The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


BETWEEN the Ural and Okhotsk seas there is
a spot half as large as the state of Michigan
which is frozen ground to the depth of ninety
four feet.
THE LAST PRISON STATISTICS of Prussia show
that in the year 19sss9 49, 200 Prussian prisoners
worked, all together. Il, 800, 900 days for wages
Of 10 cents each per day.
! In PARIS all the electric wires are under
ground telephone and telegraph. as well as
electric light. This is accomplished under
stringent municipal regulations.
A KENT ISLAND CsId.) farmer placed twin or
/ phan lambs in the care of a female Newfound-
land, whose pups he had sold. She took kindly
to the lambs, and treated them with motherly
care.
A5-YEAR-oLD CHILD in Lafayette, N. j., was so
deeply affected by the death last week of his
grandmother that he cried almost continually
thereafter until Sunday, when he burst blood
vessel and died before medical assistance ar
| rived.
BISHOP MACKENZIE of Zululand, who died on
Feb. of enteric fever, gave instructions previ
GUS to his demise that his corpse should be
buried in Zulu fashion. Accordingly no coffin
was used, but the body was tied up in a blan Set
| in a kneeling position, and was thus placed in
| hole.
THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA has population
of over 100000, and the total number of liquor
licenses granted for the year 1870 is LIB. Buff
/ falo has one-quarter of the population of the
| Quaker City, but issues double the number of
| licenses.
NEW YORK oANoEIsr has started on the
longest canoe voyage ever undertaken. He set
| out from the Statue of Liberty and will end his
voyage, after 1000 miles of padding, at the
| mouth of the Columbia river, Fort Candy,
Washington.
THERE was pathetic scene on the street car
lines of Nashville few days ago in the long
| line of mule cars that were being taken from
| the central to the suburban stables 1t was
| raining, and the improviSed teams were making
their last trip. Electricity had driven the mule
| away.
| THE method employed in initiating the census
in Lyons county was quite ingenious. 1t con-
sisted in raising" the figures reported by the
| assessors by placing the figure before the true
| numbers. For instance, a family OF was
made to show up on the rolls as ID, family OF
| as 10. and SO on.
ELIJAH WATSON of Rushville, Mo-, has doubt
| less held the Office of postmaster longer than
any other incumbent in the United States, hav-
| ing been appointed in 1892 on the establishment
of that office. He is still vigorous, and meets
| all trains with aud for his mails as regularly
as he has for so many years.
NEW ATLANTIC CABLE is spoken of. to extend
from Claw Bay, in Ireland, to Greenly Island, in
I shortness of the cebleA1, 900 miles-is used as
| an argument in favor Of the scheme, although
telegraph lines will be required than for any or
| the English-American cables
| IL COPY of the american Mercury published
| in Hartford, Conn. in 1904, the following item
appears The drawing of the third class Of the
| Episcopal Academy Lottery will positively
| commence at New Haven on the first Monday
| OF January next, and to continue from day to
day Sundays excepted) till completed"
SANTA CRUZ has horse that is SO years old.
| He went to California in 1913 with William
| Handley, and was called an old horse then. For
many years Jerry worked out in the brewery,
| but was turned out to rest last year. HIS favor
lite food is the refuse malt from the still. and he
| does nob disdain to wash it down with bucket
| of warm beer.
| A NATION is known by the tobacco it smokes.
| England and Germany smoke pipes, and they
are the two most powerful nations in Europe.
| France smoked bad cigars under the second
| empire, with the natural result of Sedan;
| while we all know the decadence of Spain
| and Portugal has kept pace with the spread of
| cigarette smoking.
WHEN Rome was empire the males wore
| black for mourning, while the women indicated
| their grief by wearing white garments. In Tur-
key at the present day the mourning hue is vio-
let; in China, white; in Egypt. yellow: in Ethi-
ophia, brown; in Europe and America, black.
| The mourning color in Spain was white until
|
OVER dozen correspondents have replied in
a London paper to Lord Bury's invitation to
suggest a convenient verb for electricity The
following are among the suggestions offered:
To motor. To mote. To electriciSe. To eleotrise.
| To electrate. To trio. To run. To speed To
squlrm. To spark. To CLEAN. To flash. To cou-
| lomb. To Voice To volize. To amber. To bury.
THE HISTORICAL HOUSE built by the Marquis de
Talleyrand on the St. Johns river, near jackson
| will no in 10 fha
MIR. and Mrs. Richard r. Paulison. The latter
an accomplished and beautiful woman, is
known as the best lady shot in the south. She
can cut off a coots head with a rifle at two
| hundred yards or shoot eagle on the wing
and has performed many other difficult feats of
Workmanship.
THE Mexican postoffice department is about
to adopt novel device. photograph is to be
placed in each principal office in the country,
for the accommodation of the numerous citi-
Zens who cannot read or write. The illiterate
Mexican will go to the postoffice, talk his mes
| sage into the receiver of the monograph and
| when the cylinder reaches its destination the
person addressed will be sent for and the mes
| sage will be repeated to him by another ma
| chine.
| AT lecture given in Fairbank, Ont, by
citizen of Toronto on the subject of "Balaam's
| ASS" and illustrated by magic lantern, John
| Windlass attempted to turn the proceedings to
| ridicule. and throw suspicion on the verify
of the story of the angelic voice by counterfeit
| ing the loud and discordant bray of the unin-
| spIred animal For this he was summoned to
appear before Justice Wingfield on Tuesday
night on the charge of disturbing a religious
meeting, and was fined 81 and costs.
A SAMPLE OF COTTON with history has lust
been exhibited in Nashville. 1T came from
bale raised near West Point, Miss. in 1863 The
man who raised the cotton offered az cents
per pound for it in 1854, but refused to take it,
He has since been holding for a raise that never
came and on March 10 last he sold it for 10 cents
per pound. Estimating the bale to weigh 500
pounds, and counting simple interest on the
money at per cent. the planter lost S4S1 &C GOV
not disposng of it twenty-six years ago The
cotton is perfectly sound and as good as when
taken from the field
THERE appeared last week in the obituary
columns of the Philadelphia Ledger notices of
the deaths of twenty-five persons. four men
| and eighteen women. who had lived to or be
yond the advanced age of so years to wit: Mary
A. Rigby, Louisa Yecum. Henriette Campo so:
Jane Anderson, Susan Jagoe, Elizabeth Wander
veer, Elizabeth V. Brown 81: Margaret q
| Sheppard, Almyra L. Cooley, Sarah Smith 81:
Joseph B. Smith, Thomas Drake Mary Lord
| Henrietta NJ. Simpson, So: William Steele. Pat
rick McAleer, Esther Cummings "a; Elizabeth
| Wolfe, IS; Matild9 Bookbinder, IS; Elizabeth
Eline 81; Matilda Norris. 90; Kinda Grose, 104.
In REPAIRING GoETHE's HOUSE recently, says
the FrGnkfurtur Zeitung, a package that in
cluded seventeen love letters in Goetha's hand