The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

MscHIEvoUs BOZ at Ashley. Pa. wrote on
the bulletin board Of mine Office: s"So work
tomorrow" The mine was idle IN conse-
quence. aF r.
TIN AND GLASS have found a rival in paper as
material for making kerosene oil cans. The
latter, it is claimed, viii not rust and leak like
tin or crack like glass.
TERRE HAUTE permits hogs to run at large in
the public streets. Mr.. Jason removed the fences
around his house, the hogs came upon his
grounds, and he has begun 119 lawsuits to re-
cover damages
ACCORDING to the Oxford County (Me) Ad-
Uertiser, two little girls. one and the other 70,
belonging to Edwin Boynton of Brownfield,
plowed and narrowed an acre Of land in one day
with yoke of oxen.
The clipper ship Challenger has just made the
trip from Iquique, Peru, to Philadelphia, a dis
lance of over 10000 miles, in seventy-three days,
Iully month before the time for her arrival
| Inc Challenger had a cargo Of nitrate Of soda.
MRs. CLEVELAND has sent to some of her
friends in Washington a copy of the latest
| photograph of herself taken at the capital 1t
was taken in Mrs. Ceveland's boudoir in the
white house, holding Baby Lamont, her name
sake. In her arms and it is said to be the pref
test OF all the photographs extant OF Mrs.
Cleveland.
ONION PARTIES are the latest social amuse-
ment in Nebraska. All the girls present stand
In row, and one of them bites an onion. Then
the boys KISS the entire group and guess which
ate the onion. The parties are said to be very
popular, but the boy who succeeds in kissing all
the girls except the onion eater gets the best of
the bargain.
The present senior class of Vassar college,
numbering forty-nine, is the largest ever grad
uated from the college. The freshman class.
numbering seventy three, is the largest since
the year 1874. Other evidences of prosperity
1aDa 1~trl in,
additional scholarships. and in improvements in
the sanitary condition of the college.
New YORK FIRM Of shoemakers have just
sent TO the Paris exposition thirty pairs Of boots
and shoes, the average cost of each pair being
go. There is not bit OF leather in them that
| Is not American and the workmanship is all
| American There are boots and shoes of Ameri-
| can calf American patent calf, alligator skin,
! porpolse hide, and kangaroo. They are all
handmade and are all mems shoes. One thing
| that the exhibit will show is the great progress
| that has been made in the manufacture of
| American shoes and leather.
AN EXHIBITION OF NERVE that's rarely excelled
! was given Tuesday by Trenton woman. She
| made tour of the offices in the state house
there, asking subscriptions for bicycle for her
son, who is very fond of bicycle riding She
| SAID that she could not very we'll see how she
| could afford TO purchase one, and as her son
was OF noble birth he should enjoy the advant-
| ages that more fortunate boys enjoyed.n She
could not induce the stony hearted" state off
| GERS to put down their names. however and she
| left the capitol building lamentng the fact that
| people generally were 10th to give for worthy
| purpose.
The Chinese, as is HweH known, stand on
their heads in everything as compared with
| this side of the world. They read from right to
| Iett push saw from them, get up when other
people re going to bed, and go TO bed when
| other people are getting uD. Where Americans
| and Europeans would kill their antagonists,
| they kill themselves. The other day two Chi
| nese women quarreled over a boy, and when at
| last. in frenzy. one threatened TO kin herself
| the other got ahead of her by dashing out her
| own brains againstsa wall. Perhaps the Chi
| neSe wife and children murdererS and suicides
| Will reverse the habit OF the American species
| by killing themselves before they slaughter
| their families.
! The archives Juddtques of Paris, in solving
the question to the number of Jews in the
| world computes the total at 6, 900 Of this
| number there are no fewer than 100000 in
! Europe, the remainder being thus apportioned:
| Asia, 100000; Africa, $780, 90, and America
| 2 0,O00 Taking Europe, the bulk of the Jewish
| element is in Russia. nearly 100000, and of
| these large portion (76S,5 in the old
| kingdom of Poland. Austria has l. 6l4, 900 Jews
of whom SIS, 000 are in Galicia austrian Polandl
| alone. The other European countries come in
| The following order: Germany 562 goo; Rou-
mania, 253, 900; Turkey, los, 900 The Netherlands
| o2,OU0; France, $4,000, and Italy, 10000 The
| numbers in the Spanish peninsula and in Great
| Britain are not given. The original home of the
! Idco, fdleSJlue, mas 30 ,uUV jews.
THE pig iron product of the south in 1880 was
! 397, 301 TONS In 1888 it was 1I32,s5s tons. a
gain of 100 per cent. in eight years. In 1887 the
| three states, Georgia. Alabama and Tennessee.
made 5S4, 053 tons, and in 1888 they made 1855 s0s
tons, gain of 1919 tons, or nearly 80 Der
cent. If in the next eight years the gain per
cent. of the last eight shall be maintained the
| eight lron-making states of the south will pro-
duce about $500 900 tons of metal in 1896 and we
/ the no MOI mid Z
before for the next ten or fifteen years. It is
more than probable that in the year 1900 the
south will produce no less than 100000 tons,
5OO.OOO tons more than the total product of the
ountry in 1888 The balance of the country
gained so per cent. on its iron product in the
eight years ended January, 1889 The coming
iron empire OF the world is located in the states
of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and
Georgia
A MUNICH FIRM has made carriage propelled
by gas, which it generates from benzine or
analogous material The motor, which is not
visible from the outside, is placed in the rear of
the three-wheeed carriage over the main axle
and the benzine used in its propulsion is carried
IN closed copper rece ptacle secured under the
seat from which it passes drop by drop to the
generator The gas mixture is gnited in a closed
cylinder by means of an electric spark. After
| regulating the admission of the gas the motor
can be started by simply turning hand lever
Power is applied by the medium of link chain
| bolted to toothed wheel on the rear axle The
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| ished at will by turning the lever backward or
| forward. and it can be stopped by pulling on the
| lever The vehicle is steered in the same man
| ner as a tricycle.. by small front wheel 1t can
| attain speed OF about ten miles an hour but
| in crowded streets it can be made to move as
| slowly an ordinary vehicle. quart of ben
| zine is said to be sufficient for an hours trip
The Philadelphia Ledger says Mrs L. M
| Barry, general instructor and director of
woman's work in the Knights of Labor, has re-
| turned to this city after four months tour
| through the south and west in the interest of
the order. She made this trip alone her mis-
| sion being to call meetings, awaken interest in
| the affairs of the organization, and to clear
| away misunderstanding due to the contentious
| of factious knights prior to the INDIANAPOLIS
| general assembly. Mrs. Barry left the city by
| direction of General Master Workman
| Powderly about the beginning of February,
| going to Richmond, Manchester, Savannah,
| Birmingham, Macon, Mobile, Montgomery,
| New Orleans. Houston, and Galveston, in all of
| which she addressed attentive and at
| times enthusiastic audiences. She also visited
| many of the smaller cities and towns en- route
to the gulf and encouraged the workingmen
! and women. Coming north again she stopped
| at Chattanooga, Louisville Lexington. Eliza
| BEETHOVEN, Paducah, St. Louis, Dayton, and
| Cincinnati, and as far west as Leadvilla Den
yer and Aspen. The long journey was tire
| some and inconvenient one for woman and
! the work she had to do was not entirely agree