The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A KANSAS CITY barber says that rats eat
the edges of his razors


have been used by the government in marking
the graves of the Union dead.
SLUGGER SULLIVAN has one wife, one ex-wife,
four trainers, and business manager. After
all he has considerable to fight Tor
AN unfortunate Maine baby that happened to
be born on the day of her grandparents golden
wedding was named Anna Versary.
A wELI.-KNowN CITIZEN of Augusta, Me, is
excessively polite. The other day he backed
through $50 plate- glass window while bowling
to lady on the street.
FOREIGN RAILWAY NEWS shows that the En- =
glishman takes nineteen railway tripsa year the
Belgian eleven the Frenchman and German
five, and the Italian one.
A NEW YORK MERCHANT estimates that ,OOO, 900
bushels of peanuts were consumed in this coun-
try last year. The cost to the consumers was
SlO,OO0,O00, fully half of which was profit.
The school teachers of Cincinnati have
hitherto been fined quarter of days salary
| for being late. 1t is now proposed to change
the fine to &c. for each minute of hardness.
ACCORDING to statistics gathered by the Rail
| road Gazette there were in December last 90
railroad collisions. 50 derailments and other
accidents making 1872 in all in which II persons
were killed and 2ll injured.
TEN BAPTIST converts were immersed at
Adams. n Y. when the thermometer registered
| 10 below zero Inc clothing rrOZe on Une
novitiates as they came from the water but no
serious results have followed.
IT has been ascertained that, free as light and
air are, there over 1900 families in the city
of Paris inhabiting apartments having no other
| openings than a door and at least GU. 900 eami-
| lies in the city of London reside in cellars.
| ABoU-NADDARA, an Egyptian sheik, who has
lately carried the congratulations Of the oriental
countries to the new President of France is
| authority for the statement that di-Carnot in
| Arabic signifies Happiness of the Century,
| A DETROIT woman has brought an action for
divorce because her husband hit her with a de-
| cayed apple when she importuned him to tell
| where he had been. 1t seems to have been a
| case in which soft answer did not turn away
| wrath.
| SIXTY LAKES can be counted, it is said. from
| the summit of Mount Whteface in the Adiron-
dacks. Whiteface is over 5000 feet high, and so
| are the Mounts Seward Mcintyre and several
| others, but the highest is Mount Marcy, which
| rises ,337 feet.
ONE of the best amateur boxers in Maine is
said TO be the pastor of leading Congrega-
tional church. He strips like Greek athlete,
and keeps his muscle up by having a punching
| bag hanging in his study, and pummeng it
vigorously whenever he is tired of mental work.
YELLOW HOUSE, Berks county Pennsylvania,
a farming settlement among the Munntawney
| nils, laQ a pOpudtlOn or 3D. according TO the
| last census, and has increased but little since
| then. Among the inhabitants Of the place are
| twenty-sX persons between 20 and % years OF
| age.
RAISING MONEY for public works in China is no
joke to Celestial officials. The late terrific floods
| in the empire having been caused by a breach
| in the Yellow river 10000. 900 taels about S32-
| 100000 must be spent on repairing the damage,
so, to provide the necessary funds, all provincial
officials salaries will be stopped for year.
| L. DAVID ANDERSON, an Englishman, offers to
teach journalism outside of a newspaper office.
A year or so ago he began what he called
| school of journalism in England, and says that
| he has instructed number of Oxford and Cam
| bridge men, and at least one peers son, and
| that five out of six of his pupils have obtained
good posts
I. T. HARPER, of Victor, Ia. owns a St Der
nard dog that stands % inches high. is 81 inches
long from tip to tip, and weighs 230 pounds The
| other day he saw little fodder making its way
| toward two angry boars that were fighting and
| walking in front of the baby he pushed it away
and repeated this several times until the child's
| mother came.
| THE POSTMASTER at st. Paul occasionally ex-
| hibits to the curious the original ST. Paul post
office from which the citizens of St Paul re-
ceived their mail between 1912 and 1S49 1t is
simply square box containing ten small pigeon
| holes and four large ones, and used to occupy a
corner in the general store where the first Post
master was engaged In business.
| THE recent election in ST. Louis, at which it
was decided to abolish special German instr1lc-
ton in the public schools, thus throwing about
| 100 German teachers out of employment has
rather embittered the German citizens of the
| place, and is likely to result in particularly
bitter fight over the coming local option cleo
| ton. Ii looks very much as if the vets would
| win.
THE Manchester Mirror asked 500 leading New
| for Presidential candidate OF the 23S who an
swered 119 were for Blaine, thirty for Sherman
sixteen for EdmuDds, fourteen for Conkling
| twelve for Lincoln, and others We're scattered
| among Sheridan, Hawey, Harrison Allison
| Hoar, Blair, Evarts and Gresham. Lincoln led
| for Vice President
THE Fairfield Journal says that once when
Theodore Tilton was to lecture in a well known
| Maine town he arrived at the hall door alone
and asked for the manager He was told that
he was inside. Can | so in and speak with
| him. YES. il yOu'v got half a dollar " TheO-
! dore produced the coin, went in and lectured
| He afterward told the story, and said that the
lecture was worth the money.
H A. DUBUQUE. of Fall River, Mass. has a
! document showing unmstakable signs of age
dated Nov. o. 1875. 1t reveals that there were
| oyster beds in the Taunton river in those days
| and that the settlers fought for their possession
| Daniel Brown, of Somerset was the writer and
| evidently giving testimony, for he relates
| that on the day in question he number of
| his acquaintance in three Canoes engaged in
| raking up oysters. A quarrel arose over their
| respective rights. and Daniel writes that one
man repeatedly plunged a fork into the body of
another man until he thought that murder had
| been done" The paper is torn at point where
| Mr.. Browns eyes became riveted on the COM
batants,N and nobody knows whether anyone
| was killed or not.
A CURIOUS MIRAGE has been seen at Gray. Me
| THE thermometer stood at about 200 below.
the sun was obscured by light cloud slight,
misty haze pervaded the lowlands, but the sky
was otherwise almost cloudless. Suddenly
along the horizon from north to east the whole
| outline underwent change as if by magic
| Huge pines, never seen before stood out against
| the sky for a radius of ten miles. Farther to
| the lett appeared trees with the tops slightly
| fattened and Joined together, looking like mas
sive columns supporting colossal bridge the
| top appearing perfectly straight and even: in
| the center ridge of land covered with beauti-
| full elms and naples was visible, and hill
several miles beyond the natural horizon with a
! strip OF timber on 1t and perspective beyond
as far as the eye could reach"
1.-THE poison conveyed by human teeth is one
of the most annoying that physician ever has
to deal with, writes Dr. A. c. Robinson. "a
bitten ear or nose is months in healing where
a more important wound inflicted by an instrll-
ment would readily yield to simple remedies |
have under my attention severe and most com
plicated cases of blood poisoning in which the
patient had butisllghtly abraded the hand in the