The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


! the selection of beneficiarIes personal beauty
! must be consi cred first. The committee on
| admission has an interesting time ahead
POOR FISHERMAN who piled his trade in
| canoe on the Chalapo Lake, Louisiana, caught
big snake on his line, and on hauling it on board
| the reptile wound itself around the mans neck
! ana strangled MIN to death TIE canoe con.
| timing the corpse, with the snake still wound
! about the mans neck, was found the next
| day.
| The vINEGRowERs of The Santa Anna and San
| Gabriel valleys of California think that new
disease has attacked their vines. Tney call 1t
| sap sour" When attacked the vines wther
and die at once. 1t is infectious. and spreads
rapidly. The best remedy thus far known is to
! pull up and burn the vines the moment they
show the blight.
NJ. B. BRADY, the Washington photographer,
was the first to take camera on the battlefield
in the late civil war. He pitched his tripod
first at the battle of Bull Run, and continued
throughout the war to make these important
pictures. The instantaneous process was not
known III those DAYS, might have bad
photographs of the bullet and the bombshell
in motion"
THE Christian at Work prints list of sensa-
tional topics announced by American preachers,
| and says they compare favorably with dime
novel titles. Here are a few of the titles: Boy
cotting the Dead" The Great Oil, straight
from the Shoulder" Hell and the People who
are Going There" Taken by the Throat"
use Your Eyes, "Off Goes the Roof, up
| Comes the Man."
| SUIT at law at Moscow, and various investi
| Cations disclose that tea is being shameessly
| adulterated. OF forty four samples which were
officially analysed, four consisted of mixture
| of tea and a certain kind of grass four of the
| grass alone, and five of tea which had already
once been used. In Moscow the police have
| found a number of barrels of sweepngs in
| tended for admixture with tea.
W. c. FORTY, United States swamp land
| commissioner, was arrested at Iowa Falls, Ia.
Wednesday, and taken to Eldorado, where he
was arraigned for treating friend to drink
of whisky. He pleaded guilty to the charge,
| AMI was fined 500 and COSTS by Mayor Ward
under that clause of the liquor law which pro-
hibits the giving away of liquor to be drunk as
beverage. All the prosecutors were political
opponents
THE famous "Moodus noises were heard
again on Saturday at Moodus, Conn There
was the familiar trembling of the ground and
the rumbling sounds, which continued about a
minute. They are described as very much like
an earthquake but a theory that has been re
ceived with favor is that they are connected
with the passage of a stream of water under
ground. The noises have not been noticed for
several years until Saturday.
THE first girl baby born in Denver was the
daughter of settler named Harvey, and she
was born in 1850 or thereabouts In recogni-
ton of her enterprise in being born in the camp,
|
the land in sight of her fathers cabin. Unfor-
| tunately the taxes were never paid and the
land, now worth S2,000,000. fell into other
hands. The first girl who once owned it all is
now singer in a variety show in that city.
A FAMILY consisting of man, his wife, a
grown son and little daughter, passed through
Sheffield, Ala, lately, en- route for Jasper trav-
cling in wagon, wherein they had iourneyed
all the way from Northern Michigan. Several
citizens of Sheffield tried TO induce the emigrantS
n-fr how saNNHYN I,FfI -.
| were anxious to reach the end of their long
| journey, they declined the invitation and
! moved on" They came south for the purpos3
| of farming.
| BEAVER FALLS PA.) MAN applied match to
the bunghole to SEE if the inside of benzine
| barrel clean, and terrific explosion fol-
! lowed The heavy oaken head of the barrel was
| blown through cellar door, the lights in the
| house extinguished, the window glass smashed
some of the furniture broken, and the mans
| wife and children, who stood around watching
his operations, were thrown to the floor but
| escaped with a few bruises. The husband was
\ not injured.
| APRoPos of the announcement by a CORE
| spondent of the Scientific american that genu-
inc shttim wood has been found growing within
sixty mil les of Nashville, the ChTjStjdn Register
| remarks: IF this be true. Noah probably had
| his shipyard in the same vicinity, and the
| cour e of the flood was somewhere along the
| Mississippi valley. the river still retaining the
bad habit of periodical inundation. acquired
| so long ago. If the ark was made in Tennessee
| the Garden of Eden was no doubt in the Blue
| Grass region of Kentucky, and President War
| rem may as well give up his search for it at the
| north pole"
| THE MILAN INSTITUTE of Sciences Arts and
Literature offers the following prizes for contri-
| buttons to medical and physiological science
| which are open to foreign as well as native
competitors: \ prize of 500 lire Qbesides i
medal of the value OF 500 Iire) for the best Grill.
| cal dissertation on hypnotism; a prize of 800
lire (witha medal of the value of 500 lre) for
the discovery of a cure for pellagra IA disease
| endemic in the rural districts of northern Italy,
| or for the determination of the nature of mi
asms and contagious; prize of 400 lire for the
| best essay on the embryogeny of the mamma
| liam nervous system.
NEARLY forty members of the Yale theologi-
| cal school have applied to the New Haven as
SCISSORS to be registered as voters, and have per.
| sons back of them to carry the matter to the
| supreme court should there be any question on
| their rights to do so. Such was the case four
| wears ago. when the decision favorable to
| the students. The juniors not able to vote
| but the middlers and seniors are residents, and
! differ from the others by being selfsupportng
| Several deliver lectures. teach in evening
schools, preach on Sundays in rural parishes.
| and few spend four months Of the year in
| western missionary work.
DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES and the venera-
| BILE DR. Peabody Of Cambridge once had an ap-
| pointment to see statue If Eurydce, says
| New England exchange. Dr. Holmes arrived
| first, and, when few moments later his friend
| drove up in a buggy, he greeted him with the
| obvious pun: "Ah. you rid. | seen Dr. Peabody
| was wonderfully peased with this sally anl on
his return home, attempted to repeat il for the
| benefit of his family. "Dr. Holmes was ex-
| tremey witty this afternoon he said. I'VE
| went to soc the Eurydice and, when drove up
| he said. just as quick flash, All, doctor.
| Se9 you came IN buggy.
| A CORRESPONDENT of the Cleveland Leader.
writing from Japan, says that Pacific Ocean
| travel offers almost as many new things as one
| Of the European countries. When you step on
| the deck of an Atlantic ship you are in England
As soon as you land your baggage in the state
| room of a Pacific steamer you are in c ina
The ships are manned entirely by Cinnamon
with the exception OF the chief officers and Won
drop into the land OF the Celestals the moment
| you lose sight of San Francisco The Steerage
| passengers are all Chinese Your food is cooked
| by Chinese, and your rooms are cared for by
white -gowned Celestials. The walters, the sail
ors and the coal beavers are Cinnamon.
The REMARKABLE GOODNESS OF Pittsburg
burglar assisted him to escape. He broke into
| a laundry, and. while sorting the garments into
large clothes basket, was surprised by two
officers. who appeared at a window opening
into the yard. The fellow worked so systemat-
icaly and quietly that the officials Thought that
perhaps he was an employe of the establish
ment, and they therefore asked him why he
worked at so late an hour. He replied: II am
getting the things ready for the girls who will