The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THxY have a lady in Grand Rapids. Mich,
who is as great crank on black as the wife of
Senator Davis of Minnesota All her under
garments as well as the sheets and drapery of
her bed are black.
WOMAN living near Steubenville. O.. tir-
ing of the abus she received from drunken
husband. threw mortar in his eyes In the alb
sence of wbipping-post the mortar plan is
cheap and effective
A YANKEE mas invented a chicken hobbler.
consisting Of spring attached to hens leg.
which, when the hen attempts 10 scratch, will
move ner onward, and will, in fact. walk her
right out OF the garden.
The BALLOON proposed for polar explorations
is 80 feet in diameter and $1,000 cubic feet
in volume. The journey is to be begun from
Spitzenbergen, and with a favorable wind is
expected to last four or five days.
GERMAN watch that is on exhibition in
Pittsburg window is probably the thinnest time
piece in the world. It is not mora than an
eighth of an inch thick, and the works them
selves seem no thicker than cardboard.
THERE is now more beet than cane sugar con
sumed In 1881 the total of the worlds produc
ton of cane sugar vas 2,006 2C0f tons, and of
beet sugar 1,714.600 tons In 1880 the tor al of
cane was 2,246, coo tons, and of beet 1850 900
tons
A SEA LION in the Geological gardens at
life of little boy who tumbled into the water
and couldn't get out in consequence of the high
basin. TIE seal held him up until help was at
hand.
FARMER near Los Angeles, CAL has forty
seven acres of corn, and is willing to wager
that 10000 of the stalks are TWENTY-FIVE feet
high. which is higher than a man on horseback
can reach. He expects crop of $50 bushels to
the acre.
YACHTING is annually growing more and
more fashionable with French women. The
yachts of the Baroness Adolphe de Rothschild.
Princess Brancovan, Process Gortschakoff and
the MarQuiSe de Logs Chandler attracted great
attention in the defle that was one of the
features or the recent regatta at Thonon.
PROBABLY the most unique strike on cord is
that of the Bombay BARRIERS against the shaw
ing of widows heads They say the practice is
not enJoined in the HindoO scriptures and they
| will not do anything contrary to scripture.
At least that is the purport of their
| declaration. Any barber who shaves widow S
| head is fined and boycotted.
In THE PROVINCE of Perm. in Russia, there
has just passed away a remarkable person,
| Stefen Aberjew by name. III his 10th year. The
| village priest. who has known the old man for
| the last thirty years, states that he had never
! seen MIN sober since his ei2htieth birthday.
Toward the end of his life he drank over a
| quart OF corn brandy day. He was never i'll
! in his life. ,s.4,
BY FAR the most expensive offee brought to
this market comes from Blue Mountain,
Jamaica. The whole product of the region is
small and only few thousand bags reach New
York 1t is usually bought by Delmonico at a
very high figure. At the same time the Del
monico coffee does not contribute TO the restau-
rants reputation. Quite as good coffee is
served at half dozsn less famous places.
FINGER NAIL led to the discovery of a thief
who robbed factory in France. He entered
through window, and the nail was in some
way torn off and left on the SILL The next day
an employe appeared with an injured finger,
and suspic on, OF course pointed to him, but he
ned before he could be arrested Hewas traced
to Paris, and, on the police fl ding him in apart
ments, b. jumped out Of the window and was
dashed to death on the bricks below.
WESTERN CORRESPONDENT says Riverside,
the banner orange growing town in Southern
California, is perhaps the richest town in the
country, If the average wealth be accurately
| estimated. OF 5000 persons. 266 are assessed
Tor more than 5000 each, which represents
Sl2,OOO or value So one out OF every twenty
| persons in Riverside has more than $l2 900 in
| property. This is due to the fact that three
| quarters of the people in town own their pla-
ces; and even if they have only five acres in or
| anges, this small grove will support family
well, as the average yield will be worth 500 per
acre every year."
| NATIVE JOURNAL states that the develop
ment OF the system of postofice savings banks
in Japan has been remarkable during the past
| fourteen years. They were established by
| government In 1875 with the object of encour-
aging thrift and to collect the small sums scat
| tered about in private Keeping. At first they
| attracted so little attention that at the end Of
1870 there were only 1900 depostors, with S5,-
| 80 lodged. Henceforth, however, the figures
| increased at remarkable rate. In 1876 the
deposits amounted to 81, S45, in 1882 to 81 05S-
GOO, in 1885 to 100000, and In 1889 to $40 45l-
| 0OO Ia Toxic the number of depositors is 1885,
| and mt of hair D.
| 0O0" '''
A FIREWORKS COMPANY near New York made
the fortunate discovery this week that an en-
ploye was filling roman candles with both clay
| and powder. The addition of the clay. it is
said, makes the exploding of the candles dan
| gerous being liable to cause the bullets to come
| out of the end held in the hand The man has
| been arrested, but denies that he has done as
| charged. 1t appears that thousands of dollars
| worth of the candles have been tempered with
| Some OF them have been shipped to customers
| IN various parts of the United States, but they
| nave been requested to return them to the
| factory. Officers of the company are of the
opinion that he did not put the clay into the
| candles of his own accord, but was prompted
| 10 DO so by some enemy of the concern.
FIFTEEN months ago." says man who has
Just been there, there were not dozen people
in Middlesborough, Ky. Now it has popula-
ton of 5000. An lglish syndicate worth 800
| 100000 is building the town. They have spent
| S5OCOOO in strengthening q creek which runs
| throu IN it, ana have encircled il with a seven
| teen-miie dummy line. They have put I'D cleo
| trio cars and electric lights aud have about
| completed seven furnaces. Business buildings
| costing less than $4,000 are not allowed to be
| built-and lots are selling for as much as $3.50
| front foot The bonds of the circular dummy
| line have been gobbled up at liz. The syndicate
owns 1000 acres in aud around the place and
has already realized a million and q half dollars
on the Investment. Mr.. Arthur, the manager
| for the syndicate, gets S35 900 a year for his
| services, and last Christmas they made him a
| present OF $4,000. Mind. haven't told ven
| half what know about this fifteen months Old
| town."
| AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN who was recently
at a dinner party in London had rather
curious experience. There was also present an
| extremely aristocratic but insular Briton, with
that large contempt for things American that
even to-day few Englishmen display Never
| theiess lie designed to notice the Am rican
| gentleman SO far as to ask him great number
| OF questions about the United States, some of
| them very ludcrous. Finally the question of
| geography came I'D, and the Enghshnan in
| CURED as to the relative size of Texas tha
largest state. Well replied the American
| 1T is about as large as England Ireland Scot
| land, Wales. Holland, Belgium, Denmark
| Switzerland, Portugal and Greece combinei y
1t became at once evident that the ouestioner
not only disbeieved the statement, but was
/ indignant at what he regarded as an attArnnt
| chair Ir6a aff