The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

l-dge SIX feet vide averages as high as $500 TO
the ton
THE statement is made that the financial re
organization Of the Union stock Yards Of Chi
csgo will BE- upon an American basis, and the
management viii T. American The p ice paid
Tor the yards was ab9ut s20,OCo.oOO-
THE LARGEST and heaviest building stone ever
quarried IN England vas taken from the Plank
inEto1 quarry. near Norwich in February, 1889.
Il was IN one piece, without crack OF hag. and
weighed over 8 tons; It was IS let long. 6teet
high and feet wide.
THE viii of Mrs. Z. c. Atkinson Of Boston.
provides that upon her death her body SHAH be
examined mot dissected 50 as to prevent proper
burial by students in the MASSACHUSETTS nospl-
tai IN the hope that science may be aided in
alternating suffering.
MANY REASONS are being assigned for the
collapse Of the School Of Journalism at Cornell
University. after It had struggled along for two
years, but the only substantial explanation
vOucnsafed IS that l0urnalistIsts can be made
only II newspaper Offices.
JAMES MELvIs. of Concord Mass. has for
twelve years lain upon 4 bed without changing
his position. The osseous portions OF his body
have united into one piece, and from tie crown
OF his head to the soles of his feet there is not
Joint responsive TO his will.
OS a recent trip north party Of men stopped
over night on a ranch at Elko. Col. and when
the LADY of the house showed one Of them to a
room. she remarked. by way OF an apology:
., GU will find the bed kind of hard. We took
the hay out of the mattress last winter to
Iced the starviog cattle
THERE is no person upon whom continued
wet spell has more depressing influence than
the retail cigar dealer. One of them said last
week that succession OF rainy days made him
blue. because his sales fail off so You don't
care to go aloLg the streets smoking" said he
| "wnen one hand is holding your umbrella. and
When every wind makes your cigar sputter."
AMONG the distinguished visitors to Maine this
season are to be Gov. William Guy and his wife
of Indian Territory. who have Just been mar
RED Mrs. Guy formerly Miss Lindsey of Ala
bamal, IS full blood Caucasian and has been
one OF the bellies at Montgomery, Ala. She is
very beautiful highly accomplished and the
governor Is a well known leader of the Chicka-
saw party.
MARRIAGE LICENSE was issued to Leverette
Eldred and Anna Smith, of Grand Rapids Mich.
on Dec, II, 1cS7, but the same night the couple
Qrnrreied over some trivial matter and no mar
liaee took place. Tuesday the couple returned
10 tho county clerks Office and had the license
renewed, as their love had been revived and
they wanted to Join fortunes. They are now
happily married.
THERE is plague of moths in Brooklyn and
the suburbs of New York They make their
appearance at about the twilight hour. and in
the gloalnlng are mistaken tor bats. The moths
are big, some of them measuring four inches
with outSpre ad wings. These moths differ from
the ordinary insects of the butterfly family in
respect 10 their wings containing hard, bony
ribs slightly resembling those in an umbrella.
THE Iverna, the crack English yacht, which
was expected TO wipe out all American yachts,
is so far regarded as a failure in London She
as been beaten by the Thistle. after a fair
trial, rae ing under reduced canvas and. to tne
dlsnay of her owners, SIC has been defeated
by the siXty-ton arana. The Iverna will have
her cen er board taken out and the slot
through which It lowered filed with lead
ballast.
IT IS SAID that on Cross Island. off Machias.
it is a daily sight to see five to fifteen deer feed
ing on the border Of the forest; these are con
ceded not to be wild deer, as no one is allowed
to shoot or fire at them any month in the year.
ANY one who does so is an outlaw. 1t is Judged
by men who live most of the time at the life
saving station that there are $50 deer, may be
200 on Cross Island, which is one of the best nat
ural deer parks on the continent.
a SOMEWHAT unusual deposit was made with
the Notre Dame Savings Bark in Montreal some
time ago, for safe keeping. 1t consisted of a
Bible 22l years old. The work is said to be in a
good state of preservation and to be a Lutheran
Bible. published in Amsterdam in 1863 BY S
Des Marets, professor of theology in one of the
universities of Holland, and his son, who STYLES
himself "a minister of the gospel" II is a
French version of the scriptures, and illus
trated.
OLD FASHIONED HABITS cling to a few New
Workers. The man with long boots is still to
be seen and then in business or profess
sonal circles. Halt dozen weilknown New
orherS Still wear lOW-cut frOck coats by day.
light Clarence Seward csc ews elevators
The late Ohm Fitch, courtly old gentleman,
the descendant of Revolutionary heroes, used
TO walk down town every morning arrayed in
conventional evening dress, and this, too,
a most up to his death. which occurred only
last year Grutf old Gen. Ripley who fired the
first shot at Sumter, and died not long ago i'm
ttat city, always wore an antiquated beaver hat
shaped Ike the modern deroy. 1t was prob
ably the only head covering of its pattern in
town.
IF THIS THING KEEPS on, said a map printer
the other day, well all have to go into bank
ruptcy.. We hadn't got our United States
maps fixed up with North and South Dakota
before the Brazil revolution knocked South
America endwise, and now Wyoming and Idauo
are turned into states Africa has to be fixed
over every SIX months, and the latest and most
serious change of all is in this German English
arrangement to knock out Heligoland from the
British empire. That isn't big change but il
Is plenty big enough to spoil all our maps of
Europe. 1t would almost pay tne map makers
of the world TO chip in and buy the nasty LITTLE
island in order to make present of it to Eng
land and save the expense of getting up new
| maps of Europe"
TIE CAR OF ALL THE RUssIAs has title that
WoulQ MAKE MIN uncomfortable were there no
visions of nihiiists, dynamite and other scary
things to disturb his SlumOers. In a recent
legal document he appears as: Alexander III.
by tle Grace OF God, Emperor and AutocraG
PanruSslan. Muscovite, Ki-van, Viadviuirian
Aovgorodan, Ear of Kasan, Car of Astrachan,
Polish Car, Siberian Car, Gar of Chersone.
suS, Georgian Ear, Gosudor of Pskoff and
Grand PT1nce Of Smoensk, Lithuania. Volt
hynia, seodoha and Finland, Prince of Fstho
MA. L44vonia and Courtlandt, Grand Com
mander OF the Whole Northerp Country, Gosu-
dar of Iberia, Kartalinie, Armenian Territory
CarcaSsia an the Hiiangidia provinces; Nor
weglan her apparent: Duke of Schleswig -Hol-
stein and Gutenberg, etc"
An HABITUAL DRUNKARD in Sweden and Nor
way IS treated a criminal in this sense, that
his inordinate love of stroag drink renders him
liable TO Imprisonment, and while in confne-
ment 1t appears he is cured of his bad propep-
sltles on plan which, though simple enough |
is said TO produce marvellous effects From the 1
day the confirmed Grunkard is incarcerated no
nOurlshment Is served to him or her but bread
and VINE The bread. however. il should be
said, cannot be eaten apart from the wine lint
is stepped in a bowl or it and left TINS to soak
an hour or more before the meal is served to
the delinquent. The first day the habituaI
topper takes his food in this shape without the
slightest repugnance; the second day he finds il
less agreeable in his palate and very uUi xiv he
evinceS positive aversion to it. Generally.
the doctor states, eight or ten days of this
regimen is more than sufficient to make a man
loathe the very sight of wine.
A ROYAL PROGRESS in Japan is still observed