The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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BY vote of IS to IS the Massachusetts Senate
has killed the bill forcing cities to pay over TO
the State Treasury the fees received from
liquor licenses.
For every 1000 inhabitants the United States
runs trains 200 miles annually, while the train
| mileage of Great Britain on the same basis is
$500; Belgium, 4,500; France, $3.50, and Ger
many $50
WINE MAKERS are experimenting with cleo
tricity. 1t is said that if an electric current is
sent through barrel of wine the liquid loses
! its rawness, gains in bouquet, and IN every way
| takes on the qualities that used to come only
| with years of age.
A FARMER in Gratiot county, Michigan, plowed
up a 5O-pound cannon ball the other day. There
is no record of any battle having been fought in
| that vicinity, and the people are wondering
| where the big cannon ball came from
In the savings banks of Rhode Island the
deposits amount to $50, 100000. The population
is little more than 3Oo, 900, so that the average
| savings represented by the deposits in the
| savings banks alone are about SLY per capita
| for every man, woman and child In the State.
A BIG TREE was felled recently on the land of
John McCloskey, on ,.Ioccasin river, Clinton
| county, Pennsylvania. There were cut from it
five 16-foot logs and seven 12foot logs, and still
| there remained twenty-six feet of the butt,
which measured four feet. The end Of the
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| NOTABLE wedding occurred at Livermore
| KY, recently. Mr. G.. A. Algood, Of that city,
| who 10 only four feet In height, was married to
Miss Minnie Dewitt, Of Livia KY, who is sew
eral inches shorter in stature. Mr.. Algood is
| one of the substantial men of the county, and
| the bride is said to be beautiful and accom-
plished.
| THE health of New York compares very I'M
favorably with that Of London The annual
| IN, +ha 20
twenty in 1000, while in New York it is twenty
| six in 1000 The population of New York is
| also much more crowded. there being an aver
age of sixteen persons to a dwelling, while in
London it is only seven.
LOUIS ALDR1cH, who was passenger on the
City of Rome, took with him several kegs Of
oysters to be eaten on the voyage. letter
| from Daniel Froham, sent by the pilot, states
| that Aldrich had offered to divide the oysters
on condition that he should be allowed to read
| the manager two manuscript plays and that a
| bargain on these terms had been struck
A WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT says if poll
teal favor is desired from Senator Edmunds,
the request must not be prefaced by a request
to take something, because, however accom-
modating and ready to yield to the wishes Of
others in the morning, nothink can bend him
after he had his wine. He is the only man
ever met whom wine would not mellow
HARTFORD LADY RENTED to a large New
1c. less than the face of the bill. The New
| York house wrote (cost 2c.) asking for the miss
| ing cent, and on receiving it sent on new re-
ceipt, (cost &c. more) and of course it cost the
| debtor &c. to forward the 1c.. making in all &c.
expended in paying 1c. Business is business.
THE pony ridden by the late Prince Imperial
of France when he received his Baptism of
fire" at Saarbruck during the Franco Prussian
| " ar has just come to a sudden end, like it's I'M
fortunate master. After Sedan the pony was
bought by German baron, andwas kept on his
estate in Silesla for his children to ride. Re-
Gently it fell down on a slippery road and broke
| its leg and had to be shot,
CHAMBERLAIN lays claim to the only Indian in
Dakota who has naturalization papers regularly
| issued. When he made application at the
| clerks Office he told that naturalization
| papers were not neces Sary but he insisted that
be wanted something to show that he had sew
cred his tribal relations and was full-hedged
citizen, and his request was granted. His
name is Rev. Luke p Walker and he is a full
blood Indian and a graduate of the Indian
school at Carlisle, Pa.
THE Left Handed Club of Houston, Texas,
has hanging over one of the doors of its house
a horseshoe, or rather mules SHOE with his.
tory One day last summer at Pass Cavallo a
mule waded out into deep water. First he
| knew one of his hind legs disappeared in the big
mouth of a passing shark. A few days after
ward the shark was caught by the crew of the
| State Quarantine schooner, and the leg of the
mule was found in the interior of the big fish.
/ The shoe was taken from the hoof, and now
| keeps off the witches in the home of the before
mentioned Left Handed Club.
MIKE MATTHEWS, living near Howard, Oak,
tells the following, which is vouched for by all
his neighbors: During the blizzard of Jan. IL
last he lost hog, which at the time weighed
over 200 pounds. Nothing had been seen or
heard of it until last Friday, when he was work
ing at hay stack some distance from the house
and uncovered the hog, which was still alive
and the mother of litter of ten pigs all alive,
and weighing about pound apiece. TIE
mother weighed when taken out about thirty
pounds, a shrinkage Of over 170 pounds She
was confined in the stack about three months
without food or water.
THE trial of Acheson Niclzlin, for the murder
of Francis J. Kerr, of Allegheny, began in the
Criminal Court yesterday before Judge Magee.
The court room was only comfortably crowded,
but little interest being excited by the trial.
The defendant is under the care of Messrs.
George Elphinstone and Thomas Marshall, while
Col. Moore represents the Commonwealth. Nick
lin is q young man of good appearance and as
he sat in the court room yesterday did not look
like man who would commit willful murder.
The widow of the decea ed sat near her counsel,
dressed in deep mourning, and surrounded by
her relatives
D. D. WITHERs, an eccentric and wealthy bach
elor, now treasurer of Monmouth Park Racing
Association, lives at Halmdel n J., on an es-
tate of 1000 acres. For years his residence and
stable have Deen infested with rats. They have
undermined several expensive granaries, and
the elegant mansion is now in danger. Mr.
Withers steadily refused to permit his employees
to make a raid on the army of rodents unCL yes
terday, when, while experimenting the removal
Of stacks of grain, the frightened creatures
swarmed from their winter quarters in alarm
ing numbers. The great hOrseman then ordered
all his men and his twenty dogs to begin
battle. The result was amazing. Over hogs
head of rats were killed The damage done by
them is estimated at 5000.
HITHERTO it has not been possible without
the aid of dynamo to use electricity for illu
minating purposes; bat James II. Mason, a
young Englishman residing in this country
having substituted a battery for u dynamo
claims that, by reason OF his improvement, any
one DESTROYS of electric illumination may now
have il at a small percentage of the cost inn
posed under the dynamo system. The inventor
claims that battery Of twenty five cells would
furnish a three-Story house with ten lights all
burning at once, five hours nightly for two
weeks, and that the cost of this would be lust
the same as gas, while the light would be bet
ter. Since stored electricity has been utilized
as q motor, there is reason to believe that il
may yet be made to serve the purpose of an
illuminant.
A German newspaper In It's account Of the
floods at Temesvar, reports the salvation Of an
old gypsy fiddler upon the quaintest boat, prob.
ably, that has ever been seeu. The old man
lived at the extreme end of the Fabriker1qtz
in vretched little cettage. He went home
about midnight in a very iovisi hGmor laid