The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-19
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EA-0OV. BERRY OF New Hampshire. onc VI
the few war governors living, celebrated
the ed anniversary of his BIRTH at his home IN
BRISTOL n. H., recently.
An HONEST DRIVER of Pawtucket r. l., who
returned bag of silver, forgotten on his car,
to the owner, was showered with thanks, but
nothing more substantial.
Dr. McGLYSN is said by his friends to have
aged very noticeably since the last Presidential
campaign. He looks ten years older since he
was deposed from the priesthood.
THERE is remarkable activity in London in
the formation of stock companies. and the class
known as promoters are waxing wealthy.
| One OF them is said TO have made nearly S2,5OO,-
600 this year.
PRESIDENT HENRY BERGH of the Society for
| the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, grows
more and more like his uncle, the originator of
tine society every day. The resemblance is said
| TO be startling.
A TRAVELLER in Maine reports that while Re
was journeying over a country road last week,
with the thermometer at $50, be came face to
lace with sign, reading: Don't dump any
| snow on this lot"
Miss MARY Miss Rose Jane and Miss Amy
| Leech, in consideration of the eminence of their
| brother, the late John Leech as an artist, have
oeen awarded an annual pension of $50 each by
| tie British government.
THE damage done by the earthquake at Vos-
tizza, Greece, amounts to 100000. Large quar-
| titles of bread have been sent from Athens to
| relieve the distress among the people, all the
| ovens having been shattered.
| WEATHER WHAT IS WEATHER. prevailed on
! Mount Washington last week The greater part
| of the time the thermometer lurked away below
| freezing point, while the wind frequently blew
| at the rate OF eighty miles an hour
A CALIFORNIA MAN is Matching chickens by
| m lie of in ba
temperature of which is uniformly 1929. 1t
| seems our breakfast eggs are overdone or we
might have chickens every morning.
FATHER DUFFO the Catholic priest who went
from Selma, Ala, to jacksonville to take the
place of the clergyman reported to have died
from yellow fever is 20 years old, and has been
through thirteen epidemics in various cities of
| the south.
A FRENCH TRAVELLER in French Guiana says
there are in Upper Guiana fifteen Indian tribes,
| forming group of at least 20 900 persons who
are not mere nomads, but are sedentary in their
| habits, and have attained a certain degree of
civilization.
Mrs. HUMPHREY WARD writer of Robert
| Eismere" is niece of the late Matthew Ar
mold, She lives with her husband in London,
and their home is the model of literary house
hold Mr.. Ward is an editorial writer for the
| London Times.
CHARLOTTE PERRY, a colored centenarian of
Sherman, Tex, is alleged to have recovered her
eyesight on Sunday, after having been totally
blind for ten years 1t is thought her vision will
| again soon vanish, for during the day it became
| mucn dimmed.
H. c. BUNNER, editor of Puck, is said to com
mand higher price from the magazines for his
eshort stories than any other American writer of
| his age. Mr. BURNER was once reporter on a
| daily newspaper in New York city and not a
| good reporter either.
GEN GREENE wrote to Gen. Wadsworth March
| 10, 1779: I'VE had little dance at my quarters
a few evenings past. His excellency washing
| tom and Mrs. Greene danced upward of three
| hours without sitting down Upon the whole
we had pretty little frisk'
| MOTHER HUBBARD, it has been decided, had
sanity origin. She is identified with St Hubert
the patron of dogs and the chase, who is repre-
| scented in long robe, veritable Mother Hub
bard gown, and who successfully appealed to
| the Imagination Of the story teller.
| A CALIFORNIA PAPER says that a party who
assembled Mount Lassen recently became cleo
trified the hair on their heads standing straight
| out and sparks of electricity flying from the
! ends of their noses and fingers The oheuome-
non was occasioned by an electrical storm
WHILE jeremiah Haley, blacksmith of
| Westerly, R. l., was shoeing horse the animal
| caught it's foot in a rent in Haleys leather
| apron, and in struggling to free itself threw
| Haley upon the floor. trampling upon him
breaking his collar bone and badly cutting his
| head
| DR. w. L. CANDEE, of Milwaukee, Wis, who
is nearing the century mark in life saw the first
steamboat ascend the Hudson, and rode upon
| the first railroad built in the United States
| tween Albany and Schenectady. He was init
mately acquainted with Robert Fulton the in
ventor of steamboats,.
The arc lamp in the st. GATHERINGS light
house, on the Isle of Wight. is said to be the
most powerful electric light in the world. and
equal to $4,000 candles The carbon nencilS
| have diameter of two and half inches, and
| the electric arc bridges space of about one
| half inch between the carbon points
YOUNG MAN in hartford thought he would
astonish his best girl with display of eruditon
and so wrote her loving proposal in Volapuk
| And the next day he was arrested and hauled
| up before the United States commissioner.
| charged with sending threatening profane and
| blasphemous letters through the mail.
KENTUCKY, which gives several thousand dol
| lars to foreign missions every year, is said to
contain six counties, each of which is without a
church. This suggests the decision of the boy
| who asked why he didn't try to pet to
| church in time and who replied: I'm never
| late; always get in before the collection"
UNTIL the year 1890 the following law was in
| force in England: whoever shall entice into
bonds of matrimony any male subject of her
| majesty by means of rouge, white paint
| spanish COJuOn, steel COrSeJS, CrlnOllne, high
| heeled shoes or false hips, shall be prosecuted
for witchcraft, and the marriage declared null
| and void"
| JOHN P TOWNSEND, in his address on savings
banks in the United States, states that the
| average expense Of savings bank management
| in thirteen states is less than one-third of per
cent; the average interest paid is nearly per
| cent. in the six New England states the aver
| age is greater than 4 per cent, in Vermont
| il was Az per cent, and in Rhode Island no
| per cent. was paid in 1887.
THE sergeant who was on guard at the
fortress of Ham at the moment when the late
| Emperor Napoleon Ill effected his escape has
| just died at Fraize, in his 68th year. He and
| the soldiers about him were offered wine by the
then Prince Louis Napoleon, into which a mar
cotic had been infused. The prisoner kept them
| in conversation until one by one thew feI
asleep, and, the coast being clear he slipped
| away.
A MAN fell from a train, at Stapleton, Long
| Island, on Sunday, and met with what q police
| man regarded as instant death but lust before
| the arrival of the coroner and undertaken who
| had been officially summoned, he got IN and
| walked TO wharf and hired boatInan to row
| him to a Canadian vessel, on which he was am
| ployed as a fireman. The coroner and under