The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-08
ITEMS OF interest,".

BUNDLE of spider webs. not larger than a
buckshot and weighing less than drachm,
would. If straightened out and untangled, reach
a distance OF $50 miles.
The QUEEN has granted to the Crown Derby
Pottery Works the right 10 place the word
Royal before the name of their ware. thus
| placIng us on a level IN That respect with the
| Royal Worcester work.
A LEADING CHlNAMAN in New York. bein 2
chaIed on his custom of spreading splendid
| least for joss, replied with q broad Celestial
| grin; Chinaman teedee his god: lazy christian
man waltee Tor his god to feedee him.
| WACO, TEX, boasts Of the finest artesian
wells on earth, and proposes giving a water
carnival The enterprising Wacoites are going
| 10 demonstrate the many novel WAYS in which
a large supply of pure water can be used.
| CREMATION is becoming popular in Sweden,
and during the last few weeks eleven bodies
have been cremated in Stockholm, among them
| b lug several ladies and gentlemen of distinc-
| ton In Gothenburg a new crematorium has
| just been completed.
| EUROPEAN AUTHORITY calls attention to the
TACT that many cases of collie among beer drink
ers are due to lead poisoning from drinking beer
mat has been either pumped through leaden
pipes, or through pipes into the composition of
"hlch lead largely enters.
FRANK BUTCHER, a burglar, notorious through
| out Northern Illinois and Wisconsin, has had a
| singular career. He has been sent to Joliet
become insane. When transferred to the Elgin
asylum ne has made his escape
L. H. DAVIS of GAINESVILLE, Mo-, was three
tlmes married to the same woman, his own
temper and two divorces making this possible.
IilS record breaking career was cut short on
i!uisesday when his three times brother-in-law
Killed him. The good old pledge, ''till death do
US part holds good for once.
WHILE FIXING frozen pump on his farm an
| old resident of Pottawattamie county. Iowa
slppet on the ice and started for the bottom of
uhe Wen. HIS son grabbed him by only one foot
as ne was disappearing and, being firmly
TTraced; succeeded in drawing his father up.
me Ola gentleman remarked that though he
was OLD he never before knew he had one foot
| in the grave.
IHE INTRODUCTION of smokeless powder into
the German army will involve the uniforms of
several regiments being altered as the wearers
vi bright coors will be too plainly visible to the
Sneihy without the protecting cloud of smoke
1uTing warfare. The White Cuirassiers and the
Red Hussars in particular are to wear much
oarSer garb instead of their present well-known
ana conspicuous uniforms
A CORRESPONDENT of the american Field.
writing from Stockton. California, calls atten-
ton to the Expectations which are being COM
IlltUed ny the Nevada Piute Indians in that
ana slaughter deer by the hundred for their
macs ana for dog meat. A band of 300 of these
INDIANS is now in Calaveras county on hunt
ing expedition. In two days they had killed
over 100 de r.
A SURGEON in Tennessee is reported in the
local press as the hero of this episode: A pa-
tlent brought his amputated finger to the doc
tor, who sewed the finger on. Being drunk when
ne Ild so, the doctor sewed it on with the plain
surface turned the wrong way The doctor
aIter sooerlng up. wanted to amputate the
niger ana put it back right, but the Datient de-
clined. The doctor eau now be punished when
ever the patient points that finger at him
AN AMATEUR TRAPPER at Lebanon Center
Conn, recently caught in his squat traps" the
funniest looking animal ever seen in Connecti-
cut; nobody seems to know what he is or WAS
intended &c be. The beast has the feet and tail
OF skunk, but the rest of him cannot be even
approximately classified. The most curious
thing is that there is not hair on him. He is
ABOUT as large as a skunk and looks as il he
might be ono that had been well scalded He
is dead
WHAT is SAID to be the most powerful cleo
trlc light in existence has recently been put into
operation in a lighthouse at Houstholm, on the
dangerous coast of Jutland. 1t is of 2OOO,OOO
candle power, mounted on tower about 200
feet hign, and can be seen at a distance of
thlrty-five miles even in rainy weather Resides
the nights there are two great sirens one about
90 yards and the other about three miles from
the tower, which are sounded in fopgy weather
Dy electrical connection with the same currents
that supply the light.
IT APPEARS now that the famous text in
Leviticus, on which the opponents of marriage
with deceased wife's sister base their princi
pal argument has hitherto been wrongly trans
lated Prof. Schroeder, the president of the
imperial German commission for the revision of
the Bible, says the verse means that a man
Gil fn Ian l.
her sister is alive That is to say that he must
not have two wives living at the same time in
his house who are sisters Luther's text essen
TALLY agrees with this.
THE CENTRAL METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY
OF MEXICO, which is situated at Z, 4S9 feet above
the sea, has published a summary of meteorolog-
icat results Tor each month of twelve years end
ing 1883 excepting January and February. 1870.
The coolest month is January, the mean tenn
perature of which is $40, and the warmest month
Is April, the mean temperature of which is GO
Inc absolute maximum in the shade was 500
and the minium 2S9o. The wettest month i
August IN which the mean rainfall is K d inches
ana the dryeSt month is February with an aver
age of O.4 inches. The greatest fall at one time
was IS inches. The prevalent direction of the
wind Is northwest.
In ILLINOIS habitual drunkenness for the
space of two years is ground for divorce. On
this ground Chicago wife sued for divorce.
an excessive drinker. 1t proved, however. that
Tor years he had been in the habit of using
morphine by hypodermic injection. The effect
was condition analogous to intoxcation
The supreme court of the state admits that the
| 'eftects of morphine thus administered are
very similar and in many respects apparently
| identical with those produced by the excessive
use or intoxicating liquors. But it holds that
the word drunkenness in the statute is nsed
IN its ordinary and popular sense 1t means
lutoXcation from liquor, not morphine The
divorce was accordingly refused
The PRESENT Crown PRINCE OF GERNANy will
be eight years old next May. He is a very
'bumptious" young man, very fully aware of
the prominence of his position, and recurring
all the authority of his very dctatorial father.
the only person whose rule he recognizes To
keep him IN order. The Emperor, soon after
his accession to the throne, found his turbulent
heir in the act of cutting and kicking one of his
lite brothers. On being commanded to st0p
the boy replied: Leave me alonel I am tbe
to whip whom l please.' VERY good ra
sponded his father, but am the Emperor of
Germany, and have a right to whip the Crown
Prince" SO, suIting the action to the word he
bestowed upon his cantankerous little son a
sound thrashng.
PEDESTRIANS show great deal of interest in
the new houses of the Huntngtons and Astors
in course of erection on the big lot at Fifty
sixth and Fifty-seventh streets and Fifth ava
nue., New York. c. P. Huntington's house
which will be structure of magnificent size