The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


| buildings now before congress.
VERY LARGE LETTER was recently mailed in
Australia. It weighed 23s ounces, and the value
of the stamps on it amounted to S55
| TIE Japan Gazette declares that unless some
thing is done to relieve the present scarcity of
capital in that country commercial crisis is
/ not far of.
Boston is less than one-half the size of Phila-
delphis and much more compactly built, yet it
costs the city $4,000 a year more 10 collect and
remove ats ashes, garbage and dirt than il does
Philadelphia.
| LAWYERS assistant in q Chicago Office, hay
ing declined to take down and dust books, was
/ dismissed. He su d his preceptors for the re-
| covery of years salary and has recovered this
amount With costs.
AT the Carlisle Indian school the debating
club Of Indian students recently argued the
subject of woman suffrage The committee
| voted at the conclusion that the young women
had the better OF the argument.
a RECENT conceit for a bachelors writing
table issthe hand and forearm of a woman, pre-
| feraby Of some particular woman, with the
| hand made to hold an nkstand and the fingers
| arranged INTO a convenient pen rack. -
SrANLEY's BOOK viii be TRANSLATED INTO French,
German, Italian Czech, Swedish and Spanish,
and will be published in the several countries
SIMULTANEOUSLY HHIefSlO0d IItStb a Idlr
portion of the manuscript will be ready for Mr..
Marston of London and Arthur Scribner OF New
York to bring with them from Cairo.
From the wallet of murderer, robber and
| burglar recently captured in New York was
taken a slip of paper on which was written:
| keep good company or none" Honesty is
the best policy" Drink leads to ruin. ,, Honor
| thy father and thy mother. "Cvility costs
nothing" DO not mock at sacred things.
PRINTERS ERROR has been detected in the
last issue of the Bible from tho Cambridge
| press In Isaiah Xviii 10, the word 'founda-
ton is begun with an ''r'' instead of an f."
The mistake was discovered by young son OF
| Rev. DR.. II. Adler, who nas received the stand
ing reward of guinea offered for the detection
OF sucn an error.
| WINNIE REAM, the sculptress now Mrs. Hoxie,
rides and drives great deal and is, upon the
| whole, a perfect pattern of happy womanhood.
| 1t is not a little curious to find out that the
| sculptress of Lincoln, who won the commission
| over so many older heads, is of pure southern
| blood and that her family throughout the war
| had southern sympathies. t..,
| WITHIN the past twenty-five years the city of
Rome has been transformed almost beyond re-
| cognition. The population is now over 100000
| and quarter OF century ago it was less than
| 100000. All the old historic buildings are fall
| ing, and even the great mausoleum of the EN-
peror Hadrian, which is largely due to the
| genius of Michael Angelo, is in danger.
MICHIGAN ITEM: A farmer in Ludington owns
a pig which is a marvel in its way. The animal
| is of the razor back variety. fleet as a grey
| hound, and its peculiar usefulness lies in its
ability and skill as rabbit lnlntGr The pig
| always follows its owner on his rabbit shooting
trips and will chase the game with as keen
| scent and round it up wit-i1 -RaGshot with as
| much skill as any dog hunter ever shot over.
AN AMUSING INCIDENT comes from Hamilton,
Canada. It appears that the location of the
| wires that were originally put into the base
| ment walls of the city hall, connecting with the
| switch board in the upper hall, has been lost
| through some careleSsneSS during the building
| operations, and cannot now be found without
ripping up the marble pavement and mutilat-
ing the walls, and even then the search might
prove fruitless.
MAINE annually gathers fur as well as an
ice crop. The following from Maine ex-
change) shows substantially what trappers and
dealers there have caught and handled since
autumn. In addition about 200 bears were killed
in the spring. The value gwen is the selling
price for each skin Muskrats % coo, at 16
cents; $500 skunks, 50 cents; $500 mink, 81 49,;
900 coon, 60 cents; $50 foxes 81 40; 730 sables,
81; 81 bears ST.: Il fishers, 81; SO offers, So;
176 lynx, SO; 5 silver foxes, $50; 8 cross foxes
| So; $50 house cats, 10 CENTS and 75 wild cats,
| 70 cents
IT Is HARD to believe that a man can
| unite in one person two such widely differ
emit characters as minister and butcher,
| and succeed in each, says the New
| York Star Yet such one is the Rev
Halsey w. Knapp, who from 4 to II o'clock
| a. IN. manages one of the largest retail and
| wholesale meat places. and the rest of the
twenty-four hours is busy and benevolent
| clergyman. He is about 80 years of age with
| a square, solid and muscular build, SO common
to marketmen, black hair and beard, and rosy
| complexion. He is a brother of Prof Knapp,
| the distinguished scholar of Yale college, and
| was intended for similar career, but while in
| his teens he manifested such love for the
| butcher business, and such a distaste for study,
that he was allowed to have his own way.
THE CAVE accidentally discovered on farm
in Wilson county, Tenn, by fox hunters, has
since been explored. The exploring party con-
| sisted only of the fox hunters-four in number
| and one of them thus tells of the trip in COM
munIcation to the Nashville Americdn: "Satur-
| day morning all met again with lanterns and
| plenty of matches. We began to descend in the
| cave. We went about 100 yards, when the cell
| ing seemed to be about IL feet above our heads;
| the walls were as smooth as plank. We came
to a small creek crossed it, and about 80 yards
from this creek we found pile of ashes, two
old-fashioned rifles, three pistols one ladle and
some bullet moulds. One of the pistols had the
letters NJ. S. I. on the handle, and on the wall
was written NJ. S. Thomas, June 2, 1885, In an
entrance further op we found the skeletons of
five human beings. OFF on one side lay skele-
ton that seemed to be that of woman. for on
tered r. W. to NJ. E. 1Sk. DR.. Sneed took the
ring off the finger. We also found one tooth
plug of gold"
THE great poultry show which has just closed
in new York has drawn attention to the magni-
tude of the egg crop in the country as COM
pared with other crops. There is a wonderful
| lack of knowledge and appreciation on the part
of the general public as TO the worth and i'm
portance of the chicken and egg business in this
| country In point of fact there are few inter
| ests i'm the United States which are of greater
Importance TO the populationat large in regard
to the table comforts than this same chicken
business. The government statistics show that
over $3.50 100000 are required to represent the
| annual expenditure for the chicken crop of the
| United States aad that more than 5000 600
dozens of eggs, worth in money nearly So 600 =
| COO are imported into this country every wear
The truth is that the poultry and egg expenli-
ture m this country each year will aggregate
larger sums than come to the credit either of the
| wheat crop, the cotton crop or the dairy product
Although the SO, 1900 worth of eggs which are
| imported each year come into competition d.
| rectly with our home industry in the poultry
IIine the eggs are ADMITTED free of duty In
| suite Of this immense free trade the demand
7 sSgreatet@ than the supply, imports and all
together.
A F4THERIg sort of judge indeed is the SUBJ
iect of the annexed paragraph from the New
York Commercial Advertiser: Washington has
famous police judge now presiding over the
| peace of the community. He is red headed and
! original and is going about in his own way to
| administer Justice and introduce reforms 1t
|