The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NEW MODEL SCHOOL in Germany. which has
been built at a cost Of S225, 600, contains large
dining-room where 700 poor children can be fed
in winter
TIE AthenPunl has this advertisement:
writers of fiction, ladies especially. may be
supplied with new materials of an exciting and
romantic character"
A RECENT HAIL-sToRM at Alusa. Cal, exposed
the fact that bats live in the green foliage of
trees during the summer. The haistones
knocked great many to the ground.
TIE whistle on Santa Fe locomotive blew a
blast the other day between Usage City and
Topeka thirty-fve miles long The people
along the track thought the end Of the world
had come, sure
THERE are drifts Of snow in the Little Smoky
mountains of Idaho are fifty feet deep. These
drifts are remnants of the heavy snowfall of
last winter. and it is conjectured that it will
take two more hot summers to melt them
SOUTH ATrIcA OIIcH.) FARMERS planted mus
tard seed. They did not expect pineapples or
oranges, but they were wild when the plant
came up and proved to be western mustard
which Is about ten times as hard to eradicate as
the Canadian thistle.
Mr.. PAYE, the novelist, has been telling an
interviewer that be works from 10 O'Clock a. m,
to O'Clock p. m, and that from clock D. m
to O'Clock D. m. he plays whist. That is to say,
he bays whist for CPS hours in the year
twenty-six days in all
THE use of electricity is offered to the lion
tanner in the form of a light wand with an
insulating grip for the hand, connected by a
heXabe wire with a battery of which the
power can be varied at will. An experiment
with this form Of applied science has been sue
cessfuily made.
The --latest girl in Paris" Victorei Fantin,
died Sunday, and was buried a few days ago
mir n
age, and weighed 40 pounds Sac was engaged
at the Eden tbeater, but h. size was such that
SIZE made very few appearances. II required
seven strong men to assist her from her house
to the stage.
AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICERS who have adopted
the cholera belt in the tropics find it so bene-
fetal that they often retain it all climates tits
SIMPLY broad band Of flannel worn night and
day the year around tight about the waist, so as
TO protect the stomach from sudden changes in
temperature. 1t is an excellent preventive of
stomachlc disorders.
PERHAPS the most wonderful currant bush
ever seen is owned by R. Lonnen of Mayville. n
J. He found the bush growing wild in the
WOODS, brought it home and planted it by the
side of the house. The bush has grown UP the
side OF the building to the night OF about twenty
Ieet. and Is about seven feet wide. bearing cur
rants as large as an ordinary cherry.
AN ENGLISH WOMAN resident in Syria reports
the discovery near Beyroot of bedstead made
of gold and silver and inlaid with with precious
stones. An inscription upon it in English char
acters states that it belonged to Eleanor, Queen
of England. The bedstead was discovered in a
cave, and is supposed to have been placed there
for security when Edward l. left for the east.
A NOVEL RACE il soon to come off in West
Chester, Pa. Each runner is to wear laced shoes.
ana all the shoes are to be taken off and placed
In barrel. The runners then start from a
mark, run twenty five yards to the barrel, pick
out their own shoes, put them on, lace them up
and then run 100 yards to mark. The man
who gets over the entire route first with shoes
properly laced, will be the winner
BY THE ENGLISH LAW herlooms are exempt
from probate duty, SO the Duke of Hamilton
paid nothing on the treasures of bis palace
when he came into possession into 1868. But
when he sold them they ceased to be heirlooms
1t appear and the board of inland revenues
has shocked his grace with a sudden demand
demand for t1o,OOe, or per cent on the S30J-
OOO realized from the Hamilton palace sale
THE NEW York electrician, who has made
| a specially of spectacular electricity, says the
| day is not far Off when electrical fireworks will
supersede those cow used He declares that for
| a comparatively moderate outlay he could
arrange an electrical display for the city VIII CHI
would last for many years and could be repeated
as oftensas desired. 1t would comprise rockets
Roman candles, wheels, Niagara Falls, and ali
| the pyrotechnic effects.
| HoRATIo LITTLEFIELD, of West Kennebunk
| Me, discovered curious object on his farm
/ he other day. He was chopping timber. and
| decided to dig one old tree, known to have been
| there for over century, up by the roots He
| did so, and was surprised to find an iron kettle
| firmly embedded in the roots. The large roots
| looked as though they had grasped it, and year
| by year pressed 1t deeper and still deeper into
the ground until it got to the depth of five feet
| The question now is, who put the kettle where
| it was found?
| AN EXTRAORDINARY BANK NOTE made its ap-
pearance at the First National bank in Pitts
burg the other morning. 1t was national cur
rency note on Kansas City bank with a face
value OF 500, but its back was printed from a
| SlOO note plate while the number was inscribed
| upside down. The note is regarded as a great
| curiosity, and such freak it is said, has never
| before been seen outside of the treasury depart
| ment Indeed the bank officials ere at a loss
| to explain how it could have got into circuIa-
| ton. IL Is worth its face value, $50, but as a
| curiosity 1t is valued at more than double that
| amount.
| THE IDEA that A T. Stewart began life in New
York penniless is SO deeply rooted in the public
mind that it is doubtful if people will ever COM
| prehend the true facts. Very few men have as
| good a chance for g comm ercia opening as had
| the great dry goods prince His entire fortune
| was placed in his hands when he was 20 wears OF
| age, ana he was allO we'd to do as he pleased with
| 1T. This fortune consisted of over $50 0OO The
| first urchase which Stewart made was in the
shape OF big consignment of Irish linens 10
| Beifasy. lot of the $780, 900 went into this
| primary transaction, and, after he had sold the
| goods at a little shop on the corner of Broadway
| and Chambers street, he found that he had
| nearly doubled his fortune, so that year after
| he had established his business he had nearly
| S400OO IN cash and a good credit already estab.
! liShed. With such an equipment at u years
bis subsequent success loses something of it's
| marvellous character, particularly when it is re-
membered that the war trebled the value of all
| the big commercial houses like that of A. r
Stewart & Co.
A WEEKLY PAPER tells the following little
romance of the marriage of a poor sculptor and
little girl: little private chapel upstairs In
| an old-fashioned house of an old-fashioned
| street in an old-fashioned quarter of Paris
witnessed fortnight ago a very interesting
| wedding-that Of Antoui Merce and Mile Fran.
| coise de Simard de Ptra. Antoni Mereie is the
! son of modest South-of-France farmers and
| has become great sculptor. His Gloria Vic
| tbs, his ''Quand Heme,' his Gen. Lee" and
| his Lafayette all four entitled him to fame
Frarcoise de Simard de Pitray is the daughter
of Americas Lafayette About two months