The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-19
Items OF INTEREST.

TIE New York city board Of health destroyed
last year 5000 quarts OF adulterat ID milk and
over 200. 600 pounds of fruit and food
THERE has been q notable decline lately in
the ssllries paid to women telegraphers.
stenographers and typewriters in eastern
/ cities.
CAPT. MEADE, who has charge of the naval
exhibits for the Columbian exposition, proposes
erecting a structure representing modern
battleShip.
THIS seasons sensation at Cadillac, Mich, is
75-pound squash. Last year it had a horse
which climbed upstairs each morning and kissed
the cnambermeid.
Two centennarians have died n Barry county,
Michigan. since the census man started on his
rounds, but Miss Anna Demund, 102 years old,
and the oldest Of the lot, still lives.
ONE of the sights near Nebraska City is
massive stone temple built by the Mormons in
honor of Josaph Smith after their expulsion
from Nauvoo. 1t was also used as fort
THE Boston Herald tells of a steamer bound
for the west COST of Africa which had on board
IA missionaries $50 tons of gunpowder, and
about 10000 casks of New England rum
TIE government of India, it is reported. has
decided to discontinue the annual grant to
search for and purchase rare Sankskrit MSS;
but the decision will not teke effect until 1892.
The CHRISTIAN NAME of unmarried ladies
never appears on visiting card. If there is one
young lady she is known simply Miss Re
serve; If several tbs inscription is misses
Reserve"
CHINESE PHEAsANTs were introduced into the
vast forest Of Oregon less than ten years ego,
and they have increased to such an extent that
IL is estimated that there are now at least ,000,
QUO OF them Ia the country
Wunu tohao,o in,
Wheeling W. Va. the other day, Miss Mary
Lynch was suddenly stricken with total blind
| ness. There was no forewarning OF the stroke
| and the physicians are puzzled.
TIE official board of Grace church, Jersey
| City Heights, has notified Mrs. Joseph Auten-
reith that her two daughters disturb the con-
| creation during service by chewing gum and
smacking their lips. fractional troubles are said
| to be the basis of the complaint.
| A C1NcINNArI MIN travelling out west, fell
from the platform of train on which he was
riding, and his coat caught in q rod connected
with the coupling. Thus suspended head
| downward, he was dragged for a number of
miles, finally escaping with only broken leg.
GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT is expressed in naval
| circles at the remarkable loss of speed exhibited
| by our ocean cruisers. The Baltimore averaged
only seven knots an hour on her visit TO
| Sweden, and on a run from Hawaii 10 the
Pacific coast the Charleston barely made eight
knots. 49,
Upon this the New York Herald remarks: In
such delightful way does our modern civiliza-
| ton mix up the things of this life with the
| hopes of the life to come. The poor savage
will pay his money and take his choice But it
| strikes us that there was either too much rum
| or too little religion on that steamer
POLICEMAN PATRICK STARK of the Third pre-
cinct, New York city, found the champion
scrupuous man the other day while acting as a
| census enumeration. He was J. Croker of No.
20 East Broadway, who refused to give any in
| formation. as in his opinion 1T was a reflection
upon the United States Government"
A CURIOUS NATIONAL OBJECT is now to be seen
in the Chatholic cemetery grounds. says the
Mobile Register. In the upper part of the grave
| yard, within the walls of the lot of the Cal
| laghan family, there Is fair-sized FIR tree,
| which tree like other trees, twice year puts
| forth its new branches. A new spray has just
| appeared at the apex of the pyramid formed
| by the trees dense foliage, and strangely
| enough this spray has the Shape of an anchor,
| with stock forming a cross. This perfect
representation of an anchor and cross, wit a
ball on the end of the shank, just as appears in
a real anchor, attracts the attention of all who
, visit the cemetery.
SOME AMUSEMENT was created in the equity
court. Washington, D. c., the other day. when
an applicant for citizenship presented ninself
| with his voucher, both being in the uniform of
the United States marine corps. says the Wash
| ington Star. Judge Cox asked the witness if
the applicant was of good moral Character
| HE is" replied the witness. How do you
know asked the judge. We've served to-
gether five years" was the answer. rs he at
tached to republican institutionsy' asked the
Judge Il can't say as to that, your honor, for
I'm a democrat" The judge after a vain at
| tempt to smother his laughter, said; Let the
| applicant be admitted"
THE most gigantic member of the British
peerage is the Marquis OF Drogheda, who is 65
years of age. and who stands six feet five inches
| In his stockings. The marquis is the life and
soul of the merrest of the merry parties at
| Punchestown races. Though he has given over
racing himself be still breeds thoroughbred
or two at Moore Abbey, County Kildare He is
an excellent and therefore resident landlord,
| and owns some 10000 acres, worth some $50, GOO
a year. stanch conservative, he resembles
Mr.. Gladstone in one point, in his love for
welding the ak. He is, moreover, second
| cousin to Mr. Parnell for the MARQUIS era Id
| father and tie nationalist leaders grandf ather
| were brothers. 11~e "a
IT is REMARKABLE that Prussia and Saxony
have the largest percentage of suicides of any
country ia Europe, says the New York World
Germany, grouped according to nationalities,
stands at the head, with $50 suicides per million
| Scandinavia, 1913; France, f16; the Siavs 30; the
| Romano people 81, and Ireland 80 10 90 In Ger
| many, Saxony has the greatest percentage
| which increased between 1874 and 1879 from PSI
to S34 per million. The same percentage is said
to apply to Prussia, the self destruction being
caused by wild living" chiefly induced by
drink, by loss of wealth and by melancholy
Suicides caused by drink increased in Prus-
STA and Saxony from 90 per million in 1873 to
100 in 1884; by loss of wealth, from 10 to 81
during the same period
DR.. FERNANDO CRUZ minister from the re-
public of Guatemala, is one of the handsomest
foreigners who spend large portion of their
time here. Although only about 40 years old.
he has been a lawyer, college professor. jour
nalst, poet magi strate and author, and is a
thoroughly equipped diplomatist He is the
| author of INSTRUCTIONS de Derecho Civil a
standard law book, and of the poems, "Oyasion
a Maria, and "A Mi Hiio," familiar to readers
of Spanish papers. President Barrillas called
Dr. Cruz to his cabinet as minister of foreign
affairs, but he resigned in 1887, and became
president of the newly established University of
Guatemala. In 1889 he accepted, The appointment
as minister to the United States and delegate to
the pan-American congress.
THE WIFE of DR.. R. F. Weir, professor of
chemical surgery at the College Of Physicians
and Surgeons, will long be remembered not only
by the soldiers of the union army, who were
sick or wounded patients at the barracks hos
pitfalls. Frederick City, Nd, but also by the con
federates who were wounded at the battle of
Antietam and were brought to Frederick to he
treated. She was then Miss Marie Washington
Mcpherson and visited the hospitals nearly
every day, distributing fruits and custarlls and
other delicate foods TO those who could eat
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