The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| DEALERS in hard wood furnishings say that
sycamore wood is rapidly coming into use. 1t
| works well, makes an excellent finish, and is
| much cheaper than birch, maple, or oak.
PROF. J. A. LINTNER placed the total number
of insect species in the world at $4,000. OF
those found in the United States 1000 or 5000
| species are fruit pests, and at least 2l0 attack
the apple.
! JAMES BINGAMoN, of Greene county, o., is IS
years old, and has never been out of the county
| in his life The other day he visited James
| town, one of the principal towns in the county,
| for the first time.
THE catch of shad in the Cape Fear river this
| year has been unprecedented So far the fisher
men have taken $4,000, and it is expected that
| by May the number will reach 10000 They
| retail in Wilmington at 15c. pair
JAMES MORTON, whose name came before the
public in connection with the failure of the City
of Glasgow Bank, died recently, and the in
| surance companies are all in mourning, as the
policies on his life amounted to S575OO0.
On Floyd Fishers wood lot, in West Union
township, near Winchester, o. a caseknife was
| found in the heart of tree. A gentleman who
counted the rings of wood gave it as his opinion
that the knife was placed in the body of the tree
| sixty years ago.
THE bursting of a creosote tank at the freight
| yard of the Midland railway at Carlisle, Eng,
small stream which is tributary to the river
| Eden, and it poisoned tons of fish, including
salmon and trout.
New YORK religious paper makes the fol
| lowing statement: cat st. Thomas church,
Homestead Md, the Rev William Brayshaw,
rector, is at once to be reshingled and other
wise repaired, and bids are now in hand; the
cost will be some 5000" The rector must need
suit of clothes badly.
Count FANG, who died recently at Vienna
| leaving a fortune of $500, 0O0 began as
baker. He went to Paris in 1912, and kept for
| many years the first shop at which Vienna bread
was made and sold The establishment still
exists-in the Rue Richelieu, and has always
been known as the Maison Gang.
| A SMALL BRASS STATUE was discovered recently
near the Acropolis Museum, Athens. 1t is in a
| perfect state of preservation. and the figure
| bears close resemblance to the Apollo of
| Canachos in the British Museum. This statue is
| the best specimen of Workmanship in brass that
| has yet come to light in the course of the eXca-
vations at the Acropolis.
The committee in charge of the celebration
I Of the three hundredth anniversary of the de-
| struction of the Spanish Armada have arranged
| that an Armada window shall be placed in St
Marearet's,, Westminster, Eng, where Lord
| Howard and Sir Walter Raleigh lie buried, and
| also that an Armada tercentenary exhibition
shall be held at Plymouth.
THE AMOUNT of small change carried by
| Western women is somewhat remarkable. Mrs
| Lottie Lawrence, of San Francisco, CAL at
| tended a theater in Salt Lake City Utah few
| nights ago, and on returning to her apartments
| found that she had been in some way deprived
| of $500 Whoever obtained the money doubt
less felt that he had drawn Lottery prize.
AT the recent fire at vassar Mich, thor
| oughbred female pointer owned by John Loss,
had her kennel. in which were eight puppies,
under one of the burning buildings With
fkar fr,esSf fla
forth from under the burning building, mutely
| appealing for help, but none could be given, and
| rather than desert her brood she died with
| them.
GEORGE w. WATSON, of Preston county, West
| Virginia, beats the country on timber. pop
lar tree was lately cut on his farm that made
1919 feet of lumber 16 feet of the tree yielded
1,849 feet. A white oak tree was felled that
| made 5,295 feet. George, however, has trees on
his farm that beat either of these. One of these
| trees still standing measures SO feet in circum-
| ference.
A VERY curious court proceeding was had in
| the case of prisoner on trial in Hopkinsville
| KY, recently The Jury stood 10 for conviction
with certain penalty and for acquital The
Judge communicated this fact to the defendant
and gave him the alternative of accepting, the
opinion of majority as verdict, which he
| quickly agreed to do, paid the fine imposed and
was released from jail
As Mr.. Conis Adkins was strolling along the
| river bank near Brooks Fall, w. Va, he saw a
| large otter swimming with difficulty toward the
shore. He waited and watched until the otter
came out on large fat rock near the shore
| He was seen to have large catfish in his mouth
The otter had settled down FOR a good square
dinner, when Mr.. Adkins stepped up frightened
| him away and secured the fish The latter
| weighed thirty pounds.
A WRITER in an English paper declares that
new American idea of decoration is wearing
| Il do in ba 90
| is cut away, he says, and the diamond is In
| serted in a false bit of tooth, which is by some
means attached to the real original article 1t
| is hoped by the writer that the enterprising
| ladies who are idiotic enough to ADOPT this
| fashion will swallow diamond or two. and
cause highly tragic end of very foolish
| fashion"
ALEXANDER NoHL, of Corey, o., owns a rare
curiosity 1t is 81 bill. continental currency.
| On it is what is known as the wild hog scala
crude cut of wild hog; while to its left is the
| following: This bill entities the bearer to re-
| ceive four Spanish miled dollars, or the value
thereof in gold or silver according to a resolu-
| tion of Congress passed at Philadelphia Feb
| II, 1776 Signed John Howard" Another sig.
nature appears, but it is too much defaced to be
| made out,
COPY of the first or Klmarnock edition of
Robert Burns poems, chiefly in Scottish dia
lect, was sold for 1855 by Messrs. Sotheby. Viii.
kinson & Hodge in Wellington street, London.
recently, 1t was remarkably rle CODY, with
the book plate and portrait of George Patton.
published at Kilmarnock. 1856. II was bought
for America, 1t is said. This is the highest price
ever paid at an auction for this rare edition
The LANG copy sold some years ago for $3.50
which included manuscript poem in Burns
autograph.
AT HARTFORD Cry, IND, girl who had been
confined TO her bed for nearly three years. and
given up by her physicians and friends as a
hopeless paralytic, got up and walked about the
room on being told that the man who had prom
ised to marry her years ago was betrothed to
another She rapidly recovered and her recre-
ant lover, hearing of her wonderful restoration
to health, again returned TO his first love All
was forgiven and forgotten and few DAYS ago
they stood before the altar and the posfDoned
nuptials were celebrated
SToNEY BRIDGE, N. Y, is promised a novel
wedding next month The ceremony will be
performed on the bridge in the village The
large structure will be decorated with flowers
and the national colors. When the ceremony
ends, a large balloon will be sent M from the
top Of the bridge and the band will play up in
Balloon" Congratulations will follow and
then there will be dancing and games There
will be ten bridesmaids and ten groomsmen In
attendance. The bridal pair will take palace
car for their wedding tour the same afternoon
THE old saying that "beefsteak is better medi
cine than quinine" is receiving able support
from many white men on the Congo. Stanley
regarded Bona as a particularly unhealthfu