The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
VIENNA has 100000 inhabitants, and had
225, 900 strangers abiding within its walls last
year. 1t has 662 periodicals. IS political maya
zines and 3, 5SS societies of various aims.
In GENEVA. at circus. a female trapeze per-
former, Mile. Mathilde, astonished the natives
every night by her performances witt youth
of about II, high up in the air. One evening
this youth, by his own carlessnesS, slipped from
the hands of the girl, who hung by her knees.
cry of horror arouse from the audience, when
she luckily caught him with her teeth by the
embroidery over the brea of his tights. She
pulled him up into sitting position on the
trapeze, then boxed his ears vigorously and
made him go through the performance again
this time, without fault.
A WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn, little girl, just cd
enough to enter the infant class at the Sunday
school, was ambitious to repeat a text of
Scripture the older ones did at the concert
exercises. To humor her ambition and make it
reasonably certain that she would succeed, the
mother selected the brief text, 1T is lawful to
do good on the Sabbath day" and taught her
until she rehearsed it several times correctly.
When the supreme moment arrived, however,
the little orator electrified her audience and
mortified her mother with the proposition that
1T is awful to do good on the Sabbath day"
IN AN ARTICLE on the aborigines of Austria,
W. T. Wyndham speaks of the skill with which
the natives use stone implements. They turS
out work, be says, that you would hardly be-
lieve possible with such rough implements.
They show great ingenuity, particu arly in max
ing their harpoOn heads for Spearing dugong
and fish; instead Of shaving the wood up and
down with the grain, as European workman
would do, they turn the wood for spear head
round and chip it off across the grain. working
it as wooden boxes are turned on a lathe. |
have often sat and watched them doing this"
JACOB PEAvy of watervilleis one of the oldest
merchants in active business in the state of
Maine. He was born in German Prussia in 1919,
and his career is an interesting one, as showing
how poverty may overcome the most for
midable obstacle aud get into the garb of afflu-
ence. Mr.. Peavy came to Waterville in 1854.
On his passage to America he was shipwrecked
off the New Jersey coast, and barely escaped
with dis life, losing all his personal effects and
having on mis- body only part of a suit of
clothes But he was not discouraged, and as a
result of industry and Shrewd business habits,
is to-day rich man.
ONE interesting development of theatrical
lawsuits is that the names of entirely unknown
men are nearly always brought out by
them The unknown is usually the
| hacker Of the enterprise, and he
takes half of the stars earnings. Even the
most successful theatrical men have these
silent partners. They have nothing to do with
| the profession, and are as a rule, business men
who are conservative by habit, but who see the
| large financial gains poss BILE in theatrical en-
| terprises The other day the fact was brought
| out that Nat Goodwin, who is a rich man and
who was supposed to own his own show abso-
| lutely, had partner of this sort
The CASE of Ovid White of Salem, Ind, for
| the murder of Jacob johnson, proves to have
| a strange fatality attached to 1T First, White
managed to evade justice for seven years, and
| was only recaptured through being overheard
| in Mnneola, Tex, relating his crime to another
man Next, Gov. Hovey's private secretary,
| Roberts, badly compromised himself by at
tempting to beat the Salem authorities out of
| $3.50 for alleged detective service, dsgorging
| however, when pinned down. White was then
| brought to trial, and the judge became insane
| and died. Last week his trial began at Paoli,
| but had no sooner begun than Judge Pearson
became i'll. and the case was again continued
| and this evening the death of Judge Pearson is
announced.
IT is NOT GENERALLY KNOWN that there posi-
lively exists marked boundary line between
| Canada and the United States. Most people
suppose the line to be Imaginary. " But the
| fact is the boundary is distinctly marked from
Lake Michigan to the Pacific by cairns, pillars
of iron, earth mounds and timber clearings
There are nearly 400 of these marks between
| the Lake of the Woods and the foot of the
Rocky mountains. the British have placed one
| post every two miles, and the United States
| have alternated between each Of the British
| posts. The posts are made OF cast iron and on
| their faces are the words: Convention of
| London Oct 20, 1878" Where the line crosses
] through lakes. small mountains of stones have
| been built, rising eight or ten feet above the
/
| line is defined by Telling trees making a clear
| ing for space of rod wide.
A TERsE and somewhat personal conversation
occurred some time ago between Senator
George Hearst and his son in the barroom of
the Hoffman house, New York. The son, who
! is a very long youth and rather runs to banged
| hair, sat soemny opposite the genial old
| senator one day while the latter talked about
| his racing stoc6. The season had been a We V
| bad one for MIN. 1t was pretty well known
! that the son had come to New York to get his
| father to foot some bills for the paper which
| the young man was running in San Francisco,
| aad the men who happened to be around the
| table where the two Hearsts sat were familiar
/ with the senator's two important sources Of ex-
| peniiture. After the elder Hearst had finished
! speaking, his son said: We'll, I should think
| You would learn in time to keep shy of thiny
| you know nothing about. Your stable has cost
| you a great amount of money this year.
well, my son." said the senator, calmly
| stroking his gray beard and beaming with ap-
parent amiability on his offspring, that is good
! advice. If you had followed it and kept shy of
things about which you knew nothing. it would
| have saved me a very much more important
source of ex ense. My stable is not a marker
to your paper"
Edgar Grouse has started gossip afresh by
having grand piano built specially to fit in a
niche of his famous stable. the marvellous
apart nents of this $500 900 establishment have
already been described in the New York Sun
but at that time the 81, 000-piano. made of
WOODS WHICH harmonic IN color ana design
with the fittings Of the room. had not been
finished. Mr. Grouse IS the possessor of the
hanisomest stable in the world; but he is not
happy. His heart is affected by his tremendous
girth. He is so fat as to be almost aapeless
and his weight increases with memorable per
sistency, despite constant treatment. He is
restricted both in diet and drink. and he
finds il impossible to take hearty exer-
else. a physician to whom he applied in New
York for treatment gave him piece Of advice
that would probably be OF great benefit to him
if he carried it out Mr.. Grouse explained that
his weakened condition mere or less due to
his great weight The old doctor looked at him
carefully for minute, and then said: BY the
way, how many horses have you at present IN
that famous stable of yours?" Il have sixteen
just now" said the millionaire. Ride each
one of them a mile a day. said the doctor
tersely. But they are driving horses said
Mr.. Grouse. ''Trotters you know" Il know.
said the old doctor with nod Never mind
that part OF it,. Let the stable boys drive them
You get on their backs and let them shake up
aad aft