The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

FRoF. LoRs, the Greek rifle shot, Is attract
| ing much attention by his feat Of shooting a
glass ball from his own head. The trick is per
| formed by shooting at the trigger of a rifle
held IN frame, with the muzzle sighted at a
glass ball dangling by string directly over
the marksman's head.
| DR.. WILHELM BoDEY shows in Germany's
drink statistics that one-ffteen,h OF the cult
vsted land Of that country is occupied in the
| production OF wine. beer and spirits II de-
| voted to food culture, he says this country
would produce rye enough to feed the 81, 200, 900
people of Germany for SIX or seven weeks
A PASSENGER on the steamer Belgium, which
arrived recently from Hong Kong at San Fran
cisco, was Mrs. Hetherington, whose husband
recently shot and killed Cover Robinson at
| Yokohama Mrs. Hetherington was booked
under an assumed name-that of Mrs Whit
| man, 1t is said that Robinson left her ali his
property, about 100000.
IT was Queen Anne-Richard lis Queen
Anne-who introduced trailing gowns into
England nearly 500 years ago. It was the same
| royal lady who first set the fashion of enor-
mously high peaked headgear, from which the
| matinee hat" is no doubt descended; and also
changed the mode Of lady horsema nship from
| the cavalier style to the sidesaddle.
HONEY BEES from somewhere haunt the flow
ers and blossominR trees of New York, espe-
cially the horse chestnuts. The blossoms of
TINS tree have peculiar fascination for bees of
all sorts, and in regions where bees are plentiful
there is a noise as of a swarm about each horse
chestnut. 1t is an old tradition that this horse
chestnut contains an intoxicant which makes
the honey suckers drunk, and causes them to
drop senseless to the ground where they be-
come the prey of ants.
THE gunboat Castins which has Just been
launched at Bath, Me-, takes its name from a
town on the Penobscot river lust below Bangor
named after the Baron de Castine, who settled
French colony there in 1867, which was soon
abandoned in consequence of the English and
Indian wars. In 1850 1t was reoccupied by the
English, who made a harbor that was always
| accessible to the largest vessels. 1t is now a
port of entry, and shipbuildng and fishing are
the employment Of the greater portion of the
| people.
EVERY YEAR a novel flower show is held in
Philadelphia under the patronage of the Ger
mantown Horticultural Society The exhibits
are confined to wild flowers picked in the sub
urbs OF philadelphia. It is said that there are
| 200 species within the county limits, and in
order to encourge the local study of botany, the
society mentioned offers prizes for the best col
| lactlons of the flowers. That the specimens are
common enough may be judged from the fact
that 100 have been gathered by party of
amateur botanists in the course of day.
ut has been hard work" says a New York
Recorder gosspress. for these two plainly
brought up Philadelphia girls who married the
| Aston men, to live up to their wealth Miss
| Paul, now Mrs. William Waldorf Aston, has a
| fancy for rare Jewels which helps her lords and
master out little, but on the other hand she
! won't buy any fine clothes, ami has an old fash
| Toned idea that she ought to take care Of her
| own children. Mrs. Jack Aston does not care
| much for iewelry, b 1t does for fine raiment
AS yet her family is not large enough to cause
| any anxiety about nurses"
| The discovery of killing bacllH keeps a long
way in advance OF the discovery of methods or
means for bacli killing Berlin cable dis
| patch to the New York sun makes the follow
| ing announcement: The American phvslcian
| Doleris and the Frenchman before have long
maintained the existence of epilepsy bacllli,
| and DR.. Gerdes first assistant in the PATHOLOGY
| cal Institute OF Halle University, now announces
| that ne has discovered vast numbers of these
bacllli in the liver kidneys and blood of persons
| VINO nave died OF epilepsy. He has exDeri-
mented with the bacilli on mice and rats and
has found it to have invariably deadly eject
JOHN JACOB Aston is not in very good health.
and he is not likely to do very much with his
enormous property exceptro LEI it accum ulate.
just as his father did. Not even the LAWYERS car
tell what the amount OF estate which he has
come into will be- 1t is not far however from
S7OOOOOOO, and even figuring the net income at
per cent. that would give him q yearly income
OF 50 100000. Unless he changes his manner of
lie greatly, young Jack Aston will spend each
year less than one tenth part Of this so that IL
is pretty safe to figure that II he lives to the
age OF his father, and the property is carefully
little son considerably over 800, 000 0Oo
HENRY Aston who was left out of William
Astor's will was a son of the father of the tes
tator, who had dropped out Of sight because
his family considered that he married beneath
his station" He lives at Red Hook Duchess
county, New York, on the ineome.of comfortI
BILE fortune left to him by his father William
BackhoIse Aston. His kinfolks have nracti
cally ostraciSed him for years. SIEGE he married
a woman in a more humble station of life
This stringent provision is thought by some to
smack OF illegality, but none of the ATTORNEYS
who drew the will think think there is ANYTHING
workable IN 1t. Henry Aston seems to be con-
tent with his modest fortune and there ia no
probability that he will institute a contest
He, like Mrs. Drayton, would have only the
statutory ground of lncapaeity and undue in
fuenoe, neither of which could probably be
maintained.
MosT AMERICANS who have heard the rattle
snake rattle will recognize the truth of the d.
scription given by writer in the April Quar-
terLy ReUtelo that it is like the sound which
would be produced by the rafting of a number
of pease in paper bag, comments the New Yorr
Times. This represents the slightness of the
sound. We are accustomed to pictorial renre
sensations in which the reptile is made To iooLr
very angry and energetic, the tail erect in a
manner to suggest loud Rlarum. Accordingly
when one hears it for the first time one is sTr
prised to find the noise so slight The sound
instead of being rattle, is rather tinkIe and
than the notion of the shaking of pease in a ma.
per bag would represent. But. slight as the
sound Is, the person who has never met one of
these reptiles before. and who without seeino
the snake, hears. for the first time amons
mountain rocks or prairie grass its delicate ver
wonderfully distinct warning, knows insrantIv
who and what his neighbor is