The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| of the late P. T. Barnum, shows himself in New
York occasionally since the death of his dis
tinguished relative He is % years Of age. with
rudy cheeks and hair SO blonde to be almost
white. He is good all-round athlete and
clever yachtsman. Mr. Seeley is a member of
the Manhattan Athletic Club. and when in New
York spends much of his time there. His
| friends regard him as q level headed young
man, and not at all likely to sQuander the
| $1,000 900 and percentage in the profits OF the
circus left to him by the Snowman.
| THERE is busting. dark-whiskered yankee
in New York who knows almost every skipper
| that sails in the port of New York. It is his
business TO know them, for he is an insurance
| agent, and he has such a persuasive and per-
| tinacous manner that few masters of vessels
/ who have ever met him leave him without get.
| ting their lives insured. Perhaps they think
| that they would rather perish in a wreck than
| be talked to death. He says that the rates of
| insurance for the shippers of ocean-crossing
| craft are less than the rates for men on the
| coasters Life on a coaster is attended with
more risks. American shippers are not as care
full as the captains from Nova Scotia and New
| Brunswick. Many of the shippers whose wives
sail with them have double insurance. Capt
| Horace Staples of the clipper Robert L. Belknap
and his wife are insured for $1,000. The rates
| of insurance only a little above those raid
| by folks who work ashore.
A sTATIsTIcALLY INCLINED DRUMMER of St
Louis recently distributed a set of questions
| along his route, and from careful compilation
| OF answers received found that 70 per cent of
customers, IS per cent. of railway conductors
and 80 per cent OF hotel proprietors would join
| MN IN a social glass | have followed up his
line of inquiry, says another, and have arrived
| at The following conclusions: Despite all the
| temptations which our nomadic habits offer
| only go per cent. Of our number indulge in the
lnebriatlng cup, our favorite beverage being
| beer. Ninety-fve per cent. of the fraternity
| use tobacco in some form, and but % per cent.
can play cards. The favorite game is poker,
within Decent limit. OF our merchant friends,
about 20 per cent. invite US to accompany them
to the theater, and per cent. urge us to attend
church. Thirty per cent of our number refuse
| to take orders on Sunday, while IS per cent. of
| our customers interpose no objections to the
| purchase of goods on that day.
DR.. KELLEHER was called upon Tuesday to re-
| move a hairpin from the nostrils of Miss Mar
garet Bayhem, Rhode Island. who has been
visiting friends in this city. few days ago she
placed few hairpins lengthwise in her mouth
whue comolng her hair. She was taken with
fit OF coughing and swallowed one of the pins.
She experienced no trouble until to-day, when
she was seized with another fit of coughing. 1t
resulted in twingeS of pain in a spot between
her eyes When she called upon several physi-
clans and told them of her trouble and pain
| they assured her that it was purely Imagination
on her part. as it was utterly impossible that
she could retain the hairpin in the stomach and
live. AS the pain between her eyes increased,
she went to DR.. Kelleher who discovered the
obstacle in one of the upper passages leading to
the nostrlis. He managed to extract the pin.
but not until a small hole had been punctured
In the young woman's nose near the left eye.
ONE DAY Moltke stopped at boarding school
kept by parson in village near his Silesian
country seat, and sat down to hear the teacher
instruct the scholars-nostly young mobiles pre-
pairing for the army-on the wars of France and
Prussia. The clergyman being called away for
a moment, Moltke asked to be allowed to take
his place. Before long he asked one of tho pu-
pills: Who, do you think, was Napoleons best
generaly" My granduncle your excellency.
Marshal Ney, Prince of the Moskwa," was the
answer. Turning to another boy. he asked:
And who was the bravest of Prussia's generals
Prince Butcher" said he. There was also a de.
scendant of Gen. Zieten among them. When
the clergyman returned, Won Moltke said, with
humorous glance at his own plain civilian
dress, 20, my dear Herr pastor, you should
have told me before that was to find such ia
nous generals represented here" He invited
all the boys to visit him at Kreisau, and gave
them most hospitabls reception.
WHEN the northbound train on the Louisville
division of the Pennsylvania line reached
Columbus, Ind, Monday a small and very frisky
dog was seen TO run down the steps leading
from on5 of the coaches and make itself very
familiar with all who were upon the platform
The train started UP right fast and was leaving
the station when observed by the dog. 1t then
raced after the train. making three attempts TO
get on board, but failed and fell into a COW pit
A half hour later, however, it put in an appear
ance at tbs station, and all day long sat in TIE
door patiently awaiting the arriva of the train
| from the north. A short time before The arrival
| OF the train, which, from appearances, the dog
seemed to know was due. it was seen to trot
away from the door and look in the direction
| the train was coming. When the train pulled
| up to the station the dog entered it before it
had entirely stopped and made it's way through
the coaches until 1t reached the baggage car,
when it was greeted by its owner, James Wage
| ner, and returned with him TO Louisville, KY.
MOST interesting find. which may prove of
historical interest, was made a day or two since
by some well diggers three miles from Chan
ming, Tex, on an eminence overlooking the
Rita Blanco creek. Near a spring they came
across a number OF ancient human bones teeth
etc. protT uding from an exposed limestone
bluff, where, in the distant past, doubtless some
! race of people had their bnrying ground Evil
IDENTIFY at the time of their internent, by what
ever means, this ground was simply a soft, limy
substance, and nearly level, or at least of a
character not easily washed or exposed To-day
IT presents badly broken surface, on one side a
bluff. the whole a hardening limerick hill
and the scattered and innumerable BONE
| form simply part of the rocky hill and can
| be seen and cut out everywhere There are
bones small and large, ribs, jointbones teeth of
sizes which make them inexplicsble. The pet
| rifylng condition Of these bones, except where
they are entirely decayed, and the fact that they
are in no way arranged but scattered precludes
the thought that they could have been placed
there by the Indians unless very remotely. The
entire matter furnishes a puzzle a ike to the
old frontiersrnen and college graduates The
fragments or teeth found are mnch larger, ap-
| parently, than those of horse, though not SO
| heavy and coarse.
| AN ENGLIsHMAN writing from Freemantle
| Western Australia, processes to have discovered
| the reason why that huge colony is not equal at
| least to New South Wales. It is all owing it
| seems to the fact that the dominant class out
| there is composed of well-to-do men who were
themselves 1nvicts, or are sons OF felons sent
to the colony when IL was penal settlement
and who, in reparation for youthful or ancestral
shortcomings, consider IL their duty to be con-
| sentative in politics and backward in business
1t is probable that when the newspapers which
publish the. candid critics story reach Free
mantle in the course of the mail, politics and
| business will alike be merged in wild anarchi-
| cal effort TO identify she writer and minge
| his blood with the sewage which he declares
| abounds in The streets of the town. The meas
| ure of the writer's ualevolence may be taken
| from this delicious description OF the arts
tocracy of Freementle: II buy my tobacco
| from man who on board a ship cooked a
| mates head for dinner that some of the crew
| had cut off. | often have business with mas
| ter mariner, whose crime was rolling a sailor
about up and down deck in a caSk with nails
| driven through, until he died. My meat / obtain
| from wealthy butcher who as also sent out
| for his cou 1try's good touch my hat to
| gentleman as he drives to business in his car
rage and pair, who was here for life for scut-
| Ting ships, thereby losing crews and ships.
celebrated and wealthy pearl merchant and
storekeeper, with whom am well acquainted
came here for forging Russian bank notes."
FEIIcIEN CHAMPsAUR lately wrote a comedy
called "Tilliana - which rlavad tba