The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


WORK in Francs.
EDWARD McDoxALD of Allentown, Pa. thinks
he owns the smallest dog. 1t is five months old
and CHS four ounces.
GEORGE WARD and Frank Anthony OF White
water. Wis. took six-grain pearl valued at
500, from 81 50 worth of clans.
As SOON as the town of Santa Barbara, Cal.
gets pipes laid to the gas well it will cost only
80 year for fuel to each householder.
IT Is ESTIMATED that the accidents to various
war ships during the recent Eoglish war man
euvers have cost the government Sl,250.000.
The GRAPE CROP of New Jersey will be a
failure this year. owing to rot and the rose bug.
The LOGS to growers will be more than 100000.
NEAR CANTON, Ill, a farmer plowed up
skeleton believed to be that of Frank Irwin,
who mysteriously disappeared nine years ago.
TIE LARGEST sheep ranch in the world is in
the counties of Webb and Dimnet. in Texas. 1t
contains 100000 acres aud yearly pastures $4,000
sheep.
The PASTOR of the Presbyterian church at
Falls City, Kan, threw up his joe because the
women of his congregation played afternoon
whist.
IL London, recently, large collie dog saved
girls life, seizing her dress aud swinging her
a side Just as she was about being run down by
a horse.
FLORENCE, Mich, Justice is swift. robber
there recently began a thirty days sentence
within forty five minutes from the time he COM
miJted the theft.
THE AVERAGE LUMBER Of distinct wars and ex-
petitions in which England has taken a more or
less active par: since 1857 seems to have been
rather under one year.
A MAN of figures at Saginaw has calculated
that the average person trims off thirty-sec-
ond of an inch of nail from each finger every
week, or three inches year.
PIECES of the floor of the house Jesse James
was killed in sell at 20 cents apiece. 1t is alleged
that the floor mas been relaid three times since
the demand for the relic set in.
INTo peach tree on his place at Napa, Cal.
Rev. Richard Wylie has grated different varie-
ties of stone fruit until now he gathers from it
almonds, plums and three kinds of peaches.
THE suLTAN's WIVES are divided into three
classes There are five of the first, twenty-four
of the second and $50 of the third II is under
stood that he thinks of establishing fourth
class.
A POOR wAsHERwoMAN at Fayetteville, Ark,
who few days ago was notified that she had
been granted pension and would receive s., 900
back pay, was so overcome with joy that she
died.
PIGEON FANc1ERs and flyers are interested in
the statement that swallows have been trained
in France to carry messages in the same way as
pigeons and fly much faster and over a longer
distance.
A WOMAN factory inspector in Philadelphia
has made 400 inspections during her service of
six months and in nine cases out of ten she
found that the operatives did not know where
tbs fire escapes were.
A DOCTOR and an undertaken heard of a man
who was hurt near Menominee Mich, and rode
to the scene of the accidentin the same rig, the
former taking his pill-box and the latter his
coffin. The doctor got the job.
RATHER touching incident occurred at the
Boston and Maine depot in Biddeford, Me. A
man had been visiting his family there aud,
though ne intended to return in two weeks crleu
like one who was to be absent for years.
A POCKET TELEPHONE has been produced in
Berlin. The idea upon which it's use is based is
| that electric bells are found everywhere and tn .
pocket telephone is to be connected to the bell
wires of the hotels and hospitals as we'll as pri-
| vate houses
THE HEAT produced from the light OF fire
| fly is only per cent. of en- equal amount of
candle light. The bugs light is produced bv a
chemical act on, as it is increased by putting
| the fly in oxygen and diminished in an atmos-
phere of nitrogen.
WATER has been found in the Desert of Sa-
| sian wells that French engineers are confident
of being able to extend their railroad to a dis
lance of a weeks journey from Algeria right
| through the desert.
ALEXANDER SoRDEN of Harrington, Nd who
died few days ago, had long been source of
wonder to physicians because of a peculiar
physical shrinking that followed sickness
causing his stature to become one foot less than
| it was during health.
THE Russian government has ordered that all
medical and pharmaceutical students shall be
| henceforth accustomed to the decimal system
| of weights and measures. with the view to
making this system the only legal one for pre-
scrptions to lie written in after the lapse of five
| years.
| THE newest medical device Is of Russian
origin, and consists in inoculating patients suf-
fering with diphtheria with the germs of ery-
| sipelas. 1t seems that the microbes of these
| two diseases do not agree very well, and the
| erYsipeas animals are apt to eat the others and
| then themselves die of indig estion.
NJ. EIFFEL is now utilizing his famous. tower
and balloon for aerial telegraph purposes by
| night. 1t is intended to ascertain by the ex-
periments at what distance the lights on the
| tower can be perceived from balloon and To
| what height from the summit of the tower an
| aerositat can be seen and communicated with
by signals.
W B. JENNINGS of Marshall Tex has discov.
cred very effective means of getting rid of
reaches, 1t is simply to put toad in any room
that is infested with them. Last summer a large
toad got into the poStoffice and remained there
over night. Afterward the Office was clear OF
| reaches until few weeks since, when they
reappeared. Another toad was placed in the
room, and the reaches again disappeared
RAT got caught by the leg in store and
squealed loudly for mercy, says Maine ex-
change. The proprietor Of the store watched
the rat, which continued to Is1ueal Finally
another rat crept cautiously out and walked uo
to his unfortunate companion and evidently
took the situation in, for they seemed to talk
with each other and arrived at the conclusion
that the captured rats chances we're desperate
for the second one began to gnaw the unfortu-
nate rats leg off, allowing it to escape which il
did, limping away on three legs, the other leg
remainin lin the trap. 1t almost lseemed as if
they had delioerated over the case and had
reached the only possible means of escape,
The worlds stock of diamonds has increased
enormously in the last fifteen years In 1876
the output of the African mines was about
100000 csrats, last year it was over 1000 COO
and the great trust which controls all the
principle mines assert that they have 16 900 OoC
carats I'm sight" at the present time Mean
time the demand for diamonds has wonderfully
increased. and they are higher to-day-partly
because of the trust, " but also because of in