The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KENTUCKY still heats her state house al
Frankfort with old-fashioned wood fires.
THE Cincinnati Musicians Protective Union
has decided that no member shall play in an or
chestra with women under penalty Of expulsion,
and a fine OF 500 if he applies for relnstate-
ment.
PARTISAN pANDrEs have tired of the gold
knobbed canes, crutch canes and canes with
ducks beaks that have been the rage, and are
carrying a thick stick with the claw of cray
fish for handle.
MACKEREL LOVERS should lay in their winter
supply of this useful fish at once; for Maine
fishermen say that they haven't seen so bad
mackerel season in forty years. Consequently
this fish will come high.
DURING the last season on the lakes, it is esti-
mated, more than 300 lives were lost and 81
800, 900 worth of property destroyed. Seventy
six steamers, fortythree schooners six tow
harges, and eight tugboats were lost or dam
aged
TIE Caledonian railroad, in its freight yards
at Glasgow, is experimenting on signals by blasts
from tin trumpet, instead OF by waving OF
arms or lanterns, as has been the custom. Inc
various orders are given by long blasts short
| blasts and crows"
WHILE well-diggers were at work in Oshtemo,
Mich, taey brought up from the depth of 100
feet queer-looking stone about inches long
by nearly inches wide. On one side is what
appears to be inscription in letters OF an I'M
known character. Ii is supposed to have been
engrsVed by some prehistoric race.
A BosToN PAPER asserts that newly rich
New York woman got from dishonest sexton
possession Of an old tombstone sacred to the
memory of some one of the same name as herself
that was in an English graveyard, and now has
it set in her library wall, with fictitious pedi
gree, as voucher for her ariStocracy.
TIE women of Paris have adopted for the
winter season a waggle in their walk. The art
of wagg ing gracefully in furs is being taught
at the best dancing schools The correct waggie
| is described as short step and an undulatIng
sweep of the hips 1t is said to be much more
graceful than the mannish stride that prevailed
during the summer.
HARVEY AND WILLIAM JOHNSON, of East Sulli-
| van, Me-, visited bear trap The other day and
| found a wounded bsar. While they were en-
deavoring to kill il the animal seized Harvey,
md before William could shoot y tore ne I'M
fortunate man so badly that his re overy is very
doubtful. ne resn was stripped from pom
arms, he was scaped, and received many minor
oltes and scratches
NAUGATUcK CONN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES are
building parish house a modern idea, worthy
Of imitation. 1t will have twenty four rooms,
besides hall. cloak room and closets. The first
floor has assembly room. reception room,
sunday school library and seven class rooms;
the second hOor eight class rooms, reaulng
rooms, kitchen and dining rooms; third floor for
pastors study and gymnasium.
A COMPANY in Buenos Ayres has recently
ordered the material for complete system of
telephones. Over 1900 subscribers have been
obtained, and the company proposes to erect
| tower in the river. which will serve as a mari
time telephone station. The harOOr of Bueno5
Ayres is shallow. so that vessels are obliged to
| anchor several miles from the city Telephone
communication by means of a tower near the
anchorage will be serviceable.
requested Saphir to write somethin i'll his auto
graph book, but it was to be something charaC
teristic. II two minutes the fnancier received
the volume back with the following entry:
"Oblige me, dear Baron, with loan of 10000
guldeu; and forget for ever after, your ODE
dent servant, VI. c. Saphir The man of
money saw the point OF the joke, and paid gen
erously for the humorist S signature.
A QUEER ACCIDENT happened to a Norwich
Conn, child Is months old, the other day. As
it was taking its first lessons in walking it fell
over backward, striking the back of its head
upon tack driving it into the skull full length.
| Ia attempting to remove the tack the parents
| broke off the head of it, and a surgeon applied
| cocaine opened the scalp and drew the tack
| out. The removal of the tack proved diff
| cult task with the most approved instru-
mentS.
WHIST is the game that has endured through
centuries. The best minds have not only loved
| Swift and many of the clergy sought relief from
| cares, overstudv or excessive work n games of
whist; society ladies were also proficient players,
and enhance toe plnl.1ta Il .h- < me by their
acute appreciation IF e. A. his ';iHe ii is no
less popular. Bishops and others of the minis
/ try like its intellectual training and divertise-
ment, but prejudice against cards keeps many
of them from playing it,
| WILL some naturalist explain why ponies as
a rule, are more intelligent than big horses?
| They are, and the fact receives new proof from
| ROckland. Me. A citizen there who owns a horse
| aud a pony heard that If he put good sized
| stones in their feed boxes they would be obliged
to eat slower, and wo Id therefore digest theil
| food better. He tried the plan, and it worked
| well with the horse; but the pony picked the
| stones out one by one, and dropped them on
| the floor. and he did this just as often as they
were put in the feed box.
THOMAS R. BRowN in a Western State, bought
an elm tree of a farmer named Claus Lindel
| for frewood. 1t measured feet through at the
butt On choppns it down ; ak plunged into
an opening as though the tree were hollow. Ii
| was, however, hole that had been cause by
| the tree having been cut half through when il
was about 10 inches in diameter The cut was
| as clear and perfect as the best AMMAN could
| have made it, and there could even be seen the
marks of a nick in the blade of the ak The
| cavity was partly filed with sand, and outside
| of it there had grown ninety eight rings around
| the tree, representing, Woodsmen say, from 100
| to 200 years OF growth.
| A LIFE CONVICT at Joliet recently wrote TO the
| Chief of Police of st. Louis, begging him to find
| the convicts three children, of whom he had
not heard for years. He said that after his CON
| vction his wife got a divorce, and married a
| man named Lee st. Louis reporters found
| Mrs Lee supporting her family by taking in
| washing, Lee having deserted her. She was
| touched by his anxiety about his children, and
| promised to write to him, although the crime
| for which he was imprisoned vas the murder Of
the husband of Mrs. Lees sister at the solicita-
ton of the sister herself with whom Mrs Lees
! husband had become infatuated The sister is
serving a sixteen years term in the same
PRISON.
To GRAND dinner, given recently at Bel
| grade by an august parsonage to some for.
eigners of distinction visiting the Servan cani-
tai, several members of the Skuptschina Cor ma
tional Parliament had been invited One Of tn,
alien guests, well known French fnancer
happened 10 sit next to a Servan ~ p ard
was considerably diverted by his quaint expe-
dents for dealing with certain attributes of civ
| zaton obviously unfamiliar with him To-
ward the conclusion of the feat the Frenchman
| selected a too,hpck from small tray living
near him. and politely PAST d the receptacle on
to his neighhor, who, however, peremptorily de
Clined his offer, eXc.aiming: no. GOspodin:
have already eatenteu Of the things, and wart
no more