The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Il
SIexoz GUIDoLLI of Lucca- Italy, has just
perfected a gun that shoots sixty-four times a
minute.
c,LoRzD wozAN has sued Texas newspa-
per for 500 damages for having spoken Of her
as white woman.
IT Is SAID there are only two red slate quar-
ries n the United States-one in Vermont and
the o-ner in Virginia
An INTERSTATE BAY PALACE, made of baled
hay, with trimmings of baled straw, has been
built at Momence, Ill
YALE's academic and scientific freshmen
classes will aggregate neary 400 members.
Princeton viii open with over 800 men.
Mas. WUcHTER, the White Hall pa faster,
is still alive she has passed her 1881 day,
and says the grace of God has held her up.
In the French Jardn des Plantss is d peculiar
South American lizard, resembling flying
toad which coils itself up like hedge hog
when disturbed.
An INSTANCE of just retr. button is found in
the case of the man who invented the pigs-in-
clover puzz.e. He has been sent to an insane
asylum IN st. Louis. wCIi-
THROUGH celebrating the coming of the
harvest moon" by imbiping their own booze
the stills of four Arkansas moonshiners were
discovered and raided. it
Two INTERESTING social festivities are in
preparation in Boston. One is Dickens car
nlval and the other is festival illustrating var
louS marriage ceremonies.
THERE are some 1000 Icelandsrs still left in
their native island. notwithstanding the fact
that the emigration epidemic has been raging
there for nearly twentpvears.
THE st. Joseph Cio) opera house people are
advertising for young man to take small
part in play who may be deficient in good
looks and form, but must understand milking
COW.
THE CROWN which the Segus of Abyssinia or
dered to be made at Milan is nearly completed,
and has already been paid for. 1t is of the
purest gold contains 100 precious stones, and
weighs three pounds.
PECAN NUT FARMING is one of the growing in
| dustries of the Gulf states. After the trees
have once begun to bear they involve no labor
| or expense, and yield it is said, an Income of
| from $500 to 81, 900 an acre. according to the
| quality of the nuts
The POSTAL BUSINESS in the London House of
Commons is something tremendous. During
| the session which has just closed 4l6 money
orders were issued and paid, ana 7,26l postal
orders. Nearly 10000 telegraus were leceived,
| and stamps exceeding the value of $4,000 were
| sold. The daily average of letters delivered at
| the House was IL. 000 and the number posted
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| business progresses SO slowly.
How MANY readers can give the surname of
the royal family of Great Britain? Nearly
everyone that thinks himself well informed will
say Guelph, but this Is not true. When VictCra
! married Price Albert she dropped her own
family surname and took that of her husband.
just as an ordinary woman in lower station in
life would have done. This is a fact seldom
taken into consideration. The family name OF
Prince Albert was Wetttn and SO is that OF all
the kings of Saxony.
NELLIE is an African lioness in Robinson's
circus While the show was in Deer Lodge
Mont, she presented the world with three.litte
whelps, one of which was rarity, being snowy
white, It is said instead of tawny. The circus
men made a great fuss over the youngsters, and
Mr.. Robinsons little daughters often played
with the baby lions, though 1t was dangerous
matter to take them out of the cage. few
days ago workman put his hand in tho cage to
pat them. N1lle was cross and tried to grab
the hand. Instead she inflicted a savage bite
on the white beauty, from which it died Nellie
tried to lick the baby TO life with her tongue.
Her sorrow is said to have been genuine, and
she was unconsolable for several days" Mr..
Robinson was grieved also, although his pain
was more business-liSe.
ONE of group of old timers told story the
other day of the ''early settlement" says the
| Seattle Journal. II cannot remember the
I name of the man who made the spesc1," said
| he, but twas in the court room and in defense
| y.
| gentlemen of the jury said he, a thing that is
| habitual is certainly different from thing that
/ happens sometimes. Now if get drunk some
times it does not signify that am in the habit
| of getting drunk Why, the most distin guished
| lawyer in the territory of Washington gets
| drunk sometimes but he is not IN the habit of
| getting drunk. There's big difference Just
| then an old lawyer over in the other end of the
| court room arose, and looking squarely at the
| man who was pleading said: You are mis-
| taken, sir; decidedly mistaken. 1 get little
mellow occasionally, but never get drunk.
WHEN police census man called at a house
on West Sixty first street, New York, ths other
day, after enumerating all the other members
of the family, he asked a little 4-year-old her
| name and age. She gave both with exact de-
tail and an air of great importance. Then, ap-
parently ememuering some conversation she
| had overheard concerning the new census, she
the people in New YORK, aren't ysu?" Yes
answered the man OF the brass but
tons and big book. well. you don't
want to forget my dolie There's
! 8; Matilda and Susie are each 2; julia, Polly
| and Mamie-I don't know just how old they
| are. Rosie was born last Christmas and Lily
| on my birthday. And then I've a black doll
do you count black folks?" ''Oh, yes, gravely
responded the policeman, who pretended to be
| writing down the names and ages of the dolls
| "Well, my black doll is named Dido, and she's
! l think she's about 2. have gray cat year
old, but she's out in Kentucky" Sorry" said
| the policeman, but under the circumstance Is
we cannot count the gray cat"
MEN of the type of Baron Hirsch are more
numerous in this country than everyday peo-
Pile imagine. To the man who has to put in
| most of his time in the struggle for existence.
| it seems odd that there should be men who are
| willing to sacrifice everything they have in the
| world for even the slightest social recognition.
The news that Hirsch has paid a salary of
| $4,000 a year to a woman high in French soci-
| ETY. for introductionS in Paris, coming on TOP of
the baron's prod gal expenditures for SINH
lar services IN England, would indicate that
that victim of rapacious social aspirations is
considerably in advance of anything that can
be shown in this country. Still there are at
| least three men in New York city who are and
have been the laughing stock of social leaders
for several years. They excite little comment
| except an occasional skiful dig from the So
ciety papers. But their names are familiar
throughout the upper section of New York
One Of them spends an income of $4,000 or
$4,000 a year in a reckless effort to push his
way in. but without success. The doors of So
ciety are closed against him. Many men of
less Intelligence and fewer personal ADVANTAGES
than he are securely settled inside, but thew
have never shown a desire to enter which "a
always deemed fatal inpedime mt 1t is gen.
orally believed, however, that ANYBODY who is
willing to pay $4,000 year for social invita-
tions in that town would receive very strong
backing, Though society is VIGOROUSLY CAPRI
c.ous in republics. itro
! CURIoUsLY ENOUGH, none of the papers in
| New York have as vet commented unon A.