The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE annual report of the United Kingdom
band Of hope union. just issued, states that
there 1908 bands of hope connected with
| the union, with a membership of ,205 boys
and girls
In Norway bucket of water is set down by
horses with their allowance of hay, and they
| take a sip of one and mouthful of the other
| alternately. A broken winded horse is rarely
| seen IN that country.
| IT is ESTIMATED that so 900 hooking birds are
caught monthly in the immediate vicinity of
| New Orleans. There are SO many of these birds
| caught In Louisiana that it is thought they will
! soon become extinct
| MAN down in Tennessee, who is about to
marry the fourth time, is less than 40 years old,
and financier suggests that if he had only in
| sured the lives of each dear departed, he might
now rank among millionaires.
| A TEMPLE at Hokodate, Japan, which had been
many years building and was within ten days of
| completion, burnt July 10. Some of the
wood carvings were magnificent, and the ediflce
| had cost an enormous sum of money.
GRANDMOTHER HEAToN of Virginia, ILL.,, is
doubtless the only person living in the United
States born in the famous Tower of London.
She is 81 years old, and her parents were en-
poyed in the grim old prison when she was
born.
A DISPATCH from Cannes, France, reports that
two ladies' said to be of good family, engaged
in duel that town. Pistols were used.
One of the ladies' was wounded in the chest and
the other in the arm. The duel grew out Of
love affair
GUYS HOSPITAL, the richest of the endowed
charities OF London, has been obliged to ask for
share of the hospital Sunday fund The
agricultural depression is the cause. The en-
dowments of the hospital consist, chiefly of
landed property.
TIE fastest long distance run on a railroad
west of Chicago is claimed to have been made
this week on the Union Pacific line, when a
special train made ap average rate of speed in
Guiding stops, between Cheyenne and Omaha, of
forty nine miles an hour.
THE prohibitionists have just completed
canvass Of Illinois, and the result gives them
great encouragement. They claim that their
vote will reach 10000 Complaint is made that
many of their meetings are disturbed and the
speakers assaulted with stones and rotten eggs.
| EVERY MORNING during the corn planting sea-
son, says the Ulysses (Neb.) Dispatch, the
farmers go out into a corntieId larger than the
whole state of New Jersey. Every noon during
harvest they go into dinner from n wheatfield
which contains 10000 acres more than the
whole state of Delaware, and every night Mary
calls the cattle home from o pasture larger than
the state of Pennsylvania.
AN EXPERIENCED SHOEMAKER says that black
ing greatly shortens the life of shoes. As black
ing can't well be dispensed with, though. he ad-
vises that the shoes, or rather those parts
which are polished, be literally rubbed with oil
Such treatment about once every two weeks, or
thereabouts, but after the backing has first
been scraped off, will, he says, not only make
the leather more pliable, and consequently
easier on the foot, but materially curtaii the
Shoemaker'S bill.
The Thirteen club of New York gave its sew
enth annual dinner recently at Coney Island.
The feast began at precisely 8:13 O'Clock There
were thirteen tables and on each were laid
thirteen covers. Thirteen popular airs were
played by the clubs band of thi1Seen musicians,
while the diners got on the outside of thirteen
courses. Each guest had a large tag, on which
was printed thirteen big figures fastened to the
lapel of his coat Judge David McAdam, who
was of the original thirteen members, pre-
sided
A REMARKABLE FUNERAL took place at Bing-
hamton one day last week. Dr. Wheaton an
old and influential citizen, a believer in the
dogma of good cheer" died. after having
! directed that no outward signs of mourning be
assumed at his funeral. Accordingly the friends
| of the family. when they met at the appointed
hour, were astonished to find the widow and
| daughters of the deceased attired in the purest
white and wearing bouquets of flowers. The
corpse lay ON q sofa covered by many .colored
| robe and was not removed to the coffin until
| the last moment
| FRENCHMEN of to-day are about to erect a
| splendid national monument to Mirabeau-that
prOgenitorS diSnterred the carcass of an
| arlstocrat unworthy of republican burial The
legend it is to bear has not been selected. but it
is hardly likely to be his reply to Sieyes:
''Frenchmen are three months squabblug
| about syllables, and only take single night to
overturn the whole venerable structure of the
monarchy;" nor his indignant OutburSt In the
national assembly: Il did not require to be re-
minded that there are only few steps between
the capitol and the Tarpeian Rock"
YOUNG CASHIER of Paris bank had been for
some time the lover of the wife of his most init
mate friend, woman of remarkable beauty
and finally induced her to elope with him. In
the morning he took $4,000 from the bank left
the building at luncheon hour, and driving TO
his friends house found the couple just ending
their meal. While chatting with the husband
he managed to let the wife know that cab was
waiting around the corner to take them to the
railroad station. Ten minutes later they were
| off and the husband and the bankers did not
learn the facts until the couple We're well toward
England.
A SHORT TIME AGO a small snake was killed
near the residence of Mr.. Fillabaum, near Nc
Keesport, Pa. The reptile was left lying on the
field of slaughter, and nothing more was thought
of it until few days later. when Mr. Fillabaum
had occasion to go agar the spot, when his
attention was attracted|to a number of pinch
bugs crawling around in that vicinity The
gentleman watched the operations of the little
insects, ana soon discovered that they were dig
ging ditch or trench, which, when completed,
was used as a receptacle for the body of the
snake which was rolled into the ditch and the
dirt carefully releid. Mr.. Flabaum investi-
gated the matter, and claims thai the snake
was thrown near a nest OF the insects and thew
took objections to the body when it began to
decompose, and consequently buried it.
THE process of sheep shearing by machinery
is now performed in Australia by an ingenious
kind Of device the results. as represented. being
very satisfactory The apparatus in question is
a very simple one, being made on the same
principle the cutter Of mower or rea1er
and the knives worked by means OF rods
within the handles, these in their turn. being
moved by core within a long flexible tube
which is kept in rotary shaft, aud wheels
driven by stationary engine. The comb is In
the form of a segment of circle, about 3
inches in diameter with eleven conical-shaped
teeth. Each machine is worked by "a sheaYer
and, "a the comb is forced along the skin Of the
animal the fleece is cut. The machine can be
run either with a steam gas engine, or by or
binary horse power, and does not easily get out
OF order.
THERE is a plague Of caterpillars in Berkshire,
Bucknghamshire and other parts of England
this summer. THE oak, the hawthorn the
apple, and in lesser degree the pear" the
Lancet says, ARE well nigh dcfoliated ono
orchard, the produce of which is worth large
sums annually, has been rendered valueless for
the present season. Persons walking or driy-
ing through the districts tbtIs iuTpstad bacor,a