The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST

| Up among the CatskiIl mountains resides Fri
| GRAY. who is i05 years old. He has been q resi-
dent of that locality over fifty years. and now
occupies a cabin BY the roadside. He knows no
I living relatives For over twenty years kind
neightors have supplied his fuel, clothing and
provisions
A MEADvIrLE ATTORNEY who recently won
for client an important suit. the outgrowth Of
third party's rascality, received a handsome
fee. and as be did 50 remarked: "Odd, isn't Its
have an overdue note at the bank which
signed for this same chap, and this fee viii just
lift it., and 1t did.
AvERDANT GENTLEMAN whose correspondence
is limited received letter upon the envelope
of which was the conventional business card.
After nve days return to -" The epistle
was carefully perISed and preserved until the
expiration OF the allotted i've days when it was
returned 70 the writer.
A NEW ENGLAND WEEKLY had an item to the
effect that manufacturers of chewing gum were
buying up all the old rubber boots and shoes in
the country, and the news wasn't q week old
before two manufacturers began heavy dam
age suits. The editor has to prove it or quit
the sanctum for the potato patch.
The SALARY list of the forthcoming exposi-
ton of Chicago is thus detattssl.c Gage. presi-
dent, 5000; Bryan, vice president. $4,000;
Butterworth. secretary. $1,000; Sseberger.
treasurer. 5000; Palmer, national president.
inson, secretary, $4,000. Total si0r00aJ
The OLD JAIL at York, Me-, one Of the con-
spicuous attractions to summer visitors, is be-
lieved TO be the oldest structure OF its kind in
America. 1t is said to have been built in the
sixteen hundreds. and stands to-day practically
! unchanged, with it's massive oaken doors,
creaking hinges and locks and mill-saw graf
| ings.
CAIRO, QLL) boys are doing wholesale bust
ness in sparrows. The birds make roost of an
old chimney in an abandoned house. The boys
| have secured a. net, and after the birds 90 to
roost at night they spread the net over the Chin
| ney s ton. Every morning they have from so to
w sparrows, for which they get ~ cents per
head bounty.
| A WONDERFUL FLOWER has been discovered in
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Its chief pecul-
larity is the habit of changing its colors during
| the day. In the morning it Is white, when the
sun Is at its zenith 1t is red, and at night it is
blue. The red, white and blue flower grows on
a tree about the size of a guava tree, and only
at noon does it give out any perfume.
| SrENo-TELEGRAPHY is a new system of COM
munication that is attracting some attention in
| France. The inventor, d. Cassagnes, claims to
be able to telegraph direct by a single wire
manifold reports OF speeches, either in short or
| long hand. The instrument resembles type
writer but it is more difficult of manipulation.
| With it the inventor says he can transmit t75
words minute.
PosToFFIoE INSPECTOR PULc1FER is hunting
up postof1ce relics for the museum at Washing
! ton. He states that postmasters commission
was found at Green Bay which was dated in the
! year 1878, and another in the year 1928. Green
Bay is making an effort to take the lead In post
| office relics for Wisconsin. and has a good
chance to do so, having about the oldest history
| OF any town Ia Wisconsin.
]. D. Hoss Of indianapolis sued Mrs. Lydia
| HprSaV of MontOOuaaru
she set I'D counter claim for fuel and light
| used used by Mr.. HoSs while he was counting a
| girl living with Mrs. Jersey. Mr. Hoss then
NED demurrer, asserting that inasmuoh as
| Mrs. Hersey also hal beau while he was there
| she would have used the fuel and light anyhow,
| The court found for MIR Hoss.
| THE MAN who likes his toddy is destined to
have hard time in this world if the signs of
the times worth anything. In Missouri he
must stand up to drink, while in Massachusetts
| he must sit down. In Kansas he must swear
that he is afflicted with CHAMBERS or pink-eye,
| and IN Iowa he mist commit perjury and en-
danger his soul, while in Nebraska it is peniten-
tiary offense to treat ones neighbor.
| PROF. BUTLER, a New York musical artist.
! now at his summer home in Stockbridge. Mass,
| has passion for snakes. He catches all the
| harmless serpents he finds In that wild noun
| tain region and puts them into big. close cages
| IN his parlor. Black snakes striped snakes
! green ones and so on. are his pets On pleasant
| days he takes his reptiles out of the boxes
| fondles them ana lets them run about the
| room.
JOE HOWARD says that Gen. Sherman was
largely responsible for the feeling that obtained
| for long while 10 the army against newspanar
| correspondents. Gen. Mcclellan always vel
| coined them. Burnside was as gallant and
courGly man in his tent as in his home in
| Washington. Meade, although a strict dis
| ciplinarian, understood and recognized to the
the other
| Grant for long time was averse to entertain
; ing correspondents, but his rare common sense
came 10 his relief, and, under proper, legiti-
mate and absolutely welcome restrictions. cor
| respondents found themselves always at home
| where Grant was in command
| EVERYBODY, that is almost everybody. be-
leves that the mole, contrary to the general
rule among animals is born blind Carl Hess
the German naturalist, has proven by minute
| microscopic investigation that the eye of the
is not even short-sghted, as another natural
| ist (kadyD would have us to believe Hess
MAINTAINS that, in spite of its minute dmen-
sons miliimeter by go millmeter-the eve
OF the httle creature possesses all the neces-
sary properties Of seeing that the most
well-developed eye does-that it is, indeed as
we'll suited for seeing as the eye of any other
mammal, and that in the matter of refrac-
ton 1t does not differ from the normal eve
Mr. LITTLE tells us of the 'inexhaustible
supply VI uEuSS, huge JUNK lOadS or which are
dispatched from Chunkhing throughout the
season, TO enrich the drug stores and DESTROY
the stomachs of their customers the dyspentic
well-to-do classes, and of the prncipal straet
of Chunkhing he tells u.s. THE whole air il
redoent with the heavy fragrance of Chinese
medicines, nelaDge apparently of rhubarh
licorioe root, orris root loyage (adix levisticil
and musk" The Chinese wisely or unwiseIv
im6ibe their medicines in the form of tasines
and prescription made up at one of the
chemists shops requires q snacial roytar -
transport it. The movement OF drugs In bulk
many valuable, some purely fanciful. is a con.
spicuous feature in the goods traffic from the
west, and large proportion Of the freiehts in
the river steamers trading to Ichang is derived
from the cumbrOus bales in which thew are
packed and transported. Ac
SOME CURIOUS DETAILS have Just been nuh.
lished on the relative mortality among Euro-
pean troops during time of peace. The Spanish
troops give the highest standard of mortalitv
and That not because the soldiers are weakly az
much as that the sanitary arrangements are in.
adequate or neglected The deaths renresent
IL In 1000. Russia comes next ;ttpt the interval
IS large. Tie mortattyk Is abous9in 600 Then
follow the Italians With WA Sc far the sar;as
IS almost what shrewd observer might guess
1t would be. What follows is more pernlexinc
and more interesting Austrian. French. En-
2lsh belgian and German-that is the order
10 round numo ers the deaths of Austrian sol
dlers are In the thousand seven; of French sly.
OF English, little over five; of Belgian, little
over four, and of Germans, a little under fo,,r
Inc raVages OF consumption are enormously
greater in he case of British soldiers thai af
anV other nationality fa,,d ~ ~