The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FIR TREE recently cut down in Snohomish
county. Oregon, was 80 feet long and II feet in
diameter.
The second int irrational congress Of be
levers in cremation will soon meet in Berlin
The first congress OF sixteen delegates took
place IN Dresden IN 1876.
TIE only atten iants at the funeral of Jere-
miah Miller of North mountain, Cumberland
county. who attempted TO kill his wife and then
killed himself were the reporters-who acted as
pastor, pali-belr ami grave diggers-
A TREE in Nashville caught fire from an
electric wire. One limb was burned entirely
of. A policeman threw water on the burnin;
limb with hose, and when the water struck the
hre he EXPERIENCED severe electric shock.
MRS JoHs CARED OF Leoni bed to death in
her sleep tie other night. Her condition was
not known BY her husband until he was awak-
ened by the blood which was lowing from her
leg. The veins had broken by the force of The
life current, Id she was dead in fifteen min
utes.
THE PLACE TO send oil stamps is the Aisle des
Bilodes Locle. Switzerland. In 1885 this asylum
receive over 100000 STAMPS, of which the bes5
the call1ren assorted and so for $40 TO dealers
and Collectors, wni!e toe others were used for
decorative purposes, rooms being papered with
them.
SIX YEARS AGO Fred Mcconnell, aged IS, of
Washington, Pa. saw a circus performer eat
glass, and it 50 pleased him he determined to
learn 10 90 It, The first attempt made him
sick, but since then he has experienced no Iii
e1ect, though he is no taller than boy OF or
~ years.
MONTANA leads ali other tltes and terrific
ries n the value O. its m nsral cucpuv, although
very small rJportion of its mines ara b ing
worked The mineral produced in 1889 was
S43,0COOO0 and over half this amount. or
over Ss2,OOO.O0O, was produced in Butte alone.
his output Is increasing alt ne time.
ACCORDING to the returns of the Dominion
immigration department, NJ less than 81, 2l0
Immigrants from foreign lands settiei in the
DOMINION between che years 1881 and 1883, yet
the year book just received by the federal gov
erAment only claims an increase of 730,046 in
the Dominion population since 1881. There Is
too much emigration to this country for the
Dominion to grow very fast
A BANGOR MARE after leaving the bayfield,
was returned to the stable in decidedly snap
pish mood, and the first thing she did was to
Ca-ch her 3monthS- old fy S nose in her mouth
and tear the flesh entirely from il. Fourteen
stitches were taken in the wound, but the flesh
died and has been cut away. The colt
valuable one andlts owners hopes of its getting
the first prizs at the Bangor fair are gone
A WOMAN in New York, who has been ruined
by drink, gains precarous living by boarding
and taking care of fourteen old blind people.
Mornings she leads them to their places whsre
they sit for charity and peddle small articles,
and evenings she fetcheS them home one by
one She supplies them with their meals and
gives them a certain rude comfort. AS she is
careful to keep her protegeS within the law, she
Is not lnterfered with oy tne police.
WILL made by Freder C the Great in 174l
during the first Silesian war, was printed in the
first volume of The War of Frederick the
Great, just published in Germany. 1t reads as
follows: Il am only King lon as l I'm free.
If they kill M wish my body to be burnt IN
Roman fashion and my ashes to De incloseu III
an urn at RheinSberg In this case Knobesdorf
this architecD shall instruct a monument for
me like that of Horace at TuSculum."
Miss ANNA Patton, of Port Huron. wanted to
get passport to 90 home to SC lind for a
visit. Mr.. blaine said be Couldnt give her one,
as she was not citizen of his The lady went
thereupon before a circuit judge renowned
allegiance to everything save Uncle Sam, and
was made full and complete citizen. She will
now write Mr. Blaine. Children who came to
this country before they were IS years Id
without their parents, can take out full papers
on becoming OF age.
EVERY GUEST at the Antwerp banquet to Mr..
Stanley has received an admirably executed
commemorative medal in bronze. On one side
the arms of the city are surmounted by Il g
words ''Stad Antwerpen;' on the reverse an GA
crown and the Congo star enclrcle the dedica-
ton lin English) Ito Henry NJ. Stanley. April,
1890" Between the oak leaves and the rim
there is just space for the inscription: The
Municipal Council, the Royal Geo era phical So
ciety and the Chamber of Commerce of Ant
werp
LADY living in Henderson county, Ky,
whose husband died short while since, did
mething the other day the like of which is
rarely recorded 1t seems that her husband
owed so ne $1,000. most Of which had either
been barred by the statute of limitations or had
been liquidated by his act in taking benefit of
the bankrupt law. His widow lost no time in
collecting these evidences of Indebtedness and
borro we'd 81, 900 with which to ray them, mort
gaging the farm (Which belonged to her and on
which she lived) to raise the money. Checks
were sent to creditors in full.
IT is GENERALLY UNDERSTOOD that the hair
and nails grow faster in hot weather than in
cold but perhaps few are aware that auy tenn.
perature can impart so great a stimulus to the
growth as Col Pejevaisky, the Russian trav-
eler, says the Central Asian heat did during his
/ journey in those regions in tn summer of 1889.
In June the ground and the air became so
excessively hot, so great, indeed, to render
travel in the daytime impossible. Within a
fortnight after this oppressive weather began il
was noticed that the hair and beard of all the
party were growing with astonishing rapidly.
and strangest OF all, some youthful Cossacks
whose faces were perfectly smooth, developed
respectable boards within the short space of
twenty days.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL has decided that Gen.
Adam Badeau has no legal right to have his
name on the retired list of the army, and, in
accordance with that decision, The President
and the Secretary of War have decided
| to drop his name from the rolls of the
| army at once. The Attorney General decided
that Gen Badeau, in accepting a diplomatic
| office, vacated his military Office and put him
self out of the army. The fact that his name
remained on the rolls has significance 1t is
simply evidence OF a mistake of law in making
those rolls. This case, adds the Attorney Gen
eral, is not governed by the act of 1875 which
provides That every such officer Zone who has
leg or en- arm permanently dsabled) shall be
continued thereon" because Gen. Badeau as
the result of his statutory resignation, had been
out of the army and his place therein vacant
passed. This act did not operate to restore him
to the army
JUDGE JAHIEsoN's resignation has led the
Chicago Tribune to make some COMPARISONS
bet Teen the salaries paid to the American and
the British judges. There is a wide disparity.
and on readidg over the list of magnificent
British salaries the conclusion is irresistibIe
that own judges underpaid though
there may be a suspicion that the English
England gets $4,000 per annum while in office
and when he GOES out with his party he gets
$4,000 per annum The Irish lord chancellor
gets $4,000 in and $4,000 per annum on going
out. Three lords of appeal supreme court
judges-are paid $4,000 per annum. The lord
chief justice receives $40. 600; the master of The
rolls chief of the chancery division 80 900: the
other chancery judges, SIS, 900 each. The
queens bench judges are paid so. 600 each
The county judges get salaries ranging from