The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-04
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New York contemporary says that those of real
ivory are bought up and cut into dice and other
small articles.
A SYSTEMATIC EFFORT is being made in Massa-
chusetts to secure a fund for the brave life
saving crews who worked so heroically and
saved twenty eight lives during the gale Off
Nantasket Beach.
For the last two years Malaga grapes have
been so poor thousands of dealers have refused
to handle them, and California is now trying to
produce winter grape to take its place. Grape
eaters viii hope for success.
NINE. HELENE HAsTREIrER of Louisville, who
sang one season in New York with the Ameri-
can Opera company, has gone to Rome, and is
there singing with great success. She has a
contralto voice of great dramatic power.
A CURIOUS SCENE says a Maine exchange,
was that of the recent zero morning on the
Col Ham farm, in Lewiston. The proprietor
was out haying. He had over two acres to cut,
and beneath the ring of the flashing scythe was
ice. Such a phenomenon is worth putting
down.
THAT S WONDERFUL RECOVERY, said House
Surgeon Harris, at the Chambers Street hos
pital, New York. the other day, as Goodwin
Danser. aper-ruler, 26 years old of Brooklyn,
walked out of the institution. Danser was ad-
mittcd to the hospital on Nov. IT,, suffering
from conclusion and O. fracture of the base of
the skull For three days he lay between life
and death. He had fallen through a hatchway
distance OF two stories, and had struck on his
head.
THERE ARE SOME MEN," says the New York
Ledger, who cultivate white hands with fair
nails. For nothing else do they care very par
ticuarly all is well if only their hands be fine.
There is even ridiculous notion that elegant
hands are the most unequivocal test of whal is
called good birth. We can say. for our own
part. that the finest hands we ever saw belonged
20 a hutrharS
ton market. So much for the nonsense about
fine hands,"
S. f. BENis of Fiskdale, n H., had trouble
with an intoxicated man ana then thought no
more about it, The same day. when he fed his
horses, he found the supply of meal was short
and so got feed from the meal barrel in the
house. The horse that ate this meal died that
afternoon Examination showed arsenic in the
family meal barrel. Soon afterward he re-
ceived this unsigned dispatch; Don't use the
bread meal in your barrel" The dispatch came
from New Haven.
WORCESTER has a religious society called
Faith Home" The members, who number
dozen only unable to obtain spiritual satisfac-
ton in the churches, meet every Sunday and
study the Bible to suit themselves. They be
lleve they can reach perfection and an equality
with Christ, and thus resist death and live an
eternity on earth. To do this they believe that
the body must be regenerated by means of Ger
tain mental and physical preparations. They
indorSe faith cures.
The sub committee OF the Dominion para
ment, appointed last season to inquire into the
matter Of the communication of phthisis from
animals to man, have concluded their labors
From questions propounded to nearly all the
prominent medical men in Canada, they have
come to the conclusion that the disease is COM
muncated to man through the flesh aud milk
of cows, and they will, at the next session of
parliament, recommend that precautionary
legislation be enacted.
A CURIOUS INCIDENT in deer hunting is vouched
for by sportsman lately returned to Boston
from the Maine woods party of hunters in a
sledge on Lake Moluncus saw ahead of them a
big deer. Immediately there was a race over
the ice. the sledge speeding across the lake at a
rate impossible to the hunted animal. Suddenly
the sledge met an obstacle aud stopped. 1t was
the deer, which had not only been overtaken. but
had been lmpaled upon one of the runners of
the sledge. It's further capture was an easy
matter.
Miss BUELL., Cincinnati artist, spent the
summer at Egmont, on the North sea She
found potato patch we'll situated for obtain
ing sunset effects, and pitched her easel there.
The owner objected, but she paid no attention
to him Then he complained to the burgo.
master, and he refused to Interfere. The
farmer, as a last re sort petitioned the king
and the result was a letter of reproof to The
farmer, in which he declared that Miss Buell.
might trespasS on all the potato patches III
Holland.
ASA ENNIsT of Lanesville n Y, had tussle
with big black bear, in the Catskils, few
days ago He was hunting for small game. and
therefore, had his gun along. Bruin pounced
upon him from. behind rock, aud knocking h s
weapon to the ground. gave him several hugs.
Ennist though pretty well exhausted from the
loss of blood, embraced an opportunity to re
cover his gun, and then sent a bullet throUg
the animals brain. Friends of Ennst the ne 1
day went to the scene of the conflict ana
brought the carcass, which weighed 200 pounds,
to GAINESVILLE.
GHOST" in the old Rock Hill estate at Med
| ford, Mass, is the subject for gossip in that
vicinity. 1t is said to be the spirit of Capt Kidd
| and the belief is founded on an old tradition
| connected with the estate. Ii is one of the M
merous places where the tabled treasure was
| hidden. Another theory is that the Elidnig!U
| visitor ia the spirit of a New Hampshire farmer
| who robbed and murdered there The ma
jority of people, however, have no story at III
and will believe in noue. The visitor has the
| usual characteristics of ghost and has dis
turbed all the inhabitants in the vicinity.
THE QUESTION of reducing the number OF
| japanese representatives at foreign courts is
said TO be under consideration in official circles
| in that country. The Mdinichi ShiBl5ur
| claims to have learned on good authority that
| legations will not be maintained hereafter ~
cept in the United States, England, France
| Germany, Russia China and Corea, and thai
treaty powers will be entrusted to the ministers
| from whose posts the latter are most accessi-
BILE. The money thus economical will be de-
| voted TO the consular service it is added
LAST SEPTEMBER a stranger hired a dapple
| gray horse and a buggy from a Bridgeport
| Comm livery stable keeper named Raymond
| and never made his appearance again. A few
| days ago farmer in Seymour, who bad heard
| of Raymond's loss, wrote to bin that he must
| have the animal He had made "a trade" for
| it, he explained, believing IL to be fine chest
| nut colored horse. but when it got thoroughly
wet on one occasion, the chestnut color wore off
revealing coat of dapple gray. The stable
keeper went to Seymour, only to find that the
animal was not the one he had lost after all.
The Dakotas are said to furnish fine specimens
Of Indian manhood. The older ones of both
sexes are Of dark copper color; the younger
| ones are much lighter, and the young women
| are quite comely, of clear compiexio and good
color, but often much overlaid with red and vel
| low ochre. The young bucks dress consists OF
| beaded moccasins and brooches fringed with
| buckskin, a government Shirt. coat and hat.
| though many go bareheaded. The hair is coarse
| and black and is generally worn by both sexes
| in two long braids down the back. each braid
usually decorated with beads and wampum.
| A WRITER in the Baltimore Sun bewails the
| decrease in the number of wild ducks on the
I Susquehanna flats, market gunner, he says
| who can bag, after a hard days shooting, q
dozen canvass backs. is lucky. The gunners mr.,
now so numerous that Is impossible TO securt
| an eligible place without getting into dangerous
proximity with some other sink box or bush
| whack boats The shooting on the flats, il is re