The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A CHICKEN with four legs, four wings and two
heads has Just been Matched at Delmar, Del.
IT Is UNDERSTOOD that large quantities of
opium have been smnggled into this country in
lemons.
NEARLY 100 typewriters are employed in the
census bureau at Washington, at salaries aver
aging about SIS week
IT Is ESTIMATED that out of every 100 pounds
of fresh meat consumed in England the home
supply gives seventy-four pounds.
SOMEBODY sent Succi a packet of quill tooth
picks in registered letter when he was on the
last week OF bis great fast in London.
1T rs REPORTED that a vein of black marble
has been discovered near Fincastle Va. There
Is none found elsewhere In the United States.
GEORGE WASHINGTON. Thomas Jefferson. John
Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, and Henry
Gay were all in favor of international copy
right.
THREE YEARS AGO a man named David Roys
bought section of land near Salt Lake City
for $4,000. He recently refused S44s 900 in cash
for it.
FRENCH WINE GROWERS have a superstitious
appreciation of comets, and expect good crops
because four comets will be seen during the
summer.
CAPT. CHARLES Fl. TOWNSEND of New Haven,
Conn.,, has invented an instrument which serves
as sextant, a theodolite, transit, a pelorus
ana an azimuth circle.
FRENCH ENGINEERS propose ascending the
Jungfrau by a succession of slant roads form
ing zgzag TO hight of some ~ 900 feet land
ing nearly at the summit of the mountain.
A DOG in France which was struck by light
ming and considered dead afterward partly re-
covered. 1t continued deaf and blind, and had
to depend on its smell for recognition of persons
and things.
A RATHER was killed in the Cucamonga can
yon last Wednesday. says the Pomona Times
that measured feet 2inches long by II inches
around the waist. 1t sported twenty -one rat
ties with button.
AN ENGLISH SYNDICATE with Lord Brassey
and Lord Richard Grosvenor at its head is
about to turn Brussels iuto a seaport by build
ing canal and three immense basins. The
canal will be large enough to admit ships of
1000 tons.
PERE DIDoN, the Dominican whose eloquence
stirred Paris in a remarkable manner four years
ago and who surprised people by the sudden
ness with which he left the pulpit, has been
writing life Of the savior in a monastery at
Corbora-
In BERLIN CAFE the coffee is not only boiled
by electricity, but small electric railway car
ries ii to the various tables so that the guests
may help, themselves to their liking. The
establishment is also lighted and ventilated by
electricity.
A BRITISH COMPANY for ''the admi nistrative
development" OF South Africa is being organ
lied in London, and it will soon be seen
whether a syndicate can successfully cope with
What has been terrible Boer to the British
government.
ONLY one European country has lower death
rate than England-to w.t. Norway, where only
10 persons out of 1000 die in year. The other
end of the pole is in Austria. where the rate is
Z92. In England it is 17.8 for a population of
over 81, 100000.
COL PLATT B. WALKER, a member of the Min
nesota river commission, says that there is
Sl46,0Oo lying idle in Washington that was
especially appropriated three years ago for the
Improvement of the Mississippi between Mime
apolis and st. Paul.
THERE were SO many accidents at the last
regimental polo tournament in India that Sir
Frederic Roberts, the commander-in-chief, is
said to have issued an order prohibiting such
tournaments. The commander should try lawn
tennis on his warriors.
IT is AN INTERESTING POINT in American his
tory if, as stated, the confederate gray uniform
was borrowed from the First Virginia regiment,
which borrowed it from the Seventh New York
regiment. The confederate song Dixie was
of northern authorship.
RJvETING by electricity has been success
fully accomplished. The cold rivet is placed in
the hole, and when heated to the proper tenn
perature it can be closed by any of the ordinary
apparatus now in use. The heating of a half-inch
rivet of two or three inches in length takes
about half minute.
ACCORDING to late consular report the parts
of Europe cover the following areas: Germany,
600 acres; Russia. 49f 2aS 600 acres Aus
tria-Hungary. 46,9517 700 acres; Sweden, 42 OOO,-
900 acres; France 22,240O0O acres; Spain,
9709, DOC acres; Italy. 9SS4,5.0 acres, and Eng
land, 2,4I1 600 acres.