The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! CHARLES BREcK, of Milton, Mass, owns and
| occasionally wears pair of shoes made by bis
| father fity-three years ago
A SPOKANE FALLS MAN has won $500 by sue
| cessfully performing the task of eating three
stewed quails for thirty consecutive days.
CONGRESS- has four members who part their
! hair in the middle Two, Belmont and Rayner,
are Democrats, and two, Phelps and Long, are
Republicans.
IT is REPORTED that the churches of Emporia,
Kan, have generously decided to omit taking
up collections until sufficient money has been
subscribed to pay the salaries OF its base ball
| nine
| In MILWAUKEE physicians demand a percent
age from the druggists to whom they send their
prescriptions, and the druggists pay it and col
| lect just that much more from the customer
The discovery has aroused considerable indlgna-
| ton.
THE little 6-year-old daughter of a Dubuque
justice of the peace, upon hearing her father
tell her eldest sister that Blaine had refused to
run for the Presidency, sagely remarked
| We'll. | suppose Cleveland will have to take 1t
again
A REDWOOD TREE recently feled near Hum
boldt. Col, measured IS feet in diameter one
way, and 20 feet in the other at the stump. 1t
was 200 feet long, tapering to a diameter of $
feet, and contained enough timber to construct
d small village
AN ANN ARBoR student suspected that some
one was stealing his coal. He loaded one of the
Jumps with charge of gunpowder, and the
next morning his landladys stove blew up and
his breakfast executed a beautiful fresco de
sign on the kitchen ceiling.
THE inhabitants of Plainfeld, Wis, wonder
why any one will go to dime museum to see a
fat man" who weighs 800 or 400 pounds. They
see almost every day the streets of their
town youth "A years old who weighs 664
pounds and is still growing
WEIGHT soCIABLEs" are the latest craze at
Yapkton. The gentlemen pick their ladies, take
them to the scales, weigh them, pay quarter
of a cent pound into the general fund, and
then escort them to supper The latter costs
not far from six bits pound.
A STEEL STEAMBOAT to cost $4,000, is being
constructed to run on the upper Mississippi athe
expectation being that it will make the trip
from st. Louis to st. Paul in half the time re-
quired by the existing wooden craft st. Louis
will thus reap the benefits of speedy communi-
cation with a live town.
A PECULIAR DEPOSIT which resembles clay in
pliability, but which when exposed to the air
becomes as hard as granite. has been discovered
at the base of Bear mountain, near Taylorville,
n. c. Blocks of it have been dug out and used
for all the purposes Of stone with success, and
| it is proposed to build houses of it.
VALENTINE, NEB., has a unique ghost When
some of the boys, with whom it. when in the
| flesh, was a crony, go into a saloon to take a
| drink about midnight the ghost suddenly he
comes visible, standing up against the bar along
with them. The boys have been too scared each
! time thus far to ask it to name the poison"
TrIs SUGGESTED that fashion, if she will, can
confer great boom Eon Australia, Idaho, and
other portions of the globe that are runously
overrun by rabbits, by issuing dictate to the
| effect that rabbits ears, for the adornment of
feminine apparel, shall be in the height of style
1t is believed that the result would be a rabbit
| famine.
| A NOVEL and very successful method of raising
funds is practiced in the negro Sunday schools
at Haynevie, Ala. The scholars were told that
| if they couldn't bring a nickel they might bring
an egg or two instead. The next week that
| Sunday school bore a striking resemblance to
an incubating establishment, and the farmers
| for forty miles around began to complain at the
! scarcity of eggs.
Cupid has been effectualy boycotted in Wau-
paca, Wis. The young ladies forswore accept
ing as escorts any young men who drink and
| the young men retalated by agreeing not to
seek the society of any young lady who cannot
make good bread and coffee, broil steak and
abstain from chewing gum. Matters are in a
| very strained condition and it is thought some
| tnlng must soon give way.
| REV. T. n. Boss pastor of a Congregational
cnIuch III LaCroSSe' was requested by his church
| committee to preach shorter and more pithv
| sermons. After that Mr., Boss confined his pui.
pit efforts to half an hour each Sunday. and
hurled ''pith at his parshioners in such chunks
that they thought he getting personal
They refused to be satisfied with the sermons
and Mr.. Boss has resigned.
ENos THOMPSON, who halls from Scalby near
Scarboro, England, advertises himself in the
capacity of sexton. joiner, builder, undertaken
painter and grainer, Whitewater and paper
hanger, plumber and glazier, whitesmith. lock
smith, gasfitter and bellhanger, carver glider
and picture frame maker, watch and clock re-
pairer, wheewright," etc: in all of which
branches of business he informs the nobility
and gentry of Scalby and the neighborhood that
he has had considerable experience.