The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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! DURING seven months of last year more than
200 buildings were struck by lightning in Eng
| land, including 81 churches and ohapels, ia
| residences, p farm houses and ricks and 0
| hotels and public houses. During the same
| time IS men and women were killed by this
cause, besides 90 cattle, IS horses and 1853
| sheep.
| A REMARKABLE DIAMOND has been recently
found the Koffeyfontein Diamond Mining
| Company's ground in Australia which appears
| to be Of such value that even competent judges
| hesitate to name price commensurate with
| its worth 1t is said to be Of beautiful shade
of pink, entirely devoid of spot or blemish, and
to weigh 1915 carats.
BERLIN CORRESPONDENT, who prides him.
self upon writing in English, has offered to
| supply the Philadelphia Ledger with news of
| the German capital, AS he pointedly remarks
| There may on be regularly continued par
| ticular report of facts enable to always pre-
| cisely keep informed of whatever happens
actually as well as to preGestine the coming
| times and states"
A BANGOR woMAN's PET DOG died recently,
and the woman, after copious tears, gave the
cur an elaborate funeral A casket was made
and lined with silk. On a shrouded table in q
| darkened room, and banked with dollhouse flow
ers, the carcass, with crossed paws, was laid in
| state. Then the family and all the sympathetic
and curious women of the neighborhood filed
| in for a last look at Towser. The casket was
borne TO LDe EdrQen, ana JQer6, under J1e nlaCS,
8 worth of black walnut silk and flowers, and
| so cents worth Original value) OF dog were
| laid away.
| A MIRACULOUS CURE ls alleged to have been
performed on the 6year- old daughter Of Patrick
Morgan of West Bethlehem, Pa. by Rev. Father
Adams OF Brooklyn, n. Y. The girl has been
! suffering from a disabled hip all her life. Doz-
ems Of doctors have been consulted, but none
| could cure her Her parents heard of cures
accredited to Father Adams and took the child
/ to him. The girl made three visits TO the priest
| and she is now completely relieved of her
| trouble. Father Adams used only articles which
| are relics from the Holy Land in effecting the
| cure. He rubbed them on the affected part of
the body.
THE following appears as an Advertisement in
an En- lish church paper: Coming Prophetic
| Events according to Daniel and Revelation,
/ during next Years before End of this Age in
| Passover Week, April II, 1901 The Greatest
| War ever known. in 1S92-Change of % King
| doms into Ten in Earthquakes, Famines,
| Pestilence-A Napoleon TO be a Hellenic King
in 1898, before his Years Covenant las Syrian
/ King with the Jews on April q. lS94-Their
| Sacrifices Restored, November g, 1894 Daniel
| vii, "a; viii, IA tx, 21-Ascension of IA 90
| Living Christians TO heaven without Dying on
l March s. 1S96-EGpOeO is Massacre of Tens of
/ Thous an1s o Christians during ,260 Days from
| August Il, 1881, to January 70, l90l-Christ' s
! Descent on Earth and Commencement of Mil
| lenniUm in Passover Week, April 1901.
! NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that it has been
the fashion in London to sneer and laugh at the
parvenu vulgarity of the millionaire Australian
| squatter, Sir Samuel Wilson, N. p, yet he is
| gradually working his way into society by
| marrying off his children to members of the
! oldest aristoCracy. His eldest son became the
| husband a short time ago, of the youngest
| sister of the Duke of Marlborough and Lord
| Randolph Churchill Her name is Lady Sarah
1 Spencer Churchill, and since her marriage her
| husband has excited widespread ridicule by
| prefxing the name of Spencer Churchill to his
| 10 CtNylac Mr.
| Churchill Wilson for the purpose OF letting
| everybody know that he is not a mere ordinary
| Wilson, but the rich Australian wilson, who is
married to the late Duke Of Iarlborough's
| daughter
| The WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRICAL COMPANY is
stated to have signed a contract with the San
Antonio Light and Power Company of Southern
| California for transmitting nearly / 900 cleo
! trical horsepower distance of from is to 80
miles. The power plantwill be located in San
| Antonio CAY on. where water power can be OBJ
| tanned under a head of 425 feet with minimum
| flow of 800 cubic feet per minute To develop
| this power a rock tunnel 1900 feet long and
steel pipe about 900 feet long will be required.
| Peton wheels will be used at the generating
station, which will be coupled direct to alter
| nate current dynamos. By means of trans
| formers the potential will be raised to 1000
| volts, and the current at this pressure will be
conveyed over bare harddrawn copper wires to
| Pomona a distance of Is miles, and to San
| Bernardino, 80 miles away.
STEPS have been taken for a meeting in May
of representatives of all the American college
fraternaties to perfect plans for collective ex-
| hibt by these influential organizations in the
liberal arts building at the world fair, Chicago
! The traternities, with q membership of about
150 O0) graduates from the leading colleges, in
| Guiding many of the most eminent men in all
| professions, contemplate spending nearly 500
zoo in disp' aging their valuable historical col
lections and the varied products OF their UNIQUE
| system. These organizations have taken part
| in No former exhibition hnf ASS bou
! been given that space will be afforded, and some
| of the Oldest and best known have already
signifed their intention to paeticipate, probably
| in competition. As a result of the undergradu-
! ate rivalry there is no doubt that the exhibit
! will be a center of attraction for visiting col
| legsns. 1t is possible that most OF the fra
| ternities will hold conventions in Chicago during
| the fair and proposition has been made that
! panhellenic council of all the organizations be
held under the auspices of the worlds congress
| auxiliary. These and other matters will be
discussed by the committee at its meeting in
! May Among the large college fraternities are:
Alpha Delta Phi, Beta Theta Pl, Delta Kappa
| Epsilon. Delta Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta, Phi
| Kappa Psi, Psi Epsilon and Sigma Chi.
ACCORDING to Fanny Ward the women of
Chile have a curious little game of cha nee
which is played by putting a small piece of raw
beef on a sheet Of fY-paper and watching the
feas attack it. The player at the side of the
| beef first reached by a flea wins the money.
| Minister Schuyler observed practice similar
| TO Jnls among Lne DaLlVes OF IurkeStan, the
| difference beng that the players there made
use of humps of sugar and waited for the flies to
| alight on them. An imaum, learned in the law,
| told Mr.. Schuyler that this gambling game
still affected by New Orleans negroes,
| was of very ancient origin. Perhaps
| the Vedic worshipers used TO sprinkle
| the succuent CHI on the ground
aud watch the flies allight on it, Clearly there
| is nothing new under the sun. And speaking
| of the antiquity of things, Dr. Phene, IN q re-
| cent lecture before the British society for the
Encouragement of the fine arts, proved con-
clusively, as it seemed, that the legends OF
| King Arthur and the Round-Table Knights, in.
stead of being peculiar properly of Western
Europe, are really mere transcript from
| part of the voluminous old sHindoo poem, the
"Maha- bhsrata-" The likeness is not striking
| that some Of Tennysou's Arthurian poetry. as
read by DR.. Phene along with extracts from
| the Indian epic, seemed nothing more than 0
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