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

IL FRANCE there are upward Of 2o.0oO appli-
cants for 500 vacancies in the public service in
the department of the Seine This is a shade
below the average applications for rural post
hnastershlp IN this country.
SUPT- ROGERS Of the Michigan military
academy broke through the ice when skating
the other day. and the cadets showed their dis
ciplne by singing Down Went McGinty'' with
military promptness and precision.
ROBERT BROWNING is said TO have TRANSLATED
parts of Homer when he was but years old
In his struggles with the Greek poet Robert
must have got his English so badly mixed that
he could never afterward straighten it out.
EVEN the London Times sometimes introduces
an innovation into its columns. The United
Kingdom is now agitated over the feet that the
Times has be IN to add the page number after
the titles Of the different articles cited in the
taole or contents that it prints with every issue
AN OLD LADY in New Haven died the other day
and left $4,000 Ito James Brown of Stonington,"
and when James was notified I'VE of him APP
peared TO claim the cash. AS she didn't partic
ularlZe the James she wanted to make happy,
they will have TO divide the money between
them.
MIMI. CAsTINET, a lion tanner entered the cage
at Brussels recently to separate lion and a
hyena who were fighting. and although the lion
had formerly been much attached to her, he
| threw himself upon her and maugled her terri
oily. and probably fatally before the attendants
could rescue her.
MILTON HoUsER of the vicinity of Shenandoah,
Pa, bent his head to drink from brook. when
he felt lizard pass his lips, and quick as
thought closed his teeth upon il. Then he tried
to extract /. by grasping its tail, but finding it
| too slippery, and observing that it was making
| toward mis- throat, he bit the reptile in two
AN ORGANIZATION called THE Medical De-
| Tense Union" has been formed in London,
which, upon the annual payment of 10 shillings
by doctor, guarantees u defend him against
any charge made with matchmaking or other
improper purpose during the year. Branches
OF the organization are to be established through
out Great Britain.
THE WAY immigration has impressed itself on
Minneapolis is shown by reference to the new
directory of that fiourishng city, which con-
tans 1000 Ole Olson', 1910 Ericx' Ericksons.
LIB NetS Nelson's, 1,0l1 John JohnSonS, ITO
Peter Petersons. $50 Jurgen Jurgensons, 800
Paul Paulsens, 500 Swan Swansons and 210
Andrew Andersons.
THE HIGHT of ocean waves has recently been
measured in a very ingenious way by floating a
sensitive aneroid barometer, to which a record
ing apparatus was fittel on the surface of the
water. Il has thus been proved that the waves
attain hight OF forty fe from trough to crest
in fairly heavy sea- aud probably very much
| more in violent gales.
THE refusal, in London, of the Royal acad-
| envy to award this year the gold medal and
tr3v ling stuientship OF 500. has given great
| dissatisfaction in architectural circles. This
prize is only offered bielnially. Two were
deemed unworthy OF the award and the other
two were disqualified because they failed to at
tend the lectures prescribed.
The oTHRR DAY there came to Salem, Ore, a
| box car that left Detroit sixteen days before.
| It contained p. HARDWOOD, wife and two babies,
seven cows. two horses two sheen and an end
1 les IF hrld md fr,rp
ture, and farm appliances. Mr.. Harwood
said the trip was made easily and quite pleas
antly, considering the crowded condition of the
car.
| AMONG the passengers by the steamer Servia.
which arrived in New YORK from Liverpool on
Monday afternoon, was young Chinese st I'D
ent. named Y. L Woo. This is not his first
visit to America. He was of the thirty boys
sent over by the Chinese government in the
summer of 1872, with a view to obtain the best
educational advantages which Am erican col
| legeS and scientific schools could afford
THE MANAGER of a New York establishment
| employing many girls tells the Sun: Until a
| very short time ago we received every day
| nearly as many letters for the girls in our en-
| ploy as Tor the firm. The greater part Of these
| letters came from young men with whom the
| girls were carrying on filtration. Not a few
| cases that resulted disastrously to the girls
| from this apparently harmless amusement came
| to our notice Then we determined to put a
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| that letters for them would not be received by
/ us, but would be returned to the postofIice.''
| A DISCOVERY of equal importance to New
| Testament scholars with that which gave Codex
| Aleph to the world has just been made. The
| rumor current in well-lnforme1 quarters cred
its the new find to Byre MOS, the learned arch
| bishop of NlcOdenlia. 1t is said that in some
| Turkish library at Damascus he has found
/ manuscript of the New Tesla ment dating from
| about the middle of the fourth century,. e.,
| of the same antiquity as the COdex SInaiticus
| Indeed, some apDrehenSions are felt whether
| If Is not altogether too much like the Sina itic
| manuscript TO be of the phenomenal import
| ance that another totally in dependent manu-
| script of the same age would be.
| W. f. DENNIS, a civil engina er, has just re-
| turned from the isthmus, where the French
| commissioners are examining De Lesseps' ditch,
/ and deciding VII ather the French should con
| tinue the work on it to completion. THE people
| of Colon said Mr.. Dennis, naturally much
/ int ested in The action of tn government at
| Washington on the San Bias affair AS to tho
future of the canal there IS only this to be said:
| The commits 5iolerS are able and seen to be
| impartial men: Tn y decline to give out an idea
| of what they shall advise when they r turn to
Paris, but so far As is known t. cir views are ia
| vorabe to the completion of the ditch. They
may b. in New YORK soon."
REV DR.. LYMAN ABBo IT is drawing nearly as
| large congregat ms to Plymouth church as
| Henry Ward Beecher did in his last days In
| his last Sunday sermon DR.. Abbott took rather
| pessimistic view of things. The greed of the
| present day is a crying evil he said ''The
| rich and the poor are being separated by a
| wider chasm. The danger in America is not -
| much in democracy as plutocracy. Greed and
| alfshneSs are responsible for fraud at the bal
| lot-boX, and then there is the Accountable
| scramble for the 900 government Offices. on
| one page of a newspaper we read of a fashion
| able ball, where gems flashed and costly satins
| rustled, and on another page of a starving
| woman, pressing her dying babe to her b. east
| The women of to-day care not for domestic
| duties as did their grandmothers.' -
Towers for the worlds fair have been pro-
| jected in such numbers that the COMMITTEES
/ which will decide between rival inventors will
| beready for the insane asylum before they have
| concluded their report, says the New York
/ Press I am told that no less than fifty designs
| have already been sent to the committee head
| quarters an that the letters on that subject
| Indicate that a round hundred other inventors
| expect to ask the committee to indorse and take
| up their projects. ChIcagoan told me yester-
| day that their Committee mad been similarly
| besieged, AMI presume that it is the same in
| Washington and st. Louis. When the fair is
| finally located in New York as it will be ali
| these schemes will come floating on here So
far, all the scheme contemplate the erection
of a tower at the expcnss of the management
| of the fair The inventors seem to think thai
| they have only to ask for appropriation of
from one to five millions for their special plans
| to get 1t made.
| A coLoRED CLERGYMAN in St, Paul has a card
| W IN the fape tellq hic m mo ,ha