The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Inc postmaster had best girl and the latter
subsequently transferred her affections 10
ANOTHER party. Tue girl sent her w lover
pape through the Office. The seller of stamps
ti' ~ al was not II 1t and upon ivestiga-
i Slon discover d that within the paper was q
irL er written 10 his fortunate rival The post.
master ported the case and the girl was fin I'd
SlO- Inc line was subsequently, RENTED.
NOVEL proposition has been made to the
municipal authorities of Joliet by firm in that
Guy. It proposes to buy the privilege of run
ming all the saloons in town if given If if "a mi
pay $4,000 year and will agree 10 locate this
| salo1nS SO they will not interfere with any
churcl. school, or legitimate business; to clos.
oneh az III o'clock at night week days, and
an uAy sundays; 10 allow no gambling or sell
| Iug OF liquors to intoxicated prisons or minors;
anu 70 give bonds in the sum of 500. coo for the
| IaIthIal peri finance of these requirements
| Inc OHer Is under consideration.
| CHINATOWN, San Francisco, had big parade
the other day in honor of the god of charity
one thousand Chinese, all richly dressed, took
| part. Inc main feature was an enormous
| dragon IOO feet long, which was borne by forty
men; !tS Jaws were constantly opeuing and
SSA9nloltlhS merry tongue. morse and foot sol
| ulefS preceded it, AID in many wagons were
| Cninese Children gorgeously arrayed as alleeor-
lcai hgures. IL was the greatest show China
Town ever produced, and it marched through
s're9Is densely packed with Mongolians and
| Americans.
'haI tne country Dug It to give up the present
method OF dlsposing of dead bodies and adopt
one winch he suggests. He does not advocate
GreLnatlOL, nor anything else which so far as is
huoWh' appears to have been sug .eSted by any
otner pe SOL His sche ne is to freeze the d /
t pouy III water, tax t e BLOCK of ice in which
tue ue~u oody mas been frozen and carry it to
ene nortn and deposit it on the shores of one of
the Arctlc seas. says that he has air adv
l i ie some faVorabl progress, and mat an En-
= nj.
OF an international crematory on the snorss of
d 'iilh 5 oay, where he says that future genera
IlohS may 90 to lind tne faces of their ancestors
VI Cne nineteenth century as ma ural as life.
1HE remarkable facility with which divorces
are obtained in the state of New York and the
confusi which sometimes result find striking
lllusti alton in a recent case Irving Johnson
ana his wife quarreled, separated. and applied,
each, for divorce. Mr.. johnson brou ght his
suit IN Ohon aga county, while Mrs. johnson
Drought ners on tie same day in {. rJland
county. Neither suit was oppose l. and as it
happened, both courts issued DEGREES stimuli
taneously, t e Cortland court sranting Mrs
Johnson an absol Is divorce with right to
marry aSaln but deny Ing that ri sht 10 the
husband, ald the Onondaga court granting q
decree In MIR. JohnSon'S favor but forbidden.
the wife to re-marry. Mrs. Johnson however
married again, an the question now to be de
clued is as TO which DEGREES holds, and whet Ter
tAe divorced woman's present marriage is
valid.
VARIOUS are the superstitions which continue
to keep firm hold on the Jews in many parts
OF the east, Notwithstanding the spread of edu-
cation' anu one or them vas put to an odd use
~ smyrna. IL is custom In that city, says the
JeDtS chronic e, whenever one OF twins dies
Tor parents to fasten paddock an then eithe
10 voluntarily lose the key or carefully hide 1t
IN me secluded pot, tn popular belief being
tnat the surviving twi will die the moment the
paddock is opened young woman who had
lost her twin brother, married and her husband
came into possession of the paddock One da
dispute occurred between the pair and the
husband, angry and unable to convince his wife
threatened hat he would open the paddock
Inls threat at once brought the wife to reason
She tearfully submitted, ana implored her nus
Dand TO keep the pail OK closed.
