The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Los ANGELES PICKLE FACTORY bought eighty
tons Of cucumoers at Anaheim recently for l
cent pound.
4 LONDON BOOKSELLER recently received an
order from New Zealand for s4,OCo worth Of
books Tor the use OF tue native police.
CHEEKY FELLOW wanted a Pennsylvaril
railroad conductor TO hold the train fe minutes
at BurgettstOgn while he got married.
DAVID MARSHAL of Lapeer. Mich. who has
been ademocrat for eighty tour years, has f ed
q request that his old collection OF democrat ic
tickets be placed in bis coffin ani buried VITA
him.
"A SUMNER KAN COUNTY man went into the
country to collect a note which he held on a
farmer. Tne farmer was not at home but his
wife was. and she hoped onto the holder of the
note AMI TOOK it from him and gave hum good
drubbng into the bargain.
The New York and New England railroad has
been brought up standing by tie village Of
Waterbury Conn for blowing its whistles
w-tain the town limits 1t is the general visa
10 that town that nothing shall int frre with
the merry clatter of the Waterbury watch.
SMALLPOX holds sway a: Colon and Cartsg ma,
United States of Colombia, the steamship
Samara h wing arrived at Boston with one of
her crew dead and five others down with the
dreaded disease Smallpox has also broken
out anew at Huantauamo and Santiago de
Cuba. and all shipmaSters must be on the
alert 70 prevent long detentions at quarantine.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO when gentleman began
the culture of bees he suffered severely from
stings, but they have now lost their force For
several years past they have caused only a
slight and rather pleasurable sensation, and
that lasts for only few minutes. But this
thorough incubation against bee poison leaves
MN as susceptible as ever, to the sting of a
wasp.
The visit of the German emperor to Cop3n-
hagen and Cnristiana is said to have revived the
old idea of a great Scandinavian empire, to
embrace S~edeI, Norway, Denmark, aud the
former Swedish provinces OF Finland. This is
thought to be the reason for cars change
of plan and decision not to visit Copenha gen.
Perhaps, also, 1t is from expectation of such an
effort that the car has suddenly begun a more
decided outstanding Of Finland.
RECENT INVESTIGATIONS in Indian prisons
have revealed curious physiological condition
induced by thieves for the purpose of secret;pg
valuaoleS. They allow q heavy lead bullet to
slide down the throat, and keep it in position
Tor half an hour at time. In about year
pouch is formed into which anything
small may be thrust without interfering with
speech or breath. at present there are in Cal
cutta jail twenty prisoners with these throat
pouches.
EXTREME UGLINEss is on the list of disqualif-
cations aid down By the medical department for
French conscripts. "Excessiv. ugliness," says
the chief of the department makes a man
TiUlCuOuS, prevents MIN from having authority
over his comrades, and leaves him morbid and
sensitive. Male hySteria' is another valid
plea for excuse from military service The
army doctors say it exists among French con-
scripts, and 1t is the more Objectionable as it is
Contagious
They tell a story of an Indiana judge who was
trying thief who stole bank bills of the face
value Of S35-this was in the days of the wildcat
| currency. The lawyer who defended the crImi-
nal argued that as the actual value of the notes
was a good deal less than the face value the of
| Tense did not constitute grand larceny. But the
| judge knocked him out by saying that he did
not propose to establish the principle in his
court that a man could steal at par and be
| tried at a discount"
| Postmaster GENERAL JOIN WANAMAKER can
be polite under difficulties, says the New York
| Star. Not very long ago lady wrote to him
| from this state, asking If he could not devise
| peculiar stamp for the use of persons in mourn
| ing. She pointed out the absurdity of affiXing
a glddy red, blue or green stampS0 an envelope
edged with black and begged MIN TO consider
| the interests of tue widow and the fatherless
! The p0StnaSter general RESPONDED gravely
aclnowlelsi gths justice of the ady's observa
tions, and promising 60 give her question serious
| consideration.
| THERE is to be Greater Vienna " com
mittee, composed of the mayors of the different
! suburbs of Vienna, have for the last few months
! been considering the union of Vienna proper
| is ready. he mayor OF the new city will be
| elected by the town council for six years. There
will be nineteen districts, and the local affairs
| of each will be managed by a council elected BY
| the ratepayers as before There will also be a
| central council of twenty-one members elected
| by the local councils. Kahlcnberg and Schoen-
| Drum and m ore than dozen villages hitherto
regarded as summer resorts will be taken in
| 1t is thought, by year from next January.
THE latest examination of cheese shows that
| the rOpulation nj Emu1 anthaI sort of Gruvara
to be as follows: In each gramrne of The
cheese. when fresh, from $1,000 to 10000 mi
crobes are found. This number increases with
time. \ cheese seventy one days old contains
| 100000 bacteria per gramme. A soft cheese
| twenty-five days old and much denser than the
preceding has 100000, and a cheese forty-tiv
days old 100000 microbes per gramme. The
| center is Ireer than the outside. A cheese, neal
the periphery, has from 3,600.00J to $500, 00(
| microbes. According to the mean of these two
! figures there are as many living organisms IL
| in 800 grammes of such cheese as there art
| people upon the earth.
WILL a hair from a horses name or tail de
velop into a snake if placed in the water
Scientific men say not, but j. H Pierce O
Mount Pleasant. Conn, says that the sclentid,
! men don { know everything Mr.. Pierce claim
that under certain conditions he can aud ha
| produced from horsehairs perfectly forme
snakes, the head being fully developed witt
| eyes and mouth, the reptile having life, motion
and growing in length and thickness. He ha,
| at pre- ent three in process of evolution will
| which he expects to silence all doubt as to tn
| truth of his statements. A few days ago MIR
| Pierce obtained two hair snakes, as he CALI
| them, and exhibited them TO several person
| here whose opinions appear to be evenly di
| vided as to whether they are species of wate
snake or really produced by horsehair 1t re
| quires about three months to develop the snakes
Mr. Plerce says
A sTALwART HUNGARIAN who had been in t1i
country but few days. applied at Schenle,
park, Pittsourg, on Saturday, for employment
and ran against some jokers. They gravely in
| formed HIM that the position vacant was thai
| of hostler to the bear, which is now quite {
chunk of an animal. He was furnished with
| currycomb and brush and sent in to fix vi
brun. Neither Hun nor bear tlincned tom tn
| encounter. The bear enjoyed being scratched
with the currycomb, and showed 1t by rolling il
dirt as fast as he was cleaned. He also eviuceC
his appreciation by playfully clawirg his valet
and by the tins the latter had completed hi
job he had no clothes on worth mentioning
| The jokers had to buy the Hungarian a new sui
| of clothes. and. being unable to furnish hin
with situation. the city having made no pre-
vision for a bear keeper, they made up a purs
as an acknowledgment of his pluck.
A METEOR of prodigious size and blazing lik
lost sun, fell in the western sky at Norwich
| Conn, few nights ago. 1t made an astoundin,
and splendid spectacle. A reporter, strollinI
along a country road in the western part of tn
town, had an unobStructed view of it. He wa
| looking down wien the meteor suddenly blazel
out IN the dark night. Its descent began nea
the zenith exactly in the west, and it fell slant
ing into the northwest. 1t appeared to re nearl
| white light that was quite as powerful a
that orb is and which Etrhted I'M tho oo,ptr