The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-19

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1T IS SAID that Bismarck was once offered 81
word for all that he might contribute to an
American magazine. -f,
THE ARRESTS for drunkenness in Great Britain
the past ten years are said to have reached g
| total of nearly 100000.
| AN ENGLISH LITERARY sTATrsTIcIAN has dis
| covere that of the 552 beroines in last years
| novels 31e were blondes and 1870 brunettes.
A COMPANY has been organized at Port Town
| send, Wash, to cultivate an oyster farm of ITO
| acres 1t will be stocked with the best varieties
| from the east.
New York is about to expend 100000 in the
erection of new buildings for the geological col
lection in Central Park.
CHARLES MILTON GRAY of Chicago is willing
to go round the world on horseback If the gov
| ernment will foot up the horse and expenses,
| anu give him some sort of official recognition.
| The IDEALITY of jewel is either marred OIL
enhanced by its setting. An inferior design can
| degrade gem. The diamond has no ella m for
| beauty over other gems, save for its excessive
| bril.iancy.
| PLowIEG by steam has been introduced in
| Walla Walla valley, Wash. .tand is pronounced
a success. Heretofore it has cost So per acre to
| pillow, while under th5 new system it can be done
! for 40 cents
ERNEST RENAN. the French philosopher, in
dulges in a hobby OF not riding in vehicles of
| any kind, preterring to walk, although his
health is feeble and stout cane is necessary to
| support him.
! A VEGETABLE flannel is made in Germany OF
fine leaves, which are woven into undergarments
and clothing of various kinds One great ad-
vantage is no vermn will lodge in clothes made
| from the material.
! SPEAKING OF PEARLS, it might be stated that
they are rapidly rising in value in the European
market; their satiny lustre wins upon use more
| than gems that are brighter in their sparkle or
| rich in their coloring.j
| A GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHER in Constantinople
recently came near losing his life by taking a
negative of the sultan in violation of the Koran.
| which prohibits the reproduction of the human
| figure or countenance
| A 11-YEAR-oLD LAD who climbed TO the dome
| Of the state house at Topeka tie other day,
managed to fall to the basement, a distance of
| eighty feet, without breaking BONE He is the
| only person who ever made that trip alive
THE BoLo FLOWER, discovered by Dr. Schauen-
berg growing upon volcanic mountain in one
of the Philippine Islands, is perhaps the largest
| flower ia existence, being about three feet in
| diameter and twenty-five pounds in weight
"A PIECE OF pink coral thirty feet long and nine
| inches in diameter at one end, with branches
projecting about four feet on all sides, was re-
| Gently obtained on the coast of Japan. It's
| value in prepared state would be about SI5-
| 000
| NJ. TIszA the Hungarian statesman. is said to
| have smoked more cigars than any man in
Europe. He smokes necessarily, and people say
that that is why he is shriyeled and old-look-
ing; for, while under 60 he looks man of IS
or so.
THE DEPTH of a sea about six miles deep is re-
duced 620 feet by compression. II the ocean
were incompressible the level of the surface
would be lie feet higher than it is at present
and about 100000 square miles of land would
be submerged.
CERTAIN Young Mems Christian Association
recently invited gentleman to deliver an ad-
dress. He did so, but was somewhat taken
back when the chairman at the close of his ad-
dress gave out the hymn, art thou weary, art
thou ianguid, art thou sore oppressed?"
AN ENGINEER on the Iron Mountain road has
perfected an automatic bell ringer on his loco
motive and now, when running in corporation
limits or whenever the bell must be rung, he
just jerks spring and the bell is kept going
by steam power till he turns of the steam
NEAR COLUMBUS, o., lot of hogs set upon a
heifer and young calf and devoured them
In an adjoining pasture a drove of cattle be-
came Infatuated at the smell of the blood broke
down the fence and charged upon the hogs
killing ten of them and woundng many more
THE BEAUTIFUL DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH
wears three gold bracelets from which three
gold keys hang in pendant. One opens the lock
OF her gTaces jewel box, the other belongs to
her writing folio, and the third to a small
sachel. brass bound, in which she keeps her
loose money.
ENAMEL on brooches, on watches and on
guards; enamel everywhere of the most delicate
and satisfactory designs. The limitations of the
best work are not bad, just as the 50-cent
buckles have subdued air of genuineness
which would deceive the most acute observer
across the street.
FROM its source to its mouth the Amazon is
$500 miles in length but the name Amazon is
not continuous, and it is called by three differ
ent names in that space. From its Lake Itasca
source to the gulf the Mississippi is 1916 miles
long, and from It's Missouri tributary source to
the gulf 4, 1874 miles in iength.
THE British cruiser Reindeer. which has inst
arrived at Zanzibar from Mozambique appears
to have experienced a rough time at the hands
of the Portuguese. The officers of the Rein
deer state that they were completely boycotted
by the Portuguese. all the merchants abso
lutely refusing to sell them even the necessaries
of life
A DISPATCH from Cannes says that Mr. Stan
ley has declined King Leopold's invitation TO
attend the antislavery congress now sitting in
Brussels. DIR. Parks who accompanied Mr.
Stanley on his expedition to the Interior If
Africa. and who is now with him at Cannes
declares that Emin Pasha is suffering from an
l1cnrabie cataract, and that before a year
elapSes he will be blind
ISAAC PrrMAN, the inventor of photography,
is hoary haired man with scholarly stoop.
aud still presides over the Phonetic Institute at
Bath, England, where he has resided uninter-
ruptedly for more than half a century He is
rislng az yet he supervises correspondence of
10000 letters year, besides editing the Pho
nehc Journal and compiling the numerous
books which he annually publishes.
1T Is NOW BELIEVED that the mammoth
aoounded to as great an extent upon the east
as on the west coast of Behring sea. In fact.
mammoths have already been discovered in
Alaska, and news comes that syndicate has
oeen formed for the purpose of procuring their
ivory tusks, which are now of great value and
wnicn VIII undoubtedly continue to become
more valuable, as the elephant Is being exter-
minated.