The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SoME misguided person has attempted TO
write the history of Russia in words of one syl-
liable
THE cold water treatment for a beautiful com
plexion is said TO be gaining more converts
every day.
The women of Russia do all the harvesting.
The grain is cut with sickles, it was 5000
years ago and is threshed with fail.
The steamship Vera, which arrived in New
York the other day, had in addition to her gen
eral cargo consignment of 5000 canarieS
THE Austrian Crown Princess Stephanie,
while curling her hair recently, ran the hot
curling tongS against her eyelid and was laid up
for week.
| a MAINE MAN who owns big and shaggy and
black Newfoundland dog cut off the dog's hair
carefully, had it carded and spun, and got two
and quarter pounds Of jet-black yarn as soft
as lambs wool.
A CINCINNATI MAN. whose favorite driving
mare fell sick, turned her out to pasture among
a lot of mules. While she lay. too feeble to
care what was going on. they ate her name and
| tail off as thoroughly as a barber could have cut
| them.
ASHES from the volcano of Cotopaxi, which
fell at a distance of 100 miles from the noun
tain, were found by analysis to consist Of
quartz, feldspar maquetite and specular IRON
| per ton
STREET CAR TICKETS as medium of exchange
have become such nuisance in Galveston that
| a large number of merchants have signed an
| agreement that henceforth they will not re
| ceive car tickets as payment or part payment
| for anything of value
| AS A DAIRYOiAN Lord Tennyson seems TO be
success The demands on the productions of
the Tennvson dairy are increasing all over the
| Isle of Wight, and this is not said to be a recOg-
milton Of poetica genius, but of the verlta0le
excellence of the butter, milk and cream.
SUBJECTS of the Queen in Canada have to re-
spect the English flags whether or no. citi-
| zen of Toronto sound this out the other day.
when he arrested aud fined for displaying
| in front of his store a union jack bearing an
! advertisement of the bargains In clothing to be
| found inside.
THERE we're lynched during the year 1887 in
the United States no fewer than 1913 persons. Of
the various States and Territories Texas leads
| the list, with fifteen lynchingS, and Mississippi
! is entitled to second place with fourteen to her
credit. All the victims were males, eighty of
| them being negroes.
SPEAKING of Alaska in a recent lecture In
Washington, Prof. J. W Chickering said that
the great obstacle to enjoying a summer there
| is the vast number of large and bloodthirsty
mosquitoes. Dogs are killed by them, and men
preserve their lives only by covering their faces
with thick cloths and wearing gloves.
THE cowboys eff the West frequently dye their
| dogs different colOrs. The most brilliant speci-
mems of dyed dogs are colored a supurb tint of
| sky blue. The dye ends with artistic precision
| in sharply defined line on each leg leaving the
| foot white, and around the head leaving the
nose, eyes, and entire mask the natural color
| CASEY THOMPSON, a Colorado miner, who
was well known throughout the West in earlier
| DAYS, contracted one winter to run a 30O0-foot
| tunnel at $40 foot for a rich company. He
| timbered it nicely and got his pay, and in the
| spring the company found that they had nothing
! but skeleton framework. Thompson had run
| the tunnel along the side of the gulch in the
| snow.
THE bridge which is to be built over the Straits
of Messina which separate Sicily from Italy,
will when contaminated, form one of the most
| striking works in the line of modern engineer
| ing. The place selected for this great under
| taking is where the channel is some two and
! one half miles wide and 361 feet deep. Two
| piers will support the viaduct of steel rails at
| the height of 32S feet above the water.
A PUPIL in one of the Louisville pnblc schools
| complied recently in the following manner with
a request to write a composition on the subject
of physiological lecture to which the school
had just listened The human body is made
| up of the head, thoraX and the abdomen. The
| head contains the brains when there is any. The
| thorax contains the heart and the lungs. The
|
! are five, a, e, j, o, u, and sometimes and y"
An ENGLISH Asp1RANT for literary fame, dis
gusted with repeated reflections of his manu-
script by publishers, copied Miltons Samson
| Agonistes" and giving it the title Like a Giant
| Refreshed" send it round to the men who had
| declined his own productions. IL was regularly
| rejected, with criticisms which the sender con-
SlderS very amusing One letter reads: In
| Like Giant Refreshed we find writing equal
! in our opinion, to the best of the minor poets
! lif you will pardon our saying so(, but nothing
! to promise a sale" Another publisher writes
that probably lit is a first work, - and cheers
the supposed author by telling him that he will
| do something much better yet"
w. P. BENNETT, for many years superintend
ent of the teams and stages of Wells Fargo &
| Co., has just sent East from Virginia City New,
| the Norwegian snowshoes with which for twenty
| years be has traverSed the SerraS. They are of
| white ash and ten feet long. In 1867 he carried
! the company's express packages across the
! mountains and was fifty-two hours in a snow
storm. When he got back the Widow Bryant
now Mrs John W. Mackay-told him that in
! twenty years his snowshoes would be bought as
| relics. She was right. Once the shoes ran
away with Mr.. Bennett and he went down the
| Kingsbury grade into Lake Valley, a distance
of over two miles, in four minutes.
TIRE SPARROW has a friend in Boston One of
these much abused birds got into the globe of
an electric lamp just before the hour for turn
!
| enough TO get out. A little crowd assembled to
! see what would happen when the current was
/ turned on, but before the catastrophe an ee-
| Santly dressed man, accompanied by lady,
| walked up When ne saw the situation he
| handed his cane to his companion, pulled off
| his kid gloves, climbed the slippery pole to the
| great detriment of his good clothes and putting
! his hand within the lamp, released the bird
! which flew away. The crowd applauded and
! the gentleman went home for more good clothes
VERY interesting yarns are aloat concerning
the engagement of f. Hart Day, a prospective
! Kansas City millionaire, and Cora w. Haynes
| the daughter of the senior member of a we'll
| known music house. Last summer young Dav
! and his mother tossed up a cent to decide
whether they'd 90 to Cape Ann. Magnolia or Bar
| Ifarbor The latter won. There he met Miss
| Cora, whose father, contrary to the story books
wanted her to marry some young man who had
| made his own way in the world. So when she
| and +. Hart Day became engaged they kept it a
| secret until the other day. when having fainted
away after the ordeal of trying on a w~dress
| Miss Haynes murmured her beloved's name
and then the secret was out.
THE WATCH without hands which has recently
been brought before the public is simply a
watch with the ordinary wheelwork in which the
intermediate teeth are wanting, and which gear
every minute and hour only The contrvance
though admitted to possess some Inconvenience
is, on the other hand, claimed to present some
genuine preferences over the ordinary make
Thus, the construction not only allows the read
ing to be accurate but so permits of estimating
! the time that SpDaratpS cash IasSiuo. p,ip,,tn