The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

accordingto the final returns of fourteen census
enumerators-
MILLIONS OF SMALL sHAD have been sent to
Nesburg TO the state fish commission to stock
the Hudson river.
Ice is going south from Maine at the rate of
1900 to 5000 tons a day, of which New York
gets the largest part
Twin GoRRILLAs were born at the London Zoo
the other day. They are the first of their species
ever born in England.
A SEATTLE GIRL fell from the thirdstory
window to the sidewalk, and she went to
dance the same evening.
THE AVERAGE CONSUMPTION of coal a day on
the Canadian Pacific steamers to and from
Japan is only f1fty-six tons.
GEARING for electric railways made out of
rawhide is preferred TO metal, as it makes far
less noise and wears better.
MORTGAGE for $1,000 was filed for record at
Eureka Humboldt. 1t was for three years with
interest at per cent month.
MOSQUITOES in Siberia have bills that pierce
through the thickest clothing. Overcoats and
winter gloves furnish no protection against
them.
BoURKE, in Australia. was visited by food
last month, which left it the center of an island
sea, forty miles in width, destroying many
buildings
A PHILADELPHIA sHoEMAKER's DOG didn't
know the difference between a piece of steak
and piece of leather. and, swallowing the lat
ter, was soon dead canine.
A CINCINNATI WOMAN, enraged at her husband,
determined to ruin him financially. She
''shopped" all day and piled up bills to his ac-
count to the amount of $1,000.
THE FIRST MISSIONARY DONATION recorded in
Protestant annals came from Sir Walter
Raleigh, who sent his e100 to company
formed for the conversion OF the Indians.
THE WHIP FACTORIES of Massachusetts are
the latest subject of British speculative invest-
CATION. They have been visited by syndicate
representatives intent on possible purchase.
IN ONE Iowa TOWN that was without half
dozen prisoners in its Jail at any time since
Jan there we're few days ago no less than
fourteen. All had got full of original packages.
AN ARTEsIAN WELL on Charles Smiths farm.
near Anaheim, CAL is constantly throwing out
small fish. Smith has built a number of ponds
| that he will stock with the fish supplied from
natures laboratory.
THE ESTIMATED VALUE of the total display of
diamonds at the Paris exposition was about
| $4,000 600 The wonder Of the display was a
model of the Eiffel tower, SO feet high, COM
posed entirely of diamonds.
MEss1EURs BARTHoLDI and Eiffel have mathe-
maticaly and historically convinced themselves
| that the Colossus of Rhodes who stood so high
| in the estimation of the world, never stood any
| where, teing wholly mythical.
Miss ALICE G. MCGEE, 81 years old, and
pretty, was admitted 10 practice in the War
rem county Pa.) courts on Tuesday, after what
| is said to have been the best examination
passed in that county in 10 years.
A NEW RED GLASS has been recently produced
in Germany. Besides its use for the manufact-
ure of bottles, goblets and vases of various
kinds, it is applicable in photography ana i'll
chemists and opticians laboratories.
A BORE HOLE sunk at Schadeback to depth
of 5,73l feet shows a remarkable uniformity in
the increase in temperature. which rose degree
Fahrenheit for each 67 feet, the maximum at
the bottom being !3S9 degrees Fahrenheit.
PRISONER at the State Farm at Bridg ewater
Mass. recently got from his cell to the roof of
the Office building and there lost his nerve. and
suSpending himself from of the cutters. he
shouted for help. The officers rescued him.
The PIECE of crown glass, forty inches in di-
ameter and two and half inches thick, made
in Paris for the object glass of a telescope for
the University of Southern California, will re-
quire two years labor to turn into a finished
lens
THE new cruiser Baltimore has been ill used
by Baltimore mob, which, running wild over
the new ship while she lying in the city
docks, has stolen Telescopes smashed skylights,
Scared the fresh paint and hacked the wood
work.
AN EMPoR1A, KAN, GIRL wrote to Jay Gould,
and asked him to give her black silk dress, as
she was about to be married and her folks were
too poor to buy her one. Although she has
written four melting epistles to the autocrat
she still has no black silk.
NJ FoRQUE, the mineralogist claims to have
discovered IN mixture of copper and lime the
beautiful color azurrino, the composition of
which has so long been a puzzle to artists. His
tint is said to be perfectly interchangeable, and is
identical with the famous AleXandrine blue.
IT is AN INTERESTING FACT that in Colombia
where potatoes form the chief food of the peo-
pie and where potato disease runs riot very
often, the greater the altitude at which the
vegetable is grown the less is it liable to the
disease, and at 1900 feet above the sea it grows
in a perfectly healthy state.
CALIFORNIA has fruit pest in the gray lin
net, far worse and more damaging to fruit
raisers than the English sparrow. IL some
| means are not Systematically and methodically
adopted to exterminate this bird there will be
very little profit in fruit raising in those Sec
tions where deciduous fruits are exclusively
produced.
scHooLBoy recently scalded his leg from
knee to toe AS there were no signs of healing,
the attending surgeon chloroforrned grey
hound puppy to death, shaved its body, skinned
it, and grated the skin on the boys leg The
healing was rapid and the color of the grated
skin was uniform and very similar to that of
the normal SKIN.
UNIQUE BAROMETER has been devised by an
old Belfast sea captain. 1t consists of a thin
strip of white pine, with number of cross
pieces upon IT, This is hung on the side of the
building, and when damp weather is approach
ing the barometer bulges out in the center.
while in dry weather the center sinks in and
the ends come out.
ARGENT INVENTION consists of a fender for
street r ilway cars run by electricity, 1t pre-
seuts platform capacous enough to receive q
victim so unfortunate as to be caught upon the
track before a car. At q slope before it is a
heavy four-ply rubber betting, pliabie enough
to pass over avlng stones and similar objects
but sufficiently rig I'd to prevent an arm or leg
from being drawn under the fender.
AN OLD MAN with one foot and half in the
grave entered house of a supposed widow.
Swede, in Menominee county, Mich, and an
nounced himself the husband and father of the
assembled wife and ildren. He had immi-
grated 10 this country thirty years ago, and
had lost track of his family, which, unknown to
him, had come over few years LATER The
reunion was as gay as it was surprising.
POLICEMEN are SO scarce in Paris that an out
cry is being raised for another thousand gar
diens de la paix. Twenty years ago there were
$500 police to protect 800 900 inhabitants. now