The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-03
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| what was to be the Subject of the others ser
mon, yet, singularly enough. both took tie
| same text.
CORNER LOT at Stanyan and Page streets
San Francisco, recently sold, brought $1QO9)
| 1t measured % by 100 feet. The entire block
| brought Sl42S2 About ten years ago the
same land was sold for $50 600 Last year ii
was again sold for S60,0l0 and was cut ND into
| building lots, which have now all been sold
| A TALE of a sparrow, enmeshed in the web Of
spider, is related by the New York Ereai Z
| sun. Just as the sparrow was about to hr.aL
! away, the reporter relates, the spider darted
| out and stung her in the neck. The sparroU
made desperate effort and fell to the ground
| II was living, but appeared to have been badly
| poisoned by the sting.
| CAPT. SAMUEL BRooKINGs, who died at New
ouryport, Mass, last Saturday night, in his
50 h year, was one of the oldest veterans of the
| late war. he was considerably over age when
| ne enlisted at rs and fought at Balls Eliff He
is said to have been the oldest men. Der of a
4Irand Army post in this country excepting
William Field, now of Franklin, Mass who
served three years in the Thirty ninth Mas sa
chusetts, and is now IS years of age.
The audience at the Palmyra Mo0 opera
mousse an evening or two ago were startled by a
shower of plaster, and looking up behed a pair
of legs dangling forty feet above them In a
moment the legs disappeared. policeman
captured the cause of the unusual distIIrhanre
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the performance without buying q ticket He
had reached space between the ceiling and
the roof through skyligdC in the lstter.
THE TALK is revived of establishing in New
York body of mounted militia, after the style
OF the famous City Troop in Philadelphia. The
title OF tie New York Hussars has been aban-
doned with tie hussar uniform and a braid
jacket will in all likelihood, bs adopted since It
| is so eminently fitted for horseman's garment
me organization will include a number of men
kar bar Tnf
| clubs, If it can be placed upon a high social
basis. The fact is it is generally conceded that
the social part of the scheme is the poorest part
| of it.
A STRANGE FRIENDSHIP is described by cor
| respondent of the London Spectator long
haired mastiff was kept chained as a watch dog.
and when white fan-tail pigeons mate died if
attached itself to the mastif. nd was contin-
ually with 1t in the kennel. When the dog HAD
It's breakfast of pOrridge and milk the pigeon
would eat out of the bowl at the sane time and
when the dog had finished it would lie fiat on
Its side while the pigeon perched on its head
and pecked off the grains of oatmeal that stuck
to the long hair round its mouth. 1.-THE only
danger to the pigeon seemed to be that when
the dog rushed out Of the kennel suddenly to
bark it seemed to forget the pigeon and we
used to fear that the heavy chain might hurt it
but it never was hurt. This friendship lasted
many years, till one of the two forget which
died.
THE story comes from Paris Of certain
baron, man of society, unmarried gay He
discovered one day that he was growing de-
cidedly bald. The discov cry worried him: but
much thought on the subject resulted happily.
He went to a wigmaker and ordered eight wigs
each made of hair Just the color of his own aud
just the quality, and each dressed as he ar.
ranged his own locks. The wigs differed only
in the length of their hair In one it was Quite
short; in the second 1t was a little longer: in
the third longer still; and so on. until No 3
which was of quite long hair. The baron put
on his short-haired wig first, and wore it for a
week; then he put on No ., and wore that a
week; and so on until be was wearing No &
when some one was pretty sure to say: Good
gracious. baron, why don't you get your hair
CUT Then the baron would put on No /
happy at the thought ttat he had successfully
solved the great wig problem
IT will surprise some, perhaps, to learn that
the French stage, but few years ago was a
Puritan on the question of kissing. In NJ. Le-
gouve's recently published life of Delaunav. the
jeune premier par excellence of the Theater
Franchise, we learn that in the first production
of De MusSetS "On ne Bddine pas o1ec
fAmOur. several scores were cut out on the
ground of being too free. For example. the
scene where "Perdcan says to a peasant girl
Il respect your SMILE and gives her a kiss
she says, ~ on respect my smile, but you don
respect my lips This was considered mad
miSsibe. But when D. lauuay came 10 Innion
he played the piece as it was written, for the
first time, and on its revival at the Francois h
repeated his Lon lon rendering with slIrc -.
although the critics objected a little on the
tenth night of the revival there was rather an
amusing scene. Just at the critical moment
Mile. Dubois whispered to Delaunay, Don't
kiss me on the lips, for see my lover in the
stalls"
JEAUNEss RICHARDSON, the taxidermist at the
Museum of Natural History, New York. has
been occupie for a week with the preparation of
two seacows, or manatees, for the museum col
Tl,axy g.,
by Morris K Jessup the president. The mana
tee. in appearance, is like a small whale Those
purchased by the museum about eight
feet long. and the body at its thickest portion
three feet in diameter: their weight was about
200 pounds each. In the geological scale these
mammals represent that stage of development
between the seal and the whale. They are am
phibous, and were formerly found in herds i'm
rivers running into the sea. They were perfect
ly harmless. living on grasses and other vegeta-
table life, and were easily tanned when cart
ured They have tail like the whale and frs
at each shoulder, shaped like hands. They will
dive and remain under the water for several
minutes, but are obliged, like the whale
or the seal, to come to the surface at Intervals
to breathe.
AN illustration of the progress which has
characterized marine engineering is afforded in
the fact that up to 1851 the greatest power put
into one ocean vessel was about 5000 Indicated
horse power in the case of the ships DandolO
Duilio, InheXible aud Admiral DupeIre
In lSSl-'52 the Italia ami Lepanto W. re
being constructed with the enormoi $
figure each, Of $1,000 indicate horse
power; and now the Italian government
has in progress the Re Umberto aud Stella and
lastly the Sardegna the engines OF which, con
structed by Naples company, are to develop
nearly $1,000 indicated horse power Among
the various features of note in this remarkahle
vessel. described. are four sets of triple com
pound en- zines, two sets of engines ON ca n
shaft, the vessel of course being twin screw
The working machinery also comprises eighteen
return-tube boilers, having each four furnaces.
and the working pressure will be $50 pounds to
the square inch The piston speed is rated at
100 feet per minute.
INGHAM COUNTY. MICHIGAN, has its hermit.
Three miles southwest from Danville, back in
the woods mile, lives, or tries to- n man well
in the sixties, with flowing hair and beard, and
hands, face and clothes sadly in need of soap
and water. His cabin is about 10xl2 feet in
size. without plaster, floor or windows The
rickety old stove which stands in the center of
the room could not be expected to keep out the
frosts of winter when cat could come through
the walls in forty places His bed consists of a
blanket thrown over hickory poles, and a spi-
der and few tin dishes comprise his entire Gu
linary stock. He occasionally works for farm
ers in the vicinity, which supplies bis scapty
living. puIinR last winter IL is said, he ate a
dog which he had in company with him, and
one would suppose by his appearance, TINT
that was his chief diet. Like all her,nits he
has a history. He served three years In the
army, acc Jmpanying Sherman on his march to
the sea, married on his return, but the unfaith-
fulness of his vito compelled him to leave her
Tired OF the world and disguste with women.
he adopted his present mode of life.