The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FRANCES MURRAY died the other day at the
New York Hospital from the effects Of swallow
ing her false teeth.
PEASANT has just died in Austria Hungary
who was l42 years Of age. He left son aged
10 years and grandson OF S.
THERE are so many COWS running loose on the
streets of Ishpeming, Mich, that. they some
times force the ladies off the sidewalks.
LIGHTNING entered a house at Eagle Point,
Pa the other evening and stripped the shoes
from the feet OF young girl Her feet were
severely burned.
"SECURITE" is the name given to new ex-
plosive which is said to be iameless when ex-
ploded and will, it is expected be Of especial
value as a substitute for ordinary blasting pow
der and other explosives in fiery coal mines.
THE unregenerate Memphis AUdlanche pro-
poses to Offset the State of Dakota with a new
one, to be formed of West Tennessee and Ken
lucky, East Nebraska, and North Mississippi
and Alabama, for which it compounds the
name of "TennarkalamiSsky."
In the first number OF the Philadelphia Pub
Tic Ledger, published March 5. 1885, by Swain,
! Abel & Simmons, stage line is advertised
as running through to Pittsburg in two days
and half. The paper contained four pages of
four columns each, and was sold at 1c. each.
"a RARE and beautiful phenomenon, says
the Harrington Comm Register, appeared
Wednesday at sunset. The sun was not to be
seen, but a dense pail of clouds covered the
whole heavens. of inky blackness all over the
eastern sky. Suddenly a light of golden color
covered the whole Eastern hills from base to
summit line of such intense clearness that OBJ
jects never seen from the village in the bright
est day were wildly revealed. A house on the
hilltop showed the window panes, and even in
dividual boards Of the covering. From the
second-story windows could be seen houses be-
yOnd nh3APy11 hafO
the same point. The belt of light gradually
narrowed to the sky hne, but kept its glory to
the last"
AT FULLY, N. Y, workmen engaged digging
well on the property of Martin G. Fuller,
were surprised by the bottom of the excava-
walton suddenly dropping from sight, disclosing
an apparently bottomless pit After learning
that no one was hurt, an exploring party was
formed, ropes and windaSseS were procured
and several daring men were lowered into the
opening. 1T was found that the well led into
cave, whose bottom was about forty feet be-
low the well. The explorers went over the cave
with torches and lanterns, and found it to be
about mile long. 1t extends directly under a
lake, but is entirely dry, no water whatever hav
| ing been found. A number of stone columns
and some fine stalactites and staagmites were
found with fossil formations, and Mr.. English,
| the geologst who subsequently descended
( found two very fine specimens of triobite
William Payne also found a number of fern
THE Monde de la Science describes a factory
which is said to be fourishing at st. Denis,
France Within its walls human skeletons are
made in the following manner: The largest
| room of the building is filled with enormous
kettles in which the bones of the corpses are
boiled until all the flesh is separated from them.
The skulls are prepared separately, and in the
| most careful manner. One way of preparing
| the skulls of children and young people is to
| fill the hollow where the brains are situated
with peas, and then let the latter swell in water
which causes even the most deicately Joined
| bones to separate without being injured After
| all the bones have been carefully washed they
| are bleached, ether'by choral or by exposure
| to the sun, and are then joined in another de-
| partment of the factory, and made flexible by
| means of brass wires. Most of the corpses
whose bones are utilized are said to be brough t
from hospitals, prisons and dlssecting rooms,
| and the latest Russo-Turkish war is said to
have brought much material" to the factory.