The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-05

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OE IN IIsIoJs
IN the German reichstag there are S3s smokers
| and thirty-nine non-smokers.
A PROFESSIONAL RAT-cArcHER took 32s
rodents out of Vanderbit's new house the other
| day.
JOHN AITSEN asserts that cubic inch of air
IN an ordinary room contains S0,31S,O0O par
| ticles of dust.
IWENTY-oNE SUICIDES have taken place from
| Clifton suspension bridge, England, since its
opening IN December, 1864
IT is SAID that the only woman who occupies
managing editors chair is Mrs. George A.
Feck OF the Boston Commonwealth
DURING the last fifty years the climate has so
changed that man can now live at an altitude
OF tenth of mile higher than before.
Miss LEoIINE DANIEL. of Athens, La, while
| preparing for her wedding, became suddenly i'll,
ahd died about the hour she was TO have been
married.
IMMENSE NUMBERS Of stoats and weases are
being imported into New Zealand, in order that
they may destroy the rabbits which are a pest
IN that country.
The cowboys have fired so many bullets into
telegraph poles in certain districts in the west
that gust of wind snaps the pole short off, and
much trouble results.
AT Hamilton, Canada, a man who borrowed
an umbrella, and did not return it has just been
sentenced TO jail for one year. 4 timely warn
lng to the wise is sufficient.
ELIAS ]. HALL the town clerk of Foxcroft,
Me-, is now serving his fortieth term, and at
each of the forty elections he has had a walk
over, no one running against him.
Two Of the Universalist churches of Maine
are presided over by women. The Rev Miss
Haynes breaches at Skowhegau, and the Rev.
Miss Angel holds forth at Norway.
AN elm tree growing in the grounds of the
Pennsylvania hospital in Philadelphia is a scion
of the famous tree under which William Penn
held the first treaty with the Indians.
ACCORDING to a Troy, n. Y, florist Perle des
Jardin roses are often palme1 off for Marechal
Niels, and not one bride in 500 who is described
as wearing orange blossoms is so fortunate as
10 have them.
TIE Chicago Times says that his sweetheart's
skull serves az paper weight for a doctor in
that cit 1t was her dying request that he
y be given the skull as remem-
branoe of her.
MANY strawberry growers in the neighbor-
hood Of Onancock, Va, have suspended the
picking and transportation of the fruit on ac-
count of the low prices which it commands
there just now.
Two young boys of Lafayette. Wis, went out
hunting few mornings ago and shot five
wolves before noon Then they took the scalps
to the county clerk and received 500 in bounty
certificates for their mornings work
THREE years ago. Charles Selhe of Morris
Cove Conn, saved from drowning the your z
laughter of rich New Yorker. Now, by the
will of that gentleman, who has lately died,
Selhe gets some $4,000 in reward for his
bravery.
TwENTY-sIx English sovereigns, $40 in bills
and other small amounts in silver and pennies
were found concealed on the person of Ellen
OHara, who died in the Albany almshouse on
Monday She came to this country from Ire
land about two years ago
The OTHER DAY a young man crept under the
floor of the residence of William Froggart, OF
Camden, near Thamesville. Canada to shoot a
cat The ball passed through the cat and also
the floor, and clean through the leg of Mrs
Froggart, who happened to be standing in the
kitchen above.
ABOUT three weeks since w T. Ramsden was
blowing in his field on his farm on Above
prairie, about eight miles from Salem, Ora, and
he turned up the nest of a Chinese pheasant con
tanning sixteen eggs. One of the eggs was
broken, but Mr.. RamSden took the other fifteen
to his house and placed them under a hen that
was inclined in setting" direction The hen
stayed with theeggs faithfully for three weeks
and four days ago her patience was rewarded
with the successful incubation of fifteen beauti
full little pheaSantS, which she is now caring for
with the pride and watchfulness which only
hen who has performed her matronly duties
faithfully and well can know.
AN INCIDENT in red tape proceedings comes
from Hiram, O., correspondent: "A few days
ago a small sealed package came to the Hiram
postoffice addressed to a young lady, and
stamped at the New York custom house. whore
all foreign mail must be examined, Supposed
liable to custom duties This made it necessary
for the postmaster to notify custom house
officer to come from Cleveland in order that the
package might be opened in his presence and
examined by him and the proper duty assessed
which possibly might have amounted to half of
his travelling expenses; but it did not, for it
contained simply letter and a small slice of
wedding cake, the value of which could not
well be assessed.