The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

i NAS VINO recentiy fell III IN warsaw begged
MS doctor TO accept an old lottery ticket in
place Of fee and the doctor did so. The ticket
has Just drawn $4,000.
PATTI VIII soon appear at Omaha. 1t is said
that she gets $4,000 for every public appearance.
sumo 500 bushels Of Nebraska fourteen cent
corn.
Mss OLAF KRARER, an Esquirnau. is the first
woman OF her race TO come forward as public
lecturer. She speaks English with remarkable
accuracy. Her height IS only three feet four
Inches.
IRIS STATED that the ex-Emperor Dom Pedro
has received and accepted an invitation from
the Austrian court TO take up his permanent
residence IN the imperial chateau OF Hetzen-
dort district, about al hours drive from
Vienna
A sTATIsTIcIAS calculates that the total ton
rage Of the world. steam and sail, is in round
numbers 100000 tons Of which so per cent.
IS British Over II per cent. Of the foreign
freight tonnage Of the world is carried in British
vessels.
SINCE the Oldest woman of Vienna died a
short time ago. a most animated competition
mas been in progress for recognition as her sue
eessor. This competition shows that the Aus
TRAN capital has no fewer than tiye ladies' who
are all over 100.
" ALIEN lOlhSChlLDs WIZ lldS JUST Uccu III
mitted as a partner in the great banking house,
is said to be quiet. thoughtful young man, re-
semblng his mother more than his father. He
has sort, low voice, a genial disposition, and
mind for business.
A WRITER in the Toronto Globe calls attention
to the increasing spread of the Canada thistle
in the dominion. There is a law on the subject,
but 1t Is a dead letter. he says, and he suggests
that the government appoint weed inspectors to
aoate the nuisance.
SIR MoRELL MCKENZIE the great London
throat specialist. has won two suits against
London newspapers for publishing disparaging
articles about his treatment OF the late Emperor
Frederick of Germany. The damages awarded
amounted to s., $50
DON PEDRO, ex-Emperor of Brazil, has been
followed constantly by i'll luck. The other day
he got into q carriage at Nice, whereupon the
horse nearly upset the vehicle and its contents.
Dom Pedro, however, managed TO escape being
thrown to the ground.
THUNDERsToRMs are more frequent in Java
than in any other part of the globe. On an
average they occur in the island on ninety seven
days OF the year. In England the average
marks thunderstorms on about seven days in
the year-only half the number recorded in
France.
The GERMAN EMPRESS is forming League
for the Preservation Of Good Habits" among
RUSSIAN ladies'. The members BIND themselves
TO discourage luxury in every form, both for
themselves and their friends; to wear fewer,
more simple and cheaper dresses, and TO prac-
tice rigid economy in their households.
TIE SIOUX INDIANS certainly can't complain
that efforts are not at least being made to i'm
prove their morals. a Catholic Indian mission
airy, Father Jerome Of the Benedictne order
has compiled a pTaper book for their use. 1t
will be published by Bishop Marty and will be
printed in the Sioux language.
A SOLDIER was courtnartialed last month at
Venice for breach of discipline and condemned
| to six months Imprisonment. When informed
by the court that he could appeal, he contempt
uously tore OF his number and other insignia
threw them on the dOOr and shouted: Cursed
be your army! You are lot of assassins -
| For this he was condemned TO seven years
| close confinement in prison.
THE MAN who blows out the gas has a rival
He recently stopped over night at a Michigan
hotel, and the smell of burning cloth prompted
| a search for him. After rapping up several
| guests this man finally peered out of the dark
| ness Of his room and confessed that he had
| tied a towel around the electric lights, and it
| had scorched it. Il tried To blow it OUT he
| said, but it wouldn't go out"
AWAY BACK in the dim and misty past some
| body poisoned Mr.. Drew's cattle, down in Ber-
rien county Mich. He thought it was his neigh
| Dor Mr.. Sheppard. and Mr.. Sheppard was ar
| rested. The case has been dra cling along for
| years, has cost the county about $4,000 and
may not be settled yet as the jury disagreed
| last week notwithstanding the overwhelming
| evidence of the accused S innocence.
An ENGLISH MEDICAL COMMISSION, incidentally
to another investigation, had to make some ex-
periments as TO the effect of tight lacing. Fe-
| male monkeys were used. They were put into
| a plaster of paris jacket to initiate STAYS and a
| tight bandage was bound about the waist to
| initiate the petticoaC band. Several of the
1 iaI O1liaE lu oil, l,.
| serious injuries resulting from the treatment.
SHAKESPEARE is well appreciated by the
higher-educated natives in India, and last year a
large number of his plays were published in the
| vernacular LAS You Like 1t" and The Win.
RS Tale" were translated into Tamil and
Telegu for Madras; the Tanning Of the Shrew'
| came out in the Punjab; and Hamlet" Much
| Ado About Nothing" aud The Comedy of Err.
| rors" were great favorites in the northwest
provinces
PROGRESS AND SCIENCE are knocking all the
romance out of the ideals of our younger days
The number of gondoliers at Venice has been
much diminished since the introduction OF
steam launches in the canals which form its
| thoroughfareS. The few gondolers left in ser
| vice, however, are not complaining, as they re-
ceive better wages. through lack of competition
In their own special lIne and their scullng is
| much in demand by visitors.
NOTHING. says the Hartford Post, has caused
| 81 luucu NOHUGEllSuJ aiming plyS lCldlS IN q
long time as the recovery of John Mcdonald OF
| Waterbury, Conn, of his eyesight, Mcdonald
| has been totally blind for thirty years, and is
| now "A years old His blindness was caused bv
dropping sand IN his eyes many years ago. Nc
| Donald has recently been very sick He states
| that while on his bed he felt a dizzy sensation
| in his head when suddenly something seemed
to snap like a cord, and suddenly his eyesight
| came back to him ike fash, after he hal
| been in total darkness for thirty years Melon
| AIDS sight is growing stronger ali the time and
| he is rapidly recovering.
| Illustrative of the decadence OF rural New
| England villages, the following from windham,
an old village in the eastern part of Connecticut.
| is going the rounds of the press of that state:
| The population of this village, the scene of the
| Wndham frog scare, is less now than it has
| been the past $50 years. As there is no business
! done here of any account, the young men who
| have particle of ambition for business 20 to
other places to get a living. The old people are
| fast disappearing, and the place now has the
| appearance OF a nearly deserted village There
! are fourteen unoccuped tenements here. From
| Brick Top on the north 10 Lander's corner on
! South Main street, and from George Lathrop's
| on West street to Mrs. Moulton's on East
| street, and to Rufus Huntington's on the Bally-
| hack road, the population, including men.
| women aud children, will not vary much from
| 242 Included in that number are twenty
| widows and four widowers. There is not a
| mechanic OF any kind that has a shop for doing
| business, where formerly nearly all the com
mon branches of industry were represented.
| ANEW YORK JEwELER was remarking the other
day that he had just received the most extraor-
| binary order for n handsome gold hracelat tb M