The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

facture Of salt
The 3O,o76 men and boys employed at coal
mining in Illinois in 1889 produced II. 597, 1888
tons Of coal valued at Sl2 1876 ss5. against pro-
| uuctlon or g, 40 employees 10 1888 of IL $50 ISs
tons, valued at Sl3,3l 5000.
The new cruis-r Baltimore has for her first
honorable duty the carriage of Ericson's body
| 70 Norway. Once across the sea she will show
D -r pretty self IN the ports of the 81 world-tne
| fastest cruiser Of her class made by human
hands.
ROBERT CUSHING, the sculptor, is at work
upon figure of the Madonna, which is being
made Tor Miss Drexel II is TO be pat in chapel
i IA Flllade phla. Mr.; Cushing Will be remem-
| bered as the artist who made the welI-known
Dust OF the late Cardinal AcCloskey
ZEITuNG. thu man who ravel.d from Vienna
to Paris in a box as luggage. Is now, it seems.
reaping he reward of his adventurous feat
| We read tnat he has "a n-w and sliny hat &"
ana rs installed in a comfortable DOM in lit
| Tile hotel, his services as 'ehow'' novelty
| oeing meanwhile tie subject of much compe-
| tition.
Col. PEvTsoFF. the leader Of the Thibetan
expedition, has discovered convenient pass to
| northwest Tibet, and has mounted to the great
| taoiela I'd of ThIbet He describes the country
| rouad as desolat and uninhabted. but the
| southern portion OF t ie plateau is well watered
| ana wooded. Tue lakeland is Il, COO feet above
| the level of the sea.
DURING the past five months as many as $50
| persons have been under treatment at the
Pasteur institute, and it is a ct which speaks
| volumes IN favor OF the new system that not
| one OF These patients has died. Some slight
snl1nullcatiohs have been made in the treatm mt
| followed and, as fresh xpe fence is gained, the
results are more and more satisfactory
| WHILE OUT HUNTING, Col Standifer and Billy
Muller, of DenniSon. Tex, came across a large
dead tree, the stump of which full to over
| flowing, so to speak, with mice. The colonel and
| MS CO npanion pulled off strips of the decayed
| outsr gro tn of the Tree and every time a strip
| wa puile |, myr DIS # mice ran for tn l. lives
| Co Standfer killed 1856 If the mice and Muller
| &c Inc next day the tree wa' visite with two
olac"-and-tan terriers, the bark was removed,
| anu the lumber of mice killed is estimated at
| over 1000.
LODGING HOUSE KEEPER in London named
roy, who was 50 poor that he had been able to
get reused even from rate paying, received
from tne hands of his diving wife lie gift of her
| stays After her death he cut ITEM up and
| discovered over $500 secret-d in them. He gave
| MS Wife le most elegant wake ever seen in tue
| nelghoornood, and while he under it nfu-
ehce man named Fryer stole the balanc. of
| the money from him. He mad Frye arrested
ana IN the police court the story of the hidden
treasure came out
| Mr. PAGE, the father of the four girl babies
| whose arrival created such an excitement
some time ago, was in Texarkana, Ark, the
| other day. The little ones are now more than
| a month old, an are rowing rapidlv Papn
| has received many letters of con iolence and
congratulat!on, some profferiny financial asst L
| ance lad , said to be an old maid liyin out
west, writes that she ha seen the newspaper
| rep rts' on proper proof be ng ade that
| III was Al actual occurrence, she will send
| check for 5 10. She wishes t understood how
ever, mat the gift is a token of sympathy for
the mother.