THERE is a fascination about life along
Broadway" said Police Captain Garland who
served SO many years of his active life on the
metropolitan highway, (which no one once
| familiar with it can ever completely overcome
The Broadway of earl September hasn't Looked
Ike the same street in the hight of its winter
glorles for good many years so markedly as it
does tonight" He looked up and doyyn from
the Twenty sixth street Corner and the nave
ment on both sides of the street was black with
people at 9 O'Clock. AS he did so the Eqh1
glinted on gold badge worn under his coat,
over his heart 1t was given him by many
frieads and admirers when he retired from the
/ Broadway squad, Twenty-ei- hJ precinct. after
ell ven and half years service Capt Garland
was appointed on The force in 1867
A CURIOUS case of rabi IS has lust been noticed
in middle-aged man in Paris who was under
| medical treatment about six months ago He
/ is baker, and he was supposed to have he.
| cured, but o. late h had become il-humo-ed
! and sullen. He was given to biting the b lskets
n when the bread Was conve ed to tn custom
efa, ana on several occasions he displayed an in
| cinatiJn TO Try conclusions with his masters
| dog The other day the poor fellow attracted a
! crowd about him il the streets by his strange
oehavlor. He ur.led along the pavement with
queer gestlculations, barking like member of
the canine species, frightening some of the peo.
Pile whom h met and exciting t e ridicu,e of
| others. The police, Suspecting that something
| was radically wrong took MIN off to the station
| and he had scarcely arrived there when he was
| seized with sort of fit. tie implorcd the by
| ISLANDERS to leave hi n to himself as he feareo
that ne mght nurt tAem, and it was arranged
promptly that he should be removed TO the
nea est hospital. The patti mt has a room to
| himself, and the case is exciting much interest
among the faculty.
| BADcoCK, of Rlode Island, the original and
only clambake man" in the eyes of gourmands
is an interesting visitor to New YORK, because
he comes rarely. especially III tuis, tue ason
| pa eTce. tence for that dainty with which MIR
| BabcOck's name will go down to posterty. say s
! the New York World. 1t ism so nj Ich what he
put, in The bake it is the sauce he serves
| with 1t that has m de Ba0cock famous. But
/
Your bon Uiudn'. if he deserves the name. gen.
orally has smile for everybody or at least a
| surface eXpr sSion or peace toward all the
world. BaococG has the bon Uiudnt's eve in
| expression, gray in color; a closely cropped
| head ana beard OF gray nair, q smooth un-
| wriukled face and a comfortable air of either
| having dined or knowing just where the dinner
! of the day is to be had. When tue Rhode Island
turkey and the Rhode Island clambake are
things of the past, and the ha ID of Pr .lence
! sha have removed BAD ocx's sauce the . our
| met OF New Zealand will stand Ga the Lib rty
| Goddess and, looking toward what was Little
Rnody," Will shed scalding tears.
A correspondent of the Pail Mall Gazette
trav- ling in China Sc ms not to have been
favoracly impressed, by a long way, with Pekin
In a recent letter ne says: Eyes, although the
/ temptation is great, to write 4 aryeIs about u
| place one has come so far to See-to play no q
| so to speak, on ones own account he truth is
| that Pekln is not worth the trip. 1t is worth
coming to stud but not to see The nose il
| the only sense appealed to by the capital of
| China. 1t IS not ualf as picturesque a place as
| Seoul nor quarter as interesting as San Fran.
CISCO Moreover, you cannot see nearly as
much of it to-day aS you could five years ago.
One by one the show places have EN- closed to
| foreigners, and tie Marble bridge tine Su inner
| pal ce, the Temple of Heaven-to mention
| only the first that come to mind-are now her
medically closed against the barbarian ami
neither rank nor money nor impud nee can
force an entrance. Eve the accents 10 the ion
, of the wal-the only place where q FOREIGNER
can walk in comfort and decen y--are now
barred, and you must find brlOable sentry"
THE RECENT SALE of Millett's "Angelus,' for