The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

aplentiful supply of water during the low
Nile.
Detroit city ordinance requires street rail
ways to sell eight passage tickets for % cents
on the cars during certain hours for the bene-
| fit OF workingmen.
High art souvenir stockings will be on dis
play at the worlds fair in all the glory and
resplendence OF the designer and the color
caldron, says Godeys Magazine. For the
Chicago girl there is a special pattern, with
black FOOT, embroidered in violet with the APP
propriate motto Worlds Fair of 1898 at the
top Of the instep. The upper part is yellow,
DECORATED with a bright red sun and Hail
Columbia in violet letters.
This newspaper man had a tough job on
hand. The story is from Fort Dodge of Iowa:
"A bevy Of pretty girls are on strike at
charles City, They were employed as com
positors ON the Advocate, a local paper. A
short time ago the proprietor noticed that
some of the girls set very little type on sew
erai mornings in the week, and upon inveSti-
gatlon, discovered that the girls had been en-
pertaining masculine company until late
hour on the previous evening. The result was
peremptory order that every girl IN his EN-
ploy should go to bed at 9:30 every evening.
Inc girls refused to obey, and every one of
them walked ont The publisher is now
running on a short force and is vainly seeking
to compromise with the strikers on 10;3O
O'Clock as an hour forretiring."
The endeavors made to discover the c. use
along the line, SAYS the English Mechanic
for at the Pathological Society of London
the other day Dr. f. Klein read a paper on
"Ant-Choleraic Vaccination" in which he
stated that the views of Hadkine and others
as TO the specific action of a cholera bacillus
could not be maintained. DIR. Klein stated
that his researches showed that "a protection
produced by atirst injection of the intra-cel
lular poison against second injection of an
otherwise fatal dose of the intra- cellular poi
son was not protection against the specific
toxlneS as matter of fact, guinea pigs pro
tecteo against the 1ntra-cellular poison of the
cholera bacfl1 succumbed after intra-perito-
neal injection of the toXlneS produced by the
cholera bacilli in gelatine cultures" The
SUBJECT is obviously very difficult one; but
at present the net result is very much las you
were That, however, should not discourage
investigators; there must be some cause for
cholera as for other diseases. and the cause dis
covered, the remedy may be found
A visitor at the world S fair. whose name is
legion, is the English sparrow, and he has be-
come such an intolerable nuisance that the
authorities have determined to destroy him.
The SparrowS have built nests up among the
orders and IN many hooks and cranniee of
the big buildings, and sally in thousands from
their retreats to forage among the food ex-
hihits and pick up the crumbs that fall from
the restaurant tables Their holiness aston
ishes even the Chicagoans, who admire au-
dacity. Director of Works Burnham says:
The invasion is fast assuming proportions
that make it imperative that something be
done at once to drive the predatory bands
from the White city" Capt Bonfield chief
OF the Columbian secret service, was
asked to devise some plan of
getting rid of the sparrows, probably
on the theory that as they were incorrigible
thieves the police should look after them.
The captain had a consultation with DIR. Hill
mantle of the medical bureau, who suggested
that corn meal into which the germs of chick
en- cholera had been introduced would he the
death of all the sparrows. But as the birds
might live long enough to carry the disease
into chicken yards in the neighborhood of the
grounds, and as the doctor could not promise
that the little pests would not occasionally
fall dead on the very tables of the Jackson
Park restaurants this plan was abandoned.
scientist were still conspiring to exterminate
the unwelcome visitors, and both agreed that
the undertaking was no easy one,
The two strongest men in the world are
giving exhibitions of their herculean power,
the one in the extreme northern and the other
in the extreme southern part of Germany,
says the San Francisco Examiner The
famous Carl Abs lifts an elephant in Ham
burg, while Hans Steyrer surprises the Ba-
varians with his marvellous feats. 1t is enron
eouS to suppose that these muscular giants
owe their success to inherent strength only.
On the contrary, it is a fact that in this
branch OF athletics the most patient and
scientific training is the primary require
ment. Pugilists, wrestlers and acrobats con-
cede that without practice they can never at
tain the muscular development of which they
are Capa ole. -ln6Y aim at q uniform exercise
of all their muscles, while men like Abs and
Steyrer contine themselves to the gradual
strengthening of arms and hands only. which
enables them to handle with apparent ease
the heaviest weight, and affords them great
dexterity in their performances with iron
balls, dumb bells, rods, etc. In the lift
ing of enormous weights, however, the whole
body is employed but only certain parts such
as shoulders and hips, receive special
treatment and drill. For long time the feat
of lifting a horse was regarded as the greatest
h fnrra i, g1Tr,o
has broken the record by Ohstructing with his
body the centripetal force which keeps large
sized elephant on his feet In order to pre-
vent accident to man and beast many precau-
lions must be taken before the performance.
The behomoth does not relish the swinging
act, so that ii is necessary to strap him so
that he is hors de combat in midair and Abs
must be out of reach of the elephant trunk I
which is liable to seriously interfere with the
fun Bans Steyrer also enjoys an interna-
tional reputation, and is known as the Her
cules OF Bavaria. He is an innkeeper on the
Tegernseeland strasse in Closing and only
amuSeS his guests and the villagers with his
feats. He Is the greatest expert in the world
in finger lifting He thinks nothing of sus-
pending compound weights on his index finger
His most wonderful exhibition is the holding.
horizontally, Of heavy iron bar on which his
son Is engaged in gymnastic exercises.
Seventy-two years ago, says the Brooklyn
Eagle, when Brooklyn was a very small
town, Cornelius Bergen who has long heen
carved his initials on its back. In 1857 his
son, Garrett Bergen, encountered the
creature, and added to its decoration by
carving q. B. upon its shell. He let il 60 and
never saw it again. The old Bergen estate
after being in the possession of that family
for over 200 years was sold to Percy G. Will
Jams and Thomas Adams, Jr., of this city
few weeks ago They found themselves in
possession of 800 acres of land on Jamaica
bay, also with the possibility of bulkheadinp
the land under water clear out to the channel
and retaining 100 acres more They began
Immediately to lay ii out in city lots, with
the expectation of selling il to men who
would buy house and lot and live on the
place. Bergen Island has, accordingly. had
more people running over ii in the last ten
days than in many previous years of it's his. !
tory. There was good deal of grubbinp and |
leveling and cleaning up to. be done The
owners cut Island avenue through and cleared |
out the woods. The latter operation brought !
the old turtle to light again He Law under |
an old stump, near large Georgia pine The |
two sets of initials were plainly carved and |
members of the Bergen family who have seen
him have no matter of doubt as to his identity
He was found last Saturday and taken to the |
officers of the owners of the property He has |
been there ever since and has nothing |
to eat it being the general inn |
preston among his captors that he |
does not need and does not want to eat
Garrett Bergen, who has seen the turtle
believes it to be at least 100 years of age. II |
is eight inches long and six inches broad The |
color is dark green on the back, with brown .
markings. The apertures of the shell through Il
which the head. tail and claws Worl, are |