The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FIVE YEARS before his death Charles l. Way,
the station agent who was murdered at Stony
Creek, Conn. nearly two years ago. secretly
| married Geuevisye Goddard, Of Madison, Conn.
! Three or four hours after the marriage Mr. God-
| dar1 learned OF the affair, and at once com
| peeled his daughter to return home with MN,
! and she never saw her husband after that. Last
week Genevieve died at Colorado springs,
AMONG the many wonderful sights which are
being organized for the Paris exhibition next
year is an unprecedented flight Of carrier
| pigeons from the Champs de Mars. All the
| societies of "Columhaphiles Franco ises nave
| promised to take part ia the affair, ana IL Is
calculated that over 1000 pigeons VII | be re-
| leased simultaneously for their flight TO a
| parts Of France and the Continent.
DR. DoRPFELD a German arch@ologist at
! Athens, says study of the discoveries at Myce-
| nae. Tiryns and Orchomenos revealed an unmis-
| taxable resemblance between them and ancient
| Asiatc architecture He held that the ancient
| Greeks borrowed their different styles from
| Egypt and from several of the ancient people
| of Asia. The remains of the ediices at Myce-
| nae and Tiryns bore wonderful resemblance to
the Jewish Temple at Jerusalem.
A PITTsBURG MAN is said to have really mar
red girl under the impression that he was
marrying her sister. His courtship of the other
girl was brief, and the sisters so closely resem-
bled each other that he proposed and was &C
cepted before he discovered his mistake. He
has never confessed, the story goes, that he
made this Dad error, but the girl who lost a
good husband because of it, insists that she
ought to be in her sisters shoes.
SOMEBODY has taken the trouble to infor m the
world that Queen Victoria is a very hard worker.
I She breakfasts at o'clock and then spends the
morning debating letters to her secretary
At O'Clock p. m. she takes lunch,
con, then holds a court ceremony, and
afterward INDUCES in short drive She
does not dine until O'Clock p. m. AS her mail
is enormous she really gets through a vast deal
of work in a day. Once in a while questions OF
state Of some importance require her attention.
The fact is that she has no Sinecure.
A BANKER in Lille France, had the misfortune
to wet eighteen bills of the Bank Of France,
and in order to dry them he placed them on
board at an open window where the sun shone
upon them. They dried more rlpidly than was
anticipated. A gust of wind carried them into
the street, where, unfortunately, goat pick
ing UP odds and ends at once CAPTURED the bank
bills and swallowed them The goat was pur
chased and the bills secured in very dilap-
dated condition, but the Bank Of France recog-
nized its obligations aud redeemed them
ACCORDING to the Chicago Tribune's figures,
the lowest cost of getting cattle ready for mar
ket is 215 cents per pound An average bullock
weighing 900 pounds costs the producer S25
He is sold for $50 which gives the raiser 90 per
cent. profit. After passing through the slaugh
ter house. his hide, meat, tallow, etc, are sold
for S37 profit of % per cent. Then the retailer
He gets 10 cents pound for choice cuts AID an
average of cents for the rest. making a total
OF S4o IS, an advance OF more than 30 per cent.
THE Norwegian State Antiquarian Nicalaysen
has completed the excavation Of the ruins of
an ancient monastery on the west coast of Nor
way. The assembly room, sacriSty and refec
tory have been uncovered, and the covered cor
ridor running along the courtyard The roof of
the assembly nall seems tohave been support ed
by q huge central pillar All the details OF the
architecture show a rich and advanced Roman
esque style, and the interior arrangements are
generally identical with those found in early
English monasteries. A few graves we're found,
and in one tn remains of an abbot, Judging
from the cloak and inter found with the
skeleton.
The steamer ST. Bernard. which arrived at
Boston on JAN from the East Indies had on
board two bronze idols heavily studded with
precious stones. They are bout = feet high,
and fine specimens of the melal workers art
In addition to these is silver bell of the puresu
tone, which bears on the outside number of
peculiar figures embematic of the religion of
the BuddhiSts The unique relics we're obtained
from British soldiers, who. it is said, make in
cursions into the interior towns of the Indian
country, despoi the places of worship, and
bring their booty to the wharves, where it is
disposed Of to the crews OF vessels destined for
distant ports.
A TRAGI-CoMIC ROMANCE lately occurred at
Buda-Pesth. STRIPPING of Il fell in love with
girl three years his junior, ami the children
were in such despair at the prospect of having
to wait so long before they could be married
that they decided to commit suicide. After
kissing and hugging each other, the couple re-
paired to the Danube, and with a fortitude
worthy o. a better cause the girl jumped in
Fortunately she could swim, and awaited herself
fuzzy OF her caDahiirieS in tlat art. She
8 rieKed for Help which was soon at hand.
just she was safely landed her lover aimed
three pistol shots at nj self. but none of them
took effect, and quarter of an hour later the
young folks were handed over to their respective
parents
MAJ. ELEMENTAL, an officer Of the German
Landwehr, has, on the suspicion of being a spy,
been ordered to leave France within forty-eight
hours. Suspicious were aroused by his taking.
under the assumed name of Baron de Jiy q
chalet, near Contains, not far from Paris.
lady who was supposed TO have taken part of
the chalet from him. turns out to have been a
German military cadet. They both used to 90
wandering about with 4 perambuatOr. What
seemed to be a sleeping baby was IN reality a
large doll that hid Photographic apparatus
for taking views of the new forts and the posi-
tons commanding them, They were also EN-
thusiastc pigeon fancers, but some of their
birds were trapped by suspicious neighbors and
found to be carriers
FEW YOUNG GIRLS in Hartford, all OF them
Daughters of the King" raised little money
by giving some tablesux not long ago, and then
SET ABOUT making some one happy with that
money. They heard of a family, consisting Of
hard-worked mother and three little children
and decided to try and make them happy. First
they made gigantic sto king, and then set out
to fill IT, They went from store to Store ex-
planning their object, and as a result were able
10 0uy greal deal with their money. Most of
the purchases were useful articles Of food and
clothing, but they didn't forget toys and candies
for the little ones On Christmas morning the
stocking was delivered, and there was but one
other happier group OF children than the
widow N Hartford that day, and they were
the girls who filed the stocking
THE London correspondent Of the New York
Tribune recently remarked; Or DolIinger.
OF Munich, who is a year older than the century,
has been dscoursjng on American literature to
the Munich Academy Of Science. Hs thinks,
says tins mornings TeieqydW, the main hind
RANGES to literary aud scientific, progress in the
United states are to be found in the want of a
great central university and in the slipshod
character ot the American newspaper press
This raises the question which Ameri an papers
DR., Doninger Is in the habit Of reading. TIE
negro and Immigration questions also cause the
excellent doctor anxiety. Nevertheless, he
holds tnat the intellectual primacy OF the world
is certain one day to fall to tne Anglo-Saxon
race, as TO the Greeks and Romans In ancient
days. The Germans will have a share but in
directly, and Through the medium OF the En-
gush language. AS Dr. DOllinger is Bavarian
his testimony is on tho whole very hand
some, and as there is hardly more eminent
theoioglan and scholar in Europe is valua-
BILE
The OTHER DAY. one Of the customers in a
Lewiston, Me, dry goods store failed to get her
purchases, and she appeared at the store the