The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A FLOCK of about 1000 swallows have taken
possession of the chimney Of church at Red
Bank, N. j.
THE agricultural college professors have fig
ured it out that two little sparrows in ten years
will produce progeny of 275 7l6, 1888, 69s birds.
A FAT MEMS CLUB, containing 11e members
and representing an aggregate weight of
$4,000 pounds, fourishes in Mount Pleasant,
Mich.
A YOUNG MERCHANT in Berlin has married the
woman that nursed him when babe. She was
then II years old. He is we'll off in worldly
matters
COSTA RICA's LATEST SCHEME for raising
money and the purpose for which it is to be
raised are novel, to say the least. A new theauer
is wanted at the capital, and an export duty
has been placed by congress on coffee in order
10 raise the necessary money.
THE narrowest dwelling house in Brooklyn is
to be built this summer 1t will measure
711x5O feet. The lot upon which the building
is to stand is in one of the best streets in the
city, and has been thought by many to be
almost worthless because of its small size.
A TROUPE of about fifty Persian singers,
dancers, wrestlers, boxers conjurors and eques-
trians, nearly all of whom have been forced
from their native land for highwaymanry, are
about to make a tour through Europe, starting
from Odessa. Their performances are said to
be quite wonderful.
A WOMAN of st. Paul, Mimi, the mother of
three young children, after trying about a
dozen nurse girls with very unsatisfactory re-
suits, advertised for q boy TO take care of her
children She obtained one, and he possessed
more good qualities than all the nurse girls
combined, giving perfect satisfaction.
AN EAR OF CORN on exhibition at Ssn Luis
Obispo. Cal. is described as being in the exact
form of human hand; the wrist, palm. thumb
and fingers being all perfect. 1t is covered
with small grains to near the tips of the fingers,
which are bare prongs of cobs, giving the hand
tie appearance of being clad in a NIT.
1.-THE beautiful women of the world are re-
quested, in a circular, to send their photographs
to the Baroness Klara Won der Decker at Tifiis
These will be examined by committee of ar
lists, and those selected will be put in an album
with the title: Types of Female Beauty of the
Last Years of the Nineteenth Century, Then
the album will be sent to the Moscow museum.
PRESIDENT ScHAFFER of the Indianapolis
Young Mems Christian Association, who is also
president Of the street railway company of that
city, has rendered his resignation of the former
place, being driven to the step by the severe
structures of the ministers of the city. He has
been running cars on Sunday to the beer re-
sorts, ball games and other places where crowds
congregate.
THE TELEPHONE must have a new role of use
fuiness scored for it. Sir Humphrey de Trafford,
| near Manchester, has, perhaps, the finest ken.
| nels in England, the kennelman's house adioin-
ing them. From each kennel a telephone ar
rangement leads to the kennelman's room SO
that when any dog is noisy at night the keeper
can speak to him so as to be heard without leay-
| ing his room.
| SUPT. PORTER says of the census now being
| taken: 1.-THE rough estimates of the census
office indicate that the population will not be
| far short of 6, 600 co., though it NAV even ex-
| N of he 1arer
| immigration into the country during the last
decade. Our aggregate wealth has been esti-
mated at $50, 000 900, 900, and some believe that
| it will not be far short of $1,000 per capita
NOVEL WAY to pay off church debt has
been adopted by Trenton. No., woman She
| is now selling 200 common bricks at 81 each
| for the church fund. The buyers are expected
| to cut their names in the bricks and return
| them. when they will be laid in the outer walls
of the church edifice so that all future geper-
| atoms may read the names. The supply of
| bricks. it is to be hoped, will be equal to the
| demand
''JocKo" KELLY, serving twenty-fi We years
sentence at the state prison in Charlestown,
Mass, as an habitual criminal, was discovered
| a few days ago by teamster in a large canvas
| padded cask used for carrying away shoe scrap
| pings. The Cask had just been loaded upon a
| truck, when the driver. who was being assisted
| by fellow convict, became suspicious of the
! contents whereupon Kelly's fellow convict gave
/ the scheme away.
| FIRM in Munich has made a carriage which
is propelled by gas generated from benzine or
| analog us material The motor, which is not
visible from the outside, is placed in the rear OF
! a three-wheeled carriage over The main axle
and the beuzine used is carried in a closed COP
| per receptacle secured under the seat, from
| which it passes drop by drop to the generator
! The speed is regulated by lever. Ten miles an
| hour can be made.
| DURING the Franco Prussian war Bismarck re-
turned one evening to his quarters at Meaux
and found baby on his bed A slim of ;naner
| said ''My husband died at Sedan. have no
bread" That was Sept. 16, 1870 The prince
| reported to the king. sire he said nov I
have had child left to me- His majesty re-
| piled: In times one takes everything
| even a child" The boy was sent to Berlin
| raised at Bismarck's charge, and is still in his
| household.
Poor Kow LsKI-the Polish tailor, once the
Poole,of Paris-has Just died by his own hand
in a miserable garnet. Twenty years ago Ko-
walsh had magnificent shop in the Passage
des Princes, and was patronized by the handles
of the day. He gave TOO much credit. however
| and, becoming bankrupt, retired to private
rooms where he worked at his trade, but found
it difficult to get on. He was discovered dead
by the side OF a charcoal stove, which he had
klndled afterward closing the doors and
windows.
In CONNECTION with the christening of the
little grandson, for whom Mr.. Gladstone stood
that although the ex. premier has four sons and
| three daughters living, of whom three sons and
| two daughters are married, the baby that was
| christened only makes the twelfth grandchild
! of his house. The Hawartlen children seem all
| late marrying family The eldest son, w. H
| Gladstone, who is 80 this year. did not marry
| till he was 5-and-30; the second the Rev
Stephen, was land 40. and Henry Glad
stone, who married Miss Rendell a short
| time ago is Just 20, while "my bov
Herbert has not yet joined the majority of
| his family las far as matrimony is concerned,,
although he is nearer 40 than 80 OF the two
| married daughters-both, by the way, parsons
| wives-Mrs Wickham of Wei ington college
| and Mrs Drew of Hawarden, no polite reader
| would wish to have the secret of their ages dis
| closed The unmarried daughter, Miss Helen
| Gladstone Helen, by the way, is a venerated
| name in the Gladstone family, as having be-
| longed to the wife Of the small corn dealer in
| Leith, whose son became Sir John Gladstone
and the father of the Grand Old Man-has beer
for several years vice principal OF Newman
college, Cambridge
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