Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-27
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arm as tightly as possible. hurried home, drank
whisky and still lives.
A DEED was lately admitted to record in the
Recorders Office of the county Of Jefferson
w. Va. from Jefferson Davis. Secretary of
W ar. to John b. johnson, dated Sept. 8, 1856.
conveying lot on Shenandoah street, in
Harper's Ferry,
THE practice of drinking lemon juice and
water before breakfast as a prophylactic
against bIliousness is rapidly gro wing in popu-
larity. and many physicians think that the
benefit derived from it is more than doubled
| by taxing similar dose at night also.
POSTMASTER GENERAL STEPHAN. of Ger
many, has met with his first rebuff. He had
public letter drop box sent to the village of
Drebk an to be set up; but no one there would
| have 1t in front of his house, and it was re-
| turned as "an undesirable and totally super
| fluous piece of furniture"
THERE is consderable reason why the towns
folk Of New Haven do not love the Yale stu
| dents, az. for instance, at a recent dangerous
connagration several hundred students sur
rounded the engines and kept up such loud
| and continuous yelling that the Chiefs orders
| could not be heard. They were scattered by
streams from the hose.
A WOMAN with 5-year-o old boy In her arms
attracted no attention IN San Frapcisco the
other day, until, in attempting to get on a
| boat. the woman tumbled INTO the bay. Both
were fished out and sent to hospital. ana
there the woman was recognized as a notori-
GUS CHI Id stealer. The little boy was one that
she had stolen from an infant asylum two
weeks before.
RATTLEsNAKE jim, of Wooster, Ohio, says
that the only reliable cure for the bite of a
| rattlesnake H. turpentine. He says that bot
! tie OF turpentne held over the bitten spot,
! the uncorked mouth down, win draw out the
poison, which can be seen as IL enters the tur-
haGn hitfAn fed n41Vaa
on MS dog, always with success.
THE rubber dealers Of Eastern Nicaragua
think they have discovered tree whose gum
| will give as much satisfaction ais rubber, and
| VIII, in fact. take it's place. They say that
the milk of the tuno furnishes a most excel
| lent gutta pereha, equal TO the best found in
| the Eastern tropics. while the number of trees
| is virtually inexhaustbl and the gum can be
produced with profit at Isc pound.
SENATOR VEST told Senator Colquitt that
when in Missouri recently he heard an Irish
priest on prohlbitio He said to some of his
| countrymen: You drink whisky and then go
| home and raise che devil, beating yJur wives
| and scandaltzlng your children. In the old
| country they get drunk. shoot at landlords
and miss 'em toOp' The Georgia Senator
made mental note OF this temperance point.
DECATUR, IND, was treated to sight of
that rare phenomenon, a lunar rainbow, one
night last week. AT 10 O'Clock the wind blew
1
| tornado was coming. In the southeast the full
moon shone brightly in a cloudless sky. A
slight rain was falling on the town. aud in the
northeast was the rainbow, as bright in col
ors as il it was midday. There was also
vivid reflected bow.
| FERDINAND FONDA, JR., 16 years old, has
just reached Albany after walking from st.
Augustine, Fla, distance Of 1900 miles. lie
started from St. Augustine ON April 10, ac-
| companied only by a Young bloodhound
[ They ffxr-f dou ok
| the railroad track the entire distance. and
| slept out Of doors every night The dog was
! completely played out when they reached
| Albany, and the boy was pretty tired.
JESSIE CRAWFORD, young woman of To-
lOno, H., has been an invalid for two years,
much Of the time being confined to her bed
| with spinal disease. The other day she re-
quested a number of her friends to meet and
| pray earnestly for her recovery. They did
| so. The following morning she arose, dressed
| herself, and went to breakfast for the first
| time in two years, and the day following she
went to picnic. Skeptical physicians say that
she could have done all this at anv time dur
| ing the two years if she only had thought So
NOT long ago Mr.. SanbOrn, keeper of bees,
missed several hives from his place at the
Katahdin Iron Works, Piscataquis county,
Maine, and manv were the inquiries made
1 and schemes laid TO catch the thief. One day
| about noon, hearing the shouts of some school
EDoys he went to the top Of a hill and was sur
prised to see bear making on with a hive
well stocked with honey. The animal was
laboring along in an upright position holding
his prize between his fore paws. AlthOugh
closely pursued, he chung to it until he
reached strong fence. Being unable to get
| the box through or over, he dropped ii and es-
capped into a logging road.
ELMER HEETER, son of Mr.. F. Heeter of
near Trenton, is the Jumbo baby Of Ohio.
He now weighs sixty eight pounds and is but
Is months old. He is beautiful child, with
light-blue eyes, rosy cheeks, and a magnificent
head of hair, which hangs In ringlets to his
| shoulders. The mouth is small, and, when
open, discoses a One full set OF pearly teeth
the chest, thirtythree inches at the waist
and twenty around the thigh. The child
ENJOYS the best of health, is exceedingly good
! natured. and is perfectly formed and de-
| veloped in every respect. Both the parents
are Of ordinary size. People flock for miles
around to see the young prodigy.
WHEN Robert Houston was buried at Coul-
tersville, H.. the other day, he was laid by
the side Of his second wife. while his first
wifestood by among the mouFners. 1t hap
pened this way: Houston married lin Scot
land, where,he and his wife were born. They
| reared afamily of i've children and then were
| divorced Each married again; and his wife
| and her husband died. After years had
passed, Houston again married his first wife
and again they separated When the WON n
heard of Houston's illness she volunteered
| her services, and nursed him. All of their
five children have married, and all have
separated from their spOuses.
AT Niagara Falls late Thursday afternoon
a strange young lady, described as very beau
tiful, desiring TO visit the whirlpool, hired a
hack and was driven where the view could
be seen by descending the bank. But upon
second thought she ordered the driver to take
her back TO the village. claiming that she was
afraid to make the descent. She was no
sooner back to the place whence she had
started than another hack was hired and she
was again driven to the same spot. This
time she went down the bank and the hack
man waited her return. Becoming anxious
presently he began search for the stranger.
| but she could not be found. It ia supposed
that she either fell or jumped into the whrl-
pool.
"THE Cleveland moustache' is growing
more popular than ever. think" said a Chi
cago politician. Perhaps" he continued,
seeing a puzzled look on the face of his com
panion, 'you don't know what the Cleveland
\ moustache lie. 10 can only be worn by men
whose cheeks take on blue tinge from the
coarse black stubble which covers Them The
heavy mOustache Is trained down each side OF
the mouth aud heightened out with a thick
patch OF beard extending to the bottom of the
jaw and curving backward from the chin.
The whole combination OF hair thus forms a
sort OF horseshoe hung under the nose. IL ia
very different In shape from the Presid en- q 8
mOustache, and bears his name simply be-
cause IL forms a symbol OF good luck and the
words cleveland and good luckt ara