The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


/ opened on May l. The King of the Belgians has
promised TO visit it, and, if possible, TO be pres
ent at the opening.
Could the figures be gathered and compared
| peopls VINO think the modern modes Of lave
involve danger would be surprised. The old
: stage coaches, it is claimed. xii ed and MANNED
vastly more than tue railroads do. From the
/ reports OF the number Of passenger killed now
/ there would seem 10 be more danger in staying
/ al home than going " rail.
/ IL DIVORCE CASE considered in Chicago it
] appeared in the testimony that the man. oh
! jectin to the sounds o. Sc wing mac lines about
/ the house, deserted mis- wife sudden and with.
OFT argument. The wife was tue applicant for
| the divorce, which will probably be granted. II
/ IS held that man has no right To desert his
wife because there is a sewing machine in the
/ house.
An INTERESTING CASE has been concluded be
fore the Austrian court of appeal At the
! funeral of the crown prince the mayor OF
| Horitz. in Bohemia, called together the town
| council to pass Ote Of confidence with the
| imperial house. After having address ID the
| town councillors the mayor asked them to rise
as an expression of their grief. All rose exc ept
| one counc llor. VINO RENAME 1 seated This was
| regarded as an oTense to a member OF the i'm
| perial familt and the councillor has been pun
| tshed with two months Imprisonment.
The Medical Journal gives this advice to
il ever, show any impe liment to spe ech when
| speaking in whispers: On this fact a new
| method OF treatIne 1t has been adv Gated by DR..
! Cen, w1icl is as follows: In tne first ten days
| speaking Is lrOhi6ited. This will allow rest TO
| the voice and constitutes the preli ninary state
| of treatment. During the next ten days SPEAK
| ing is permissible in the whis lerng voice, and
in the course OF the next fifteen days the ordi-
nary conversational tone may be gradually
| employed
LAWSUIT has just been finished in Pesth
which began in 1853, IL years ago. The Bishop
of Neutra, in Northern Hungary, died leaving
his estate to his family. They we're unable to
take posse sSion owing to the Turkish inva sion
at that time. Ate the inVasi IN il was found
that there were 100 persons entitled to a share
Iney, b ing unaoe to agree, appea Ell to the
law, and as result the expenses of the law
AID adm inistration have swallowed up tn for
tune almost entirely, nd the heirs have in
creased to more than 1000 Now that the case
IS ETH q the heirs will get about 81 apiece.
IT is REMARKABLE with what rapidity certain
names become household words. aud are known
all over the world AS case in point, there is
Maj. Serpa Pinto who has suddenly become
prominent in connection with African affairs
ana the complications into which Portugal has
| become involved with England, He was born
IN DourO Portugal, in April, 1916. and was edu-
Gated at the Military Col eye, LisJon. He joinei
the Portugue army in 1868, rose pretty apidly,
aud b ca ne an aid -de-camD to tine king in
1880. He was in tho ZambeSi war in 1865 COM
nanding the African native troop. During
loG7.'79 he crossed Africa from Benguella to
Durham.
BALTIMORE FISH DEALER says that the
weather has pushed the fish Sc son alead Of
time just six weeks. I'VE do not look into the
air, said he, "for flying birds to tell us that
summer is coming, but look to the water for
the first shad or other warm welther fish as the
h lrbin Ier Of spring Among the summer fish
we are already handling are spots. Spanish
macAerel and trout. This m nth we have had
trout that were caught in the Rappahannock
river. Tney usually come about April. Yester
day we got sh I'd from The G esapeake bay that
are at asst six weeks ahead of time. We got
some from North Carolina that should, in the
regular course of things, have come next, and
since last Friday We have ha 5000 shad from
Florida. AtthlS time of the year We ought to be-
selllng lake FISH from 9 west. but we are not,
as the o. hers ar taxing their place
THE POLICE of Denver, Col, have a peculiar
case on their hands and one that has given them
no little trouble. 1t is a woman of about 80
years, good.looking and well dressed, who was
found on the streets in the fore part of the
week, in demented condition. She wa placed
charge OF the police matron, and though
apparently sane on all subject is unable 10
rec all her name or where she came from She
| says she was in the snow blockade on the Union
Pacific last week, and started to visit ST ter in
| the east, but has lost her tickets. The woman
| had $40 when found, but 81 ys she met Loor
| woman who told story Of poverty. and she
| gave ner some gold. How much she does not
| know 1t is thought her name is Marion We t.
| and her home Portland Ore. The name she
says sounds familiar, but the poor unfortunate
| IS undecided whether it is her own or not. The
Portland Authorities have been asked to investi-
| gaze, but as yet no reI ly has been received
NEVADA has a wonderful lake, called Lake
| Mono, full Of soda, borax and other alkaline
| minerals too numerous to mention The dirti-
est and greasiest clothing is made perfectly
| clean by simple rinsing in Mono. When there
! Is hlgn wind wall of lather three or four
| fe high is seen all along the shore where tine
waves at The quivering wall-in which NAV
| b. seen al the colors of the rainbow and az
many beauties as are shown by the kalejd1-
| scope-Would grow to the hight of ten or twelve
fe5U before topping over but that when IL
| attanS hight sufficient the wind catches it up
| I'd watts great balls OF it far inland some of
| The floating balloons of lather being as large as
| -four rreiS AS the prevailing winds are from
| the west. every vestige of vegetation along the
| east RI shores for many rods back is killed be-
| You'd hope of ever springing uD. VIII n the
| winds are unusually high the balls of lather
| reach clump of willows 800 yards from the
| shore and scorch the leaves as tongues of flame
| would do. The water just as it comes from the
| lake makes splendid SHAMPOO ike that used
by barber and when { e water il evaporate1
| the solid matter in the settings makes a good
| washing powder.
/ The Lewiston (te.) Journal remarks: s'When
the mercury shrinks below zero and everything
exposed to the weather is coated with ice peopIe
| are apt TO think of the sailors but there is
| another class of men almost equally exposed
| whose sufferngs are overlooked These are
| the brakemen on the railroad trains. esuec allv
| those on mountain roads During a lac ics
! storm the tops of the cars we're as slippery AZ
| glass. and on the White Mount ain division of
| the Maine Central it was impossible TO stand
| aad all the men could do was to crawl along the
! running board. A brakeman who went on a
train Of thirty seven cars said that in n lssiner
from car to Cur he tried to retain bit OF stand
| ing room on the car he was about to Quit even
| wniie reaching out for the other. The chance
| of drawing back in safety wasn't much he was
willing to admit but. small as 1t was he feit
like having il in reserve. Many of the western
cars. o. were sadly out of repair. and when
the make set off it would fly again. Tina
swaying OF the cars coming down the mounta n
sometimes makes timid passen Sers nervo IS
when safely insIe car. Thnk of going across
Q tops wneu they are covered with ice and
the sleet is blowing aud freezing in ones fac
CURIOUS littl9 point of theatrical etiquette
has just been finally decided in Paris. 1t was a
question about the honor Of the vedette. The
vedette is the claim to big type in the bills ac-
cor led to eminent actors. OF curse. where
theirs is an undolbted star, he takes his mace
as matter of course. IL is only where the
eminence is not yet absolutely achieved that
the distin ton of the yedette is ieaousIy ex-
acted. Coqueln is now back again al the
'Comedie Francaise. He had rather trans yres ed