The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A LONDON lady is in search of an owner for a
silver thimble which she declares she found i'm
bedded in the center of q ham which she was
slicing. She would also like to have some ex
PLANTATION as to how the thinble got there.
OF TEE Z. ZOO counties in the states and terri
tories the Methodist Episcopal church is repre-
sented in ell save 5s5. 1t has Is. s61 orRaniza.
tons, with 22,S44 churches. with a seating ca.
pacty of 6,802 70S and an aggregate valuation
of 500, 92s, 40s.
FULLY 100000 men, 1t is believed. will par
ticipate in the parade on the occasion of the
dedication of the worlds fair buildings in Octo
Der. Such is the estimate of Secretary Culp Of
the committee having the preparations for the
ceremonies in charge. The militiamen and
regulars who Will participate will number 10, 900
Col. MCCLURE is not at all egotistical Re
ferring to McKnley's refusal to meet him In
joint debate. he says: "It isn't Mcclure that he
fears, it is the face-to-face presentation of the
so-called protected industries of Philadelphia,
staggering under the crushing load of needless
taxes on the necessarles of business and of life.
that torbids the discussion. That's all"
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAsAKER enter
tanned his Bible class in Bethany Presbyterian
church, Philadelphia, or, st least $50 members
of it, at his country seat. Lindenhurst, last
Monday. A special train bore his guests TO and
from the place. dinner was served on the
lawn and orchestral and vocal music was pro.
vided. Mr.. Wenamaker's fine dairy was an OBJ.
ject of special interest to most Of the visitors,
A FEW Philadelphians are allowing them.
selves to grow uneasy about Lieut. PeAry
and MS wife, because the cryolite traders, who
usually come from Ivigtut twice a year. are
now a little overdue. This. il is thought means
that the CIR enland Ice pack has hindered nav
igation; and If so, the relief steamer Kite may
not have got up to Whale Sound as promptly as
was hoped, if ind led, she has reached her des-
tination at all
THE bark Auchmountaln, lying at anchor in
the Firth of Clyde off Greenock, with twenty
tons OF gunpowder on board, ble,g up last
Saturday morning with an explosion that was
heard at Glasgow, twenty-five miles away, and
shattered all the windows within five miles, and
nobody on board the vessel was killed some
of the crew were badly burned and most OF
them were thrown into the water, but none Of
them we're lost.
The New York World notes the honorable
conduct of George P. Sheldon. president of the
Phoenix Insurance Company of Brooklyn who
gave the militamen in his employ double pay
for the time that they were absent from their
posts during military duty at Buffalo This is
in marked contrast TO the conduct OF several
other business concerns in New York and Brook
Ign, who discharged such of their employees as
were absent for the same cause
JOHN HOWARD and his wife OF San Francisco,
who we're walking on wager from that city to
Chicago, reached the latter place on Aug 81
with fifteen days to spare. They were both
thin, Howard having lost forty pounds and his
wife twenty-five on the trip. Between them
they pushed a wheelbarFow containing 100
pounds Of camping outfit the whole way. s. zoo
miles A check for the amount of the wager,
$4,000, was handed to Howard on their arrival
UNDER the head OF Five O'clock Tea" the
CHICAGO Journal remarks that visitors at
Richfeld SDrinz find that drive from Marble
heal 10 Salem con tunes bat little time, and
o7e ay ii d ans number of intereGting things -
The no WCDte that ha
geography Of Chicago, but when he gets ia
Iii 'hhe Springs he doesn't know exactly
where he is at: 1t would be a nice little drive
Indeed. from Richfeld Springs N. Y. TO Mar
behead, Mass.
TIE days of Sound reading and illegibly
sorawled Geographic messages are numbered
IL is reported that a ma hiue has recently beer
invented, a sort of combination of the ''ticker'
and the typewriter which delivers its MESA re
in the form Of a printed page eight inches
wide. The instrument is automatic in its actor
and is entirely under the control of the one
rator at the dispatching end ANY one car
| operate 1t who can handle typewriter, and
| speed or forty words minute over o 200 mile
| circuit is said to have been reached.
THE late Daniel Dougherty, who had seer
Napoleon III. in the days of the empire. called
| upon the fallen monarch at Chiselhursa IN 1872
| Another Philadelphia, Morton McMichael
| was with him and the ex- Empress EuRenie as.
sisted IN receiving the visitors. They stayed
aud, in accordance with the usage at roya
! courts. the signal was given them which termi-
mated their stay. Pulling dainty watch from
| her giTdle the .ex-empress said: 'Gentlemen
you have just ten minutes to catch your train. '
REPRESENTATIVE W. O. P. BREcK1NR1peE Of
Kentucky has decided TO give up his house ir
Washington and make Lexington his home
! again as far as possible. This Is result of his
| wifes recent death and in accordance with his
daughters wishes. Mrs. Breckenridge was
afectionate, a partner In all her husband's
recreatlons, even 20 his fishing, and most help
| ful III his public life His speeches underwent
severe and beneficial criticisms from her before
| they were delivered, and she conducted most OF
| his correspondence, answering many of his let
tiers without even consulting him.
THE Procession of the Centuries" show At the
dedication of the worlds fair is to be dispensed
with, though it is said that the cancellation n,
| the contracts for it has cost good deal III
money. 1t is expected that there will be AT
least $780, 900 people in Jackson park at the oman
| ing exercise, and the president Of the board
says that the water pageant is given up chiefly
| because the safety of visitors is considerad
volved in the display of the floats 1--WE could
not afford to take any chances Of accidents 10
visitors, no matter how good the prospect of
making money by the display might be, " said
Mr.. Higginbotham.
SOME one has revived this incident in the mar
liamentary career OF the late DR.. Magee. arch.
bishop of York. In debate regarding vfvi.
section. he took the ground that IL was defensi.
BILE, especially when chloroform was used, be-
cause many human lives were saved by the
knowledge Of anatomy thus secured For this
argument he was roundly, even fie-cely abused
and one anti-vivisectionist went so far as 10
write the archbishop, when ths latter was s,If-
fering from an illness that was painful and
liable to end fatally: Thank God you are now
suffering some of the torments to which Won
would have devoted dumb animals, and you will
shortly, with Gods mercy, suffer still greater
Ones"