The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

MORE than 100 900, 900 stars are revealed to the
sight by the aid of the most powerful telescopes,
and yet astronomers get unduy excited when
ever they discover new one.
WHILE a Paterson clergyman was at church
a burglar pundered bis residence, dressed HIM
self in a suit of the minister's clothing and de-
parted, leaving his own ragged garments be-
hind.
A RAILROAD BRAKEMAN named Meredith fell
under the cars near Terre Haute and four
wheels passed over both his legs, but no bones
were broken and the skin was only signify
bruised.
A SWINGING sign in front of a Chicago store
bears the legend: THE Truth Spoken Here
Now see how quick the st. Louis papers will say
that the language will certainly be new to chi
cago people.
The FACT that now and then bald-headed
Indian is to be seen on the government reserva-
ton indicates that the down-trodden squaw is
slowly but surely climbing into the same rights
enjoyed by her palefaced sisters.
FRANK FAILoN, of Fond du Lac, Wis, saved
his life during the recent blizzard in Dakota by
taking refuge in a pigpen. He passed the night
with a fat pOrker resting on bis feet and one on
each side of him, and he escaped without frost
bite
HEN that is 12 years of age and gray
headed is a feature of the Detroit poultry show.
She laid fifty -four eggs last year and raised
seventeen chickens. Authorities on such mat
ters state That hens rarely live more than four
years.
PEDDLER of patent clamp, non-sewable
buttons for bachelors blundered upon bache
lor's club in Albany, Mo, the other day and
quickly got rid Of his entire stock. The prospect
for good leap year crop in that town, 1t WOULD
seem, IS not very gntterng.
MONTANA coyotes are pretty smart. if reports
ho II &c hat n cat lp
the track of the Montana Union railroad just
ahead of train, and when the locomotive has
done its deadly work the coyotes send up
thankful howl and proceed to dine.
THIS COUNTRY has about 4 900 theaters, and it
has been figured that the people pay about
S1,00OOO0 a day for amusements. This is ex-
elusive of the Sam Jones meetings, but does in
clude many performances which should properly
be classed under the head of fortunes.
THE great Orloff diamond, which surmounts
the Russian imperial sceptre, is the first in size
and the third in value in the world. 1t once
formed the eye of an idol in a temple near
Serngham, India, whence it stolen by
French adventurer. 1t weighs lS5 carets and is
valued at $780, 40.
Mr.. AND Mrs. TURKNET, aged so and 65 re-
spectively, who live near Cisco, Eastand
county, Texas, have become the happy parents
of a bouncing baby boy. The venerable couple
have raised and married off a gOodsized fam
lily and now declare that they feel just young
and smart enough to repeat the experience
THE Missouri Board of Agriculture awarded a
$50 prize for the largest yield of corn to a Buch
anan county farmer, who declared that he raised
l27 bushels from one acre. A Kansas City real
estate man, when he heard of it, said: ''Wel,
its all right. If the prize had been for the big
gest liar, that man would have got it all the
same
WHETHER the organ is like the timbrel and
the high sounding cymbals, an instrument of
the Lord, or whether it is a device of the devil,
is a question which the Kansas Supreme Court
is now wrestling with. The Christian Church
at Winfield split on the organ question, and the
resulting fight over the property has reached
the Supreme Court.
Four Kansas City real estate dealers went out
into the country the other day to inspect bog
which, in the spring, they intend to plat and
put on the market as an addition" AS thew
sat on a log talking the matter over large
wolf came and squatted down beside them, APP
parently approving their plans and wanting 90
be let into the syndicate.
Frankfort, Pa, has man who sleeps in a cof-
fin. He is well educated and comes from one
of the former first families of the town, his
father having been leading politician and
wealthy He is now destitute and q beneficiary
of the undertaker'S charity. His lady-love died
many years ago, since which time his mind has
been somewhat unbalanced.
Mr. FINK, of Buffalo, had his COW butchered
the other day, and in its stomach was found a
gold ring bearing his daughters initials. a gold
Scarfpin and crochet hook. The ring was as
bright as if she had just taken it off her finger
and so was the pin, or such parts of it as were
gold. The girl accounts for the loss of her ring
by leaving it in the pan when pairing potatoes