The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


| come into possession Of two stamps issued under
the act of 1865, which lei to the American revo-
| luton.
OHIO is to have new oil company composed
OF wealthy Co ,italists from Chicago, Milw aukee
and Pittsburg. with an estimated capital of $50
| 10000.
EDWARD HERoS-ALLES is now practicing law
in London, aud has gone out of the business of
palmistry, which he practiced in this country a
] few years ago.
IT Is SAID that the English authorities are still
IN pursuit Of Jack the Ripper and that one
Of the best known of their detective inspectors
deVoteS his whole time TO the case
IT IS PROPOSED to overcome ali Instructions
to navigation on the Columbia river in Oregon,
| by the adoption Of the Eads ship railway svs-
| tenn between the Dalles and Cello falls, dis
| lance of eight miles.
LAST YEAR the Trans Caspian railway. built
by the Russian government, carried to Russia
| 10, 100000 pounds of raw cotton grown in Rus
| STA Asiatic possessions. The production of
| cotton In Central Asia is rapidly on the in
| crease.
| NIRGINTUs DABNEY, southern novelist of
note, is now one of the principal writing editors
on the Commercial Advertiser He began his
newspaper career about year ago by writing
| rev book reviews, and then stepped into the
editorial arena.
| SALE OF collection of pictures of Nell
Gwynne, the famous favorite of Charles IL, and
| OF the king himself and many of the court peo-
PIE OF the time. recently took place in London
| al the PICTURES were engravings The total
Drought by 2l5 lots was s. 200.
SAM WAN KEE, a very wealthy and very in
fiuential Chinaman of Boston, has been able to
| obtain from the United States cover ment
special suspension of the Chinese restriction in
| his case, so that he may visit his native land
| ana then return to this country.
SWITZERLAND proposes to hold at Lausanne,
In June, fair that will present specimens OF all
| known alimentary substances, taking in breads,
c9hlecuonerl9s, pastries, cooked dishes, vegeta-
pies, groceries, preserves chocolates and SO on
through all that the human stomach knows
1T Is ASTONISHING how many southern women
/ there are in New York this winter, says an ex-
change. One hears their deliciously soft and
lazy accents at every gathering, and is often
forced to surmise that they possess some secret
| OF eternal youth not known in chilier cimes.
THE THEArER which the authorities of the
University of Pennsylvania have decided to
| erect will be used for all public lectures given
under the auspices of the university, for con-
| certs, and for the performances of classical
| music 1t will cost So, 900, and the organ which
Will be constructed about $4,000.
An ELECTRICIAN has just patented something
as new as it is unique in the way of clock.
Aside from being a regular time-piece and
calendar, 1t is also provided with a system of
keys making double circuit around tho outside
OF the CLOCK, the first one 60 denote the hour and
| the minute. and the other the day of the month
| Ihe object is to furnish thereby regulator for
| business appointments
ANOTHER PICTURE of Mr.. Gladstone is about
to be begun by the Artist Bgnell but, instead
of giving regular sttings, the Grand Old Man
requires that the painter shall set no his easel
Etnteman'S library q1A@ af0hc
| pressions as he wishes while his subject is busy
with his own work. very successful portrait
| IS expected from these methods, and when
completed, it will be taken by the city of Birm-
ingham.
NJ. SAuTEREAU, one of the engineers who was
active in the construction of the Suez canal,
proposes to complete the Panama canal on a
new basis. His scheme is to make a lake in the
| interior OF the isthmus by storing water from
the ChagreS river, This lake would bs fifteen
miles long and cover about 800 acres flood out
the unhealthy swamps, and make valuable
the 100000 acres of land owned by the Panama
company. 1t would have strong locks at both
| ends
A BERLIN DISPATCH says that at meeting of
! the medical society DR.. Janiczewski showed an
important invention called the pneumatoscope,
which permits an exact diferential diagnosis
| of all affections of the lungs The instrlIm emit
! has two auditory tubes connected. and wit an
| ear piece for the physician. The inner tube
/ has a twingng membrance which, when placed
| IN the patients mouth, registers the different
| Irregularities of sound caused by be disease of
| the lungs and the bronchial tubes.
CoIN fanciers say that but four of the silver
dollars of the year 1904 were put into circula-
ton. Three of these have been located for
years in the hands of well-known collectors
But the fourth has long been missing. A few
| days ago physicianaof Minnesota discovered
the long missing dollar in the hands of No.
4 who in fha IF
/ an old stocking for several years. He purchased
| 1t for $3.50, the owner evidently knowing some
| OF ITS value The finder has already been Of
| Tered $3.50 for his treasure, but he refuses to
| part with it.
REGISTER RosEcRANs says that there are 49,
525 Enclosed accounts running through all the
years since the foundation of the government.
which show that there is apparently due TO the
government SIS, SEQ 1876, aud from it 81 col $50
Among the apparent debtors to the govern
| Marquis Lafayette and others of almost equal
prominence In history The register says that
| a system OF account keeping which produces
such results woulo not be tolerated. in any great
| business establishment, and ougdt not to con-
tlnue IN the treasury department.
| IT IS STATED that the progressive young ladies
in New York are buying shirts at the fancy
| goods stores similar to those worn by their
| fathers and brothers. One firm is said to have
made very good thing by selling supply of
| boys shirts to these fair creatures that were
! out of fashion, and would otherwise have re-
| manned on their hands When girls began to
wear their brothers collars, buying the first
| supply, of course, at the shops aud purloinine
| further supplies from their brothers wardrobes
| the brothers of the land were loud and plentiful
with complaints. Now that the looting of the
| collars promises to be followed by wholesale
raid the shirts with cuffs attached the do
nestle atmosphere is more charged with dan
ger than ever.
AT A DINNER PARTY given in one of the private
| dnner-rooms at Snerry's, in Gotham last week
| by very wealthy widow of Washington square
| half of the gentlemen present belonged to the
medical profession, and at the request of the
dowager no tess physical beauty, from a
| medical standpoint was made the subject of
| the New York board of health diated on the
| value Of outdoor exercises, love of cold water
and fresh air, and argued that with ten hours'
| sleep and three hours in the open air every day
with proper clothing and diet of claret milk
| fruit, vegetables and rare beef, he VIC uId he
willing to guarantee the physical beauty of
any woman not already ravaged by time and
disease.
AMONG the passengers who arrived on the
Teutopic Wednesday evening. says the New
York World, was the mother of Miss Violet
Vambrugh the talented young actress playing
with the Kendals at the Fifth Avenue theater
In conversation with Thomas Stevens the
Worlds African commissioner to find Stanley
who came over on the same vessel Mrs. VAN,
brugh related incident of peculiar interest in
connection wit la ayiC daat h Of