The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST
The champion pug of England weighs but five
pounds.
OF FAMILY OF SIXTEEN near Taylorstown,
Pa, thirteen have died o; diphtheria-
DETROIT ELECTRIC LIGzT COMPANY insures
the lives of its employees for 5000 each.
The latest addition to the HiIlman menagerie
is cat with human hands on its front legs.
AN Iowa CONGREGATION borrowed si00, 900 to
build a church aud secured the creditor with
insurance policies upon the lives of certain
members.
AN AMERICAN COMPOSERS FESTIVAL is an
bounced to take place at Omaha. Neb-. Nov. q,
p and % the works to be performed TO be those
Oh native American composition.
McGnL COLLEGE OBSERVATORY at Montreal
and Greenwich have been placed in telegraph
communication. The time in transmitting sig
mas the $500 miles is three-quarters of sec
PIrTsBURG ROMAN CATHOLICS have organized
the American Federation of Catholic Societies,
the purpose of which is to consolidate all the
catholic organizations in the country under
that name
NTHE GREAT LIBRARY at Paris there is a Chi
nese chart of the heavens made 600 years
before Christ. showing the location of 1,460
stars, correct as corroborated by the best sci
entists or the present day.
In MAILING the first half of his manuscript Of
Darkest Africa from Cairo to the Scribners
Stanley wrote; When it is done. not Wander
bits wealth would induce me to write upon the
subject at any length again"
ACCORDING TO FIGURES compiled by the Chi
caeo Times. out of l4,77s murderers who took
human life in the six years from 1884 to 1889,
only $50 paid the penalty of their crimes by
yielding their own lives TO the law.
AN ELECTRIC TYPEWRITER is being constructed
which will write letters in New York as they
are transmitted from Boston. and vice versa,
tne communications being transmitted stimuli
taneously over four separate wires.
TWENTY SURVIVORS of the charge at Bal.
aklava are in an English workhouse. and the
recent effort to RAISE fund for these veterans
only secured the paltry sum OF S120.
A MANCHESTER GRANITE CUTTER has con-
tracted, for 5000, to cut out of Barre (Vt.)
granite fifty-ton monument, to be placed over
the grave of Hugh W. Hughes. who in life was
known as the Slate King of America"
DURING CLEAR DAYS people of Carthage ILL.,,
have distinctly heard the ringing of a ponder
Gus churc bell at Golden, twenty eight miles
away. The bell hangs in the German Lutheran
church tower at Golden, and it requires two
men to ring il.
LoNGFELLow's HOUSE in Cambridge is now oc-
cupied by his eldest daughter and her uncle,
Rev. Samuel Longfellow. The home is kept
unchanged Miss Longfellow's sisters, Mrs. K.
II: Dana and Mrs. Thorpe, have built houses ad
Joining the old estate.
BEFORE THE CLOSE of the year 1892 the pension
taxes alone will average over S14 year on
every head of family in the United States The
present average per head or family is exactly
50 year, or S10S.0O00O0 annually on IL, OO0, 900
heads OF family in population of G0,000.000.
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO a Swiss cobbler named
Bernaserni left his home in the Canton Tessn
and emigrate to the Argentine Republic He
has now returned the possessor of millions
which he made as a dealer in leather and hides
He IS now building on the place where his
Swiss house stood an asylum for 200 children.
A SHOE FACTORY at New Canaan, Conn, has
just made pair of shoes for Charlotte, N. c.,
man. They ara the biggest ones ever made
The size is No. 81. Eacn shoe is twenty inches
long and eight inches wide. The man who is to
wear taem is a clergyman. six feet ten inches
tall, and weighs 410 pounds. and the county in
which he dwells is roomy one.
THE CHINAMEN of Astoria, Ore, are amusing
themselves with huge top made out of an
empty 25-pound white lead key. square OPEN
ing is cut in the side and it takes three men to
spin it, one to hold the top and two to pull the
string with a stick which sets it in motion
While spinning it sounds like the whistle of
steamer, and can be heard three blocks away.
ROBERT BRowNING's WILL, dated Feb. 10, 1884.
was witnessed by Tennyson and F. T. Palgrave,
and left all his property to his son, the artist,
Robert Barrett Browning save charge of
81, 900 year to Miss Browning, the poets sis
ter. The gross value of the personal estate in
the United Kingdom is sworn under SS4 OOO
but there Is also property in Italian stocks and
real estate.
AT DURHAM, N. c., since the city has had cleo
fri0 llnr DatiO thn e
worm have been greatly reduced, the insects
having been killed by the lights. 1t is suggested
that a powerful electric light in the center of
one OF the sea islands growing the famous long
staple cotton might save all the plantations sur
rounding IL from the destruction so frequently
wrought by the cotton army worm.
NJ. BARTHoLDI, the wellknown architect of
the American figure of Liberty is engaged
in designing a monument TO commemorate the
balloon service of the Prussian war
which is to be erected in the square of St
Pierre, Paris. He proposes TO construct a
model of a balloon out of thick glass with an
iron-work netting. An electric arc lamp will
occupy the centre, and light up the whole in
terror.
JOHN DEUTscH, 10 years old, is employed at a
basket factory at Baltimore, and during dinner
hour, while taking pull at his coffee flask his
tongue was drawn into the nozzle by suction so
that, try as he would, he could not get it ont. II
was drawn further and further in until the flask
make matters worse. began to swell, and after
vainly trying to get it loose himself, he hurried
10 the hospital. DIR. Warfeld, after some diff
Guilty, released the disf1gured member.
THE HINDoo BARRIERS of Bombay made an
extraordinary demonstration in the last week.
of April A monster meeting was held for the
purpose of considering the question of shaving
the heads OF Hindoo widows, an old custom
About 400 BARRIERS having assembled one of
them, Babajee More, stated that the BARRIERS of
old were happy and contented, but latterly had
been weighted with curse. Trade had fallen
off and they had become poor The curse could
only be accounted for by the fact that snaying
the heads of poor, innocent widows was a sin
1t was against the Hindoo scriptures to deprive
a widow of her hair, The meeting thereupon
resolved that no barber should shave a widows
head, aud that if he did he should be excom-
municated.
A POLISH PIANIST, NJ. Paderewski, is the lion
of the Paris musical season. He Grams the
Sale Erard whenever he plays, and he plavs
Chopin chiefly and best. A critic SAYS: .'Of a