The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| OF Gettysourg, was sold Saturday by EDWARD
| MCPHERSON, executor of the Tnaddeus Stevens
estate, to resident of Gettysburg for $40
MAHLoN SPARE of Conshohocken, Pa, stopped
the pair of mules that he was driving and shot
a hawk from the wagon. When he called for
the animals 10 move on they paid no heed.
They had been deafened by the noise OF the gun.
AT PLYMOUTH, MASS, workmen, while sinking
a well, found, about ten feet below the surface,
numerous large timbers that are supposed to
| have been portions of bridge built earlyin the
last century The timberS are only very slightly
decayed.
A MICHIGAN COURT has been called upon to
decide whether a woman "a years old can drive
a horse 81 years old through mud ten inches
deep faster than the four miles an hour per
mitted by law 1t is a question to agitate the
| whole state bar.
THE WOMAN who killed Henry King of Chi
cago, in Omaha, told reporter the other day
that she was really enjoying her prison life.
| She is lodged in pleasant quarters, and every
! day her admirers and sympathizers send her
| flowers, books and dainties.
ABOUT 500 farmers, with 200 greyhounds, or
ganized wolf hunt in Cowley county, Kansas,
| day or two ago. They came upon three of
| the sought for animals, and though the hunters
| formed circle around the wolves, two of the
| latter escaped. Tie third was captured.
A. c. OWEN, aged 70 years, of Mason City, Ia,
is out with a challenge to any man of 70 in the
| United States to run him 40 or S0rod race
| and at the end of the race jump and strike his
| heels together three times 1t is said that he
will wager from $500 to $4,000 on the result.
TIMOTHY KELLY of Providence fell from a
hotel balcony some time ago when on an ex-
! cursion given by the Continental Steamboat
| Company. He brought suit against the COM
| pany for injuries received, and has recently
been awarded $4,000 by the United States dis
| trict court.
| A CURIOUS piece Of gold was paid to Lewis
| ton, Me-, man the other day 1t is a $50 slug
| coined in 1851 in San Francisco. 1t is an eight
| cornered piece of yellow gold about as Dig as
| the silver 81. 1t bears the stamp of the coiner
and his address in Frisco. 1t is said to be worth
about $50. Lewiston lady had kept it for
| years.
| DR.. II. G. WILDMAS, whose license to practice
medicine in Illinois was revoked by the state
| board of health, chiefly because he overstepped
| the ethics of the profession by advertising his
| skill and success in the newspaper, appealed his
| case to Governor Oglesby, who has now rem
| dered an opinion reversing the decision of the
! board of health. The opinion has created con-
| siderable stir in medical circles throughout
| Illinois.
THE OPEN SEASON prescribed by law for the
| shooting of game in New Jersey closed Friday.
Ruled grouse and rabbits have been plentiful
| and quail very scarce III the northern section
| John Quincy Adams Brokaw, noted Jersey
| sportsman, living near Sterling, Somerset
| county, since October has killed 253 quail
| seveDty-eght ruffed grouse, 100 rabbits and
thirty three squirrels, which is the best record
| for this part OF the state.
| THE Dominion of Canada will adopt the chief
| features of our banking system. In 1890 radi-
| cal changes will be made in the federal banking
| system of Canada. The principal change will
be the adoption of an enactment authorizing
| the government to practically control the issue
tender and
| the issue of notes by the various chartered
banks The change will be borrowed from the
American banking system.
FERRET BREEDING is new and highly profit
able branch of farming in Australia and New
Zealand. One firm that has begun the business
ferrets yearly for three years to the
government at IS, Cd per head, the
| creatures being delivered when they
are three months old This stud consists of 2lO
| ferrets and 80 rabbits. and the milk of three
| COWS are required every day for their food.
Fer some time past the police have been sus-
| picious that Mary A. Wright was selling liquor
at Is Lyman street. Boston, and the other
night Sergt. Buffers visited the place, and after
| a thorough search located the illicit ardent.
| In the parlor was grand piano. and among the
fantastic carving of one OF the legs Sergt. But
| tiers discovered keyhole He obtained a key.
| and in the followed out leg he found a number
of bottles of lager and the necessary glas ieS for
| its use
The way the schooner got its name is told as
follows: The first vessel of that rig was built in
Gloucester about 1713, and when she went off
the stocks into the water a bystander cried out,
"Oh, how she scoons!" The builder instantly
replied, "A schooner let her be, and from that
time vessels thus rugged have gone by that
| name. The word scoon is popularity used in
some parts of New England to denote the act
of making stones skip along the surface of the
water. The Scottish soon means the same
: IA bQ ord m haV hpQ0
lally written sooner.
The number of artificial teeth made in Amer
lea last year by three of the largest business
houses engaged in the trade was nearly O,OOO,-
0OO, and this vas not more than half the actual
product of tie country. One peculiar feature
OF the business is that the houses which do the
most extensive export trade are Obliged to pre-
pare teeth of different colors for different coun
tries. III Canada, Tor instance, the demand is
for moiars as white as snow, while in South
America no such teeth could be sold. There
they require teeth that are almost yellow, and
the trade from China, which is lucrative one
is for nothing but black teeth
ONE of the physicians at the city hospital in
Jersey City was called last week to attend Ar
thur Barry, a little colored boy who lad broken
his collar bone. TIE doctor was admitted by q
white woman, who said she was the boy S grand
mother. "how does it happen?" the doctor
asked, that he is colored and you are whitley
II am colored woman the old woman re-
Sponded. "Ihree years ago l was treated in
the city hospital for dropsy. White spots APP
peared on my body and, merging one into the
other, made me white" She was as fair as any
Caucasian of her age. Warden OSBORNE, of the
hospital corroborated her story.
AN OFFICIAL REPORT made to the Dutch Indian
government on the origin and character of the
memorable volcanic outbreak in the Sunda
straits estimates that the amount of elected
matter from Krakatoa must have been at least
ten cubic miles, or a sufficient quantity to make
a respectable range of hills, about 1000 feet
higher than the surrounding plain The velocity
ot election is stated to have been CONSIDERABLY
greater than that Of the heaviest rifle ordnance
and the elected material must have reached q
height of thirty miles, or six times the height of
the highest mountain in the world.
GEORGE Brown, young blacksmith, near
Broad Creek, Conn, loved the daughter of a
leading democrat who wouldn't accept George
as a sutor for his daughters hand Just because
he was a republican. But George was persist
ent, and so to get rid OF him the old gen
tleman made the following propositions: II Mr.
Cleveland was elected the young man was TO
give the old man deed of sale of all his prop
erty aud quit the town Should Harrison be
elected George was to have the girl The father
has been In a state Of mind ever since the cleo
lion, aud the only comfort he finds is in insist.
Gen. Harrson's Inauguration.
The funerals of Paris, France, are in charge
of a company. whose monopoly is regulated by
law, is a vast enterprise, possessed OF ex
ceptional resources, an immense number of
horses and carriages, numerous and wel-diS-
ciplined personnel Every year il takes charge