The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
| An ASHLAND DIVINE has patented an air brake
which can be applied to al vehicles
| MISS RACHEL sTILL-AGoK of Pushing L L
was los years Old on Thursday, Sept. IS.
SENATOR EDxUEDs' Washington residence has
the words Electric Alarm" painted over the
summer deer.
kansas BANTAM which was Matched March
II, has laid twelve eggs and Matched from them
twelve chicks.
TIE latest advice for attracting attention to
store windows is a swarm Of bees making honey
in glass box from syrup
Miss SADIE ELLIOTT, daughter of the late
bishop of Georgia. is the author of the novel.
Jerry, now appearing in SertbneT.
THE Russian government has declined to ac-
cept the terms proposed by Gen Bntterhsld for
the construction of a railroad to Siberia.
The demand for Saginaw valley salt is larger
than any time since its production began. 1t
is impossible TO obtain ears enough to ill the
orders.
REPRESENTATIVE STocKDALE of Mississippi has
introduced bill into congress TO increase the
Mexican war pensions from S. to $12 per
month.
JERSEY CITY has a law under which fines of
500 eacs are to be imposed upon persons de-
tected drinking malt or alcoholic liquor in her
new parks.
A Protestant EPISCOPAL CHURCH to cost
$1,000 is under contract at Reistertown, Md,
the gift of Mr.. William Keyser as a memorial
to his mother.
AN old prospector bought piece of ground
near Nevada City the other day for $500. He
went for gold. aud soon struck deposit that
will pay him $1,000.
YOUNG MEN who dc not like to be seen carry
ing luncheon basket in the street may now
have a case made like a koaak camera, that
Will hold just as much
THE total number of passengers carried in the
United States during 1889 was 472,1T1 ,543. One
passenger in every l,523, IS was killed, and one
in every 2O ,024 was iStured.
AN OLD CHIEF gave his experience of Indian
agents this way: - Spose agent heap bad man,
heap swear, steal half Iqjun blanket, Injun
-four; spoSe agent lovum Jesus, steal an
A STRANGE FREAK of nature in connection
with the recent tornado appears in South Law
renee, Mass In the district tora by the storm
lilac and pear trees have begun to blossom.
THE BOOK descriptive of their three years
residence in India, WATCH the Duke and Duchess
of Conuaught are at present engaged upon, is to
be published in German as well as English
The whaling bark Petrol arrived at New Bed
ford, Mass. Thursday night, after whaling
voyage of over five years. She took 800 bar
rels of sperm oil aud 200 pounds Of whalebone.
ADMIRERS Of the works of George Meredith
will learn with pain that he has just suffered
great loss by the daath of his eldest son, which
took place at the house Of his sister at Working,
Surrey.
AFTER SERIES OF very carefzl experiments,
Professor Cohn of Breslau has found that the
heating of damp hay to a temperature suf1-
Gent TO cause 500 ntaneouS combustion is due
to fungus.
THE FRANCE, the largest sailing vessel in the
world, was launched at Patrick recently. She has
five masts, and her tonnage is 3,75o She is In
tended for the nitrate trade bstween South
America and France.
Mrs NANCY BAKER of Westheld, n, j., the
mother of Mrs. Jessie Fowler of Plainfeld. n.
j., has Just celebrated her Tooth birthday. She
has lived all her 100 yesrs within forty miles of
the ocean and yet has never seen it.
MRS PExscaowER of Cloverdale, Cal. has
raised suniower this year that breaks all
records. The stalk is 8 inches m diameter at
the ground it sta IDS ~ feet high, and the flower
measures 9 feet around the outer edge.
The DISTANCE travelled by Stanley in the in
terror Of Africa is estimated by him at 5.4o0
miles, of which all but 900 were an foot. The
expedition occupied three years, and rescued
300 persons at cost of less than $4,000.
GUsrAvE A. PUcHEL 90 years old. died Sun
day in New York from starvation Bank books
were found showing that Tuchel had about
SIC, 900 slowed away, while papers in his room
indicated that he owned three tenement houses
in Harlem.
P. r. BARNUA, in his old age, is burning his at
tention to religious matters. He has just como
out of discussion In Bridgeport with Metho-
dist Clergyman on the proper mode Of keeping
Sunday. Mr. Barnnm says the parson had no
AT oil nd he I'm ont npt ha fret
round"
NJ. CHATRAIN. the late French writer, in his
will emulated to some extent the example of
Robert Emmett by expressing an earnest desire
that his remains shall be buried at Lorrrine, his
birthplace, BUT directing that this shall be car
ried out only when Alsace and Lorraine are
again under French rule.
INAsMUcH as Prince George, in that fictitious
fight in Canada, conducted himself with great
valor and came on top of the heap, he has at
least less ground for complaint against the
Canadian style of journalism than if the re-
porter had permitted him TO be fncoptinently
kicked around block or TIVE. Still the prince
will not be blamed il he does not take tsis view
of it,
A coLoRED MAN made reputation as a steeple
chaser the other day on the farm of Capt r.
W. Green, on Whites creek Tennessee. A fox
that had bean captured in a trap was turaed
loose in the face of pack of hounds and a
Joined in the chase aud astualiy outstrippsd
both horses and dogs, and captured the fox
alive with his hands
Mr. GLADSTONE has made another author
happy and probably started another book on the
high road of success, as he did in the case of
Robert Esmere,' Marie Bashkirtzsff's
Diary. and other works, by giving them the
benefit Of his especial notice The author this
time is MIR. Ball, the Irish astronomer, aud the
book Is called ''Starland.N Nh. Gladstone
writes Mr.. Bal a cordial letter of thanks for a
copy of the work. with which he declares him
self delighted
JEWISH NEW YEAR has fairly begun. The
month Of gishri usheYed in last Sunday
evening, and with it the year $751; From the
fifteenth century B. G. the Hebrew has observed
Rosh Hashonah and the days of festivity which
follow it. The ancient Jeu1ss law commanded:
And on the first day Of the seventh month
shall be unto you holy convosation; no servile
work shall ye do; a day Of blowing of the cor
net it shall be to you" Our Jewish fellow
citizens necessarily conform TO the calendar in
uss among the people, and yet they viii not
forget that the month of Tshri is upon Them
and Uhat with it have come the harvest DAYS
which make glad the heart of man.
In DECEMBER an interesting centenary will be
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