The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IHE EXPERIMENT for putting the Eiffel Tower
and the spires Of the Roman Cathedral in optical
communication is a failure because of the rising
earth.
ONE OF the most interesting antiquities of
Windsor is about TO be RACED namely, that part
Of the White Hart hotel which is supposed to g
the old Garter inn, TO which reference is made
by Shakespeare.
ONYX is growing 81 popular for interior deco
ration ill fine buildings in New York and vicinity
that large shipments of it are made from the
Mexican mines. One cargo on its way to New
YORK is valued at $4,000.
BUFFALoEs are almost extinct in America, but
are Increasing at a rapid rate in Australia
| Speclment of the wild buffalo were introduced
III 1879. and vast herds are said to be now
wandering over the country.
The PRICE of game in France is alleged to de-
pend principally upon the state of the moon
When the moon is dark the poachers cannot see
70 set their snares at night. and game is scarce
when the moon is full there is plenty of light
| and the poachers get lots of game.
HENRY IRVING is considering an offer for
series Of Shakespearean recitals with Miss
Terry at the different cities of England during
the summer. The scheme is to accompany
them with fine music and make them the
greatest entertainments OF the sort ever given.
THE TOTAL of the royal game bag of Prussia
for 1SSS-S9 was ,932 head, as follows: Red
deer 1,022; fallow deer 2.546; roedeer. GIG: wild
| pig, 942; pheasants, 1888; hares $685. part
ridges, 2,t33; wild geese ducks and snipeS
| herons, etc, IA; foxes, 23) martens, SO; pole
| cats, 100; weasels 100: hawks s49: various
| 1916.
IT IS REMARKED as a singularly thoughtful
dlspensation OF Providence in London that the
| influenza attacked most frequently and severely
! thoSe VINO were at work on salary, and that
| those who worked by the piece or day were
either spared entirely or had light attacks.
| 'Tempering the wind to the Shorn lamb is
What one paper calls it.
SEVERAL remarkable pictures have recently
been discovered on a rock on the Rio Grande, in
| Texas. They we're painted by the Indians, and
| represent series of battles between two tribes
| The paintings are eight in number, and the
| work shows evidence of a skillful hand The
stone was nearly covered with sand, but the
paint, bright red, apparently as fresh as
when first out on.
BUDDHISM is spreading 10 a considerable ex-
tent among the female gradual of the univer-
sites and other young people of culture in
| Europe, and the fact is being laid at the door of
! Max Muller, who is charged with having first
| brought that religion to the attention of the
christian world. His defenders say that the
converts are made chiefly by Hindoos who come
| from India to attend the universities.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is to allow another picture of
himself to be painted by Mr.. Bignell for the
| city of Birmingham, but he will not give regular
| sttlngs, and requires the artist to come to his
library and sit there, catching flying impress
| sons of his features as he continues at his
! work When the artist gets a sketch that he
| considers satisfactory he will take it away and
| finish 1t without any further sitting.
NINETY-THREE thousand Englishmen. 81 900
| Irishmen, and II, 900 Scotchmen emigrated to
the United States in 1899; $1,000 English, 1000
Irish. and 5000 Scotch went to Canada; $4,000
| English. 30 Irish, and 1000 Scotch went to
Australia; while to "all other places" went
1900 English. 1900 Irish, and 1000 Scotch. The
totals for the year show $4,000 English emf
grants $4,000 Irish, and $1,000 Scotch.
BosToN is agitating proposition to limit by
law the number of passengers that may be car
ried in a street car at any one time. AS it now
is, nobody is compelled to ride in cars when
| there is no room on the seats, but tens of thou
| SlndS OF people 90 so eve y day, because other
| wise they cannot ride at all. The difficulty the
| Ifdreier says, is that the managers do not put
| on enough cars, and people must ride while
standing, or not at ALL Perhaps law allowing
all people who choose to ride to do so, and re
lleving them from the responsibility of paying
for the rid IS unless given seats would bring out
the needed number of cars-but it would be an
arbitrary enactment of questionable constitu-
| tionality.
| KIT CARSON, the famous frontiersman and son
| of Kentucky, says an exchange was below
| medium height, a very little dialectc in express
sion of thought, and possessed the power of
| reading mans character at sight. Upon that
Judgment you stood or fell. There was moth
| ing or the desperate about him; he was one of
| nature noblemen, and your table would have
| been hOnored by mis- presence Kit" one of
| the nobest of the frontier brotherhood, until a
| lew years ago-when his remains were removed
| to Taos and an appropriate monument erected
| over them-slept peacefully under the gnarled
old cottonwoods at Fort Lyon on the Arkansas.
| that Nile of America, where he died in 1868 II
| nLtlng he Ci, ot1ld
| rest by that silent stream. every mile of whose
gently flowing waters could tell story of his
| daring.
DISPATCH from the City of Mexico states
that William B. Richardson, the young Boston
| naturalist, has succeeded in reaching the top of
| the volcano Coiima. The feat q daring
one Richardson pitched his tent at the upper
line of pine trees and just below the lower line
| of ashes and lava. The trees above had all
been burned, and it was impossible to walk in
| the deep bed of ashes. From this point Rich
| ardSon and his Indian followers could hear the
| sound of air from numerous rents in the side of
| the volcano. The Indians were much terrified
| and could be induced to remain only by the
| earnest persuasion of the naturalist One
| night during the eruption they could distinctly
| seee the deep red glow of melted lava as it ran
down the line. fiery stream, burying itself in
ashes. trees, or i'll beds of brooks and Older
beds of lava. One dense cloud of ashes Gov
cred the party thickly and drove birds lower
| down.
THE little city of Xenia, O.. comes to the
front with story that would furnish an ad.
mirable plot for. the author of modern comic
opera A few days ago the coroner of the
town died and his family made arrangements
to have his body transferred to q neighboring
| town for burial But the sanitary regulations
provide that body cannot be transported on
| the cars without certificate from the coroner
| to the effect that the deceased was not the VIC
tim of contagious disease Here was a how
de-do, indeed The dead coroner had neg
| lected TO attend to this important matter before
his taking off, and strange as it may appear
| failed to designate any one to act in his pro
longed absence. OF course there is a scramble
| for his shoes, and the appointing powers have
| been unable to reach a decision in the matter
| In the meantime the dead coroner remains
| above ground until the contest for his shoes is
| settled What better groundwork could the
comic opera author ask for?
THE SEVERE MORTALITY of the past six weeks
| is beginning to be shown by the unusually large
| number of mourners who go about the streets
| says the New York Sun. On every side in car
| or boat, riding or walking are to be met women
| whose fresh and densely sembre garments pro
claim their recent bereavements. In a car on
| an elevated train the other day. out of eleven
| women, seven were noticed thus alfred a pro-
portion also encountered elsewhere That
death has Loved a shining mark" too as the