The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


IT Is SAID in Paris that twice as many crimes
are committed by persons between the ages of
IS and 20 as by those between 20 and 40.
THE government in Basic. Switzerland, offers
the inhabitants of that city the choice between
being cremated and being buried when they die.
A PROFESSOR in the Lemberg Polytechnic
Academy processes to have discovered a success
ful method of photographing by electro-mag-
| netism.
THE results of the recent expedition to Green
land prove that north OF 20 the land is covered
with a shset of ice 5000 to 6.OOOfeet thick over
/ the valleys.
THE London general postofice was saved
$4,000 last year in the sick-leave account by
| the substitution of electricity for other means
| OF lghtngits buildings.
A STUDY of the sea bottom, currents, temper
ature and life of the Adriatic sea shows that
there is a vast growth of marine alge at the
great depth of :, 600 meters.
WHEN Ward McAIster first came into promi-
nence before the general public. as the result of
his own famous remark about society bemg
| limited to 400, he Stunned reporters, says the
New York sun. aad rarely allowed himself to
| be interviewed. At that time he was a very
hard man to get at, aud only occasionally
| glimpses of him could be obtained by the re
| porter Since the centennial ball, however,
Mr.. McAlllster seems TO have become smitten
with a liking for reporters, and he is no longer
| the frieid being that he once was. What is
more, he watches the newspapers closely. and
cuts out all the references to himself, which he
paStes in scrap books kept for that purpose.
The number of illusions to him and interviews
with him that have been printed since he lifted
| the veil of eXcluslveness surrounding him must
| be very large. since he has now three scrap
books full, or very near to it.
MRS E. T. wooD of 1902 Nineteenth street,
Washington, D. c., retired at an early hour last
| evening. She sleeps in folding bed, and Mon
day night she let the bed down and then stepped
in, but she touched a spring she didn't know
anything about and the bed partially CLOSED.
She was caught and couldn't eStrlcate herself,
but her lungs were good, and though there was
no one else in the house to hear her cries. they
| reached the street, and the ears of Officers
Cramer and O'Rourke. They rushed to the
| house, but the door was locked. They hesitated
but another piercing shrek decided them, and
| they put their broad shoulders to the door with
all the force they could bring to bear 1t
| yielded and they rushed to the rescue of beauty
| in distress. They succeeded in untangling
| t. g lady from the bed a doctor was sent for,
and her injuries, which were slight, attended to.
TIE senior class of Yale University, New
Haven, gathered on the steps of Osborne hall
Thursday afternoon to have a group photo
| graph taken, as is the custom Pach the pho
| tographer. after half an hours hard labor, got
| the 100 men arranged so that the face of each
| showed plainly. just as he was about to say
| Ready" Andy B. Graves, '92 S. appeared on
| the opposite side of the street, leading his i'm
| mense English bulldog Some one in the crowd
yelled Seek him, Fido!" and the dog, tearing
from his masters control, rushed across the
| street, growing and swapping. The students
| scattered in all directions. leaving hats, pipes
and books lying in confusion about the steps.
| Somo of them retreated to Durfee hail and
| others sought refuge in the New Haven house,
| 1t was only by beng literally carried from the
steps of the hall by MIR Graves that the dog
| could be taken from the scene of its victory
| The dog is a famous one and was exhibited at
| the show in New York.
The earliest coins for American use are said
to have been made OF brass, on the Bermuda
Islands, about 1912 Capt. John Smith ap-
pointed Daniel Tucker IS governor of Bermuda
| aud in his story states at this governor en-
forced labor, and that he ColouiSts had besides
| meat, drinr, and clothes, a certain kinde of
| brasse money, with hOgge on one size, in
| memory of the alb ludanca OF hoSgeS was found
| a their first laudng." Previous to this time
| Sir Thomas Gates anu a party Of 30 had been
| wrecked the islHnds and for nine months
| they subsisted chiefly on the flesh of " Id hogs.
| The gratitude of these people knew no bounds,
and they stamped the image of their benefactor
| IN b. ass and used 1t as mOney-tle most en-
| daaring form it could possibly assume. From
first to last the hog has been a faitnf friend to
the American people, and whatever Rstheticism
| might have been urged to the contrary, it was
but si~Iple justice to allow the hog the honor Of
| taking the lead in furnishing the device for
| American coins.
ONE DAY LAST WEEK deer was captured Ia
| Diamond Valley, Pa, by a gentleman named
| Brumoaugh, says the Huntington Journal.
| Coming upon the deer standing quietly in the
| woods, MIR Brumbaugh made his way tow ard
| IL, but instead of running away, as he supposed
| it would, the ami al lowered it's head and
| went for Mr. Brumbaugh Selling it by the
| horn-for it had only one, the other having
| been broken off-he had but little trouble capt.
| urlng it. After securing it, it was taken TO
| Barree and turned loose in a stable where it
| died in a day or two. Through mere curiosity
hO1I TDal ,Do,,y
| animal, and were astonished at being unable to
| find the least sign Of a liver The deer did not
| appear to be sick when captured, but it was
| evidently suffering from disease, else it would
| not have submitted to capture without an effort
| to mako its escape. We have often heard it
| said Ct men that they had no heart, but this
is the first instance that we ever heard of a deer
| without liver.
| A PROSPEROUS FARMER recently entered q
| jewelry store in Bay City, Mich and asked il
the repairs on his watch, which he had left
there short time before, were completed
| The proprietor said the watch was ready and
! delivered it with the remark: Next time don't
use quite so much kerosene" The man looked
| surprised and embarrassed, but managed to
| say; II guess won't oil it any more at all. It
| costs too much" He paid his bill and de-
! parted After he had gone reporter asked if
| the man had actually put kerosene oil into his
| watch. Certainly he did, said the jew eler
| and he is not the only one who does it. We
| have cases of timilar kind every few weeks,
| anu People VINO one would tblnk know better
| are generally the ones WHO commit such folly
| suppose little kerosene would not do a watch
| much harm, but when it is poured in something
| happens and we are called upon to remedy the
| difficulty. | suppose | should not complain for
| it is good thing for us, but it is strange how
foolish some people are"
In EASTERN ARIZONA, along the hot burning
trails says the Kansas City Star, one often sees
a long billed, long-tailed specimen of bird racing
on in front. Generally there are two of them
They are garrulous and communicative, and as
| they hurry they gossip with each other in
Jerky, strident tones which give the impression
| OF inferior brain power. These are road run
ners, and stuffed specimen with wings up-
| raised and mouth half open can be seen in the
| window of q local gun store. They earn their
| name by thus running for hours along the trail
| in front of your pony. They have no air of fear
but keep your company in iaunty, confident
| way, as if they knew it delighted you The road
runners are in feud with ratrlesnakes a feud
which. handed own long lines of truculent road
runners, has its first roots in the robbery of
the family nest by the raJtlesnakes in
the Garden of Eden. These goas-you
| please birds go ABOUT conspiring the
overthrow of the raitlesnakes. They have
formulated a simple, easy plan, which Ii
worthy roai runners posS full knowledge OF
and 1t never fails. They find rattleSnake en-
| Joylng his slesta; no hard matter, as he sleeps
most of the time. On disco terng him the
| feathered assassins become very silent They
60 about with hushed and cautious steps With