The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I Cos NdNHoilHS OF RUSSIA.
In THE LARGER CITIES of Northern Italy CO.
operative societies have recently started stores
and dwellings for the benefit of working people
and they are meeting with extraordinary sue
cess.
DoS CARLOS is the most sensible of pretenders.
He has beautiful palace in Venice. and he is
] satisfied to pretend in his comfortable rooms
instead OF going TO Spain and pretending in an
uncomfortable tent and within reach of the
| rlne bullets OF his enemies
| Nor MANY MEN can boast of having had three
| emperors as godfathers for three of their sons.
| There is q brawny smith in the little town of
Brandenburg who has ten sons. Emperor Will
| IAN l. was godfather TO his seventh boy. EN-
| peror Frederick to his eighth, and the present
| emperor TO ms ninth.
| Ex-Governor ALGER is a good deal of a man
himself and he knows it, cut he has found a
bigger one. He tried to induce night clerk in
| a Milwaukee hotel to cash his ch ok for Sl00
| but the latter haughtily informed him that
| though he were the Puniaub of Irrawaddy his
check would not Be honored- u
| A CONGRESS FOR vITIcULrURE will be held in
Rome from the 23d to the 9th of the present
month. The principal object of the congress
| will be the discussion of remedies for the
| Peronosr ora vitlcola and other diseases of the
| vine, cause1 by vegetable parasites. There will
be an International exhibition of apparatus for
toe cure of these diseases, and numerous prizes
A SHARP CONTROVERSY on cremation has been
called forth since the cardinal archbishop of
| Paris issuei his circular in condemnation of the
practice of burning the dead. Various persons
LAY and cierical-aave given their opinions on
| the subject, and among the opponents of Gre
nation is H. Ernest Rsnan. the amiab,e
skeptlc approves OF the cardinals circular as it
Is IN conformity with christian tradition.
THE ONLY ANIMALS that cams over as part
| Blrnum Sh1xV win
were the monkeys. Macy of them were SO mis-
cradle that all felt sorry for them Some of
them lay down as if about to die Others
groaned and reeled to and fro like greenhorns
on ship. Some felt no trouble at all and be-
haVed like human beings making fun of their
less ertunate friends and fellow passengers.
Two IMPROVEMENTS in the mechanism of must
cal instruments are reported. The first of these,
an invention of Herr Emil Olbrich pianist of
Berlin, is a scheme for raising the white keys of
piano to the level of the BLACK, or, if neces-
sary little above them. The other novelty is
| the Encouragement Of the holes of the bassoon
| winch is said to make playing the instrument
| easier and more satisfactory. 1t is the dis
coYery OF Herr Reinhold LANCE, a musician of
| Wiesbaden.
The INVENTION of Mr.. w. j. Norton is likely
to be dangerous rival of the electric light.
He has invented what is alleged to be the
! cheapest light ever known, and yet a light as
| intense and as accurate in its illumination of
colors as the sun at MONDAY 1t is claimed
that 5OO-candle power light of the kind in
| question can be run at the nominal cost of a
| cent an hour. The light in question is essen
| tlaly chemical discovery rather than a
mechanical idea, aud consists of peculiar tape
| Vhat is FED by simple clockwork.
THE FOLLOWING is list of portraits on the
natl nal currency: On United States notes, 81.
Washington; 81, Jefferson; S., Jackson; $40,
| Webster; so, Hamilton $50, Franklin; SlO0
! Lincoln O.
| Clinton; 50 600, Madison; $1,000 jackson On
| 81 yer certificates SO Robert Morris; $50, Com
m 1 Decatur; $50, E1Mard Everett 500,
James Monroe; $500 Charles Sumner; 81 1908
". l.. Marcy. On gold notes. 500 Garfield:
~, Silas Wright; 500, Thomas II. Benton;
you, A. Lincoln: $1,000, Alexander Hamilton;
o',OoJ, James Madison; $4,000, Andrew Jack
| son.
PAIR OF HORSES, owned in Cold Spring. L. l.,
took it into their heads to take a spin down the
Long Island railroad track just about the
time train was coming along They had half
mile lead of the train,7dpd the race was a not
one for mile or so. and Il looked as though the
tram would be diStanced. when all OF a Sudden
the horses came to bridge and being unable
TO checA themselves in their mad career found
themselves hors du combat, the engineer stop
ping bis train just in tune to avoid calamity
The horses were extricated from their embar-
RAISING position by the aid of derrick 1t
took an hour and half to do it, however
| Neither was seriously injured.
IN SOME excavations on the Cueiian Hill have
been found the ruins of an edfice which Signor
Lanciani considers to have formed part of
residence belonging to the Roman Dendrofori
worshipers of Cybee. The part opened out
consists Of a rectangular hall 2I6 meters in
length and meters in width, paved with white
mosaic From an inscription on the walls one
learns that this hall served as pas aye TO the
Hiliarlan basil!ca. On another Inscription one
readS that tn baSca was built during Ha-
urlan reign. There have also been found
Terra Gotta lamp, the handle figure represent
ing Minerva with her wings stretched out. and
second lamp on which is croucling Venus
AMONG the remarkable examples of bold en-
cheering in the great sugar refinery of Claus
Spreckels at Philadelphia, Pa, one of the most
unique is the hanging or aerial steam engine
foundations. The engines used in this estab-
lishment are distributed practically all over the
buildings, large proportion of them being on
upper floors. Some of these engines are bolted
to iron beams or Orders on second and third
stories OF the building, and are consequently
innocent of all foundation Some of these an
giues ran noiseesSly and satisfactorily whiIe
others produced more or less vibration and
rattle. To correct the latter, the engineers
simply suspended foundations from the bot
toms OF the engines, so that in looking at them
from the lower floors, theS are literally hanging
in tie air. 4 foundation does service to an en-.
CINE, or any machinery, it see ms, by its weight
alone; hence 1t makes little difference whether
tue foundation be firmly embedded IN mother
earth or in the air.
THE ESTATE Of Marwood. the famous English
hangman. is in bankruptcy. 1t appears by his
books tLat his business, although very active.
was by no means in fiourishng condition at
the time of his death. Marwood was a shoe
maker by trade. In Horncastle, Lincolnshire.
where he lived, the people believed that he was
wealthy, and they were surprised to learn that
he died insovent. His profits in hemp vera
considerable but he was Spectator and was
not at all fortunate. In his books there an
pears an item OF &25 against the city of Dublin
the balance due for the hanging of the murder
erS of Burke and Cayendish. Outside of his
passion for Speculations, Marwood was very
close and economical. He kept his business to
himself, and even his wife knew little or moth
ing of his affairs He is undoubtedly the Fl st
hangman that ever figured in the list of bank
rupts, and his ill luck in business ventures out
side of bis professional engagements may have
a tendency to weaken the popular faith In the
good fortune that hangman's rope or a nor
ton of it, is sure to bring to its happy possessor
But, after all, it may be that Marwoo1 sold ali
his ropes and kept not one p.ece for himself
If this should turn out to be the truth it will
furnish startling warning to all other hang
| men.
Button in His Nose
A singular operation was performed in Balti-
| more the other day nv Dir I w Hartla, rha