The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a BUFFALO GIRL displayed such excellent taste
| in the arrangement of a shop window in that
city that she has been offered a similar position
with large salary by London, England firm.
THE refusal of a Detroit street car company
| to receive cOppers from passengers brought out
the fact, not generally known, that 1, 2, 8 and
5-cent pieces are legal tenders up to p cents,
while 10, 20, . and 81 cent pieces are legal ten
| ders up TO $40. IT,
TIPPoO TIB, it is said, has been taught draw
poker by the American and English explorers
| in Africa. The willy Arab slavers present stock
| of ivory is estimated at eighty-seven tons, but
| II he sticks TO the game a few months he won t
have tusk left.
A DOG belonging to Harvey Skean Of Potts
| town, Pa, pays regular visits almost daily, to
the graves of the three little children of his
owner, Inferred at Pottstown cemetery. and
| scratches upon the graves. He and the children
were playmateS.
ANEW YORK REPORTER interviewed Chauncey
Depew the other day as TO the propriety or i'm
propriety of decollete gowns. Mr.. Depew
adroitly lodged the question by suggesting that,
as ne had never worn one himself he was quite
unable TO give fair opinion.
THE VICINITY of the Kennebec river is said to
be swarming with icemen from New York and
the south. The poor prospects for satisfactory
| ice crop from the Hudson have crowded the
Maine hotels with buyers. The capacity Of the
| kennebec houses is rated at 100000 tons.
The POLICE RULES of London forbid an officer
to arrest a drunken person unless he is trying
to do some one an injury, and it is not an IN
| common thing for an officer to have six or
eight "drunkS" asleep at intervals along his
peat. They may all sing, whistle or shout, but
he cannot arrest them
MORE DIsGUsTED BURGLAR would be hard to
find than one now under arrest in Cincinnati. He
remained snugly curled up under bed for hours
waiting for the folks to retire, and his wish was
about being gratitied when he felt desire to
sneeZe. lie muffied his mouth but the SneeZe
was heard and he was pulled out and handed
over to the police.
THE DIAMOND AND PEARL NECKLACE worn on
state occasions by Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
| has excited the greatest wonder and admiration.
The striking feature of this necklace is the dia-
monds arepierced through the center and are
strung alternately with the pearls. 1t is said
Cnat IL required many weeks of patient labor to
pierce each stone.
EIGHT YEARS AGO George H. Adams of Bur-
| lngton, N j., was bitten by a small terrier dog.
Each year, upon the recurrence of the anniver-
| sary OF the event, his leg has been very sore,
and has caused him much trouble. He is now
| confined to his house for that reason, and the
| calf OF the bitten leg is covered with strange
green Spots and the veins are swollen and
| knotted.
| ELECTRICITY is being adopted TO very large
extent in Sweden. In Christiana the question
| OF an electric tramway is being discussed. A
| committee appointed tc inspect the electric
! roads OF various countries has reported that
! electric tramways are both the safest and the
| cheapest and the result is that extensive
| schemes for electrical tramway installations are
| being developed.
| SEATTLE has been largely rebuilt since the
fire, and the new buildings are mueh finer than
were the old ones. In seventy days after the
| fire brick hotel containing 200 rooms was COM
pleted. Nine street car lines have been COM
| peted, or nearly so a S50o,000 rolling mill has
| been established, and iron works to cost
| S3,OOo0OO are being constructed, while a costly
| opera house has just been thrown open.
AT KUMAMoTo, JAPAN, the scene of the recent
disastrous earthquake, while well-digger was
| excavating for water at depth of about is
| fathoms the base fell through and he was only
saved from descent. how far it is not known
| by rope which connected him with the top of
the pit. examination has shown that very
large cavity, depth and width unknown, exists,
and this was probably caused by a recent earth
quake.
THE BIC GUNS turned out by the English arse
nails are now fitted up with a device to facilitate
| firing at night. The ordinary sights are illum-
| mated by a small ncandescent lamp the rays
4 from which, passing through a lens, are con-
| verged, so that only a minute point or line of
sight just sufficient to distinguish the sight, is
| obtained. BY means of an adjustable resistance
the light can be mo1ulated to suit the degree of
darkness of the night or the eye of the OBJ
| server.
| THE LONDON BIOLOGICAL GARDEN has just
| received a few specimens of the bird known as
l the umbrette. The bird builds one of the
| largest nests known and is a member of the
| stork tribe. but is in many particulars related
| to the heron. The bird itself is about IS inches
1 long. the nest six feet in diameter Moreover
| with righteousness unknown to other birds
| the nest is divided into three compartments !;
| one contains the eggs, one is the dining-room
1 and the third is kind of lookout ON.
| STATIsTICIANs claim that the average annual
pro iuction of silver in the last seven years has
been below 3t16,0O0,0O0 The yield of United
States mines in 1888 was in excess of $50 $50 OOO
| or over half the total product while the entire
yield of Europe does not equal $1,000, 900 per
year. China and British India together absorb
1 S6250,0OO annually, while the industrial arts of
i Europe and the United States consume S21. 900 :
| 0Ol leaving only about S93O00O0O for annual
| coinage.
| IT HAS BEEN the custom of George Augustus
| Sala of the London telegraph for years to keep
/ his residence an absolute secret. He has never
| permitted even his most intimate friends to
| know where he lived, and the result of this
| amlable habit has been at times somewhat ex.
| asperating. His mail went to the newspaper
| office or to the club, and whenever he had a
| big piece OF work on hand which required steady
| dJLenIlOn ne would disappear absolutely from
view. This cannot go on any longer for Sala is
| going to be married
| SARAH BERNHARDT is firm believer in the
| supernatural. She has related that when at
New York, on her first American trip she woke
up one night after terrible dream, in which she
| ha seen her son Maurice bitten by two mad
dogs. The vision made such an impression on
| her mind that early next morning she tele-
graphed to Maurice, and received the reply
| that he had been bitten by two dogs but that
| the wounds In his arm were not serious. More
| over, the dogs were not rabid, but b ad been
| Immediately killed. Nine. Bernha DIT could
| she affirms, mention numerous circumstances
| in her life which it would be impossible to put
| down to mere chance or coincidence.
DUCK HUNTERS at Crosse Point and elsewhere
on the shores of Lake st. Clair, near Detroit.
have shallow skiffs painted white and clothe
| themselves in white canvas oversuits with white
capotes that cover the head. In this attire thew
| look like Esquimaux, dressed in the furs of
polar bears Their boats, too, are not unlike the
| kayaks of the Greenlanders. The boats have
| keelsonS on the bottom that serve the purpose
| of sleigh runners and are thereby easily pushed
over the ice foes The hunter in his white suit
has so nearly the color of the ice esneciaIlv
| when it is covered with snow that he can
| closely approach the ducks in the omen water
| without alarming them. He fires and continues
firing until the birds fly away and then launch.
| ing his boat in the water, paddles out and
| secures his game. The next movement ia r.
ward new open drift in the lake. where the
| unsuspecting ducks are floating or feeding. and
SO the wearied hunter keeps up the sport until