The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-08
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| other English towns, will celebrate the tercen-
tenary of the defeat of the Spanish armada. 70
A CHINESE SECRET SOCIETY has been discovered
in British Columbia, it is said, the object of
which is to kill all persons who interfere with
| its members.
GOSHEN and Dennis creeks. in New Jersey,
have each been shortened half a mile within the
last few years by the land washing away at
| their mouths
A HOUSE in New Jersey, which had been kept
| insured for eighty-nine years, burned up the
other day between the lapse Of one policy and
| the taking out of another.
| GRINNELL, Ia, enjoys the distinction of never
having had a saloon, and of not having fur
nished an inmate of the poorhouse or peniten-
| tlary for twenty eight years.
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE at Yuma, Ari.. COM
United the Board of County Supervisors to Jail
| for 100 days for contempt, because they refused
| to allow his bill for official services
The Boston Transcript knows of an erudte
clergyman who spoke of the unfortunate woman
of Sodom as Lots lady who was TRANSFORMS
into monolith of chloride of sodium"
PEOPLE don't really kiss the Pope's toe. The
Pope's foot is encased In a silk stocking, which
| is again encased in a dainty slipper embroidered
with cross, which the pilgrim touches with his
| lips.
OVER $50, 900 900 worth of diamonds are sold
yearly in New York. This does not include
those worn by hotel clerks. The reported value
| of the diamonds alleged to have been stolen
| from star actresses aggregates a much larger
sum.
| NOTWITHSTANDING the wild cat market is a
| little dull just now, Jim Waldron, farmer in
the vicinity of Arcadia Ill, is preparing to
gage in raising them, and hopes in few months
| to have a cage 40 feet square full of them. The
wild cat famine will soon be over.
FARMERS living rear Bakersfield, Cal, built
jack-rabbit corral, shaped like the letter V, re-
Gently, and then secured the fields on horse
back driving the animals before them into the
trap. Then for two hours general massacre
of the pests took place, in which SOS of them
were killed
PRESIDENT CARROTS BUST is to be copied in
plaster for every Mayoraty and mess room in
France. The busts of Theirs, Mcmahon and
Grevy as we'll as their portraits, in black and
white, which adorned schOol-rooms and Council
chambers of MayoraltieS have been relegated to
lumber-roomS.
AN ENGLISH FIRM OF pyrotechnists have at
their factory a Newfoundland dog which posi-
lively revels in fireworks. He rushes into a
shower of sparks with as much delight as most
of his kind display in cold bath and on a
lighted Squib being thrown within his reach, he
will run after the smoldering stump as if it
DoAANi
AN ENeLIsHMAN named Hughes, rendered
splenetic by unrequited love, committed suicide
at Bologna in a most determined manner. He
drank a small bottle of whisky mixed with
strychnine, then locked the doors and windows
made fire of charcoal and finally cut the ar
terry of his left wrist. A loaded revolver which
he had lying on the table became superluous
after that.
NJ ALLEMAND, the lessee of three of the
largest of the Partisan music halls is about to
try the experiment Of treating his patrons to a
better class of songs than those with which the
frequenters of the cafes concerts have so long
been familiar. He has asked VI. Jean Richepin
and three or four other verSiherS to write the
words, and if they respond the vocal part of the
entertainment will be also elevated.
A CAT whose general appearance indicated
great feebleness and general ill-health walked
into drug store in Van Buren,, Mo-. the other
day and began biting and scratching at paper
package Of catnip. quantity was poured ON
the floor, and the cat ate greedily, and rolled on
the leaves. She was daily visitor to the store
and got the medicine regularly, until to all au-
pearances she was quite well. This is the story
as sent from Van Buren,.
AN AUTHORITY on pigs says that he never
thinks Of cutting off the tails of his pigs Tho
tails are the indicators of the porkers condition
If piggy doesn't feel well. if his food doesn't
agree with him, his tail begins to Strengthen
The sicker the pig, the straighter the tail; and
the healthier the pig the tighter the curl The
old theory that it takes a bushel of corn to
fatten an inch tail this pig raiser scorns The
pigs tail is his pulse; therefore never cut it off
CAPT. PETER EcHELs, of Cincinnati, an old
riverman, has constructed wonderful little
watercraft, which was tested on the little Miami
river the other day. 1t is called the marine To-
connective and is intended for pleasure riding
1t is so constructed that the wheels are both air
and water tight. The model used was 10 feet
long, and a weight of eight pers ms was placed
aboard of il and the machinery. although only
of clock spring make, caused the small boat to
make an average speed, either way, of from IA
to Is miles per hour.
WOMAN who has been indexing deeds in
Maine has made a list of the queer given names
she found Here are some of them: Ledoc
Generous, Passchal, Lupina, Might, Araunah,
Squire, Deluva, Barzillai, Calvary, Harrison,
Zophau. Philander, Mories, Axel, Hopestill,
Piram, Jerathmael, Rancil, Hazareman. Sprout,
Demeric Bana. Angler, Uzza, Lila Cad Luton
Cyprian, Ivory. Jacon. Kilah, Ora, Cadwalla,
der Gallon, Loven, DiOdamia, Grinf1l, Mesbach,
Liberty, Autumers, HaddasSah, Esek, Sahra,
Rispah and Z9phan
THREE YEARS AGO the two Draper sisters, who
owned little farm about eighteen miles from
Boston, gave up school teaching to see what
they could make from their land They started
out with the idea of selling nothing but the very
best products of their farm, and to make what
they did sell appear to the best advantage
They began with fowls and eggs, and stamped
each egg with the date of its laying They
never made a misStatement, and now they are
making money, for they get double the
market rates for most articles that they offer
for sale
CLIMBING the Alps in winter is a pastime in
which few mountaineers indulge though much
more extended views may be obtained in fine
winter weather than during the more or less
hay summer days. Mrs. jackson, an ambitious
English climber has this winter, however as
cended the Lauterarrhorn and the Little
ViescherhOrn, two submits that have never be-
fore been reached in winter. The ascent and
descent of the Lauterarrhorn occupied a dav
and half, and was made under the guidance Of
Emil Boss, the famous guide who led the way
three years ago up Mount Kabru, in the Hima-
layas, the highest ascent yet made by noun
taineerS.
COUNCILMAN LUCIUs Holt of Hartford, Conn,
was out driving when the runner of his sleigh
caught in a horse car track and the sleigh was
overturned Mr.. Holt was thrown out and the
horse started on a run down hill, at the bot
tom Of which is a railroad crossing. The gates
were down, but the gateman raised them and
the beast galloped on the track where the
engine of freight train struck IL. The horse
was lifted by the cow-catcher and thrown over
the gate, landing fiat in the street beyond The
sleigh was caught by the engine and smashed
into thousand pieces. The horse suffered no
injury, though one shoe was torn off. while
another was twisted completely out of shape.
The Coreans, who have recently sent Minis
ter to Washington, are barbarous in their pun
l