The KEEPER of the New York Central park
m ma rio ie tpaip ,11-
| pie on its back A Eowdah loaded VITA eight
children is to be placed on the docile beast.
| Tue camels, dromeda les and elephants that
form part of the dent staff of the Zoo in
regent p re- Londo :, are made TO earn some
| OF their bread by strOng about VITA cargoes
OF ilfants, at tariff of cents mead The
dead Mr.. Jumbo must have carried hundreds of
| tons OF small B lions in his time and might be
| carrying them yet mad it not been for the fact
| that his keepers feared he would mutiuy and
kill cargo or two
A SwEDE, Charles Peterson, had a curious ex-
perlenc with bald eagle while going to his
WORK one morning near Woodstock, in Wind
I ham county, Conn, recently. He was trud ging
I along the Ne Boston country road, when ne
saw a big, sleepy -ooaing bird perched on a
branch OF an oak by the roadside. To Peter on
the b rd loo ed as big CONDOR 1t pa i no
attention whatev r to the Svede, who walked
up TO the tree, a I'd with club Knoc<ed IL off
The oranca W ich wa ow one. With a second
blow the Swede killed the bird and took il h0m.
and ne ghoor, hunter, told him that it was
an American eng e. It's wia5s mea sured six
feet and six inches.
"a LOVE JUBILEE is the latest celebration
devised. On the occasion of the sixth CEN
tenary of the loves of Dlnte and Beatrice a
grand demonstra ION in honor of the tender
passion viii be held at the Poteamo at Flor.
ence' and VIII be Kept up fot five weeks. be gin
1 ming with ay l. TAere will be an exhibition
of the gre works of the gre tie st womel: a
series or taoleaux wants, reproducing the
primo pal scenes OF the Vita Nuova;'' and a
conference on love, at which papers will be
reId prize is offered for the most ELOQUENT
discourse, and the competition is open T. ali
corners. or course, there will be portraits of
Dante and Beatrice, and a complete collection
| of book about them.
NJ. THIvRI5R a workinyman. elected az
| such to tn present Chamber of Deputies in
France, wears ali the time in public the blouse.
which is the badge of lIborer in that country
NJ. Thlvrier began wo in the coal mines at
Commentoy, Fra ice, when II years old and for
| wv MY years remain d In EN-, handling tue
PICK. Atterward he became wine gr wer and
dealer IN wines. He is. cialist but not a
1mmunlonlsC for, HAVING" as a French pap r
| puts 1t, acquired his capital by his own hard
wo X, ne cannot silly un iers ard how that
capital 5 70, belong TO all the world" Through
all his car er he has stuck to his work n sman's
blouse and it was largely upon the strength of
that pecllarity tnat he elected a deputy
He is sad TO be man of unusual inte lieence
and GOOD speaker When he came to Paris 10
take us seat, MS b ouSa which he wore NOT
only at the chamb +, but at receptions and all
other functions which he attended made him
at once fam US.
THAT was a.strange sentence in our Paris cor.
RESPONDENT S letter of last week, lays London
newsia er, which stated, from observi lg that
those addicted to alcohol did not take influenza
the physicians had advised the use of warm
alcoholic drinks. In three DAYS no less than
$1,000 eople were taken up for drunkenness in
tue sire Is OF Paris, Of whom / 200 said thy
were simply following the treatment prescribed
for influenza; We cannot say that there is any
such exemption or advantage in this country in
ose who take alcohol. But the indiscrininate
advice to the public to drink warn alec l1ic
drinks see ms to us very questionable prescrp-
ton. Certainly we think that, so far resu Is /
England compare very favoraliy with those of
Paris, and the reve tive efficacy of warm alco
hollc drinks is no part of the creed of English
physicians. The great points to observe, both
Tor preventing the disease and pas ing through
1t Ia orably. are to live naturally sobarIy and
senslbly TO lnhale fresn air, takin wholesome
and simple food and sufficency of sleen IT
alcohol n eded in a disease with so sh rt a
pyrexia it is in small quantity, and in the stage
OF sweating AID commissioners.
The GERMAN PRESS is discussing at length the
merits of new French repeating air rife
called the miracle gum" The rife was in.
vented by NJ. Paul Giffard in Paris. the orieina,
iAptO Of tha Do rioia