The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

America will be celebrated at Genoa by the re-
viyal of an opera by Morlacchi entitled Chris
tofero Colombo, composed in 1928,
| TIE great pine at Kensington, n H., which
! for years has been prominent landmark, fell
recently. Il was 100 feet high and 10 feet in cir
| conference at the widest part 1t mad been
| twice struck by lightning.
AN INFANT went into spasms on hearing the
shrill whistle of a steamer at Bulock's Point,
| r. l., recently. and died in short time. The
| parents threaten to sue for damages, claiming
| that the whstiing was unnecessary
PRINCESS NJ P wappockitt, full-blooded
! Indian from the far west, recently registered at
a Cleveland, O., hotel She is of deep copper
color. but her English is BoStoneSe in its purity.
| She has gone to Allegheny City, Pa, Tor the
| summer.
| MILE EsMERALDA, a snake-charmer while
| performing at New Brighton, Eng, was at
tackled by large corba, which coiled around
| her body and bad bit her, the blood flowing in
| streams from the wounds. She nevertheless
! finished the performance.
| THE tendency OF the Brooklyn bridge police
men to fall asleep while on duty has become SO
| pronounced that Superintendent Martin has
| issued orders that in future such offense will
! be punished by suspension. For second nap
the officer will be dismissed.
ENGLISH sHoENAKERs always cut in the
bench leather for luck. Swedish carpenters
make cross on their tools for the same pur-
pose, and many painters mark cross and tri-
angle on a high scaffolding before they feel per
fectly comfortable upon it.
THE French government is said to have
ordered 90 900 portable cooking stoves for camp
use for the army. The inventor, on a test,
served up dinner of three courses for thirty
persons at a cost for heating and cooking of
less than cents. He uses steam as the basis of
his heat.
A BROOKLYN CAR-HoRsE got on the rampage
and demolished large plate window, knocked
down two children, and broke the colar-bone Of
third person. As though wanting to bury
his dead" he then made for an undertaker's es-
adjustment, which he entered, via 300 plate
glass window.
IT cost a woman of Auburn, Me-, $500 to learn
that furniture attached TO the walls of a house
is part of it. She sold her house, and there
were $500 worth of mirrors screwed to the walls
When she attempted to take them down she
was prevented by the buyer, and the law made
his claim good.
An EXPERT MECHANIC has devised a scarf pin
which is a marvel of ingenuity and handicraft
Il has birds head which filters as YOU press
upon a concealed rubber ball in examining it,
a neck which twists in number Of positions
and eyeds which open and shut with start
ling realistic effect,
The Roman Catholic priests of Lawrence
Mass, have been working hard to pay off the
depositors in the Augustin bank whose sus-
pension five years ago created such a sensation.
During the past two years, S51, 600 have been
paid 10 depO itOrs, and it is hoped that every
cent will be cleared Of.
Col. SowERBY, of Putteridge Park, near
Luton, England, while showing a pet stag to
some visitors was attacked by the animal with
great ferocity and gored in the neck, breast and
other parts of the body. The colonel was
quickly rescued, but he died soon afterward
He was lieutenant colonel of the Durham Light
Infantry
A sTocKaAN in Phoenix, Arizona, offers TO bet
good ranch twelve miles square, having plenty
of water and grass, and 100 mares, value SIP
900; 100 two and three-year-old colts, $1,000;
100 colts. $1,000; six Percheron stations, 81 900:
house, stables, and shops, $1,000; vineyard and
field with Citches, 5000; total, S26, 900, that
Cleveland will be elected.
OLE OLEsTADT and wife and baby lived near
Hunter, Dakota. He thought his father and
mother would like America better than Norway.
and he sent them money to come over with.
The other night lightning struck his house, and
killed Ole and his wife as they lay sleeping. The
baby was not hurt at all. The old folks reached
Hunter on the day of the funeral.
A BRIDGEPoRT NEWSPAPER says that a cat was
caught by locomotive the other day and cut
in two by a wheel which passed over the body
hack Of the shoulders after the locomotive
of the cats body dragged themselves to the
home yard. two or three rods distant and there
the little life remaining fiickered out in a few
seconds
In 1851, among the notes made by the govern
ment for the Second national bank of Spring
field Mass vera three, that by an error in
printing were ten-dollar bills on one side and
twenty dollar bills on the other. They were
signed and paid out before the error was dis
covered. Then the bills were called in Two
and 1nCf hsa hir1 10 in,
session of A. NJ Craig, who has refused S2OO
for it.
AN instrument called the autographometer,
which records automatically the topography
aud difference of level of ell places over which
il passes, is a new French invention the utility
of which cannot certainly be questioned if it
realizes the results claimed for it. II is carried
| about ON light vehicle, and those who wish to
use it have nothing to do but to drag it, or have
1t dragged, over the ground of which they desire
to obtain plan.
SOUTH LONDON is to have a new underground
railroad. 1t is being built sixty feet under
ground. Passengers are to reach it by hydraulic
elevators to carry fifty persons at once. The
tunnel is being driven by the use of Il steel
shield slightly larger than the iron rings Of
which the tunnel is to be constructed. The
steel shield has knife edge, and is driven for
ward at the rate Of fifteen feet day by ny
draulic rams worked by hand.
JOHN LOTT, living near Deckertown, n. j., is
remarkable man in a way. HE is SO years
old, has keen eyes, not using glasses long
silvery hair, and stands straight as a reed He
was born near Warwick, n. Y, and has never
smoked and. although he has. distilled many
gallons of rum. has drank but little. He reads
the papers, keeps posted on current events, and
has voted for every presidential candidate of
his party for the last sixty years"
THE following story comes from North Vas
salboro, Me-: On Tuesday, July "a a man
died and left a sorrowIng widow to mourn his
loss. On Wednesday, the 25th, she had filed her
intention Of marriage in the town clerk s Office
Thursday she followed the remains of her de-
ceased husband to the grave On the succeed
ing Monday she was living happily with nus
band No >, and on Wednesday Aug. l. the
loving couple started on their wedding pilgrim
age.
A FORMER CITIZEN Of Lawrence, Mass gives a
unique reason for changing his place of resi-
deEce through the following advertisement:
"Card.-Peter Houle wishes his friends to know
that he has LETT Lawrence for Newton, ~ H.
He will be found during the summer at Country
Point. Island Pond, where he will be pleased to
see such OF his friends as may come that way
Ii costs too much to keep dog in Lawrence
for me. Lawrence, July 81, 1883. Peter
Houle"
DuTcH BULB GROWERS, having come to the
conclusion that the sale Of cut blooms of hya-
cinths ami tulips which at one time were sent
TO the London markets in immense quantities
from the bulb fields of Holland, nterfered with
the traffic in bulbs. have formed n n association