The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a wood during a thunderstorm make for the
beech tree as soon as possible. Don't stand
under the hemlock.
The AVERAGE PAY Of London policeman is
! 9614 cents a day. After serving on the force
for twenty one years his old age is made luxu-
rious by pension Of IS cents day.
A RECENT BOOK, whose deceptiveness would be
| likely to mislead the reIigiously inclined, is
entitled Conversion and Redemption It is a
| government contribution TO financial literature.
PARIS GossIPs declare that one of the regular
physicians who was most conspicuous in ridi-
culing DR.. Brown Sequard's elixir has just
been cured of paralysis By its administration,
and is now Jealous an advocate of Sequard
/ as he was previously a scotfer.
TIE NEWEST and most select C ub about Lon
don is the Two Pins Club, composed chiefly Of
Pltnch'S young men. with the addition of a few
, persons like Sir Charles Russell and Lord Rose
berry. The two pins in question come from the
names OF Dick Turpin and John Gnpin.
The CAPITALIZATION OF the European rail
ways is about $4,000 per mile, or S14932. $780,
eco in all. while the value of the other railways
| OF the world amounts to Sl3,6il. 900. or
! about sol, 400 mile. Hence the total capital
invested III railways throu yhout the world may
| be estimated at So, 514. 100, 900.
MANY PARENTS are apt to consider their
daughters worth their weight in gold, but
| SCOTCH gentleman estimated DIS TWO daughters
value at even higher rate than this, bequeath
! ing to acl her weight in 81 notes. The elder
| seems to nave been simmer than her sister. for
she got only f51,2 200, while the younger received
| 957, 344.
| NINETEEN YEARS AGO Gratiot CMich.) farmer
refused to let his daughter go to candy pull.
! She went, though and remained away. Last
week she drove up to her fathers door lifted
| out her eleven children, cooly took off her
wraps and astoniShed her father by declaring
| that she had concluded to return and stay
home, and hereafter be an obedient daughter.
PASSION for balloon ascensions was among
| the many peculiarities possessed by young
business man VINO died in Winsha. Conn. few
days ago. He made ascensi)ns all over the
state and undertook a voyage from ST. Louis to
New York, but after Journey of two mites he
landed IN the WOO s. If he succeeded in this
trip he had planned to make an air voyage
across the Atlantic.
FRANK E. PATTERSON one of the executors of
the Patterson estate at Manayunk recently
found an old brass cannon among the debris of
the storeroom that had been used in the Mexi-
can war and sent home by the late Gen Robert
Patterson as trophy of his victory at Natural
Ridge, on the way from Vera Cruz to the City
of n 4xico. This old relic VIII be presented to
the historical society at an early date.
SOME STATISTICS from summer resorts shows
| that the New England coast receives the greatest
number of city visitors in the summer, $50
prominent persons visiting it, while 30S go to
| the interior; the same numb-r 60 to Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland and Delaware 24O to the south
| shore of Long Island 2S2 to the north shore of
| the sound, 20i to the Hudson river. us to the
jersey coast and sixty eight to the north shore
| OF Long Island.
YOUNG WOMAN in Parkersburg, W Va
| recently advertised for husband and received
numerous answers, to the writer's of one of
whicn-a ST. Louis mau-she became engaged,
A time was set for the wedding, but before it
arrived the groom met with an accident by
which he lost leg. But she was a woman of
her word and after his recovery they we're mar
ried. She recently wrote home that her nus
band was engaged IN steady employment and
waSsa good man.
CARDINAL PARoCcHI has ordered all priests
who have no situation to leave Rome. This
| hits thousands of poor men, who have kept
alive by reading masses for the dead, an article
| that is often ordered by thousands in Rome
and is we'll paid for to the first recipient of the
order. He often subjects it for cheaper rates to
| poor priests without employment. But the
| number of these priests without Office has so
| increased in Rome that some measure had to
| be taken to clear the city.
| THERE was never SO great scarcity of
beer kegs" reports the Milwaukee Sentinel
| Every cooper in the city who makes them has
more orders than it is possible for him to fill.
| The hot weather. principally. and the original
package decisions are the cause of the great
| demand which is ma lie on the breweri4s TIE
| Schlltz Brewing Company a few days az
| placed an ord r for 10000 kegs in New YorK
| The Cincinnati cooperage establishments have
| been compelled to partly shut down owing to
| the scarcity of staves."
On THE DAY dedicated in the calendar to St
Peter, the toe of the saints statue, in front of
ST. Peters in Rome, was kissed by $1,000 per
sons. The statue, of bronze, was arrayed, as
usual on this festival, in gold embroidered papal
garments and was crowned with the tiara
| Toward evening the pope appeared, carried in a
| chair and surrounded by his court, to pay his
| reverence to the saint, and remained for half an
| hour, deep in prayer, before the statue of his
| first predecessor. The municipality presented
an artistically chased golden cup to his holiness
as memorial this year as every year.
PRETTY LITTLE ANNIE HoLTE, who five years
ago, fitted down the dim, quiet hall of the Palm
| er house, Chicago, as a chambermaid has a
fortune of 100000 in cash awaiting her in St
| Paul. A year or two before she came to Chi
cago she ran away from a happy home in
| Bavaria to follow her lover to America But
her quest was sad ana useless. Falling to find
him she lived awhile uuhappily, with distant
| klnSfoik In Minnesota, and then went out in the
world to work her own way; The fortune that
now comes TO her through the sudden death of
| an old aunt in Munich has made her suddenly
dear to the Minnesota relatives; but all trace of
| her was lost when she left the Palmer house
HENRY STEARNs, of Brockton, Mass, has en-
tered suit against that city for $4,000. Stearns
| was arrested last Wednesday afternoon for
being intoxicated and was locked up in the
| town Jail. That afternoon the big fire broke
/ out, which rapidly spread toward the prison
| In the excitement the prisoner was overlooked
| and left to himself. He came near being roasted
| alive The roof blazing and the falling
sparks set fire to his cell, but no one came to
his aid, although the frenzied man beat the
| bars and sareked frantically for help. His
| clothing was taking fire, when, with a leap OF
desperation, he broke down the iron door and
| fed through the flames and smoke to the outer
| air. He claims the damages for his injuries
which he says are temporary burns and perma-
| nent injury to his nervous system through the
| great fright he was in.
| AN EAST MACHIAs LADY, says the Lewiston
| (Me.) journal, having noticed in our paper a
| Pennington mans account of the sun shining
| on part of his house that it. had never touched
| before, writes US of similar phenomenon that
has come within her own observation NV
| fathers house, she says, faces the southeast
| Exactly opposite the front windows in the sit
| ting room are too doors, q kitchen door and a
| closet door. When | was child, in the short
est days as the sun arose it came squarely into
the room, shining on the kitchen door from the
| window opposite That door. Now in the short
est days, when the sun rises it shines from the
| window opposite the kitchen door on the closet
door. that is opposite the other window" The
| lady is positive as to this change and thinks
| the sun must have moved north or the earth
| have changed its relative position. Who will
explain?
IT MAY HAVE BEEN because he had been steal
ing march on his friends aud getting married
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