The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THERE are 1899 licensed places in Boston
where liquor is sold, decrease of 1914 in four
years.
MINISTER PESDLEToN is now nearly recovered
from his recent paralysis but he will be unable
| to return to his duties for some time. He may
resign and come home.
LOCOMOTIVE "a of the Cumberland Valley rail
road is noted down there because, during the
war, it was bought for $23,0 You can buy a
better one now for 5000.
In YUcATAN every male between the ages of
q and so is subject to military duty, and when
in service gets the magnificent pay of &c per
| day, and finds himself in food.
IT cost $50 running foot, or S25, 900 in all, to
move the Hotel Brighton, at Brighton Beach, to
its new lot, SEQ feet away from high water
mark. 1t was brilliant exploit in mechanics.
THE French government is about to build an
absolutely unsuitable man-of-war This will be
accomplished by the use of celulose amorphe, a
product of cocOanut fiber. so elastic that If
pierced the hole closes of itself.
THE heads of the Cambridge students have
been measured, showing that the average brain
capacity Of a first-class man is 244.56 cubic
| inches The capacity of the ordinary pass
| mans head measures 337 80 cubic inches.
julius HAWTHORNE has valuable collection
of relics, many of which have descended to him
| oak table upon which Mary Stuart wrote her
last letter on the morning of her execution.
| THE Zilvern Kruis, the first Dutch man-of-
war to enter the Golden Gate in fifteen years,
| is lying off San Francisco. She is training
| ship, on her way to Japan, China. and the
| Dutch colonies in India where she will make a
| prolonged stay.
| New ENGLAND MAN has beaten the green
| goods sawdlst men at their own game. He got
80 ~ a
| sample of their goods They sent him gen
une 81 bill, and the gentleman Of New England
| stopped the correspondence then and there.
In the heart of large white oak tree re-
Gently felled near Coeyman, N. Y, dozen
large bullets were found They look like the
| bullets used in the old style flintlock muskets,
| and are supposed to have been shot into the
| tree during some slirmish of the revolution or
| the war of 1872
! SOME ONE has got up an alaphabet of precious
stones as follows: Amethyst, beryl chrysoberyl,
| diamond, emerald, feldspar, garnet hyacinth,
| idocrase, kyanite more commonly cyante,
blue mneral), lynx-sapphire, milk-opal, natro-
| lite, opal, pyrope, quartz, ruby sapphire, topaz
uranite, veSuvianite "a species of garnet), water
sapphire. xanthite, zircon IA Cngalese stone)
| ONE of the valuable curiosities which Minis
| ter Anderson brought with him from Denmark
| on his return to this country is old Danish
prayer book, that was beautifully printed by
hand long before the days of Gutenberg The
| vellum pages are handsomely Illuminated by
| gold and colors, and a number of excellent
| illustrations adorn it. The book is supposed to
| date from the fourteenth century.
A YOUNG Perigord workman recently won the
100000 prize in the Nice lottery and has since
had applications for help from the starving
| poor that would have consumed his winnings
| ten times over, and has, besides, been pestered
almost to death by personal calls from ali sorts
| of people, while many applicants have written
| for permission to marry his daughters, one of
whom is 10 and the other years old.
COUPLE of months ago the Rev. Father
Powers whipped with cane lad named
Michael Hartigan, of Livermore Cal. because
he went to a base ball game instead of to
church. The priest was arrested on a charge Of
assault and battery and fined $50. Then the
boy petitioned the Superior Court for guar
dian, and as soon was appointed began
suit against Father Powers to recover $4,000
damages.
New YORK ARTIST not long ago sent to an
art firm in Paris letter containing draft for
$3.50 in payment of his account with them. A
short time afterward the letter was returned to
of the Paris postoffice, showing that sufficient
postage had not been paid on it. The letter had
| been duly delivered to the Paris art firm. which
| rather than pay the additional postage had re-
| fused to receive it.
CELLULoID has recently been used as a sub
stitute for copper in sheathing the bulls of yes
| sells, and has been found to answer the purpose
| admirably. Plates of this substance have been
applied to a number of vessels and allowed to
remain six months. At the end of that time the
parts OF the hull left uncovered were found to
present abundant collections of marine vegeta-
| tions while the celluloid was intact and free
| from any such vegetable masses.
FARMER OBADIAH RUMMEIL and Farmer Elias
| Paulins, of Youngstown, o., have been PLAYING
with the law to their sorrow. A year ago Pau
| Inns S3 pig got into Rummell's field, and Rum
nell set his dog on the porker The dog killed
| the pig, and Pauns brought suit against him
for cruelty to animals. The case was tried
| three times, but the jury disagreed each time.
The fourth trial resulted in a victory for the
owner ofthe dog. Paulins' costs will aggregate
over $500, without counsel fees.
AS MAN and woman were walking in Albu-
querque the other day, pistol dropped from
the mans pocket, and striking the sidewalk
was dlSchargeE sending a bullet through the
wOman's heart. The man, who showed great
grlef, said that she was his wife, and the sym
pathizing citizens raised purse and buried her
decently 1t was learned afterward that the
woman was not his wife, but another's and had
deserted her husband and was running away
with the man whose revolver brought the clone
ment to such a tragic end
A STRANGER, who claims to be the second
John the Baptist, is going through the country
around Jacksonville, KY, conveying the in
telligeuce that the world is to come to an end on
the tenth day of the first Hebrew year coming
A great many timid persons have been badly
frightened by the information, and great excite
ment exists in some localities The man refuses
TO give name or tell where he is from He
claims that he can see a hand lifted to strike
which no one else can see yet, and can hear
voice not heard by others"
A CITIZEN of Rockland, Me, made a bargain
with butcher to kill and sell his fat cow on
commission The butcher took the COW and
the first offer he received for the meat was from
the owner who did not recognize the carcass
He bought three-quarters of the meat at a low
price, and sold 1t at a small profit; and the next
day got the other quarter, after beating the
butcher down. When he settled with tbe
butcher for his own COW ne was angry because
the meat sold SO cheaply, but he was speechleSs
when he found out that he'd bought his own
beef and sold himself.
If the editor of the Riverside Press Of Calf
fornia tells the truth, the white wild goose of
the Pacific slope is a remarkable bird He savs
that he once killed one 1t took four bulIets
from 4-calibre Sharps rife to bring the hird
down at a range of seyenty-five yards Each
cartridge contained ninety-two grains ~
powder. All the bullets passed through the |
heart OF the goose and lodged in the skin an
the side opposite from where they went in An
attempt was made to boil this bird ''Stranqa |
TO say, the bullets were cooked to a ielly before
any impression was made on the goose"
EMILE OLIVIER has been interviewed bv ra.
porters from the Gdulots and Figaro. bon.
LANCER" he EXPLAINS sis the only man u,ho an |