The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| ONE OF the best known young women Of
| Omaha is feet inches tall. The man who
would steal kiss from her must carry step
ladder.
SOME ONE who has been looking up the
records of the 2619 female graduates of
American colleges says that 99S are married,
949 are teachers, l33 are in other occupations,
and $50 are not engaged in remuneratlve WORK.
ONE recent morning when the ground was so
covered with sleet as to be very slippery j. D.
| Heton, of Clifton, Tenn, chased four deer five
| miles, and captured them ALL They could hard
| ly stand the ice, and soon became thoroughly
| exhausted.
THE STORY comes from New Lenox, ILL.,, that
a boy there has two big Cochin China roosters,
| which he has broke" so that he can drive
| them double to small sled or wagon. The last
| boy that got into the newspapers for doing this
| lived i'm Maine.
| THE Chicago Netrs says that Shoo-fly Tins
challenge to the world for sleeping match has
| produced considerable commotion among the
| Chicago messenger boys, several of whom are
quite sure that they can do up Mr.. DeboiS at his
own game, belief that is shared by many citi-
zens of Chicago.
THERE is a wonderful brown and golden bird
| in Mexico, a species of beemartin, that is re-
markably expert beecatcher. He has way of
rutfimg up the feathers on top of his head 50
that his crest looAs exactly like beautiful
from this delusive blossom it is snapped up and
devoured.
MORRIS CUMMINGS. of Summervlle, Mich, was
drawing logs the other day, " hen his load
tipped over falling on him, breaking his legs
and pinning him TO the ground. A friend came
TO his help, broke all the log chains they had in
fruitlesS efforts TO get the logs off Cummings.
and finally liberated him by chopping the fro
zen ground from under him.
WHEN the murcury was go below zero at
Virginia City, New, one day last month, big
black dog walked to the mouth of the Utah
shaft of the Comstock mines and jumped down.
Some asserted that he had committed suicide.
1t is more likely that he felt the hot air rushing
up from below and wanted more of it. He fell
$50 feet, and hadn't whole bone left
RAILROAD MEN in California estimate that up
to jan I 10000 California excursion tickets
were sold in 1887 representing 81, 900 900 profit
to the transcontinenUal roads alone. This does
not include the firSt-clasS and Second-claSS, or
emigrant, Single-trip tickets that have been
largely sold, which are estimated as increasing
the number of tickets to 100000 for the year.
FEW YEARS ago the most noted revivalist in
the United States was Flavius Littlejohn. He
died the other day in the poor house at Paw
Paw, Mich. He was entered a dTunkard and
pauper, and was killed by falling or Jumping
from his window in the mig t. Lttlejohn was,
in his prime, one of the most effective of ora
tors, and was a warm friend of john b. Cough
A BELLEvILLE, lMICH.,) MAN sat into little
game" the other night, and did not get to bed
until a. IN. After he had slept only few min
uteS, as it seemed to him. he was awakened by
noises down stairs. Jumping to the conclusion
that there were burglars down there, he seized
a shotgun, and, without waiting to cover his
legs dashed into the kitchen to attack them
If he had waited to dress himself the hired girl
would not have screamed so loud or dropped so
much of the breakfast.
THIS STORY of queer dream and its almost
literal fulillment comes from Chicago A lady
dreamed she standing at the front door of
her house. A tall man with long flowing
beard passed up the street scanning each num-
Der as he passed He came back, stopped at an
door Two days after death actually occurred
in that house, and the undertaken exactly cor
responded in description with the man whom
the lady had seen in her dream.