The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-11
ITEMS OF INrHRES 7.

A DISPATCH from Rhnebeck. n. Y, reports
that fishermen at various points along the
Central Hudson are catching strange fish.
! They weigh a tribe over pound and have heads
like bull dogs In other respects they resemble
The common sucker.
JOSH A. SNYDER of siverlyville, Pa, has
watch that has been 10 use for more than ITO
years and still keeps excellent time. Mr.. Sn
ders grandfather TOOK it from the body OF a
Hessian soldier slain at the battle of Trenton in
| the revolutionary war.
| TIE SMALLEST STEAM ENGINE ever made has
been completed, alter two years of labor, for
the Paris exhibition. 1t is composed of 1850
pieces of metal, is shade under three-ffthS OF
an ich in hight and weighs less than one ninth
OF an ounce. A matchmaker made 1t.
The United States has more than six times as
| many miles of railroads as Great Britain, but
| the cost of construction was only twice as much
as Great Britain's. In 1887 the gross earnings
of the roads of the United States, with six times
| the length of road, were about three times those
| of Great Britain.
A LIQUOR DEALER at Weehawken, n. j., has
refused to pay 500 fee for the renewal OF his
license the ground that members of the
police force owe him $50 for drinks. The matter
was referred to the police committee, and the
chairman promised to see that the police officers
| liquor bills were settled.
The YOUNGEST SOLDIER of the war has at last
Bolts and he resides at Richmond. Mo. Mr.
Bolts was twelve years and eight months of age
when he enlisted at Macon as drummer boy in
| the Forty second Missouri Infantry. He is now
prosperous hardware merchant.
As A PASSENGER TRAIN from the west on the
Wabash railroad was nearing Wabash. Ind, a
few days ago. an unknown person fired the con-
tents of revolver into the tram, which was
crowded With excursonists. The bullet shat
tered the glass in Of the coaches and
grazed the faces OF two passengers.
Mas. HARRIS is the name Of widow in To-
peka, Kan, who has done 40 original thing
She has put up over her husbands grave a last
ing memorial of the illness which caused his
death-nania-a potu. At the base of a simple
granite shaft Is carved mass of coiling aud
wrthing snakes. Above is cut his name and
| age and tn simple sentence: Died of Delir-
| ium Tremens'
FISH STORY as follows comes from London
| Gr1msby smack while fishing in the North
sea on Oct "a, brought up plaice having the
| letters printed on iu, H. Read IS one and
| half inches in length It is supposed that the
| fish was brought up when Young, that then the
letters were cut up2p it, and that it was alter
ward thrown overheard. A thin skin had
! grown over the letters The finder intend pre-
serving the plaice.
A ToBAccoNIsT charged in the superior court,
Boston, with selling on Sunday claimed, in de-
| Tense. that tobacco has medicinal properties.
and he was therefore justified, under a recent
decision of the same court, in selling it, Judge
Dewey instructed the jury that if they found
| that the defendant had sold cigars and tobacco
on Sunday it was their duty to ind him gu ty.
The rdict was guilty" The case will be
| taken to the supreme court.
VERY GENTLE FORM of hazing, the New York
| EUening Post learns. is that to which the fresh
| girl entering the Women's college at Bryn
Mawr, Pa, is subjected. wo bundles of books
are hung round her neck and she is required to
ascend an inclined plank thet is very slippe :.
| When, after many slips, she reaches the top,
| she is given lamp, which she is told to e -
| full and TIE wick we'll trimmed, so as not to be
| caught like the foolish virgins.
THE FIRST SECTION of the Transafiican rail
road. now completed, is forty miles long, ex-
tending from the coast to Kabir The road
| from that point turns south to the Coanza river,
| whence it is to be extended directly ives: to
Ambaca, POS miles from the coast. A peculi-
| arity of the railroad is that thus far the road
| bed has been graded almost entirely by native
| laborerS, and the work has made slow progress,
as the negroes are not ambitious to shine as
| railroad builders so long as, with scarcely any
trouble, they can raise manioc enough to live on.
| Though the Portuguese nave been justly crti-
| cised for doing little t. develope their African
| pie to all the other powers in railrt q building
| scheme to push the road across the continent
bay, but that project is as yet wholly in the air.