The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Berlin and Vienna. which are 400 miles
apart. are now connected by telephone
Francia did not begin painting until
nearly 9 years OF age, and in ten years ex-
ecuted a long series Of admirable works.
In Prague there lives a Jevsss named
Sail Rudolf. who has attained her 10th
year. She is in humble circumstance
The King Of Italy has conferred the
knighthood OF the crown Of Italy on sew
eral members Of the Italian colony at Sa-
loncia- Six OF The new knights are Jews
Stockholm. the capital Of Sweden. has
the largest death rate Of any city in the
world from the use OF alcohol. The num-
Der OF deaths from this cause Is 81 IA l.cJ-
AS a result Of the reforms in the Ital-
fan war Office and army the number of
Officers. OF all grades viii be reduced by
more than 80, while 40 other officers OF
departments will be superannuate ted
Many hundreds Of manuscripts have
been recovered at Pompei They were
charred rolls, but by the exercise Of pa
thence and ingenuity some have been I'M
rolled and read. Nothing Of Importance
has been discovered in their contents.
Manifestations OF the New woman are
multiplying. One Of them stopped 4 man
on the streets of Detroit, pulled a cigar
and asked for hight Up in Maine mus
GUAR woman Is working up paying bus
mess spanking her neighbOrs bad boys al
80 cents spank
Berlin has now its ladies' club. founded
under the patronage Of the Empress Fred
erick and named for her The Victoria"
1t possesses a fine library, a grand piano
and comfortably furnished rooms but nc
Z cuisine meals however hnrnm GFrnrt1iaT
nom a. restaurant next door. Early clos
I ing is the rule, lights being turned out at
10 p. m.
cannon ball fell in garden at Sheer
ness. England, one recently and buried
itself TO a considerable depth Firing was
I going on at the time from heavy guns at
Gram Fort, and the shot Is supposed to
/ have ricocheted from the sea The missile
must have passed over the public recrea-
/ ton ground and within few inches OF
I Photographs studio, in which men were
/ working. No one was injured.
/ Interesting Roman remains have been
! discovered near Cardiff Wales. On one
/ site there are traces of three distinct
+ buildings The first appears to have been
/ q prehistoric habitauOn, the second d
large Roman dwelling and the third a
+ smaller one. The walls are thick and plas-
tered The floors are of concrete and
coarse red tessertae. Coins, tibulae, glass
/ ana earthenware were also found
4 A peripatetic exhibitor of the phono-
graph in Holland is a little too enterpris-
ing. He was exhibiting his machine in. the
streets OF Utrecht and number of Gus
/ toners were listening to the selections of
] tunes. suddenly the music ceased and the
! command Halt was heard in a tone be
/ asked one Of the listeners. That" was
/ the reply lis the voice of Napoleon Bona
4 parte SWING an order al the battle OF Wa
terloo.
In the village of Lubec lives Glen Wal
lis, says the Lewiston CAIe) Journal. When
he was boy about Is years OF age he
/ went out 70 his fathers pasture to catch
/ risky colt. As he was about to place a
! halter around his neck the colt kicked him
! in the head. making a ragged wound The
wound healed, but II soon became appar-
! ent that the man was slightly demented,
4 and his hallucination took peculiar forms
! re Would traVeI up ana down the bay on
! the steamboats,, claiming the proprietor
! snip OF the latter and refusing to pay fare.
! The steamboat men humored him. as he
/ was considered daft, and he was the butt
/ OF the small boys jokes and banter. He
/ has lived in the village since. and is now
/ 90 years OF age. About six weeks ago the
/ local physicians determined to experiment
/ on his case. They found that portion OF
I his skull had been forced into contact
I with the brain by the blow, ana by a skill
4 ful operation removed the pressure.
I Strange 70 say, the man has now recovered
his reason, and the first question he asked
| when he recovered from the operation
NJ
| perfectly sane now, but forty-fve years
OF his life are perfect blank to him.
Ralph Miller of Middlefeld Conn, sup
ports a long, luxuriant beard as the re-
| suit of a compact made thirty years ago
/ with schoolmate They agreed each
/ never TO shave without the consent Of the
/ other. TWO years atterWard Mr.. Miller s
! friend and schoOlmate went west. where
he obtained employment For some time
I the young men correspondent, but finally
oil nnn Fva1r
/ last letter Mr.. Miller ever received from
! him announced that the writer was going
into the mining regions among the Black
! nils, remote from the mail service, ana
/ that possibly he would never write again.
| The letter, which Mr. Miller has now,
closed with pleasant reference to their
/ schoOlboy agreement, and said: Ralph,
don break it Since that time Mr.. Miller S
beard has grown, until now it is nearly
two feet long. Mr.. Miller frequently trims
/ it, but says he shall never shave it off
until he hears from his friend, which he
/ thinks is not at all probable. Mr.. Miller
has never had cold, and attributes it
( 10 the protection afforded by his massive
beard. He is a frequent visitor in Middle
town, where he has many friends, al
! though but few of them know why he al
( lows his beard 10 grow.
Japan now publishes as many newspa-
pers as we do in proportion to it's people.
There are more than POO different journals
/ published in Toxic alone, and Japan is
sues more than 200000,0 900 copies of news
papers year. Every one reads the news
papers, and | have seen jinrikisha men
pull papers out of their pockets and sit
down and read while 1 went in to make a
call. The newspapers pay fairly well, and
they are circulated by neWsboys, who 90
about with bells in their hands, which
they ring as they call out the names of
their journals. Nearly every paper has
had one or more correspondents in Korea,
/ and nearly all of them have had illustra-
tons by their special artists on the
/ ground. Some OF these artists command
very high prices. They have their report
/ ers everywhere, and / was interviewed a
dozen times during my stay in Japan, and
/ ] met number of the editors. The govern
I ment has however, had very rigid cen
sorsfiip of the press during the present
1 war and number of papers have been
/ warned that they would be suspended if
/ they made premature reports. Editors
| are now punished nearly every day, and
the real names of the editors do not ap-
pear in the papers. The names which are
( published as those of the editors repre-
sent poor scrhblers, who are paid from
$40 to $50 month. and who expect to take
the blame if the paper gets into trouble.
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