The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


tnan twenty years
E G. P. SIXTH, the government keeper at
Little Diamond. has unearthed what appears 70
be an old Indian idol weighing half a ton. and
the Maine Historical Society will examine it.
Az OHIO COUPLE were divorced last Novem-
Der, after a short but unhappy married life
On Sunday last they were remarked in Ironton
oy the same clergyman who had tied the knot
at their first wedding
THREE BROTHERS who started in the boot
backing business in Chicago have prospered so
| well that one of them has bought out a cigar
store and the other two are 70 embark in the
retail grocery business
The TENOR of the Cologne opera, a celebrated
artist, has served at about $4,000 year for
some time. He now refuses TO renew his con
tract, and is TO get $500 whenever he appears.
HIS name is Emil Goetze.
Or TIE 5000 LETTERS receive at the dead
letter office last year. 1900 bore no superscrip
ton whatever. 5000 contained money amount
ing TO S55,0O0, and 2. 600 contained checks
drafts, ETC., amounting TO 81, 600, 900.
An OLD MAN. going into a liquor saloon in New
York the other night, boosted he could give
those present ''some pointers on dancing" and
started In to do so. He danced five minutes and
feli under table dead from heart disease.
AN EXHIBITION illustrating in go pictures the
costumes OF the French army from 1889 up to
now viii shortly be opened in the Palais des
Beaux arts OF the Champ de Mars, Paris. NJ
jacques Wachenheimer is the organizer OF the
exhloltlon, and after its close he proposes to
sell 1t to the French government.
LORD BUrE's MANSION, called .sMonstuart.
near Rothesay, is the largest and costliest pri-
vate palace in the world. IL is in Gothic style
ana covers nearly two acres. The halls are of
marble and alabaster and the rooms are finished
in mahogany, rosewood and walnut with carved
Of hkar ar,r9<.r
about 50 10000.
THE number Of farewell dinners given to
Toole, the very popular English comedian, in
London, was remarkable. The actresses, being
denied admission TO the dinner given him by his
professional brothers, organized one for them
serves and carried it out with great magnifi-
cence, Mr. Toole being the only man present
Ellen Terry presided.
THE grand lodge of Odd Fellows of Missouri
have gone on record for prohibition. The grand
masters reports advocated the exclusion of sa-
loon keepers from their order. A hot debate
ensued, after which vote was taken on the
question of excluding all saloon keepers from
the ord r, and the side advocated by the grand
master carried the day.
THE Queen Dowager Of Portugal on one occa,
sion brought home from Paris 1000 pairs of
shoes. Subsequently she ordered no less than
seventy dresses from Worth to be delivered
together, which on their way home were lost at
o..
word to Worth to supply seventy duplicates
and these reached Lisbon safely.
THERE is no country like France for starting
journals. During 1889 no less than $50 new
newspapers were brought out, of which not one
remains in life. On the other hand, the Petit
journal now claims circulation of ], 095 900
copies daily. During the same period there
were printed in France over 1900 new books,
including 5000 new musical pieces.
''TsKINe RIzzLE" after dinner is a new
health fad. Julian Ralph says in Chatter:
How to describe it l don't know, but it is a
condition as nearly like sleep as sleep is like
death. 1t consists of doing absolutely nothing
lcloSe my eyes and try to stop all action OF the
brain. think of nothing. 1t only takes little
practice to be able to absolutely stife the brain
In that delightful condition | remain at least
ten minutes"
The body of Theodore Weidenmuller, a
wealthy ranchero, who was missing from his
ranch near San Diego, Tex, has been found.
When last seen alive ne was at dance. He was
mysteriously abducted and carried by his fiend-
ism captors SIX miles from his ranch his cloth
ing saturated with turpentine, and he was
burned to death. His friends are unable to as
sign any reason for the devlish act unless it was
prompted by jealousy.
THE son of Casey who murdered Editor King
of San Francisco. and was hanged BY the vigil
lance committee, was last week sentenced tn
life imprisonment In the California state prison
for killing man in Colusa county. Young
Casey is an opium eater, using the drug in Largo
quantities; and this habit, the Jury decided
rendered him partly Irresponsible and SO saved
him from the gallows He has tried several
times to commit suicide since he has hean in
Jail.
A DOG known as 1.-The baby dog" who seems
to be without any owner, has a custom of fol
lowing baby carriages about Stamford Conn.
as if to protect the innocent little OCCUPANTS
one OF our leading lawyers is to have the ami
NAL registered, for he declares the dog shall not
be killed if he can prevent it. The dog is of a
yellowish brown color, part shepherd, of me-
dunn size, and will not allow any man or how to
touch him. All he seems to want Is baby to
guard
Mrs. Cora R. FISH, wife of Frank R. Fish.
who was sentenced to death last week at Canaan
daigua, N. Y, for the murder of James Chilli
name, has begun a suit of $4,000 DAMAGES
against James Mccarthy and Orvin S. Bacon.
under the damage act. She claims that the
last drink her husband took before committing
the murder, he bein: then intoxicated, was
drunk in McCarthy's saloon. which was leased
to him by the trustees of McKechnie, of whom
Bacon is one.
MEREDITH STANLEY, who jumps off bridges
occasionally for fame and money, dropped
from the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad bridge
at Cincinnati the other day, struck the water
Q16 feet below feet foremost swan to a boat
that was 10 waiting, insisted on taking the oars
himself, and pulled to the shore. HE had a
narrow escape, however, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer. He just missed falling on a large
piece of driftwood. Had this occurred If
would undoubtedly have killed him. AS it was
his right foot struck the obstacle a CHANGING
blow, and big hole was cut in his shoe -
A NUMBER of officials are detailed to MAKE
cuts every day for Emperor William from the
principal journals of Eerln, the Cologne
Gazette, the Franklin Journal the Hambnrg
Nelcs and several other leading German papers
These are pasted on long strips of paper with a
margin. The name of the paper and a short
sentence giving synopsis of the contents are
written on this margin. Subjects are grouped
together. Only what would surely interest the
emperor is thus presented. The leading Paris
and London journals are treated likewise At
times he just glances down an article at others
he reads 1t attentivey The synopsis not only
tells what is the subject but in what spirit IL Is
treated. He has no reader for this purpose He
is too impatient to listen.
A NEW COLONY of strange people is farming on
the reservation, about twenty miles southeast
of Pierre, S. D. 1t seems that thew are the
nucleus or new and fanatical RELIGIONS sect
They are under the leadership of a woman and
hold their property all in one common lot The
woman is rather handsome and of command
ing presence, and rules over the colony of about
2OO In rather despotic manner. Their rell gion
savors somewhat of the Mormon and some Of
the old Jewish religion. and on Saturday last
they offered burnt offerings in the way of
calves, etc. They positively refuse to allow
strangers who will not be one of them in their
midst, ana all attempts to gain any informa-