The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST,".

| ITEMS OH 1SIG6GSS-
CALIFORNIA has /, 200 900 people, yet they pay
as much taxes as Pennsylvania does with $780,
| 600
| A KENTUCKY WHOEVER has just married his
seventh wife He is SO and his new wife over 50
| years OF age
KNOX COUNTY Qnd.) farmer planted thirty
acres in Russian sunfiowers, and realized S63
per acre on the crop.
NUMBER of Armenian peasants at Alakiles,
who failed to pay their taxes, were burned alive
by Turkish zaptiehs.
The NURSE who is attending Mrs. wuchter, tbs
Whitehall womaa who has tasted about IT'S days.
says she IS bewitched.
The CULTIVATION of the Japanese bamboo is to
be introduced in Forid 4 not only for its attrac-
tivenesS, but for its utility.
The ONLY female engineer in the United States
is Miss Annie De Barr, who runs the engine OF
steam laundry in Chicago.
A SQUASH at Cofax, N NJ, is under guard day
and night. 1t now measures eight feet four
inches around and is still growing.
IT is ESTIMATED that 200, 900 bushels of Gran
berries which New Jersey will send to market
will realize to the farmers a round million of
dollars.
Ir rs PROPOSED at Vienna to span the Danube
canal with n bridge lined with shops like tina
famous Ponte Rialto at Venice and the Arno
bridge at Florence
LAW recently passed in Denmark provides
that all drunken persons shall be taken home in
carriages at the expense of the landlord who
sold them the last glass.
THE SUPREME COURT of Minnesota is reported
! to have lately rendered decision declaring
that bank checks are not cash. and do not pos
sess legal value as money until caShed."
In CERTAIN Maine town there is a dove
which regularly every Sunday during summer
| flies into church. perches on the organ, and
listens to the music with much evident satisfac.
| ton.
VALUABLE and unique weddingdress was
| recently made in ST. Petersburg for the daugh-
ter of great Russian artist. 1t is of regula
| ton white satin, but on the satin innumera-
| BILE little pictures, chiefly allegoricaI,
IT Is ASSERTED that the Pennsylvania rail-
| roads new train she1, in Jersey City, will have
the largest span in the world. It will be 256 feet
4 long, II feet longer than the celebrated St
| Pancras Station in London.
| THREE YEARS AGO a lake in the Moosejaw dis
| trict, near Ottawa, Can, which was more than a
mile in circumference, disappeared entirely
| from some cause. A farmer purchased the lake
| bottom and has this year raised a magnificent
crop or wheat upon 1t.
| FIVE YEARS AGO those who enjoyed bowling
|
| tainly did not number more than 500, says the
| New York Times. To-day, if census could BE-
taken, il is doubtful If less than $4,000 patrons
| OF the alley would be counted
ALL the printing of the Hampton Institute of
Virginia, and much of it is of a very arti; &c
character, is done by the negro and Indian stu
dents Of the college. The Indian boys in partic-
! ular learn the art readily, and take much inter
| est In turning out ornamental work.
| ACcoDnrNf. to a corrocpondant Of tho Topaba
| Capital stock ralsers have noticed in the last
three years an apparent increasing sterility in
| heifers. 1t is ascribed to the practice of de-
! horning The horns on cattle must fulfill some
some useful function. they would not have
| been provided by nature.
THE salary list of the forthcoming exposition
of Chicago is thus detailed by the Globe of that
city: Gage, president, s. 600; Bryan. vice presi
dent, $l2 600; Butterworth secretary. $4,000:
| Seeberger, treasurer, So, 0OO Palmer, national
| president. $4,000; Davis, director general
| $4,000; Dickinson, secretary, $4,000; total
| S70.00O
| ONE of Edison's chiefs lives In Newark In a
house which fairly hing on wires. AS one ap
proaches the front gate it swings open and
shuts automatically The visitors foot on the
| steps of the porch rings bell in the kitchen
and also in the masters study. By touching
| button he opens the front door before the
stranger has time to knock An electric music
| tires to his bedroom the folding bed unfolds by
| electricity When he puts out the gas a strange
| knocking display of skeletons, gravestones
| owls and other hideous phantasmasoYia
| dances about on the wall at his feet, reappear-
ing and disappearing in ghostly electrical glare
This last device of electricity must be about as
soothing TO q nervous person as wer, the rapid
transformations of the ogremagician in Puss
in Boots.
TT is safe to say" said a New York physician
to a Mail and Express reporter, that one can
not give what one does not have to give The
same is true of a dog If he has not hydrophobia
he cannot communicate it, So there Is no rea.
sonable cause for the fright displayed by some
persons If they 6t1t get their skins broken by a
dog whose health is perfect Men who are in
the habit of handling dogs think nothing of
their bites Dog fanciers and dog trainers are
frequently bitten and think nothing of it, The
men who handle lighting dogs pay scarcely any
attention to dog bites unless they are severe.
and then apply ordinary remedies | myself
have been several times bitten-not by mad
dogs of course-and have suffered little or no
discomfort. There are many things worse than
the bite of healthy dog. will take lt anv
time in preference TO a bad burn or a cut with a
rusty nail little common sense ought "a, he
used in this as in other matters"
CAPT. TRIMBLEToN of the Seventh United
States cavalry passed through Pittsburg a few
days ago on his way from Fort Sill. I. It 70
New York, and conversed with q Chronicle
Telegraph reporter on the outlook in the Indian
section. He said: NO one who ia no, in tho
Indian reservations can comprehend the almost
magical spread among them of the impression
that the Great Medicine Man is once more ahont
70 visit the earth Thousands of Indians arr
forsaking their pows ami agricultural occnna.
lions to sulk in solitude when they are not
conducting wild orgies to welcome the Great
Me dcine Man. The effect of the fanat-
icai preachings of certain tribal Leaders
is proving source of grave alarm. One mart
OF their religious exercises is daily wash IN the
Washlta river Ga the banks of that stream
they expect the medicine man to appear who
Is to cover the world with thirty feet of soil. ex
terminate the white race and once again ap-
portion the country out for the tribes of In
dams. believe that there will be a serious
outbreak among the Indians as a result of this
religious excitement. The sight Of 10 900 braves
and squaws fiocking TO the Washta river every
mornlng TO oathe and chant wild dirges is cal
cuatei to excite apprehension among army
officials and white settlers alike