The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-13
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by electricity instead of a spring.
The Dutch, it appears, are still taking Hol
land. Probably 100000 of land have been re
claimed from the sea during the last two CEN
| turtles, and the good work is going on at the
rate OF eight acres a day.
JAMES MORAN, of Montrose, Mich, found a
small piece of gold in the gizzard of a chicken
that he killed A search around the neighbor
ing streams showed evidence that placer gold
may be found there in considerable quantities
A ST. PAUL BABY fell from a second story win
dow, alightlng on an awning. Thence it bounced
| on and fell on the shoulders of a gentleman who
was passing, and who caught it in his arms. The
gentleman plug hat was ruined but the baby
! wasn't hurt in the least.
pasadena, one of the booming towns of Cali
| fornia, is apparently entitled to the distinction
of being the model town of the West There is
not saloon to be found in the place, it is said.
ana on Sundays the entire population turns out
IN body to go to church.
THE gem for January is the garnet, for Feb
ruary the amethyst. for March the bloodstone,
| and for April the diamond. MAY has the emer-
| aid, June the agate July the ruby, August the
sardonyx, and September the sapphire. The
| opal belongs to October, the topaz to November
| ana the Turquoise to December.
THE Painters and Decorators K. of L. Assem-
bly, in Boston has passed a resolution condemn
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| That city in admitting delegates from a bar
| tenders union 'on the ground that they are
| agents OF a trade detrimental to organized
labor, as well as to society in general"
GEORGE WARNER, 17-year-old boy of Rem
sen, N. Y. owns tame crow that is a terror to
| cats. 1t delights in getting into battles with
| all the felines of the neighborhood and has
| caused the death of half a dozen of them by
| clawing, scratching and pecking their eyes out
| so that they were killed to put an end to their
| misery
QUANTITIES of bears bones and seven very
well preserved skulls were recently discovered
| in cave at Ruoeland in the Hartz. set of
| stag antlers fragments of skeletons of hyenas
| and some slender homes, which are assigned to
| the ptarmigan and the lemning, were also dis
| covered. The cave is TO be lighted by electricity
| Tor the benefit OF scientific visitors.
SILVER sHARPs in France have been flooding
Paris with counterfeits of old French plate. and
it has just been discovered that the bogus goods
are ordinary modern plate when made in Ger
| many, and. after being imported as such, have
the old Paris mark put on them and are fixed
[ up to look like the real old goods Five men in
| this business have been fined from $500 to $500
each.
WIRE ROPE half a mile long, six and one
fourth inches in circumference. and weighing
| seven and one-half tons, has been manufactured
| at Gateshead, England. There are six strands of
nineteen wires each in it, the breaking strain of
| in the rope 100 tons to the square inch This
immense rope is to be used in a colliery in North
| Wales.
A FARMER near Chebanse H., having an OK
| that did not obey orders, concluded that the
| animal was deaf and bought an ear trumpet
| which worked with great success. The animal
had lost its appetite, but with its return of hear
| ing ate heartily. The ear trumpet is fastened
| in place by wires around one of the horns. This
| story is from Western paper, and no chrome
| goes with it.
CAPT. GRAPMEyER, of the merchant vessel
Anna, sailed from Plymouth for Groeningen,
and on leaving British waters found a pigeon
utterly exhausted on the bridge of the vessel
| 1t was carefully fed and tended and by the time
Groenlngen was sighted il became quite domi-
| ciled on board. On landing it few along after
| the Captain, refused To leave him. and still re-
mains his constant companion.
AT CARTHAGE, Mo-, the other day. a remark
| able blast was made at a limestone quarry
| There were eighteen holes 10 feet deep 10 feet
| back from the edge of the ledge, covering $50
feet in length In these were placed 204 sticks of
| giant powder, fired by an electric battery. Over
| 100000 pounds of pure lime rock was blown
| out. The shooting was witnessed by several
hundred people, and was perfect success.
A YOUNG COUPLE in Springfield, Me, who have
| been married less than five years, have sepa-
rated five times. The husband has left his fam
| lily three times, and each time the wife has sold
| unelf ROOOS ana returned TO ner parents, taking
/ back her spouse every time he returned, and
| helping refurnish. Furthermore, she has left
| him twice, when he in turn sold their common
| possessions. They are now living together
| again, as if nothing had occurred out of the
| usual way.
THERE is in Chicago a woman who thinks it
unlucky to pass a certain policeman, and she
won't do it if she can possibly help it, She
laughs over the superstition, but says: II have
found that whenever pass in front of that po-
lceman, some i'll luck comes to me within five
minutes. I've had my pocket picked, lost my
purse, fallen and hurt myself, met the person I
didn't want to see, and always Just after he had
opened the way for me TO cross the street. |
avoid him now"
THE X. of L. magnates at the central office in
Philadelphia are in hot water over their recent
discharge of two clerks employed there. one
woman and the other Michael HUMPHREYS both
special friends of Messrs. Bailey and Barry, the
antiadministration men on the Executive
Board, who were absent when the discharges
were made. A stenographer, who was also
friend of those members, had already been dis
charged 1t is said that Miss Stevens a daughter
of Urah 8. Stevens, founder of the order is to
be the next to 60.
THE farming population of Michigan is some
what heterogeneous. The native Americans
who own farms number $780, the foreigners
81, $40 In the latter class are included Ger
mans, Canadians Irish, Scotch. English Dutch
Swedes, Poles, Swiss, Norwegians French Span-
ish, Danish. Welsh, Austrians, Bohemiaus Mo-
ravians, Firms, Belgians, Manxmen, East In
dams, Italians, Australians West Indians. Rus
slams New Zealanders, Persians and natives of
Hayti, the Sandwich Islands, Portugal, Mexico
Jamaica, and Venezuela.
MAINE NEWSPAPER says that Mrs Esther
Potter, of Long Ridge, who has just died after
long illness from consumption was the
mother of four children, the youngest a babe
She could not hear to think of leaving the little
one, and constantly prayed that it might 20
with her when she died A few days ago when
it was plain that she about to die she
ca led her family around her, and bade them
goodby. and then, clinging to the baby. praved
that it might die too II had heen naprfeSS,I
well, apparently, but, after a kiss from is
dying mother. closed its eyes, and in five
minutes was dead
THREE CITIZENS of Fairmount, Oak have
been arrested for stealing schoolhouse The
people of the district have long been divided as
to where the house ought to stand. a mart Of
them wanting II on the north side of the creek
and the rest claiming that 1t should be on the
south side. The northsiders took the house and
moved It across the creek in the night Tho
next morning tine southsiders awakened and
found the house in the enemy's land The next
night it was moved back to its former Mac.
After the house had been hauled back and fortb
until it was nearly worn out, arrests were made
and the building is now getting a rest
LAST SUMNER Mrs James Mcconnell. Of Cadiz
o. had brood Of fine young turkeys caught in