The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

DR. CHAxBELASp. Pasteur's chief assistant,
has discovered that cinnamon is fatal to the
! typhoid microbe.
ANOTHER European merchant steamer Is to be
sent this year by way of the Kara Gates in the
attempt to reach the Jerisei river in Northern
Siberia
LARGE NUMBERS of applications for pensions
are daily received in Washington from the
southern states from soldiers who served in the
Mexican and Creek Indian wars.
AN OUNCE of aqua ammonia to each pailful Of
water is said TO provide the quickest restora-
| ton Of tone to exhausted nerves and muscles,
besides making the flesh firm and smooth.
An incandescent lamp has lately appeared in
England in which the flament is coated with a
| layer of silicon, and the degree of vacuum in
side the bulb. It is claimed, can be lessened.
TIE Car of Russia wears the largest ruby in
the world, valued at $4,000 in his crown,
which IS miter-shaped and has on its crest a
cross composed Of five big diamonds supporting
| the ruby.
SPARROW HEADS are legal tender among Mich
igan youngsters in lots of ten. 1t takes one lot
| to buy fish pole, and two will purchase base
ball, wien they have been caSned in at the re-
corder's Office.
The increase of about one million people in
| thirteen years in Spain is attributed in great
changes in the hygienic condition of the large
| cities and towns.
THREE nails of the cross have been found in
very singular place. namely, in the ruins of the
| theater at Zurich. which was burned. 1t is pre-
| sumed that these relics were hidden by monks
| during the reformation.
THE largest greenback extaut is worth $4,000,
and there is only one such note in existence. OF
5000 notes there are seven, and when you come
| down to the ordinary everyday 81 900 note,
| there's millions in it,
ELECTRIC TRACTION is said to be fairly boom
| ing in London. In few weeks line of omni-
| buses run by electricity is to be started. They
| will be driven by storage batteries and have
| seating capacity for twenty-six passengers
PROF. THOMPSON. who was teacher in Phila-
| delphia when he made the discoveries which
have made him a millionaire, predicts that
sooner or later the problem will be solved of
getting electrical power from fuel direct with
out the aid Of steam.
IT Is CLAIMED that among the fifty-six chill
dren born to Brigham Young nearly every pro-
fession and calling is represented by the 'boys"
| Several of the latter graduated from the An
napolis naval school, and one of them is a colo
| mel in the United States army.
VIENNA BAKER who has his shop in one of
| the poor quarters of the town is rapidly becom-
ing rich from the simple device of putting a
| Oakes, and his customers, to whom ducat is a
fortune, fairly fight for the loaves.
| JEANNE ANDREE. a Partisan stage beauty four
years ago, has just died of paralysis at the
| Saint Anne's madhouse Her madness first
| showed itself three years ago in an offer which
| she made to a jeweler in the Rue de La Paix to
| buy the whole contents of his shop.
BEFORE the Louisiana Lottery Company can
secure what it wants it must control the votes
| nj fVVO Oft rdS Of hot hrap aft ha
ture, and a majority of the people voting at the
| state election in 1892, when the necessary
| amendment to the constitution would be SUD-
mitted
THE INVENTOR of the steam hammer, James
Nasmyth, died on May at Kensington, aged So
| In 1899, when a shaft to be forged for the
| Great Britain. bigger than anything ever
| forged before, the existing hammers were found
| to be incapable of doing the work They could
not make bigger shaft than thirty inches in
| diameter. Nasmyth then produced his ham
mer.
| GEORGE T. ANGEL, the Boston humanitarian,
| suggests drowning as the most painless disposi-
| ton of kittens. He believes that putting kit
| tens in an ordinary flower pot, and then plung
ing it upside in pail OF Tub of water, is about
| as humane method as can be found. The air
escapes through the hole in the bottom or
rather the top of the flower pot, and it instantly
! fills with water
A COMMITTEE is now invest eating at Ravenna
| the precise locality where the urn containing
| the bones of Dante was in 1870 Previously the
same committee discovered a cow Mt
| painting by GioUto, containing a portrait of
| Dante. the only really authentic portrait of
| him known. 1t is soon to be reproduced, and
| will change the accepted notion of Dante's
| looks decidedly.
THE SALE of the original manuscripts of
| Charles Dickens and Wilke Collins, with some
| autograph programmes of private theatricals
| in which both took part which begins in Lon
| doa in July, promises to be an interesting one.
| The entire original manuscripts of mo Name"
| The Moolstone" and THE Woman in White
| of Collins and the mauus ripts of some of
| Dickens poems are in this collection.
| THE OTHER DAY a North Carolina woman
| started for the haymow to see how hen was
| getting along that was setting on some eggs.
On entering the barh the woman was surprised
| to see the old hel taking her babies down her
| self. She would PICK one up in mr. mouth and
| fly down with it, lay it down and continue the
process until she carried them all down, tbir-
teen safe and went on about her duty.
DEPRESSION has been discovered in the
| Egyptian desert which is all that remains of
reservoir constructed by the patriarch Joseph
| for irrigation purposes when he was Pharaons
prime minister. 1t is proposed to reopen it;
| and it has been estimated that this would add
5000, 000 acres to the 10000 acres now under
cultivation in Egypt. 7 le reservoir originally
covered $50 square miles, and was $50 feet deep.
THERE is lively church fight in progress in
| Stratford, Conn, and particularly bitter one.
| too. The cause of dispute, primarily. is debt
of 1000, the two factions representing extrav-
ayance and economy respectively. The first
| step in retrenchment was to reduce the pastors
! salary from 81 500 to $1,000. In the quarrel
| which followed two prominent members became
| so odious to portion of the society that re-
| ward of 500 for their corpses has been posted
! on the church door.
| CHICAGO DRUG CLERK, who has been left
| fortune and the title of Count de Royal by an
] uncle of his, who died lately in Berlin has de-
| termined That his wife snall not be deprived of
| one of the chief diversions of being counts
wife. He was married to her years ago, but
| will be remarked to her on Sunday in the
| Protestant Episcopal cathedral in full uniform
| and, it the bishop should not prevent it, O full
| brass brand isto re,ede the couple UP the man
| aisle. He's bent on having Royal old time.
IT Is said that the extent to which the Brook
Ign bridge is detrauded by passenger who drop
bad tickets, wrong tickets. things that do not,
but which cannot be noted by tue choppers
in the ush of business, can hardly be realized
by persons who have not opportunity to see
tine contents OF the boxes at The close of a day
of heavy travel on the railroad They contain
tickets of almost unlimited variety. elevated
railroad tickets, single and in packages, theaier
checks, pawn Tickets. cigarette pictures and
CO lpons, a lvertising cards. collar buttons cuff
buttons and the like nd inJihituns.