The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

great European banking frm.is visiting Chicago.
lie IS travelling through the United States on
sight seeing tour.
NINE. N. STAAL, the daughter of the great
Goblet, has just presented to the library of the
University Of Leyden the collection of books
which lie had left her.
TIE crew of a steamer which arrived in Bos
ton the other day from Germany reported that
they encountered on the passage field ice for a
distance OF 400 miles along the edge of the great
BANKS
4 WOMAN of q and man Of 81 applied for
marriage license at Hillsdale, Mich, the other
day, end were on the point of getting il when
friends OF the woman interfered- She has
property.
The following curious advertisement ap-
peared not long ago in newspaper in Paris:
"a lady having pet dog whose hair is of a rich
mahogany colJr, desires TO engage footman
with whlskers TO match"
BRIDGToH, Me-, has at least one absent
minded citizen. He met with an accident and
was confined to the house for several weeks, but
forgot entirely that he held an accidental policy
emitting him to S25 a week.
CIGAR DEALERS have been giving away lately
instead of pictures and other useless things,
patent safety matches in a little book, one of
lhe caves OF which is prepared with the COM
position upon which the match ny be ignited.
CIVILIZATION has produced nothing more re-
markable than an invention introduced by a
shirt vender of Brussels. To every undergar-
ment which he sells is attached musical in
strument which can be secretly played by the
wearer.
THREE children in the Sheffield Eng.) work
house were done to death few days ago by the
medical officer, who carelessly wrote prescrip-
ton for twenty grains Of Dover's powder in
ten packets instead of for ten grains IN twenty
packets
A NORTHERN MAN who has had opportunities
for watching matters at the south in discussing
the situation there says that if the south could
be saved from the Blair Dill it would in fifteen
years have scnool system equal to that Of
New England
In SIAM you can get good board for Do cents
| a week. and this includes washing. the use of
two servants to run errands. tickets to shows,
three shaves. and all the cigars you can smoke.
But it is almost impossible to earn IS cents a
week in Siam.
KING CHRISTIAN OF DENMARK, who is in his
13d year, still rides daily, and also is fond of
walking. He can often be met in the streets of
copenhagen alone, save his collie dog Rover, a
present from Queen Victoria, and to whom he
Is much attached.
A MISSOURI MAN, sentenced to a presumably
| deserved term of sixty years, was recently par
doned after serving ten, and according to the
recognized way of proving the reformatory
enecUs of pardon tried as he reached
home to kill his father and brother with an ak.
ALUMINIUM has been growing cheaper and
there are many scientists who think it will yet
revoutionize the arts. The United States gov
eminent has been experimenting with it for
some time in the manufacture of guns. 1t is
also being used in the construction of bridges.
The Yreka, Ore, Union Office ran short of
white paper during the recent snow blockade,
but it came out regularly every week. One issue
was on purple paper, another printed on
Ilght DUN wrapping, while the next showed
up on regular manila, such as is used in gro
Gerry stores
j. w. NANCE, Texan advertised that he
would be at AIurfreesboro Tenn, one day last
week. to buy all the hens he could get at %
cents apiece. He cam along in a poultry car
capable of holding 5000, and he had to tee-
graph for another, as there were 10 200 pullets
waiting for him.
DIR. DoELINGER wied his library to the Uni
versity of Munich. which is to dispose of it by
auction. a full catalogue being made, and the
proceeds are to be devoted to an academical
foundation to bear DR.. Doellingers name. Asa
private collection, this library ranks high among
European libraries
DR.. NORMAN KERR has been interviewed by
correspondent of Woman upon the increasing
use of narcotics by women. Alcohol, he SAYS. is
the most freqently used narcotic But could
give you a formidable list of narcotics which
women in all ranks of society are daily using:
Choral. chlorodyne, ether, chloroform sal vol
atile, eaude-coogne, and so on
A SENSATION has been caused in Parkersburg,
w. Va, by suit for divorce filed by Mrs.
| Elizabeth Rector the young wife of Rev. John
| Rector. Rev Rector is 80 years old, and has
been IN the Baptist ministry ffty-seven years.
| he has grown-up children and grandchildren
Mrs. Rector is his third wife. The bill alleges
desertion, non-support and extreme cruelty.
TIE COST of the leading daily newspapers in
London to purchasers is as follows: The Times,
cents; the Telegraph, Ddily Ne,Us STANDARD,
| ChORicte, Financial NeUS, Sportsman, and
New York Herald, cents each. The evening
| papers are: Pail Mall Gazette, 9 cents: the
| EUentTlQ Standard, cents; the Star, cent,
| and the Echo, l cent. The Sunday Observer
| (dulD sells for cents, Lloyds Sunday Paper
! for cents, and the Sunday Times for cents
Two YEARS AGO the condition of that beauti
full monument of Moorish art, the Cathedral of
Seville. once mosque, excited great anxiety.
| A pillar and part of an arcn in the nave fell,
| and ars were entertained that the whole build
| ing might suddenly collapse 1t is now believed
| that by massive substitution the danger of
! further mischief has been averted. The fallen
| pillar and arch are being replaced, and other
! extensive repairs and restoratons are being
| carried out
THE LIBRARY at Hawarden which Mr. Glad
| stone is arranging will have a peculiar value
says the London Times, for Mr.. Gladstone is
| not only selecting and placing all the books in
| it, bat he is marking those passages in them
| which seem to him most important, and which
| have mad the most influence on his mind and
| life. Perhaps some ingenious compiler will be
moved to make a list of the books and passages
| in question and publish it under some such
| title as Literary influence upon Mr.. Glad
| stone" 1t certainly would sell.
| MARVELLOUS LACE WONDER is reported as
| landed in the United States. 1t is a UNIQUE
| specimen of embroidery and Irish lace, spe-
cialy manufactured for the great international
exhibition of 1851, at which it took first prize
| 1t took twelve girls twelve months to make
| this perfect specimen of the old hand EN-
| broidery and lace trade of Ireland. The cost
| was 1000. No work of to-day is so fine and
| exquisite as the drawn and embroidered border
| of this wonder. The main design is a chapiet
of fern leaves entwined with the rose the sham
! rock, and the thistle.
| CARL HESS, the German naturalist, has proved
| by minute microscopical investigation that the
eye of the mole is perfectly capable of seeing,
| and that it is not short-signted, as another
naturalist (KadyD would have US believe. Hess
maintains that, in spite of its minute dmen-
sions-1 millimetere by 90 millimetre-the eye
of this little creature possesses all the neces-
sary properties for seeing that the most highly
developed eye does-that it is, indeed, as well
suited for seeing as the eye of any other NAM
NAL and that in the matter OF refraction it
does not differ from the normal eye.
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