The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


country, it is interesting TO know that there is
q par. OF the world where the buffalo Is not
only not dying out, but Increasing IN numbers.
/ vast herds OF these animals are now running
will over certain districts of Northern Aus
| traia The animals are said to be massive and
( well grown. with splendid horns. The first
bunalOes were landed at Port EsSington, North
Australia, about the year 1923.
THERE were nine deaths from electric shock
in New York city last year, whereas eighty
were run over by cars and wagons and killed
Or death by slnstrOke there were but four
cases, the lowest sunstnoks record in many
/ years. OF suicides there were one hundred and
twenty-five. of which sixty were by shooting,
fifty-seven by poison. twenty seven by hanging,
ten by stabblng, ten by jumping from nigh
places, nine by drowning and nine by aSphyxIa-
sion by as.
| MoRNINGsIDE PARK, which forms portion of
the site selected by New York for the worlds
falr, has long been 6 source Of revenue to con-
tractors 1t was one of the ring jobs, and cost
| the city S2.O00,000, or one-iifth much Cen
| tral park cost. It contains uhirty-one acres,
! ana the most eXtr2vaganJ improvements have
been made in i. A day or two ago $4,000 was
voted 70 build bays and s5airways in the massive
retaining wall on the west side of the park. Its
| situation is eminently picturesque.
| IN THE STATE OF New YORK, in 1888. the
strikers gained in wages $3.50 551, but they lost
/ nearly three times that amount by striking
/ during the same twelve months, the actual sum
| being Sl,0s3,653. In 1887 they gained S94,632,
but they lost 81 013, 229 In 1886 they gained in
wages 81, 420, SS5. but they similarly lost in the
| same year o2552,55 In every year the losses
4 We're enormously greater than the gains: but
/ that was not all, as the record shows that not
J only dld nearly 90 per cent of the strikes fail,
/ but that in each year thousands of the strikers
| were refused employment by their former en-
| ployers.
| The LATE Mr.. MCGINTV is, says the New
! York Sun, responsible for the success of new
| device in the toy line. A good many young
| men are scattered over the principal streets
| nowad avs greeting passers by with the line
| Down went McGinty to the bottom of the sea-
| and as they sing they hold aloft a glass tube
| filled with water. In the water is q comical-
| looking figure that remains at the top of the
| tube when its buoyancy is undiSturbed By
| pressing the thumb upon the top of the tube
| the figure is caused to sink slowly to the bot
| tom, whence the appropriateness of the song
| The device has many patrons.
THE New YORK World addressed to many of
the most prominent men at home and abroad
| dispatches requesting them to give their fondest
| wishes for the year 1890" The replies are
| printed, but they are not very startling Most
or the prominent men abroad excused them
selves from saying anything, the two excep-
! lions being p T. Barnum and Cardinal Man
! ning who are never backward about getting
| into print. At home the World was more sue
cessful. 1t drew from the President this pro-
| found sentiment: Il hope for the continued
| prosperity of our country" and from the de
| partment of state this, signed Walker Blaine
| rather says he hopes everything will be all
| right during the coming year.
THE G. A R. POST at Lawrenceburg, Ind, has
been presented a powder horn that was once
the property of the great Indian chieftain, Te-
| cumseh. 1t was the gift of Henry Morris of
| Lawreuceburg. He is a son of William Morris.
| better known to Ohio valley pioneers as Indian
Blu, who figured in many savage and bloody
| encounters. After the great fight Seventy-six
years ago Indian Bill' found the body of the
slain warrior. The powder horn, still attached
| to the striag around TecumSehs neck, lay on
| his breast. The scout removed it and preserved
it as the most sacred of his relics. At his death
a few years ago, he presented it to his son
Henry, who has now given it TO Huff Post, and
| it hangs on the wall in that organization's hall
| The horn cut from the head of the first
| buffalo Tecumseh killed.
CHURCHES are being built in New York more
| rapidly than ever According to Harper's
Weekly, 'plsns for fifty new church edifces
| have been drawn within the past two years A
prominent feature in the new buildings is the
| tendency to swing away from the Gothic INTO
| the RomanesQue and Renaissance schools of
architecture. OF the new churches built or
| begun since Jan. l. 1888, there are twelve
Roman Catholic, eight Protestant Episcopal
| eight Presbyterian, three Methodist three
| Baptist, one Unitarian, one Lutheran, one
| Congregational, two Jewish, besides several of
| a miscellaneous character. The Protestant
| Episcopal are the most costly as a rule and the
| Roman Catholic the next in cost. -"
| ACCORDING TO PAPER read by Mr. Giffen
before the Royal Statistical Society recently
the accumulated wealth of the United Kingdom
| up to the year 1875 was in round numbers
| worth Rl000 1000 sterling This would give
5e270 to every person i'll the three kingdoms or
an average of &1 $50 per family. The estimate
is a valuation of the United Kingdom as "a
going concern"-which it at present is Mr..
Gitfen confesses that the totals are somewhat
bewildering but is quite certain that some such
cures are about the mark. Taking the coun-
tries separately, England has f308 per head of
Naf-rtr GRF Ian nVadT raIo.
pairing the three richest nations in the world
the figures stand thus: Wealth per head of the
population in the United Kingdom, e27O; in
France, $3.50; in the United States EGO.
In PITTsBURG, one day this week, a police
patrol sergeant and his driver were mystified
on reaching the station, after answering a call
and receiving prisoner, to find the wagon
empty. They could easily understand how the
prisoner might have escaped had he been alone
in the body of the wagon, but he had n moi n. :
man with him. While they were busy thinking
out an explanation the missing couple put in an
appearance, and the blue coat unraveled the
mystery. He said that the prisoner, suddenly
arouSing from the stupor into which he had
fallen, dealt him heavy blow in the face and
then Jumped out of the wagon and ran. He
naturally enough quickly rushed after The man
without stopping to notify the driver or ser
geant, who didn't hear the fuss, because of the
noise made by the wagon, and, of course,
drove on.
A KANSAS CITY LADY has a most UNIQUE ban
ner 1t is as beautiful as it is unique and is
priced by its owner for its beauty and oddity. 1t
is made of the skin of an enormous rattiesnake.
with a background of plush. The snake skin
was sent the lady by friend who lives in
Texas. 1t is beautifully tanned, the back being
colored and covered with spots resembIine .
small scales, which on the background of plush
| look for all the world like mosaic The skin is
over five feet long without the head and tail.
| and fourteen rattles denoted its age In the
| widest part the skin is nine inches in width thus
| showing that in life the rightful owner of the
| skin which now adorns the adys parlor must
| have been an ugly customer letter which
preceded the present states that belts made of
rattlesnake skins are much Worn by the youny
ladies' of Texas, and are common article of a
bellies apparel.
| WAGES in the Congo region have been greatly
increased by the demands for labor created by
the expeditions of Stanley and others. and the
enterDrlses of Dutch, German, English French.
and Portuguese traders. 1t is related that in
| 1885 porter would carry load of sixty pounds
| from Matodi to Stanley Pool-a Journey of from
| fifteen to eighteen days-for SO. Now the de-
mands are from 81 TO SO, and the natives are
beginning 10 work by the day, demanding rs
cents per day. including food. This seems very
| small for the labor involved, but it is a great
| improvement on the wages formerly paid for
| the natives now requira to be paid in hard cash
| whereas. in former days, they took their pay in