The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ steam oats.
Emperor William is well grounded in elias
steal and current French and is great reader
OF French poets
William Black the novelist is of such nerv-
Gus temperament that he lays down his pen
at the slightest sound.
| Lord Wolseley, the greatest OF living En-
glish soldiers, is below medium hight and
slender and 1.-THE of frame.
The late William B. Astor's personal estate
in Great Britain has been returned with an
Official valuation of 81, $4,000.
Reginald De Koven's brother formerly kept
a model dairy in Florence, Italy which has
! been continued since his death. He was very
! stylish and could be seen every afternoon in
! the doorway or window of the English-speal5-
! ing club
More than S2500O0 was contributed several
! years ago for a monument to Bismarck, but
the committee having the matter in charge
| has made no move toward beginning the work.
| The ex-chancellor is said to be much offended
at the delay.
telegraph operator at Sedro, Wash, who
has grown very tired of answering foolish
questions, has posted the following, written
! on typewriter, just outside his office win
! dow: 'NOtice-Yes, your message will go at
! once 1t will be sent Immediately. In fact.
| we send all messages as soon as we can. We
| know You wish your telegram sent at once,
otherwise you would write. Special Notice
The Supreme Being only can inform you when
/ you will receive reply
! Queen Victoria fondness for. domestic pets
| is indicated by the fact that in the grounds of
! the royal dairy there are two monuments
! erected by her majestys orders to the mem
| DRY Of two dogs which she once held dear
| One of these canine faVorites was a dachshund
named Boy, which departed life in 1852: the
! other Scottish terrier, Boz, once the prop
! erty Of the Duchess of Kent, and afterward
the queens favorite. Her majesty is nova
days especially interested in collies.-
The late Daniel Drew of New York is re-
puted to have been the originator of that
familiar phrase used in the financial world
! stock watering He is said to have fed the
cattle he had for sale with liberal doses of
salt, thereby creating a thirst which was
gratitied only by CopiOus draughts of water.
that helped to increase the weight of the
beasts when they were sold, And it was in
the Erie road that Mr.. Drew proved his abil-
ity to reproduce the tricks of a cattle dealer
III railway management.
A new explosive called maximite was given
a test at Harlem, N. Y, the other day The
inventor claims that one ounce of his exDlo
sivo is equal in force to sixteen ounces of
ordinary gunpowder and that ten ounces of il
/ equal sixteen ounces of dynamite. 1t will not
| freeze. does not easily ignite and is almost
entirely smOkclcSs. The experiments made
with il the other day are said to justify the
! inventors utmost claims. II was used in
! blasting rocks and the force OF the explosion
/ was so intense that the stone at the lotion of
| tho blast shivercd into fragments. 1t is
said that the noise of the blast was much less
than when ordinary explosives are used.
Mrs. Jack Gardner of Boston, the we'll
| known social leader, has a wonderful store. of
| jewels Her marvellous string of pcarls is
| famous and this season she has a string of
diamonds still more superb and unique It is
| said to be nearly a yard long. and she usually
wears II twisted a out her throat once or
] fSyipa no Inr, in
! she wears ii thus. says writer she twirlS
! ana losses it in apparent Inconsistencies as
she talks. until the shining string which she
! handles as unCOnCernedlY as If it were rib
! on me rely becomes fascinating. Is il any
| wOIdcr asked man waite hing her the other
evening, that her conversation is brilliant?'"
1t is not often that the bull in the Spanish
bull fights is anything more than helpless
victim, but sometimes his turn comes Itdid
| last week in n performance at Madrid A new
toreador was in the arena taking the place of
the famous FraSCuelO. Through some care
| leSSneSs or 1neXpertneSs he failed to kill the
| bull at the proper moment and the infuri-
| ated beast drove its horn deep into his side
and gored and dragged him about the ring
| for some time before the attendants could
| rescue him. But even this bloody SIGHT did
not interfere with the sport. The wounded
almost lifeless, tOreador was carried away
| SaWduSt was Sprinkled on the spots of blood
| another bull was brought in, and the fun went
on quite as though nothing out of the way had
happened.
A Chinese war junk, disguised as a mer-
| chairman, recently captured pirate that has
for some time been making the China sea the
| scene of its bloody operations = he capture
! was only effected after a bloody fight in which
| the war vessel lost twenty-five out of forty
/ fighting men, and only eleven of the tifty.two
pirates we're taken alive. 1t was found that
among the pirates were thirteen Buddhist
| monks, who fought side by side with them
/ and were the most desperate men in the lot
| These monks very probably are the same
| band that made a raid upon the nunnery near
! Tingpai in December last and who carried
away the youngest and prettiest of the vo-
! tarieS found in the establishment, binding
| and gagging the ugly ones in a cruel manner
! and throwing them under the great altar
where the poor creatures were found two DAYS
! afterward by some devotees, nearly famished
| to death.
London Nature contains report of recent
! hail cyclone" in Australia. A Narrabri cor
respondent says: About O'Clock D. m. the
storm broke over the homestead in all it's
fury; the wind was from the southwest and of
| terrific force. and the rain and hail were verv
! severe. The hailstoneS were as large as hens
! eggs and in some Of the paddocks, one par
/ ticularly it pounded the heritage completely
out, 80 that not vestige of it was left al
though before the storm came on 1t was from
six to twelve inches high; and in other places
strong variegated thiStleS. three to four feet
| high, were beaten down. Trees some two
! feet thick, that the wind could not tear IN nv
the roots. were snapped of short as If made
! of matchwoOd. In the storm the hail killed
! birds innumerable, and even domestic fowls
roOsting on the trees were killed by it, and after
/ the storm large snake was found cut into two
| pieces by the hail, So at least, ii appeared
| On the open plain the hail lay four to six
| inches deep and the whole country looked as
| If heavy snowstorm had passed over IT,
/ Trees in the track Of the hail were completely
! denuded Of leaves, and the bark knocked of
! tree trunks and limbs. The storm wind car
/ ried away outstations, unroofed the hay shed
! damaged the wood shed and carried away two
! sides OF the house veranda and the sheets of
/ iron from IL were found nearly half a mile
| thirty chains) away To the northeast Round
| wall plates in the hay shed, six to eight
/ inches thick, were broken TO pieces and the
! iron roofing on all the buildings was battered
/ by the hail as II some one had pounded il
/ with hammer all over. The storm track
/ was only a mile TO "a mile and % half wide at
/ least the hail part. Between and p. m. as
| the storm came up, there seemed 10 be a
| white bow In tho sky like a white rainbow.
/ stretching from north 20 south. / have seen
| heavy storms before but never wish 10 see
another like this. The shoarers were com
] plctcly terrihed.