The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-27
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and she tried it and was made crazy.
TRAINLoAD OF DRY GOODS, containing twenty
cars was shipped from New York city one day
last week to a wholesale dealer in Tacoma
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LITTLE LIZZIE ROLLINS, born In Marine, Cass
county. Iowa, last week. has six grand mothers,
the oldest, her great-great-grand-m be-
ing ~.
WELL KNOWN LAWYER of San Diego, Cal,
while in a BARRIERS chair turned suddenly to
speak to a friend, and a piece of his nose was
sliced off.
THE mummifed remains of Santa Tongo.
or big Heart" one OF the old chiefs of the
Utes, are in a cave near old Fort Caspar, in
Wyoming.
A SPRING of natural cologne has broken forth
in the southern part of Algiers. The liquid has
not been analysed, but its odor is very similar
to that Of patchouli.
LEAvEHwoRTH claims a mule 3S years old, and
he has never been i'll a day. Stock-growers say
that all domestic animals would live longer if
more kindly treated.
MOSES BRADSHAW, of Claiborne county Tenn
celebrated his Tooth birthday anniversary, this
week, by riding fifty miles on horseback. He
made the journey on wager.
A LAW IN PRUSSIA provides that any person
carrying a stick or an umbrella in such way
as to be dang rous to other travellers may be
punished by fine or imprisonment.
IT is ESTIMATED that the Boston stockholders
Of two great western railroads have lost
$50 0o00 900 by the shrinkage in the value of their
securities in the last fifteen months.
THE Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
has placed an order for thirty new passenger
coaches with the Pullman Palace Car COMPANY,
to be delivered before March /, 1882
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percentage of suicides of any civilized state.
The number last year was /, 104, or one to about
every 1000 of the population. In 1881 the total
number was !, 24S.
EIGHT GIGANTIC PEARS from Stanislaus
county, California, that were recently exhib-
tied in San Francisco, weighed 3318 pounds, or
1-16 pounds EACH and they completely filled
fve-gallon glass jar.
IT is ESTIMATED that 800, 600 has been sent as
Christmas gifts to Ireland from Boston-nearly
all of it by the servant girls of that city and
Manufacturing the last week. One house
alone drew drafts for $4,000.
FRANK MELVILLE of Clay county, Va, fol-
lowed fox into a hole and found himself in a
cave almost filed with foxes. He had only a
club with him ana they made it lively for him,
but he succeeded in killing ten of the animals
and drove the Others off.
ANOTHER BILL has been introduced into Con-
gress to authorize the construction of railroad
bridge across the Detroit river. 1t is in the in
terest of certain Canadian and Michigan inter
ests and is likely to meet fierce opposition from
the lake shipping interests.
MEDICAL MEN in Nebraska are interested in
| the case of girl there who is gradually losing
her power of speech without any apparent
cause. She can't now talk above whisper,
and 1t IS expected that. in very short time,
she will be entirely speeches..
ARMSTRONG HALL at the Tuskegee, (Ala, }
Normal School, has recently been completed
| 1t was built by the Tuskegee students, who are
ne roes, they saving the lumber, making the
| brick. and doing all the work of erection and
finish except putting on the tin roof.
| MISS CLARA HARNIsH of New Danville Lam
caster county, Pa. on Wednesday night, while
| delirious with typhoid fever escaped from her
home, and three hours later was found sitting
| with her feet in a brook. The next day the
4 fever broke and she was much better.
SOME TIME AGO, Matte Tennell, a young
woman Of Santa Barbara, Cal, had some lemon
| juice accidentally spilled over her hair on one
| side of the head Since then the hair on that
| side has become perfectly white, and the ends
of the hair curl. as though treated with a curl
| ing iron.
ST.. LOUIS SUICIDE wrote: 81 am 60 years
old In eight years L would have been 70 an
| old. diapidated tottering fossil have played
the world out, and it don't owe me q cent. I've
had more fun than mule in q cornfeld and
I've got enough. Therefore l will cheat the
course OF nature and jump the time to come"
The PROGRAMME of the newly organized po-
itical party of Japan is thus described: The re-
| duction of the land tax; the abolition of CEN
trazatioD in the administration; the introduc-
,sen of the volunteer system into the army and
the revision of the existing treaties. with view
of putting Japan on an equal footing with other
powers in International Intercourse.
his name, to the World Trusts are private
affairs, and the solicitors for the sugar trust
| say, for the benefit of the people Here is an
| example: For the last two years there has been
a sand paper trust. during which time they
allowed me IS per cent. For some reason the
| trust is broken, and this morning l received an
invoice with 80 per cent. off and circulars from
all the other makers offering especial terms"
| Four YOUNG FELLOWS thought they would go
| out and "see a man" between the acts at a GER
tain theater in Louisville recently. and so thew
| attempted an exit. very large lady sat in the
aisle seat, and the determined air with which
she viewed the proposed flight BODIED evil for
| the youngsters. They stepped all over the
Others in the row and reached the fat lady
You can't. get out herei'' said she in so loud
and determined voice that the boys blushed
deeply and returned to their seats much en-
barrassed. This ponderous lady is a reformer
and she deserves large following.
TIE Principally OF LIEcHrENsTEIN which
Prince John H. offered as a refuge to the Pope in
| case the latter should abandon Rome. is a semi
Independent mountainous territory lying be-
tween the Rhine and the canton of Grisons IL
covers about ninety square miles and has Don
ulation of a little under 10, 900 Iiechtenstein
boasts an army of fifty men, which was mobiI-
lied in the war of 1866 and it is a standing Joke
among Austrian officers that the principality is
still at war with Prussia, as tharkingdom forgot
to conclude separate peace with Liechtenstien
when it signed the peace Of Prague with Aus
tria-
A RECENT traveller in New Zealand describes
the great Sutherland waterfall: 1.-THE water"
he says, 'dashes over the cliff in three grand
leaps, and constitutes about one-half of the en-
tire volume of the Arthur river. The first lean
is over a dizzy cliff into a rocky basin S15 feet
below. Jumping forth again it makes another
leap of 751 feet, and then goes tumbling and
leaping in one wild dash of 1872 feet into the pool
at the foot of the preGpice. The total height is
exactly 1904 feet, making the waterfall one of
the highest yet discovered. When the sun is
| shining ranbows of all sizes hang over the fall
and the effect is indescribably beautiful"
THE catch of salmon in Puget sound this year.
| although not so large as expected on account
| of the delayed fall rains, will be about IS 600
| cases. four dozen cans per case There are
| five factories engaged in the business The
largest has capacity for canning 20, 900 pounds
| of fish per day and employs six seines, costing,
with the necessary skfs and scows, 81, 500
each. manned by Indian crews. The packing Ia
| done by Chinese, OF whom 100 are employed at
| 81 per day per head, boarding themselves The
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