The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FIE9 In Nashua, y. H. has received an
order from England for 10000 feet of kiln
dried hard pine timber.
NAN named J. s Hartman is trying to walk
from Wabash, Ind, to San Francisco within
sixty-hve days on g wager of $1,000.
A BEAR. supposed to have escaped from q me-
nagerie, has become such pest about Aber
mountain, in Wales. that the farmers have or
gained party TO run it down.
New YoRK BARRIERS are removing the clocks
from their shops because customers get nervous
by watching them while being shaved, and the
employees can't do their work properly.
Two BOYS of Whisky Diggings, Col. were out
fishing in small creek recently when they dis
covered deep pool that held big sturgeon. 1t
was taken to town and scaled 15Spounds.
TIE KANGAROO is being successfully propa-
gated in England and there, is some likelihood
of this curious animal taking its place among
the most familiar domestic animals of that
country.
CAT in the family of Mrs. Cook Flack. South
Jonathan street, Hagerstown, has taken tender
charge of brood of chickens left without a
protector by tue death of the hen which Matched
them out.
THE oldest book in the world is at present in
the Bibl1othsque Rationale at Paris. The
Egyptians were the earliest makers of litera-
Is
written long before the christian era.
AT AUBURN CAL, a woman was watching her
hens which were scratching in the garden, when
she saw them unearth a bright object and try
their bills upon it. She took it into the house
and it proved to be chunk of gold worth So.
NEW INDUSTRY has sprung up in Kansas
that of collecting old tintware, which is used at
the Argentine sinelter for fluxing purposes. An
industrious man can gather up a ton of it 10 a
day. which brings $225 delivered at the rail
road.
ANOTHER VICTIM of christian science died in
Jamestown n. Y, last week The victim was
a woman who had suffered for two years with
cancer of the breast, and from whom all medi
cal care had been kept byta band of christian
scientists who tried to cure her by faith.
NEW YORK PIcKPockKTs have invented new
scheme for robbng people. 1t is to pour kero
sene or alcohol over the back of mans coat
and touch match thereto. Then, while help
ing to eXtinguish the flames they 'ift' the
victims watch and whatever money or valua-
bleS he may have.
PRACTICAL COOPERATION among workingmen
is on trial in Los Angeles, CAL, where fifty
laborers have formed company and taken a
large sewer contract from the city. The men
work for 10 cents an hour, and eight hours a
Gay. After all expenses are paid the profits of
the contract will be equally divided.
FIFTEEN MEN met in New York last Thursday
evening to form new political party called the
Industrial party of the United States'' The
principles of the ne party include government
control of railroads. direct graduated taxation
and the loan of federal money to the people on
real estate security at per cent. per annum.
EXPERIMENTS have been made near Copen-
hagen with tree-felling by dynamite. Trees of
three feet in diameter were brought down in
some twenty to twenty-five minutes, whereas
the time occupied by ordinary telling would
probably have been ten ii es as much. The
experiments were made for military purposes.
THE SYMPTOM TUNNEL seems likely to be the
next important engineering achievement on the
continent. AS Italy disapproved of the former
plans, which, in her opinion, gave France too
great an advantage, an entirely fresh scheme is
proposed. comprising tunnel some eighteen
miles long, of which eight would be in Italian
territory. In this case, however, the Italian
government must grant a subsidy of eG00, coo.
AGENTLEMAN who has recently returned from
extensive travels in India says that in one
of their cities he delivered an address upon
christianity to an audience of 300 Brahmins "A
who spoke English better than he did, and who
afterward came IN large numbers to his bunga-
low, asking him to answer the arguments
against christianity in tract they handed him,
which he found to be one of Col. Ingersoll's
speeches.
WITHIN sight of each other in Lubbock district
West Virginia, live five members OF one family
whose ombined ages are 395 years. They are the
BeckwithS The family consists of Barnes
Beckwith, aged 72: Q. A. Beckwith, aged "A:
Mrs. L. A. Beckwith, VINO was Beckwith before
marriage, aged "A; Miss Jane Beckwith agsd
o5 and Uncle Tom Beckwith, aged 80. All the
members Of this remarkable family are yet hale
and hearty.
On May Prof. Virchow, in Berlin in lect-
ure on diseases of the liver again condemned
tight lacing. The outward pressure of tight
lacing so surely affects the internal organs that
from the lape of a liver one could determine
to what period of fashion the possesSor be-
longed. Excessive lacinx caused whole por-
tons of the liver to disappear. Others grew
aonormaily, causing changes OF the most vital
Importance.
FRENCH COUNTS have nine equal pearls in
their coronets. The British baron is entitled to
a coronet of four big pearls. The English Wis
count has a coronet of seven pearls of even
size. The earl's coronet shows five small pearls
and four strawberry leaves The English mar
quiS is entitled to three strawberry leaves and
two large pearls French marquises bear three
strawberry leaves and two clusters of three
small pearls. French viscounts are entitled to
a coronet containing three large pearls aud
two smaller ones. French barons are not en-
titled to coronet but to what is caled tortil
a crclet of gold having a necklace of tiny
pearls turned three times around it.
A BOSTON WOMAN, who has not yet been whipped
of Justice, is going from shop to shop and
playing little game of which the profits are
worth 70 cents pays for it, stands and waits
few minutes, and then says: II must catch
train. and can't wait for my change. l gave
you so cents, YOU know. Can't you give me the
p cents?" Good natured girls give it if the |
change which they have in hand enables them |
to do 80, but when the check comes back to |
them from the cashier, they find that she who |
had to catch a train really gave them 25 cents. |
and 1t is not to be expected, rs they have to |
make up tn deficit from their own pockets |
that they will be equally accommodating again |
very soon.
A SORRY GROUP was that of the Boulangist |
leaders as they left the brave generals house in
Jersey two weeks ago after fruitless effort to |
make him return to France and take what they |
regard as the last chance for preserving his |
party. The hero met NJ, Naquet and his four |
companions on the pier with the remark that he |
knew what they had come for When they
were seated in bis study they put the case to |
him fatty. Boulanger made it emphaticaly |
plan that nothing would get him away from |
where he was. He declared that they wished to |
give him up to NJ Constans. This savors of |
treason he said, "and NV friends cannot and |
must not insist on this" Paul Deroulede the |
poet, then said that they did not suspect his |
courage a soldier, as it had been displayed so |
often; but as politicians they considered that |
they were better Judges in matters where civic
courage was concerned, and that he must
brave his enemies or the jig was up. AT this |
the general became enraged, and swora that he |
would not permit any one to talk to him in that |
manner undar his Vn witt