The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Inc NUMBER from Ireland
ACCORDING to the gossip of the bar, the Par
nell Commission costs precisely three guineas
a minute This calculation includes the whole
| expenditure Of all the parties concerned, the
| state included.
| A LARGE NUMBER of Austrian kreutzers are
being circulated in Chicago They closely re-
semble cents but are less in value. The pro
| jectors of the scheme are making quite a good
sum off their venture.
| A MAINE HISTORIAN says that in old times the
fine ladies of Eastport, then very gay, -four
| ishing town. used to acquire beautiful complex
| ions by sleeping with their heads out of the
windows in foggy weather.
| A MONTREAL MAN is astonished. He writes to
the papers that his wife, while pouring out the
milk the other morning, poured out small
| miunow, which jumped about in lively man.
| ner, as If in its native element.
LAWRENCE LEAvER of New Bernville, Union
county, Pennsylvania, fell through the ice
while skating and his life was saved by his dog,
which crept carefully to the edge of the ice and
dragged Leaver to the surface.
1T IS curious thing in New York local politics
| that undertakers have been singularly success
full in that line within the last few years. With
| in the last three years six undertakers have
been elected aldermen in New York city.
j. R. BASS, now in New York, is known as the
"ossifed man." He is So years of age, blind,
and living skeleton, weighing but 20 pounds
His limbs are so ossified that he is perfectly
helpless, and all his body seems to be slowly
turning to bone.
EDWARD BoLDUc of Darby, Pa, bought bull
pup ten days ago, and neither threats nor coax
ing will induce it to eat or drink. 1t never
sleeps. Despite its fast it maintains its cheer
full demeanor and loses no flesh. Crowds are
viewing the animal.
A of boh;,, =
the target in shooting gallery in that town and
put his mouth to the bulls-eye. man was
just in the act of shooting. and as he could not
see the young man. he blazed away and struck
the center. the ball entering his mouth, knock
ing out several teeth and cutting an ugly and
dangerous wound
OFFICIAL MASSACHUSETTS STATISTICS just out
show that last year 401 pairs of twins and six
sets of triplets were born in that justly famous
commonwealth. The total number of plural
births is one less than that recorded In 1885,
and, with the exception of that year. the largest
since the state began to keep vital statistics.
Within the year, seventeen persons died at the
age of 100 or more. The age of the Oldest was
III.
ACCORDING to a parliamentary paper, there
were in England and Wales during the three
years 1857, 1856 convictions for drunken
ness or ofenses arising therefrom, and of these
40,3S4 offences were committed on Sunday. In
the Metropolitan Police District the number of
convictions fell from 49, 75S in 1885 TO ID 1856 in
1887 land this was in spite of rise to 1858 in
the intervening year,, while Sunday convictions
fell from ], 1888 to ,217 in the same interval.
Nova SCOTIA paper gives an account of
Malcolm Mcmillan of Catolone, c. B., who is
said to be 101 years of age All his senses are
good. and a few months ago he cut and sewed q
pair of mil-cloth trousers for himself Last
autumn he moved hay on the same field with
his son, his grandson and his great grandson,
and his days work, it is said, was equal to any
of them. He has never lost tooth and does
not know what headache or a toothache is.
A NUMBER of German citizens of Covington
have purchased an immense tract of land in
Eastern Kentucky. containing a small town
saw and grist mills. coal mines. salt works,
natural gas and large variety OF timber and
are paying for it on the building association
plan. Their company is to be known as the
Beehive Land Association. The intention is to
COLOMBO the property, incorporate the town,
and offer free land, timber and gas to manufact-
urers.
The slot device for ensnaring pennies nick
els, quarters and dimes, originated in England,
and was imported to { is country by the ever
enterprising Erastus Wiman, who, 1t is said,
owns the American rights of the invention. The
patent is an extremely broad one, covering
every possible application of the principle in
volved. The new automatic opera glass at
tachment in theaters puts royalty in Mr.
Wimans capacious pocket, Just as the weigh
A PEDDLER who put up for the night at Ma
quoketa, Ia, was so frightened at the threats
and boisterous talk of some men who were
stopping at the same house that he fed in his
stocking feet, hatless, coatless and clothed only
in shirt and pants. For two nights and two
days he remained in the woods, when he ven-
tured to return. His feet were frozen and he
was almost dead from cold and exhaustion
The man who had frightened him so was under
the influence of liquor and left to go home as
soon as the peddler ran away.
AS illustrating the restlessness of the clergy
nowadays, it is stated by correspondent of the
New York Observer, that church in a village
not far from New York, whose pulpit has been
vacant only few weeks has had 10 applica-
lions, and more are constantly coming. Yet,
probably, this church will do as other churches
do in similar circunistances-ignore the men
who have presented their claims, either person
ally or through friends. and choose some man
who didn't seek the position at all.
THE chestnut" as a slang phrase, is done
with, rost-bitten, quite, and an equally mean.
ingless word has been substituted. 1t is dusty"
Do you admire anything, from a stylish toilet
e. ..1a dainty dish. you are privileged 50 say:
whole, when one takes time TO consider, there is
more sense in dusty than in most fashionable
slang. A dusty object suggests one whose
freshness is despoied. Just how the chestnut
was ever significant no one has yet clearly de-
fined.
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, needed an additional
water supply, and the government went into
Wales, seventy miles away, and bought large
valley, including the village of Llanwyddyn.
This valley is now being filed with body of
water five miles long and eighty-four feet deep.
1t lis understood that all the houses, the church,
two chapels, tavern and postoffice remain as
they were, and are gradually being submerged
under the collecting water that pours into the
valley new village has been built near by
and all the Lianwyddyans have removed to it.
SHEEP RAIsERs In Lincoln county, New, have
been much troubled this fall by wildcats They
appeared In the vicinity of Phoebe and Bristol
several weeks ago in droves, and before the farm
ers thoufiht of any organized resistance, did
great damage. One man lost sixty-five head
of sheep, another fifty, and another seventy
five There seem to be two kinds of cats, one
small and gray, the other large and yellow and
white. They are hard to get a shot at, do their
work In the night, and it takes mighty good
dog to hill one. The farmers are using poison
with conside rable success
MAJ. GEN. SIR FRANCIS WALLACE GRENFEIL.
X. C. b., who is in command Of the British
force at Suakim, has had large experience in
African warfare He served in the Griuua-
land expedition of 1875, and against the
Kaffirs and Galekas in following years He was
also present at the battle of Ulundi, and was
very favorably mentioned in dispatches. More
recently Gen. Grenfell served on Lord Wolse-
ley's staff in the Te-elKebir campaign, and
again in the Nile expedition He is AZ years old
a man OF handsome presence, literary tastes and
very popular in the service.
A MoNTprAr pAprp con,paria. Al.