The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST

IL Derry, \. H.. flannel is distributed to the
poor under legacy left for the purpose. Many
who need il shrink from making their claims.
and as for toe others, they find the flannel
does the shrinking for them
DURING a thunder storm the jail at Moulton,
Ala, was struck by Lightning and hole torn in
the roof. The jailer neglected 20 repair the
damage. and night or two after five prisoners
made their escape through the opening.
The biggest sugar manufacturing project ever
proposed in Kansas has originated at Newton
The Kansas Central Sugar Company has been
organized there. 1t is proposed 20 build four
sugar mills in the county, each TO cost $780,
90
WHENEVER William E. Gladstone catches cold
he at once goes to bed. This has been his rule
for fifteen years. II is an interesting fact not
generally known that he wrote his election ad-
dress announcing the dissolution OF parliament
in 1874 in bed.
OK recent trial in Wales to test the validity
of will. it was proved that in 1860 the testator
became impaired in int ilect to such an extent
that ne went to the postoffice vita a stamp on
mis- forehead. and requested to be sent to
place he mentioned
SPEAKER REED has received from the Young
Mems Republican Club of Portland, Me-, an
old-fashioned silver candle extinguisher. 1t is
a token of the Y. NJ. r. c S appreciation of
Reeds efforts to snuff out justice and prece-
dent. Reed feels highly tattered by this deli
cate attention.
The great Bear river canal in Utah. for the
construction of which $4,000, 900 has been pro-
vided. is expected to be one OF the most exten-
Sve irrigation works in this country. IL W II
lrrigate 100000 acres in Salt Lake valley and
100000 on Bear river, increasing the value of
tee land to $50 acre. Bear lake is in Eastern
Idaho. The reservoir for the canal covers $50
square miles.
The DUKE OF ORLEANS, when he left the Paris
Conciergerie, turned to the governor of that in
stitution and said: Monsieur although am
a prisoner, shall llmy life remember my stay
here and the attention shown me. Come, shake
bands" What royal condescension! But the
duke is progressive. There was time when
pretender TO throne would have told his
Jaior to bend the knee.
AT Fiuvanna, n. Y, the other night, there
was an entertainment for the benefit of the viii
lage church, and dancing, billiards and card
playing were among the amusements INDUCED
in. One hundred dollars was the sum realize II.
The church for the benefit of which the enter
tainment was held is known as the Free church,
an edifice in which adherents of eli faiths may
worship. 1t is non sectarian.
IN private letter Minister Fred Grant speaks
of the delightful experiences he and his wife
are having in Vienna. Mrs. Grant is contem-
pating another visit to them next summer,
her first impressions were exceedingly enioya-
bic 1t is not improbable that during her stay
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the personal memoirs of Gen. Grant. which are
being prepared by mis- son. will be resumed with
view to their publication at an early day.
A POLE named Grabowski, who was thought
to be pauper, and has just died of the infiu
enza at the Charity hospital in Paris, has left
$500, 900 for founding in Paris a polygIot ga
Zette $4,000 for erecting a monument in Paris
to testify the gratitude of the Poles to France
and g large sum for continuing the Polish die
tionary begun by Lind There are other lega-
cies amounting to 0,000 and more assets it
turns out than will suffice to pay these different
| requests.
| From the seventy-five postoffices over which
Postmaster General BENJAMIN Franklin pre-
| sided, the number has grown to 1899 in 1889.
i In 1874 the number was 81, 800. and the gross
| revenue $26, 10000. The gross revenue for 1889
is So, 1851. The $500 offices at present in
! existence are divided as follows: First class,
l02; second class. 517; third class, 2034 fourth
| class, 81, l7G The grand total of employees at
present in the postal service is 150535 The total
| expenditure of the department for the fiscal
| year ending June 30 1859: Revenue $50, 49,
| Ola 81: total actual and estimated expenditures
and liabilities, So, 1888 35; deficiency in rev.
| enue, S6,3i3, lS3 49, TIE estimated revenue for
the fiscal year TO end June 30, 1890, is $60,6lS,-
| $50 81.
W. j. ARKELI of Frct,tk Lesties and Judge is
back of proposed exploring expedition to
| Alaska. The government will assist. The
| primary object of this search for Information
| is to penetrate the country lying between the
| Copper aud Yukon rivers in Central Alaska, a
| stretch of many thousands of square miles
| never yet trod by white man. E. H. Wells a
| western newspaper writer, will be at the head
of the expedition. His experience consists of a
| campaign last summer in which he travelled
1900 miles in The wildS of the British Northwest
| Territory. He has also mapped out for the
| United States government number of rivers in
| Central Alaska, previously unknown. Another
member of the expedition will be Alfred B.
! ScliaNZ formerly astronomer
| gheny observatory, and for the last three years
| a New York newspaper man.
II BELIEVE there is less change in wedding
! rings than anything in the line of goods we
! keep" said prominent New York jeweler a
| day or two ago. II have been in this business
| for about half a century, and the wedding ring
| is about the same to-day as when served my
| apprenticeship. The marriage token can hardly
be improved upon. It is a ring of pure virgin
| gold. 1t is softly rounded, and if you hang it
| on piece of string and strike it gently it will
| ring out au indeScribaoly soft and sweet sound.
| Ladies nowadays wear numerous rings which
carry no significance, except, perhaps, in
| some instances the possession of wealth
| Twenty-Five years ago it was rarity to see a
/ woman wearing more than one ring on either
/ hand, bat now the more they can crowd on their
dainty dgitS the better they seem pleased; and
| what is NOR, while they are almost insanely
| mindful of the harmony in their dress, they
| tumble diamonds, rubies pearls, garnets and
| the other precious stones together in ridiculous
confusion. 10 display diamond properly il
must be worn alone. Few seem to understand
this. 1t a solitaire is pure it is obvious that if
worn next to a ruby it will reflect the hue of the
| latter, and thus its value will be obscured.n
| BABY MCKEE's recent call to the white house
| of the Washington fire department has paral-
| lei from Lincoln's time. Young Tad Lincoln
| loved to with the engines to fires, but the
! boy kept up this amusement so steadily that the
| President forbade him going to any more fires
| The youngster then set about devising scheme
| TO bring the engines to him. On the top of the
| white house is great water tank placed there
| for use in case of fire. Young Todd then began
| systematically to NIL this tank with the bodies
! of dead cats and dogs he found in the streets.
| and added to their remains sticks and stones
| gathered in the white house grounds After
| several days work he had so completely choked
| up the reservoir that the water would not run
| off, and then he went and informed his father of
| the fact, and added that the only way to clear
| it out was to get an engine to come and pump
| it out. The President then gave him an order
| on Chief Dixon of the the fire department ask
| ing him to send an engine to the executive man
| sion to clean the tank. With great glee the boy
| carried the order TO Mr.. Dixon, and rode up the
| street on the engine, and watched with evident
| delight the machine at work The result how
| ever was not so pleasant for it disclosed Tad's
| work, and brought disgrace upon him, and no
| more engines came at his call.
| THE COST of funeral among the wealthy
| class in our city ranges from $500 to $500, >
said an undertaken to the New York Star ''but