The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

JUDGE CLoUGH of Plumas county came over
the road from Quincy to Oroville last Monday.
He says the snow is twenty feet deep on a level
for some miles. He is the second person TO get
over the road with horses since December 6,
1889.
MURDER SENS to belthe least perilous of all
the crimes known to the statute books IN this
countr5x, but of 17,779 murderers who took
human life in the six years from 1884 to 1889,
lives.
SALMON FISHERMEN says the Kennebec (Me.)
Journal. complain that the fish are scarce this
spring. and that they are behind last years re-
celpts The fish came early, but the catch has
been small. The long spell of northwest winds
was unfavorable for the fishermen"
NEW SPORT has been inaugurated at Leeds,
where the other day pair of fox-terriers were
articled for e25 side to pick up and return a
ball thrown fifty-one times over a mark fifty
yards away, the one completing the task in the
shortest time to be declared the winner" One
OF the dogs did the business in Is minutes As
seconds, but the other beat him in II minutes
| Il 2-5 seconds.
THE BAHAMA GROUP of islands is the worlds
| supply source for the cheaper grades of
| sponges. The industry brings to the islanders
an annual revenue approximatlng S3OO00O, and
| is constantly increasing. Nearly 6,O0O,OOO or
| tn Shiny protocol, so soft, yielding and clean
! in their evolved commercial state. but so re-
voting in their habitat, are taken yearly from
| the Bahama waters.
W. WALDoLF AsToR seems to be the most
versatile of all the younger generation of great
millionaires. There appears to be no limit at
all to his taste, and in his circle he is con-
| sldered an admirable judge of brio a-brac, fine
| china. books, paintings and the other Injuries
| OF life. He has spent great deal of money
upon his library; but, unlike Hoe and Wander
| bilt, cares more for standard works than for
rare editions or extraordinary bindings.
ROBERT Hoe, JR., who is now the head of the
greatest printing press mandatory the world
has ever known, is great deal of dilettante
| in regard to books bindings, etchings engrav-
i1gs, and the like; He patronizes the same
places as does Vanderbilt but, unlike the latter,
| can be found in those curious stores uptown
whose sole stock in trade consists of valuable
engravings and works of art of that class His
| collections in these fields are said to be worth
| over S500,000. He is the undoubtet successor Of
the late S. L. NJ. Barlow
IT will surprise many readers to know that
| Castle Garden, New York, is nothing less than
| a fortress extended and built over and that in
the early part of the century it was considered
a stronger building than Castle William, which
| fronts it across the way on Governors Island
| Young West Pointers and other juvenile mill
| tary experts of that period were fond OF argu-
| ing the superiority of each over the other, and
any number of plans have been made, some of
! which are on file In the war department, con-
| templating an attack Castle William from
Castle Garden batteries and a mixed expedi-
| ton from the mainland.
| A BooK-FIEND friend who haunts the New
York stores and art sales, gives me some inter
estiug facts in relation to the fads of rich men.
He says: George Vanderbilt, probably the
| least talked about of any one of that family is
undoubtedly one of the best specimens of that
great railroad circle. He is tall, spare, but sin
envy, well proportioned. and is the picture of
| health and strength. He spends great deal of
nc f0nl hA Hy1lh N<N ctr Nf
| the city, where his purchaser must roll up far
into the thousands every year. 1t is no uncom-
| mon thing for him to pay So, 900 or $4,000 for a
dozen rare books, and as many thousands for
| their binding.
THE latest discussion concerning Mrs Cleve-
lands social position, it is said, occurred at a
breakfast party given the other morning by
Mrs Bliss at her country residence at Mann
| aroneck, where such well known people were
present as Gen. Sherman, David Dudley Field.
| Ward McAllister, Mrs. Paran Stevens and Mrs.
| Cox. Gen. Sherman and Mrs. Stevens stood up
enthusiastically for Mrs Cleveland and declared
that if the wife of the ex-President was not
sent in to dinner first 1t would be wholly un-re-
| publican and un-American. Those of the other
side contended that if Mrs. Cleveland was rec
| ognized solely because of her husbands one
time Official position this would indeed be I'M
| republican
WE are constantly hearing Of extraordinary
surgical operations, says the London Neos, but
the most astounding that has been performed
is that of degralssage, or the removal of fat
from the body Drs. Marx and Demars have
carried out the operation upon literary man,
NJ Hiroguelle They raised the skin aud cut
away four and quarter pounds of the adipose
| tissue. The patient was under chloroform
while thus beng pared away. The skin was
then stitched up. More than week has passed
since the operation, and NJ Hiroguele now feels
quite well, and is overjoyed at the improvement
in his figure. He says he only suffered from
headache, the effect of the chloroform. It is
arranged that he is to undergo further parings
ordegraissages in other parts of the body.
PROF. JOHN L. SULLIVAN of Boston has taken
to literature to beguile his sober moments His
latest contribution is article on boxing and
incidentally defense of professional pugilism.
practiced boxing in this great big America we
would have less narrow-chested dudes, less
quack medicines, less shooting and stabbing,
| less narrow minded cranks more manly and
courageous men, healthier and better-fo formed
children, and a far greater nation in every re-
spect." John is right in the main, but excep-
ton may be taken to his statement about shoot
ing and stabbing The history of pugilism
records that many heavy weight fighters have
met their death while assaulting little men who
carried big guns. However, it is undoubtedly
true that tue general cultivation of boxing
would tend to the physical improvement of the
race.
THEIR are very many warm spots on the tor
rid zone says the Scotsman, but Bohrin by the
Gulf Of Persia, seems to be- as far as tempsra-
ture goes, absolutely without rival For
forty consecutive days in July and August last
year, which was by no meaus an exceptional
season, the thermometer was known not to fall
lower than 1902 Fahrenheit, night or day, and
often ran up as high as 1852 in the afternoon
Nature, as if to make the spot as intolerable to
human beings as possible, has banished all
water from the rocks of the locality, at least
none has ever been procured by digging to
depths of nearly 500 feet, and the numerous
pits of dry wells in the neghborhood show how
thoroughly the upper stratum has been tapped.
In spite of these apparently insuperabe obsta-
cles however, mankind has contrived to flourish
and multiply in this region to an amazing ex-
tent. and The necessary fresh drinking water
from the bottom of the Gulf of Persia. where,
at distance of more than a mile from the
shore innumerable copious springs burst forth.