The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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rR AwgERgrEs almost went begging for buyers
ley York last week at and cents per box.
ms. C1EvEIAND's collection of diamonds and
er precious stones is estimated to be worth
900.
HERE are laws against using profane Ian
are by telephone in all States except Con-
;ticut.
he undertakers of Jersey City and vicinity
We formed a trust. They will make all their
vers wear high silk hats.
HE goat carriages IN Central Park, New
rk. are likely to go" The commissioners
? the goats are too great nuisance.
\ NEW DEFINITION of America is given by NJ.
nan. 1t is: America is a wonderful country, |
immense caldron open to all races
4 CARELESS MESSENGER BOY lost two checks on |
nll street. New York, the other day. The |
ecks aggregated $4,000, but were not In
rSed.
[r NAV be interesting to chess players TO
ow the origin of the word ''check- mate" It
literally the Arabic eS-cheik mat, the shelk
Ing is dying.
| We HIGHWAYS leading from Springfield 10
| ALondon, N H., have not yet been opened,
ooAcount of the deep snow. AT last accounts
Inpth of the snow on the roads IN Ne"
AoI n was from three to four feet
Indians on the San Carlos reservation, in
ARIA are extravagantly fond of sweets
SoinAes in one store a barrel of sugar VIII
ne sou day in quantities of Sc and NC
candy
A RI worn by wealthy California lady
had IN hree much admired blue-white stones
the nan of which the lady did not know
Inc rings a present from her husband, VINO
no" expts that the gems are the FIRST three
UeeCh cut their three children.
BRIEIaN-woG-GYAH, chief of the Potto-
wattomieSho died at the Sacred Heart Mis-
sion the OF day. was reputed to be 125 years
OLD. Somef the most aged members OF the
tribe remeer that when they were children
he was the Iher of a grown-up family.
AN INFANbAUGHrER, aged 219 years, of Mil
| lard avis,sappeared from her home in the
Catskill motains last week, and slept the
night with big grizzly bear. The child her
sell tells theory, so that in credltlng 1t some
allowance oEhat account ought to be made
ROPE Unfinished for the Edinburgh cable
tramway is 400 feet long. This is the longest
unspliced cal in Great Britain, but for the
Melbourne (Atralia) tramway ropes 10000 and
2o,tP0 feet in myth, and without splicing, have
been supplied The latter weighs twenty-tour
TONS
RED CANARs sell for SIS apiece in the bird
| stores IN NeI York. They are said to be pro-
ducei from tb eggs of an ordinary canary that
mas been feCDn cayenne pepper. The young
| blrdsare ilSo&ept on a red pepper diet until
theyare null grown and their plumage has be-
comea sdtle and permanent red.
TIL PRNcEoF WALES, if he has won money
on Rce, tilt his hat over his eyebrows and
talksfapilly to any one who may be with him.
| II he ha. lost he takes his hat off, wipes his
FOREHEAD nth his handkerchief, and maintains
sevte Sence A man who says nothing when
| he loss ace possesses an element of great
ness.
| RosvELLP. FLOWER, whose barrel of money
is famGs, egan his life work at the age of II,
| when hi brcher-in-law agreed to pay him S. a
| month aud BIS board for tending store in a
country town in Northern New York The
bulK or hs fCtune has been made in railroad
stocks aid lnds and by investments in coal
and ironprolerties.
ONE of themost sensational events recently
| occurrinSn Washington was the purchase of a
new strav hat by Attorney General Garland
| The factthat Mr.. Garland has worn his dis
carded he for twelve long years, as he himself
| testifies, lakes his late purchase an event OF
| considerable interest. But men do reckless
things in Presidential year.
THE lagest and smallest specimens of the
canine rae are said to be owned in Chicago
The large is Mr.. Kortebein's Sultan, a magpi
| ficent Sibean bloodhound, which stands nearly
| three feet Ugh, and weighs 1873 pounds. The
smallest / diminutive black andtan that
| weighs thiIy ounces, and is owned by q well
known woan on South Clark street.
Hon. E. jim ELLIS, of Louisiana. now prac
| ticing at Warrington, is counsel for Mrs. Raw
son in her diDrce suit against her husband, the
| banker, of hicago. He has undertaken heI
| case gratuitosy, and considers her the victim
| of persecutfo. He says that colored servants
| have been Dried to testify against her. Sarah
| de Neale, onepf the witnesses, is now in jail
| PLANTER ETTER, of City Point, Miss, wa!
ploughing, WIN he heard panther in thicke
near by He got his gun, mounted his mule
! rode in purSu., overlook the beast and shot il
| dead. AS heyas examining it, the mule sud
| denly took right, and rearing up, strucl
| viciouSly at tie dead panther but, instead, hi
his master sho at last accounts was likely t,
| die.
| MRS. BETS TORY, of Scituate Mass,
sprightly oldlady of 90, who still enjoys tn,
best of healh, has one claim to fame in thai
| she has oft0 drunk from the original "OlC
| Oaken BucRt" which the poet Wordsworth
made famous in song. The bucket was in a wei
at the Northy homestead, in Greenbush, nea
Scituate, whTe Mrs. TORY lived for a humble
of years.
for 1,000f to see which could talk the faster.
The contest WIS to endure for three hours. On,
pronounced 20 $50 words. reading from Eugene
Sue The othr pronounced EOS, 81 and won tn,
prize That is Of course owing to the liquidt,
of the French language; however, gentleman
who tried to bIeak the record scored a record O
only 1885, 12 woods.
NAVIGATION las been peculiarly nterfereC
with on the anal at Tonawanda, N. Y. A
steamboat having collided with another craft
then wedged The latter in among three othe
boats and formed q complete barrier in the
channel. Tugs have been unable to break the
obstruction, and it is believed that the damaged
boat must be cut away in pieces before tn
other boat can he freed.
Four of the oldest women in Derby. Conn.
died on Monday. At 1920 Mrs. Mary L. Co
died suddenly, in her 10th year A few moment
afterward, Mrs Elizabeth Barlow dropped dead
on the kitchen floor, of apoplexy. on her SOtt
birthday. Mrs. Edwin A. Baldwin, aged Il
fell dead, stricken with apoplexy, while VISITING
her daughter, and in the afternoon Mrs Hur
leigh Skinner, aged IS, died.
THE National Cemetery at Fredericksburg
Va, is the third in size, there being over 15OO
soldiers buried there, drawn from the neighbor
ing battlefelds of Charlottesville, Spottsylvan
and the Wilderness. The cemetery itself lie,
on the battlefield OF fredericksburg and in tn,
midst OF most solemn associations yet only tive
Decoration day services have ever been hel,
there. These were In 1866 and 1884.
AFTER the death of an old woman. long ,
servant, in Southbridge. Mass, there were foun,
among her possessions S3gS in old New Enelan,
State bank bills They were issued by nin.tee,
Massachusetts,, eight Rhode Island, six ConneC
ffsa2f han lie al Nf.s..