The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FARMER BARTNEss was seized with an ambi-
ton recently to get on the police force Of
| Springfield. Ill. Some friends, for a joke,
orougnt him before bogus board. which put
tedious and ridiculous. He was then sent home
70 await his commission. but the letter that he
longed for never came. The story leaked out,
greatly to the farmers discontinue He brought
suit against the iokers for 5000 damages, and
was awarded SIS and costs
TINS YEAR, for the first time, the Japanese
army has gone through series of maneuvers.
The troops engaged numbered 20. 900 men, and
were divided into two opposing forces. The
general idea was an advances IN two columns on
Iokio. and We are told that the general in chief
command made some adverse comments on the
manner in which the cavalry was unanswered.
Inc peace strength of the japanese army is
5000 men, and if, as Lord Wolseley says, the
ChlneSe Is the coming race, IL may. perhaps. be
as wei TO take into consideration the japanese
as possible military factor.gr
The QUEEN OF ITALY wore costume of ex-
traordinary magniicance at the recent opening
Of the Italian parliament, which was also most
becoming to her style OF beauty. The dress
over which was thrown short velvet mantle Of
signify darker shade. The bonnet was OF for
get-me-not blue velvet. covered with gold lace
ana adorned with plume OF pale blue feathers,
fastened with an Immense pearl diamond clasp
Inc queen also wore earrings of pearls. dia-
monds and such ropes of pearls in three rows
as would have enchanted Lothian.
LARGE QUANTITIES OF d61p are every year
used for ornamental purposes in the manufact-
ure of plate and iewelry The Weather
country grows the greater the demand for
these articles OF adornment, and until more
gold Is imported the less there remains for
monetary purposes as bullion or coin. Some
years ago. says The Gentlemen's Magazine Mr..
Cflffen estimated that, in England alone. ESQ.,
900 900 worth of gold existed in the shape of
plate, Jewelry and ornaments, and about one
half of the total production of silver is said to
be used in arts and manufactures The amount
OF gold In England for monetary purposes the
same high authority estimated at f60, 100000.
WHILE a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
freight train was running from Burlington re-
centlNthe engineer noticed an eagle sitting on
the track feasting on a rabbit. The eagle arose
when the engine drew near. but the locomotive
was running so rapidly that the big bird could
not clear it. One of the wings tapped into the
wedge shaped space formed by the headlight
bracket and the extension at the front end of
the boiler, and was held there as in q wise. The
fireman went foreward and released the wing,
and carried the eagle into the cab where it
showed fight and made things lively for the en-
gineer, who finally cornered it, and brought it
here alive. 1t is now. the property of r. W.
Colville, master mechanic of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy, and is an unusually fine
specimen
AN ODD PRANK was played on one of the fash
ionable young bridegrooms Of the week In Balti-
more. says the New York World He is North
Charles street swell, noted for his fasidiousness
end observance OF the properties. After the
ceremony at the church the ushers gathered all
the white ribbons together, and, in a spirit OF
fun, strapped up the br1degroom's trunk with
it while he was donning his travelling suit. AS
eight or ten blocks of broad ribbon had been
employed in the church, the trunk was COM
pletely covered, presenting exactly the effect
Of white satin-incased chest Across the
front one man wrote G. Q. d. in red chalk.
he aanfnK hri1
his destination the next day and INQUIRED for
his trunk this beribboned affair was gravely de-
hvered to him.
SHE was plump woman, says the Boston
Courier, and it would not have been a violent
stretching of the truth to call her a corpulent
one. With the faulty which sometimes sezes
upon her sex in the way of deciding to wear the
most conspicuous stuffs, she had selected as the
material of her gown a brocade such as of old
was used by the uphosterer. She was covered
with figures so large that, had she been smaller,
not so much as single one could have been
crowded upon her; yet which she displayed as
fully as a conscientious sign-board could have
done. There were those in the company who
were not restrained by the loftiness of her So
ciai position from remarking upon her striking
appearance, and as she sailed across the room
one OF these persons said to her neighbors: "Do
look at Mrs x. isn't she astonishing tonight"
Eyes" was the reply; she looks exactly hike
an escaped sofa"
THE EXISTENCE of silver in volcanic ashes is
of rare occurrence. Only in two cases have
argentiferous ashes been met with The first
sample was obtained during an eruption of
Sotopax In July. 1885, In the ashes Of which
Mr. j, w. Malet proved the existence Of one
part OF silver in SO, 900 parts of ashes. In the
following year the same investigator was able
to add another instance In January, 1885, a
violent eruption of Tunguragua, in the Andes Of
Ecuador, between fifty and fifty five miles from
Cotopsxi, took place, the eruption continuing
at longer or shorter intervals up to November
of the same year The ashes thrown up by this
volcano, which had been at rest for over a
century. contained silver to the extent of one
part In 105 200 parts OF ashes This appears at
first sight, to be only very small percentage
OF the metal But, when it is considered what
enormous quantities of ashes are erupted, and
what a vast extent of area they cover after an
eruption the quantity of the silver thrown up
with them must be considerable.
JOHN W. BeoKwALrER OF Ohio, who spends
more Of his time in New York than at the loca-
tion OF his agricultural implement works in
Springfield, has been guest for several months
at the Hotel Brunswick He predicts that more
money VIII be made In the next ten years by
Investment in lands that are fitted for raising
corn than in any other direction. Said he: II
have been Watching the corn product as it re-
lates to consumption. We demand more corn
every year than the production will supply.
The deficiency in the supply is growing greater
every Eear. You viii never see corn
below Accents bushel again In this country
Now, that means that corn land is going to Be
valuable have recently sold large tract of
corn LAM, which have held for twelve years.
1t was tie poorest of all my land investments.
IL brought me just twenty-one times what /
paid for II: have been buying land for in
vesument for years. l began fourteen wears
ago l figured up the other day that could
sell all M holdings and average over sixteen
times whit paid for the various properties.
That tellsVhat there is in land purchases
GoLDR-HAIRED boy lay dead on a cot in
Harlem hopital New York. The child was
little Patsy Mccarthy, the 2-year-old son of
Patrick and Nary Mccarthy of No. 439 East One
Hundred anoTwenty first street. On Tuesday
morning Mrs Mccarthy left Patsy and his
4year-old sissr Nellie in the kitchen after
giving them aslate and pencil to amuse them
selves with hen Nellie went into the parIor
and Patsy vas left alone. He became
lonesome, an ran into the room where
his mother WIS, still holding the slate pen
Gil in his cfrbby little hand. He tripped
on the threshold of the room. and
fell with heat-rending scream of agony On
picking him ul his mother was Mortified to see
the pencil st1aking out Of his eye 1t was 80 |
tightly wedgedin the socket that Mrs MctIarthv
could not reroye it. She hurried to a dr1Io
| store at Pleasant avenue and One Hundred ana |
Twenty first sreet, where the pencil was re- |
the Harlem Shspital which Is only a SQUARE
away. 1t was discovered that the pencil had |
entered the eYabove the ball and reached the |
brain, The odd died at 1910 o'clock on Wednes- |
day night.
AN ExoEEDIGLy NIcR matronly looking lady.
in whose facaeamed Affection and kindly good |