The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In CHICAGO one firm have already sold 10000
drums this year. the great demand being caused
by the approaching campaign.
AT Brennan, Tex, a very good flow Of nat
ural gas was reached at a depth of 1853 feet 1t
furnishes sufficient power to run ten-horse
engine
A VERMONT MINISTER has preached 121 fun
eral sermons, with net returns Of two barrels of
apples and silver dollar. 1t seems that fun
erals don't pay.
Gov WATERMAN, of California, has gold
mine in San Diego county that is now paying
him net profit of $500 a day. He expects to
take 100000 out of it next year.
NJ. DUBUs BONNET, of Lille, France, has In
vented process of spinning and weaving glass
into cloth. The warp is composed of silk on
which the pattern in glass appears.
CHINESE PHEAsANTs are 80 thick in the Waldo
hills, Colorado, that they have to be shooed out
of the burrows by the plowmen, so greedy are
they in gobbling up the angleworms. They are
becoming a nuisance.
A WONDERFUL STRIKE has been made at the
Wigwam mine at Caribou. A popularity Of
this strike is that rich ore In a heavy body has
been found at less than 20 feet of depth. An
assay of unsolicited ore was made and ran
IL, 900 ounces of silver.
DRAFT for 1c. was received at the New York
Sub-Treasury, Monday, in the mail. 1t was
drawn by national bank in Bridgeport, Conn,
and was on tne Chemical National Bank of New
York. 1t was sent to the sub Treasury in pay
ment of the balance then against the Bridge
port bank.
WELL BoRER in st. Louis says that it is very
seldom he can penetrate the earth to any very
great depth without coming in contact with
magnetic Influences. on Withdrawing the tool
spikes and other iron substances will adhere to
it, Sometimes he encounters magnetism two
or three times in the same well.
THE decay of American teeth, and to some
extent the loss Of teeth of all civilized races,
has been accounted for by the abest English
authorities on the score of the heavier draughts
made by the brain on our general physical and
nerve systems. 1t is supposed that the force
that would be applied to repairing the teeth is
used elsewhere.
CAPT. WILLIAM ANDREWS fears immense waves
less than the whales in his projected canoe trip
across the Atlantic. He says schools of whales
which are tame, are wont to play dangerously
near craft that can be splintered by a single
blow of one of their broad tails. To guard
against this he W II carry a supply Of cartridges
to frighten away the disagreeabe companions
Four OR FIVE YEARS AGO Charles A. Thomp-
son of Hutchinson, Kan, left his employer and
went to New Mexico. A few months afterward
his parents died in Iowa and left him So, 900. A
guardian was appointed who tried to find the
young man, whose 2lst birthday waS,on May H.
1887. He had about given up the hope of find
ing him, when a few months ago a letter
reached Hutchinson from young Thompson. A
detective was put on the track, and the heir was
found lOaflng around the wharves of san Fran
cisco under an assumed name. He manifested
little interest in the fortune and with difficulty
was persuaded to return to Iowa and take pos
session Of his property.
THE SALVATION ARMY of Nashua N H. Capt
Maggie Cartwill commanding was in the habit,
when out parading, of stopping on the streets
and holding meetings in the presence of the
crowds that collected and INSTRUCTED the
thoroughfares. The police authorities told
Capt. Maggie that she must not hold meetings
in the streets She persisted and was arrested
The Judge explained the law to her, and kindly
told her that If she would conflne her demon
STATIONS on the streets to marching with flags,
singing, and beating tambourines the com
plant would be placed on file. She declared
that she would hold the meetings as usual;
whereupon she was fined "a and costs. She
wouldn't pay the fine, and wouldn't let her
friends pay it, and she languishes in jail,
victim to stubbornneSs