The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

] u FOoR- WTetcled rlcn woman dled OF Starva-
ton the other day in London, sitting in q chair
hugging packa ge Of gold valued at $4,000
sac was too st.ngy TO buy herself the com
mOnest ioO1
A Young GIRL OF Chicago who had bothered
George Riddle, the actor. by writing notes to
him. at length sent up her autograJ h album
20 ine usla! request She was more sur
prls "a taan hattered to receive it back with this
inscription: - our Liver says, like an honest
geLteman, where is your m0therl"
THE QUEEN DowAGER OF PORTUGAL an Italian
princess, who married at the age of IS, was
very extravagant in her ideas. 1t is reported
! Ihat on one occasion she brought home from
Parls O0) pairs of shoes On another occasion
! she ordered sixty nine dresses from Worth, and
| on the way home they were lost at sea Not
disconnected in the least, she duplicated the
order.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA of the London Tele-
graph once criticised Harry Furniss, the art
critic, very sharply. The latter retaliated by
aiiegi tpat Sa.a nad once had an aspiration
| toward art himself, but had abandoned it upon
| the discovery t1at one OF the Il cures in a pict-
| ure ne IA patntel was endowed with six toes.
! MI Saia sue for libel, and the case is about to
| come up in court.
A MAN on bicycle in California attracted
attention by his singular acts. He rode about
the street, calling out to all he met Repent and
| Dc saved The kin zdom OF God is at handT' AS
| soon as ne had announced this he would hurry
on as If he had certain time in which TO an
nounce TINS to all the people of Oakland.
FeoDle stared at him, and appeared to agree that
he was a mild sort of lunatic.
J. G. WOODRUFF, Warwick. n. Y. farmer,
washed his cattle with preparation of petro-
leum to destroy vermin. After fine bull had
| oeen thoroughly washed, a hired man touched
| a match TO the amin lis side. Tue blazing bull
| Lnaoe a pee line for the barn, which con-
suned with all its contents. That hired man is
rightIuily entitled to the shoes lately worn by
| tne man VINO didn't know it was loaded.
Two MAMMOTH RED LATs Of the species iden-
olcal with the vampire BIT Of the Brazils have
Just been captured in Tensas parish, La. They
| are In shape like bats, but many times larger
measuring twenty-five inches from the tip of
one wing to the tip of the other. In color they
| are a revolving blood tint and are of a swapping
Vlnlictive temper The animals will bs sent
| 70 tne geological gardens of some northern
| city.
sAUGeLERs are reaping rich harvest down
near the Canadian frontier They pursue their
unlawful work in house built on the boundary
| line, half in Canada AMI the other half in the
| United ates Generally these houses contain
| uramway, upon winch cars containing contra
pand goods can be moved from one country to
| tue OF -er. When United States officers make a
! I@lu the cars are pushed over into Canadian
| territory, aud Uice UsrSG. The Canadian gov
eminent VIII take measures to prevent con-
tlhuance of the fraud.
| AN EXTRAORDINARY case has Just come under
the notice of well known Berlin doctor. An
officer consulted him, suffering from an erup.
ton on the skin of the head and in spite of
every care aud precaution the rasn b5gan to
| spread over the facs ana neck. The SYMPTOMS
| We're tho5e OF lead pos mi x but no reason
| could az first be ascribel II account for them
| az Iast the doctor examined the military can
| which the patti mt had been wearing lust befors
| has illness, and upon ripping out the leather
lnlng found it TO contain large quantity of
| lead. "a
ONE OF the fiourishing industries of New York
Is the Insurance of babies. More tl,an one COM
pany is engaged in the traffic, and it produces
a lucrative income. The sum paid is usually
. cents week on each child. and collectors
nave to trot about in lively fashion to make
anything like a decent income. The system is
productive OF -ood in so far that it assures very
| Door people against being put to extremes in
Cne event OF a death in the family On the
other hand, the possible and even probable
ABUSES are obvious, for it gives heartless parents
a direct personal interest in the death of one
VINO is entirely at their mercy.
The late Emperor of Rus sa invested several
| millions sterling in Eng and, America and
Francs for the benefit of his morg anatic wife.
| fIlncesS Do'gourouEi, and her children and he
a SO presented her with two immense estates in
| Russia. The present emperor recently caused
| an intimation to be made to the pri icess that
lnasmuch as neither herself nor her family will
|
not be allowed to own land within his dominion
and she has been co npe.led TO sell her estates
70 tne lmper i treasury for Is 600 900 of roubles
| little more than half their market value The
two sons of the Princess Dolgouronki are to he
natnrallzed in Franc.
FROM Chances Here and There" in the New
York Tribune we clip The following interesting
DIT: For whom did New York vote at the first
presidential election? Why. Washington. of
course you eXclalm; and so does every one
par one phenomenal idiot who 'guesses John
! Jay. Bad guess sir and wrong all of Won for
| New YORK didn't vote at ALL The legislature
had the choosing Of electors, but when the day
came, the Senate being federal, the House anti
&c .traiist; WIN Two Senate snipS to weight the
quarrel, the two houses could not agree on auy-
| t.ing and adj Jurned without action. ONLY ten
states voted that time, for Rhode Island did not
ratify the constitution till the following year
and North Clrolna, having oncs rejected it had
changed her mind and ratified it too late for the
election" WIG
AT the Working (England) crematory. the
number of cremations is steadily increasing.
In three years, from 1884 to 1887 the annual
average was 8. In 1888 there were %. In 1850
! the nu nber increased to d., the total number at
| the end of the year having been exactly 100
rus year there have been several every week
| In france, at the new crenatory in Paris there
We're % ordinary ere natonS in 1889 but the
mum er of still-brn children and the bodies
from lie hospitals and anato meal schools is so
! large that lncineration is constantly going on
botn night aud day. The Journal d He0 enc
says that the total number was nearly 1900 in
the year At Rome the numbers were 1l9 in
IN 1856. l5j in 1887, and 20! in 1885, At Milan
and other tia ian towns the numbers are in
creasing as also in Germany.
WHAT do you thiak of a man spending
5000 week for POSTAGE" says clerk in the
stamp department of the New York postoffice.
81 know an advertiser in this city whose staup
/ Dill is often that much. He pays $4,000 office
rent for the quarters in which lie carries on his
! various businesses. too. AS soon as he gets
! company on its Get ne Sc l. it out invents or
thinks up another speciality, or what pur-
| ports to be one, III = up niga-so Inding name
! Tor 1t and for the concern who is supposed to
! manufacture and Sell it. gets a new office and
! sends our a new batch of circulars and advertIs
| ing books and pamphlets. OF some of his pamph-
lets he orders 1J0Jp,OU0 copies. Where does he
i get a list OF names long enough and reiiabla
! enough tojustify such an enormous expenditure
for printing and postage? Well, he owns every
city directory and every b .ue-book and red book
and elite book published il n rita America He
also owns hundreds of dozens of old letters
/ which he max a business of buying up ali
over the country, wherever he can get hold of
them, just for The sake of the names aid adj
dresses they contain ami suggest. Does he
make money? Yoa may infer an answer from
the fact TIA It he paid S390,000 for a country
/ home at Islip. L. L.
| 1T HAS BEEN coAPUTED that between 36, 600 900
and 100000 babies are born in the world each
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