The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Two bills introduced. one for the prOtec
ton Of angleworms, and the other to Gre
ate the office of musical director at the
asylum for the insane
On Sept. Is ,ast a Bavarian at Bam-
berg sent up a small balloon. to which
was attached his card, with the request
that the finder of the balloon should let
him know where II touched the ground
Three months later he got his card, with
a letter from the man who had found
the balloon in Sunderland, England.
The husbands wedding ring in Ger
many is as sacred a possession as the
wife's in England. The London Tele-
graphs Berlin correspondent tells an
amusing story of butcher who lost his.
His wife was inconsolable, and harbored
all sorts of suspicious. AT last il turned
up IN sausage, having slipped from his
finger. Joy reigned once more in the
household at the discovery.
x resolution introduced in the Arkan-
sas House declaring that thereafter 1t
would be considered a reproach up
on the dignity of the House for
one member to ask leave of alb
sence for another on the ground of
sickness. when In fact the absent member
was intoxicated. was regarded as a re-
Election on the House. and was rejected.
Subsequently the resolution was expung-
ed'from the record.
1t must surely be with a SILVER, says
the Westminster Gazette, that the alumni
of the older universities will hear that
there is proposal 10 establish and en-
dow at the new Birmingham University a
chair of Brewing and Maitingl Birming-
ham has BrutOn-on-Trent within its
sphere Of influence and the idea of a
brewing chair has struck its citizens as
Al .rtaaa
toward its realization
What is described as "a typical noun
tain wedding" took place near Batesville,
Va, few days ago. when Miss Estelle
Clemmons became Mrs. Ben Luthers.
About 100 guests were present. A rejected
suitor of Miss Clemmons was among the
guests, conspicuous by a broad band of
crepe worn on his arm. During the cere-
mony the Tilted man and his sympa thizers
expressed their sense of bereavement by
low, sorrowful moaning
In London the other evening Violet
Frances Martin, the 6-year-old daughter
of a Matchmaker, was left alone in the
kitchen at play with her doll. For the
time being the child was a mother and
the doll her baby, and she seems to have
been pretending to dry the dolls tiny
clothes before the fire when they became
ignited. The flames caught her pinafore
and she was dreadfuly burnt, dying in the
Great Northern Hospital.
The Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Morning Post states that a lady liv-
ing in a Berlin suburb has been the vic
tim of a most curious mshap. couple
of days ago as she was walking along
public thOroughfare a pair of sparrows
came flying toward her in hot chase of
one another The foremost of the two
birds drove its beak with the full force of
its flight into the lady's right eye, and, ac-
cording 10 the medical report, completely
destroyed the organ.
The viii of the late Baron Nathaniel
de Rothschild contained a bequest of u.s.
900 to Herbert Wilson. A Liverpool man
of that name who once happened to do
service to the Baron claims the beouest.
But the executors say that it was intended
for Herbert Wilson of London Apropos
of the Baron's will the Jewish Chronicle
estimates the value of its bequest 10 the
nation as 100000. In addition to the other
art treasures that will pass into the pos
session of the British Museum the tesla
tor also bequeaths to that institution all
his illuminated missais and manuscripts
There was startling occurrence at the
Empire Theater, Liverpool, tte other night
during performance given by Sandow
the strong man. One of Shadows feats
says the Westminster Gazette, consists in
carrying a piano with a player attached
on mis- back off the stage. By some means
he stumbled with his great load and the
piano fell crashing TO the stage. Harry
Lee the player, who is get up to initiate
Paderewski, was thrown violently down,
sustaining injury to his head and face
He was attended to by doctor in the
audience, and win be affected for a few
days. Sandow was unhurt.
"A bill making the keeping of a crap
game felony received 40 affirmative to
80 negative votes in the Tennessee House,
but failed because the affirmative vote
lacked one of being a constitutional ma
jority. Some novel ideas were advanced
during the debate. One member did not
like to see the white people engage in the
game, but he thought it was the negro s
nalienable right to shoot craps and he
did not wish to lessen the colored broth
er's amusement Another thought it
would be just as sensible to declare pro-
| gressive euchre felony, and third pro-
tested that under the proposed law the
penitentiary accommodations would be in
sufficient
Bishop Potter has written letter to
the editor of the Western Christian Advo-
cafe of Cincinnati, saying that his recent
remarks ABOUT saloons were not accurate
ly reported. Il have never expressed any
opinion, he declares, "as to the dram
shop In a recent address in behalf of
coffee houses, coffee wagons, coffee carts
and the like 1 stated that some thing an
swering to the saloon. i. e., place of mex
pensive recreation and refreshment, would
always be a necessity. l may add that
until it is provided the mischiefs of the
saloon, which nobody recognizes more
clearly than I, will continue. The saloon
may be driven to cover, but it cannot be
abolished. Something better, something
wholesome. harmless, undefled and unde-
fling must take its place and so expel
by substitution. Legislation has failed
to do this, and prohibition has failed. De-
nunciation has failed. 1t is a case for
Christian capital. wisely employed as the
history of the Liverpool coffee houses has
shown"
The Graburn and Blaney Canadian pat
ent of the Graburn electrical thawing pro-
cess has been sold by the inventor, Nell
son raburn, of Montreal, to the Elec-
trical Thawing Syndicate Oimited), Lon
don, England, for $4,000 and one-quarter