The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

''OUIDA" has written twenty-seven novels and
they have paid her more than any history pub
lished within the last quarter of century.
Da. W NJ TAYLOR. New York says there are
more shrines for the worship of Bacchus in one
of our great cities than there we're in the whole
| Of ancient Greece.
The LONGEST DAY of the year has 10 hours at
st. Petersburg. Il hours at Hamburg 1874 hours
at London, IS hours at New York, and 80
months at Spitzbsrgen.
In ONE of the districts of Kansas the farmers
alliance and the republicans each presented a
girl as the candidate for county Superintendent
| and the republican girl scored a victory.
A STUDENT who acted as a waiter at q White
mountain hotel the past summer is about TO
marry the daughter of family at whose table
he served All things come TO him who waits
JUDGE TaAYER's judicial and critical opinion
that Tolstofs latest book is not salacious will
fall like a wet BLANKET on the sales large
| class OF buyers do not want it If it is not pru-
| RENT
THE sHAH became a father at the age Of i6.
His eldest daughter is nearly IS years old, and
| is called the Glory OF the Kiogs. She married
the son OF the master of the mint, one of the
richest men in Persia.
SERIOUS EPIDEMIC has broken out among
| the horses AROUND D wilson, Mich. The animals
| are afflicted with swelling of the nostrils and
| lungs and they froth at the mouth. Death
happens seemingly from strangulatlon.
| NOTHING keeps out moths says an exchange,
SO well as paper; if every housewife, when she
| puts away her furs, pasted up all the crevices
| and round the lid OF the box with paper. she
| would mud her furs intact when unDacked.
L. G. GREGORY, a journeyman jeweler in
Coldwater, Mich, has built an engine with q
| boiler half an inch high, piston with an eighth
! men stroke, and balance wheel quarter inch
in diameter. 1t weighs four pennyweights
TIE FASTEST BIRD on the wing is the swift,
which has been known to attain a speed of 200
| miles an hour. 1t feeds exclusively on insects,
| which it captures while flying. The speed or
the swallow, which comes next to that of the
| swift, is usually sixty miles an hour, but some
TINES goes as high as ninety miles an hour.
IT is a POINT of the first importance that any
| weakness, defect or uneasiaess Of the eyes
should not be neglected, but that the oculist
should be at once consulted. Headaches which
| come on after sewing, reading. or otherwise
using the visual organs in a special direction for
long period of time, are usually the direct re-
suits of ocular defects. To some people glasses
are revelation, revealing powers and beauties
of vision never before known to exist. Glasses
not only increase the power Of vision and
greatly relieve the work Of the eye, but they
actually prevent the occurrences OF certain
diseases OF the eye, and of reflex affectations
! in other parts of the body, and effect the pre-
servation of good vision throughout life.
| EVANSVILLE, Wis, boasts OF a horse Of an ur-
usual degree Of intelli xence. The animal is a
steady going carriage horse, and. though he
was known to be remarkably apt in unfasten-
ing gates and opening feed bins, the full extent
of his talent was not disclosed until during a
recent STERN. Finding that his shoes we're too
smooth for comfort during Slippery trip. he
pushed the barn door Open an started on
steady trot for the blacksmith's. Once in the
shop he stood back aud waited his turn de-
coronsly as though going a-shopping'' on his
hDrl 1f.r1o HoIlw
one of the men brought out his tools and began
tapping on the four-footed customers shoes as
though putting on new set The animal
showed unmstakable signs of approval, and
| when the bammering was finished trotted
out and made his way home, perfectly con-
tented.
! WHEN Senator Plumb came to the Senate he
was as meek as Moses is reputed to
have been. There was senatorial courtesy in
| those days, and for a new maa to open his
| mouth for tie first two years of his term was
| unheard of audaclty. 1t was not then the
| fashion to interrupt q senator when he was ad-
| dressing the chair, and motions TO adjourn or
to go into executive session were made only by
| Don Game ron or some other of the old senators,
kept especially for the purpose. BY degrees
Senator Plumb grew bold. and now he inter
rupts any senator, makes all sorts of points Of
order, twits his colleagues on facts they do not
care to bring to light. and in various other ways
makes himself heard, if not disiked. He wou d
not give the snap of his finger for all the sena-
torial courtesy in creation He is absolutely
solid in Kansas and when he shows unusual
alterations in the Senate, it is safe to predict
that he is playing to a crowd of Kansas consti-
tuents who have have had q convention and in
dorsed some wild scheme for revoiutioniZing
the world.
MR., MoRToN's action in excluding drinks
from his hotel in Washington" said member
of the English legation, lis a very remarkable
illustration of the influence which politics has
on even the most liberal of Americans If any
body had asked me to pick out the one man in
this country who might be depended upon at all
times to appreciate and understand the needs of
modern existence, l would have named Mr..
Morton. He is man of fine discernment aud
social life, has capital wines on his table, lived
so long the American minister In France
that he became addicted to the French school
of eating and drinking and acquired all of the
liberal principles of men Of the world. It is re-
markable that such man should attempt, at
this day, and, at this particular epoch in
American history, to try and swing in line with
the current of popular prejudice Any man
who desires to keep fashionable hotel without
selling drinks nowadays must, of necessity, be
either a crank or a politician. He will also, by
the way, need a very large fortune with which
to back up his theory and pay the hotels deficit
account"
THE number of private hotels and residential
premises in Paris of rental of over $1,000 a
year is surprisingly small, considering Paris
reputation for wealth There are 81 ,291 houses
divided into /, 141, 955 tenancies Of which 26 1850
are workshops and manufactures 500, S26 are
shops and places of business, and S10,46S are
appa, tements, or hotels for habitation. Half
of these apartments do not bring in higher
rental than 800 per annum. That is the aver
age sum which a workman will have to pay for
two diminutive rooms on the fifth, sixth r sew
enth story of a crowded tenement Of fats
| ranging in rent from two to three hundred dol
lars year there are 32,g74; from three to eight
hundred dollars rental, 80, 715: from eight hun
dred to two thousand dollars rental, ~ 222; from
| two to four thousand dollars a year. /, $3.50; while
| OF inhabited houses with rental of over 81 900
| there are only 40. Shop rents In The busy parts
| of the town are dear. Large blocks of buildings
belong not TO private individuals but to in
| surance companies and banking establishments.
| VINO charge what they like, and do not care
| whether shop or an apartment stands on their
| books empty for a time because applicant
| refuses to pay an excessive rent feeling sure
that soon they will be able TO extort their own
| terms 1t is estimated that the gross rental of
| Paris reaches the total Of $3.50 900 600 year
| while the value of the whole of the property in
| the French capital, dwelling houses, shops and
| manufactures, is put down at g., 300 Geo 900
| At the present moment there are nearly 20 900
| places Of business or flats vacant or about 1900
| more than at this time two years ago.
| A PARTY of downtown business men, SAYS the
Philadelphia Inquirer, INDUCING in the "tust-
take-one fore-going home" at the bar of the
Of