The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-07
IIBMS OF INTEREST.

STETTIy. a leading port on the northern coast
of Prussia reports in the last quarter an arri val
of 747 ocean vessels, 534 coasters and 17S5 small
| boats
A GERMAN SCIENTIST has discovered that trees
| the trunks of which are covered with moss
or lichen are the most liable to lightning
strokes.
FRENCH SCIENTISTS have analysed quart of
water taken from a typhoid infected district
and found 100000 to 1900, 900 typhoid germs
therein.
A CALEDONIA Owls. coRoNER's JURY in the
case of Mrs. Catharine Aplichel returned YER
dict of accidental drowning with the intention
Of suicide
The Salt Lake Herald says one marked result
of Mormon rule is that that city of So 900 had no
debt and the smallest tax rate of any city in the
| United States-5 mills year.
Miss JOANNA BAKER. who was a tutor of
| Greek in an Iowa college at the age of 16. now
| occupies the chair her father filled seventeen
| years ago, that of the Greek professorship.
THE Humboldt river and its tributaries at
Wells, New, are gorged with carcasses of cattle
that persisted last winter and the stencil is I'M
oearable Many railroad employees have been
made sick by it.
| AT MANSFIELD, PA, boy was seen riding an
| imported Shetland pony and leading a big
draught horse The pony is eleven hands high
| and weighs $50 pounds. The horse is nineteen
hands high and weighs 2,400 pounds.
| MAN named Collins at Rioche New, refused
| to pay two employees, whom he had discharged,
their money. He was given eight minutes, by
the watch. to settle, but did not weaken, and at
| the end OF the time was shot dead.
JAPANESE EDITOR, for writing disrespect
fully of Jim mu Tenno, has been condemned to
| four years Imprisonment, fine of $50 yen and
| two years police surveillance. Jim mu Tenno
was an ancestor of the present emperor.
As RESULT of weighing 2O3 newly born chill
| dren to determine the weight of brain, the male
| infants brain weighed 119 ounces and the fe
male III ounces. the weight of the brain being
| TO the body as one to eight or thereabout.
The MONEY OFFERINGS at the Vatican during
the past four months by pilgrims from France,
| Germany. Italy, Austria and America have
| amounted, it is stated, TO abont 500. 900. of
| which the Americans left the largest sum
| $4,000.
| BERLIN RESTAURANT AND CAFE is cooled in
| summer and heated in winter by electricity
| and the food of light from the electric lamps is
| tinted delicate pink, which is so becoming to
| the complexion of the lady visitors that the
| place IS thronged.
AG. A. R. MAN entered the car of the Michi
| gan fish commission at Lansing the other day,
| and received glass of water TO examine, but
| mistaking it for an offer TO treat he swallowed
| 1t at gulp. 1t contained over 200 wriggling
| little wall-eyed pike
| The CANADIAN INDIANS hang their dead in
large trees. The Siwash tribe had 300 ancestors
| hung up. Hunters set the forest on fire. and
| the bodies. dried by years of exposure. burned
| like tar barrels. Among the Indians there is
| uncomfortable grief, and they threaten ven
| geance.
| SAGINAW, MICH, has family which lives in
shed ~ by 16 feet in area The family consists
of father, mother, three children, three horses,
two cows two goats, six dogs. flock of pigeons
and six cages of singing birds. A bale of hay
separates the so-caled brute portion of the
family from the rest.
GRAND JURY in New Jersey recently tried to
subpoena judge who had sharply criticised the
conduct of the jurors but he would not go. He
wrote to them that he deemed it improper for
a judge to be a witness in a case before a grand
jury which he may afterward be called to try.
The grand jury will now endeavor to present
him for contempt to a judge of the supreme