The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THERE is craze in London for queer leather.
Some shops are stocked with fancy articles
made from the skins of all sorts OF beasts. rep
tiles and fishes, including pelican skins lion and
panther skins, fish skins, monkey skins and
snake skins, etc.
The Piutes mad big pow-wow near wads-
worth, New, that lasted all of last week. The
burden of the speeches made by the old men
was in favor of total abstinence from liquors,
and the rising generation were urged to go to
school at Carson.
Mrs. BETz, living on a farm in Arizona. went
to field where her husband was blowing. She
put her S-month-old baby to sleep in box in
the Held. Soon after the plow team ran away
and one OF the horses smashed the box and
killed the child instantly.
For EIGHT HOURS an infant Of Stephen Bur-
ieen of Bridgeport lay in trance. and an un.
dertaker came and put the babe in casket.
Everything was ready for the burial when the
child suddenly woke up and sang out Justify,
Ma! 1t is all right now.
FILIAL PIETY in China does not die out with
the advance of western ideas. provincial
governor recently petitioned the emperor for
leave TO retire on account of the health of his
grandmother, which required his personal at
tention during the rest of her life.
QUEER WHITE and red robin astonishes the
fishermen of Quonochontaug. R. L 1t has built
us nest in shaggy reach of pasture near the
numbering ocean breakers. The birds body is
OF a snowy white, even to the tip of its tail, ex-
cept It's breast, which is of rosy red
A CANADIAN Girl, Miss Ward, step-daughter
| OF Alexander Cameron. a wealthy Toronto law
yer, is engaged to be welded in June to Prince
DE Benyon Caraman, of France. Miss Ward is
put Y years old. and will bring to her princely
husband an income of nearly $3.50, 900 year.
THE SITE Of a prehistoric village has been dis
covered on the banks of the Ohio river, near
Parkersburg, w. Va. 1t covers about four acres
ana the earth is thickly intermixed with frag-
inents OF pottery, streaks Of ashes, and frag-
ments OF bones OF animals and human beings.
LARGE SEWER in Portland, Ore. had to be
reopened recently, as it was badly choked up
When the workmen dug it open they found the
roots of shade tree had forced passage
through the walls and formed solid mass for
nfty feet The top of the sewer was ten feet
below the surface
IN LETTER to the Independence Beige Stan
ley describes the dwarf tribe of the forest. He
says they are the Oldest aristocracy in the
world, with institutions ating back fifty CEN
turles. They are ruled by queen a beautiful,
charming little woman, who was exceptionally
KIND TO Stanley and his comrades.
CHICAGO is to have new theater. which will
be thoroughly European, and the only thing of
its kind in the United States. A stock company
with paid-up capital of 100000, has been in
augurated under the name of the Crystal
Palace Theater Company, and the new house
VIII be opened June l. The attractions will be
OF the variety hall order
THE New York Coaching Club, which has be-
gun its trips uses three different classes of
horses-the fancy city team, which prances
along to One Hundred and Twenty ghth street;
the "gallopers, which will make up for any lost
time thence to Unionport, and the business"
horses, which will tackle the rougber roads on
the last part OF the journey.
TIE STATEMENT in an eastern magazine that
butterflies have gone to the remarkable hight
of 5000 feet in the Alps has elected from Mr.
Maxwell of California letter to the scientific
american, in which he pronounces the trip not
at all remarkable. He writes that last summer
he encountered numerous butterflies on a peak
OF the Sierra Nevadas 1900 feet.
REV. J. W. SPRoULL of Pittsburg. who is now
in Egypt, writes of the great Moslem Univer-
sity at Cairo, founded in 957, which, with its
10, 900 pupils, and $40 professors is said to be
the largest in the world. The pupils have no
benches or chairs, but study, eat and sleep on
blanket or straw mat. Tn, Koran is the only
book used for grammar, law, philosophy and
theology.
A SALOON MAN has been found in Washington
who closes his place with prayer. His applica-
ton for a renewal OF license having been re-
jected on the ground that his place bore bad
ert in his own behalf. In reply to the question.
DO you Shut up promptly at midnight?" he
answered. when ten minutes to IL o'clock
comes, kneel down. say my prayers and shut
up"
HENRY CABOT LODGE walked over from the
House Of Representatives to the Senate cham
Der on Monday morning, accompanied by an
old gentleman who wore a heavy gray over
coat, a high hat Of the style of forty years ago,
and carried a large cane. The old gentleman
said smilingly to the doorkeeper 20, yes,
have the privilege of the floor. was senator
once but probably before your time. am also
an ex speaker Of the House." Then he good
naturally said that he was Robert G. Winthrop,
and that he was a senator from July, 1880 to
February, 1851, having filled the unexpired
term of Daniel Webster.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, when asked at a
tea" given in his honor recently in Washing
ton what his methods of literary work were, is
said to have replied: 81 am one of those men
who believe in system, and who seek and utilize
every moment at their command to advantage.
/ put aside SO many hours, generally in the fore
noon. for reading and writing, and try to be I'M
leisure can secure" Then you are not be-
lever in writing by Inspiration" said his cues
toner. "Wel, l don't like to commit myself
positively upon that point, said Mr. Lowell,
but do know that steady, hard and continuous
work has been my reliance during q somewhat
varied life
On Feb. II, 1885, occurred the St. George dis
aster on the Grand Trunk Railway. There were
eighteen killed and injured. Actions were
brought to recover damages aggregating $780,
600. To simplify and expedite litigation counsel
agreed to make a test case The feigned issue
contained thirty questions, the answers to
which would determine the question of nepli-
gence The trial lasted fifty six DAYS. Justice
Rose, of Toronto, presiding On April 25 the
jury submitted their findings The railroad
WA found cpr,ilfu NJ
amount of the damages is yet to be settled
This is the most noted trial of the kind that
ever took place in the Dominion, and should the
proceedings be sustained in the higher courts
it would open new chapt er in railway litigation
MISS JEAN INGELow, the poet writes to her
publishers, Messrs. Roberts Bros, that the
applications for autographs from Americans
are so numerous that with her indifferent health
the task of executing them is too burdensome.
and in the future she will be obliged to decline
them. But in order to carry out charity dear
to her heart she has furnished them with auto
graphic copies of some of her favorte short
poems, such as 1.-THE Martin Flew to the Finch's
Nest, :" from tMopsa, :" "Goldlocks, "sThe NIGHT
ingale Heard by the dissatisfied Heart. 81 1.-THE
Warbling of Blackbirds" Goo Dove. tn INV
Married Mate, from Brothers and a Sermon. y
When Sparrows Build, ETC.. each bearing her
signature with the date, and these the pub
fishers propose to send to any address on recent
Of 81 for each poem.
ONE of the extraordinary DEVELOPMENTS of
contemporary swelldom, says the New York
World is Mr. Bates. He is the most persist