The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-26
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| HUNTERS In massachusetts, concede that deer
were never so numerous in the woods of Cape
Goa as at the present time 1t is unlawful how
ever to kill them.
WATCH lost by an Ohio farmer two years
ago was found in the throat of one of his cows
which had choked to death the other morning
one mad found 1t IN straw stack
The CHURCH in Shaker Village, Canterbury,
n H., although built in 1892, has never been re-
shingled. The shingles are of heart pine and
were fastened on with wooden pegs.
| THE OFFICIAL REPORT of the Kansas board Of
railroad commissioners for the year ended Dec
| shows that, compared with the population,
Kansas is the best equipped with railroads of any
state in the Union.
OWING TO the high price of lumber and other
building material in Los Angeles, Cal, several
| houses have been made in Chicago and i'm
ported by rail. Six such buildings were re-
| ceived in one week.
AN OHIO JURY has awarded a Mount Vernon
citizen $3.50 damages for the loss of an eye of
| one OF his valuable horses. The animal strayed
on TO a neighbours farm, and he threw a brick to
drive 1t OF, knocking out the eye.
CALIFORNIA clamors for a legal system which
| will insure the punishment of a criminal within
| six months of the commission of his crime, and
| which will compel the supreme court to give
oeclSlons promptly in case of appeals
A CLOTHES wRINGER was the rather odd pres.
| ent which Jersey City young man made his
| best girl. The pair afterward squabbled. and
| he demanded the return of the wringer and two
other presents but the girl refuses to give
them up.
JOHN SIMMONS of Galveston found a good
sized pearl in a dish of raw oysters few days
since. He placed the pearl in a collar box in
MS bedroom. Two days later he found the peal
| a soft, grayish mass with a red center If
| finger is placed on the pearl it becomes hard
| and the red spot disappears.
WILLIAM PERKINS, of Owensborough. XIV. is
blind and ingenious. The result of his affection
and his genius is a writing machine for the
onnd, winch the boy has just perfected. 1t is
sald That a San Francisco firm has paid him
5000 for the right to manufacture and sell the
machine in the United States.
IT is RECALLED by the Washington Star that
| the state of New York, whose big Four are
| figuring SO extensively in the cabinet gossip of
the day, has held every other portfolio at least
| three times, but never that of the interior de-
| partment, which has usually been filed by a
man from the west or southwest.
In NORWAY it has been discovered that snow
| offers considerable resistance to projectiles
| A colonel had snow trench metres so cent?
metres thick built and three shots were fired at
it from distance of 80 metres. The balls only
| penetrated to the distance of / metre 20 cent?
Metres and were found entirely shapeless.
A PECULIARLY NOVEL LETTER has just been
sent by an inhabitant of Bath, England TO a
| friend at Trowbridge. It was written in short
hand on the back OF postage stamp the ad-
| dress being in ordinary writing. The missivs
was dropped into the letter box at the general
postofhce, and was duly delivered at its destina-
| ton.
THE Rapid City, Dak.) Journal knows of
| three young women, who, at dinner last De-
cember. declared their intention never to
marry, and agreed to dine together on the 18th
OF each December. Since three honorary mem
bers have been added to the CLUB" They are
the girls husbands, and all six met ct dinner
Thursday week.
A SEARCH has just been begun in the Adriatic
sea, near Trieste, for treasure which went down
with the French corvette DanaI in 1872 The
treasure consisted of jewels and valuables
destined for an exalted parsonage at Trieste
The vessel sank as the result of an explosion
and since. IL seems, not vestige of the craft or
its treasure has been found.
THE last quarterly statement of the state
banks of the city of New York, as compared
with the previous quarter. shows an increase in
capital stock OF $4,000 an increase in net
profits of S467.100, an3 an increase due de-
Dositors of 50, 800. Loans increased S1S19-
200, stocks, bonds and mortgages $780, 300 and
specie s11,944, 300, there being a decrease in
legal tenders of 1884, 200.
IT is no wonder that foreigners consider the
English language so difficult to master when
letter makes in the pronunciation of it, The
letter changes lover into clover, d makes a
crow a crowd, makes eyed keyed changes
a son into a song, transforms a pear into a
pearl, changes a hoe into a shoe, makes
bough bought, makes omen into women.
The Pilgrim Society of Plymouth, Mass, has
received shoe found in the foundation of an old
chimney recently torn down on the Isaac Bart
lett estate, at Manomet The chimney was
erected in 1850 on the site of one much older
aChn hos rod
Dutch foot covering The house was occupied
by the ancestors of Sidney Bartlett. the oldest
member of the Suffolk county Massachusetts,
bar.
MARGARET HOLLAND CAREY, better known as
Mother Carey" who died Wednesday, in
Wheeling, W. Va. said to have been born
in County Clare, Irland. in 1777, and to have
married in 1901 Her husband died 80 years ago
at ripe old age. About ten years ago Mrs
Carey purchased tombstone for herself and
kept it in her room up to the time of her death
which was due to fall received a few weeks
ago.
As indicating how urgently the Bank of Eng
lands stock of gold needs replenishing it NAV
be stated that for the first week in December it
held Els, 304 900 in coin and bullion ana SO esq.,
900 reserve, the smallest amount in many years
At the same time in 1893 it held e21 94S 900 coin
and bullion and f12 497, 900 reserve The stock
Of bullion is now e. 900 600 or the equivalent of
SlO.00OOOO, below what it is customary TO hold
at this time Of the year.
AN EXHIBITION Of the forty-one congratula.
tory addresses which William III received on
the occasion of his accession to the German
throne has Just been opened at the Industrial
Museum at Berlin. Besides addresses from
well-wishers in various parts of Germany there
are others from the Germans at Naples.
Palermo, Catauia, Messina, Milan and Turin,
which were presented to the emperor on his re.
cent tour in Italy. German societies in Russia
England and America are also represented.
EDWARD SHERMAN, of Whitewater, Wis. 90
years old aud a steady, industrious man, deter
mined TO give up tobacco which be smoked and
chewed almost necessarily. Sickness followed.
and the physician recommended Sherman to
use tobacco again. but sparingly. He wouldn't
take the advice, but vowed he'd get the better
of the habit il il killed him. His health CON
tinued to fall he became peevish, then morose.
and then. a short time ago, violently insane
He has been removed to the Madison asylum
THE celebrated Woodbridge oak, seven miles
from Hartford. Conn. which was supposed TO
be more than 1900 years old, has been cut down
on account OF its decayed condition. 1t could
be seen for miles around as it stood on high
ground, and was "a feet in circumference In
1882 the Qupnpaic Oak Tree Association was
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