The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Wi1o" Wonn," living thres miles east Of
Keno, has tan thu contract to carry the
oni'eo Statenail between Reno and Irish.
AN ELoPINe ,uPLE were married the other
Gay IN Mnskoe. I. T.. toe groom being 62
years oid and t bride 50. They ran away be-
| match. S- ~ '-9
Another cLAIAxr for the title of 'the
| highest church spi in the world has an
peared. Il is the chedraI at Ohm. Wurtem-
| completed ---e1' -'-' '''' ~
GERHARD koHLFs, = African explorer, ex-
presses the opinion thathe Trans Sahara rail
way could be built o1lyfter the coronle-e dis
sorI T., OF a. the peo2is THROUGH whose terri
@''0oO picked soldiers wou be necessary.
| A RESIDENT of New Yorlnas saveral curious
Cd Chinese coins. One, it, said. dates from
| the administration OF KinsWv Wang MS p
| Z; lt is OF bronze. with ellrated Characters
which modern Cinnamon caniot Secipher An
! Isl, $50 B. c. w
TIE Moslem abhor bells, which thy say draw
evil spirits together In place # {hem thew
have men called Muezzins. stationed in their
minarsts, who call out five times each day for
| the people to come to prayer. TheirAcry is,
There is no God but God, and Mohamnai is
his prophet" \
| ONE OF the most cur1ously named socetia in
| London has a literary tendency. and is caed
odd Volumes United once Month to Fem
fertect settle: Oblect-Convivalty and III
tual Admiration" 1t is commonly knownas
.He Settle of Odd Volumes" and the conviviI-
ity feature of its title is never neglected.
Mss GARRISON of Brooklyn went over
| Newark. stayed two days AMI when she n
! turned she wanted an item put into sociev
| paper. she gave it to a fe low boarder to tai
down. in nd Ghn IIalb 81 oH
| scanned his nose, backed his eye, and had
| pay him 500 damages. Society is terror whe
| 1t gets mad.
Mrs. HENRY WARD BEECHER relates an incl
dent in which Brooklyn reporter did not as
she thinks, treat her fairly in an interview. She
mas treasured it up against reporters in general
ana when one called on her lately to inquire
when, in her opinion, was the hapoiest hour in
womans life. she replied: The hour before
reporters wore invented.
ELIZA WILSON, a colored resident of Cincinnati.
had visited dime museum. and made up her
mind to become an albino. To that end she
soaked her treSSes Ia peroxide of hydrogen AS
result her hair and eyebrows are of a dis
agreeable mud-coor and her eyes are danger
ously indamed. She is mora of a fright tnan a
freak, and has decided to remain at the wash
tub,
A NEW YORK POLICEMAN INDUCED in a rare
piece of generalship on election day He was
came necese airy to extinguish. He organized a
f1Te company among the small boys. "A boy
could Start a ire any day, but to play at being
ahreman-such a chance came very rarely. .
Inc boys entered into the affair with great en-
thuslasm. The officer hunted up the fires,
| while mob of youngsters bore along the hose,
| and struggled for the honor of holding it when
| 1t squirted.
AN OPTION on a buried city, with ruins for
| your prospective investment, and queer old
curios for your income, is not overpoweringly
| aliurlng TO people who want to strike pay-dlrt
with the first shovel, but, nevertheless Amer
| cans may yet raise the $4,000 lie 9dsd TO com
| pIete the $4,000 required by the American
| Archaeological Institute to buy the right from
| Greece to excavate on the site of the ancient
| city of Delphi. Time is up Nov. 49, and France
| is ready to pick the plum. Delphi is the most
| important city OF antiquity not yet explored.
SOME Of Miles Standish's old chums organized
horse thief detecting society in Rhode
Island, the first society of the kind in the
country. The nnety-fourth annual suppsr OF
| the organization recently given. The
| children and grandchildren of the original
| ofhcers are running the society to-day. In it's
career OF nlnety-four years it has lost but one
horse, and for the detection of the thief who
| stole, this animal two years ago over $4,000 has
been expended. The hunt is still going on, as
| the old farmers who comprise the society would
rather divide and s4uander all they have than
| admit that they are beaten.
SINCE the murder of Chief of Police Hennesev,
forty or fifty Italians have been ARE ted in
| New Orleans for the crime, many of whom
| have been discharged Some of those arrested,
although appearing to be ofthe poorest class,
mad large sums of money on their persons.
| This is said to be an indication of the Mafia as
| its members are believed to hire their murders
| done for them. The Italian colony in New Or
| leans is considerably older than those of other
| American cities. IL is variously estimated to
| number from $1,000 to %, 900. Persons in New
| Orleans said to possess shady knowledge of
| the Malta, state t0at the crimes of the order
| are decided upon by council OF three, which
| meets in great secrecy, and never twice in the
| same place.
writer in Figaro says the asp has been such
a success in Bernhardts Cleopatra" that
it has, orwil, strike for the honors OF capital
| letters on the playblls and posters. The line it
of Eeypt ucS Hooner had Se aSP p M see V Rp
hardt in the new play, and her description of
| the death scene Is interesting: cleopatra S
action and gestures in this scene are of an un-
| Improbable modesty. she does not open her
| tunc, but slips the snake into it from above
| pressing her hands upon the imprisoned reptile
| as she calls upon it to 'bite-bite again-bite
| harder'-and one gets cold chillS down ones
back while contemp plating her. Then when she
dies, she falls upon her back, so as not to hurt
| the hidden serpent
| Col. FRANK A. BURR of Philadelphia is in
London, writes Eugene Field, full of business.
| He has been commissioned to prepare a series
OF magazine articles upon a subject which |
am not permitted to divulge, aud in addition to
] this he is gathering material for a series of
| newspaper articles on the subject of American
| writer's abroad TIE number of these writers
| IS very large; more prominent among them In
| London recall at this moment Mrs Meultop
| Miss Quincy. Mrs. Burnett Isaac Henderson
| Thomas Nelson Page. Harold Frederic, Sidney
Luske, Arthur Warren and Bret Harte l see
| that Whlteiaw Reid is collaborating with
| Frenchman In preparing the letters OF Talley-
| rand for publication in English This work will
| be produced simultaneously with the French
| edition. aud it will be notable contribution to
| historical literature
PHIL. B. THOMPSON, whose friends in New
York, says the World, are nearly all friends of
| Senator Joe Blackburn also, has reassured
| many OF them IN the last day or two about the
| physical welfare OF that handsome Kentuck iao
| whose buggy played him false some DAYS ago
| Mr.. Thompson, who is a connoisseur himself in
| that art OF living well, of which Mr. Blackburn
has long been q distinguished supporter, de-
clares that the fail was not, in reality SO ssrious
| as at first reported, and that Handsome ToeT
| will, in short time, be restored to the fnIl
| measure of his wontsd activity. Senator BLACK
| burn S physician had. some time ago prescribed
TO his patient stricter diet than any gentle
man from Kentucky is inclined to fancy But
| the result was, fortunately enough most hens.
! fetal, when, after The accident, broken homes
and bruised tissues began to heal and Mr.
! Blackburn may, before q long while, It is said
! drink n t0qS will N~-'@s