The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Domestic servants from Germany are
obtaining each day a greater footing in
London.
Miss Ruth Cutler of New York recent
ly cleared a high jump bar at five feet
four inches.
The Presbyterian church of England
is celebrating this year the jubilee of it's
China mission.
lightning struck the wire fence of ].
r. Rooms at Limerick Square, Pa, and
shattered twentynine posts.
"A typical mining boom has been start
ed at Yuma, Ariz and the town is crazy
over several reported discoveries OF gold
ore.
Switzerland has as many as 557 saw
ings banks, in which 1868 persons. or
more than a third of the total popula ton,
are depositors.
"A chameleon from the Cape of Good
Hope taken to England, was seen to turn
white with fear, having been saved from
the attacks Of a cat.
"A single bee, with all it's industry, en-
ergy and the innumerable journeys it has
to perform will not collect much more
than a teaspoonful of honey in single
season.
The award of $4,000 in premiums Of
fered by the Tennessee Stock Breeders
Association for live stock raised in that
state, and shown at the Nashville centen-
NAL, has been doubled
The Rochester and Buafflo papers say
that a trial of the improved Myers ballot
machine in Lockport the other day prov
~ 1Nfa l1n
being announced one minute after the
polls closed.
While praying in church at Tirzah, S.
c.. on a recent Sunday, Jonah Crosby, col
ored. found a big pistol in his hip pocket
uncomfortable. In removing IL the weapon
was discharged, wounding him seriously
and causing a stampede of the congrega-
ton.
"A resident of Lewiston, Me, refuses to
pay tax on his bicycle, saying it is worn
out and useless. He demands to know of
the assessors whether they could tax
man for dead horse. If not, he wishes TO
know why he should pay for a dead bicy-
Gle with punctured wheel
A dispatch to a London paper states
that Admiral Harris, being fond of snipe
shooting. started out for a days sport
in Crete After bagging several birds ne
was disturbed by some insurgents who
promptly fired upon him. The admiral es-
capped with slight injury.
An effort is being made, and the Grand
Army of the Republic is reported to be
deeply interested IN it, says the New York
Times to have a bronze tablet bearing a
copy of President Lincoln address at Get
tysburg placed in every college, high
school and grammar school in the United
States.
"A Tennessee man who had not seen
his wife since the war met her accidentally
in Texas. when he learned that she had
mourned him as dead and married again,
and was now a widow. The former hus-
band quickly proposed, was accepted, and
his second marriage ceremony with his
own wife was then performed.
A Chicago jury discovered the other
day, when it retired to make up its YER
dict. that one of its number did not I'M
derstand a word of English. However, he
had made up his mind that the accused
men were guilty of the robbery charged,
and as the eleven men thought likewise
they brought in a verdict to that effect.
Chicago's motto: - Will was well chos-
en- no obstacle seems to great for chi
cagoan to surmount.
The successful utilization of Niagara's
gigantic power has led engineers in all
parts of the world to endeavor to similar
ly harness others of natures great dyna-
mos In Egypt, Prof. Forbes, the cleo
trician has been examining the cata-
racts of the Nile, and finds that they can
provide sufficient power to pump the river
water over the adjacent fields and even
to supply motive power for running fac
tories at a distance.
Many years ago, in the days of her
radiant beauty, the Empress Elizabeth
of Austria sat for her portrait to
Schrotzberg a fashionable Vienese artist,
says the Philadelphia Record. The pic
ture was painted a the request of the
empress royal cousin, Ludwig II of Ba
varia and was destined to grace the walls
of his gallery of beautiful women in Mu-
Mich. The artist, says Munseys Maya
zine, recognized the importance Of his
commission, and gave to the canvas all
the skill of his genius which in the mat
ter of color had no equal in Germany The
robe of the empress was of imperial pur-
Pile of so marvellous a tint and so wonder
fully painted that 1t dimmed even the
charm of the sovereign lady's matchless
beauty Artists tried in vain to initiate
it, pens to describe IT,, and in time it came
to be known as the historical lilac" In
the ball rooms of Vienna a tint bearing
the name of Kaiserilla is in vogue, which
is as near the shade of the purple in
which Schrotzberg clothed his beautiful
empress as looms and pigment can make
it. In this country lilac has long been
considered a color for middle-aged wo-
men. but now young girls are taking a
great fancy to 1t. and the coming summer,
we are told will see it a reigning tint.
Max Nardou may be right in the theory
that devotion TO violet is one of the surest
signs of degeneracy, but the stylish wo-
man of to-day would much prefer to be
called degenerate" than ''unstylish'
That story about an airship will not
down, though the airship itself occasion
ally does. II there is any confidence to
be placed in the evidence Of witnesses
whose trustworthiness on other subjects
would not be doubted The New Orleans
Picayune has been interviewing Rabbi a.
Yevy Of Beaumont. Tex. and quotes him
as declaring, with all the solemnty min
isterial and unimpeachable character will
give, that he has himself seen the sky boat
close at hand and has conversed with It's
passengers. The vessel alighted. the rabbi
SAYS on farm near his home one night