The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

HoRATIo N. WALDO AND WIFE, Of Arcade.
celebrated their sixIieth wedding anniversary
recently. Mr. Waldo is 81 years old. was an
I ardent Abo-itiOnist. and his house was station
IN the famous Underground railway"
AFTER a four days travel al Rutland, VT,
/ Calvin NJ. Inman of Hampton, N Y, has been
| found not guilty of the murder of Patrick Sen
! not at Poultney Oct. !, 1888. The Jury without
consultation on the evidence, reached the YER
ulct IN genuine Yankee styls. II was agreed
| that thoss who thought the prisoner guilty were
10 noid some object in the closed right hand
ana thoSe considering the prisoner no. guilty
were 10 pc empty-hauded. They stood in line
before the foreman Of the jury and opened
thelr hands. and al were empty handed. The
| Jury were out only ten minutes.
The TOTAL NUMBER of arrests made by agents
OF the treasury secret service last year, assisted
IN some instances by local officers, was 49,, the
great majority of which were for manufactur-
| Ins, ueanng 10, or passing counterfeit American
| money ana raising treasury notes. The fines
! imposed by courts in these cases aggregated
| Sl4,S4S, and the sentences imposed to 372 years,
SIX months and twenty-one days. Aliens are
tOfelnosC among foreigners as counterTeterS in
| thls country. The representative value of
counterfeit and raised notes and other imita-
| LIONS LIONS OF money captured during the year was
| S417,03l.
STATEMENT just prepared by the Mexican
foreign Office showing the value of the COM
merce OF tie country with the United States
for the past year has been sent to the state de-
| PartInent by Minister Ryan. The imports were
Sl9,2o4,ol3, of which 1871, S33 went in free of
| duty or dutiable goods the principal receipts
were were cottons. provisions, drugs and chemicals;
! states aggregated S31, 059 sec, as follows:
merchandise, Sl3 $40; precious meta S, ST.
30 10. The apparent balance of trade in favor
| OF Mexico is Sl1, G94.g53 but the difference in
currency reduces this balance to 81, 2o3,057.
1 VIII IN,
| pipe factory are exceptionally fortunate
Although many millions of cobs are burned or
| allowed to rot every year, the price for pipe
| making purposes keeps up. A farmer living
| near Washington, Mo, recently sold 100 bushels
| OF corn for $50 and got S27 for the cobs. This
| Is at the rate of 81 cents a bushel, and if only
| sufficient Missouri meerschaums were smoked
| 10 make the demand larger farmers would soon
| De rlch. Corncob pipes are manufac ured by
| very simple process, aud are in fair demand all
| over the country. Some were recently shipped
| 10 Europe, and more were ordered soon after
| their arrival.
! The GRAVE of King Mitesas' mother, who
died recently, was about as big as that of the
| fat man at Newberg, N. Y, which looked like
1 a cellar. 1t was 80 feet deep and about IS feet
| wide. This spacious hole in the ground was
| not neceSsitated by the size of the royal mother
| however, but by the peculiar customs of the
| country. The standard of social dignity in
Mltesas' kingdom appears to be determined by
the relative possessions of cotton cloth, price
less article for which tle natives are willing to
| exchange their dearest possessions. To demon
! strate the queen mothers social and political
| standing In the kingdom it was necessary to
| bury a large quantity of cotton cloth with her,
and the portion of the grave not occupied by
ner coffin was filled up with this inexpensive
| fabric. Some Is, 900 or &C, 900 yards we're thus
| disposed Of
A BEAR, gaining his liberty, stirred up quite
an excitement in Paris some days ago He was
attached to circus, and escaped during his
Keepers absence by breaking a bar of his cage
| HIS first performance when at liberty was to
eat up young pig, which was completing a
| liberal education under the direction of its
owner-a clever clown attached to the circus
bruin lett only few bones of the Inflated
porKer. He then took it into his head to ascend
