The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

matte hne-throwing gun, very light and porta-
Die, which fires hollow she'll bearing the cord
to wrecked vessels, or into a burning building on
dry land
Is library in Paris, the largest in the world.
IS Chinese chart of the heavens made about
90 years before Christ In this chart $50 stars
are found to be correctly inserted. as corrobo-
rated by the scientists of the present day.
WHISKY and tomato ca tsup have caused
trouble. The former is alleged to have wrecked
| Sasnler Pope of Louisville. who levanted with
| SoV,OOV' and the latter is the moving cause of
oisoree suit In the Mccain case in Brooklyn.
| NOTWITHSTANDING that it made good many
old enough to die before their time, DR.. Brown
Sequard is still engaged on his youthful elixir
| al faris and persists in believing that his exper-
| lment VIII at last be successfully established.
ELIZABETH PEIsTER of Sidney, o., was taken
sick and the doctor was called. He pronounced
her dead, and her relatives were summoned.
| WINE they were talking about the suddenness
| OF her supposed death she revived. spoke,
covered aud is out of danger.
For nearly century there has existed in
New York city a society for the relief of poor
| widows with small children :" It was formed
by some of the foremost people of the city and
| LOT tnree generations the daughters have taken
the place of the mothers in its management.
CHICAGO is already commencing to develop
on the strength of the worlds fair. surgeon
there says he can put a man to sleep with
chloroform and then by the use of the knife
so alter his facial expression that his own
mother will swear that she never saw him be-
fore
DURING the late snow blockade 600 passengers
at Reno New, to amuse themselves, issued a
handsome little paper entitled, THE Snow
pound, Souvenir of the Sierra" 1t contains
very handsome Illustrations of the place. and
recites the efforts made TO pass the two weeks
OF waiting.
FIFTY sHTILINGs an ounce was the price paid
in England the other day for an Irish toilet
serv ce in silver of the time of William and
Mary. IL was not very highly ornamented, but
IL sold for 50, $50. All the gut of silver from all
the mines In America cannot alter the price of
good work.
THAT GIRLS in some sections have other ideas
IN life besides looking pretty is shown in the
case of girl in West Virginia, who has made
enough money by trapping muskrats to buy
goa watch Her only ambition now will
douotleSs be to go to catch seals enough for a
sealskin sacque.
IL HIGH LIFE or in low life it seems to be the
same with the fair sex all over the world The
widow of the late Duke Amadeo of Italy is now
living in Rome where she is already said to be
prosp citing in Napoleonic way for new and
young husband. She is very young herself and
was opposed to marrying her old uncle.
A HARTFORD hardware merchant named Hill
is responsible for the invention of the American
lawn mower. He sent number of the clumsy
English mowers to a Philadelphia man and
overcharged him IS cents for boxing The
Phlladelphian refused to pay for them and sat
down and invented a lawn mower of his own
which has driven out the English continuance.
THE government printing Office is now en-
gagged in filling one of the largest orders in its
history. This if for 100000 blanks for the use
OF the 10000 enumerators of the eleventh cen
sus, who will begin work in May. 1t will take
| will
nave TO be worked twenty-five hours each day
for six weeks before the order will have been
completed.
JEwELRY is constantly being twisted into all
sorts OF odd shapes and styles. One of the latest
Is bar pin, representing a caterpillar, being
formed of cats eyes The main part is a fuzzy
substance held in place by a slender gold
chain, twining round and round and round be-
tween the stones, and giving the most lifelike
appearance to the creature. The head is of
beaten gold with ruby eyes.
AN EXHIBITION of unusual interest will be
opened in London in a few weeks. Its field will
cover the whole of Africa between the tropics.
and its purpose is to illustrate as far as possi-
Die the characteristic phases of Central African
| life and scenery, the history of its exploration
ana the growth Of civilization and commerce.
NO similar exhibition devoted to Africa was
ever arranged under circumstances that prom
Ised SO favorabiy for its complete success.
A BURGLAR in Bondy France, got into the
rooms of two men while they were absent, and,
fastening the door from the inside, prevented
them from getting in when they came back
unexpectedly. The police sent for the village
| locksmlth. But he, very strangely couldn't be
| found, so they burst open the door lust as the
| burglar got upon the roof of the building He
was seen and pursued down to the street and
into canal The shock of the cold bath made
him unconscious, and he died in a short time.
When they washed from his face the black with
which he had disguised himself the riddle of
rlearea hon
He was the burglar himself.
THE PRESENCE of several flne-lookng men of
, commanding stature, wearing full boards and
having strong resemblance to one another
attracted the attention of the passengers in a
car on the Sixth Avenue Elevated railroad
| New York. the other afternoon. One of the
men entered into conversation with a T,ib1tn p
reporter, and it was learned that the party
was composed Of seven brothers. ranging in
age from 30 to So years. They had, in accord
ance with an old family custom, been ceebrat-
ing the eighty second birthday anniversary of
their father, James w. Hughes, at the old
homestead, at South Orange, n. J. Three of
the brothers live in Washington. one in Newark
and one in brooklyn. The other two live with
their father and sister.
A PoPULAR-PRIcE THEATER MANAGER has pur
chased the site of Rev. DIR. T. Dewitt Talmage's
tabernacle in Brooklyn, and will erect upon it
an immense house of amusement The prop.
erty is almost as large as that covered by the
Metropolitan opera house 1t has undergone
any number OF changes in the past forty years
During tlat period it has been the site of a
circus, a boxing ground for pugnacious youths
a coal yard, of lot of novels, and of two
churches. Both the latter were DESTROYED by
fire, as were several of the shanties. The neigh
| borhood has undergone chan yes equally great
| At one time it was very fashionable district:
then it began to stagnate and retrograde until
ten years ago. Now it is a favorte thorough
fare from the Nights to the lines of palaces
which have grown up upon Prospect hill.
NEW York is the paradise of lawyers" says
a veteran member of the New York bar, land
some of the fees paid here would amaze the
practitioners in the other cities The late James
T. Brady was paid fee of $4,000 in one case
Henry l.. Clinton is credited with having re-
ceive1 100000 in the Vanderbilt will suit in
which he appeared for William II. Vanderbilt
Scott Lord. counsel for the contestants, received
100000, and both fees were paid by William II.
Vanderbilt, under the terms of settlement with
his brothers and sisters. How much the late
William o. Bartlett received in the Danser will
suit do not know, but his fee must have been
large, and the estate was ample to pay liberal
reward for his successful efforts in behalf of
the forgotten heirs. The surrogate court is the
place for plums, but they are not such easy pick
ing as in years gone by, when an allowance was
made whether a contest had merit or not The
fees of lawyers in criminal practice are, as ii