The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

about to be the scene of a kangaroo hunt.
It seems that some years ago Mr.. Folsom,
a brotheT-in-law of Mr.. Cleveland. the eX-
President Of the United States, purchased
a country house surrounded by large
grounds in the neigh borhood of Dinard.
Before settling down in it he had spent
some time in Australia, whence he had
brought back several kangaroos including
specimens of both sexes. He let the ami
mais loose in his park, where they have
increased and multiplied to such an extent
that they have become a danger, or al least
nuisance, to the district. They have long
since spread from Mr. Fo,soms park to
the adjacent forest of Richardais. where
they exist in an absolutely wild state. Ow-
ing TO numerous complaints from the peas
ants that the animals damage their crops
they are TO DE hunted down, and visitors
to Dinard will shortly have an opportunity
OF being present at kangaroo battue.
A Washington, D. c., dispatch
says President Mckinley is be-
coming as invelerate a smoker as
was Gen. Grant. To This is attributed his
present nervous condition. The President
smokes continuously from the time he goes
into his office at a. m. until he retires
about midnight. His official visitors find
him with the inevitable cigar and when
the door of the cabinet room is opened
10 admit a visitor a blue haze of tobacco
smoke puffs out and Mr.. Mckinley is seen
engaged in adding more than his equal
share thereto. Since the occupation of
Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines, ad-
mirers of the President holding commits
sions in the army and navy have sent him
many presents of cigars. The first speci-
mems to reach him were from Manila.
They were the familiar long, black cigars.
Almost every returning officer of the army
from Cuba or Porto Rico brought along a
box of cigars made from the finest to-
bacco obtainable. Prodigality of the sup
ply has doubtless tempted the President
to an excessive use of tobacco, which he
would otherwise have avoided. He ex-
cuses his excessive smoking by asserting
that it lessons the neuralgia pains from
which he has been suffering.
"A curious find was made one day
last week by Mr.. w. L. Valentine, con-
tractor for Mr. J. S. Darlings new stables
on Cove street, says the Norfolk Virgin
ian-Pilot, while digging the trenches for
the foundation walls. A workman I'M
earthed at a depth of about seven to eight
feet a cannon ball of about three inches
diameter which in all its characteristics
is the mate of that imbedded in the wall of
place in which it was found, the depth in
the earth and the condition of the rusty
iron sphere, strongly suggest chat il was
one of the number launched by Lord
Ross ships during their bombardment of
Norfolk in the war of 1S12-i3. The ground
In which il was found was originally
part of the cove which extended from the
old CRANKY street bridge back nearly to
Church street. and The water at this point
ground is therefore, made earth to The
denth of several feet Evidently the bah
fell in the water and sank in the mud in
the bottom. When the cove was filed in
The bah was safely buried, and has there
remained until this time How many more
of these shots are lying safely planted in
the made soil of this city is uncertain.
The three oldest sons of the German
Emperor are at school in Ploen, Ho.sktns,
the home Of their mother, where they are
prepared a a cadet school for the more
advanced classes of the military academy
a Gross-Litcherfeid, near Berlin Will
liam. the Crown Prince, and his two
brothers, the handsome but less serious
Eitel Fritz, and Adalbert, are educated
there away from the court, so that their
studies may not be disturbed by the dis
fractions of life 10 which they are only
in a measure admitted during their Vaca-
ton. The heir apparent, of slender and
supple build, and taller than his father,
manly aud good-hearted, was seventeen
on last Saturday. Although seriously in
clined, he has a strong liking for the thea
ter and dancing, and plays the violin with
much skill. Eitel Fritz, the second son,
strik.ngly resembles his father, and is said
to be more gifted than the Crown Prince
His feeble health is aseribed to dyspepsia,
caused by boiling his food, a failing shar-
ed by William /, his great-grandfather in
his youth. Prince Adalbert, who win be
10 in July, is lively, active, quick-witted
and destined for the navy. In the Princes
private studies four other boys take part
sons of courtiers When the Kaiser is in
public with his sons they are expected to
treat him with the respect due to his posi-
ton, but in the home circle be unbends
and enters heart and soul into a romp
with his boys, while the Empress always
remains to them the mother, around which
they cluster with devoted affection. Like
all mothers, the Kaiserin frets much while
her sons are away at school, but she visits
them at frequent intervals in Ploen. With
er her only daughter and inseparable COM
panion, Princess Victoria Louise, invaria-
bly follows her.
"A correspondent of the Boston Medical
and Signal Journal, who has been studying
the condition of Cuba from the stand
point of the sanitarian, expresses fear
lest too much attention has been devoted
TO street cleaning. where the good work
done is visible to all and not enough to the
removal of hidden dangers, the presence
or absence of which is unknown to the
superficial observer. The cleaning of
streets, ne admits, is a matter of great
importance, but it is not the only import
ant one or the most important Therefore
ne saw with apprehension that the high
ways in Havana, Matanzas, Cienfuegos.
and Santiago were now neat enough To
satisfy the most scrupulous of Dutchmen.
while the sewers an many cases were 9
bad as ever and in numberless houses
well out of sight, ancient sources of in
lection had been left untouched The re-
forming Americans, this authority init
mates, have begun at the wrong end he
cause it was at once the easiest and the
most productive of Immediately obvious
results. The Cubans, the correspondent
asserts, belong to a race prone to regard
tradition and custom as sacred. and not
in one year OF in ten will they overconoa
ho1, e hot harv