The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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cattle standing in row.
| CAPT. JOE SMITH of Sabin Pass Tex, has in.
the season just passed shipped to Newark n.
j., the skins of 953 alligators.
| THE largest salmon taken from the Connecti-
cut river for years was caught recently at Lyme.
1t weighed twenty-five pounds.
IT Is SAID that baldheaded Indians are be-
coming common, and the plug hat of civilza-
| ton is thought to be responsible.
THE one-story frame cabin in which Andrew
johnson served his apprenticeship as tailor is
| still standing in Columbia, Tenn.
THE most unique runaway yet is from Byrds-
| town, Ky, where lad of 10 ran away with and
married damsel just twice his age.
| 1T is CLAIMED that the deaths and wounds
| from railroad accidents are only about one
| fourth as great In Europe as in this country.
| ONE of Forepaugh's elephants had to be
| covered with mustard the other day to ease his
pains, and it took twenty-five pounds to do it.
| Mrs BETSY SHEPARD, who recently died at
Ashland, n H., was, with one exception, the
oldest person in the state. She was born in 1875.
Roam Doc, the big medicine man of the
Sioux, finding his mother dead and his reputa-
| ton gone, sent a bullet through his heart last
week.
A LITTLE Burlington girl persisted in singing
while her grandfather was taking his nap. She
explained that she was trying to sing grand
pas nose to sleep"
| RAILWAYS are said to consume more than half
| the worlds production of iron, the car wheels
required in the United States alone taking more
| than 2,000, 900 tons
DR.. WILLIAM GODDARD, who died in Boston a
| few days ago at the age of 92, was Harvard's
oldest living graduate, having received his de-
| gree of A. b. in 1915 and his NJ. d. in 1920.
| locked up for an uproarious drunk made
pyre of his clothes, and laying himself upon it,
set it on fire ito roast the devils out of him.
SINCE New Years twenty one persons have
suffered death under the myriad wheels that
| roll along the streets of New York. The
manned and cripple from the same cause num-
| Der l30.
THE largest self-adjusting leather link belt
ever made has just been put in place in Law
| renee, Mass. 1t is rs feet long, 81 inches wide
weighs $50 pounds and it took 106.775 links to
make it.
On the wagon sheet of prairie schooner that
passed through Orleans, 40, from Kansas, the
other day, bound eastward, was the inscriptions
''Tryin git back my wife'S people. My
names Eli"
Down in Kentucky, where the goosebone rules
| the weather, such a cool spell as has prevailed
is called blackberry winter" because the low
temperature came just when the blackberry
began to bloom.
ARTHUR WOODS of Chelsea, Mass went to
sleep aboard the schooner Mol Pitcher, which
was anchored in Marbehead harbor with a
pleasure party the other night. In his sleep
he got up walked overheard and was drowned
THE largest single cheek ever given was by
John D. Taylor treasurer of the Pennsylvania
company 1t was drawn PAYABLE to order of
LEI e IN hA
National bank of commerce of New York city
| THE OFFICIALS of the London and Northwest
| ern railway company have been trying the ex-
pertinent of hauling canal boats by means of
| locomotives The tests, which were made
| near Worleston, Eng, are considered success.
full.
THE wife of a Buffalo physician has recently
been adjudged insane because of a strange
| mania for fans. She was accustomed when out
shopping, to purchase every fan she saw re-
gardlesS of cost, and accumulated a magnificent
collection
THE world moves. At the recent celebration
| of the 10Th anniversary Of the Third Unitarian
| parish of Dorchester, Mass, Congregational and
| Methodist clergymen took part. Said one 1--WE
| differ intellectually about knotty points of
| theology, but in sympathy are one-one in
| the principles of righteousness, peace and love-
A YOUNG MAN employed by Richard johnson
| at Easton, on Tuesday, while he was driving
bunch of cattle into the yard at Bush slaughter
house. The bull tossed the man into the air
and against building, but help arrived before
serious injury was inflicted. The bull beloved
| and whipped his tail like a lion.
The new cathedral at Albany promises to be
| eminent among cathedrals for its memorial
character Not only will there be ten stained
glass memorial windows, but the twentv-four
main pillars, no two of whose capitals viii be
alike, are to be memorials; smaller pillars are
| to commemorate dead children; and 100 stalls,
the altar, altar rail, font lecturn and other parts
of the auditorium will be gifts in memorain.
AN undressing development in photography
is in the use of clockwork in printing from mega
tives. By this means a continuous web of sensi-
tized paper is drawn at suitable intervals under
a negative exposed to source of light After
printing the paper is drawn still by the mechan-
ism, through washer, "toner'' and flyer,
successfully, and appears finally as series of
finished pictures ready for mounting and ali
alike in exposure. color and tone.
AMONG the Yale men who will receive degrees
at the coming commencement are four Jana.
nese students. One of them, who is resident
graduate, will be made doctor of phiosonbv
Another, the son of a Japanese nobieman. now
a minister OF finance, will graduate from tba
law school A third, who graduates from the
same school, is one of the brightest men in biS
class and contestant for the John A Porter
prize. The most Interesting of them is Shinl
chi Sheglm OF the scientific school, He is n
typical Japanese, four feet tall and weigbS
ninety pounds. He came to this country with,
out money or friends, drfted to Yale. was taken
in charge by President Dwight and members Of
the FACULTY, and now graduates with honors.
RECENT Bismarck, Oak, bride had .bod
luck''on her wedding day She had almost
reached the church when she discovered thai
she had forgotten her bridal veil. She ,yont
back after 1t. On the way to the church ar,oi
she sneezed three times and split the satin Sod
ice from belt to shoulder. The carriage sto,,Sod
at a millinery store needle and thread w.
procured and the rent repaired As she sta,"naJ
from the carriage at the church door the lac
bodice of an underskirt caught and the ,rJor
skirt at the waist gave way. As she WALKED m
the aisle the skirt began to slip down. but sbpp
managed TO grab IL through the side of bar
dress skirt and hung on until she was sofaI,,
married and back in the carriage. Then ale
wept sH0
Or the present very limited number OF HIGH
stations for making meteorological observa-
tions, there are only two in Europe which av-
coed 5000 metres in hight, being about IN ooo
and II, 900 feet, respectively. Among those in
TINS country is Pike Peak whichIhas an altitude
OF l4,lOO teet exceeding thus by more than 400 |
feet any in Europe. These great h1hts Nv Nv
much more accessible on this Continent tbor "io
Europe, there being five in America where II 900 |
Ieet or more is reached by railroads built for IA
cilitating mining work: The highest of tbasa a.,
North America is Mount Lincoln in Colorado
the mining works on which are ii 207 feet 49,