The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| king MALGEToA of Samoa draws a salary of
| $50 a month. But then he isn't much Of king,
| AMI his wardrobe is neither extensive nor ex-
| pensiye
THE new palace of the japanese Emperor
| cost 5 ,959 231. The first estimate of the cost
was So, 100000, but it was reduced by order of
| the emperor
REAL ESTATE SALES and building, which a year
| ago began to fall off in New York city, have
both begun to revive, prices in the former par
| ticular advancing sharply and over the entire
| island.
The collection of duties at the port Of New
York in the first year beginning Aug 5, 1889,
were 1856 O3S s. and for the year ending Dec.
81, 1885, the duties paid amounted to SI40,So0,
0o0 IS.
A Los ANGEL Es paper says that in helping her
| husband on his farm at San Jacinto, Mrs. T. N.
| Meade plowed aud sowed over 100 acres of
+, wheat, taking care of her own four-horSe team,
and she is city raised" woman, TOO.
The roof Of st. Stephens Cathedral at Vienna
is reported to be in imminent danger of falling
| in. The forest of timber of which it is con
structe is of great age, having lasted long be-
| yond its natural time and is now in a state of
decomposition.
THE tide of travel for Europe is said to be I'M
usually large for this time of the year TIE
| feet of steamships will be increased to meet
| the rush, and it is noticed that the gray
| hounds are rapidly taking the place OF the old
| and tried vessels
THE British jack tar has become a very
thrifty person. The Naval Savings Bank shows
every year an increased number of deposits and
| largely increased average value. One ship of
the royal navy, lately paid off from China, had
over 10000 due to the crew.
| CONGRESS is to be requested to set apart
tract Of % 900 acres of government land in Santa
| Barbara county, CAL for a national park 1t is
| on and about the upper Santa Ynez river and
| is wild. mountainous, picturesque and almost
| uninhabted but aoOunds in large game includ-
ing deer, wildcats, mountain lions and bears.
| QUEEN VIcToRIAs WILL was made in 1876
| ingrossed on vellum, and is now a great bound
| volume fastened with lock, with several blank
! pages left for subsequent codcilS. The last was
made recently and distributed the jubilee gifts,
| Some are left to the state and the others are
| distributed among the members of the royal
| family.
| JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, the millionaire presi-
dent of the Standard OIL Company, is believed
by all the prominent clergymen in New York to
be the person who had promised to give $40, OO0,-
| 600 for the endowment of a great Baptist uni
versity. Mr.. Rockefeller himself says he hasn't
! given $50 900, but declines to state whether
| he intends to do so or not
THE mayor of Boston has informed the navy
department that the city council has voted
| stand of colors for the use o. the naval vessel
| v.
and Baltimore have a so taken similar action in
| regard to the cruisers Chicago and Baltimore
| The former was presented with a silver service
and the latter with library and a portrait of
| Lord Baltimore.
CONGRESSMAN O'NE1LL of Philadelphia, is
| largely responsible for a good deal of the tire
some handShaSin that the President has to I'M
der 20. He always turns up at public receptions
with school, or hospital, or a church. or a
grant army post, or a Sunday school, or a
| militia regiment. He knows the name of each
| man, woman and chlld, and introduces each by
| name to the President.
PAUL B. DU CHAILLU in his forthcoming book
on the Vikings will make a vigorous as
| Sault upon the reputation of the Saxons He
argue that all historians have attributed the
| deeds OF the SwedeS to the Saxons and saws
| that the latter race was entirely Insignificant
without ships or enterprise, aud entirely un-
worthy of the reputation they now enjoy as
forefathers of what is wrongly called the Anglo
| Saxon race.
AN ARTICLE in the recent report of the com
missioner of education recommends that draw
ing be made sprcial study with students who
| intend to become artisans or mechanics of anv
| kind. The writer thinks pencil work should be
| ke ut very to the three Rs because it is one
Of the arts Of expression which is capable of de-
plcting the workers thought with graphic
| clearness such as no formula of words can ade-
quately do"
MRS. BURNETT goes personally to the Broad
way theater every Monday morning to draw
her 10 per cent. of the receipts, and every night
! trusted relative stands at the doorway to see
that ticket goes into the slot of locked box
for every person who enters. After the per-
formance he witnesses the opening of that re-
! captace, helps to figure up the amount Of
money represented therein and returns to Mrs
| Burnett a table of the figures SO says a
goSsiper in the New York Sun,
Col. JAMES A. WooD died recently at his
home in Bloomfield, Ky, aged "a years. Col
Wood went to Texas in S35.and took part in.the
rebellion against Mexico, He was at the mas
| sacre of the Alamo and with two others es-
! capped, they being the only survivors of that
| bloody event. Col Wood, in his account of his
| escape, said that when Santa Anna ordered the
prisoners to be shot he dropped to the ground,
| as If he had been killed, at the first discharge
| He began to roll over, and continued rolling
| until the river was reached when he sprane to
| his feet and got away. He never stopped tray
| cling from the Alamo until he reached Ken
! lucky.
AT recent fashionable wedding in New
York the father of the bride wore a broad grin
| as he walked up the church-aisle with his
daughter. During the ceremony he chuck ed
| several times, and at it's close ne broke into an
| unmlstakable laugh. AS ne is a prominent
| citizen Of unmpeachabie sobriety. AMI is known
| TO have the tendereSt regard for his family and
! for this daughter in particular many were
| somewhat scandalizei by such an apparent
| breach Of decOrum. At the weidi z reception
mystery.
| had suddenly remembered that the last ii ne he
! had been Inside of any church was when he was
| himself married in hat very edifce.
TIE Brooklyn woman's club has sent the first
and thus far the only donation from American
women toward tie restoration of the ancient
| church at STAFFORD pom Avon. where Shakes
peare is buried. Thu work of restoring the
| chancel was undertaken by the ladies Of STRAIT
| ford, and they sent out appeals, not only to
their English, but to their American sisters
| The Stratord-upon- Avon HcfGi3, in comment
! ing upon The work Of restoring the church says,
! 1T IS pleasing to note that the ladies' of The
| parish are reCel ing contributions from some
| at a distance Last week the seer tary. D ISIS T.
| Graves, received a letter from Mrs H. l.. Cat
| lin. treasurer of the Brooklyn Woman's club
enclosing donation from the club on tla rec
ON nenda'ion of Ia momber, Mrs All o F-rris
who visited the church last summer his IL
the first donation received from America to-
ward the rest ration of the c1alcel"
VISITORS to Prague will readily recall the dis
USED burial ground Of the Jews, with its crumb.
ling graVestone' and Hebrew inscriptions, in
the midst Of the densely populated part OF the
town 10 which the jews we're formerly rele.
gated. 1t Is probably one of the most anc ept
burial Places in Europe. and il is even 10 this
day, ne ected as 1t is one Of the most interest.
| ing spots IN one OF the quautest AMI most in.
resting OF the historic towns OF the continent
Tue dates registered on lis tomO,tones and
memorials are said to reach b1pk M IA ne 10