The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
1T IS ASSERTED that 1000. 600 people are now
able TO speak Volapuk. How many of them
are infants in the cradle has not been estimated
ORE of the Aka dwarfs. captured by Stanley
and cared for by Lieut.. Stairs, of the Emin Bey
expedition, will be taken to England as soon
as the weather grows milder and there exhib-
tied.
THE Pacific Mail Steamship Company re-
ceives subsidy of 100000 a year from the
Pacific railroads for maintaining transconti-
| mental rates of freights against the shippers of
| Oregon and California.
PROF. JOHN F. WIER Of the Yale art school
has just finished the model for a statue to ex-
| President Theodore Woolsey, which will prob
ABLY soon be cast. The figure, including the
| PEDESTAL, viii stand 10 feet high
BEERBoHM TREE. the London actor, gave a
dinner to number of friends recently at
! which, instead of nosegays. false noses were
| furnished to the guests, which they were re-
queSted to wear during the banquet.
Miss AMELIA B. EDWARDS, the famous lecturer
on Egyptian history, fell down fight of steps
| at Columbus, o., and broke one of her arms
She Kept her engagement the same night before
a large audience with her arm incased in splints
a
club, of which the governors wife is president
They have range of their own, where they
practice at 100 yards with 300 caliber weapons
and are said to make remarkably good scores
THE Philadelphia Academy OF Natural
! Sciences has awarded to Prof. James Hall, state
geologist of New York. the Hayden bronze
medal and the income from S2,50O for the most
merltorlous geological and archaeological
! work.
| of No lat Ia Inn do
poses of Si0OO0,O0O, to be divided between his
wife and his and daughter It is said how
ever, that the duchess intends to go into con-
vent and leave the whole fortune to be enioyed
| by the two children.
A CURIOUS FALL was that at Missouri CITY.
team wagon and driver were precptated
| into cut eighty feet deep on the Wabash road
| The wagon was smashed into match timber the
horses were not seriously hurt and the driver
escaped by jumping.
| In SHOOTING dog in yard in Oil City, Pa,
the other night, an unknown passing pedestrian
came very near hitting a young lady. The
| bullet, after hitting the dog. Went into the
house and passed within a couple of inches of
the young lady's face. agnfI
THIS SIGN, seen over q Brooklyn store. can be
considered as you please: N"Angel Feathers
| dyed and cleaned at the shortest possible
notice" The ordinary citizen recognizes the
fact that the sign painter didn't divide Mr..
| Angel from his occupation.
WHITE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, claims the cham
pion big girl. Her name is Nellie Arilda Ma
| lone. She was years old on the 18th of last
August, and now weighs 230 pounds Her
father is dead, but she has two sisters and a
brother. all younger than herself.
AN ADVERTISEMENT was printed in a New
York paper calling for a bank burglar. first
class, must have done time and be well up' in
| nitro glycerine and other modern explosives e"
| TO call at Ills Broadway at O clock D. M One
was found who filed the bill. He was wanted
by theatrical troupe.
THE largest and most expensive private tele
gram over sent passed recently from Rio
Janeiro to Rome When the Duke d'Aosta died
ms son happened to be Yin Rio and he sent a
letter of confidence to Humbert at once which
contained 200 words, and the cost of its trans
mission amounted to 81, 500.
BEFORE dime museum on Washington street
Boston, the other Sunday evening" was sign
announcing: Scientific Church-Grand Concert
and Lecture on Old Maids and Prize-Fighters-
Collection 10 cents" A steady stream of men
was passing the ticket office each depositing
his collection and receiving ticket in return.
In CANADA there is a company which has
nickel mine. The ore is mixed with "copper" and
after the dross is taken off the alloy is called
matte, which contains about 20 per cent of
nickel and so per cent. of copper This is
shipped to Germany and Swansea, in Wales,
where the secret is jealousy guarded of the
| separated.
AT AN EXAMINATION for speed certificates held
at the London Phonetic Shorthand Writer'S AS
ISOLATION on Jan. 30 Mr.. Bernard de Bear of the
Metropolitan School of Shorthand London sue
cessfuly accomplished the task of writing from
dictation 1000 words of ordinary newspaper
matter in ten minutes (being at the rate of 300
words per minute) and afterward correctly
transcribing his notes.
THE PRINCE OF WALES has instituted the GUS
tom Of weighing both the coming and depart
ing guests at Sandringham palace. At the first
opportunity after his arrival the guest is
weighed, and his weight recorded in book
kept for the purpose, and he is weighed again
on the morning of his departure and another
record made, accompanied by the autograph of
the guest.
D. W. FELsHFIELD and G. Dent, two English
men who set out to the Caucasus to search for
some clue to the ate of Donkin and Fox, the
English explorers who were lost there some
time ago. have returned, and report that the
lost men set out to ascend Mount Dychtall
which is nearly 1900 feet high. The searchers
attained nearly 1000 feet, when they came
upon the last camping place of the unfortunate
men.
NEW IORKS CHINATOWN is expecting half
carload of pretty Chinese girls to arrive from
San Francisco within the next week This
valuable invoice is said to have been ordered by
dozen well-to-do Chinese bachelors, who have
finally given up hope of marrying Christian
heresses, and by popular subscription sent a
matchmaker to California some time ago The
matchmaker was armed with volumes of
passionate love letters and with highly colored
photographs He seems to have succee led be-
You'd expectation, as letters received in New
York indicate that the number originally con-
tracted for will be increased by several young
women who were not invited, but are coming
on to take their chances.
THE Times of India publishes the rules which
the Bombay government, with the assent of the
governor general, has drawphp for regulating
the marriage expenses of the Kadva Kanbi caste
in the district of AhmedabAd and Kalra Power
to make these rules is given under the act for
the prevention of female infanticde Some of
them are curious. The chenUo, or present given
at betrothal by the brides father to the bride
goom's father is not to exceed one rupee and
seven SupGris and betelnuts. The marriage
chenlLo payable to the bridegrOom's father NAV
be one rupee and shall not exceed 100 rupees
The value of the cocoanuts distributed
at the marriage procession is not to exceed 10
rupees, and the same limit is fixed on the value
of the moSatu, or present by the brides ma
ternal relation. The payment at the ceremony
when the bridegroom touches with his finger
his mother-in-law's dress must not go beyond
rupees. The number of dinner parties
given by the brides family is not to be more
than five. and the number OF guests at each not
more than twenty-five, The marriage party
going to the brides village are not to sCend
more than 30 rupees, and when the bride