The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-30
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he Fred Warden, genuine man, who had been
doing duty as a girl for some ten weeks or
more.
GAME WARDEN COLLINS of Connecticut, comes
10 the defense of owls and hawks by saying
that the examination of over 2)0 specimens Of
these birds by microscopes proves that they
live on small birds, frogs, snakes mice ana
grasshoppers. The small birds are mostly
sparrows, and very few game birds are eaten.
The man that gets ahead of the late Mrs.
Sam \. Rose, Of Ashland, Wis. must get up
early in the morning. Sam thought that he
could, and he sent his lawyer to Chicago to
serve papers in a divorce suit on Mrs sam. The
lawyer returned next day and informed Mr..
| Rose that she had secured divorce over a year
ago, and bad again married.
LUcIEN II. SMITH, special agent Of the United
States Labor Bureau, has been getting figures
about marriages and divorces in Texas. In
| fOrty-hve counties he finds that there have been
4,4.3 divorces, three-fourths of which have been
granted since 1880. Nearly 1000 of them have
| occurred among the negroes, and more than
three-fourths were due to intemperance.
CAPT. FARREN, who was killed at New Haven
the other day by his trotter running away and
! throwing him out of the wagon began life as
sailor and became a well-to-do shipOwner and
| captain. When the war broke out he raised a
| company at Fair Haven and sent them to To g
| field, giving each man before he stared $40
| bill. He added to his wealth after the war by
A LITTLE GIRL of Metz, IA years old, named
Louise Fuchs, has just been condemned to eight
! days imprisonment for having insulted the
| Emperor of Germany. The insult consisted in
| writing a private letter to one of her little
| friends, in which there was something dsTe
| spectful to his majesty. Such sentences
said to be quite common IN Alsace- Lorrain ne and
| they can add no strength to the popular love for
| the conquerors.
| AN ONO GIRL who tired Of hearing the farm
ers in her section growl about wheat growing
not paying, decided she'd see about it, She
| rented five and three-quarters acres of land,
| kept strict account of every dollar expended in
raising the crop, got an average yield Of thirty
| five bushels to the acre and sold 1t for Sl42 TO-
| The cost of production was sos H. including
S3l so for fertilizers. and the gain on the invest
! ruent was "a per cent
LAST SUMNER a Hartford man ordered few
| tons of coal sent to his country house, which is
| in little out-of- the-way town The local dealer
| delivered just twice the amount ordered, and
| insisted that he was right and must have pay
| for it all. Rather than have a row the gentle
| man paid. Now it is reported that there is
| almost a coal famine in the little town. and
| that the gentleman is kindly permitting the
| dealer to take away the leftover coal at an adj
vance of S. a ton on the price paid last summer.
THOMAS SHAUGHNEssY, of Burlington, N. J.,
was rescued from drowning through the pres
! ence of mind of two little girls. RE was
! skating and broke through the ice His cries
| attracted the attention of two children, Annie
| and Mary Ryan. who rushed down 10 the creek
/ and made desperate attempt to rescue him
| with limb of a tree. This not proving long
| enough, they secured board and with this
| kept him above water until their cries attracted
William Price, who assist ID them, and dragged
| the man out of the hole almost frozen.
PROBABLY the most remarkable railroad in
the world is that running from Gloggintz to
| Lounering, near Vienna. 1t is only twenty-five
| miles in length and cost over 81 1000. 1t be
| gins at the little station of GIoggintz, at an
elevation of 400 feet and from there the train,
| hauled by two powerful locomotives, winds
! round and round over some fifteen double via
| ducts and through as many tunnels. 1t creeps
along precipices atfording glimpses of some of
| the widest scenery in Europe Its terminus
| LouDering, is az an elevation of $500 feet
| A BALTIMORE PHYSICIAN who is connected with
an institution which contains many children
says: There is nothing more irritating to a
cough than to cough. For some time had
been so fully assured of this that l recently de-
termined if possible, for one minute at least, to
| lessen the number of coughs heard in certain
ward in the hospital of the institution. BY the
| promise of rewards ard puDshments | sue
ceeded in inducing them simply to hold their
| breath when tempted to cough, and in little
while | was myself surprised to see how some
| Of the children recovered entirely from their
| disease"
| A GOOD STORY is told concerning a stingy citi-
zen of Prince Edwards Island. He had a horse
for sale and found purchaser who agreed to
| give him SIS for the animal The customer
was about to hand over the money when he re-
marked: The halter goes with the horse, of
course. have none with me-" "Oh no. If
| you want the halter, pay for it, How mucn?'
| ''Seventy-flve cents An right; here's your
money And the purchaser passed over the
| change. quietly took off the halter, put
! theS 10 back into his pocket stepped into his
! buggy ana rode away leaving the Overgrasping
| owner to lament the loss of a good sale and to
get home DTINPFlpSS as host he mil
JOHN 7. soUrH was married the other cay to
Barbara BALI as the latter lay, as it was thought
near to death from a wound from the pistol of
former lover This was in San Francisco South
said to a reporter who asked about the wedding:
| Il don see anything so very remarkable about
! 1t. | have been living with her for eight years
/ as her husband, and when she.was shot and the
doctors said that she could not possibly live |
wanted to marry her. and thus do what ought
TO have done long ago. | thought it would
kinder square up my account with heaven
| Barbara. who seemed supremacy happy when
the marriage ok place at once rallied. and,
much to the surprise of the doctors, and perhaps
to her husband, IS getting well.
THERE was a small riot in Bolton, Eng, be-
cause marriage, which had been anticipated
with much interest did not come off. The bride
groom a well known tradesman who is an ar
dent advocate of temperance principles, went
10 the brides house before proceeding to the
church. and, placing pedge-card before her
IllSiSltu }Ol nrT SIGNING IL. She refused where
upon he announced that there should be no
wedding. The clergyman and a number of
friends were waiting at the church. but the par
ties did not appear, and when the cause trans
pred number of women assembled outside
| the brdegrooms house and peted him with rot
ten eggs and other pie SAINT missiles, and so
much resentment was manifested that he has
found it expedient to leave home for time.
A STRANGE presentiment of the wreck on the
Lake Erie and Western, which was only too
true, has just been made public at Fostora. O.
Mrs. Allen Gilbert awoke with a sudden start
and a shrek last Monday night She dreamed
that in the debris of burning railroad wreck
she plainly saw the white face and mangIed
body OF her husband Around him were the
members of a theatrical troupe and a doctor
leaning over him pronounced the words which
broke the spell of the horrible night mare ''He
is dead" When she received the disDatrh an
nouncng that he had been killed in the terrible
wreck near Lima, her first exclamation was, 81
knew it," She had always dreaded the CON
slant dangers to winch he was exposed on the
road, and had often tried to induce him 10 give
up the occupation of commercial traveller
A SINGULAR English New Years custom is
made known by the Paris Figaro which
gravely states that no one in England dares
wash his or her face on Jan list! If any ablu.
ton is undertaken, some member of the family
is sure to die within year This will be news
indeed to the tuh-lovng Britou. Other New
Na f..e