The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The latest Partisan novelty introduced into
the New York market is the billet barometer"
Il consists OF the figure of a coryphee on
taick card, with the Inscription beneath Rose.
rain; lilac, chan cable; blue. fine weather.
Toe skirt Of thu ia 1cer is made OF some gauzy
material saturated with a chsmIca solution
which Is sensible OF every change in the
weather
The United States consul at Nassau writes to
the state department: II would advise young
men with small means to at oncs abandon the
idea Of coming here TO make a living. There
are In tie United States score of such oppor-
tunitieS Tor every one he can ind here. Tie
expenses of living are high, requiring even
consul TO exercise great care IN his expendi-
lures in order TO make both ends meet
TIE usual impression Americans get of Hun
gary from the samples or Hungarians wac
which the peope ars wofully poor. Bat
there are some people in Hungary. as in other
places. who have more money than they know
what TO do with. or the represent ltive of the
Royal Hungarian Stud would not be offering
$4,000 for the En- glish race horse, Donovan.
ABOUT O'Clock the other night a servant in
the house adjoirilg an unoccupied brown
stone dwelling on Van Buren, street, Brooklyn.
heard a noise and told the family. They Sent
for the police to search the vacant p Misses
Everything was found in the same condition as
waen the lantor had left the building little
earlier, and just as the men were about to de-
part one of them opened a closet ior aud
black cat came o At. The ANNA. " as too sprY
for the poicemen's clubs and escaped. AS tae
Saole burglar stopped on the back fence TO say
farewell in minor key. young girl in the
next house remarked: 4 knew it was a cat
and told mama So"
CHIEF OF Police CROWLEY Of San Francisco,
who has been at the head of the police depart
ment for eighteen years, has fled strong in
dctment against the Chimes of that city. He
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against the law, in proportion 70 their numoer
tnan any other race or community, and the
detection of the perpetrators of such crimes is
more d.t1icJlt than the detection of criminals of
any other class, because Cinnamon refuse to
disclose the identity of their criminals. They
have no regard for the obligation of cath
and are becoming more vicious and immoral
year by year. The chief favors the removal OF
the Chinese quarter.
Charles Taylor, an eighteen-year-old boy Of
Cleveland, o., went TO Barnum's circus when
it was in that city, and laughed so much that
he has been unable to stop laughing since. He
has been behaving himself so foolishly that on
Thurs lay night his friends had him locked up
IN Ill, pencing an inquiry into his sanity. He
was out in the padded cell. but on Friday morn
ing it was found that he had torn all the pad
ding to pieces so he was placed in another cell
The only thing he could possibly get hold of in
this cell was the water pipe, and about noon he
wrenchedi 1t fr m its fasteoings and a flood OF
water spread over the Jail before his action was
discovered. Taylor's employer says he was per-
fectly sane until he went to the circus.
A CITIZEN wandering in one of the old grave
yards in the heart of Norwich, Conn.,. a day or
two ago, saw a group of children playing with
Tire fragments of a gray. messy headstons,
which were scattered in different parts of the
ground. the inscription of the stone was legi-
BILE, and it indicated that the people, in opening
the burial yard, had as much difficulty in get
ting body for the first interment as as had the
inhabitants of a western town noted by Mark
Twain. II Isl
:
Here Lies ye Child of Capt.
.Terami0h CLAIMS and Mary his WifA