The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

|
Twenty-frst Lancers. who made the
| charge at Omdurman. the designation of
| the Empress OF India's'' Lancers. They
are known unofiicially as the 'Dumpties "
Two crocodiles in a circus at Bayeux,
| France, got into a fight, in which the hind
/ leg of one Of the beasts was badly LAGER
ated. A veterinary surgeon was called in,
| who amputated the leg successfully, the
! crocodile being as lively as ever.
| President Faure's daily mail is said to
/ contain on the average 200 letters. of
/ which go are begging letters. $50 petitions
| on political matters. 100 petitions from
| criminals. 100 complaints against officials,
| 50 anonymous insults, ana 20 threats OF
! death.
in the archives of the Due de Ia TIE
mouille have been found the minute books
Of the Sorbonne, the ecclesiastical court
from 1865 TO 1888, the period of the strong
est struggle against Professionalism in
| France. They are now in the Paris Ma
tional Library.
1t is a curious fact that exactly as
many boys as girls were born in London
| during the week before last-1S48 of each.
| making 1856 births in all. Such "tie"
is a rare occurrence. There was, however.
| a similar equality in the second week in
May 1894, when ,167 of each sex were
| born.
"A license for stage plays, granted to
| the Cripplegate Institute, is the first such
permission ever given by the lord cham
/ ber,ain's Office to a place within the limits
/ of the city of London. The old City of
! London theater stood outside the bounda-
\ ries, while in Shakespeare's time the lord
! chamberlain had nothing 10 do with the
theaters
-"Cyrano de Bergerac," at the 246th
performance at the Porte Saint-Martin
theater, broke all records for Paris the
| ater receipts, having brought in 100000
| france. For the same length of time
! Michael Strogoff." in 1SSO-S1. drew 1,94S,-
056 francs to the Chateiet. while Round
the World in Eighty Days" at the Porte
! Saint-Martin, in 1S74-75, brought in ,636, 300
| francs.
! -Attinshausen, a village in The Swiss
canton of Ur as one of the homes of Will
liam Tell tries to keep up its reputation
| for shooting straight Out of 500 fnhaDi-
| tants 1874, men and women are skilled rifle
shots. The first prize in the last Schuet-
zenfest was carried off by a 15-year-old
/ girl. Her father, seven brothers and three
sisters all Shot the family taking zine
prizes
-Archduchess Maria Antonia the for
mer Grand Duchess of Tuscany, who died
recently at the age of 81 years. was twice
/ driven out of her dominion, in 1S49 and
! 1859. She was the mother of the lost Arch-
/ duke John Salvador, who, as Capt. John
Orth, disappeared with his vessel some
years ago. She was never convinced of
his death, but kept his room and belong
] ,1rr f,,. h
Obituary notices seldom touch on the
shortcomings of deceased persons, and for
this reason the item from the Pleasanton
! (Kan), Observer of which the following
is an extract, is rather unique. His
! greatest fault was the extravagant use Of
profanity L was almost impossible with
him 60 engage in any sort of conversation
with man, woman or child without using
il. He no doubt often swore unconscious
w."
Professor Grassrs discovery that the
Roman malaria is spread by a particular
species of gnats has been verified in a
curious manner at the Santo Spirito Hos
ptal ar Rome. All attempts TO commu-
| nicate the disease to animals had failed,
! when patient in the hospital volunteered
to have the experiment tried on himself.
| He was exposed to the gnats, developed
/ The fever, his blood showing malaria ba-
| Gill. and was then treated with qunine
| The doctors think that they are now in
| way 20 discover a serum that will render
people immune to the malaria.
Experiments to reproduce dead mems
features from their skulls are being made
in Germany The method pursued is that
proposed by the late Prof His, of Leip-
zig 10 reconstruct the face of John Sc
! Univ rEft Of xrav
the skulls of criminals who have been
| executed are used. Casts of these will be
| taken in plaster and given 10 different per-
| sons to treat according 10 the rules laid
down. The results viii then be compared
with one another and with photographs of
the original offerers of the skulls, taken
| either before or after death
A school has been adjudged to be a
nuisance by Mr. Justice Romer, of the
English Chancery Court. school master
! took a house at Tunbridge Wells on the
| assurance that there was nothing to pre-
vent its being used as a school. He after
| ward discovered in his lease a covenant
that no trade\or business should be carried
on in the house which would cause any
noise injurious or disturbing to the neigh
bors, and asked to be released. Justice
! ROmer directed the resembling of the lease,
as there was no doubt that an action
against the school as nuisance would
! succeed.
Those perfervid Scotsmen who are
sticking for other words in place of
English" and England" when "Britons"
and Great Britain are meant, are re-
buked by the Scots Picturial this week.
says the Paris Messenger. The late Bish-
op of Wakefield gave great offense by
| speaking of 'Englands flag" in his ia
nous jubilee hymn last year. But it was
not until the publication, a few days ago.
| of the memoir of Bishop How by his son
| Frederick that the extent of Scottish an
| noyance was known. The bishop had, of
course, no thought of paining any one, and
! he promptly published a letter expressive
! of his regret. But in spite of his letter,
! eXasperated Scotsmen continued to send
! him abusive letters and postcards. Most
| of these were anonymous-a fact which
! our contemporary points out Is not very
| creditable to the patriots who wrote them