The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

BES5AxN D. SULLIVAN says tnere were cnly
4s5 lawyers in New YORK city when he began
his practice sixty years ago, bat that TIE New
York bar is now adorned with 5-575 members
AcAzzIAeENAKEso Of Armstrong county, Penn
sylvania. has just shipped 70 Persia . carriage
packed in boxes. 70 facilitate transportation
across the desert on camsls' backs. The total
freight bill was about 500.
A FRAGMENT Of meteor which recently fell
in Chicago vas analysed and found 70 con-
tain g per cent. OF iron. q OF nickel. OF man
ganese and small quantities OF aluminium,
cobalt, TIN, copper. arsenic etc
THERE are so many Wild animals in western
Texas that the county court Of FL Paso county
has offered 50 cents for the scalp OF a coyote.
prairie wolf or wild cat, 81 for timber wolf
and g for a panther, leopard or mountain lion.
.THE WOMAN who viii be declared the most
beautiful in the department Of beauty at the
Paris exposition viii b. given $500. The
public decides who the fortunate one may be-
as each visitor is entitled 10 register bis vote IN
favor OF the woman OF his choice
The latest electrical wonder is that if you run
a needle into your foot you can have ii drawn
out by putting your leg near dynamo This,
says one OF the electrical journals, hap
pened 70 man recently after surgeons had
sought in vain for the missing domestic nipple
ment.
TIE Swedish government has decided to send,
msn-of-war TO New York to bring home the
body OF Capt. Ericsson who expressed a strong
desire 10 be buried at La1gnanshyttan, in
Yermeland, the place Of his birth In his wall no
directions are given as to the. disposal Of his
valuable collection of models. but Swedish
journals state that the executors will present
them 10 the Smithsonian Institution.
ACCORDING TO ALIENS Indian Mail" the
Madras museum now possesses the skeleton OF
the largest elephant ever killed in India. This
elephant was the source of great terror 70 the
Inhabitants Of South Arcot. by whom il was
killed and buried. The museum authorities
dispstcned a taxidermist TO the spot TO exhume
the bones and transfer them TO Madras. The
skeleton is exactly 10 feet inches in hight.
Nov. o. 1854. Mrs. Hodges of St. Louis mailed
a letter to her husband, who was with Sher-
mans army. On reaching his regiment the
letter was given to Capt. Bixby, to be delivered
20 Mr.. Hodges. The captain naturally put it in
his pocket. Two weeks ago he found it in the
same pocket of the same coat, yellow and
dingy with twenty five years Incarceration. but
otherwise all right. He Immediately mailed it,
and Mr.. Hodges received il in 3 t. Louis the
city from which it originally started. The news
was little old, but the family enjoyed read
ing it.
HAROLD p Brown, the electrician, who is in
charge Of the arrangements for carrying out
the law for the execution of the death penalty
by electricity, says the New YORK Sun does not
look ike man who would choose killing as his
method for acquiring fame He is a slender
blond young man, with very pleasing expires
sion Of cOuntenance and an almost perpetual
smile. The way he got into the killing business
was through his enthusiasm in opposing the
use OF the alternating current in practical cleo
trio work. He was so determined to prove that
the alternating CUR Mt is deadly that be jumped
at the chance of killing man for that pur-
pose
A GIRL essayed four times to burn the Memo
rial Home, New Orleans, of which she was an
inmate The attempts we're made at night.
when the success of her evil design would have
probably sacrificed forty lives. Previously the
girl had endeared herself for two years to
everybody in the institution by her amiability
and uDsslfshness. Some strain of depravity in
her breaks out thus at times She had formerly
won the affection of family with whom she
lived, but suddenly began to steal, tried to
poison an infant and swallowed dose of rat
bane, which nearly ended her own career She
is 20 years old.
CHANG YEN HOOK, Chinese minister, will re-
main with the Chinese consul at New York until
he goes to the Catsxills for the summer. AS
already announced the present minister is now
in the closing months of his official term here.
His successor, Tsu Kook Yen, has been ap-
pointed and will arrive here in October. His
arrival is looked forward to with particular in
terest by every Chinese consul in this country,
Spain and Peru, for he is at the head of his
country's diplomatic service in these three
lands, and has the power TO remove any and all
officials under him. The new minister is
Mandarin Of high rank, and is said to possess
literary ability. In fact, it was his fame as
historical writer that attracted the attention of
his government and led 10 his appointment.