The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE largest tree in the country east of Cali
fornia is a gnarled old sycamore that stands in
| Upper Sandusky, in Ohio 1t is 40 feet in cir
conference.
AT Union, S. c. Texas pony walked into a
store, went behind the counter, walked up to
mirror and admired his reflection therein,
glanced contemporary over the stock and then
| departed without doing any damage or making
any purchase.
A RECENT storm on the Maine coast washed
hundreds of Holsters ashore at York Most of
| the large ones were dead having been crushed
| by the waves. One citizen picked up $50 small
| live ones in a few minutes. Such an occurrence
| Is very rare there.
A THEATRICAL COMPANY that arrived at Cha
mute, Kan, on the way to fill an engagement at
| Erie, and found it impossible to get a train to
! that place because of the strike, secured a num-
Der of hand cars and reached Erie in time for the
| ringing up of the curtain
AN artificial ivory of creamy wilderness and
great hardness is now made from good pota-
toes washed in diluted suphuric acid, then
boiled in the same solution until they become
| solid and dense; they are finally washed free
from the acid and slowly dried and may be
dyed, turned and made useful in many ways.
A YEAR AGO the Legislature of Michigan passed
a law authorizing bounty of cent per head
| for every dead sparrow, but the law has been
imperative because no fund was provided for
City Council of Detroit set 81, 800 aside for this
purpose, because the sparrow nuisance in that
| city has become mtolerable.
WEDDING took place at Converse, Mo-, re-
Gently under peculiar circumstances. The
| mother of the bride died while arrangements
| for the ceremony were being made and her dy-
ing request was that the marriage should take
place before her funeral. Her wishes were
| carried out and the couple married while stand
ing beside the coffin of the deceased
| A SUIT has been brought in the United States
| Circuit Court to determine whether a little fish
sold in Milwaukee is sprat or a herring
! Chicago man says it is a herring. The Collector
| maintains that 1t is sprat and the court will
have to decide the question. The dispute arises
from the fact that the duty on herring is only
| &c. pound, while on Sprats it is lc. a pound.
THE Union Club of Denver, COL are going to
ask Congress to grant appropriation for
| building mountain reservoirs in which the
| water which comes down from the mountain
| sides can be stored. The river channels will
| thus remain filled all summer. 1t is claimed
| that thousands of acres of land in the arid re-
| gion could thus be irrigated and made fertile.
Mrs. L. A. ELY, of Muir Mich, was only
babe in arms when her father went to the war,
and the death of her mother left her in the
| home for soldiers children at Detroit. When
her father returned from the South he could not
find his child, although he made long search
| Recently however, the two have located each
other, the father being L. d. WEIGH, of Cairo,
and a meeting is being arranged.
MISS EMMA WHITE, of Montgomery county,
Indiana, who is ill with consumption, has had
erected in the cemetery a vault of rough hewn
| limestone, in which she has given instruction to
have her body placed when she dies. She
visited the vault after its completion, and eX-
| pressed herself as satisfied with the work The
| doctors tell her that she live only few
months, and so she decided to make arrange
ments for the final disposition of her remains.
mendable zeal in the pursuit of aesthetic beauty
1t has bought great collection of photographs
| of celebrated works of art, such as the Trans
| fguration of the Vatican" the 'Sistine Madon.
| ma, the Communion of st. jerome" and
| Titian's 'Magoalen" There are 600 of these
| photographs including copies of works of cele-
| brated Greek and Roman sculpture An inter
| esting account of the collection is published in
| the Kansas City Star.
BETHLEHEM, PA, has one of the most inter
esting histories of any town in the State 1t is
the seat of government in this country of the
| Moravan or United Brethren Church Ii was
founded in 174l and still has many of the
| ancient landmarks of that period Many build.
| ings erected in the last century are still stand
| ing among them the old Sun Inn, built in
1853 On the sign of this hosiery is painted the
picture of Moravian missionary, Joining the
| hands of two Indian warriors.
A NEWSPAPER correspondent says that the
politest and most accommodating people in the
world live in Mobile, and proves it thus: - saw
] a street car stop in order to allow a lame negro
| who was a passenger, to order and receive a
flask of whisky at a corner grocery. The store
| keeper came out of the car for the purpose and
the goods were afterward wrapped up and de-
| vered with all the deliberatiOn due to so inn
portant commercial transaction. Then the
car. with its ten passengers moved on"
AN ADRoIr swINDLER has been working n
shrewd game in several Michigan counties by
which he reaped rich harvest He circulated
among the farmers and bought cattle for which
he paid IN checks which checks were bona fide
and were honored by the local banks where the
sharper had money on deposit But he never
called for his cattle. On the contrary, about the
time the farmers were looking for him to come
after them they received notice that the little
receipts they had signed when their certified
checks were handed them had grown into notes
about five times as large as the checks.
CITY FORESTER DooGUE of Boston, who for
ten years has been trying to find an effective
remedy against the increase of canker worms
and other parasitic life in trees, thinks that he
has discovered a compound which, if injected
| into trees, will donntch toward the desired end
He says that last year he had eighty trees on
| Boston Common that We're entirely free from
| harm. This year a number of trees have been
''vaccinated" before the sap started. All this
is quite contrary to a recent statement in Gar
| den and Forest, that boring or plugging trees
with nostrums is an old and futile remedy
A CITIZEN of Bangor, Ne, intending to de-
ceive, told his wife that he was going fishing,
and departed bearing with him her hopes for
| good luck. lie went to the fish dealer. told him
| TO send up lot of pickerel about tea time and
then sat in with the boys all day in a game of
draw At nghtfall he went home and asked his
wife if the fish which he had caught had been
sent up. He said that he had left them at the
market. She said they had. Would he like to
see them? He would. She led the way to the
kitchen and demurely pointed to a peck of
clans The fish dealer had got the orders
mixed. The Bangor man says that honesty is
the best policy.
SOME magnificent specimens of the golden
green giant beetle tEuchroma gigantea) of
Brazil have been received in Baltimore. These
insects are about two inches long aud about two
and half inches from tip to tip of outspread
wings. Their rich metallic colorings are re-
ma6kable. The native bellies make the wing
coSrs of this beetle into bracelets aud anklets
and wear them about the wrists and elbows
ankles and knees when they dance The wing
covers are hard and tough like iron, and rattIe
in the dance, while they give off magnificent
combinations of prismatic colorings. One fair
lady proposes to wear one of these beetles on
her bonnet.
STEAMERS landing at Cabinda, a little port
north of the Congo. are often met by young
white man, who appears to be in the egg aud
poultry business. He has spring chickens all
the year round and, rs they are plump and
tender, he gets good price for them This
young man is one Of Bishop Tayor's mission
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