Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-24
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THE craze for glass eating grows. John
| Badner, OF Marlborough, found within a big
shad the other day piece OF lamp chimney
as large as dollar.
MRS. T. r. HOOD, of jackson, Mich, being
ILL., her doctor prescribed IA alcohol bath. A
stupid nurse, by mistake, covered Mrs. Hood .
| body with corrosive sublimate, and she died
! very soon in great agony.
| BUFFALO FATHER, to encourage early
rising, offered prize Of money to that child
who should rise earliest next morning. At a
| very early Eour bright little girl made her
| appearance. claimed and got the prize, and
then went back to bed.
OLD Mr.. O'HARA, Of Reno, knows how
sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a
thankless child. Two months ago his son in
duced the old man, who is very innrm, to deed
MN mn ms property, and then decamped, leaving
ms father with only IS. The father is now in
NE county hospital, and the son is at Butte
City comparatively well OF.
Mr.. COLT, of Clinton, Mo, and Miss Doug
lass are to marry in June. They will go at
once to Nebraska where Mr.. Colt is engaged
in railroading, and there camp out for the
summer. large and elaborate tent, with
carpets, elegant furniture. and all conven-
FENCES VIII await them; also good cook and
servants. Who could ask for q honeymoon
under better auspices?
THE Captoline wolf is dead. From time i'm
memorial the Roman municipality have kept
live wolf in the little garden of the CAPT toll
to commemorate the faithful nurse of Romu-
Jus ana kemus, 50 Intimately associated with
the foundation of the Eternal City. Lately,
however, the neighbOrs have complained bit
| terly of the VOLTS howls at night time, so that
probably the creature will not be replaced.
THE family and farm hands of L. H. Towns
hend, who resides near st. Croix Falls, Wis,
we're thrown into a panic last Sunday by a
sudden loud report and upheaval of dirt and
stones 100 feet into the air at point less than
q rod from the farm house. The Townshends
DeHeVe mat the eruption was due to an earth
quake. hole twenty FIVE feet deep was torn
in the earth and stones hurled out by the ex-
ploslon were found half a mile away from the
spot.
THE BOYCOTT placed against fruits and
vegetables cultivated by Chinese by the anti
Chinese Association In California Is said to
have no effect Gen. Bidwell, of Rancho
Chlco, can hardly nil his orders. and the mum
| Der OF Chinese vegetable peddlers is increas-
| ing, and Santa Rosa fruit seller makes this
| announcement: Buy my berries, all grown
| by Chinese. II you are Americans and have
| sand IN your makeup, buy of me. One
| dollar box TO boycotters. 80 cents to others.
THREE YEARS AGO Howard r. Barnard, a
Hartford high school boy. took a notion that
his friends doubted his disposition to work or
| his ability to succeed. SO one afternoon
without warning, he disappeared, and his
friends heard nothing more of him until
Few GAYS ago, when he returned home, well
and prosperous. When he went away it was
with the intention of staying until he had
made certain sum of money. He went West
and held to his purpose, and now has proved
his pluck, industry and determination.
EZRA STEPHENS, of Bryant's Pond, Me-, is
the proprietor Of small museum of natural
curiosities. Among them was a tame bear.
The bear sickened and was about to die when
Ezra shot him and promptly presented his
nose and ears to the Town Treasurer and de-
manded the IS bounty which the State paws
for every bear killed in Maine. The Town
Treasurer wrote to the State Treasurer, ask
ing II Ezra was entitled to the bounty. The
state Treasurer turned the question over to
the Attorney General who has just decided
for Ezra.
A PASTOR of one of the Southern Illinois
churches is authority for the following: His
| superintendent often visits colored Sunday
school in the city to advise aud assist them in
their work. On recent SUNDAY afternoon
he spoke to them of the Congo mission and
endeavored to rouse their interest in its be-
half. His success was phenomenal. A short
time afterward one of his auditors met him.
when the following ensued: "Mr. =, I'se
6een tnkln bout dat COnger mIshum, and
! pse gOin' dar | wrote John A. Logan to glib
me a pass dar." Ibid YOU get it?" oues-
! toned the superintendent. HE said no per
II
would send me-"
| THE Registrar General of Great Britain
states that the population Of the United King
dom in the middle of 1886 is estimated at So
| 707, AIS persons; that of England and Wales
at q, SO, $50 of Scotland at 1919. 1893 and of
Ireland at 4, SS7, 439. In the United Kingdom
the births OF 292, 247 children and the deaths Of
204. ABS persons were registered in the three
months ending March 81, 1855 The natural
/ increase " fbprpfora
The registered number of persons married IN
the quarter ending December 81. 1885 was
1877 ,0s2. The birth-rate in the United King
dom IN the first quarter OF 1886 was 1913, and
the death-rate %. per 1000. The marriage
rate in the fourth quarter Of 1885 was Is per
| 1000.
THE LATEST ATTEMPT to exterminate rab-
bits In Australia ended in a failure. 1t WAS
truly Internal device, namely, the importa-
ton Of rabbits suffering from the rabbit scab
! from Europe, in the hope that the contagion
would spread among the Australian rabbits,
and ultimately Kill them off. Prof. Watson
of Adelaide University, was granted six
months leave of absence in order that he
might purchase diseased rabbits in Europe
| He bought two dozen thoroughly Infected
with amin al and vegetable parasites and EN-
barked on the CaledoniaE steamship with
them, but. unfortunately for the experiment.
they all died Of sunstroke before reachin &
Aden,and the ATTEMPT mas consequently faileu /.
He has, however, ordered fresh supply and
he is stir in hopes that rabbit scab NAV be
successfully introduced.
SWEDEN possessed in 1893 only 1856 printing
Offices, 32 OF which were work ed at tockholm.
In 1909 there were no more than IS offices in
the whole Kingdom, and of the IS, 10 fell to the
lot of Stockholm. In 1909 a faling-off was
noted, the numbers being 30 in the whole
kingd m, including only at Stockholm; but
since that time the number of printing offices
has been on the increase: AZ in 1928 (lg at
StockhOlm); IS in 1910 Stockholm 49,: 1875 in
1870 l96l; l5l in 1873 90; and. as already
stated 1876 IN 1888 (32). The largest Office is
that of the Normann joint Stock COMPANY
with Is printing machines, closely followed
by NOrstedt Sons. with Il. In all the
Swedish Offices there were working the wear
before last 1907 male rompOsitors and 2l0
women compostors, $50 pressmen, and u wo-
men at presses; there were 296 printing ma 81
chimes, l2l treade presses. and 1888 hand
presses. In 1913 there were only two printing
machines At work IN stockholm; now III are
run there, 4S Of them by steam and Is by gas
or hOt-air power.
DR. Do LEWIS, the well-known advocate
OF many hyglenic reforms, who died at his
home in Nonkors Friday, was born at Au-
burn, N. Y, on March 3, 1923. He early
showed a preference for the study Of medi-
cine, and studied for some time with DR.. Ian
sing Briggs at Auburn. Before he was
twenty years OF age he went to the Harvard
Medical Sch0 j. and three years later he set