The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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ONE THOUSAND PAIRS of SO opera glasses of
fered for sale in New York city were found to
have cost just lie. per pair
EVEN empty egg-shells have value. A man
in London is reported as making a living by col
| lectlng them and selling them TO shooting gal
leries for targets.
AN Iowa WOMAN placed pan of gasoline or
the hot stove and started to wash her hands in
| 1t thinking it was water Her husband intends
TO rebuild as soon as the funeral is over.
SAMUEL CLAY, who died recently near Paris
KY, was the largest land owner in Bourbon
county, and probably in the State He owned
nearly 1900 acres of fine blue grass land.
THE Danville 1ll) Commercial devotes half a
colum to telling how pancakes should be made,
and concludes the article with: "They should
be baked very thin and four served to each
| person"
OUT in Kansas twentysiX new suffrage socie-
ties have been organized since last October. 1t
is believed that the woman-suffragistsw would not
be half as happy with the ballot as they are
| talking about getting it,
THE birthplace of Horace Greeley, alittle two
story farmhouse surrounded by 129 acres of
rather poor land at Amherst, n. H., has been
| sold for taxes. The birthplace Of Gen. Sheri-
dan has apparently been lost or stolen.
| DANvILIE, it is reported, has saloon keeper
who has two grown sons who ''never took a
drink of whisky or smoked a cigar, and who sell
| dom use prOfane or indecent language Per
| hapS they drink gin and smoke pipe. Tastes
differ.
| A CLAY COUNTY (DAK.) FARMER has a 5-year-old
cow which is sixteen and one-half hands high
and weighs 1,SSS pounds. Forepaugh, the circus
| man, thinks "crtter' of that weight would be
good mascot for the show season of 1888, and
| is trying to buy her.
| THE town of Belleview, Ill, is entirely free of
dogs. Since the terrific nitro glycerine explo-
sion there. few days ago, not a canine has been
| seen on the streets At the first report every
| one started on dead run for the woods, and not
| one has returned yet
ONE of the most novel of all pools or trusts
| that has been formed is the hollow ware pool,
which has just been renewed by agreement of
| the wardens or managers of the various peni-
| tentiares, where almost all the hollow ware
| manufactured in the United States is made.
New YORK MUSEUM, not to be outdone in the
| way of advertising by its contemporaries in a
circular tells of its many wonders thus: THE
| only corn ever taken out of the foot of the
street; a tooth from the mouth of river; a
| red-headed mermaid from the Red Sea- etc
| SOME genius with fancy for handling babies
has figured out that piece of wood the size of
| month-old baby would be worn down one-half
| in six months if handled as much as the average
DdOy Is. Inc GEAR HUE UnIngS ike IL, however.
and grow fat on being tumbed around and
| mussed up
A GRAY-HAIRED PHILADELPHIA named Colfax
Laden, who had been given up for dead by his
relatives over twenty years ago, surprised them
| by returning safe and sound one day last week
He left for the army in 1854 and that was the
last they heard from him until his unexpected
appearance.
THE new Museum of Religions at Paris will
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the TrOcadero. 1t will be a repository of idols
paintings and other objects accessory to the
worship of various peoples, and will be a resort
for scholars and SavantS, especially those
learned in the Oriental tongues.
THE greatest elevation which has been at
tanned by man is 81, 900 feet about seven miles
this height having been reached during a bal
loon ascent made by Glaisher. At this tremen-
dous distance above the earths surface physi-
cal eXertion is found to be almost impossible
owing to the great rarefaction of the atmos-
phere.
A MILWAUKEE, MAN vino has just returned from
a trip to California, where he went to see what
the boom was like, says that he was offered a
bargain in Los Angeles in a lot that was held
try, twelve miles from town. was finding a
ready sale at 800 foot and money was being
loaned at II per cent.
Mrs. FIDA LEWIS died at South Hadley Falls
Mass, recently, of disease which it puzzled
the doctors TO diagnose but which was treated
as tumor 1t was learned after her death that
twenty -siX years ago when girl of ~ she had
fallen and driven darning needle into her lip
and post mortem examination showed that
this had been the immediate cause of her death.
In the monastery of st. Alexander Nevsh, in
ST. Petersburg, is massive shrine of pure sill
yer that weighs two tons. 1t is pyramidal in
shape decorated with the most beautiful
ri ted with alc fha
size of a man nodded of solid silver The
monastery also contains the crown of St Alex
ander and the bed on which Peter the Great
died.
A PRIVATE LETTER from Port au Prince. dated
Feb. 16, contains the following: During
Christmas week a man was caught in the streets
here with child cut up in quarters for sale
Cannibalism still prevails despite all the state
mentS to the contrary. President Soomons to
please the masses-the negro element-allows
them to dance a koodhoo dance, formerly pro-
| hibited."
A CORRESPONDENT, writing from st. Peters
burg, says: Il saw more drunken men in
| Petersburg on che day of my arrival than l had
seen in all the rest of Europe during four
mouths stay. The peasants of Belgium have a
poor reputation for temperance, but | saw mora
drunken men in Petersburg on my way from
the station to the hotel the day of my arrival
than saw in all Belgium"
ALTHOUGH the Car is the nominal leader of
the Russian Church, the real responsibility of
directing its affairs rests with the Holy Synod
composed of the metropolitans of ST. Peters
burg, Moscow and kieff The primate of these
the Metropolitan of st. Petersburg occupies a
large and handsome palace, with vast number
of clerks under him. and has a gift of $4,000
annually from the public treasury, beside the
offerings collected in all the churches.
ACCORDING to the Democrat of West Bend.
Wis there is a man living near that place who
has been married seven years and who does not
know his wife's given name. She became in
sane recently and the mans remarkable igno-
rance was revealed when application was made
for her commitment to an asylum Evidently
the unfortunate wife of such a man was Quite
excusable far going insane, aud there appears
no very gC5,J reason why Ter husband should not
have been put in an asylum some time ago.
SOME days ago a letter addressed to John
Smith, Akron, o. was received at the Akron
post office. A carrier took it and delivered il
TO the first John Smith he came to. The next
day the letter was returned, with the statement
that ii was intended for some other person
The letter was then tried ON another ,John
Smith He, too. opened and read il. and then
returned it. This thing of sending il out was
kept up until the fourteenth John Smith got H.
and he claimed it as his, while every John
Smith in town had read it.
GEORGE ZucKwET.ER, Of Pekin, busted off the
family Bible the other day, and upon opening il
to see what it was all about discovered curious
relic. 1t was silk badge. upon which was
printed fine engraving Of the head and bust
OF Gen. Lafayette. In circle over the head