The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FoR AGE after age the Jews are accused Of
being inordinately fond Of money and extraor-
| dinarily expert in getting it. The accusation
| is unjust, in the view of the JeIcish TidinOs
which says: THE modern Jew has no more
regard for money than has the modern Chris
| ti9n."
B1sNARCK's JOURNEY to Vienna a few days
ago triumphant march, although he
| claimed to be an old man retired from public
| life. More than 10000 people met him at the
| railroad depot in Dresden and FOLLOWED him to
| his hotel. where he was compelled to show him.
| self twenty times on the balcony The crowd
! sang How Could Forget Thee and the man
or blood and iron tried to reply, but was pre-.
vented by his emotion.
WHEN two French soldiers have a quarrel
they are compelled to fight it out but it is the
| duty Of the regimenta fencing master to see
that they do not seriously hurt each each other
Fatal results ara rare. but one has Just occurred
at the Duplex barracks. sergeant of the
| Twenty-seven dragons had quarrel with a
! comrade, and in the duel which ensued re-
| ceived thrust in the breast which perforated
| the lung. He soon expired in the military
| hospital.
| IN CONNECTION with an announcement of the
| birth of a child to the Countess of Dudley, the
GqidgnGni Messenger recalls the following in.
| cldent connected with the birth of its father
| the present earl. An old friend of the family
| called at the town residence in Park lane to
learn the news. as 1t boyf" he asked the
D..
quoth Jeames. What, it 1t a girI;" mo. sir"
| The old friend became much interested BLESS
me, then, what is it?" The fiunky proudly re-
| sponded; Its heir"
Mr.. McDERMoTr of Columbus, Ind, has a
game cock which is cock Of the walk" and lord
| OF the barnyard. For long time the honors of
the yard have been divided between him and an
Attorney bull. Recently the bull took excep-
lions to the forwardness of the cock and at
tackled him. but in a very few minutes the bull
was minus an eye, and retreated in great disor-
der About one year ago this same cock in ons
Gay Killed seven geese, which had attacked him
IN gang, eeYen turkeys and three boosters
singly. When the owner beheld tho havoc he
threw the cook Into pen with an old SOW con-
demned for chicken eating. But within ten
seconds he had knocked both her eyes out and
was on the pen Growing Justify.
THEfuneral OF James H. Stevenson of Phila-
delpha who died in that city two days ago, was
| rendered unique by the fact that the deceased
veteran was borne to his last resting place by
! his six stalward sons. detachment from
Post 2, Grand Army Of the Republic. had APP
piled for the privilege OF acting pail bearers
| but they yielded their claims in favor of Mr.
| Stevenson's children. The six sons were Harry
| Winfield Stevenson, James Lincoln Stevenson,
Walter Newhal Stevenson, Oliver Knowles
| Stevenson, Horace Bnney Stevenson and
Abraham Custer Stevenson. Mr.. Stevenson,
who was an old cavalry officer, used to cali
these his six sabers," and 10 was by his ex-
pressed wish that the young men carried his
body to the grave
A "sLAsHER" has lately appeared IN Toxic.
Late japanese newspapers tell of the intense
alarm created in that city through the op-
| erations OF a man who steals upon women at
nightfall and inflicts knife wounds upon their
races, apparently with no object Whatever but
| the qualification of sheer malice All the eff
| forts of the police to trace the slasher have
been unavailinR. He generally chooses girls OF
| about the same age, proof that he goes to work
with elaboration, and apparently with some set
idea. The accounts given by the girls whom
he has attacked are identical in every case.
There is no warning, the man displays no
weapon, nor is there any motion as though to
stab or strike. man comes up to them sud
denly to within arms length and then draws
the palm of bis hand across their face, and a
wound Of considerable depth and length is in
| tttcted. 1t would seem that a small blade ia
fastened inside his fingers to be effective in
| whatever direction his hand is passed. A num-
| Der of such outrages were committed in the
heart Of the city early last month and girls and
women are afraid to venture out after nightfall
| unless under ample escort.
ONE of the most remarkable Of the new yachts
| says the New York Journal, is owned by H.
Maitland Kersey, who is the agent in this coun-
| try Of one of the big European steamship lines
This little boat is name FL Chico ami is one of
| the productions OF the Herreshoffs. She is what
| is called a lin-keel boat. She is rugged Just as
the, 25raters were last year. carrying her jib
| and mainsail. The peculiar part of this boat is
| her hull, which might be described as b ing like
| half watermelon. This hull draws but few
lncheS or water, but the boat is kept from cap
| sizing by fin made of tobin bronze and at the
! bottom of this lin is piece OF lead weighing
two tons This fin is hung well forward in the
| boat. right under the mast At the stern is an
other fin, much smaller, and to this is fastened
| the rudder. The boat is "a feet 11M inches on
the water line and she races in the 25-toot class
| She is built of mahogany, and as she works to
| windward in a race she looks as pretty as any
boat IN the harbor. The Ell Chico is a racing
machine pure and simple. There is no accom-
| mediation board and she is a most uncon-
Portable boat to sit In, but she is fast aud that
| is all Mr.. Kersey wanted
SOME remarkable things are happening In
Presbyterian Scotland, the land of the Covsn-
| anters. At the latest monthly meeting of the
school board at Leith motion "that In future
prayers at statutory meetings of this board be
| dispensed with" was carried. The only dis
| senting votes were those of the mover and the
men are members of the board. One lay MEM
| Der said the prayers of the ministers were "a
mere piece or form and mere fraud" Another
| said that Scotchmen seemed to be ashamed OF
praying. The debate showed that the vote In
dicated not so much the advance Of irrelieious
sentiments as the tenacity of bigotry One
clergyman said that ia the boarl we're clergy
men of different denominations, and he did not
| think it proper and desirable for one member
to offer prayers in the board meetings that
another member, being OF another denonina.
| ton, could not IN conscience join in The
clergyman referred to tried TO keep out of the
way until prayers were over" Another rev
erend member spoke to the same effect He
| could not profess to Join in supplications nv
members of other denominations 40 he voted
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