The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

GEN. BUTLER is said to be able to quote the
Bioie more freely and more accurately than
almost any man in public life ct Washington.
The large Indian python, fourteen feet in
length, at the PhiladelDhia BIOLOGICAL garden
died the other day from cancer of the stomach,
aged 65 years.
IHE latest trinket in the jewelers. windows is
gentlenan's ring with a tiny watch set into it
as seal would be- They are odd and expensive
and great nuisances to wear.
IL THE BRITISH NAVY in 1888 the sick list in
cluded $50 men out of every eco in the service,
anu that was the best showing the navy had
1000.
QUEEN VICTORIA invited no clergymen to the
amateur theatricals at BaImoraI. It is said
that she does not approve OF clergymen attend
ing such performances, which is lucky for
them.
JOHN BURNS, the London labor leader, de-
scribes certain crowd of alleged workmen as
a loC OF JAN birds who go out in the morning
find it,
THE CAR OF RUSSIA has never worn the uni
form of a Russian field marshal 1t is one of
the forty four uniforms he possesses, and by
Iainly tradition can only be worn intthe field
after victory. eYed
IT IS ALLEGED that the falsihcations of En-
gllsh coins by clipping and counterfeiting has
gone to greater extent during the last few
years than for a long time before, and that
thlngs have got to such pass that il isn't safe
10 accept certain coins at ALL
Upon the heels of the ratification of the ex-
tradition treaty by the Senate, comes the re-
port that Mr.. Blaine and Sir John Pauncefote
nave progressed far enough in their pre-
Ilmlnary work on fisheries and sealing treaty
TO submit its outlines TO the two governments.
WELLrDIGGERs on the Crowley place at Little
Prairie, Wis, find indications of buried for
est. The cedar or pine found at a depth of
thirty five feet appeared to be branches Of
Tree; at forty feet the growth was larger, as
II near The trunk; at forty-five feet larger
still.
WALKER FEARN, late United States minister
at Athens, states that brigandage no longer ex-
lists in Greece. He says that he and his daugh-
ter and few friends unarmed and without an
escort, visited the on horseback the widest
parts of Greece and met with nothing but cor
dial hospitality.
The QUEEN granted the privilege of entree to
Lord Sydney many years ago for his life so he
enjoyed it whether in or out of Office Entree
Is often granted for one day only, especially to
ladies, and the Baroness Burdett-C outts al.
ways gets it when she goes to court. But it is
seldom given for life.
EDWIN BOOTH has sent check for 81 900 to
the Vincent Hospital at Boston, an institution
for the relief of working women and girls
established under the patronage of Trinity
church as memorial of the late Mrs. j. r.
Vincent, for many years an esteemed and
accomplished actress OF the Boston Museum
Company.
AFTER they had put tramp in jail in Indiana
for being poor, friendless and without a
home" he invited the sheriff to dinner, sent out
500 bill TO buy champagne and turkey, and
asked him to take charge of 50, 600 he had been
carrying in his boot legs. They managed to get
that Jail door open back to the jamb as he
walked out.
DURING the service at the Central Presbyte-
rian Sunday school in St. Louis, Sunday, a
policeman entered the room, and walking down
the aisle placed under arrest the treasurer of
the Christian Endeavor Society and prominent
leader IN the Sunday school. The arrest caused
great excitement. The arrested person is
charged with stealing O lady'S gold watch, and
confessed at the station.
a CoNGo NATIVE who has been taught to read
and write has just sent letter, his first, to the
Archbishop of Canterbury 1t is as follows:
Great ana Good Chief of the Tribe of Christ,
greeting; The humblest of your servants kisses
the hem of your garment, and begs you to send
to his fellow servants more gospel and less
rum. In the bonds of Christ, Ugala." 1t
seems that the letter hits the nail pretty
eifectualy on the head.
THE DIRECTORS of the De Beers Company,
in the Kimberly, South Africa mines gave
Christmas picnic to their 5000 employees, at
which were eaten 200 fowls, 400 turkeys, $50
geese, 100 hams, 900 pounds of spiced roast
and boiled beef, and 800 pigeon, veal and ham,
and chicken and ham pies, washed down with
5000 bottles of English and German beer, 100
cases of champagne, POO cases of claret, 100
cases of Burgundy, besides brandy and whisky.
THE FLY FISHERMEN of the United States have
a new pleasure in store for them. fish not
lii t. +
this year. and there is every reason to believe
that it will thrive and multiply wonderfully
The fish is the European sea trout, "salmo
tutta"-a fish well known and abundant in Eng
land. While the sea trout is saltwater fish, it
inhabitS land-locked fresh waters and thriyes
there. Eggs will soon be put into Maine streams
flowing into the ocean.
WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER, of the Standard Oil
Company, kept fine herd of deer at his former
home, near Greenwich Conn, for a number of
years until this winter. His new home at Tarry-
town is completed, and one of his preparations
for removal was the sale of his herd of deer
Two of the finest of the herd, a pair of red deer
as large as American elk, he has given to the
city of New York for the Central park
menagere. They are the genuine European
red deer, not the misnamed Virginia variety.
ALL THE MEMBERS of the French Academy of
Sciences have received copies of the ''commem-
orative medal" which vas struck in honor of
the transfer of the chateau of Chantilly from
the possession of the Due d'Aumale to that of
the institute, which holds the munificent gift in
trust for the nation. The medal represents on
one side the profile of the Due d'Aumale under
which is inscribed the name and title of the
prince, while on the other is miniature repro
duction of the home of the historian of the
Condos, with the words underneath, ''Chan-
tilly, given to the institute of France on Oct.
IS, 1886"
WOMAN in st. Louis who identified body
in the morgue there as that of her husband.
from whom she has been separated for years.
buried the remains The funeral was an expen-
sive one, and the widow was greatly commended
for what she had done. 1t now turns out, how
ever, that she made a mistake. Her husband
has turned up alive and we'll and having learned
that his ex-wife had buried him in STYLE he
called on her to express his thanks Nobody
knows who the dead man is He was picked I'D
dead in the street, and papers found in his
clothes lead to the superstition that his name is
j. j. O'Connor.
DR.. KUEKENTHAL of Jena has recently given
al account Of his explorations in the arctic
King Charles Land to the Bremen Geographical
Society. These islands belong TO Spitzbergen.
geologically speaking, and not. as was sun
posed to Franz Joseph Land. They are almost
entirely without vegetation, few hardy moses
struggling for existence the clayey soil
Numerous skeletons of walrus have been thrown
up by the sea; white bears, walrus and seals are
plentiful. The inland lakes are also swarninoy
with crustaceans and insects. King Charles
Land is almost unapproachabe, owing to the
icebergS which pack the surrounding seas