The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| ferent parts of South Jersey. They were
! fooled by the open winter and did not burrow
/ deep enough.
No WONDER Adam and Eve fell, and that their
! fall had such serious consequences. A French
scientist says that Adam was l23 feet in hight
| and Eve was ll6.
| A HINDoo JOURNAL says that one of the most
difficult feats under the sun is to identify Euro
peans. because they are so much alike with their
loud, glazing color.
From Nov to Jan. at least 60 feet were
added to the hight of Vesuvius, while the size
| of the base of the cone Of eruption was pro-
| portionately increased.
| ONE of the rules of the royal library in Ber-
lin. made with view to preserving quiet and
| good order, calls for the exc fusion of all mem
4 bers of the gentler sex.
Miss MARY WAREHOUSE JOHNSON of Hub
bardson, Mass. recently celebrated her Tooth
! birthday. S0e was born in Salisbury, Vt. She
has an unimpa red mind. reads readily, and
| does simple kind of sewing.
ACCORDING to the statement of the Cherokee
delegates, the cattle barons pay them only
! $4,000 for their leases. No wonder the cattle
barons are opposing a territorial government.
| They have got good thing and want to hold
on TO it.
| THE HORSES attached to a carriage ran away
while returning from a funeral in Akron, o.
! There were four young women in the vehicle,
| including Miss Beighle, who opened the door,
| stepped on the splasher, and with firm grip
| swung herself into the drivers seat, picked up
! the lines and guided the horses through the
| streets until the animals were exhausted and
| overtaken.
| ToPERs' CLUB is a novel organization of
| Kyoto, Japan. 1t has twenty three members,
| each of whom before being admitted to mem
| bership had to prove his ability to drink seven
| bottles of any intoxicant at one sitting. At
| recent meeting, it is said, member drank dur
Sufficient to fill about twenty brandy bottles),
| and his associates think he deserves to be made
| president of the society.
| A NOVEL APPLICATION Of paper pulp has re-
! Gently been discovered, and consists in the pro-
duction Of organ pipes from tt at material. The
| origin of the industry is somewhat curious.
| Crespi RigtuZz the curate of little Italian
village, was DESTROYS of supplying his chapel
| with organ, but as the commune was too
poor to find the necessary fund, he and an en-
| gineer of the name of Colombon hit upon the
idea of making the pipes of paper pulp, which
gave such satisfactory results that the patent
has been sold in Germany for $4,000.
ALL KINDS of locomotion have been tried in
London but in the course of the next six weeks
q and novel method of travelling will be in-
| troduced TO the public A person living in
| South London will be able TO take ticket near
! the Monument for his home in Remington or
Stockwen. He will be lowered down to a sub
| terranean station and be taken in a tramcar
line will be worked by electricity and the time
occupied in conveying him to Remington Oval
"a distance of over two miles-wil be ten min
utes.
JOSEPH NJ. TAYLOR of indianapolis has made
a curious and interesting discovery His uncle
dead for many years, and in younger days as
sociated with P T Barnum bequeathed his
assets, accumulated in the show business to
Taylors mother, and through her the property
descended to Taylor. Quite recently he took
an inventory, and upon unrolling long map
! like canvas he brought to hight an oil painting
| 1SXl2 feet in dimensions, representing Christ
| Before Plate" The canvas painted in L q!
by Villa Dunlap, an American artist, aud
was carried about for exhibition much the same
as is the famous painting by Munkacsy.
GEN. THOMAS EWING in his address before the
Typothetse Association of New York told of trip
he made with companions. when hoy in Ohio
to the Hooking hills to get some famous cling
stone peaches for his mother: I'VE passed
a paper mill at the foot of a very steep and
rocky hill, and our wagon made such a racket
that all the windows in the mill were thrown up
and twenty or thirty girls stuck out their heads
and stared at us. l asked the driver what all
| those girls were doing in the mill. We'll,
| Tommy, said he, you see, they make paper of
rags and they keep them girls to chaw the
rags l confess that the state of the art of
paper making was not quite that bad forty five
years ago-but pretty near it..
THE Spanish republican Gen. VilIacampa,
1886, has died in the convict prison at Melilla
on the coast of Morocco. He had been con-
demned TO death by court martial but his
sentence was commuted to penal servitude for
life, with loss of rank. His case excited inter
est because his daughter, whose noble efforts
saved his life by imploring the intercession Of
Queen Christina, had since INCREASINGLY done
her best to obtain his transfer to Spanish for
tress on account of a chronic illness that was
undermining his health. The republican mem
bers of congress helped her. but in vain. Senior
Segasta and the queen wished to grant her re-
quest, but Marshal Campos and other royalist
generals opposed the act of clemency, though
even the surgeons said Gen. Villacampa would
succumb.
KHARToUM still figures in newspaper dis
patches, though there really is no Khartoum at
the present day. The town was practically
wiped out of existence in the days of horror
following GordOn'S death. The forts are still
maintained, but the rest of the town was RACED
to the ground and the material used in the most
important buildings was taken across the
river to build a big mausoleum and mosque
over the remains of the late Mahd Omdur-
man, across the river from Khartoum, is now
the seat of the Mlahdist power, and when we
read that Khartoum is alarmed over White
Pasha rumors, it simply means that Omdur-
man is in panicky state. By DESTROYING
Khartoum the Mahdimeant to show the Soudan
what would become of any other wicked CITY
which, accepting an infidel's aid. attempted to
keep the hosts Of the Prophet outside It's walls
WILLIAMS KUHN of Clermont- Ferrand, France,
has patented 4 process; by means of which, it is
claimed, beer in casks can be preserved in hot
climates against decomposition or alteration.
The discovery by Pasteur of the ferment that
alone will produce a normal fermentation has
enabled the brewer by great care to avoid all
noXlous fermentation and eliminate the germs
hkely to cause alterations in the beer at mod
crate temperatures. In hot climates however,
even lie purest ferment continues its work and
transforms all the saccharine elements in the
beer into alcohol and carbonic acid gas depriv-
ing the liquid Of its distinctive taste and smell
and destroying most of its value as a beverage
Mr. Kuhn claims to have succeeded in artesting
this fermentation by his process, and il his re-
suits substantlate this claim his invention will
be Of great Importance to brewers all over the
world.
The INTERIOR DEPARTMENT of the Canadian
government makes the following report con-
corning the Alaskan boundary, the exact line
of which is at present subject Of dispute be-
tween Canada and the United States: In last
years report il was explained that VIM
| Ogvie had been sent in charge of a survey
| party to explore the Yukon District. Star ing
! from Victoria in the spring of lSS1, he crossed
| from Chilkoot Inlet to the head waters OF the
| Yukon and went down the latter to point near
the international boundary batween Alaska and
! Canada where he spent the greater part of the
| winter making astronomical observations for
! the purpose OF ascertaining the position of the
| l4lst degree OF longitude, the international
boundary at that point. His observations have
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