The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

+ FREDERICK Nd. is trying 70 raise SlO.co 10
build monument over the grave of Francis .
Key in Mount Olivet cemetery.
BIG PILE of money goes through the hands
of the controller of the city of New York. For
the quarter ended June 20 he received over
Sl7.UO0G0O, inc uding balance OF Sl.6OOOO
from the previous quarter. and spent it all but
/ ebouL S300O,0OO.
SEVERAL newly hatched chickens $50 the
story goesJ were recently found in bale of hay
1 at Belfast Me The owner of the bale thinks
{ that the eggs we're; probably pressed into the
hay wBen it was green, and were hatched by
] the heat generated.
TIE deepest mine in the world is at St Andre
du Poirier, France and it yearly produces 3O0,
/ 600 tons of coal The mine is worked with two
shafts, one 2 952 feet def p and the other 3OS3:
and the latter shaft is nor being deepened. and
VIII soon Ioucl the 400 DOT level. A remarka-
/ bic feature is the comparative low temperatu Q
/ experienced, which seldom rises above 75o fahr
enLeit
! DR.. REUBEN SAMUELs. husband of the mother
of Frank and Jesse James, is one of the best
| housekeepers in Missouri. He can cook. bake
wash and iron, and employs his time mostly in
/ the perform a ice of domestic duties. He always
gets the breakfast aud supper and Mrs. Samuels
prepares clnner. There is not cleaner house
| IN Missouri than the Samuels residence. A per-
son could eat off the floors.
SOME San Salvador troops are described as
follows: "a few wore sandals, but the most of
them were barefooted. They had huge straw
| hats with red bands on them. Most of them
| wore overall suits trimmed with red braid;
others were dressed n oas-you-pleaSe fashion,
with all manner of uniforms Rvery mau in the
company had big revolver strapped around
his waist: Some OF them carried rifles and
| muSkeuS.n -.1 t-.
NOVEL USE Of the electric light is made on
the St. Lawrence river near the Thousand
1 TEIo -
placed at the end OF a yarGarm on the s. 9 amer
81. Lawrence, which has a dynamo ABOARD.
The light stands in front of powerful reflector,
and as the boat steams about at night among
the islands the search-lighr is cast upon them,
revealing, with startling distinctne g. their
beauty and the beauty of the landscape.
ANTONIO MosTo, ex-colonel, who recently died
at Genoa, fought with Garibaldi in Lombardy
in 1848-49, and afterward studied military
| science with Carlo Psacane. When condemned
to death IN 1857 he fed to London with MaZzini.
In IooO ne was active in organizing the eXpe-
| ditlon OF the Thousand, in which he took part.
| IN 1866 he was in the Tyrol, and in 1867 he was
wounded in the leg at Monterotondo. His fam
| lily were distinguished for patriotism. and his
| brother Carlo lost his life at Volturno, when
| fighting under Garibaldi.
Mr.. ARoNsoN made some inquiry among the
Paris music dealers to ascertain approximately
| the number of scores of Councils Faust that
| bad been sold since the opera was written. He
| found tn { an average of 400 vocal scores have
been sold yearly since the first eight years. Be
| fore that the average was even greater. The
| entire number of such scores sol reaches 300,-
| 600 AS the price of each score is So it will be
seen that the return from this score alone is
| nearly million dollars And yet Gounod sold
| Faust thirty years ago for $4,000.
MOUNT SIR DONALD, in the Canadian rockies
| has at last been assembled. The successful
| climbers were Messrs. Huber and Suzer. both
| Swiss, and members of an Alpine club. They
| accomplished their climb in seven hours from
| their camp, half way up the mountain side.
| Both state that the governments estimate of
| this peaks hight is too small by sixty feet. A
| full report, together with photographs, will be
| made for Surveyor General Devile. They re-
! port the ascent to the top OF Sir Donald as more
| difficult than any they have ever made at home,
| not excepting the Jungfrau.
| THE PRINCESS LOUISE, who for the past ten
| years has presided over an art school in Sloane
| street. London West, is the first English woman
| to employ Irish needlewomen. She saw fit to
| procure that talent on account of its superior
| qualifications, and in a sweet and diplomatic
| way grouped the sewers together for class in
| struction or to fill orders 1t will be remem-
| bered that from this school of needle painting
nearly all of the now famous schools originated.
| The princess received her scholastic education
| from her father. and aside from her intellectual
attainmants she is gifted as artist, sculptures
and art designer
AN Episcopal CLERGYMAN of Indiana tells
this as true story: Recently one of the promi-
nent members OF his parish died. After the
| funeral the widow found great comfort in tell
| ing her neighbors about the many virtues of
| her late husband, even mentioning that he
took the greatest delight in playing cards
an innocent pastime She must have been
| thinking of him as he appeared in his Gus
| tomary attitude, - for she said: Jacob looked
so well when they opened the coffin at the
| church He hal not changed one particle.
| There was, 0, such a heavenly expression on
| looked though a held
| kings"
UNCLE" ANDY LEVI, aged 70 years, died at
the county poor farm in Sedalia, Mo. recently
| He was born in Baltimore, and, at the age of 10
| years was apprentced to the owner OF a circus
| to learn the business. He followed it constantly
| for fifty five years. and was the first bareback
rider in the United States to win national repu-
| taton. before Jim Robinson was ever heard Of
] Uncle Levi was the lifelong friend of old John
| Robinson and Dan Rice, both of whom he
travelled with for years. and he severed his con-
nection with the latter for trip through Eu-
| rope and Central and South America. Twenty
| four years ago Uncle Levi gave up circus life
and went tc Missouri, where he made his home
with farmer named Bohon, who died few
| years ago. Since that time the old man has
been cared for by friends but a short time ago
| he went to the county farm, where he died.
| THERE died last week in San Francisco an old
| man who, a generation ago, was known in New
York as Turkey Levy" His name was Aaron
| Levy, and in ante pellum times he kept a sa-
| loon on Chatham street near Baxter The great
attraction of Levy's place was big cage on a
raised platform, in which were confined three
| solemn turkeys. An old chap, with a cracked
| violin, would begin to play tune and the tur-
keys would dance first with slow and stately
| measure, gradually becoming more animated
as the fiddler fidded faster, and eventually end
| ing with ludicrously wild and frenzied mot on,
which created intense surprise and amusement
| Old Levy kept his secret until one night a party
of inquistive toughs upset the cage, and found
underneath charcoal furnace. The bottom of
the cage was of metal, and when the old man
| fiddled he kept time with his foot. This put a
bellows in operation the fire burned bright, the
! metal began to get hot and the turkeys bean
to dance. Turkey Levy" has never had sue
| ceSSor. ----I
! THE FOLLOWING RECORD of ocean racers for
nine years shows how the voyage to Europe has
been shortened since the rivalry between the
! great steamship companies began:
| 100, Days Hrs. Min.
| May lSS2-Alaska (Guon)..... ~ 4 10
| June i882-Alaska {Guion'. .7 20
| May 1Se3-Aaska (Guion). .......7 % AZ