The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


OF its cuisine, is woman.
A KENTUcK1AN who won 81, 900 on horse race
figured up his old debts and found he would
have just S22 left after paying them. He there
fore skipped the country with the money.
The territory west of the Missouri river
on the Northern Pacific railroad, it is said, is
gradually being ridden of the feature which
causes it to be known as the hunters para
disc"
A CARBON TOWNSHIP, Huntington county, hen
last week laid an egg, upon the shell of which
was clearly and plainly raised the figure of
snake about three inches long, with head poised
for blow.
A ST. LOUIS CH1RoPoDIsr has a queer sign
hanging in front of his Office. The letters are
made from corns which he has extracted from
his patrons, and every period is indicated by an
enormous bunion.
OF the 16, 500 persons who have visited Shake
speare's birthplace during the year 5000 were
Americans, 39 nstionaties being represented in
ALL The amount derived from visitors fees is
about $500 year.
AN ANIMAL having head and forefeet like
squirrel and hind feet like coon has been killed
near Augusta, Ky. Several hunters of that sec
ton, when shown the carcass, declared that
they had not seen one like it before.
THE eleventh Worlds Conference of Young
Mems Christian Associations is to be held in
Stockholm this summer These conferences are
usually held once in three years. The last one
was in Berlin in the summer Of 1884
DURING the drill of sailors aboard the steamer
Forrest City at Boston on Tuesday, they ran
from point between decks, unfastened the
lifeboatS and lowered them into the water in the
remarkably quick time of minute and IA sec
ondS.
COPPER SODA FOUNTAIN exploded with a re-
-. ia. ~,
other day. man named Tysinger had his leg
badly lacerated by the top of toe apparatus,
and another named Barnes, was knocked over
by the steam of escaping soda.
THEY are having hard work finding hard pan
for the foundations of the new bridge across
the Thames at East New London, Conn. They
have put spiles down 11S feet, and have not got
to solid earth yet. 1t is thought that bottom
will be reached at about 1870 feet.
CAPT, Ed SMITH captured two whales near
Provincetown Mass, the other day. The whales
measured respectively IS and 63 feet in length,
estimated to turn out an aggregate of 200 bar
rels of oil and 2 900 pounds Of bone valued at
81 500, for the captain and crew of men.
SWALLOWS have been making their home in
the chimneys of the First ward school house at
Appleton Wis, and when fire was built in the
stove the other day hosts of dead birds came
tumbling down the chimney Altogether $50
birds were picked up and removed in bushel
baskets.
EDDIE WILLIAMS, of Franklin, Me-, went hunt
ing, and the gun he carried kicked very hard
when he fired 1t. few days afterward he was
taken ill and died. The recoil of the gun had
caused conclusion of the base of the brain, PROF.
ducng partial paralysis of the spine and digest.
i've organs.
SIX MONTHS AGO a resident of Millersburg, Ky,
received pony from friend living in the In
Han nd Tha fe
Gently the animal escaped from his new master,
wandered off through several States, swan over
number of rivers, and on Monday last reached
his old home.
EDWARD DEACoNs, in prison at Rochester, N
Y, under sentence of death for the murder of
Mrs. Ada Stone who had never manifested
emotion at his trial and sentence. was excited
TO tears on Saturday, when rat that he had
tanned aud taught tricks, was killed by a dog
who entered the cell with keeper.
AN old lady living at Ryde, Eng, died re-
Gently, and in due course her furniture was
advertised for sale. On the day before the sale
one of the executors carefully examined an
ancient bureau and discovered a secret drawer
and O false bottom, in which were upwards of
1000 sovereigns, closely packed together.
A STRANGE SORT of theatrical crank has been
discovered in Paris at the Ambigu. 1t is a
woman who sits nightly In one of the galleries
and learns the pieces by heart. It is said to
take her eight days, and she recites with the
actors in whisper Her neighbOrs are sur
prtsed to hear her answering the cues before the
actor is heard
In North ADAMS, MASS, two girls of and
10 went out after Mayflowers and lost their way
in the woods. Some time after dark they STUN.
bled upon farm house and asked shelter but
were refused, so they were forced to remain all
night In the woods, and were found by the
searching party at morning, half dead from
cold, fright and exhaustion.
GEN. BoULANGER repudiated to the correspon-
dent of the Ptu Mall Gazette. in Paris, as a
libel on the women of France the remark at
tributed to NJ. Grevy that there was not a
single mother in Bordeaux or Marseilles or else
where, who would send her son to die for the
sake of restoring Strasburg to France I'VE
shall see, " said the General, " who is right"
JAMES EvELETH, the disbursing clerk in the
second division of the Chief of Engineers ut
Washington, has the reputation of having been
in the government service longer than any other
person in the War Department, and any other
department. for that matter. He entered the
service as clerk in the military reservation of
Fortress Monroe in 1899, fifty nine years ago.
when he was q years old.
FIFTEEN of the seventy eight members of the
graduating class of the Sheffield Scientific
School at Yale, earned their own living while
taking their course of instruction. Some
worked on farms during vacation, some sold
books, some taught school, and some acted as
walters in summer hotels, while one man drew
beer at a summer resort, receiving salary of
IS per week for his services
A RATHER novel but no doubt lucrative BUSH
ness is one taken up by Eleanor Kirk" 1t is
located in Brooklyn and called 1.-THE Bureau of
Correspondence. The well-knoWn literary
lady undertakes to read and criticise the work
of those who write. Five dollars is her charge
for looking over manuscript, and 81 for short
story or article So many demands of this kind
mazda hA I,,ns
ness in self defense.
FORT WORTH TEx) young woman, after
eating freely of candy from a box sent her
anonymously, became very ill., and the stuff
was thought to have been poisoned. As she did
not die for some weeks, analysis was made of
what remained of the sweets with the result Of
finding that the supposed poison was calomel.
and that the girls Illness due primarily to its
action, was now the violent hystera occasioned
by the shock of supposed poisoning.
HERE'S neat and probably true story of a
small Boston boy, who was just learning to say
his evening prayer The other night he began
with his usual drawl: 'Now-I-lay--me" and
then waited for his mother to help him eco
on, Harold" she said "Now-I-lay-me-
Down" prompted the mother. Down came
black bird and nipped off her nose. Amen"
said Master Harold with great alacrity and
nuency. and jumped up and popped into his
little bed.
FROM Athens, Greece comes the information
that Gen Ephor has bounced upon the most
lovely anaRlyph hitherto discovered in Greece.
IL consists of seven pieces two OF which vera