The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-30
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fected, and the establishment in consequence
had to close down.
TRAMPs confined in the jail at Creston, Ia,
pounded a hole through the walls of the cell
into an adjoining cell and drank nearly all Of q
case and a half Of condemned beer which had
been placed there for safe keeping
THE yearly income OF the great Kimberly
diamond mines in South Africa is $40 5000,
and besides this it is estimated that fully &c.
coo, 900 worth Of diamonds stolen every year
oy the natives who work in the mines.
AN ENGLISH STEAMER, the Arcadia, easily
made the round trip. from London to Bombay
-f3, 1879 miles-in forty-seven days Five days,
too, were lost in unloading at Bombay and sew
eral stops were made at ports on the way home.
THERE ara so many candidates in the field for
the postmastership of Corinna, Me-, that the
people have decided to vote on the matter at a
town meeting. The candidate receiving the
most votes will be recommended for the ap-
pointment.
The FOUNDATIONS of q church in San Lins,
CAL, have been shifted seven inches by the roots
OF eucalyptus trees, and the latter are there
fore to be cut down. The trees are perfect
giants, their tops reaching thirty feet above the
church 8 steeple.
The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette says: 1t
is pretty tiresometo spend $4,000 or SO in drill
ing well for natural gas and then getting only
sued for $4S,0 600 damages in addition for the
salt water communicating all the fresh-water
wells in the neighborhood aud yet that is what
happened yesterday to the CHARTERS Valley
Natural Gas company.
CONNECTICUT cooNs have many peculiar traits,
but Meriden has perhaps the only pair that are
not prohibitionists. James H. Kenny owns
them. Their love for beer is so strong that they
will drink nothing else Like many other
topers. they are unable to realize when they
have had enough. They get boiling, drunk at
every opportunity, and usually end their sprees
IN savage fights Neither will drink beer brewed
in Connecticut. They drink New York or Mil
wausee beer, but their greatest delight is in
Culmbacher.
A PROMINENT RESIDENT of Chaplin. Conn :.
who is extrayagantly fond of fox hunting,
started out on bitterly cold day and. arriving
the coveted game. he started his
hound on the trail. The faithful animal
caught the scent instantly and bounded
away, and IN a few moments was lost from sight.
The owner waited patiently until utterly be-
numbed by the cold, he crept back to his wagon.
where he found the noble hound snusly
ensconced beneath the buffalo robe, sound
asleep.
THERE is only one physician TO every $500 of
the population in Russia, and yet the destitu-
ton among members of the profession is said
to be alarming. OF late there have been num-
bers of suicides of medical men who were with
out the bare necessities of life This state Of
things is attributed to the ignorance of the peo-
pie, who consult sooth-sayers and magicians in
preference TO educated medical men. Men who
have served in the ambulance corps or as hes
pital attendants. and thus gained a smattering
OF medical knowledge, are allowed to practice,
which is another drawback to the profession.
THE ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the Photographic
Society of Great Britain did not bring forward
any startling novelty, either in the way Of ap-
paratas or process" says Chambers Jour
nal. But there was indicated by the pictures
hung on the walls the wide acceptance by
photographers of the comparatively new
method OF printing IN salts of platinum instea1
OF those in silver. Platinum gives black-toned
picture with dull surface, which is far more
artistic than the brown and purple tones with
shiny surface which is associated with silver
printing. The platinum has the further merit
OF Jsoiute per1nanency, so that it takes away
from the Photographic image its old reproach
OF being apt to fade. A recent modification in
the platinum process has made its prac ice far
more simple than it used to be, and this circum-
stance, coupled with the advantages Just
pointed out, will be sure to increase its vota-
RES"
The following story illustrates how much
mice love their tails: In Norwich, Conn, the
other night a young lady set mouse trap in
her parlor-a trap that was like a diminutive
railroad round house. with arched doorways
and with delicate little loop of steel under
each doorsil to fly up and catch mouse by the
muzzle. The steel nooses snapped busily all
night and the next morning the lady found five
mice clinging in five OF the inhospitable door
ways. aud what was very mysterious TO her
three long mouse tails hanging from the three
other entrances. She puzzled her head long
over the inscrutabie problem. Why did three
mice visit her trap overnight and deliberately
leave their tails behind them? But there was
no snswer to It. A very bright idea, however,
again. Verify. the three tailless mice came
back to recover their tails and in the gray
dawn of the following day the young lady
found three tailleSS mice dangling from the
trap.
AN INExPLIcABLE FREAK was that of Leba-
non, Conn. bachelor Mr.. Loomer, who dwells
in big house on a big farm, keeping maid of
all work, who has beau whom the farmer does
not like. Mr.. Loomer, few days ago became
convinced that the maid and her sweetheart
we're scheming to rob him of his wealth, which
consisted OF $40 bill, besides his real estate
and, to thwart their designs, he converted the
greenbaek into ten silver dollars which he sewed
into bag, and the bag he furtivey buried al
dead of night by lantern light, spading a deep
hole in his yard, and smoothing down the turf
above the hiding place after he had deposited
his treasure therein. He carefully married the
spot-"it is so many feet, " he reflected, from
the corner of the ell, and at the Junction of two
imaginary lines from tie horse stable and the
southeast corner of the well-curb''-and then
he went hack to bed. In that same night q
heavy rain washed ont all trace of his digging
and, as the farmer cannot now conciliate the
well-curb and stable lines into clue, he has
thus far searched in vain for his bank.
The KIwI is the sole remnant of the wonder
full race of wingless birds that once roamed al
over New Zealand, the gigantic skeletons OF
some of which have been found In such num-
bers that almost every museum in the world
possesses one or more Of them. Tho kiwi is
about the size of partridge, has a rather long
neck and curious bill about four inches in
length It's wings are quite undevelopei and
Its feathers have sort OF unfinished character,
which may be supposed to represent nature s
early efforts in that direction before tie close,
rich plumage OF the modern bird was evolved. -
Wanting the means Of flight, the kiwi has been
only too rapidly exterminated. and with Il
also have gone, or nearly gone, all the other
feathered denizens Of the woods. The invasion
of their haunts by the white man is not the sole
cause of this. Equally potent. perhaps more
so. has been the Introduction of Fngls birds
The linnet, the sparrow, the chaffinch and the
thrush have driven away the more tlfnId and
delicate native birds. This is the case more or
less throughout New Zealand where the white
population has found its way.
JAKE KILRAIN and Charlie Mitchell tried in
Chicago the other day much the same game
that Ofenbach played in this country
during his concert tour. Threatened with
arrest IL he gave his opera music on Sunday,
the happy idea entered the Frenchman's head
of presenting LA Belle Helene" and la Joe
Parfumeuse' as sacred concerts. No objection
was raised. and the religious people OF Chicago
Sunday Kilrain and Mitchell, fearing that "
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