The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-18
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SINCE 1858 the state government of Maine has
diSbursed TO the soldiers and their families
needing aid the sum of $780,, 500. During the
past three years the annual sum has steadily
increased. Up TO Sept. /, this year, 1t amounted
to S32, 4S5 GO.
SAMUEL wooD Of Cooleyville, Ind, has dog
that beats anything on record. a hawk caught
one of his hens, and few away with it. 1t got
eight feet in the air when the dog gave a jump
and the hen got away all right, but the hawk is
on exhibition.
AS illustrative Of the change going on in the
west, the Chicago STANDARD says that one
church in Illinois was almost entirely trans
planted from the central part of the state Of
Kansas, minister and congregation going along
to the new neighborhood.
THE Black Hills country is making name for
itself rs horse growing country, and it is pre-
dicted that within ten years it will be as famous
for its horses as the blue grass region. 1t
already boasts many fine horses of the best
breeds known in the world.
ABOUT O'Clock Saturday afternoon Oscar
Huffman, a timer, working in Ire house at
Cincinnati. fell through tae hatchway dis
lance of 50 feet. and was instantly killed. Two
hours later Adoph Niehaus. another timer,
went in search of Huffman, not knowing he was
dead, and fell through the same hatchway and
received fatal injuries.
ALL the biographies, says the Boston Tran
Caron, the French officer who recently sue
ceeded in getting to Tinbuctoo, finds that the
city is wrongly located on the ordinary maps.
Instead OF being in latitupe 1S7 s. Is" and longi-
tude q 5 10", he finds cits latitude 6o 49, north
and longitude 50 IL west from Paris.
GEORGE ALTON, employed at Barnum's winter
quarters in Bridgeport, Conn. narrowly escaped
a horrible death few days ago He was caught
beneath an overturned hyena's cage and held
prisoner. with the savage beasts within reach
of him. until fellow workman arrived. and,
with two elephants, lifted the cage to its place,
Alton was badly injured, though not by the
hyenas.
A PORTLAND GROOM got decidedly novel re
ception on returning from his wedding trip.
He was rec eived with outstre.c led hands by a
vast army of creditors, including the clergyman
who tied the knot The Young man gave a
check to chum to pay all tn. expenses of til e
marriage, but the chum, instead of putting the
money 10 its intended use, went off and had
good time with 1t.
A BOSTON GENTLEMAN. who Is in the vigor of
life, and likely to outlve some of his children,
has presented each of them with S1,0O0,020, the
share of the estate they would get were he TO
die. There is some question whether such a
sum of money will De an advantage to the
average young person, but the possession of it
will contribute to the cheerfulness in view of
the possible longevity of the male parent.
AN interesting astronomical expedition is be
purpose. The first in order of time will be an
expedition to California for observation of the
total eclipse of the sun on Jan. l. 1889 Imme-
diately after the eclipse one of the corps of
observers will proceed to Peru. taking with him
a part of the apparatus. He will be Joined later
by Others and the work viii then be entered
upon, which has been year or more in CON
temptation, of making a complete survey of the
southern heavens.
A MEMORIAL TABLET has been placed in Chrrt
church, Hartford, Conn, above the pew long
occupied by Lydia II. Sigourney. 1t bears some
lines by John Greenleaf Whittier. who says: Il
knew Mrs. Sgourney we'll when. as a boy.
| came to Hartford. Her kindness to the young
| rustic stranger SHALL never forget" The lines
| are as follows:
''She sang alone, ere womaphood had known
The gift of song which fills the air to-day:
Tender and sweet, a music all her own
May fifty nger where she knelt 10 pray"
| THEATER PEOPLE don have much chance now
| adays, as one man steals the music with phon-
ograph, while another man, with a detective
| camera and sensitometer plates No. 80, photo
| graphs the stage several times during each act
| Perhaps the stage manager will arrange to use
| red or pink globes around his electric lamps if
| the stealing becomes too annoying. Tais would
| kill the attempt as dead as was the ambition of
| friend who tried TO pilot graph q tOrchight
procession by the light OF red fire This man
| forgot that red light was non-actinic He will
| try blue fire next time.