the staircase of a neighboring tenement, where
he was seen by the several dodgers who, instead
OF arrestng the Zoologica vagrant. hid them
selves In their rooms and barricaded their doors
| meanwhile the alarm had been given, and the
| circus people were set IN motion. Bruin was
brought to bay, sack was thrown over his
| head, and he was dragged back ignominiousiy
| TO his den, where he was chained up-and
| whipped
sToRYis going the rounds of q boy employed
| at a theater in Lyons, France, who took it into
his head to see the Paris exposition. He had
| plenty of energy, but very little money. He set
| out from Lyons on July 10, at 10 o'clock in the
morning, and took the route of Array -e-Duc,
Saulieu, etc. Nine days afterward at $50 O'Clock
| p. M, he arrived at Paris. He had II shillings
| in his pocket on leaving home, but he had to
| economic his funds, and by sleeping in barns
| and living on bread, mi k and lard, he manag
| to reduce his expenses to about 3 shillings He
| spent month and ten days at Paris; three days
| IN the week he gave up to work, and the fourth
/ to seeing the exhibition and the town On Aup
| &c, at O'Clock in the morning he set out on tie
| return journey. He got over fifty-five kiome-
| ters day, and arrived home on Sept a. He
spent on the return journey about IS. 3D., and
| had left IS. Cd. &W
|
royal regalia under strong guard at the old
| Tower, and worn only on stat occasions, is one
| of the most costly insignias now in existence
| To begin with, there are twenty diamonds
around the circlet or head-band, each worth
| 81 800, or $150,000 for the set Besides these
| diamonds, each valued at $1,000, making
| $4,000 more; fifty-four smaller diamonds
placed at the angles of the others, each valued
| at $500; four crosses, each worth $4,000, and
| composed of twenty-five diamonds; four large
| diamonds on top of crosses, each having a
| money value of 5000; twelve diamonds in the
| fieurde-lis, $4,000; eighteen smaller diamonds
| contained in the same, $4,000; pearls. dia
| monds and rubies upon arches and circlets not
mentioned before, $4,000; also 141 small
| diamonds, formed in roses and monoerams
| $25, 900; twenty-six diamonds in upper cross
| S15,500; two circles of pearls about the rim of
| the head-piece, $4,000 each. The total money
value of this relic in any jewelers. market in
| the world would be at least 100000, metal and
| all included.
| A CONTRIBUTION to criminal pathology has
| been made by DR.. Gradenigo Of Turin He
| tested the hearing and examined the ears OF
10 healthy criminals, with the result that he
| found more or less marked deficiency of hear
| ing in ffty-fve out of eghty-two men (67 ner
cent? and in fifteen out of TIVE lty-eight women
| (53 per cent?. From control tests applied in
the case of sixty-seven healthy non
criminal individuals, the average fire..
quency of defective hearing was found
to be a per cent. in men and % per
cent. in women. Troltsch gives the average
proportion of such defect as 80 per cent in
the case of adults. 1t will thus he seen thar
criminals show marked preponderance over
Lessons of the middIe or incer ear were
found In all cases, the former being by far the
more frequent under 40, and, the latter aft .r
that age. DR.. Gradenigo attributes the i'm.
pairment of hearing in criminals ito the bad
| hygenic conditions in which they live, whereby
they are more exposed than other people to
| rheumatism, affections of the nose and throat
| blows on the head, etc. In certain propor-
! ton of the cases. Dr Gradenigo found we'll
| marked degenerative or senile changes in the
ears of criminals aged from IS to 30. Dizziness
of tactile sensibility, of taste and of smell have
already been proved to be among the physical
characteristics of criminals; we are now assured
| that they are also, as rule, more or less deaf
| 1t will probably soon be shown that they are
| inferior TO law-abiding citizens in point of
| sight.
| The New York Tribune has learned Of a con-
| 6dence sharn who hestad at HE orr,, 49,.