The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST


tered thus far in northern Alabama. Registry
before July y will be- necessary 10 that state in
| order TO vote at the fall election.
IT Is EXPECTED that 5000 brotherhood en-
gineers will be ut the anniversary celebration in
| Detroit on Aug II and 49, The brotherhood
was born at Detroit on Aug Il. 1863.
A NEW MATERIAL called "leatherne is an En-
glish manufacture. 1t be sold for or
cents per pound, is said to be as tough as
| leather and is designed for packing and bag
ging.
BANGOR Me-, having thus far existed without
a street railway is to redeem its reputation on
this scote by having an electric road, thus
making an exception to the usual evolution Of
local transportation, which comprises Uransi
ton from horse c'rs to electric or cable motors.
In this instance the proposed road is the direct
successor Of the hack.
A TRAMP, who lately made the rounds of
Hartford, Conn, had an ingenious scheme-not
| new, thOugh-fOr raising the wind He ex-
| hibited a letter which, he said, he wished to
mail at once and asked for a stamp to put on
it. explaining that he had none himself. Many
| persons, not having stamps with them, pre-
| ferred to give him cents, and in this way the
tramp was able to do a thriving business.
HUSH FAY Louisville book5eeper, entered
his employers vault to examine papers, and
while thus engaged the door was closed and
| locked by fellow clerk, Ignorant of Fay's
NiltitttIbluiS. IbEUundleS IUeTe WIS n Lele-
| phone IN the vault and the imprisoned man
was thus able to communicate his situat to
the central Office. Assistance shortly arrived
and Fay, who on the verge of succumbing
| to the sttng atmosphere about him, was re-
| lieved
SAID the Rev. p. s. Henson to the Richmond
theological seminary Students when l was
| student at Richmond college, forty years ago,
| there were some boys at the college who would
| lie down on the green grass and look up into
lrf,ri 4 all
dreamly of their aspirations. They were all
the while building air castles. They aSpired
until they expired. Like Paul, you must press
| to the mark If YOU would do anything in this
| great world"
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES as is generally known,
is leading member of the Prison Reform asso-
| citation, and next to him in prominence and in
| f1uence is Mr.. Alfred II. Love, of Philadelphia,
| OF whom the Boston Herald says: Mr.. Love is
the gentleman who was unanimously nominated
! tor the vice presidency on the ticket with Mrs.
| Belva Lockwood, Mr.. Love, we believe, de
! clined to accept the nomination, but his declina-
| ton has not yet been accepted, and his name
| still adorns the equal rights Ticket
LONDON Truth is in a state of mind because
| novelists will never refer to a hand pure and
simple; it always must be ''gloved hand. or
| an ''ungloyed hand" Truth says, and intimateS
| that the next thing in order is to find the boys
| of fiction bathing with ''unshod feet and play
| ing football with "shOd' ones, while the dying
| heroine III Jne laSC Chapter may DE expected to
turn her lovely, unbonneted head on the snowy
| pillow" and Lhe hero to walk down Pail Mall
with his intellectual head magnificenty
| hatted.n
| CURIOUS MARKINGS in walnut wood are not
| uncommon. A specimen remarkable for the
close resemblance of the marking to a figure of
a bird was recently exhibited by Rev
| Matthew Anderson of Philadelphia. The
| section had been sawed from black walnut
| log by his brother, Moses Anderson of Green
| castle Pa and measured about by 10 inches.
| For several inches about the figure the wood
was unusually light in color. In the center of
the slab in the usual dark color of the walnut,
was nearly perfect silhouette of bird The
| grain of the wood was considerably curled in
| the vicinity of the picture.
A DISPATCH to the Cincinnati Enquirer from
| Middletown, KY, says: "A curious suit has
been filed here Dudley B. Smith, wealthy
| business man of CORTLAND, has filed a claim
| against his deceased grandmother's estate for
| 30,7O2 ducks queer agreement is produced
| to substantiate the claim. In 1866 Smith gave
| his grandmother three ducks upon the COndi-
| ton that she should make a return out OF the
| natural increase at the rate of two for one
| every second year. BY computation it is found
| that such increase would amount to over 20 900
| ducks, or S15,3G2. vigorous protest comes
| from the other heirs, and a fight will be made
| by them in court"
WILLIAM HASTINGS TooN of London adver-
tised in seventy English papers for a
clerk at a salary of $50 year To applicants
ne returned a circular saying he must have five
| shillings as guarantee of good faith before
considering the matter. the police arrested
| him after he had received many thousand ap-
pcations and gOodly number of shillings, and
in court it came out that the whole business
| was the result of a wager of $500 TOon had
made with a friend that within a month he
could get 5000 applications for a situation as
clerk, and that 1000 of them would be ac-
companied by five shillings. The Jury found
| of b1t bn ind h
under bonds, with a warning and suspension of
| sentence.
| ANAToLE BIGUECHET has just been the defend
ant in a suit before a Paris magistrate, in which
a marble cutter named Boulngrin sought to re-
cover $50 for composing and putting upon mar
| BILE ap elegy to the late Nine. Biguchet. The
| elegY was read in court by the marble cutt pr
and seemed to be all right, but when it came the
| turn of the defense BigLechet declared that it
was all a lie, and said that after giving the or
der for the elegy and tombstone he had found
| compromising photographs in his wife'S writing
| desk and uncomfortable letters in her empty
| jam pots and discovered That she had long been
| untrue to him He said he would go to the scat
| fold rather than pay $50 for a monument to the
| memory Of such woman, but the court de-
cided that he must pay it, nevertheless.
TIE earliest known example Of newspaper
advertisement is to be found in the Rerc,rius
| ElenGticts a London weekly, of oct d. 1913.
! 1t is as follows: The Reader is desired to
peruse Sermon Entitled "A Looking glass for
| Jewellers, Preached at St Peters, Paules Wharf
| on Sunday Sept. "a l6iS by Paul Knell Mr. OF
| Arts Another Tract called a Reflex upon
| our Reformers with Prayer for the Paria-
ment. This appears to have been Il notice in
| serted at the charge of author or publisher to
| induce demand for the pamphlets at the book
| sellers shops. AS such, it was the pioneer of a
class of advertising that has entertaining his
| tory and attained great vogue and which adver-
| tiser', newspaper prUprietOrs, advertising AGENTS
and the public all have reason to contemplate
| with satisfaction.
A CHARMING FRENCH Duchess so goes the
story, recently promised to be present at the
| festivlty for some benevolent purpose at the
! Trouville Casino. Being rather behind time, the
| lady put her gloves on while driving and never
| noticed, till she stood in the full blaze of the
| Casino drawing-rOOm, that to her black and
| white silk costume she had put on one white
| and one black glove. 1t appeared that her
| maid had laid two pairs of glove, ready for her
| mistress to choose from, and that the duchess
| in h hurry, had taken one of each pair The
| mischief, however, could not be un1one and
| the gratifying result was that AZ the next fash
| iouaDle assembly, all the ladies' of Trouville
wore Il glove of a different color on each hand
| a custom which has become 50 general that ut
present all the ladies' at rrOuyllle have adopted IL
! LAWRENCE County, MICHIGAN, has a cooper
alive telegraph line which began by two farmers
! connecting their homes with a wire. and which
! has extend "a until il now has siNty-fve miles of
! wire and ninety offices, two-thirds of which arc
/ in farm houses and the others In stores whern