The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


a NAN with an artificial cheek, eye and palate
has been attracting attention at an English
| watering place. 1t is said that ne eats without
oiIncnity and speaks distinctly.
An EsTERPRIsIYe MERCHANT in Chicago dis
PLAYS in front of his store q lamp, to which is
| attached a card reading:- This lamp viii be re-
Uuceu AZ price 10 cents per day until it IS sold
The following advertisement recently ap-
peared in Western paper: "A mijdle-aged
woman, who is capable, honest and industrious,
Dut as homely as stone fence. wants work.
The assessed valuation on real estate in, New
York in 1889 is si,3], 1881, against g. BOZ s1s.
| 30 IN lesS, showing increase in real estate
assessed valaatio u alone OF Ss9s2i Asa. Just
MINK OF 1t, nearly s3l.6D, 900 Of en- increase IN
Z ISIS 1 vas $50; s ssa q a a@ounta
TO SCR 260 S22, an increase of SAT 637.2T0. Ihe
totsl net Increase OF assessed Variation for 1893
is $50. 500, 6S2. Sin "a I
The other day in Nashville an old colored
man wandere through the streets carrying
IN his arm q small coffin, in which was the body
OF his infant child. lie had scraped together
enough money to buy the coffin, and with It
under mis- arm had trudged out to suburban
| cemetery, which refused to allow the irternent
because ne could not pay for the grave. So he
| came back with his gruesome burden to beg
enough money TO pay for grave.
STATISTICS show that in the state Of Maine
women are engaged in over fifty different en-
Payments, ranging from cotton and other
| manufactures to the professions By far the
| greatest numbers are employed in manufactur-
ing there being about 1000 thus employed The
| average weekly salary IS IS, AMI one maker Of
| portraits in crayon gets $l5 One won n is the
| proprietor OF prosperous newspaper; anot rer
| owns an extensive orchard; tn re are dozen
| regularly intorsed physicians in practice, and
| several ministers, all Universalists.
A NUMBER of Chinese workmen at Manila
tried to see which Of them could continue ex-
posed to the sun on a plank fer two hours,
the one holding ont to receive wager of SIP.
Several made the attempt, but ali but one
| quickly abandoned it. This one continued in
| trepldiy. The time counted from O'Clock. AT
800 the persevering competitor transferred
| himself 10 the gro mi. The two hours expired
and his companions thought he was lying down
as matter Of choice, but on going up to him
| some time later they found that he was dead.
ALGERIA is suffering from plague of locusts
A hundred zouaves have been sent with dry
straw to Aumale to de troy the invading insects
At Setif nearly 800 soldiers were lately engaged
IN this work, and cOonists and agricultural
laborers had been requisi' inned to help the m.
AT Sedrata long line of fires kept up to
prevent the invasion, but the fuel was ex-
hauSted before the mass of Invaders. which hai
an un5roken front of six miles. The govern or
general had been to NasSowah, Ben Mustapna
and other localities, to see that the civil and
to drive back the enemy
WORDSWORTH, as appears from DR. Knights
new life of the poet. ha an ingenious fashion
OF avoiding giving an opinion upon the volumes
OF verses which wers constantly being sent to
HIM by budding poets and poetesses. His Com
mon form was something like this. written to
the lady who afterward became Mrs Barrett
Browning: 'Rydal Mount Aug. 49, 1S44-Dear
MISS Barrett: Being exceedingly engaged at
this sea on as always am, think it best to ac-
knowledSe lmmediatel, my sense of your kind
ness IN SendlnS me the two volumes of your
poems. recently published, from the perusal of
winch. when am at leisure, promise myself
great pleasure etc.
NIscoUNT MELcHIoR DE VOGUE who has
lately been elected to a chair in the Academic
Franchise, is said to be the youngest member
OF that august body. He was born at Nice in
1913 Twelve years of his life have been spent
IN the diplomatic service, attache of the
french legations at Constantinople and St.
petersburg. His six years residence in Russia,
where he married Russian, the sister of Gen.
AnnenkoH, made him familiar with the Ian
guage and literature, the knowledge and love
OF which have been his chief distinction. Before
ne gave up diplomacy for a literary life he was
the author OF booE of travels in the east, and
also volume of Histories Orentales''
OF THE reported killing of "Old Clubfoot,"
the terror of the Sierras, by Trapper Hendrix,
the Nevada City Transcript says: This is
'toOIb JIG uluJn Time III Twice as many years
that the gratifying news of the bears death has
been announced. As long ago as 1871 a pros
pector named Smead killed him in Meadow
Lake township, this county, after a desperate
encounter, and exhibited TIE skin as proof of
the fact A miner on Kanaka creek, in Sierra
county, duplicated the feat six months later
since then every county along the Sierra Ne
Vada range mas periodically set up claim to a
similar distinction. CluOfoot has as many lives
as q cat, and it is a safe bet that he will turn up
smiling again before the next state election"
The seventy-ninth annual meeting of the
English Swedenborg Society was held on June
10. The committee states that 3 294 volumes of
the society's publicat ons have been issued
during the year. showing an increase. Copies
IN the Welsh, Latin, French and Russian
languages are included. The following resolu-
ton was adopted: That this meeting recog-
nizing i'll the doctrines of the New church the
divinely provided and only satisfactory means
by which the revealed truths of the word are
shown to be in harmony with the di ,cDvrrIeS
and sound deductions of science and pUIloso-
ply, regards the work of the SwedenG re- So
ciety in publishing the writings which contain
these doctrines as of supreme Importance to the
religious, moral and intellectual progress OF
mankind, and commendS them to the inveStga
ton of all earnest seekers after truth"
NATIVE PAPER at Sie-fu, China, publishes
the following: "a white dragon was seen on
April u. Dragons like water, and it had rained
since alb nut the middle of March straight on
storm, which smashed in the roofs of many of
the country peoples nuts about their ears
Suddenly a pow erful fishy smell became per
ceptble and people coming in from tn fields
reported the presence of a huge creature about
third of an acre long, in a pool of water. The
next day few people ventured out - see it,
1t was quite white with scales two feet IN Ze
with horned head. claws and long tail lust as |
represented III pictures. On April Is fine
weather returned, aud the dragon was gone
Foreigners do not talk about dragons, but we |
Chinese do. Few, indeed. have Sc n tnem but |
this instance seems TOO we'll authenticated to |
allow us % doubt of the power of this super
natural being TO make himself occasionally
visible to man. y IL
1--WE are threatened with a new dog" OBJ
serves the Pail Mall Gazette. "Indeed, the |
threat is now more than year old, and we will !
very soon have the dog very Plentiful. Az yet II
he's rarity, fashionable and expensive beEin. II
ming to &c recognize / at dog $ rows. but not II
making any ssehstl1e impre sson on the dog u
loving Londoner. He's a utchmau, with q long Il
name, a short body and sharp bark. head Il
like pig, big sars, Saad no tall 1t does not Il
sound inviting in the way Of description. When X
the presSe it'cehttFy was in its teens and steam
II it's Infancy the canal boats in the Low Coun |
tries did much of the passenger traffic People |
lived on them, doing tuer jourueying in a |
leisure!y fashion. The wear and tear was sill .ht |