The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| TRENTON, n. j., has very beautiful young
girl, somnambulist, who perambuates the
public streets in her night-dresS. Trenton young
men do not retire early
Mrs. ELIZABETH WEAVER HENDRIcKsoN, of
DuQuoin, H., who is 102 years old, says she IS
the Oldest Methodist in America, and IS proud
| of being of the shouting kind.
\ coURTsHIP that had been in progress thirty
one years terminated in marriage at Clinton
Ia, last week 1t is supposed that the leap year
privilege was exercised by the lady
ATcHIsoN, KAN, has more church members
who swear than any other city of its size in the
| country 1t is only since the telephone came
into general use that the fact has been noticed
A FARMER in Jackson county, Michigan, has
spring of warm water on his farm which in
winter keeps the snow melted for yards around.
| The spring serves as a winter rendezvous for
| frogs.
! j. 0. PICKERING, of Olathe Kan, Gov. st.
Johns old law partner although third party
| man is vigorously defending a lot of johnson
county whisky men or 'boot-egSers, as they
are called.
THE wilds of Africa have furnished a new
poison called strophantus. 1t has an advantage
over Milwaukee whisky in that it is painless in
its effects although it is not quite as speedy IN
causing death.
THE largest horse in the United States is
owned by Mark Thode, of Mattoon. Ill. He is
only 9 wears old measures nineteen hands high,
has gained $50 pounds in the last five weeks,
and is still growing.
A MU1ArTo in Mexico, Mo, committed
! burglary. He was arrested, indicted, tried, ana
sentenced to the penitentiary for three years,
all within twentyfour hours. Justice is
Sprinter in that town.
WITH the mercury at 80 below at Eagle Rook
Ida locomotive taking water from a tank. the
flow of which could not be stopped, was frozen
instantly INTO ped OF Ice extending three car
lengths and to the tops of the rails
On an examination paper of one of the lower
classes in New York private school the ques
ton was asked, What is a karatg' A thor
oughly practical little fellow wrote as an an
swer' something you put in soup
SEVEN Maine schoolmarmS tired of boarding
house life, are planning to erect cottage for
their own use. They have saved n few HIM
dred dollars each and their building enterprise
Will be undertaken on the cooperative plan.
HERE is an old story of London policeman;
Robert Nokes saw man stealing mufrs from
furriers window, which be had just broken.
policeman passed. and Vokes asked him for
help, but the constable pursued his way. re-
marking that he was OFF duty, and that it was
not his division.
PRESIDENT BIsBEE, of the Copper Queen Min
ing Company, at Tombstone A. T., has given
$500 toward fitting up a sort of club room for
the miners. 1t will have billiard and pool tables
and facilities for playing cards, chess back
CANNON, and other games, as well as a we'll
selected library.
WHILE Paul Rose was cutting, down n free
near Merrill, Wis, recently he saw large lynx
jump from the branches Just as the tree began
to fall. The falling tree followed the LYNX in its
descent so closely that it pinned the animal to
the ground and held it there until Rose could
dispatch it with his ak.
E. S. THOMPSON, of Mffntown, Pa, is in
possession of a spinet which is believed 10 have
been brought from Scotland by Col. James
Burd, of the Revolution, who fought the Indians
at Fort Augusta, which he built The instrll-
ment Is almost triangular in shape, the key
board occupying almost one entire side
NEAR the close of the November term of court
in Paris Mo-, one of the jurors took the measles
The juror discharged and went to his home
in the country. Immediately the measles broke
out in the neighborhood and twenty mainly
grown persons, died. One doctor had at one
time more than one hundred cases within a ra-
dius of five miles.
PROBABLY the oldest violin in the United
States is owned by Rev W. NJ Beauchamp. of
Baldwinsville n. Y. 1t was found 10 the ruins
of Glastonbury Abbey, which was dissolved in
1888 1t was brought to this country seventy
five years ago, and antiquaries who have exam
ined it are of the opinion that it dates back to
the twelfth century.
THE latest fad in Chicago is to have some re.
ligious creed that differs from the regular tenets
of authority, but it is yet orthodox A sur
prisingly large number of business men are
beard talking religion in their idle moments
and several merchants Of prominence have ad-
vanced considerable sums of money to further
the propagation of their pet religious ideas.
"FLIPPNG" nickels is said to be aarmingly
prevalent among the young boys of Louisville.
Ky, some Of them devoting hours each day to
tn species Of gambling and losing or winning
as much as IS or 81 a session" It will be
strange if some of them do not steal to make
good their losses. Louisville is likely to con
tinue to be sporting center for another gener-
alton at least.
WOMAN of 30, who had been a cook in the
family of an English country magistrate, was
charged with the theft of some plum pudding
butter, and other food. 1t was proven that she
had been in different situations three five and
six years and in service ever since the age of IL
years, and bore an excellent character. but she
was sentenced to six months imprisonment
with hard labor.
AT SULLIVAN, on Frenchmans bay, opposite
Bar Harbor they dig a shellfsh which some of
the natives declare superior to scolops 1t is
called razOrfiSh from the fact that the shell is
shaped like razor handle. The shell is of a
dark blue COLOR and it is quite difficult TO open
il with knife. These fish are found in the mud,
like clans They are very acute of hearing
and disappear quickly when disturbed so that
| anybody who wants to get mess of them has
to dig pretty lively.
In the window of a Bowery ieweler is dis
played section of an elm tree about foot
square, shaped by some process of nature into
the form of perfect human ear. 1t has been
examined and wondered at by every prominent
surgeon in New York, and has been frequently
us by artists a model. The curiosity was
found in 1896, near Poultney VT, and its forma-
ton is believed to have been formed by the
accumulation of sap resulting from the sting of
bee when the tree that it was formed upon
was yet sapling.
In a little one-story frame dwelling on Sixth
street, in st. Paul, lives one Of the most peculiar
Of women. She is a voodoo queen. and is abso-
lutely worshiped by many of the colored people
of st. Paul She Is about 55 years Of age as
black as black can be, with short kinkv hair
and deepset, bloodshot eyes She foretells the
future, cures all ills, and can tell the lucky
numbers that will win at policy She has a
peculiar song which she sings on Friday. and
wears several amulets. Her Influence over the
colored people of the city is said to be simply
wonderful
THE Penobscot Bay is frozen over. for the
first time in years. This body of water has
frozen but few times during the present cen
tury 1873 being the date of the last freeze be-
fore this. But the greatest ice blockade ever
known IN Penooscot waters was experienced in
the winter OF 1779-S0. The revolution was then
in full blast down East, and the British having
chased that brilliant colonial warrior Salton.
stall the river TO Bangor and nTactuolIv