The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I'll ESTIMATED that the amount of gold in
the world is about 6l3 cubic yards. and it would
lin a room twenty-four feet each way il in a
solid cube.
II ALL the hotel projects in Chicago material
lie every half dozen visitors to the proposed
worlds fair it is to have will enjoy hotel to
themselves.
A HOSPITAL or home for animals is to be es-
tablished in New York city. Paris and London
each have extensive private and public hos
pitfalls for animals.
A DETROIT electric light company advertises
its confidence in the safety of electricity by in
surfing the lives of its employees against death
by 1t at 5000 each
AUSTIN, Texas, has decided TO erect a dam
over the Colorado river that will be the largest
in the United States, It will cost 81, 100000
and develop l4,0O0horse power.
EDUCATION does not seem to make people any
the less superstitious. About fifteen hundred
| different kinds of dreambooks are in the mar
| ket, and all Of them find buyers.
| BERLIN AUTIQUARY has come into possession
of the dagger with which Ravaillac assassinated
| Henry " of France. It was stolsn from the
Paiais de Justice in Paris in 1915.
| The BUSINESS of the Transcaspian railway
has reached value of 10000 roubles about
S65,00O per week, chiefly from cotton. which is =
|
ARTHUR ORION, the 'sTichborne claimant"
| tried to emerge from his obscurity and run for
parliament as a home ruler recently, but could
not pay the election bills and was dropped
THERE is now outstanding of the old frac-
tional paper currency something like S12OOO,-
| 900. And of this it is estimated that not more
| tnan S3,OOO,OOO to S5,00O,00c will ever come in
| now.
| The LATEST ADDITION to the British navy, the
Victoria. is said to be the largest war vessel at
present ready for active service. She cost over
| Si,OUO,OOO and carries crew of $50 officers and
| men.
HE ENGLISH COUNTESS OF CARLoTy died re-
Gently in Paris, where she lived alone and
apparently in poverty. After her death $4,000
IN gold and $4,000 in notes were found in her
| room
AT THE NEXT GERMAN MANEuvERs there will be
an extremely interesting event in a battle be-
tween one corps armed with the new rifle and
| ammunition, and another corps with the old
equipment.
REAL HORNED MAN has been discovered by
Capt Albornog on the Gran Chaco in the Ar
gentine Republic. He is tall, with full beard
| and two very perfect horns ike those of a stag
on his forehead.
| The POPULAR SUBSCRIPTION for erecting
monument to the newly made duke of Lauen-
burg Prince Bismarck, is very successful. At
| Berlin and Hamburg alone no Less than S37, 500
| has already been gathered.
A LEAvENwoRTH, KAN, MAN wagers any sum
between $4,000 and $4,000 that within thirty
days he can walk from Leavenworth to Junction
City, and never take his feet off of mortgaged
ground, except when crossing road.
A MEMBER of the House of Commons created
considerable amusement by gravely asking the
| home secretary whether the law of 1874, making
| 1t illegal for any person to send telegram con-
corning betting, could not be enforced
DUKE CARL THEODORE OF BAVARIA has re
sumed the gratuitous treatment of eye diseases
among the Tyrolese poor. and during the last
four weeks he has carried to a successful issue
| l7O operations, of which SO were for cataract.
Mrs. HULINa, Rhode Island woman, being
| thrown into the water by the filling of boat in
| which she and two lady friends were rowing,
| escaped drowning by clinging to her dog,
| which swan with her to the shore Her friends
| were drowned.
| The London Times contains the following
curious advertisement: Napoleon l. For sale,
| the original mask nodded at Saint Helena by
| DR.. Antomarchi. Price required, $4,000 Ad-
| dress E. G. D., Post Restante, Rue Lefranc,
| SchaerDeck, Brussels"
TIE INDICATIONS en- that the peach
| crop of Maryland this year will be
a decided failure. Reports from
all the peach regions confirm the belief that
| there will be very few peaches, and those will
| be of an inferior quality.
| ANTHRACITE COAL of a high grade has been
| found in the town of Alma Kan, at a depth of
| about 300 feet. The discovery was made by
| means of diamond drill, and the core which
| was brought up showed the vein to be work
| able seam nearly six feet thick.
The KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE Of 1915 was noted
for its misspelling. 1t named Green county
after Gen. Greene. Muhlenburg county after
| M6Oifaa al
| H. Menefee and Daviess comfy after Joseph
| H. Daveiss, and the orthography dis6gures the
| map TO this day.
| THE LATE James H. Woods of New York city,
| wealthy bachelor, so years old, had a taste for
| collecting scarf pins. and when be died left
| large assortment of them. Some of these he
| gave to friends, while others, according to his
| will. are to be disposed of and the proceeds
| given to charity.
| SOME INTERESTING FACTS were shown by
graphic representation at the Paris exposition
regarding the decrease of illiteracy in France:
1881, lliterate IS per cent. 1913, illiterate, 80
per cent; 1860, illiterate, 80 per cent; 1870 il
literate, 1919 per cent; 1880, illterate, IA per
| cent; 1886, illiterate, II per cent.
| THE PROJECT OF SAVOY has recently prohibited
the gathering of the cycamen in the woods of
| the department Notwithstanding its abun-
| dance in the locality, this beautiful plant has
| been threatened with total extinction from the
| enormous numbers gathered each year for sale
| in the markets of Chambery and Aix-les- Bains.
Nor AN island has been heayed up or sunk
| from sight in the Pacific Ocean for the last
| thirty-four years, and biologists say that ma
/ ture is resting for mighty effort in the future
| An English geoogist predicts that within fifty
years convulsion of nature will sink the whole
of New Zealand fifty feet below the surface of
| the sea.
| THE WATERLOO BALL ROOM, where once there
was sound of revelry by night, and all went
merry as marriage bell, just before Napoleons
| overthrow, is for sale. 1t is the upper story of
a now deserted brewery in the Rue de la
| Blanchisserie, Brussels. 1t is very large ROOM
with rough beams supported by a row of six
wooden pillars in the center.
A CENTURY AGO the Duke of Grafton called up
his jockey, who had won two important races
for him and said: John Day. have sent for
you as am going to make you present for
your good riding. There is SEQ note for you,
and Thope you will not waste it, but take great
care of it, A modern jockey has received as
much as $4,000 for winning a single race.
RECENT DISCUSSIONS on the Blair bill to extend
federal aid to education in the states have made
prominent the facts that there are now about
1000 colored children in the common schools
of the south and nearly 100000 more in private