The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Port Huron tunnel is now 800 feet unde.
the river bed. The bore is two-thirds done.
CHARLES MILLER OF Hueneme. Cal. has made
table of ornamental woods that contains
1880 pieces.
IT WAS SHOWN at recent Methodist confer
1 ence in Maine that the average pay of the
preachers in its juris LECTION was 81 cents day.
| BoGosoLvA. the Alaska volcano that rose from
the ocean depths about seven years ago and
blazed and smoked for t;me is again in
/ eruption.
| The SCHOOL CHILDREN of New York city have
cast total OF 1872 95 votes for their favorte state
flower Golden rod took the lead, getting
| q, 12) votes
TIE ESGLIsE PUBLIC is trying to get yn act of
! parliament to compel the railroad companies to
| provide proper restaurant accommodations at
! their static ns.
A JACKSON COUNTY. WEST vIRGIS1A. schoo
teacher Of 90 the other day elopsd with and
was married to one of her pupils Of the mature
| age or 10 years.
MRS HOLLAND, who died in Virginia last week,
had been a member of one church for over
eighty years. She lacked but one month of be-
ing centenarian.
MAN who was working in a field near Gal
latin last week took refuge under a horse to
| protect himself from a sudden storm The aui-
iAeA was kiAlcu Oy HEnJDlng and the man was
knocked insensibe, though he was not seriously
| injured.
| IT WAS CLAIMED in the meetings attending the
celebration of the forty-second anniversary of
modern spiritualism recently that there are
| o0,OOO spiritualists in Boston Alone many of
Wnom are scattered among the various
| churches.
SAM BAILEY of Nashville. Mich, came across
| three rats in the road some time ago. and all of
fhdyr had hold ,,fa
closer investigation he found that the two out
SHE rats were leading the center one which
was blind
THE APPLIANCE of hydraulic power to the
manufacture of steel seamless boats is one of
the latest things in England. These boats are
thought to be in every particular superior to
those made of wood, and can be made at about
| the same cost.
A FASHIONABLE VISITING CARD in Berlin is an
African importation. 1t is a leaf of the silver
| poplar. which keeps its color when dried, aud
can be easily written upon. 1t delights fashion
aole beriln under the name of 'Emin Pasha's
| visiting card
THERE is a man in Southern Illinois who
| laughs at the idea that marriage is failure.
| lie has just married his sixth wife Each sue
cesslve spouse brought him farm, and he is
now one of The largest land owners in that part
| of the country.
A MISSOURI MAN was released from prison a
Gay or two ago after serving q three years
sentence When he entered the institution he
| was penniless but GA leaving the place he was
| presented with S21s, which was the most money
| he had ever had.
RECENT INVESTIGATION has shown that the
people of Great Britain swallow over $500 900
| pills daily, or one pill a weet for every person
! In the population. The pill consumption for
one year would weigh rs tons, and would fill
| thirty six freight cars.
NEW MILL for the manufacture of paper
from moss has been recently established in
Sweden. Paper Of different thickness and
Pasteooard made OF it have already been shown,
| the latter even in sheets sthree-auarters of an
| inch thick. 1t is as hard as wood and can be
| easily painted and polished
PHILADELHIAs new city hall is one OF the
largest, if not the largest. building of its kind
in the world, covering a space of 450x4s6 feet.
and overlapping every other structure that man
has built except the Eiffel tower and the Wash
1ngton monument, falling short of the latter's
ooJ rect by 81 lncnes 1t has $50 rooms on l4b
acres of floor space. The main structure is 100
feet high
THE NATIVES of San Reno and Mentone where
so many consumptiyes from other places have
spent their winters under medical advice. are
beginning to suffer from the disease themselves
and twenty of the leading medical authorities OF
the district have taken steps looking to their
better protection from infection from t,lbercu-
lous microbes. This will diminish the popu-
larlty OF the Riviera district as ahealth resort
some TIME AGO the teacher of a Riverside
Cal, school instructed her class how to act in
| case of emergencies such as drowning, gunshot
accidents, etc A day or so after the lesson a
| lad named HaighJ went home and found his
| baby sister given up for dead, after being
| picked out of a canal. There was no doctor to
| be had, and young Haight went to work to an
ply his lesson, and in little while the baby was
| all right.
| In TILL
| at last see the light. The Revue d'Histoire
| DiplomatiQue publishes by permission of the
DUO de Broglie, a number of letters written nv
Talleyrand to Madame de Stael in the years
1923 and l'9f Talieyrand would not allow the
puollcatlon OF bis memoirs during his life and
he Entrusted the task to NJ. AndraI The latter
for one reason or another, failed to execute his
trust, and left 1t to the Due de Brogli. whom
he appointed his heir. In French literary ci ces
1t is thought that it is now about to be carried
out.
HE FAME of the Bridgeport Conn, Suicide
Club, whose members have nearly all followed
out the conditions that some one member shall
commit suicide each year, has gone beyond this
country 1t seems. The president of the club.
VINO, IL IS SAID. is at present the only survivor
idsG week received applications for membership
from four men of Caen, France. They stated
tnat they had been unfortunate in business and
seriously contemplated the taking of their lives
According to the Springfield, Mass, Repablicnn'
the necessary papers have been forwarded To-
them. "
The VANILLA BEAN is the costliest bean that
ever grew 1t fourishes in Mexico. chiefly in
the states of Papantla and INSANITY. It grows
wild and is gathered and marketed by the ma
tlVes, who S iii them just they come from the
forest at from ten to twelve dollars ner in
pounds After drying and curing them, the
dealers sell at about ten dollars per POND:
one-hundredth part of tnat sum is ali the moor
savaSes get for gathering Them They are used
reckoned among the important articles of com.
merce.
FAMILY in Dover, n. j., who have long been
missing valuables were amazed day or two
ago to find them in the secret nest of a NET
goose Among the articles which the bird had
appropriated were two gold thimbles, a tortoise
She'll comb, scarf wins, spools of sewing sill,
silver lace and Waterbury watch. The goose
mad trlck OF knocking at the door in quest Of
edible dainties, and being admitted and
petted would seek a sunny corner of the room
and doze When left alone it began its purloin-
ing operations. 1t was hiding the stolen time
piece with its other treasures when discove ID
A PHYSICIAN OF New York at a little patbar