The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

panied oy genuine cowboy band.
TIE Postal Telegraph Company contemplate
an extension of their system through the south
ern states, and construction vii! be commenced
south from Washington within a short time
LAST WEEKS SHIPMENTS of petroleum from
Philadelphia am unted to $40, 60l gallons max.
ing total since JAN of 1877 800, ll3 gallons, as
against 134 I55, 3ol for the same time last year.
AN INSCRIPTIONS dentist of PARIS, after
chloroforming patient with the supposed in
tention of extracting TOOTH robbed the help
less sufferer of $1,000 in money and then de-
camped.
The supply of coffee in New York, according
to the Tribune, is extremely scanty; stocks are
down to less than 10000 bags of East and West
india growths, against about 10000 bags at
this date last year.
The experiment of opening the Art institute,
| Chicago, to the public on Sundays was inaugu-
rated few Sundays ago, when 200 persons the
majority OF them working men with their fam
lilies, visited the galleries.
THE schooner Governor Ames to hail from
Somerset, Mass, the only flve-masted center
board schooner ever built, and the longest has
just been launched at Waldboro, Ne. She has
gross capacity of LIS tons.
THE report of Warden McComb of the San
Quentin. Cal, prison. shows that opium smok-
ing plays an important part in California crime
VI l.311 prisoners now in that prison, 600 were
brought there through opium and its associa
TONS Nearly all the thieves he saws are
opium smokers.
A PERMIT from the Brooklyn City Railroad
Company to carry her dog on the cars of the
various lines of the company when they are not
crowded and the passengers do not complain
has been secured by a woman living in that city
The dog Is tiny black-and-tan, and the permit
is good for three months.
MISS HARRIS, an ex-clerk in one of the depart
ments at Washington, is reported from Indian
apolis to have gone insane through political ex-
cltement. She took great interest in the late
campaign, and. according to a telegram went
TO Indianapolis several weeks ago and fire.
auently called upon Gen. Harrison.
STRANGE SCENE was enacted few days ago
in Boston restaurant. A well-dressed man
entered and called for a raw egg and a glass of
sherry. His order was filled, and the egg
broken into the glass and drank. In few min
utes the order was repeated, and the egg and
sherry followed the first order. For seven hours
he man sat at the table and kept on drinking
eggs in sherry until he had consumed twenty
four. He then paid bis bill and quietly left the
restaurant, apparently none the worse for his
gaStronomic efforts.
LITERARY GENTLEMEN who are in search of
materials for a superior snake story would do
we'll to repair to indianapolis. According to
an advertisement in the local papers, there is
snake bigger than a telegraph pole, and
could swallow an ice wagon" The description
lacks precision, since it is not stated lust how
much bigger than telegraph pole the monster
is and the dimensions of the ice wagon are
withheld. But then 1t is well to leaye some
thing to the imagination.
A WICHITA, KAN, SPECIAL, dated Dec. 9, says:
THE case of the state vs.. stewart, in which the
defendant, drug clerk, was sent to jail for
over seventeen years and fined $50 800 for sell
ing liquor, was revived yesterday by the rear
rest of Stewart. Stewart was released after
ernor, and the attorney general attempted to
collect his fine and COSTS about $4,000 by sell
ing the building in which the liquor was sold
Failing in this he had Stewart rearrested and
thrown into Jail upon the old complaint. AS the
prisoner is poor man. he has a good chance to
remain years in jail if not again released by the
governor.
THE girl with the violin is the most pictur-
esque and novel feature in society just now
and she presents much more pleasing sight
when performing than the girl perched on the
piano stool with her back to her hearers One
of the best known OF the young amateur violin
lists in New York society has been presented by
her betrothed with very handsome violin bow,
with very large and brilliant diamond set in
its lower end. As she stands facing her audi
ence the bow darts rays of red and blue and
green as the light falls upon its facets. AS the
sme becomes faster and the music more bril-
liant, shower Of sparks seems to flash from
the great white gem.
BE temperate in all things" say the script
ures Parsians, who are not noted for temper
ance in ANYTHING, unless it be in their obsery-
ance of scripture injunctions, have founded
blue ribbon society, which has for its aim tenn
perance in dress. The extravaganza in dress
has reached the high water mark, and the
women have decided that the time has come to
call a halt in the matter Of rivalry in gowns and
bonnets. The Dress Temperance Society makes
the membees pledge themselves not to have
more than fifteen new gowns every year, and
the effort is to introduce the fashion of simpler
methods of making and the of less costly
materials IL is unnecessary to state that
Worth is not member of this new society.
An INSTANCE of the quiet grit some young
women display is to be found in Indiana. Miss
Lille Cash teaches a country school four miles
from Richmond, in which town she lives She
walks out in the morning to her school and
walks back at night. She has done this night
and morning for several weeks and intends to
keep up the practice all winter. Night before
last her school gave an exhibition, during the
progress of which the curtains the stage
caught fire and panic followed, until the puclsy
young teacher gathered the burning curtains in
her hands, tore them down and threw them out
doors. She saved the building and quieted the
children, but severely burned herself
Nevertheless, she will continue her eight-mile
daily walk
A COUPLE who were married in McAdam,
Me- last Sunday had queer experience Ar.
engagements had been made to have a minister
come from an adjoining county to perform the
ceremony but account of sickness he was
unable to appear. 1t was suggested that the
groom procure a hand car and bring the minis
ter from Vanceboro. party of young men
proceeded to Vanceboro for that purpose, when
another obstacle was encountered The minis
ter could not come, as il was not lawful but
could perform tie ceremony in Vanceboro.
the hand car returned to AIcAdam for the bride
nd Ha rps nj aft tar uai aI or rfaI
the second time for Vanceboro where the knot
was tied, TO the great relief of the overtaxed
nerves Of the distracted groom.
ONE of the old things in street nomenclature,
which is probablysnot familiar to many people
outside of the region where it exists and which
is not always perceived by newcomers Is to be
found in Greenpoint, as the Seventeenth ward
of Brooklyn is still commonly called series
of streets there is named in alphabetical order
from A TO Q, with two breaks. They run thus
Ash, Box, Clay, Dupont, Eagle, Freeman,
Green, Huron. India, Java, Kent, Milton, Noble
Quay. The streets that should begin with l. is
Greenpoint avenue, and the T. street bears the
mitted never knew. That the system was not
carried further than Q Was because the limit of
Greenpoint was reached with that letter The
system mas obvious advantages, but of course
II cannot be carried out anywhere on a large
scale.
A Boston MAN, recently home from Europe,
has given to the Transcript some memoranda
of English as she is wrote on the continent. In a
hotel at Vienna was this notice "Deieuners.
diners, supers, ind q la carte Zu ieder Tages-