The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| BELL cast recently for the Kharkov cathe-
dral contains es per cent OF pure silver. 1t
weighs Go English pounds, and its vibrations
last several minutes.
NINETY YEARS AGO Mr.. Palmer, an actor, fell
dead on the Liverpool stage. The moment be-
/ fore his death he had exclaimed 20, God, O.
/ God, there is another and better world"
TIE Primrose League Of England is nearing
| the millionth member When the returns were
made up at the close OF last month the regis
tered members numbered 939, $780, and the hab-
| itatioDs !, i03.
TIE INDIAN GOVERNMENT publishes q return
showing that in the years 1887, 1888 and 1889 572
males and 1872 females were tortured by dacoits
| in the central division of Upper Burmah.
One hundred and eighteen cases resulted in
death
A TRAIN was recently brought to astandstill
at Brierfleld, near Nelson, owing to a truck
laden with seven barrels OF Strawberries comm
into coils on with the engine. The fruit so
clogged the machinery that it took 20 minutes
70 clean it.
The THREE REASONS which a good woman
presented for objecting to a preacher were
striking ones She said that, in the first place,
he read his sermon; in the second, he did not
read 1t well; and in the third place, 1t was not
worth reading.
MoUssA BEY has been banished to Mecca,
punishment he processes to like He says ban
ishment is much better than the bowstring, be-
sides which, Punishment TO the Holy City is
really prize package, so to speak, as such
things go.
THE YOUTHFUL KING OF SPAIN has not been
out of the cradle long, but he appears to have
full appreciation of his position in life. One
day recently he was served for lunch with the
breast of a chicken cut into small pieces He
at once began TO help himself without the
Mt oft hpr Or orb ira Cof "a
attendant, gravely, Kings never eat with their
fingers" This king does" responded his
majesty. continuing his meal.
A NEW YORK MAN says he has discovered fly
destroyer that discounts all the fly papers and
fly posons that have yet been put into use
Last spring he went into the country and
brought back with him when he returned num-
Der OF punches Of clover blossoms. He hung
them in his rooms to ornament the walls The
clover dried and since then he says not fly
will stay in the room. He watched and studied,
and says he has Dissolved that flies cannot stand
the scent of dried clover.
JOHN HITz, late consul general of Swtzer-
land. thinks there IS some mistake about Will
lam Tell having been turned down, as it were by
that government. He observes: ''Only recently
collections have been made all over this coun-
try for a monument to William Tell, to be
erected upon the place in Altdorf where the
hero made his famous apple shot. These col
lections were forwarded by the representative
Of the Swiss government at Washington to the
FEDERAL authorities In Berne. The Swiss govern
ment itself contributed to this monument fund,
| am informed, and would surely not have
done SO did they consider the Tell story merely
myth, or had they taken the action your
wel-meaning article refers to-"
ALTHOUGH LORD TENNYsoN, who recently eel
ebrated his 0sth birthday, is still hale and
hearty, yet the London press has again started
discussion of the rival merits of the various
Candidates for the post OF poet laureate, which
Will become vacant at his death. Tennyson
| himself has nominated "Owen Meredith" as
| his successor. The Queen favors the Earl of
| Rosslyn, whom but few outside court circles
| have ever heard mentioned as a poet. Lord
| Salisbury supports Alfred Austin, who is fire.
quent visitor at Hatfield house, and the Prince
| or Wales is supposed rightly wrongly to
| favor William Morris. Swinburne is consid
cred to have put himself out of running by his
recent ode commencing the plots to assassinate
| the Gar.
SOMETHING in the wheel pit at Cooks Mills,
Prestontown, Conn. the other day, made the
wheel gurgle, wheeze and catter, so the mill
man shut off the water aud the machinery
stopped. Then the water oozed out of its pit,
he aud his man went down into the dark hole TO
see what the matter was Lying on their faces
they gazed into the gloom, and heard something
creak and splash about in the wet pit Two
big swapping turtles were in the hole. and they
appeared to share the miler's desire that in
some way they might be got out. The neigh
bors rallied at the mill, and after good deal of
work and by means of tackles and ropes the
beasts were hoisted out of the pit. One turtle
weighed forty-three pounds and the other thirty
seven.
THERE are trusts and trusts in almost every
conceivable product, but it has remained for a
Chicago man to form a tonsorial trust, the first
on record. A. B. Russell, broker is the origi-
nator of the scheme 1t has grown out of the
great difficulty experienced by the travelling
public in finding we'll regulated barber shops
where good service can be obtained In cities
with which the unfortunate traveller is upac-
qualnted Seeking toremedy the evil, Mr.. Rus
sell has Incorporated an institution known as
the National Tonsorial Parlor Company with a
capital stock OF S25 900. Barber shops are to
be established in all the large cities of the United
States. to be owned and controlled by the COIN
pany. Tickets of membership will be issued
for sum comparatively small, probably SIS
which will be good for one year, and which will
entitle the holder to all the service required
for that length of time in any city included in
the trust.
\ LADY of Warsaw advertised in the papers
that she was willing to accept proposals for
marriage, and, giving description of herself
she also enumerated the qualifications she re-
quired in her sutton. Among these qualifica
lions she mentioned that he must be the owner
OF real estate She received many letters in
| reply but one of them was strikingly original
The writer said that he possessed al that which
the lady desired In her future husband. He was
goodlookng, he held a respectable position he
had many friends and was received In good So
ciety. and could support family comfortably.
AS to real estate he had that, too; he was the
owner Of a plat of ground in a cemetery which
was large enough to accommodate him a wife
and six children. The lady selected the writer
of this letter from the whole lumber of s,lItors
She reasoned that young man of his position
who had thought of acquiring graves for him
self and large family before he was married
was surely worthy of the endowment of her
hand and heart.
POLICE JUSTICE DUFFY is one Of the "charac-
tersn Of New Y ork His decisions" from the
bench have uniqueness and originality to
which no other judge in this city can lay claim
Recently he made two interesting decisions
Two women were arraigned before him who
were charged with disorderly conduct Thew
were returning home from a theatrical matinee
and were caught in a crowd on the street Two
policemen ordered them to move on " which
resulted IN the women giving them pieces of
their mind Then they were arrested
Judge Duffy decided that women.
no matter how respectable should
not go to the matinees unescorted by male com
panlons. This, from his standpoint, was the
cause OF all this trouble. Then he fined them
% each, but RENTED the fines afterward on ac-
count OF the good character they had estab.
nshed. Another case was that of woman who
made a COMPLAINT against her husband for nom
support This led Judge Duffy to remark:
why woman, he can't live with you No man
could 1t is the frequent sight of such women
as you, and the hell on earth they can make for
husbands, that mas deferred men from marry
wife, ~