The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-25
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! A MOUNT VERNON q. " MAN. who has made
the trial asserts that any man of ordinary in
! telligence can master Volapuk so as to write
! and speak it correctly in a months time.
! a CrcINNAT1 WOMAN, who lost her purse and
sum of money several months ago, was sur
! prised few days since to receive the missing
article, with its contents untouched, in a pack
age that came by mail
HARRISON GILLART, of Chill, Ind, is mourn
ing the death of a pet Indian pony that was
foaled in 1881 and was. therefore. in all proba-
| billty, the oldest pony in the United States.
Almost up to the day of its death the pony was
driven in harness.
DAVID L. DAVIS, of Blackjack. Cambria county,
walked into Johnstown the other day to visit
his brother, whom he had not seen for thirty
years, though both have been living in the same
county all the time. Mr.. Davis is the father of
sixteen children, all of whom are living.
The Illinois Board of Health has sent notices
to all the railroad companies centering in
Chicago directing them TO at once put their
stations and grounds in good sanitary condi-
ton. This is done in connection with the efforts
being made by the board TO prevent the appear
ance Of cholera aud other epidemic diseases in
Illinois this year
BISMARCK. OAK, was named By Sam Willleson
and some others of the Northern Pacific rail
way, who wanted to give a German flavor to the
road and help the sale OF its bonds in the father
land. 1t drew from Prince Bismarck pleasant
Acknowledgements of the compliment, but it
didn't stay the failure of Jay Cooke, who went
down a short time afterward.
THERE are now twenty-four dukes OF ancient
creation in France, and their titles are: dues,
De Noailles, La Tremouille. LuyneS, Brissac
Richelieu, Rohan, Gramont. Mortemart, Au-
mont Harcourt, FitzJames. Chaulnes, Valen-
tinois, Praslin, La Rochefoucauld, Lorge, Brog-
montTonnerre and Montmorency.
SOME BUFFALoNIANs who were seated at a
boarding house breakfast suddenly lost their
appetite on hearing the following conversation
between the landlady and the maid of all work:
Maid-The canary is deed mum. Mistress
What did you do with 1t? Maid Threw it into
the hash box. The boarders left their hash un-
tasted, and didn't feel easy until they learned
that the new girl was English, and that she had
deposited the dead bird in the receptacle in
tended for ashes.
An INTERESTING FEATURE of the series in the
Trinity Methodist church at Denver few Sun
days ago was an address by the Rev. STA Sex
Ong, a delegate from Foochow, China to the
General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church to be held in New York in May He is
! the first Chinese minister to be sent as dele
gate to this conference. He is 4s years old and
has been preaching the gospel in China for
twenty-fve years. He dresses in the native
costume
The National Museum at Washington has been
presented with valuable collection of Indian
relics gathered by J. Isham Allen, of Montana
Territory. Mr.. Allen went TO St Louis in 1S47
with his parents. He became fascinated with
wild Western life and left his home to visit the
| Rocky Mountains. He spent many years among
the Indians and learned their language. He was
for long time interpreter at the Crow Agency,
where he was called Necklace" by the Indians
from his habit of wearing a black silk cravat.
He is 81 OrOGOPrOuS merchant al StiI1urotar
Mont.
REPORT speaketh well of an 1S-year-old
maiden of Blue HILL Me, if it be true that she
allowed her parents to go away for a vacation
during the past winter, while she staid all alone
day and night, took care of yoke Of oxen, a
horse three cows and hog, and LARGE flock
of sheep and hens and chickens Besides this
she is credited with doing the fall spinning, and
Harvesting her own horse to take her butter and
eggs to market. Last summer she picked and
sold S25 worth of berries and made trousers at
l2c. a pair, earning enough money to clothe
herself.
A ZIMMERMAN. says the Lewiston Journal has
preached curious theory to account for the
unexplained presence of dry rot in lumber 1t
has been noticed, frequently that perfectly
sound lumber, after being put in a pile, has
rotted in an incredibly short space of time with
out the least apparent cause. In endeavoring
TO ascertain the cause of this the timber philoS-
opher has discovered. TO his own satisfaction at
least, that the dry rot is sort of contagious
disease and that it is transmissible by contact,
can be transmitted by a saw from decayed log
to sound one during the process of converting
it into lumber and in many other ways
THE Chicago papers are congratulatng them
| selves that real live French Countess is living
in that city. But it appears that the lady re-
ferred to, the Countess de VeulIe, went there to
get the benefit of the Chicago divorce courts
She owns real estate in that city, and has &C
quired residence sufficient for the purpose of
the law. She presented strong case against
diSSipated and unfaithful husband, and Judge
Collins has granted her a decree. Whether she
will remain in this country now that she has
secured her freedom, or will return to Paris is
not stated. 1t is a long way from Paris to
Chicago for divorce, but it was evidently con.
sidered worth the journey
AT ToLoNo, ILL, stands house that has long
had the reputation of being haunted The
owner advertised it for sale for 81 100, and
though it cost more than three times the money
no one would buy it. This spring, however. a
Yankee came along and bought the property
for $500. He moved his family into the house
and soon after ghosts began to make their pres
ence manifest He took his gun and went hunt
ing for the SpooRs. He found them located in
an empty house near by from which place thew
had stretched string over to the Yankee's
dwelling, where it was fastened to nrickbat
and dropped through some lattice work. which
could be slammed vigorously when the string
spirits and gave them a lively chase for a
long distance. They have not annoyed him
since.
MOSES FRALEY. the st. Louis Spectator who
has gone under for 100000 in the big wheat
deal, has bobbed up serenely so many times.
after just such experiences in the past, that the
men here who know him intimately expect tn
see him pull out of his present difficulties and
pay every dollar Of his indebtedness Nose =
as everybody who knows him for an hour gets
to call him, has never had dollar in his life
that he wouldn't risk on the turn Of a card or
the toss OF penny. Life, with all there is in
it. is game of chance with him, and he PLAYS
it without limit. Years ago he used to keen
clothing store out in st. Louis and was piling
up a comfortable income by slow stages when
he somehow tumbled into wheat speculation
that made him fortune almost in day From
that hour Nose" Fraley has been an Important
factor in nearly every big wheat DEAL and has
made and lost good many millions
Or the Belgian frontier smuggling, with the
aid Of trained dogs, is said to be a fourishing
business Cigars. jewelry and laces constitute
the trade. The animals receive special Il ain.
ing for their profession The practice consists
in traveiing from one place in Belgium to an
other in France, and vice versa avoiding the
high roads and the revenue me1 The latter
they are laugh; by bitter experience TO avoid
for the SmukgleTs WAC tram them keep a GOOD
supply of uniforms Of revenue officers on hand
These uniforms are donned by confsderstes
whom the dogs have never seen and tte;e fell
lows boat and stone the dogs numerically. The
result is that tue dogs run whenever they see a
genuine Officer When the dog i started off on