The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

GERMANY produce s. O56.oss tons of pit coal
and s,6259so tons Of lign t.. in the year of 1886
The consumption during the same period was
5l.S6l,6 tons Of coal and 1865, $50 tons Of
ignite There are no statistics later than 1886
NEW YORK SYNDICATE has been formed to
erect $50 900 hotel in Louisville KY The
location Sc ect-d is convenient to rhe Chesa-
pes and Ohio station and it is supposed that
I. r Huntington has an interest in the proposed
hotel.
THERE is lady in Greenville, Mich, who has
three daughters whose birthdays arc celebrated
on the same daytime II. They wsre ali mar
ried In the sane mouth OF the year, and each of
ten married a man having four letters in his
surname.
"IT may seem sin -ular to you," says New
YORK florist, but I've been keeping arecord for
these twenty years past. and have found that
nine murdere's out of ten are ardent admirers
OF MOWERS, and most OF them prefer daisies
ana lliies.''
UNCLE BOB CARLTON Of MayaEns Ark, is
said to be 126 years old He is strong and hearty,
has good eyesight and can shoot more squirrels
IMAM any y In tn. negnoorhood He uses an
oio-fashioned rife thai was carried by soldier
IN the revolutionary war
The STEAMER CITY OF KINGSTON, one of the
nahdsonest boats ON the Hudson river, has
ocel SOLD To the Oregon Steam Nayi alton
company, of Portland. Oregon, and will at once
oe eaken 10 that place by way of the Straits
OF Magellan Toe price paid was S13j, 600
SINCE AUGUST 8, 1887, the treasury depart
ment has purchased $50, 947, 40 of per cent
bonds and $l2l .036, 400 of ~ per cent bonds a
total of S2O3 9S3 800, at total cost of $237 3d.
aoi These bonds would have cost at maturity
s2o2, 135, 794, and there y swing to the govern
inent mas oeel effected of as, 446 630
FEW DAYS AGO a lady who left Lincoln, Ill.,
for short journey had her purse and ticket
stoien as she got on the car, and the conductor
cropped her on the track between stations
because she couldn't raise 30 cents There were
twenty-five men in the coach, and not one of
then offered her the inSign ticant amount.
ONE DAY LAST WEEK, not having anything par
ticular to do, the captain of schooner lying in
Tampa bay counted the number of sharks in
sight, and he made the figures 760. AS he is
crosseyed and near sighted, he allows that
some OF the fish must nave got away while he
was counting, and are to be Jumped in at about
| fifty.
WHEN the citizens of Taylorsville, Neb,
turned out and rode Jason Mitchell on rail-
and then put on tar and feathers as a further
testimony of their love aud esteem, he didn't
sa. word to anybody, but after they had got
through he began suit a yainst twenty different
men, and made them glad to settle with him
for 500 each.
The Germans are distinguished for their love
OF titles. The climax in this direction was
~,
the grand duke Great a man Court Sauer-
kraut Cutter" Hereafter he must be addressed
according to custom, as Mr.. Court Sauer-
kraut Cutter, and he will be offended unless
the title is used.
A CHURCH CONGREGATION at Red Bank, N. j.,
| paid big price TO get minister who was
hustler He hustled around the first week and
| got MS facts and figures, a I'd on Sunday he told
I EN- that there was more meanness in the
| IOWA to the square foot than in any other place
!;
bonus to hustle away
J. H. MYERS, of Horton, Mich, announces
| himself the champion guesser of Jackson
| county. Last spring he guessed on the weight
OF 400 sneep and cane within half a pound of
II, ana turned round and guessed tnat tie bean
crop on the farm would be forty bu hels and
the measurement showed only five quarts lack
| lug from that amount.
RAILROAD BUILDING in Africa seems to be
booming. According to latest advices the Por-
| tuguese have surveyed the line of a route
connecting Lake Nyassa with the sea- WORK
| on the Congo railroad has begun in earnest.
On sept. % steamer sailed from Antwerp
| bound for the Congo and loaded with 900 tons
| of rails for the Congo railroad.
| PASSENGERS the steamship Algiers. from
Galveston, Tex, were treated on Sunday after
noon to nautical spectacle not usually OBJ
| served by cnast-skirting travellers. About fifty
| miles off Hatteras the ship took them through
| a big school of frohcsome sperm whales which
sent fountains in the air just before the rush of
| the sup drove them below the surface.
TIE FINANCE COMMITTEE of the New York
| worlds fair recently received donation of
| cent and the accompanying letter fro q liberal
| Cnicagoan Enclosed please find cent being
| my donation to the world g fair fund Use it in
| any way you see fit | wish to be Thought as
| liberal as some of the New York capitalists.
| hence this most munificent contribution"
ONE of the remarkable features about archi-
| lecture in New York at present is the rapidty
| with which buildings are completed, particn-
| and elsewhere down town. Formerly the CON
| struction of such buildings was a matter of
| years; now they are finished aud occuri ID in a
| few months after the toundato are
| laid Nine and ten-story buildings Ic were
| only begun In June are now ready for tneir &C.
| cupants.
THE EUROPEAN RESIDENTS whose property was
| destroyed in the recent revolt in Chan. King.
| China, have received as indemnity 40 QUO taels
| or $175, 90 1t is rather remarkable that this
| sum was paid by neither the government nor
| the pro ince but by tbs officers of the citv
The governor was assessed SO, 900, the Governor
OF Shanghai the same. while the minor officials
| paid the remainder in proportion to their rank.
| The British consul, whose house was entirely
| demolished, received 5000
| JAPAN possesses no less than 226 ioint.stock
| companies, ia Of them with limited liability.
in Toxic, and the sum invested in them amounts
| TO ttO, UOO,OUO. Railways, steamboats, and other
| methods of communication account for nearly
| half of the capital, and industrial enterprises
| employ nearly thru of it. Only eight com
| panies have capital in excess of e 90 OO0 two
| of EN- being railways, and four industrial
| businesses. APP arenty the art of watering
| stock has not taken root in Japan.
Two MILDEYED, PINK-NosED BAwLING CALVES,
| the property of w. j. Smith, are creating con-
| siderable of a sensation among the curious
| people of South Minneapolis. The calves are
| twi s, about months old, and they have only
| six legs between them. One of the creatures Is
| without a foreleg and the other is minus a mind
| leg but they are pretty little animals, and hon
ABOUT as brs1ly as you please apparently not
| understanding that nature has, cheated them
out Of one Of se legs that are che due of every
| well-regutated calf
PIGTAILs have still a role to play in the pro-
| gressive dominions Of the Mikado. A new
| Shinto temple has been erected at Toxic. the
materials for which were dragged to the sacred
| site by ropes made Of human hair instead of
the CO lventional hemp. Tue hair was a free
will Offering from no fewer than $50, 900 of the
| faithful Twenty-four ropes were made of it,
| their diameter ranging from four to seven
inches ana their total length reaching 4528 feet
| 1t is calculated that no&riy 1900 pounds weight
of pigtalls was used.
Two MICHIGAN GIRLS escaped from the state
industrial home and tramped thirty miles across
| country beppino food as they want T,Ay bod