The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE Swiss federal government has proposed
TO the Swiss councils 10 celebrate the 6OOth ami
versary Of the 70 Indation Of The Swiss confed-
GRAFTON On Aug ]. next by cant 1nal fetes. aud
on the following day by great federal fete at
Berne
ENGLAND probably is the only great power
which caa point to a decrease in the total
strength Of its military establishment during
the past twelve moths. The British army is
less numerous by about 100 men than it was a
year ago.
THERE IS considerable amount of suppressed
agitation among the trade guilds in Moscow and
other Russian industrial centers; but the arbi-
trary powers exercised by the police, and the
means means possessed by large employers of labor
are hAely TO prevent open strikes.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. thanks to the gener-
Gus gift of Mr.. Newan. is to be enriched by the
possession of big telesc pc, which will be
erected not far from the observatory, in field
belonging to s.. Johns college, and will be
called henceforth the ''Newaii telescope"
Az international congress of commercial
travellers recently held in Brussels to celebrate
the 10Sth anniversary of the Society of Com
mercal Travellers in Belgium. voted in principle
the deSlrabiity of an international federati n,
based on neutrality, of all commercial travellers
societies.
IT SEEMS that the cholera is no respecter of
the wishes of enterprising literary entrepre-
neHrS. At any rate, it has seriously interfered
with the projects of Mr.. Rider Haggard, who
was being dispatched to the east by the anne
combination which set Mr.. Louis Stevenson
cruising in the South seas.
THE oldest living criminal in the United
States is John Mount of Covington. KY. He
was good one in his days. He is now nearly
90 years of age, and fifty six years of his
me nave been spent in various pentenilares
IN the United States. He has committed almost
a NJ
ing very secluded life at present, and seldom
gees on the streets.
ANDREW Houston of Wyoming, a prominent
ranchero of the Upper Platte valley, has issued
an odd challenge to the betting. fraternity of
the universe. He will wager his place and
stock that IN any stat hunting season within
thr5e years, he Will, unaided, kill fifty grizzly
bears in the Elk Mountain and Medicine Bow
ranges. Houston has always b en- a mighty
hunter, but has lately sprung some bear slay
ing yarns which were doubted. hence his offer
to lay this big wager. He has caused copies of
the challenge to be posted in the rooms of sew
eral London clubs.
The UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA is about to
lnaugurate new system of Instruction in this
coultry by extending its courses of lectures
| into neighboriug Pennsylvania towns. The
scneme now under consideration is essentially
as follows: Professors and lecturers OF the
| university staff will be sent out to establish
| courses of lectures on popular aud advanced
topics In all the larger towns and cities within
| lUO or 700 miles of the city. The residents of
| these localities will be encouraged in every way
to attend instruction viii be given at a con
| venient time, and the effect of the plan will be
| to establish score of branches of the unIYer
| Slty IN all the country round.
&. P. HUNTINGTON president Of the Pacific
improvement Company, has given to Cramp &
| Sons the contract for building the largest mer-
chant steamship ever constructed on the Della.
| ware. She will be built for the Morgan steam
| ship service between New Orleans and New
| York, and will be 400 feet long, 49 feet beam
and 81 feet depth of hold and will register 1850
| tons gross. She will be an exclusive freight
| boat, aud will have triple expansion engines,
| steel boilers, steam steering gear, and will draw
| only tWenty-tour feet of water. Her carrying
| capacity will be larger than the Pacific mail
steamships City of Picking and City of Toxic
! built by the John Roach Company. Although
| not quite as long, she will have more beam and
| depth OF hold than those vessels.
| HANK REYNOLDS of Cadillac, Mich, has a
| trick horse which rivals the famous Dan Rice
horse or Forepaugh's tight-rope walker. He IS
| master of twenty-one tricks, and among them
will open his door. walk out on an e.eyated
plank twenty feet and ba ok into his stall; climb
upon a scaffold, and 'teeter'' and do it as
| nicely as a school girl; go to the W alter tank
wash his face and wipe it towel; climb up
stairs and down. open and shut the barn door,
| and back the buggy out without hitch or miss
| etc. Hank is not so bad-looking but that the
| morse VIII waltz up to him and imprint loving
, KISS upon his brow-not SO taStefully, perhaps,
| as Cadillac girl would do it, but still a kiss;
| and he does numerous other things a horse is
| supposed to know nothing about. He is fine,
powerful iron-gray, and his master would trade
| him for the rest of Cadillac maybe, but for not
| much less.