The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

MISS NARY JARRETT Is probably the wealth =
lest spinster in the United States. but she has
noL been so gener9 usly favored by nature as by
iort1n-, and at the age o 81 still remains in
maiden meditation. heart whole and fancy free.
IN THE STATISTICS of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United states there is an increase
IN the number of Sunday school scholars for the
| year loSo-sJ amounting nearly to 80, 600. nearly
quarter OF the increase being in the diocese of
Pennsylvania
AT masquerade bali in Hartford, Conn, the
door tender had a small rubber stamp with mi
tialS and date. He stamped this on the palm of
| the LETT nand Of each man w1o passed ont This
was MS 'cneck" for the evening and it couldn I
be transferred.
| These are some of the things which made W
a New Jersey divorce case: The wife hit him
| with brick, threatened him with knife thre "
zee water over him while in bed. cut off his
ltsLache' oollged hlm to eat in the dark aud
cut SIX OF his shirts into strings.
Miss SUSANNA NJ DUNKLEs of Newton. Mass.
SAID to be the first woman to be ban treasurer
| IN the United States with the help of a clerk.
| now handles 100000 in money each year. In
| the nfteen years of her experience she has but
| Twice taken in a counterfeit bill-in each case
| $40 one
| HE LONGEST FREIGHT TRAIN ever handled on
the Baltimore and Ohio, was brought into
Grafton w; ", last week with one engine in
4 l.
| mere were ninety-eight freight cars and the
| caooose, and the train was few feet over
| mile long.
| JOHN W. MACKAYs FRIENDS aver that his
| telegraph investments amount to about 81, OeO-
OOo principally represented by the Postal TeIe-
| graph lines and the Mackay cables They
| also claim that he has been offered $4,000 GOO
| cash Ior these interests, which, they add are
| not for sale.
CHARLES VILLIERs is now the Oldest member
of the English House of Commons He is 81
years old and has sat continuously for Wolver-
| hampton since 1875. He was associated with
| Sooden and Bright in the reform agitation
| . Gorman, Malone and ella lstone entered the
| House before Niliers, but there have been
| breaks in their service.
MAIL BAG was recently found in the old law
courts at Frankfort-on-the-1 Main, Germany. con-
| tanning LIS undeiivered letters, dating back to
1855, all IN good state Of preservation. As soon
as the next German mail comes i'll we Will re.
| sumo our interrupted series of letters from
| Pro Bono Publico,' IAN Old Subscriber. I"
| Many Readers and others.
| DION BoucTcAULr has written translated, or
adapted 400 plays. London Assurance" his
| frSt, has been also his best play. 1t was written
when he was only Is year old. Colleen
Bawn, the most popular of his later plays,
| was written in nine days. but the plot was
| taken from Gerald Grilfin's novel Tine
| Collegians, it is said. Bouccault is now 40
years old.
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
1 the work shows evidence OF ,ilful hand
| The stone was nearly covered with sand but
| the paint, bright red, was apparently as
| fresh as when first put on,
| TIE LATEST NOVELTY in the pocket goods
| line is pocket-knife case. 1t is made of soft
| leather or chamois skin and is furnished with
| metal snap clasp at one end. 1t is designed
| TO Keep knife from rustins, and also to Keep
dust from getting into it. Like the popul ar
| English KEY chain it is a foreign invention, and
| is said to have first been used in Vienna where
| u Is not considered good form to carry a pen
| knife loose.
| The DEDICATION of a new church in Whittier.
Cal, recently, elected from the good poet in
1 whose h nor the town is named a letter. in
l whlch TINS passage occurs: Il see your town is
| spoken of as an orthodox Quaker colony l
nope there VIII be no sectarian fence about
1 whittier, but that good men, irrespective of
l their creeds, will find home there. Nothing
| would be worse for it than to have the idea get
abroad that anything like intolerance and self
| righteousness was its foundation.
SPEAKING of the long distances in this coun-
try, an Englishman says: THE longest railroad
l trip you make in the United Kingdom il
i about 600 miles, and they cannot realize that
| there Is land where one ride continuously
l in one direction for week or more When n
| local Liverpool man starts up to London, five
hours ride, MS friends come to he depot to see
/ him off. and make great ado about his iour-
| ney. He is provided with bas kets of lunch and
| ali that sort of thing, while an American in the
| next compartment has only had a comfortable
| smoke and read his paper when he reaches his
| destination"
| HENRY WOOD, farmer near Beach Citv
Stark county. Ohio welcomed plausible younp
| stranger, claiming to be sou of deceased
! brother IN California. The newcomer had the
| family history quite pat, and was treated as one
| OF the family, furnished good clothe, | aned a
| good deal of money and obtained lucrative
| situation. He courted and was engaged to a
| daughter OF Wood, as he was supposed a cousin.
Inc uay before the marriage the chance arrival
| OF an old friend of the California brother made
| known that his only son had died several wears
ago, The impOstor fed. narrowly escanng
| arrest. A likeness of the Wood family made his
| deception easy.
WHEN the new Union Trust Company build
| ing, in Broadway, New York just below Wall
| street. is completed in April it will renraSant
| total expenditure of S. 100000 It is bu,lt on
| four lots, extending through to New street
| The southernmoSt lots were purchased from
the Parrish estate for S775,090 The same prop
| erty was offered to Jay Gould a few wears ago
l for $4,000. and the Parrish people, who fiaailv
| purchased it for S45 900, made 1926 900 when
| the property was resold. The northernmost
1 States
| Express Company for S450,00O and ,fr Plat
| told friend of his not long ago that the prom
erty had cost the company, S125,0O0. 1t will be
| seen that the land on which the new building ia
| placed has cost S1,22j, 900. The building itself
| will cost another s., 900, Co.,
| THE RIVER LYs, on its entrance into Belpium
dashes abruptly over precipice and is lost to
| sight for nearly half mile. The Mouse also
| has Subterranean course extending to a
| distance of six miles, while the river Dromme
| III Normandy, on nearing the sea, plungeS into
| a hole 80 feet wide, known as the Pit of Soucy
| from which 1t never reappearS, except in the
| form of new springs, which are supposed to
| arise from the lost waters. In Derbyshre
| England, there are two small streams caIled
| the Hamps and the Manifold. Formed by the
union of several small springs, they flow in the
open air for a short distance and then turn in
! close together under the face of a hill ranee
| Here they have made for themselves a tassape
| through the solid earth, and for mills they
| flow underground, each maintaining its own
| complete individuality, until at length they re-
| emerge to the light by apertures only IS wards
| apart
A CEYLoN PAPER gives an account of the
| finding of the largest cats eye gem of which
there is any record by digger at Gale. Cevlon
| 1t weighs nearly seven pounds. The finder was
| moor man who had been very poor A few
| months ago, however; his diggings for gems was
rewarded by finding a cats eye which he sold
| for 5000. Soon after he dug I'D another for
which he realized $4,000, and then his RIM of
| luck reached climax when he unearthed