The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

to the United States IS 225 boxes of lemons
on the same date in 1897 there were 1850
boxes, and in 1896 the uumber was 1920
An Interesting test has just been made
by French woman. With a view 70 lest
ing the sustaining powers of chocolate,
she lived on that alone for sixty days, and
lost but fifteen pounds in the interval
A hair of the beard of the Prophet Mo
manned has been presented to the Con-
stantnople poor house by lady of that
! city. A great procession of state officials
and military accompanied the relic when
| the transfer was made.
Japan, with a population of 100000,
has go towns that have more than 100000
inhabitants. In 1886 the number of such
towns was III. Osaka has increased from
! $780, 600 to $4,000 inhabitants in ten years
Yokohama from 50 600 to 1900 Kobe from
$1,000 to 1855, 900. Toxic now has a population
of 1900 900.
1t is said that if the Canadian author
tiles oblige the power company to develop
power on that side of the fails, and there
| is no cali for it there it viii be cabled
across to this side. As this form of energy
has been declared to be raw material it
can be brought to the United States free
| of duty.
Count Michele Stefano de Rossi, who
died recently at Roca di Papa practically
made seisnology a science by his obser-
vations and work on earthquakes and the
instruments ne made to measure them. He
was brother of the late Giambattista de
Rossi, the greatest authority of the CEN
fury on Christian antiquities.
king Charles of Roumanias Rem
brandt, Esther, Haman and Abasuerus,"
lent to the coronation exhibition at Am
sterdam, had a nail driven through ii by
the carelessness of the hangers. An at
tempt has been made TO repair it, and the
sum of 81, 500 has been sent to the King to
compensate him for the damage done
Mrs. Ann Smith, of Worcester. Eng,
40 years of age, has spent over 100 years
of her life in travelling from fair to fair
in a van. She has had 16 children, and one
of her daughters now 80 years of age, has
also had 16. Mrs. Smith eats four meals a
day, drinks sparingly of intoXicants
smokes clay pipe steadily, and attends to
all her household duties herself.
The Vermont legislature has passed a
bill creating the Office of attorney general
of that state Vermont has now
no attorney general and the plan
r | 10 SStdDliSH the Office udu It's Origin IN
Connecticut, where, for the first time this
year, an attorney general was voted for
New Hampshire has an attorney general
who gets a larger salary than is paid to
the Governor
An English defaulting bank manager,
! who had eluded the police for three years
, by staying in a seaside Village near Ply
mouth has been discovered by a strange
r accident. While strolling on the beach
, with a young woman watching the war
ships a sailor on board a cruiser, who
= happened to come from the town whence
the defaulter absconded, looked through a
: telescope, recognized him and informed
the police.
Following on the Michigan wreck
comes another strange disaster on the
! Cornish coast. The cargo steamer Blue
jacket, bound from Plymouth to Cardiff.
on clear night ran into the Longshps
lighthouse at Lands End. The ship first
struck the rock on which the light house
stands, and was then pushed directly I'M
n der it. While waiting for the lifeboats to
S come to their assistance, the sailors con-
@ versed with the lightkeepers above them
+, The motive power department of a
railway keeps an accurate double-entry
= account with every locomotive and every
q car, so that the manager or master me-
l., chanic can tell in an instant how much
G it has cost to maintain and repair it, how
. many miles it has Travelled and how MANY
= cars or tons it has hauled. A similar ac-
+ count is kept with every freight and pas.
senger car. The Pullman company fol
example, can tell you any morning the ex.
act earnings of every sleeper or parlor cal
q in service, how much each cost originally
- and how much has been expended in
| nj ma N ton
IS "A rather odd case of death by poison has
/ occurred at Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan
says the Springfield Republican. Arnold
"a Premi, an artist. feeling bilious. allowed
;, friend to go to a doctor report his symp.
y toms, and get a prescription. This frient
! was Jose Cassani, also an artist anC
"A boarding in the apartment of Premi INT
a doctor was A. Fanoni The prescription
> was filed at Watlings drug store in Uni
Nersity place. Premi took the first dos,
with his coffee at IL Sunday morning an(
was to have taken the second three hours
later, But he never took the second. II,
le lay down on the bed to read the SUNDAY
l. papers; soon began to show agony and hi
lie wife was so alarmed that. against his will
lie she called a policeman, who sent hurry
t. call to Bellevue Hospital. When the phy
e sician arrived he had Premi taken to tn
lie hospital, where he died twenty minute
lie after his arrival. The bottle of medicn
~ and the written prescription are in tn
IN hands of the police; the prescription is
proper one for indigestion; it appears Ger
u tain that it was correctly filled by tw
t. clerks, one acting as check on the other
according to the system of the store; tn
D. bottle was sealed when it was delivere,
ID TO Cassani. So far the circumstances ar
IS clear. There are obvious suspicious bu
in the present state of the case it is goo
Of one for Sherlock Holmes.
" In speaking of famous poisons in thi
column some days ago, says the Phila
dephia Press, there was one which, TO
lg two reasons, should not have been omit
he ted. This poison was famous-and il wa
70 a woman. Al least SO says the delight
- full old "Gesta Romauorum." She wa
the daughter of the Queen of the North
and her mother conceived a considera bl
hatred against Alexander the Great
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