The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

slNe rumors than any other paper IN the
country"
Since the opening of the free employ
ment bureaus in Chicago six weeks ago
$3.50 persons have applied for employ
ment, and of this number work for 1892
has been secured. During the same time
sos people have endeavored TO employ
labor through the offices. and 3.O76 of the
applications have been filled.
Officials of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit Company say they have been robbed
OF nearly $4,000 in the last six weeks by
the new conductors who have taken the
place of the strikers of last July. The
new men are said to have been knocking
down" fares industriously, but the leak
age has a last been stopped.
Over 100000 pounds of poultry and
nearly 100000 dozen of eggs, produced
in Missouri, were handled by transporta-
ton companies last year. the aggregate
cash returns for which were S, 29S, go. The
gross value of the shipments exceeded the
value of the combined shipments of wheat,
corn, oats and hay, and the combined
value of the shipment of lumber. logs,
cross ties, piling, cooperage and cordwood.
An authority states that there are 979
savings banks in the United States having
depositors to the number of 5,3S5.OO0 and
total deposits amounting to $2065. OC0. 900
Great Britain's savings banks have on de-
posit 7S0OOOO00, Frances 1862. 100000 Rus
sias l9S000,000. Italy's $4,000 600. Thus it
is seen that the savings banks of the Unit
ed States exceed the combined deposits of
Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy
by 1856 100000.
Two Belgian Roman Catholic priests
recently decided to visit some friends in
England. But being diligent students of
the English press they conceived the idea
that TO pass through any part of England
during these antiritualistic days would be
perilous to life and limb. They therefore
disguised themselves as laymen, with
straw hats and light check tweed suits,
and in this garb presented themselves to
their astonished hosts.
Hans Lawther, a wealthy resident of
Fulton, No. has been made the defendant
in a remarkable lawsuit. Several years
ago Lawther took Miss Ethel Lynch from
an orphans school under the conditions
that she should be educated and brought
up as one of the family. The young wo-
man now alleges that instead of comply
ing with his agreement he gave her such
a limited education that she can only Sc
cure work as servant. Because of this
she asks g, 400 as wages and $500 dam
ages.
"A century ago Grimm and Candolle,
the former a German and the latter
Esrenchman. declared that the language Of
Shakespeare would ultima tely become the
universal tongue. similar judgment
has just been passed at meeting of the
Berlin Academy of Sciences by Prof. Diels,
a well-known German iinguist. He de-
clared that Independently of the political
influence which the United States Great
Britain and the British colonies were hav-
ing on the world. the simplicity of struc>
ture of the English language gave 1t the
promise of universal use.
Returning sojourners along the Jersey
coast tell of an annoying epidemic of a
sort of summer grip that has been preva-
lent from Long Branch down. It's char
acteristics have been sore threats, head
and back aches bilious symptoms, fever
and extreme prostration. The victims were
usually affected for two or three days. On
its first appearance it was thought to be
only a form of the ordinary cold that
changeable and unseasouably cold wealth
er might occasion, but the number of those
affected and the wide area over which It
extended indicated it's more serious aspect.
John Lynch, desperate thug arrested
by the New York police, resisted the Of
ficers while in the patrol wagon on his
way to the station and was beaten into
what appeared 10 be insensibihty. Sergt
Bell. thinking he might be shamming as
he lay on the floor of the station house, ap-
piled strong ammonia 10 his nostrils.
Lynch thereupou kicked the sergeant in
the stomach and punched him in the face
The sergeant, enraged, threw the ammo
MIA into the mans face. The doctors at
Bellevue Hospital where Lynch was taken
for treatment, say he will lose both his
eyes.
-Schweinfurth, the African traveller, de-
scribes an insect organ builder. In the
country of the Shillooks, he says, acacia
groves extend over an area of a hundred
square miles. From the attacks of in
sects which have worked to the inside
their ivory white shoots are often swollen
at their base with globular bladders meas
urng about an inch in diameter After
the insect has managed to glide out of its
circular hole this shoot becomes a sort
of musical instrument upon which the
wind produces fute-like sounds. On this
account natives of the Soudan have named
it the whistling tree
The other day Sir James Blythe, one of
the best-known men in London. invited
Patti to dinner to meet forty other great
men and women of the art world She
wrote: My Dear Sir James: l am in
mourning, and 1 feel a hesitancy about
attending a dinner to meet people of my
own profession, but if you viii give an
other dinner and ask only your friends
shall be pleased to come" Sir James, be-
ing most amiable person. gave a din
ner minus the enfree of Patti and on the
following week issued cards to all his tilted
friends TO meet the diva at another din
ner. To this one she came in the full,
splendor of her diamonds and turquoise,
looking like a bird of paradise that had
crept into the gded aviary of the kind
Lady Warwick the Duke and Duchess
of Devonshire, Lord Rosebery-all the big
people were there and the diva was de-
lighted.
The Railroad Gazette has an article in
which it is contended that railways viii in
the near future use rigid foundation for
their rails, employing to this end metal
crossties. Heavier and harder rails will
also be used with the result of a large