The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The twenty-four men who composed the petit
| jury for the September term of the Buchanan
| county court, in Missouri, weighed 5,63S pounds,
| an average OF 235 pounds. The lighteSt man on
the jury tipped the beam at 200 pounds while
the heaviest weighed $685.
| CURIOUS BIRD that looks like an owl, but has
| the face of a monkey, was caught near Rich
| mond, Va, few days ago. Scientists have ex
| ahmed IT, but no one appears to know to what
species it belongs. 1t will probably be sent to
| the Smithsonian Institution.
A RETIRED ST. LOUIS JEwELER says there i.
as much profit in the repairing department Of
matchmaking as there is in plumbing. main
| spring, for instance, for replacing which few
| jewelers. charge less than 81 so, costs on ar
| average about cents, and takes only about hal
| an hour to set it in a watch
A HALIFAX FISHERMAN found an uncorket
bottle of champagne in big cod which he cap
tured the other day. He and his friends had 6
| dinner shortly afterward, and they affirmed the
champagne was excellent. although it had q
| perceptible fshy smell. The mystery is how
the bottle got inside the fish uninjured.
AMONG the papers left by the late William B
Sprague of Albany is well preserved letter ad
dressed TO him on March IL, 1880, by Charles Car
| roll OF Carrolton, one of the signers of the
| declaration OF independence, giving inter
esting history of bis family from the arrival OF
his grandfather in Maryland in October, 1858.
| SAMUEL CHATFIELD of Bronson Mich, has in
his possession one of the first copper coins ever
made in the United States. On one side are
| thirteen links representing the thirteen states
IN a small ring, We are one" On the other
| are the words "Engio, "1717," a "rising sum-"
and Mind your own business"
THE Pope, in letter to Herr Muller of
| Coblentz, the president of the recent Freiburg
congress- expresses his thanks for the resol,i-
tons in favor of the restoration of the tenn
poral power of the pope and saws that they
| afford comfort and much-needed consolation to
him in the midst of Affections and cares result
ing from wearisome and perilous conflict
GREENvILLE (MIcH) woman who asked for
divorce the other day told the court that a
little, measley one-armed cuss had licked her
husband. My marriage contract calls for a
is SO easy to get away with he can't be much of
lord to a woman aud protect her, The court
allowed that she had all the logic on her side
THE gas companies in Brooklyn have been
asked by the city water works commissioner to
substitute steatite burners for the iron ones
now used on the street lamps. Prof. Robert
Spice, Brooklyns inspector of street lighting
tavors the change to steatite burners, such as
has been in use in London for twenty five years
Mr.. Spice says iron burners rust and clog up
too quickly.
A TELEGRAM from New Haven, Conn reports
that as freight train was passing over the
marshes near that city early Wednesday morn
ing, an unusually heavy gust of wind lifted the
roof from the forward car and carried it forty
yards. George Lotus, the head brakeman was
carried into the air with the roof of the car
but saved himself by catching hold of several
telegraph wires"
A MOST DANGEROUS FIREWORKS DISPLAY was
made in New York on Friday night. 1t was due
to the mischievousness of a lad who placed
roman candle in the whip socket of a wagon
loaded with fireworks. The entire lot exploded
and bullets from the roman candles went In ali
directions, but fortunately only the driver and
the boy were injured, the latter so badly that
his death resulted.
No STEPS WHATEVER are being taken in Lon
don for Congo expedition. Thus writes cor
respondent in London, who adds 80 far as
the English committee is concerned, it is par
ayzed. The German expedition is making
progress, and the result is likely to be that the
Congo will become German Fainter and fainter
grow hopes of Mr.. Stanley, and the fear now is
that the white man on the Bahr- Ghazel is not
he.
PRESIDENT ADAMS of Cornell University, in
recent address, advised students mot to rely
on professors to do your work Don't lessen in
dividual effort. Herein is the success of self
made men. The men whom the world wants
are those who do better than is expected of
them. Sometimes they are without college
education; are such men as Franklin and
Lincoln, who get real liberal education and
become monarchs in the domain of thought"
LEWIS THE LIGHT" Brooklyn crank, who
parades the streets in a white costume more
adapted for bathing purposes than everyday
wear, visited the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday
He insisted on taking off his coat in church and
| showing white shirt with big red heart
| decorated thereon. An officer ordered him to
| put on his coat. He refused, and it was neces-
| sary to lead him out of the church. He then
| visited another church and went through the
| same performance.
| UNDER a democratic state administration the
| public school system of Virginia is expanding
and rapidly increasing in efficiency recent
| report of the superintendent of public instruc-
| tion shows that the total amount of state school
| fund appropriated for the scholastic year of
| 1898 SO is SSS' 673 IS. This fund exceeds that
| of the previous school year by $24, 1872 49, and
| is, it is believed, the largest amount available
for the public free schools in any year since the
| organization OF the system.
ALEXANDER Comfy, an impecunious Canadian,
| met bis death in peculiar way at Marquette a
| day or two ago. He was having an attack of
| fever in the county poor house, and when the
| attendants declined to give him any more water
| he made his way to a little rivulet back of the
| house and was drowned while trying to get a
| drink from it. The stream is only foot wide
| and six inches deep, but the poor fellow didn't
| havedhe muscle to lift himself out after lower
| ing his mouth to the water, and when found was
| quite dead.
| IHE latest accusation OF plagiarism is against
| John Bunyan. 1t is stated in London paper
| that the Pilgrims Progress" is a literal trans
| laton from the French of the work entitled
| I've Pilgrimage of Ye Soue, = by Guillaume de
Guieville, a monk of the fifteenth century a
| translation of which was printed by Caxton in
1883. It is believed that q copy of the original
French manuscript is to be found either in the
British museum or in the Bodlean library at
| oxford, and it might be worth while to search
| for it in order that the question may be decided.
Miss MAMIE NOLAN of Newark, n j., has been
in the habit of drinking water directly from the
aqueduct by putting her mouth to the tap. She
will not do il any more, however, for she had an
experience the other day that showed her the
folly of such a course. While she was drinking
an eel about 10 inches long passed through the
faucet and went half way down her throat
She could not yell but she managed to attract
attention by throwing herself down on the floor
and kicking. The eel was pulled from her
throat and She fully recovered her fright in an
hour, but her throat is still sore.
THE records of the humane societies on both
sides of the Atlantic show that of late years a
fair proportion of their medals fall to the lot of
girls. There were several notable instances of
rescue from drowning this summer by girls
under DO Many women are accomplished swim
mers. AS their bones are generally lighter than
those of men, and their flesh more buoyant
they have less difficulty TO overcome in acquiring
the art. Some of them could Ioat at the first
attempt, il they could acquire the requisite faith
In the power of the water to hold them IN
Some Of the most famous swimming feats have