The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Alsatia, the Grand Duke of Baden made a very
patriotic speech, concluding with cheer 70.
the emperor, his nephew.
SNAKE was discovered coiled up inside a
piano at Sulphur Springs, Tex, the other day
IL fought valiantly before it was dislodged from
Its musical home and killed.
a CRAWFORD COUNTY PENNsYLvANIA) Jersey
COW took fancy to the fresh paint on the fence
in which the bovine was pastured and licked of
sufficient quantity to kill her
The Vienna university demands at present
that a photograph of the student be added &c
his application for matriculation This suggests
what abuses have been carried on
The fact, as reported, that the German army
has the lowest death rate of any in Europe is
attributed to the practice of frequent bathing
IN warm water being made compulsory.
A VIRGINIA ARTILLERY COMPANY has been
using cheese in target practice, and it was
SHOWN that one of the cheeses fired against an
earthen breastwork penetrated two feet further
tnan solid iron ball. They carry at point
blank range further than shot or shell.
MoLLIE FANCHER. the famous bed-ridden
clalrvoyant OF Brooklyn, is about to open a
store in that city. She is still confined to her
oeo, as she has been ever since 1917. but is
ing tubes running from her bed into the store
VIII control the action of her clerks She is a
woman of remarkable energy.
The EXPOSITION at Ottumwa, Ia, in Septem.
Der next is to be he'd in an immense coal
palace as representative of the great mining
industry of that section of the state. 1t will
nave an average width of 100 feet a length of
800 feet and tower rising skyWard over 20O
Ieet. IL Will be the grandest exhibit of black
diamonds ever seen on the continent.
The annua. production of ndia-rubber balls
IN different countries Gin dozens) is: Germany,
2s50, 900; France, 800 900: Russia, 100000; Eng
land, 10000; Austria, 5000; America So 600;
5taly, 45O, 600; total. say, 6,50O.o00 dozen. The
demand Tor German balls is increasing yearly
Germany now exports to England about S50, 900
dozen and to America about 900, 900 dozen.
The British census will be taken in 1891. The
cost OF the census of Great Britain in 1881 was
4l72'OOO for population of &c 900 O00 For
England and Wales the cost per 1000 of the
population was "a los. Sd. in 1861, rising to e5
o.. 20: IN lol, and 10 12s. .. in 1881. The num-
Der OF enumerators was nearly 35, 900. and in
1871 tne number will not be far short of 40 000
THE CHIEF CHEMIST of a London gas company
has produced a Perfect emerald from the refuse
OF the materials used in the production of gas
But IL has cost ten times more to make this
emerald than it would have cost to buy
natural one The effort is not new. Diamonds
have been repeatedly produced by art, but
aiwaVs at great cost. Nature, after all, can
work cheapest.
AT HAAG, the capital of Holland, the director
OF the French opera had resigned and was lead
ing his orchestra for the last time. He had been
sixteen years in this position and was well
liked, and 1t was contemplated to bring him an
ovation and to present gifts before his retire
ment. On the evening selected, during the per
Torrance, he suddenly dropped his baton and
1ell from his chair, struck by apoplexy. The
opera had to be discontinued
THE administration of the French navy has
been wasteful enough to be scandalous. Under
the prevailing system supplies have been
granted on an absurdly lavish scale. For ex-
ample, In some of the naval hospitals there
were In stock IS nightcaps, 4s night shirts ana
so sheets per patient One store contained one
kind of rope in sufficient quantity to last cen
Jury. during the past two years goods valued
at nearly S6,0O0,0O0 have been condemned as
useless.
SUIT about some land in Wilma. Russia.
which commenced in the year 1928, was finally
settled on April s last by the highest court in
81: petersburg. During the long life of the
nulgatlon The property in question changed
hands six times. according to the various de-
crees of the Judiciary authorities CT Wilma aud
st. Petersburg. 1t is now definitely settled in
t th possession OF the eat-grandchidren of
the original plaintiffs; but it is ruined that
they can derive but little benefit from it.
A BOY named Drews performed dangerous
feat in West Orange, N. j. the other day, it is
related. 1.-THE contractor for the drain that has
been laid to carry off the standing water in the
lots on Valley road wanted to determine
whether or not the drain was free from obstruc
tlons, and offered the lad a small sum to go
through 1t. The pipe is IS inches in diameter,
is laid feet under ground andi 1900 feet long
The boy accepted the offer and entered the
pipe. HAIR an hour later he emerged safely from
the other end
A sCULPIN is not usually considered a very
valuable fish, but one recently performed
great service for Maine schooner The Sea
Foam, of Lubec, while coming out of a harbor
at the Magdaien islands struck on the bar and
sprung aleak She made for the nearest port,
when it was found that her shoe and part of her
false keel were gone, and there was hole in
the cardboard into which the suction had drawn
a large sculpin tail first. Had it not been for
tainly have been lost.
The POLICE of New York have under investi-
cation a case which for the time bears the
baum. 62 years of age, broke his neck or was
strangled to death during the night in a fight
with his wife. The woman has been arrested
on suspicion. AS far as can be learned the daad
man was in the habit of beating his wife and
their quarrelS were many. The wife was at
least twenty years younger than the husband
and the neighbors say she frequently tried to
whip him. She was his second wife. SO far she
refuses to say anything.
HAMILTON, O., has mysterious visitor He
weeks he has spent about the town no one has
been able to get single word from him. S'He
carries bundle to which he clings all the time
using it at night for pillow. WHAT it contains
no one knows He sleeps in an open wheat
field. He has never entered door, never asked
Tor food or been given a mouthful of food and
puts in the day walking up and down the pike
he visits spring where he drinks copiousy
but what he lives on outside of water, where he
came from, or what his name is no one has
been able to ascertain"
DUsKY ITALIAN RIVAL to Carmencita enter
tanned the New York barge office officials for
an hour yesterday afternoon in the incIosure
where detained immigrants are kept She is a
pretty widow of 1S, with snuous figure. A
tall, brown Neapolitan, somewhat awkward
danced with her to the music of guitar
thrummed by a sleeply-looking, sentimental
young fellow in a broad brimmed white hat
She outdanced the tall man. Then she picked
picked up her yellow haired baby, gave il a
kiss, made courtesy TO the spectators on the
floor above her, and sat down Her name is
Antonio Spni. She has neither friends nor
money, and she will be sent back unless some
body gives bond for her.
CHARLES GREEN, president of st. Louis Fair
Association, is entertaining large ideas of a fair
for that town during the progress of the worlds
fair in Chicago. He says it is the intention to
give the most extensive racing meeting and
cattle show ever in this or any other country
Il shall. he says hang up in purses for rum
ming and trotting horses not less than $3.50 600
and for cattle premiums not less than $3.50 600
The st. Louis cattle show already has an inter