The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

dren in the neigh6oraood, who took up a col
lection for the purpose.
COLLEGE of carpentry for women has been
started in the old university town of Cambridge,
| England 1t is intended not so much to tea Oh the
trade as to develop manual dexterity among
women.
WARNER, CAL, pays a bounty on coyote
| scalps' and some inhuman hunter, after scalping
several of the animals again set them at liberty
! Inc fact was brought to light lately by the re-
capture OF two of the tortured beings.
NEW CARPENTER rule has been invented by
| Boston mechanic. 1t is of novel construc-
| ton. and aside from it's uses as rule makes a
| very handy bevel or square, in which legs msy
be adJustably clamPed in any desired postio 4.
ONE of the curious features of social life in
Hannibal, Mo-, is craze for pie parties Formal
| invitations are sent out by the host. When the
| guests assemble a supply of pies is produced
and the evening is spent in eating and conversa-
ton.
SUNFLowERs are used in Wyoming territory
Tor fuel. The stalks, when dry, are as hard as
| maple wood and make hot fire, and the seed
heads, with the seed in, are said to burn better
| IMAM the best hard coal. An acre of sunhowers
| VIII FURNISH fuel for one stove for year.
| CARTHAGE, ILL, possesses two courageous
lads, aged and years respectively They
| were in wagon attached to runaway horse
and for more than half an hour unsuccessfully
attempted to rein in the animal. Even after
all The wheels had been twisted off and with the
Dody or the vehicle dragging along the ground
| they continued at the task, aud only gave 10
when they were dropped into a mud hole by
the complete breaking up of the remnant of
| the wagon.
MAI. j. II. STINE, of the United States treas
| ury department at Washington, is engaged in
making a novel and interesting collection,
namely: Branches OF TIA IS that have historical
value because they grew some OF the great
| battle fields on which the question of union or
secession was settled. Maj. Slime has just
received from friend in Virginia some cedars
| from Mine Run, pines from Charlottesville
cedars from Hancock s winter quarters in 1853
o. and cedars from Slaughter'S mountain.
| CELEsTINA MARQUETTE, a negro, who was re-
Gently witness in Chicago police court case
is native of Spain and without education. but
has remarkable linguistic talents and has pickle d
| up German, French, Italian Greek English and
several of the Indian dialects while his nafivs
| tongue is Spanish He speaks Eng ish without
the least accent, and is equally pro1c ent in ii
county, Illinois, in the family of the noted
the war. He has been in Chicago nearly year,
earning livelihood by doing chores
E. j. CABLE of Litchfeld has a cat which is
really remarkable. His fur is sable, blacker
than the blacklist midnight, and he is the only
vegetarian cat we ever knew When any of the
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great rate until ne is fed some raw potato es
| He usually eats from one to three He q 50
eats apples, but his favorite dish is muskmelon
| II a muSkmelon is brought into the hon "a
secretly, he will know il as quickly as most cats
would If it were raw beef. He will Jump up
| NEW, and run round after piece of it, and act
as wildly over it as most cats do over mice.
The various cold storage companies now
| springing up over the south an west promise
to work wonders in trade and household affairs
| The anhydrous ammonia which is their cooling
| agent, comes from the soft coal used in making
| gas. 1t is driven off in process of cooling 1t
costs nothing but for fixtures TO refine and make
| use OF it. A ton of coal yields twenty gallons
| or ammonated water, from which the ammo
MIA is separated in vapor then forced into lique
| faction by pressure of about 100 pounds to the
square inch. When allowed to return to gas, it
takes away the heat of whatever it touches
| AS it can be sent through pipes and come back
| to be used over and over again, there is little
| cost to the process.
The elephants at Central park are occasion
ally used to ship heavy articles. The other day
a frame building was to be removed to another
part of the grounds 1t was a small two-story
structure, partly filled with grain and imple-
| nents, making weight of twelve or fifteen
tons. With some difficulty the workmen raised
the huge mass on rollers The elephant Jennie
was then brought up to push She would place
her great head against the structure and brace
herself; then the building would strain and
creak and move on as rapidly as the rollers
could be placed in position. Jennie and her
keeper would follow il up, and she would bend
| her head to give the building another push
| when the foreman shouted Ready
THE HORSE is unknown in tropical Africa.
| and traveller who recently went on horse
back from Landana, the coast, to Bona
on the Congo, excited universal wonder AT
first the people were nearly dazed by the
sight of the horse, and were afraid of the
animal, but when convinced that he was
harmless, ventured near. They had no eyes
| for anything but the horse. As the party
passed through the villages many of the in
habtauts followed. The men turned back
after mile or so, but many of the women,
who showed the greatest interest and curiosity,
followed for three miles. They kept pointing
the animal out to the babies that were fastened
on their backs. From some of the villages
Populations came asking them to stop awhile
in their towns that they might have time to
admire the ''curio."
A WORCESTER CMAss.) REPORTER had an ex
citing experience about 2 O'Clock, g. m the
other morning. He met a woman near his
home. and she told him that her husband had
been murdered in the cellar, and that the muir
derer carried away her four children The re-
porter lost no time in entering the building his
pencil and notebook in readiness 10 get a
scoop" The woman was very excited talked
in an lncoherent manner and begged the news
paper man to lead the way to the cellar with
drawn revolver. He picked his way across the
cellar with visions of horrible spectacles dane
ing in his eyes, opened a bed room door and
found husband and children sound asleep and
uninjured. The woman, after having been rid
of her Authorization, said she had been
awakened by the conversation of q man and
woman plotting murder.
"LouNoER" in the Critic thinks that the
secret of Jefferson's finished acting lies in the
fact that he does not waste his energy by too
much work. twenty-five weeks of the year
ne devotes to the practice of his profession and
the other thirty to rest He spends the hot
summer weather on the Massachusetts coast
the winter months and the early spring SO
unpleasant in the North, he passes on MS plan
tation in Louisiana. To interlard his twenty
two weeks of work with thirty weeks of rest
gives zest TO the former that he could not
feel ii he worked as continuously as some of
his brother actors are obliged to do. Mr.
Jefferson says that he loves to act, but he does
not need to say so. No one could witness his
inimitable performance of Bob Acres at the
Fifth Avenue, without realizing that the actor
fairly 'revels' in the performance-enioys il
almost as much, indeed as the audience does
"GISGER," dog which for sixteen years was
attached to Hook and Ladder Company No s.
of New York, was killed on Friday The ami
NAL had been run over in Blocker street by a
truck, and was shot to end its terrible sufferngs
II is said that "Ginger" was essentially fire.
mans dog, and took an almost human interest
In the affairs of the company. He was PROMPT
TO answer alarms OF fire. and when the truck
rolled out OF the quarters his short, sharp bark
mingled with the gongs louder tones as lie ran
at the head Of the horses. He was well known
throughout the neighborhood, and his gentle