The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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FRENCH DOCTORS are reported TO have discov-
cred that the essence of cinnamon. when
| sprinkled in the room of typhoid fever patients,
Kills the bacteria within twelve hours
TIE Paris old soldiers home. the Hotel des
Invalides, viii very likely soon be closed. The
number Of inmates has sunk from 5000 to $50,
/ and the government thinks of closing the half
empty building and letting the old soldiers
| SHIFT Tor themselves on pensions of 800 or 400
| francs year.
LAST YEAR 81 persons in the Loochoo Islands
OF Japan were bitten by the poisonous habu
snake. II of whom succumbed and IS recovered.
Forty-two. Of the victims were males and IS
| females, but the greater portion of deaths
| occurred among the females, out of the %
| cases ending fatally.
A PECULIAR SHAPED MOUND was discovered
near Mitchell, Oak, the other day, and in dig
| ging into it the skeleton of an Indian was IN
| earthed. with the trinkets an weapons usually
| found in Indian graves The mound was Gov
| cred by heavy sod, and everything indicated
that many years had elapsed since il was made.
ONE CAUSE assigned for the healthfulness of
Chinese cities is that the people boil all water
| intended for drinking, They never drink cold
| water. The national beverage, tea, is always
on tap. even in the houses of the poor. Every
little hamlet, too, has shop where hot water
can be bought for trifing sum at any hour of
the day or night.
FARMERS in Iowa have been greatly annoyed
by wolves, who have made repeated onslaughts
| upon their stock yards In order to extermi-
nate the pests the farmers have arranged for a
grand wolf hunt. The plan is to surround q
section OF the country and drive the wolves
upon certain tract of land, where the animals
VIII be eisurely killed.
MAY has usually been regarded as an unlucky
month in which to marry, but some people have
no respect for the superstition. Theodore
Thomas and Miss Fay of Chicago, Walter Dam
| rosch and Miss Margaret Blaine, and Charles H.
russell and Miss Jane Potter, daughter of Bishop
Potter, are among the couples to marry in this
merry month of May"
AUBURN. Me-, has a thief who is apparently
unable to keep from business under any cir
cumstaaces. He was let out of jail the other
| day, where he had been confined Tor some time
II was about O'Clock when he was released.
| by ~ CLOCK he was drunk, and by noon had
United" a silver ladle. Before night he was
back In his old quarters agein.
CURE for stammering has been discovered
1t consists in keeping silent for ten days Then
| speaking in whispers for ten days more and
| nnally returning to the ordinary voice gradu
| ally. The expert who advances this theory has
not as yet been able TO obtain a disciple of the
| ialrer sex to experiment on. At the first step
IN MS treatment there was general mutiny.
| CURIOUS ACCIDENT was witnessed by two
| Alton, ua) citizens the other day. They were
| going from that place to Sioux Center when a
| thunderstorm came up. They had noticed an
| eagle flying quite high in the air, and while
watching it a bolt of lightning struck the bird
| and 1t fell to the ground. With the exception
OF a broken wing it was not seriously injured.
HERE are some interesting criminal statistics
In the last ten years 672 persons were commit
ted for trial in England and Wales for the crime
| OF vii full murder. OF these 299 were sentenced
| to death, 23l acquitted, and 142 adiudged in
| sane. of the 299 condemned to death 154 were
| executed and AS had communications of sentence
| or the 299. so were women, of whom 9 were
| hanged
NEW FEATURE adopted for the lighting of
the new hotel at Tampa, Fla, is the use of in
| candescent carbonS, by which the light can be
| turned down dim il desired in a sick room or
| for other purposes. This is the first hotel in
| tue world lighted in that manner. The new dis
| covery has been used in some instances for
| ffootlghts of opera houses. There will be 1900
| lights in ALL
| Mrs LAURA H. KNIGHT, wife of George W.
Knight of Bellefontaine, o., gave birth Sunday
| morning to tbrae handsome children, two girls
| and boy. Tue combined weight of tue three
| is sixteen pounds. the boy weighing seven, one
| girl five ard the other four. Mr. and Mrs
Knight are each rs years old, and have been
| married two years ana have four children. The
Oldest is boy year old.
THE HEIGHT of an olive tree is usually twenty
five feet, but it is sometimes as high as fifty
feet and it reaches an almost fabulous age.
one lately destroyed at Beauleau had re-
rded age OF II centuries, and it was thirty
SIX feet in C circumference. The olive tree is ex-
| ceedlng!y prolific under cultivation; the fruit
yields about 70 per cent. of its weight exclusive
| OF kernel in oil, Italy is said to produce az
| 600 900 and France 1000, 900 gallons of oil an
| nually. The tree does not vegetate readily
beyond 1000 feet altitude or 45s Of latitude.
| REMARKABLE and valuable document has
| just been discovered at Wheeling. w. Va. 1t is
| the original copy of general order No. o, issued
| by Gen. K. E. Lee. 1t bears date April TO- 1865
| ana /, In the nature of farewell to the Army
| OF Northern Virginia, in which Gen. Lee COM
| pllments his soldiers for their bravery and
| wishes them Gods blessing The paper fell
into the hands of a confederate officer, and was
afterward lost. JohnjRiel, Wheeling gentle
| man. found it amonga lot of old papers while
visiting friend near here. The signature has
| been attested as genuine.
The FRUIT of the coco-de-mer, which Gen.
| Gordon believed to be the forbidden fruit of the
| Gard IN of Eden, has been exported to Eurone
| Inc nut weighs twenty pounds and measures
| twenty-five inches across. The palm on which
| 1t grows is 100 feet in hight and is only to be
| found on the Seychelle islands Hundreds of
years before the Seychelles were discovered
| these nuts were washed up on the Maldive
| Islands, and the wiSeacreS of those DAYS told the
| people that this sea-borne fruit had grown on a
| submarine tree, and that it had mysterious
| power of counteracting poisons.
| IHE Slo-Amerlcan Gas Lighting COMPANY
with headquarters in London, New York and
| PHILADELPHIA will endeavor to list over $50 COO.
| 600 of its stock on the New York and Philadel-
| phia exchanges. W. w. Gibbs of the United
| Gas improvement Company of Philadelphia.
| has also invested S., 600, 900 ia the scheme The
| London end of the concern is represented by
| Sir Julian Goldschmid, a London banker and
| the Imperial Continental Gas Company of
London. The purpose of the association is to
| secure all the gas plants that they can manage
to purchase in this Country and elsewhere.
PAT MCGRATH of Westford, Ky, possesses a
remarkable cat. 1t was born with only three legs.
and as soon as the kitten becamelarge enough
| to leave its mother, Pat constructed wooden
| leg and successfully adjusted il to the little
| stump that grew out where the pussy's fourth
| leg ought to have been. Pussy now trots along
on four legs with much ease and comfort
| apparently as though the wooden limb had
been placed there by nature. But here is the
| wonderful part of the story: Instead of killing
rats and mice with her claws. as cats uslally
do, pussy has learned to use her club leg for this
purpose, and it is said to be very amusing
sight to see her run up to rat and knock him
into insensibility with her wooden leg.
MIR. THOMAS, United States minister in Swe-
den, writes to the Senate department that the
capercaiisie and the black game of Scandinavia