The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


the product is worth $1,000 1000; or twice the
value of the product in 1879 or 1880. and one
hall the value of the farms by the last census.
News FROM the Hague shows that the King of
Holland is in a condition which may lead to his
death at any moment Every preparation has
been made in anticipation Of his majesty's de-
mise.
ACCORDING to a recent report made by the
commissioners who examined the workings of
the mints OF the United States the one at Carson
City, New, does the best work as to fineneSs and
weight
NEVER touch a vine that has three-fngered
leaves; that is, leaves divided into three parts.
Vines that show hve-finzered leaves may be
handled with safety. Poison ivy has three
fingers.
Mr. Willard says that in the next four years
the Northern Pacific will expeDd 900 in
the northwest. chiefly in Montana and Wash
inEton. and will have $3.50 miles of road in OPP
Grafton.
The HELIoeRAPH is used to flash signals be-
tween stations in New Mexico and Arizona that
are seventy. I've miles apart. Experiments will
soon be made TO test the power Of the instru-
ment to distance of 100 miles.
A STREAM OF CHINESE is now pouring over the
Mexican border into California. These coolies
are brought from China. transferred at Saa
Francisco to the Ensenda steamer and landed IN
Lower California, ostensibly to work in the
mines.
JUDGE THOMAS T. BoULDIE of Charlotte county,
Virginia, owns the plantation on which his
grandfather and great grandfather are buried
and which has been in the family for 146 years
He lives in the house ia which he was born
seventy seven years ago.
That the horse breeding industry is being
seriously disturbed by the rapid development
of electricity as motive power is evident. The
indications now are that within another three
years there will not be a horse car in active
service in any of the cities in this country.
TIE ACCIDENT to the City of Paris has alarmed
number of persons who had intended sailing
for Europe this spring and summer on the fly
ers. They are writing to the offices and agen-
cies of the crack steamship companies now,
asking that their passage be changed to slow
boats; The ten-day boats are really in excel
lent demand.
Mr.. AND MRS. D. C. BLooMER, of Council
Bluffs Ia, recently celebrated their iftieth an
niversary of their marriage. Mrs Boomer has
been for years prominent advocate of woman's
rights and was the originator of the famous
'Bloomer costume" Susas B. Anthony, per-
manent institution, attended the festivities at
Council Bluffs.
The ENGLIsHMAN who gave as a reason for
not trying to rescue a man whom he saw
drowning, that he had never been introduced
TO him" must step down from fame's pedestal
to make room for woman in New Jersey, who
declined to cut down a struggling neighbor who
had hanged herself, the ground that she
might get into trouble with the coroner.
A WEALTHY CITIZEN of Dover, Me-, was NOR
titled the other day. He had just been making
a clean breast of his deplorable financial condi-
ton TO the assessors; and going to a grocery
store soon after he was appalled, to find that the
assessor had taken his statement so literally as
to order a barrel of flour. Goldfish and some
other articles sent to him at the towns ex-
pense.
LIEUT.. JOHN P. FINLEY of the signal service
has compiled a statement of the number of tor
nadoes in this country for the last seventeen
years While in 1870 there were only nine, the
number has increased annually, the year 1886
having been credited with $50. But since that
time there has been a gradual decrease in the
number, only forty two having been recorded
in 1899.
A. CowIEs of Eaton Rapids. Mich, lived in
Southern Ohio in 1862, and when Morgan made
his raid Cowles with several hundred other
patriots rushed to the defense of Cincinnati
He served three consecutive days and then re
turned to his ploT. He had almost forgotten
the circumstance until one day this week, when
be received a formal discharge from the war
department
EXPERIMENTS have been recently carried on
at Toulon with view to determining to what
extent accuracy of aim could be attained at
night with an electric light. gun was mounted
electric protector. The target was fixed at a
distance of between three aud four kilometers.
and it was found that the same accuracy could
be obtained under those conditions as durin e
daylight.
THE small letter ''i'' was formerly written
without the dot over it. The dot was intro.
duced in the fourteenth century to distinguish
Il" from e' in hasty and indistinct writing.
The letter i'' was originally used where '.j'' is
now employed. the distinction between the two
hav haa ftr1I hut he n.,+o
comparative modern times. The IL was dotted
because the 'i'' from which it is derived was
written with a dot
BRIDGET DooDY, probably the oldest woman
in the United States, recently celebrated her
18th birthday at her home in Mineral Point,
Wis She was born in county Wexford, Ire
land, according to an authenticated copy of
her baptismal record, April ,. 1712 aud has
been resident of Galena and Wisconsin for a
period of sixty years. She is in apparent good
health and in the possession Of all her faculties
to wonderful degree.
A MEADvILLE GA.) MAN tells of recent battle
in that city between game rooster and an
owl, in which the rooster knocked old wis |
dom" out in less than minute. The victor !
was then pitted against another rooster which |
soon fell before him. The owner of the game |
then offered to pit him against a bulldog. The |
match made and the bird trimmed the dog
up in very brief period, coming out of the |
fight almost as fresh as when he began.
AT q recent lecture in Paris DR.. Laborde dis |
coursed on the fact that dealers in "wines'' |
have discovered products to which they have
given the name of the oils of wine which en- |
ployed in infnitesimal quantities. suffice to |
flavor thousand of litres of liquids To demon |
strate the disastrous effects of these LIQUORS he
performed several experiments before the audi |
ence on guinea pigs and said that If in man the |
effects were less prompt they were just as dis |
astrouS.
BARNUAis LATEST IDEA is to secure the mum |
mics of Rameses II. and his fair daughter who |
succored Moses These article are now in the |
museum of Boulak, and $4,000 has been bid
for them. The khedive is at present the pro- |
prietor of these treasures, and might, for a CON
sidsration, permit them to depart for the |
United States, where they would create a great |
er sensation than they do in Their present abid- |
ing place. How fertile, how widely sweeping. |
are Mr. BarnumS ideaSl
TWIN SISTERS celebrated their nth birthday
anniversary at Ipswich, Mass, the other day. |
A local paper states that so remarkable was
their resemblance to each other that the parents
were often called upon to distinguish them to
visitors Their tastes were also similar and |
have been so through life. and even at the ace
of q, it is said they dress alike and have a
likeness to each other which is unusual even in |
twins Both began life as workers in the old |
Ipswich lace factories and we're equally skillful
in their art.
''wIDow'' in Utica, N. Y, upon answering