The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


every hour and minute Of the day for period
Of eight days.
\ MAN has been discovered at Berrien Springs,
Mich, who keeps his family of four people on
19c a week outside of house rent He buys Be.
worth of butter at a lick, has eight different
ways OF cooking rice, and 1t Is hardly necessary
TO add, is rolling up wealth hand over nsU
MRS STELLA VI. BARNES, a handsome young
widow of Jackson, Mich, is now likely to be
overrn with suitors. She has just heard that
she is one Of the twenty heirs of Charles IT,
Ravens, who, dying, left an estate Of about
81 900 900, of which Mrs. Barnes share will be
$4,000
A YOUNG LADY in Xenia, O., had a new pocket
book in which she placed sum of money for
safe keeping. Her mother, thinking the book
might he stolen, hid it in the rag bag. Inc
young lady, ignorant of this fact, sold the con
tents of the rag bag for 7c., and is now looking
vainly for the return of that rag picker
A HANDSOME MONUMENT of granite and marble
will soon be erected in Cave Hill cemetery,
near Louisville. Ky, over the grave of Jennie
Bowman, the brave servant who lost her life in
a struggle with u burglar. The inscription to
be placed on the shaft will read: Public Recog
milton of the Heroism of Jennie Bowman
Faithful to Her Trust, Even Unto Death
A MAINE FUR DEALER says that it is astonish-
ing the uses to which muskrats fur are put.
The skins are taken at the city establishments,
clipped, COlOreu and put INTO Sucn shape JudU
they very closely resemble otter, and, if not
sold for that, are at least represented TO be
much better than they really are. The fur is
never sold for what 1t really is, but is fixed up
TO look something finer and charged for accord
ingiy.
AT THE funeral of Mrs. Joseph NJ. Sprggs, in
Washington, Pa, the oCher day. four brothers
of the deceased met together for the first time
in their lives. The two older brothers had left
their fathers house before the Youngest son
was born, and although they had seen each
other frequently through life, and occasionally
three had assembled together, yet it had so
happened that the four brothers we're never to-
gether until summoned to Washington by the
death of their sister.
Two BROTHERS in Cambridge, Ne, were in
veterate checker players, and one Of them
always wanted to bet on each game The elder
had scruples against gambling, but one morn
ing when the old folks left home to be gone all
day he told his brother he'd bet with him. The
boys spent the day at the checker board, and
when the parents came home the younger son
had lost all his pocket money all his knck
knacks and six sheep which he mad owned. The
older brother refused to give back the winnings,
and the younger hasn't been anxious to gamble
since.
THE project of an Indo- European canal. by
way of the Euphrates valley and the Persian
gulf, will, it is claimed, realize two important
results, namely, those of irrigation and ndvl-
| cation, and thus restore fertility to those vast
| wastes. Such canal would shorten the pres
| ent route of going and coming to Bombay some
six days. Scientific authorities do not consider
| the engineering difficulties involved in such an
undertaking of insuperabe character
nothing which would seriously resist the eff
cheney of modern appances-but the estimated
! expense is enormous
FRANK FOSTER, of Chicago woke up the other
night and discovered burglar in the room. The
thief had taken all the valuables he could lay his
hands on and was wrapping them up in Foster 5
| clothes. Foster jumped out of bed with whoop
| and a yell, and the burglar fled. Foster kept
| right on chasing him for two thrOe blocks,
caught the rascal and turned him over to a
Waterman He then took his clothes home and
| put them on He forgot that there was ice on
the street and that he i'll his night shirt until
| he started TO walk home, when these facts be-
came painfully apparent.
THE other night ses Lore, who lives on
! Catherine creek, Ore, heard a disturbance in
| his hog pen. situated short distance from the
| house. and upon investigation found that large
| mountain lion, probably driven from the noun
| tainS by hunger, had entered the pen and was
| presenting his case to the swine Lore and
| another man, who was present, armed them
| selves with ShotgunS, proceeded to the pen, and
firing at the same time, killed the lion instantly.
1t was found that he had dispatched one hog
| and torn another ones jaw off, besides killing
| the house cat that had by some means got
| into his clutches,
| AN ancient Japanese coat of mail was re-
Gently unearthed in the vicinity of Victoria,
| British Columbia. Some workmen engaged in
! digging well came upon this interesting relic
J four feet below the surface. It is a complete
| piece of chain armor, composed of thousands
of links of diminutive iron rings the diameter of
| a common pencil. Such armor was made by the
| Japanese 300 or 300 years ago. 1t is impossible
| to explain how this interesting object came
here, but there are other evidences of early Jap
| anese occupancy in the surrounding section. A
| few years ago large number of ancient Japa-
nese coins were found in cairns or stone graves
| in the neighbOrhOod of Victoria.
FISHING in the ponds near Worcester, Mass,
has been unusually good this winter, and there
have been good catches at Lake Quinsigamond
| Pickeral are caught mostly but occasionally a
| trout is taken When they come from the
| water they almost Jet black. covered with
slime and the flesh has a muddy flavor. One
taken recently was rubbed in the snow quite
| brskly before the slime was removed enough
to show the bright carrnine spots on the sides
and the markings of the back. Some of the
ponds have been stocked with black bass, carp,
! and landlocked salmon. The result seems to be
| that the bass and pickerel have thriven on the
1 carp and salmon, and indeed devoured them
| all.
NEW and interesting anecdote of Daniel
| Webster is told by a correspondent of the Mega
zine Of american History. The night after
Webster lost the nomination for President he
was serenaded by some friends in Washington
FOR q Time Jfefe was no Sign OF NE about the
| house, but finally a ond-story window was
raised and Webster appeared in his night
clothes He rested his hands on the window
sill, and after the cheering ceased, spoke in a
clear, sad tone. His closing words were these:
| Boys. am glad to see you; but this is the last
time you will hear my voice. / am going to my
| home, and feel that am going to my home to
| die few months later he died at his home
! in Marshteld.
DISTRICT MAGISTRATE of Shanghai had
brought before him man charged with stealing
a table. The man denied the charge, alleging
that he was so feeble from i'll health that it was
| physically impossible for him to commit such q
crime. The magistrate listened gravely to the
! tale, and professed his sympathy and sorrow
for the poor man. Go home,H he said, and
| get cured and as you very poor take that
ba which contains $4,000 cash, as a present
from me" The prisoner made obssance
! threw the heavy bag over his shoulder and de
| parted. He had not gone far before he was ar
| rested, brought back and found guilty. the
magistrate remarting that man who could
carry off a heavy sack could have had no diff
Guilty in stealing a table.
Some time ago an engineer on the Little
Mama Railroad was in Ohio suspended because
after having been examined by DR. Clark he was
| found to be quite deaf The engineer claimed
| at the time that he could hear everything while
running his engine, but the doctor found that in
a still room he could not hear ordinary CONVEX
sation a foot away. The engineer lives at Gin
cinnati and received treatment in that city for
his disease. but without any sDecial benefit