The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE MEDICAL CONGRESS in Berlin in August
| will be important. Every country VIII be
largely represented. Edmund Yates says that
whole army of doctors is expected from
| America
The GREATEST PRODUCTION of the modern
| loom, the Alteration of the Magi. designed by
| Burne Jones and worked out by w illiam Morris,
| is TO be presented to the chapel of Exeter Col
| lege, Oxford.
OUT in Nevada telegraph poles in low places,
| where water stands in winter, are said to have
| taken root and are covered with foliage. The
| poles are cottonwood and were planted with the
Dark on them.
A DIVER who was working at the foundatio n
of a railroad bridge near Boise City, Idaho,
gave signal to be hoisted quickly. When he
got to the surface he held fast a 65-pound sal
mon that ne had caught by the gills.
| A BEAR STORY from Idaho is to the effect that
a hunter chased large black fellow for several
miles, when, becoming tired, it laid down close
| to rock to rest He then crept up to the ami
NAL and plunged big knife into vital part
IMMIGRATION does not slacken. For June the
number that landed at New York was S,216.
| For June year ago it 80, 400. For the first
half of the present year the number was
| 300 230-against 49, 1S for the first six months
| or last year.
| COUNT CHARLES DILLON, who died in Paris re-
| Gently, was one of the four survivors of the
| court of Charles Y to whom he was page of
| honor during the last four years OF his reign.
| The count had lived in England and spoke Eng
| lish fiuently.
The committee which was sent to Panama to
investigate the condition of the canal has made
a further report on the prospects of the enter
| prise. The committee says tnat the construc
! ton of the canal at the calculated level would
occupy twenty years and would cost ,z37 900, 900
francs
LONDON has boy cartoonist. He is only 10
years old, but is said to do remarkable work.
He lately made sketch of Mr. Gladstone and
sending it TO him, by return mail received a let
ter in the Grand Old Mans own Handwriting
thanking the little artist and wishing him every
| success in his future operations.
THE TRUNK of a rose bush growing at Ventura,
Cal, is said to be three feet in circumference,
| and the first branch it throws out is twenty-one
| inches in circumference. 1t runs over a lattice
| work, and, though more than wagon load of
boughs have been removed, it covers space of
| about l2OJ square feet. 1t yields thousands of
! flowers, and is IA years old.
| Pixies PEAK, the Colorado summit more than
twice as high as Mount Washington, is going to
| have q cogwheel railroad from base to top. 1t
| will be similar to the original one on the New
| Hampshire hill, but will nave some improve
ments. II. S. Gable, sou of the president of the
| Rock Island road, will be the superintendent.
| The work is now being pushed.
! AN INDIANA MAN who is fighting his craving
| for liquor has taken an odd way to protect him
| self from those men who make point of in
SiStiDg on unwilling friends drinking with them.
| He published card confessing his weakness
| and begging of others not thus to tempt him
| beyond his strength. Naturally, the card
| created a sensation in the community but it is
! likely that his unique appeal has made an i'm
| preston.
! A CARGO OF ICE has arrived in New York from
| Norway-the result of the high price here and
the desire to make profit on the return trip
| Instead of making the return trip to New York
in ballast, the owners of the vessel load with ice
| Norwegian ice can be landed in New York and
sold at profit fer S. per ton, while Maine ice is
| now sold at Is or 81 per ton on the wharf, and
| is sold in large quantities in New York for $40
| per ton, while families are charged cent per
| pound.
| The GOVERNOR of the province of CORTLAND
| Russia, has published the following order
Since the Jews are not christians they live in
darkness and do not know the light of religion
| Hence it is just that the Jews should bear the
| cost of enlightenment, and the charges for gas
| in the cities of Mitau, Lioau, Windau and others
| are to be assessed on them, so that they may
| give light to the christians in their turn. The
| assessment for each city will be made on the
Jews that live in it,
A CITIZEN of Belfast, Me-, was awakened
about O'Clock the other morning by strange
noise and, going to the window, saw about
thirty robins fighting crow, which was trying
| to get at a robins hest, in nearby tree con-
/ tanning some young birds. The robins finally
| drove off the crow. The man went down to the
tree and found one young robin on the ground
| dead, while two others were safe in the nest.
! The crow was on pratlcal expedition, and but
| for the valiant fight of the robins would have
undoubtedly killed all the young.
| The New leland correspondent of the British
| Weekly writes: IAN unhappy squabble has
occurred between Mr.. Henry Varley and Mr. w.
| Birch of the Baptist Tabernacle Mr. Burch
| undertook to refute Mr.. Varley's statement that
! no man could live free of sin. and that Christ
alone was perfectly holy. MIR. Birch nam
! tanned that sinless life possible, and that
| he had attained it. A scene of sad disorder en-
! sued. and the holiness convention ended in
scene very dishonoring to the church of Christ
and very amusing to the enemies of truth
! A HARTFORD gentleman travelling in Colorado
| found tackled upon one of the poles of an
abandoned house the following notice which
tells the whole story of the discomfort of living
upon government land and the joy of securing
I which to retire:
| Six huudred miles to wood.
| Six thousand feet to water.
| Six inches to hell.
God bless our little home We have negotiated
loan and gone home to live with our wife's
| folks.
THE SING CHoNG COMPANY of Shanghai
loaned Yung Wing money when he was in
China. Hung was for several years in char5e
of the Chinese educational school at Hartford
and the Sing Chong company attached the
| property in a suit against him for $4,000. The
| Chinese government, to which the property
belonged, at once fined the company $50 001 for
| the indgnity, and the local courts at Hartford
| lately threw out the suit for debt, leaving the
company S63 900, toyether with counsel fees
ami costs, to put against its valuable experience
| in the profit and loss account.
The AUSTRIAN BAKERS and confectioners have
had a long and bitter fight over the right to
bake and sell fritters. Each claimed it as his
| prerogative to the exclusion of the other In
| the courts and out the fritter and anti -fritter
| parties met inimicaily, and assaults we're not
| infrequent nor always without bloody results
At last the matter has been carried from au-
| thority to authority Until the secretary of the
| interior WIS called upon to decide the rnomen-
tous question. After, long elaboration, and
consulting experts, he decided in favor of the
bakers, who now solely possess the right to sell
| frtters.