. Neither
judge. attorney, court officials nor the jury for
one moment suspected that Defendant Barr
had any connection with Juror Barr. The Jury
retired, voted according to instructions, and
Juror Barr silently voted for his own convic-
ton.
MEMBERS of Johns Hopkins university re-
turned last week from a geological expedition
down the Chesapeake from Baltimore. Prof.
W. Clark, instructor in palaontology. had
c1arge OF the work, aud was accompanied by
MeSSrS, Hodge, stanton, Lingle, Dohme aud
Whitney, graduate students. A schooner was
chartered for the trip, and the party lived ol
board, making day excursions ashore in quest
OF fossils. Tne Maryland and Virginia forma-
tons along the bay were carefully studied and
the Magatha Patuzent. Wicomico lower Poto-
mac, st. Mary's, Rappahaunock and York rivers
were entered and sections of their bluffs in
vestigated. 1he exploration was very profit
able, and extensive and valuable collections of
fossils were made for the university.
TIE Japan Mail says; "There has been much
talk in Toxic lately about the supposed immi-
nence of seismic convulsion, such as the phe-
nomenon that wrecked the city in 1855. Two
indications are quoted by the prophets of evil,
one being, OF course, the recent frequency of
slight shocks, and the other turbid condition
said TO have been assumed by the well water in
various districts of Toxic. At the same time,
comfort is drawn from the exceedingly local
character of the shocks; the area affected by
them is thought to be too limited to consist with
the indications OF a serious quake. Attempts
have been made to compare the state of affairs
observed lately with the events recorded as
having occurred Immediately before the catas-
tropne of 1855, but inaSmuch the annals of
the latter period are very scanty, no satisfactory
conclusion ce IA be reached. 1t seems to us
what the wiseacres do is to predict bad earth
quake every day, by which continuous process
they are likely to make hit in the course of
time,
A TEST of the police signal system recently
made in Boston by Police Superintendent Small
shows with what remarkable quickness infor-
nation can be sent from the police head
quarters, in PembertOn square, to policemen
patrOling their beats. The lieutenants in charge
OF the different station houses where the system
is IN operation were ordered, at about o'clock
in the evening, to set the electric switches,
which would cause the bells in all the signal
boxes on the streets to ring until the switches
were shut off by the patromen, who, on their
arrival at the boxes, would telephone at once to
their respective station houses. The leutenants
were ordered to note carefully the time which
apsed from the moment the switches were set
until every officer had answered the signal.
Almost all the officers on duty were heard from
within twenty-five minutes, and the longest
time which any lieutenant had to wait for re-
sponse was thirty-eight minutes. One lieutsn-
ant reports tnat he received answers from
every man in his district within fifteen minutes
SURAT was lately visited by disastrous fire
in which 5000 houses were destroyed. The
damage sustained is estimated at 500 900 rupees
and %, 900 Of the people were made homeless.
The water supply was deficient and the engines
were defective, while the firemep, it appears,
''bolted." Surat was once the principal com
merclal city of India, but its prosperity has,
within the last 80 years, been greatly on the
wane owing in great measure to the severity
of the disasters. both of fire and flood, to which
it has been subjected. In April, 1887, 10, 900
houses were burned down, and later in the same
year the people suffered additional loss by tue
flooding of the Taptee, three fourths of the city
having, it is said been annihilated. In 1884 the
place again suffered greatly from floods In
1881 the annual value of its seaborne commerce
was 81, i,0l3,222. while in 1884 this had fallen
away to f453,23 In 1871 the population num-
bered $4,000, and in 1881 only 1O9 S44. In the
present case the fire was greatly assisted by the
custom Of flooring the dwelling houses with
dried grass, the houses themselves being con-
structed almost entirely.of wood.
CHINESE DENTIST is practicing in New
York. He reached there last week from the
west. A World reporter paid visit to his
Office. in Mott street, and reported that the
new conner was doing rushing business. His
method. as well as the instruments used, were
very primitive, yet he did his work like a
convenient little operating table alongside of
camp stool, and there was u mailer stool of
the same hight for the foot OF the dentist to
rest on The head Of the patient was occa-
slonally brought upon the e.evated knee Of the
doctor, and upon the latters right hand was
his operating case, containing curious and
quaint Instruments. The rapidity with which
the Celestial extracted decayed tooth some
what astonished the writer By close observa-
ton it was discovered that a certain LIQUID
preparation Of whtish substance was first
put upon the doomed tooth To deaden the pain
and u loosen the root or the tooth. The hlli ing
Of the cavities was accomplished with like
rapidity with substance which looked like tin
foil.