The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The contract for the organ for Talmage's new
tabernacle in Brooklyn has been awarded to the
firm that built the old one Ii will have BUS
pipes and 1l9 stops. and II Is said II Will be the
largest ever built
Il THE past twelve years something like 400
ont Of those who have been candidates for the
post of officer in the English mercantile service
, have been found unable TO distinguish cOlors.
/ No fewer than , % miStoOk drab for green; over
100 COMPOUNDED pink with graen, and over tllrty
thougst red was green Two persons could not
! recognize white-to them it was green or pink.
THE result of the elections has had strange
| effect on the flower market in Paris. Since the
! elections the price of red carnations has gone
/ down ike the shares of bubble company.
| While the white carnatiOn is quoted in the
| Narche aux Fieurs at the RESPECTABLE figure of
franc dozen, the red is offered freely at no
more than Z sous. Neither in Paris nor any
where else does anybody to be identified
with the symbol Of failure.
BISHOP Potter of New York is opposed to the
compulsory use of the Bible in the public
| schools. MANY people," he said in his Sunday
| sermon, ARE agitated over the compulsory read
| ing of the Scriptures in our schools l do not
| believe that any goot would come out of such
| legal compulSlOn. o. what earthly service
would it be to force teachers to read a passage
| every morning unless we read It ourselves IN
our closets, in our homes, upon our kneeS?'
A GHosrLIkE OBJECT which is said to haunt
the evening train on the EIkhorn, between Lin
| coin and Fremont n 3D., is creating great ex-
| element among the trainmen. The train leaves
| here at 6:3O, and it is said to make its appear
| ance from one of the many thckets along Salt
! Creek. when it keeps with them until Davy is
reached, about ten miles out. It was first OBJ
| served by Fireman Henry Conley, who declares
his belief that it is the ghost of man killed by
! tne cars some time ago. 1t disturbed him SO
| that he resigned. The new fireman confirms the
story as told by Conley.
THE GRAND ARMY MEN of the First congress
sional district of Indiana held a meeting at
| Carthage and unanimously passed resolution
approving the course taken by Gov Hovey in
| favOring the service pension bill aud condemn
| ing in unmeasured terms the course of Presi-
| dent Harrison in his message to congress in
| their behalf" A similar resolution has been
| passed by several of the grand army posts in
| that section. The Presidents friends are now
| charging the governor with instigatng the at
| tacks and thereby advertising himself as the
! only soldiers friend. Gov. Hovey, it is said,
| believes Harrison is dead politically and is
| scheming to succeed him as Indianas favorite
| republican son,
The mementoes of an old love affair are
always interesting. Romance never dies The
flavor of it clings to the materials which aided
| IN carrying it on. And so the finding of a be-
| gnmed and badly battered metallic box con-
| tanning locket, d bundle of parchment letters
| and faded ribbon on the revolutionary battle
| fied of Stone Arabia sets the imaginative mind
! az work to weaving romance of the days of
monogram. The letters were evidently written
! by a titled woman living in London in ITS
her betrothed, who was Capt. Lowe, probably
| with the Eng ish forces in America The LAST
letter told of the failing health Of the writer
and of her wish to see her love again. 1t was
| received just before the battle of Stone Arabia
Did the lover return to England, leaving the
case behind, or was he killed in battle, and is
the package of letters 50 carefully preserved
the abiding proof that his true loves love was
Returned?
TIE YEAR ending with Sept. 80 appears to
have been prosperous one for the railroad
corporations which carry passengers within the
limits OF New York city. The gross earnings
Increase about ST 200, over those of the pre-
vious year, while the relative cost of operation
was diminished. While a larger amount was
! paid out in dividends. the aggregate surplus at
the en- of the year was increased by 81, 800 OOO
The total number of passengers carried was
nearly 3S9 600 900, or considerably over an aver
| age of 10000 0 day. Almost one-half of these
| was carried by the Manhattan company on the
| elevated road, and its gross receipts were
nearly as great as those of the seventeen sur
| face railroads, while its net receipts were con-
slueraOly greater than theirs. The record of
accidents is in favor of the elevated as against
| the surface roads, for while the former carried
| nearly half the passengers only nine persons
| were killed and thirtytwo injured upon them
whereas on the surface roads sixteen were
| killed and 102 Injured.
GEORGE WASHINGTON was a noted hummer
and the story of his throwing a stone across the
| James river is too old for repetition 1t is not.
| however, generally known that he once entered
1 a. jumping match for wife and won the wager
| Inc way IL happened was that he called by
| chance at planters house on the Potomac
| where such match was going on. He was
| travelling and had stopped for drink The
| planter S daughter had chosen this way to settle
| the choice between several quarreling lovers
| knowing that her favorite was the most mus
cular, and the best jumper of the district
| Washington seeing the crowd asked what was
| going on. He was told and was invited to come
into the contest. He did so, the others making
their first jumps, and he coming last. Tue girls
| lover diStanced all OF the others, and Washing
| ton noticed her face was happy AS he Jumped
| and came out full foot ahead of the best
| efforts yet made, her face fell, and he refus ID
10 accept the result of the contest, saying that
| he was out of the district and that the second
| best man was the rightful victor.
JOSEPH Dor MER is in jail at Eau Claire. Wis.
because he put clean shirt on Christmas
| morning. The young farmer had long prom
| lsed his sweetheart that she should enjoy a
buggy ride in his company as soon as the
| merry Huletide should be ushered in and the
| occasion being an extraordinary one, gallant
| Mr.. Dormer must array himself in linen of the
| highest polish. His stock of starched garments
| being unfortunately at the lowest ebb Dormer
| ID great tribulation, appropriated to his own
| use Tor Jhe event brand-new and glossy white
bosom which he found in his uncle'S ,lnner
bureau drawer AT the same time and from
| the same depository he extracted a $40 green
| back. This occurred at the village of Fair
| child, whence the daring Lothario procured a
| team and buggy, and, calling for his sweetheart
started on The long awaited drive. Dormer's
| uncle was opposed to the young mans fancee
| and sent an officer in pursuit with a warrant
| The couple were arrested, and Dormer was
| jailed on sentence of sixty days for larceny of
| the shirt ard money. The latter had been ex
| changed for the of the vehicle and the
former was sent to a laundry at the uncle's
| expense.
| A BRIDGEPORT, CONN, YOUNG WOMAN made a
sensation last week. She is brunette, and had
| long been vain of her handsome glossy black
tresses. but one day. having read that Patti mad
| bleached her hair, she concluded that a younp
| lady must have straw-colored hair to be in the
| swim. The Bridgeport girl decided to drift
| toward bleached hair by easy tacks; she would
| start in for auburn hair. So she bought a drug
| store preparation that was warranted to turn
the hair any hue desired, ''or money refunded. :"
and applied it, She put the stuff on Just before
going to bed, and next morning awoke to a
| head of hair that was of deep and glist ening
! purple, like the color on a peacock's dorsal
| p.umage. She made another trial of her bleach
| ing fluid and her hair came out on the second
| morning vivid blue; so a Bridgeport news
| paper advised her to enter a New York dime
| museum under the ps udonym of the blue
| Haired Belle of Bugleville, - But she became
frightened and consulted physician, who told
her TO wash her head in soap and water. She did
so, and on the third morning her hair had be-