Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AMERICAN GIRLS have fairly captured
Trouville, and carried off ali the social
honOrs of the French seaside.
JAMES SHERMAN, of Lafayette, \. Y,
has brook trout % years old. 1t is kept
in well, has lost its spots and looks aged
and faded. but is apparently as hearty as
Washington's bOdy-servant.
IN town in Litchfield county, Conn,
the Sunday morning church service is
postponed until 1890 O'Clock, to enable
the deacon and other members of the
church to take their milk to the depot.
A LADY in Toronto laughed at an
amusing incident until she couldn't stop.
Finally, doctor was called in, and sue
ceeded in quieting her. Although previ-
ously i'm good health, she is now consld-
cred in a critical condition.
A GUILELEss Mexican shepherd who
tends fiocks near MontemOrelOs AYERS that
when hereturned from shelter, to which a
thunder storm had driven him, he found
i'm the field fish over five feet long, which
apparently had fallen from the. clouds.
ACCORDING to the Denver Tribune the
Chief of the Northern Cheyennes and
ArapahOes is named Wild Hog. The belle
of tile tribe is his daughter, and she is
known as Miss Hog. This is entirely
wrong. Her name should be Miss Pig.
1t is claimed that the pioneer tramp
died in Ohio a few DAYS ago. He was SO
wears old, and he srent the last 40 years
of his life i'm going from place to place on
foot. Born in Holland, he fought in Rus
STA. France and India, and came to the
United States in 1917.
ACCORDING to Commissioner Evans,
there will be moOnshiners in North Caro-
lima and Tennessee as long as there are
mountains in those States. lie says he
does not think illicit distilling can ever
be fully stopped in those mountain re-
giOns.
ABABY whale has been taken to the
Westminster Aquarium, in London, from
the st. Lawrence. The creature Is about
fifteen feet long and 800 pounds in weight,
and seems well and lively, although its
five companions died during the voyage
to Liverpool.
AFTER enjoying ride on the electric
railway at the Southern Exposition in
Louisville, man with sun-brOwned face
and wearing d sombrerO exclaimed: "Iye
seen something we amt got in Texas, and
they'll call me liar when | tell 'em rode
around a ten acre lot on a railroad that
was run without steam or fire."
NOTHING can surpass in desolation a
Nevada town where mine has ''petered
out" unless it is a deserted city in the
PENNSYLVANIA oil regions. At Lewis,
New, nine out of ten houses are simply
deserted. One store, where not cents
worth of goods has been for sale for
months, bears prominent sign: "Terms
cash."
A WISCONSIN WOMAN has invented a
labor-saving machine for the benefit of
hoes and little honey makers of her ac-
.ouaintance are enabled to improve the
Shining hours to much greater advantage
than bees less kindly favored. A sheet of
wax run through the machine is lndented
in exact imitation of hOneycomb, and
when placed in the hives the little workers
have nothing to do but to gather sweets
enough to fill the ready-made receptacles.
CALIFORNIA has a man who is trying to
convince the courts that he is dead. He
was sentenced to Imprisonment for life at
San Quentin last March for numbering a
man. Subsequently he was charged with
another murder, and was removed to San
Jose Jail to await trial. He now asks to
be sent back to San Quentin, on the
ground that he died civilly last March;
that his corpse had been unearthed, so to
sneak. and cannot be brought to account
Tor any crimes committed during life.
THE Roman NeloS says of the scene of
the Ischia earthquake; "Imagine the