The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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TIE present Sultan Of Zanzibar is young
/ his father.
OLIVE THoRSE MILLER has inventeda title for
a certain type Of women She calls them
| philanthropy fends-'
A SPRINGFIELD (O.) man ate tho other day.
| on a wager. POI clans, six punches of celery
/ and two pounds of crackers, besides drinking
several cups of coffee.
IT IS PROPOSED to start in London a system
which will enable business men to call q mes
senger, cab. a fire engine, or doctor, by
simply pressing button. = central ONCE Will
supply all the requirements upon receiving the
! alarm.
| A GERMAN PROFESSOR claims to have dis
covered a solution which completely neutral
ICES the poison introduced into the system by
| the bite OF mai dog. The solu ion consists Of
| chlorine water. salt brine. sulphurous acid,
| permanganate OF potassium and eucalyptus oil
PEOPLE with diplomas in their hands are not
always wise. a school girl in France died re
| Gently from curioue cause. At the distri
button of prizes she obtained laurel wreath
colored green. She thoughtleSsly put the
painted leaves in her mouth and died afterwards
from the effect of the poison.
A MEXICAN was running moving machine
in a field of alfalfa near Las Cruces y. NJ. when
he uncovered colony of skunks A number
called for help to assist in DISCRIMINATING the
colony. The fight was kept up with pitchforks
and clubs till ffty-two skunks were slaughtered.
REV. ANNA Fl. SHAW, president OF the newly
organized Wimodaughsis-a sort of national
club for women-is the only woman ever or
dained by the Methodist Protest INT church, it
is stated. The title of the society, by the way,
is formed OF the first syllables of the interests
1t representative, mother, daughter and
sister.
Mr.. GLADSTONE, in a recent speech in the
Fl )use of Commons, delivered one sentence of
PA words, which in type made twenty four
lines 1t has been remarked of it that notwith-
standing Its extraordinary length and the more
or less extern poraneous nature Of its utterances
the sentence was perfectly clear and not in the
least involved"
THE MAN at the wholesale stamp window of
the St Louis postoffice was considerably sur
prised to receive unusually large order for
cent stamps. Frank Ruff of the Auti-Kamnia
chemical Company was the purchaser, and
35OO IN 800 bills covered the amount pur-
chased. 1t took the postofice man just one
hour to finish counting the 10000 stamps.
ST. AMBROSE SHEA, governor of the Bahamas,
has discovered that a species of cactus which
grows everywhere about tbs islands, and which
the inhabitants were endeavoring to extermi-
nate, regarding 1t as a weed, contains fiber
which prodces a substance closely resembling
the finest hemp. The result has been that the
crown lands in the colony have been quadrupled
in value.
$500 BILL came into one of the banks at
Portland, Me-, last week. So rarely are bills of
that denomination received that one of the tell
ers connected with the institution for twenty
years had never before seen one. AS might
naturally be expected, 1t was crisp and new in
appearance, not bearing indications Of having
passed through many hands in the years since
it was issued.
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| two-track railway tunnel under New York bay
between Staten Island and Brooklyn is said to
be favored by New YORK capitalists and railway
men. The entire cost is estimated at SO, 600 900
Mr. Wlman IS quoted as saying that the trans
portatlo1 alone would make the Investment a
paying one. Rosebank and Bay Ridge are the
proposed termili OF the tunnel.
ALUMINIUM wire is being used for calking steam
pipes in New York A wire of one fourth inch
diameter is used. one turn of aluminium wire
being first inserted. followed by four or five
turns OF led wire of signtly larger diameter,
| these last being calked In the usual manner 1t
| is found that the aluminium does not cut and is
| not acted upon by the steam as the lead is, so
| that the joints. it is claimed. remain tight
TIE YOUNGEST REAT-GRANDMorHER lives
near Pomona, Cal. Her name is Francesca
| Cordoba, and her age is but so years. She was
married when but IS years old, and her eldest
| daughter married when she little over
| II years old. Mrs. Cordoba was but 33 years
| old when she was grandmother Her eldest
| granddaughter was married in April, 1885, at
the age OF 10 years. and now great-grand-
daughter is born.
| DOZEN GOLD MINERS fresh from the gold
mines of the Transvaal, have arrived in New
| York bound to Fuantaua to try their luck
| anew. The white miner in the Transvaal does
the bossing at S25 week. and the negro the
digging at $3.50. These immigrants saw the
| jealous policy Of the Dutch stand in the way of
the proper development by the English of that
| country. Particularly would affairs be i'm
proved by railroad from Kimberly to Johan-
| nesburg, place Of 10000 people. Four years
| ago it was a waste
TIE AMERICAN WIFE of the new duke of Man
chester. who obtained such unenvlable notori-
| ETY. as Lord Vaudeville. has cause to be greatly
disappointed by the terms of her father s
| will For, instead of leaving the magnificent
| his widow, he has left directions for them TO be
| sold to supply the deficiency of his personal
estate. The famous necklace of 365 pearls of
large size, as well as diamond tiara OF Col
conda stones have thus passed into other hands
| realizing some thousands of pounds The neck
lace is considered the finest collection of pearls
in one ornament in England.
WOLVES, coyotes. cats and panthers in Texas
are multiplying under the protection of the
barbed wire fence and the apathy Of the state
| legislators few years since a thorough
| scalp law would have settled forever the wild
| animal question in Texas at q small expense
| Now 1t Will cost twice the money, and mean
| time stockmen and farmers have loss many
| times the money in calves, colts and sheen
killed A ranchman, 6. A.sAnderson of Kinney
| county, has been compelled to buy a pack Of
| mounds and turn huntSman to protect his flock
| from the increasing ravages of panthers The
same thing is happening all over Texas
| AN INGENIOUS FIELD TELEGRAPH has been in
vented by an English judge. Two coils Of
| double insulated wire, giving a complete me-
talIc circuit, wound in bobbins are supported ON
the backbones of two bicycles. Six poles to
| enable the troop to carry the wires over the
| roads, are supported over the handles of the
| bicycles, which are trundled one in front of the
| other. When the wire is to be laid the hobbins
are taken of and carried on the back and
wound off, special rapid coupling being pro-
| vlded In case of necessity. When on the road
| the poles can be thrown off and the BICYCLES
| mounted, so that the instruments and conduct
! ing wires caa be carried off and saved from
| capture.
| CURIOUS EXAMPLE of the fascination ex
| erted by the hint of buried treasure comes from
| Genoa The descendants of dore named I'm
| raZzo have discovered documents which noint
I to the hiding in the st. Michael rampant of the
duca1 sword belonging to the doge and many
| boxes containing a mere tri1e of SIS 600 600 in
| gold pieces of Genoa. The government has
been sufficiently Impressed to give pernission
| for the demolition of the rampant II the goId
/ is found 80 per cent. goes into the national
| treasury and 20 per cent. to the treasure-seek
ers. The ministry of the fine arts gets anv
| works of art, and the ministry Of war anv arrcS