Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

whole State on the unusually large scale Of
five inches 10 the mile.
Mrs. JOHN WATKINS. of Almena, Mich,
dreaming the other n ight, kicked violently as
she dreamed, and VII her husbands shouts
! WOKE her she found she had broken several
bones in one Of his feet.
Two MONTHS AGO baby that weighed but
one pound was born in Clinton, Pa. The lit
tie thing is alive and healthy now, but has
! grown very little and museum man OF New
! Y ORR offers the mother much money If she
! VIII place II on exhibition.
BEAVER FALLS, PA ., is expecting exciting
TIM over the investigation that Is likely to
follow the charge that a certain prominent
and wealthy woman there has been paying
her washerwumdn IN donations from the
relief society, of which she is an active and
influential member.
IN 1855 the freight on barrel of oil from
Titusville to New YORK city was SO so. In
l IS a barrel OF oil set down in New FORK cost
the dealer $40 40. The barrel alone was val
ued a. SO %. To-day the treightage on bar
| re of oil from The oil region TO the retineries
at the sea- board in New York, by pipe line, is
45c.
1T is PROBABLE that a churning match will
| be one OF the attractions at the next Maine
State fair. The idea is to place dozen or
! twenty churns in q row on a stage and have
! plump and ROSY farmers daughter operate
! each Usher, offering a good prize to those
! who excel In time, quality and quantity OF
! production.
| CHARLES GoDsHAw, of Louisville, has in
vented new bottle for beer, champagne and
| heredervescent liquors, which he claims
does away with extra fastenings for the cork.
| H. hole for the cork Is IN the side of the
| neck of the bottle, and there is no opening
| the top. The harder the gas pushes the faster
| the corE stays, says the inventor.
| KING KALAEAUA recently delivered a lee
! ture in Honolulu on the geoic origin and the
| history of Hawai-. A the c'ose he referred
en- PEASANT to the Chinese troubles in Cali
| forna and elsewhere, and likened the influx
of Chinese into this great country TO q flea
| upon man, saying that although the space
| was large yet the element WAS apt TO prove
troublesome. He deprecated making Hawaii
! a Chinese colony.
THE flower show at the Metropolitan Opera
House, New York, proved decided financial
success. 1t is stated officially that the re-
ceipts were about s25,0O0; the rent amounted
TO SO 00O and other expenses to $40, 600, leav ng
81 600 or $1,000 to be devOted to charity. The
pr JectOrs of the exhibition complain that
many flowers were stolen, which goes to show
that a taste for Horticulture in Gotham is not
inconsistent with practical contempt for the
eighth commandment.
WHEN the wIllof Dennis Blake, OF williams
Surrogate Scott, in Brooklyn, Peter Blake,
the executor, said: Dennis did not say it
was his last will and testament, for he was
dead when he had signed it.. We put the pen be
tween his fingers ana afriend moved mis- hand
over the pauer, making my brothers name.
He was alive when he started to write it, hut
he Tied before he got through" The probate
OF the Will was postponed.
THE anxiety Of the average commercial
traveller to always secure the best that the
house affords is proverbial, but an exception
to the rule turned up the other night a. the
Genesee, Buffalo, MY. For a drummer TO kick
on the size of his room would not he Burpris-
ing if it was small, but in this instance, after
the young man from W York had been
''shown up the surprise of the clerk can be
imagined when the sable attendant returned
and reported that the room was not salts
iactOTy-lt was too large.
JOSEPH CoPPIN, an Englishman. aged "a
years. has just died near Cincinnati. Three
vars ago he made for himself a burial case,
which he called "the great American coffin"
1t is of dressed pine, with three panels on
! each side and one az each end, and has iron
| handles IL is painted in patriotic colors, the
| base being red, the panels white and the top
with stars and stripes. The old gentleman's
! photograph is placed securely on the lid, and
under 1t is a miniature flag.
JAMES FILKINs. a young farmer of Edger-
ton, Mich, at a public gathering the other
/ night SO far forgot himself IN the heat OF ar
gument as to say damn" This so shocked
some of his neghhors that they brought suit
against him, unuer an Obsolete statute for
swearing. At the trial tweuty-One young
women testified that james did say damn"
but that nevertheless he was a good young
man. Other young women testified tina they
had never heard James say damn" and that
he was good young man. The jury dis
agreed.
THE introduction of blue paper is an inter
esting item. The owner of a small mill in
England went to London to sell his product,
leaving his wife at home. 1t was washing day
presumably Monday-and the good wife had
a Dlueiug-bag tied TO he apron. She visited
the mill, and, leaning over the engine, dropped
her Biuelng bag. ana instead of white p per
she had lot of blue paper. She met her hus-
band upon his return with good dea of APP
preheusion, and Informed him OF the misfOr-
tune. He felt as If a very serious mistake
mad been made until he sent the product to
MARKET and received cents per pound more
than for his usual article.
A GOOD HUNTING STORY is told by a Bangor
Me man. Thursday some spOrtsmen essayed
to hunt the nmble deer in the woods between
Lee and Lincoln. They were accompanied
by dogs. Finally, succeeding IN discovering
! the prey, the men, dogs ami all, gave chase
| The deer became tired, and, coming out into
the nam road, was seen by farmer who was
driving along. TIE farmer Immediately set
out in pursuit Of the deer. v bose fatigued
cOudit on he mad already noticed, and without
much fiiculty made he capture and tied the
deer behind the sled. Soon the dogs came M
but they were driven of after a few blows,
Before the man had gone far he met two gen
tlemen who wanted the deer. and the animal
was quickly so at good price.
LEW CASSIDY, of South Bend, Ind, has in
vented an invisible duck boat which is id TO
be a success. He took an ordinary fat-bot-
tom boat, cut the sides, from the bow back
one-third OF the length, down to the water
line, covered this part over and made II air
tight, and then placed at the rear end Of this
compartment mirror 70 inches high, and as
wide Is the boat. Behind tins mirror he had
the two thirds Of the boat in which 10 paddle
and shoot. lie proved by trial hat he cou
paddle this boat Straight up TO flock of
ducks, watching them through a pe9p- hole in
the mirror. When they looked toward the
boat sll they saw was their own reflections in
the glass. When within easy shot the hunter
dropped the m rror by loosening q catch and
got two shots, one at the ducks on the water
and one as they rose.
NINE. PATTI vigorously resents the imputa-
ton that any feature Of her recent concerto NJ
Paris indicated a decadence Of ner social or
professional standing. The Eden Theatre. al
which they were given, had been chosen by
NJ. LamoreauN as a proper place for nj. cele-
brattd classical concerts, which are at ended
by the aristOcrAcy and the true dilettanti of
her performances; especially since the prices
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