The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| reLah them through the city in liquor stores,
oInces and factories by means Of peddlers.
A HnSDoo LECTURER in England says that the
British have degraded India and her people to
tue level of beasts and that tens of thousands
die yearly Of starvation, and all reports are
suppressed.
TIE proceedings Of the japanese parliament
are reported verbatim by means Of steno-
graphic system original in Japan. The charac
ters are written in perpendicular rows from
right to left.
THE total Indian population is less than
10000 OF these 2, 232 live in houses and 96l2
families are engaged in agriculture. And
among these so-called savages there are 2, 1903
church members.
The two great future ironclads Of the English
navy will be named the Hood and the Hawk.
The Hood viii be of %. 600 horse power and IA
co.. TONS The Hawk viii be also of 1000 horse
power and 1900 tons
JERUSALEM seems now to be rapidly grow
| ing city. This is due to the great number of
Jews who are fiocking there yearly. They now
number $1,000 more than the Moslem ard chris
| tan population combined.
In A LAWSUIT in Kentucky court the other
day, it was proved that horse which had
kicked three men TO death and had run away
| five times was warranted perfectly gentle and
safe for any lady TO drive"
some MEN try advertising as the Indian tried
feathers. He took one feather, laid it on the
| board, and slept on it all night In the morn
| ing he remarked: white man say feathers
\ heap soft; white man = fool'
ONE of the affecting incidents connected with
the Johnstown catastrophe is now disclosed by
tn fact that out of $50 children who attended
Tn tlrst ward school IN that city before the
Hood only three were left alive.
| AN AMERICAN was arrested on the Austrian
| FRI h.,x-s IL
| dynamite bombs. On further investigation
| they proved to be cocoanuts something that
| the Austrian authorities had never seen.
COMPLETE SET of the publications of Prince
Lucien Bonaparte on the dialects of Europe
| and particularly on the Basque language, num-
| per1ng some 275 volumes, has been presented to
the Yale library by New Haven citizen
A SAN Francisco FIRM has built the largest
wine cellar in the world. 1t is capable of hold
IN 100000 gallons of wine Its cost was
$4,000. This is one indication of the rapid
growth of wine production on the Pacific coast.
A KENTUCKY man who was dying alone left his
will in lead pencil on the head of whisky bar
rel, and it is held to be valid. The only thing
| that he left however. was a gallon of whisky
IN the barrel, and that isn't worth fighting
| over
POLICE detailed to raid gambling house in
Washington recently, made a mistake in the
doors, and breaking into a private residence
next door assaulted man and his wife, injur-
ing the former severely before the mistake was
| discovered. ,gtt
Who would believe that the once derided We
locipede would within-a.few years give birth to
| more than rs, 600 Bicycles, and that the League
| or American AheetmRns counts alone 1900
| members, 10000 ofsy bonn live in New York and
the surrounding suburbs.
GREAT BRITAIN counts on soon having the
largest dynamo in the world. 1t is being made
for the new electric light works at Deptford
| Inc shaft of the machine viii be turned out of
| a block of steel Weighing twenty-five tons
which has just been cast in Glasgow.
For several years there was standing offer
of $40 fo- a partridge nest containing more
| than twelve eggs, the records at the Smithso-
| MAN Institution giving that the greatest
number Of eggs of that species to nest. A
| party OF Worcester girls recently won the
money by finding nest with fifteen eggs.
| A DUDE wanted to be photographed standing
| on raft in the middle of flooded street in
| Williamsport, Pa. lie hired a photographer
| and man to carry him to the raft, so that his
| feet would not get wet. Some railroaders, for
harmless diversion. jumped on the raft and
sunk it. compelling the dude, with ill-concealed
| rage, to wade out TO his middle.
A SCRANTON (PA) MOTHER, whose son had
| toothache, took him to a faith healer. Look
me in the eyes, . said the doctor fixing fasci-
| mating gaze on the weeping youth. Now your
| toothache has entirely disappeared You
haven't bit of toothache about you" You
lie! have yelled the boy with a fresh howl
Inc mother then took him to a dentist
On dropping. bough Of large elm, close by
hotel, in Sunderland Mass. two English
robins have made a'nest.i Strong winds caused
so much swaying as to endanger the eggs in the
nest. The birds have been equal to the emer-
| gency. Taey chaYe7 secured some twne ana
fastened one end under the nest and the other
end to larger branch b. low, thus avoiding the
danger of too much oscillation. The instinct
exhibited by.these birds has attracted consid-
cradle attention
A DEBATING CLUB in Germany has been dis
cussing for two years the question whether il
is possible to get nothing for something The
realists say yes and adduce numerous instances
In commercial transactions But the ideaIists
say no. For, they argue. ''if nothing really
| is nothing, how can you get it2, Then every
body drinks beer for a month or two mill
| some bright realst thinks up an answer to this
| question. The beer-seler in whose hall the
club meets says it is one of the finest debates ne
| mas ever heard, and he confidently expects it to
run along for another year at least.
THERE ARE said to be seventy street bands in
| New York City, most of lem italian. few of
| them German. Some of them favor the listen.
! ing crowds with masterpieces by Mozart and
| beethoven and airs from Martha" or .sTrova-
tore. but others prefer to give more popular
| are excellent performers, possessed of real
| artistic ability Many of them at this time of
| the year find employment at picnics or in
| steamboat excursions. 1t is said that a hand
| or half dozen pieces, while PLAYING in the
streets, will often pick up from $40 to S15 a dav
| M. PAsTEUR is threatened with rival. Dr
Peyrand. consulting physician at yichv
| claims to have discovered an efficient nethod of
| treating rabies. By injecting into rabbits tha
| essence of the familiar herb called "tansv he
| produced what he calls hydrophobic intoxica.
| tion, or something very similar and with virns
| thus obtained ne mingled 10 per cent of chic.
| raj. He injected several animals which had
rabies with this prop lylactic, and he professes
| to have cured four ont of six This limited az
perience, however, can scarcely be regarded az
a sufficient test OF the success of the new mode
| of treatment
| IN the excavations at Megara Hybaea IN
Sicily, now finished, there have been discovered
since last January 800 tombs containing vases
| a fine torso in marble an archaic head in lima
| stone, part of the old WALL four towers a cata
| and other archaeological treasures. Also amone
| the many findings of the excavators at work nv
| order of the Greek government on the Acronol =
| is the head in marble of female winged fipnra
lin relief, which DR.. WaldsIein has identified as
| belonging to the figure of Iris in the east frieze
| OF the ParJhenon in the British museum 4
| cast of the fragment has been placed IN the
museum, which fits exactly The American
| school at Athens has also made an importa nt
| discovery, fty-four lines of the famous edict Of
| Diocletian having been found at Plataea
| The WORCESTER ACADEMY SENIORS PLAYED a
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