The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ Nicholas, on the banks of the Danube. where
/ the Russian army crossed the river in 1926.
/ Is CHINA, when the rain is too abundant, the
officials set the images of the native gods out in
| the rain 70 induce them to stop the downpour.
Two YEARS AGO it cost the Boston and
Maine railroad 100000 to keep its tracks clear.
/ This winter the snow plow has not made
| single trip.
TIE LEGISLATURE OF QUEBEC has passed
Premier Mercier's bill. providing the grant of
| 100 acres of public lands to every father of
family of twelve living children.
! THE WOMAN who first circumnavigated the
| globe was a member of Bougainville's famous
| expedition around the world in 1868. which
| occupied just two years and four months.
THERE is man in New York who makes
comfortable living by going with whisk broom
| and bag, gathering up oats that horses scatter
about their noon eating places in the streets.
| A MADISON (AlIcH) WIDOW kills three birds
with one stone by inserting in the same issue of
local paper her husbands obituary notice,
card OF thanks and notice that she will auc-
ton off her late pertner's personal effects.
AT PRESENT 58S periodicals appear in Berlin.
Thirty-six of them belong to the political daily
press. 491 are the organs of special social, edu-
catonal and industrial interests, and fourteen
are devoted exclusively to military matters.
-NAfOLkON ) GRAND ARMY mas QWnQleQ down
to a small company. 1t has been ascertained
that there are now only 1l2 men who wear the
medal of St. Helena and whose names appear
on the pension list of the Legion of Honor for
| 1880. asv
| The NATIONAL PENSION FUND for nurses in
| England has received a New Years gift of
10000, contributed by about 100 gentlemen.
| The bonus fund of the association, apart from
contributions given by nurses, now amounts to
| 436,000.
| I THE FIRST EDITION of Wilke Collins "Blind
Love" was taken up before publication, aud
another edition is now preparing This shows
| an immense amount OF interest, as the novel
| has already appeared to a multitude of readers
| as a serial.
| IMPORTANT BANKS of marine sponges, includ-
| ing all the kinds most valued in commerce,
| have been discovered on the southern coast of
| Sicily. They extend from fifteen to eighteen
| marine leagues in length, and are from twenty
| to thirty one ellis in depth.
A NEW KIND of shoe is being tried in the Ger
man army. The sole consists of sort of wire
| trellis while the spaces between are filed up
| with gutta percha and resin. This new prepara-
| ton is said to be cheaper, more durable and
| more elastic than leather.
The EMPEROR OF RUSSIA has been in a state
| of insane panic, the result being that he has
sunk into the deepest dependency, and con-
| stantly insists that his end is approaching. The
| emperor is not likely to rally from this miser-
| able condition, says the London Truth, while he
| continues to Soothe his nerves with injections
| of morphia.
| LARGE AMERICAN DAIRY conducted on the
same lines as the principal dairy companies in
| London, has been started at San Donate, the
| well-known estate of the late Prince Demidoff
| near Florence. This establishment will be
| much appreciated by residents at Florence, for
the milk and butter supplied in that city have
always been exceedingly Indifferent in quality.
| THE OLD BRICK HOUSE at 10 Washington place
| New York, where Commodore Vanderbilt lived
| and died, was sold TO fur dealer few days
| ago at price exceeding $4,000, and next year
it will be torn down. Tae property belonged to
| Cornelius and William X. Vanderbilt and had
| been leased annually to the mother and brother
| of the commodore's second wife, who had
| lived there since the death of the Wall street
| king.
| AT THE CALLING of the muster rolls on the re-
| opening of the Vienna schools remarkable
| fact came to light. Nearly all the scholars had
| suffered from influenza during the holidays
| but not reported to have died
| On the other hand, five teachers have sue
| cumbed. The only possible explanation of this
| appears to be--what many medical men have
| asserted-that influenza is very seldom danger
| Gus to children.
| a COINCIDENCE that is very remarkable is re-
| ported from Boston. A teamster who had been
| hurt by a car running into his wagon brought
| suit for damages against the railway company
| The case came up few days ago, and the Jury
| decided to visit the scene of the colliSion-a
| steep hill. They embarked in a car belonging
! to the defendant, and had just reached the hill
| when the car ran into a furniture wagon,
| breaking two of the windows and shaking up
| the jurymen. The teamster received verdict
| for 81, 100.
KEEP your mouth shut. The Boston Bud0et
says: Many disease germs enter an open mouth
The mouth was not made for breathing, but for
eating and speaking The nose was made for
| breathing. and the air, passing through the
| moist nasal passages, Is purified and leaves be-
| hind dust, disease germs and various impuri-
ties, while the air is warmed and tempered for
| the lungs But when the mouth is left open
| dust, dirt and disease rush down into the lungs
and fastening there develop and destroy the
| whole SySte
| THE SWISS FEDERAL COUNCIL has sanctioned
the proposal for the construction of a rack rail-
way from the Brienz to the Rothhorn. Tne ex-
| lStng mountain railway are said to have
| greatly preju iced the whole Of the Bernese
| Oberland, so that the execution of a sim
| liar undertaking in the Alps of the
| Brenz mas become a necessity The new
the Brunig railway, and end about 300 feet be-
| low the summit of the Rothhorn The project
of railway to the summit has had to be aban
| doned, but the line will reach an altitude not
| attained by any other mountain railway.
THE New YORK Commercial Advertiser says:
| The Newfoundland fisheries dispute between
| France and England appears to turn mainly ON
| the question 10 whether or not Holsters are
| fish. In old times naturaists asserted that lob
| sters were insects, though no biologist, as far
as we know, has ever yet dreamed of classify
| ing fish in the same category. A German pro-
| feSSor is on record as having once maintained
| that feaS were small Holsters, theory that was
| at once exploded by the boiling of a handsome
| collection of tue undoubted insects and the dis
| covery that their shells did not turn red in the
| process. Perhaps England and France NAV
| find an equally easy means of deciding whether
or not Holsters are fish.
| A oNE-ARAED PRINTER is as much of a curl
osity the armless man who dexterouslv
! handles knife and fork with his toes. There
| came to Cincinnati two days ago such a won
| r, and he is now working sub in the
| Cincinnati Enquirer office. His name is Harry
| Penrod he is 81 years old. and halls from Wash
| ingtOn, where he learned the trade. Six wears
| ago he went out west and there lost his left arm
| in railroad accident. Only short stump ex-
! tending but few inches from the shoulder, re-
mains Nothing disheartened by q misfortune
| that would have rendered most men HELPLESS
| Penrod set to work to manage the intricacies of
| his craft with one hand, and he succeeded so
well that he now sets as big 'strin ~ as the
best printer and he justifies his own matter and
| doesit well. In setting type. Penrod places
the stick" on the case in front of him and then
nimbly shoots the type into place. working
| very rapidly and apparently with as much ease
| as a man with two hands.