The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-22
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gascar, will be one of the highest in the world,
ss the sight chosen is about 400 feet above the
sea level
A HA1LsroNE that fell during the storm in st.
Louis Wednesday, and was measured at the
signal service station there is said TO have been
nine inches in circumference.
A GRAIN OF CORN lodged in the throat of
little girl at Hartford, Kan. The child's mother
took an ordinary hairpn, turned hook on the
| end OF it, and with this instrument pulled the
| kernel out.
| AN AFRICAN CRAZE prevails in Germany. The
foreign Office Is flooded with applications,
largely from army officers. but including all
/ sorts of people, asking for government employ
| ment in Africa.
BREAD AND MILK is one of the most popular
dishes served for lunch at the Congressional
| restaurant in Washington. Glasses of pure
cream or of half cream and half milk are greatly
| IN demand among the congressman who come
| from cities, but they are avoided by the rural
| members.
LADIES' COOKING SCHOOLS are the rage all
over England at tuition prices of from S50to 500
| per twenty lesson, according to the grade of
| cooking which the pupil desires to learn. In
| Scotland the craze has assumed a popular form
| and lessons are given by the dozen as low as so
cents to 81.
| ACCORDING to a late consular report these
parts of Europe cover the following areas:
Germany 34,596.00O acres. Russia 494, 22S, 900
acres, Austria Hungary 1881 700 acres, Sweden
100000 acres, France q, 10000 acres, Spain
| IS, 100000 acres Italy 9,6S4.550 acres and Eng
land All 900 acres.
| The CUSTOM of water boy to carry ice water
| through the cars began on Connecticut railroads
during the war, when water was carried through
| the cars to sick or disabled soldiers, and it SO
commended itself TO the public that in 1864 law
1 passed making the SarViCa nbiiQatOrV
roads running through the state.
| WILLIAM JONES of Philadelphia has received
white raccoon, which was captured in the east
ern part of Ohio. 1t is said to be the only ami
NAL of its kind ana color known in this coun-
| try. 1t is not more than a year old, and the
coat is as white as that of the whitest Spite dog.
Whitley" as the raccoon is called, is quite
playful and rather affectionate.
| In PARIS the thousands of sardine and other
| tin boxes that thrown away every month
| form the basis for industry which has
| reached vast proportions and in which the
| entire youth of the country are interested.
| These refuse cans are stamped into tin soldiers
| by suitable machines, and sold so cheaply that
| the poorest children can possess them.
OVER 1000 Africans are now at work on the
| Congo railroad On April twelve two miles of
it had been completed. This portion begins at
| Matadi, which is at the western end of the
| road, ninety miles from the sea. The principal
| QlHlCulble3 u6 IN Cle Dull0llg OF the QrSC ten
miles before the level plateau of the Congo
hills is reached twenty-five Europeans super
| intend the work.
TIE SPANISH GOVERNMENT is hard master.
| It pays the workmen in the Almadea quicksilver
mines, which yield an enormous revenue, only
| 20 cents per day. and owing to the deletsrious
nature of the work the strongest men can only
| labor two days in the week After five or six
| years work the miners become disabled alto
| gether, when the government magnanimously
| gives them d license to beg.
GRAND SECRETARY E. V. DEBs of the Locomo-
tive Firemen estimates the numerical strength
of the different railroad organizations as fol-
| lows: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
| 10000, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
| 1900, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
| 10000, Switchmans Mutual Aid Association
900, Brotherhood of Railroad Conductors 1000.
The last four bodies are federated, and number
1900 in all.
| RAILWAY POSTAL CLERK who runs on the
Union Pacific day or two since found smong
| the mail passing through his hands mail car
| rer's hat, which had been mailed at Butte
Mont. Attached to it was a card on which was
| written, Round the world to beat George
Francis Train" The carrier passed it along to
San Francisco, and says that as the hat will not
have to stop to eat make speeches it will
probaby beat Trains record.
In SALzUNeEN. little city of Thuriugia, the
women and police are at odds. There is a
| pretty pond or lake there framed in beautiful
| lawns. On these the women have from time
immemorial bleached their washing spreading
the clothes on the green, and sprinkling them
twice daily. The police have interdlcted this
practice, but the women persist. and every
| week there is grand row over the laundry of
the city between the contending parties.
RESIDENTS OF CALIFORNIA, Nevada and Ari-
IONA have drink that is not found in the east
It's called an oyster cocktail. In the prepara-
ton of this queer drink. Puget Sound oysters
no bigger than thumb nail, used Four or
five of these oysters are placed in the bottom Of
| glass, and a sufficient quantity of whisky to
suit the taste of the drinker is poured upon the
oysters. On account Of their size the oysters
are carried easily on the current of the whisky
over the palate.
THERE is to be an ocean cable conference at
Paris this summer, and the principal business
to be talked about is a motion to reduce the
limit or letters In q code word to eight instead
of ten, at the present time The proposal
has caused a wall of Indignation, not only in
| this country, but also in England and Paris
that the codes are nearly all based on it. and a
general reconstruction of all codes will be re-
quired if the motion prevails.
RECENTLY several gentlemen met in hotel at
Kingston, Ont. One of them received in change
a 10 cent piece on which was inscribed the mys-
tic symbols, Hts" by Jove!" said he,
| here's 10-center that some fellow has mar6ed
to see if it will ever come back" LET me see
it, replied a gentleman of the party. Gen
| tlemen," he said, my nameis Henry Dermond.
Twelve years ago, at Halifax. N. S., marked
| twenty Decent pieces as this is marked. This
| is the third one that has turned up" He offered
the owner OF the coin 81 for it and got it.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT has lately finished a
notable cruise in his yacht Namouna. Mr.. Ben
nett and guests sailed from Nice to Spezia with
Admiral Walkers squadron of evolution. Thence
to Messina and through the Suez canal to Suez
| From the latter place TO Alden through the Red
Sea. Thence across to Ceylon. From Ceylon
the party went TO the MaldiVes, and over the
equator to the Seychelles Islands. Thence to
Alden, Port Said, and through the Grecian
Archipelago. stopping at Zante Cespe, and over
| a part of the Odyssey route. Thence to the
capital Of Montenegro Then across the Adyiatic
| to Venice.
For the decade 1880 30 the duel statistics of
Italy record for the entire kingdom 1850 duels,
most of them military. The hotter the weather
the more dues, while in very cold winter spells
| the figures tapered off. Thus seven-eighths of
the whole number took place in summer and
| one-eighth in winter. Only fifty deaths resulted
| of all these duels, ninety of which were fought
| with the sword, 2,4S0 with the sabre, and the
rest with the pistol. Ordinary quarrels pro-
duced 1907 press and political discussions l. 322;
| love, 1888; religious questions, 20. Most of the
| duels took place at Naples and the fewest at
| Venice.
A NOVELTY in printing has been introduced
into Germany by which it is said that two
colors can be done at one impression. In addi-