The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TwENTY-EIGHT people over 80 years old died in
Philadelphia last week-sixteen men and
twelve women. The Oldest was SO years Of age.
LOUISVILLE WOMAN has been driven insane
through the effects of poison contained in a
! preparation which she used for bleaching her
| hair
A MAN named Otter 20 years old, of Lexing-
ton. Mo, began singing ''Old Folks at Home"
while sitting at the table with friends, and sud
denly fell back dead
LOUIS LEWIS of Sandhurst New Zealand, who
attained his 104th year on Sept. "a last, is still
| living and enjoys good health He is of Jewish
| faith and his father lived to the age of 107.
MISS JENNIE FLOOD personally manages her
snug fortune of S5,000,000 She does it so sue
| cessfully and enjoys it so well that she is not
likely soon to accept partner in the response
/ bility.
BLIND MAN died recently in Chichester
Workhouse, England, who had been an inmate
| of that institution for seventy years. He en-
| tered at the age of nine, and passed his whole
! life there.
AMONG the descendants of Thomas Planta-
genet, Duke of Gloucester, fifth son of Edward
! I'LL, was Stephen J. Penny, who was, not many
| years ago. sexton at st. Georges Hanover
square, London.
NINE. JANAUscHEK's name is pronounced in
|
is as though the name were spelled "Yan-ow-
shek," with each syllable plainly sounded, and
| the accent upon the first.
LETTERS numbering 1872 written by Cardinal
Richeeu, were put up for sale at the Hote
Drouot, Paris, recently but nobody would bid
| $500 which was the reserve price. They were
all In excellent preservation.
WOMAN has a fair chance now Of not mar
rying drunkard in Waldeck, Germany. The
\ 4 1Iax, Al.
passed law forbdding the granting OF license
to person addicted TO the liquor habit.
ACCORDING to the Rev. DR.. de Costa, ''the
commander Of the Pinkerton force can gather
| in days notice larger number of armed men
| either in New York, Pittsburg or Chicago than
the General commanding the army of the
United States"
WOLVES are numerous and bold in the forests
| between Rogers City and Cheboygan, Mich,
this spring. One old fellow trotted behind the
mall stage like dog for three miles the other
day, evidently in hopes the driver would fall off
| and allow himself to be eaten.
G. L. CANA, of Chattanooga, carries as a
highly-prized relic badly battered silver watch.
He was in the battle of Mission Ridge, when an
ounce bullet struck the watch in his pocket
breaking the case in two and was left sticking
through the back half of the case.
AT a teachers examination in Jones county.
hygiene?" young lady applicant for certif-
cate to teach school answered: 1T is the soft
spot on the top of a baby's head which gradu-
ally becomes harder as the baby grows older"
WHILE working in sandstone quarry near
Clarksburg, w. Va, a few days ago, John Doyle
made an odd discovery. He was getting out
stone and wedging it into shape when he disi
covered in large block which he had just split
into two pieces small, green snake, about fif-
teen inches long. The reptile is said to have
been alive, and was moving off when Doyle
captured it. The fact is supported by three re-
liable witnesses. Scientists can now wrestle
with the problem.
UNG DONG, a Chinaman under arrest in the
county Jail at Red Bluff, Cal. on a charge of
murder, decided that he wouldn't wal for the
moose. He first attempted to kill himself by
crawling into a red hot stove. He got his head
arms and chest in and was then pulled out. His
wounds were dressed and five morphine pow
ders left to be taken hourly. He took them all
| at once and after being in a deep stupor came
out all right. Then he broke a china cup and
| geon sewed up the wound but the Chnaman
| tore off the bandage and reopened the wound
and bled to death before morning.
THREE or four weeks ago Henry Davidson, a
| farmer living near Ohio City, n Y noticed
| that fox had established runway through a
| piece of woods, and determined to capture him
! with trap. A skunk was killed aud left near
| skunk. Then another skunk was killed and
| placed where the first had been. and care
fully concealed steel trap was set by the skunk.
| Next morning Davidson found the trap sprung
with some of the remains of red squirrel in il
The red squirrel had sprung the trap and the
] fox had CARED off the skunk. and eaten most of
| the red squirrel. Then a deadfall nicely ad-
justed. was set with another dead skunk for
bait Davidson felt very confident this time
| but on going to his trap found the skunk gone
| as before, and no fox there. In place of it,
will re ifl hA6 ont fIaH ao,
| that formed the trap, was white red SQUIRREL
| that is, it was red squirrel in every respect
| except the color
AN ANT BEAR is the latest addition to a New
| York menagerie. The animal came from Brazil
| and is about as large as a goodsized Newfound-
| land dog. Its head is foot long tapering
| from Adiameter of inches at the base to about
| half an inch. The tail is composed of lone
| stiff and somewhat curly brstes as extensive
| as a peacock's Its feet, which it sets upon the
| ground sideways, are supplied with long and
| powerful claws on the side which does not reach
| the ground. From the ends of its snout it darts
| from mouth which could hardly swallow
cherry tongue which looks like nothing else
in animated nature than rats tail The ami
NAL is the natural enemy of the South Ameri-
can ant. With its powerful claws 1t tears down
their immense ant hills, and when their tunnels
are exposed it darts its Shiny tongue down
them and draws it back, covered with the ants
| and their eggs. When the ants attack its ten
der parts by way of retaliation, it brushes them
off with its feathery tail
TIMOTHY LEONARD, an expoliceman of New
York. now employed as a stableman, has been
annoyed by ghost Mysterious rappings were
| heard about the place, aud apparently ghostIy
hands tumbled a bale of hay iuto a stall where
he was at work. Go to Sheol" Leonard ex
claimed, impulsively, and from that dav forth
he was haunted man. implements flung bv
unseen hands whisked by his head, bankers
were whisked from under his nose and groans
came from all sorts of unexpected places One
day he mustered courage to ask the strange
visitor who and what it was and sepulchral
voice replied; 81 am Peter Mul'phy's ghost I
hanged myself in this stable sixteen years ago
and my funeral bill is unpaid. Until ii is maid
must wander on EARTH Leonard was getting
thin and pale, and was thinking seriously about
going TO the undertaker's and settling for Muir.
phys funeral expenses, when the fact leaked
out that the ghost was only one of the men EN-.
ployed about the stable, who had been practic.
ing veutrloquiSm and other tricks for his own
amusement and Leonard's discontinue
FORTY YEARS AGO Joseph Miles, of MilIerton
N. Y, married a neighbours daughter and set
tied down to farming. He got tired of this and
told his wife that he thought theyd better make |
a change. She objected and in fact. refusedst0 |
quit her old home SO he left her and their how !
She made her home with her parents ON thcir /
farm The husband fought through the war
then went to Sidney, n. Y. and began TO make |
money. He acquired snug little fortune but |
had no one to share 1t with A friend who |
IN, NJ