The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE authorities in Berlin have Just discovered
a cunning method devised to circumvent the
law prohibiting the importation of American
| hogs into Germany American hams are now
| taken to Holland, where they are smoked and
| then sent over the frontier as Dutch hams.
| VAQUERos driving band of cattle to Sierra
| City, last month, were overtaken by the great
| snow storm. They knew the locality of a hay-
| stack, however. winch they reached by sinking
a shaft twenty five fee in depth through the
| snow, and by that means secured feed for their
| live stock.
PARIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS are overcrowded and
the authorities propose to remedy the difficulty
| by prohibiting the attendance at them of child
| dren of foreigners. There are 60 900 foreign
| children in the city, and at least 5000 of them
| are getting French education free at the pub
| lie schools.
| ONE London belle who is going to attend the
| carnival at Nice has ordered her black satin
| evening dress to be trimmed with let snakes
These snakes are to be life-sized, ana they will
| cost deal of money. They are TO be coiled
about the bodice and skirt in as natural man
| ner as possible.
| A FRENCH FAMILY in the department of the
Sarthe is excited over the story that fortune
| of $40 900 awaits it in this country. having
been left by a relative who died here tw nty
years ago, and whose estate has since, they
are told, been unclaimed. Sixty heirs have
| turned up already.
THE latest attraction of the London Zoo is a
| collection of monitor lizards, the largest ami
mails of their class. They are SO large and
| strong that 1t is said in India burglars some
times make use of them, Selling hold of the
lizards tail and being drawn by it to the upper
| windows of a house.
| ACCORDING to an Australian writer the aver
age young man of that part of the world walks
| up to a,woman at a ball, and saying Let me
| see your programme" proceeds to write in his
| own name wherever he sees dance that pleases
MN. without consulting the woman at all. He
| never says please" or Thank you,'' and be-
| comes irritable if the woman hesitates to hand
! over her programme at the first demand
AN Italian rag picker, arrested in Springfield.
Mass for stealing some lead pipe, did not have
much trouble about bail. "How much Won
wanta?" he querred, as he fumbIed in his
| ragged clothing and produced two $lO0 bills
| beside other greenbacks of high denominations
| Guess one of those will bring you around To
court in the morning. remarked the clerk and
the Italian Immediately handed over 500.
IT is SAID that the English government will
| at the beginning of the next financial wear.
enter 1000 boys as apprentices In the navy. and
it is suggested that 500 of these'be set to wor,,
| in the stoke hole, engineers in the navy now
complaining that it is almost impossible to eet
| good tlremen on man-of-war In the Italian
| navy a steamer is kept constantly in commits
sion for the sole purpose of training stokers be-
fore they are put upon the regular vessels of the
navy.
THE LADIES of Calcutta are in despair over an
outbreak of smallpox just at the hight of the
social season in the part of the city inhabited
| by the Darzi cast, who do all the tailor work
| for the English residents Every person in the
costume of that caste who ventures out of his
own section of the city is turned back at once
by the police, and the ladies can neither get
their gowns that are being made nor send new
ones to be made. Taior-made gowns are all
the rage, too.
OUTSIDE of the Porta Stabiana at Pompeii, in
stratum of cinders, have just been found the
impressions of three bodies and a tree. Casts
taken of them show the bodies to have been
those of two men and a woman. One of the
men was in kneeling position and the other
stretched fiat on his back. The woman lay face
downward with her arms stretched out Nv
the impression left by the leaves of the tree Il
has been decided that the destruction OF the
city did occur in November, and not, as asserted
in August.
'WHAT was the largest fee ever paid to a
physician" some one asked the New York Star.
Doctors, as a rule. reticent about their fees;
but there is a story, probably authentic, that
DR.. Willard Parker was paid Sl0O, 900 Tor the
successful removal OF an excrescence from the
face aud neck of the son and heir Of one of the
wealthiest families in the vicinity Of New York
Commodore Vanderbilt bequrathed $4,000 TO
one OF his doctors; but millionaires seldom re-
member the physician I'm their wills. They leave
that 20 be settled by the executors DIR. Parker's
foe iu the case alluded 10 is pro9b bly, tue largest
ever paid, IN this country at leaat.