The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Gently from enlargement of the heart, caused
by excessive cigarette smoking.
Mr.. MOODY has given 5000 and Mr.. Sankey
$1,000 toward paying for the new Congrega-
tional church at Mortified. Mass.
SIDNEY LANIER, the Southern poet, is to have
monument costing Sl5OOO and Baltimore,
Montgomery and Macon will pay the largest
part of the bill
A THREE-YEAR-oLD MAINE BOY, while sliding
down hill two or three weeks ago. ran into a
barbed wire fence and cut the corners of his
mouth fully two inches on each side.
The Kennebec lumber season, which has just
closed has been an unusually favorable one.
The cut about the shores of Moosehead Lake
Will amount to about 10000, 900 feet.
THINGS grow worse and worse in Russia The
latest outrage was at a concert in St. Peters
burg, where two selections were played by
forty eight pianists upon twenty-four grand
pianos.
VERMoNT's maple sugar crop this spring is in
quantity and in quality above the average,
owing to recently introduced improvements in
It's manufacture. The yield is estimated at To-
1000 pounds
LOVERS OF MUSIC in New York are discour-
aged over the lack of appreciation in that city
for the American opera, which last year lost
100000 while the German Opera Company
this year finds itself in debt S224, 900.
LORD AUGUSTUS LOTUS, at one time Queen
Victoria's ambassador to Vienna, now presides
over the bookkeeping department of the MILL
merry store recently opened by Lady LOTUS.
They have no other means Of support.
SIX SMALL BOYS played cowboy at Burgetts
town, Pa, the other day, and one was lassoed
so vigorously and. effectively that when his cap
tors took the rope from his neck he was as dead
as Julius Caesar. He had been choked to
death.
JOHN S. WILLIAMS died at Reading, Pa, on
Monday, from the effects of having been stung
by a fish about a month ago. His hand and
arm swelled to unusual proportions, and blood
poisoning finally set in. He died after eXcru-
ciating suffering.
THE little son of p. J. Hendrix, Of Jackson
Tenn, met with a strange and frightful acct
dent. He was playing near COW, when she
tossed her head. Her horn entered the child s
mouth, tore out one of its tonSilS and lacerated
its throat terribly
A swINDLER has been victimizing North
Omaha housewives by selling them Indian tur-
nip roots as French tulip bulbs" He got Soc
apiece for roots which cost him scarcely moth
ing, and doubtless is as we'll contented as his
dupes are angered.
Mrs. LUCINDA GAsLEE known in Massachu-
sets as 1.-The Glastonbury Centenarian," has
just celebrated her 101st birthday. 1t is hardly
necessary to say that she has the vigor. good
hearing, and keen vision that go with every
well regulated centenar1an.
THE cost Of warming, ventilating and lighting
the houses of Parliament exceeds $4,000 q
year. The gas bill, including the lighting of the
clock, is f8, 300, and the coal bill is 81 800
Electricity, which is only in partial USE chiefly
In the dining room, costs $3.50
IN the postoffice at Concord, n H., the Post
master found pouch the other day which had
been lost 10 years, and which contained 1lS let
tiers for that city. There were three registered
letters with money in them, and their non-re-
cefpt had upset half dozen Offices.
YELLOW DIAMONDS are made blue of the purest
water for the time being by being colored with
common indelible blue pencil, equalized by a
rubbing with cotton or linen. maRnifying
glass will fail to show the fraud, but alcohol
turpentine or benzine will wash off the color
AMONG the curious machines recently patented
is one by Newark, N. j., man, which, when
you step upon a platform and deposit your
nickel in slot, indicates your weight upon a
dial, sootheS your savage breast by music
and prints for you slip certifying your weight
NUMEROUS coNGER EELs, killed by the frost
have been washed up on the southern coast of
England. Some of them weighed seventy
pounds, being feet long and "a inches in cir
ference-miniature sea serpents, In fact No
similar occurrence has been known since the
Crimean war.
AN IMMENSE IRON PIPE is being laid connect
ing the oil fields of Pennsylvania with the city
of Chicago. The pipe will be eight inches in
diameter and 210 miles long, and will require
"a 900 barrels of oil to fill it. The largest plmp
ever made has just been completed to force the
oil through the pipe
THE first Penobscot salmon of the season
taken with fly was caught at Winterport on
April IA 1t weighed twenty five pounds. On
the same day another, weighing twenty pounds
was caught eleven miles above Bangor This ia
over month earlier than last year, when the
first salmon taken with fly was caught on
May II
THE POPULAR THING just now at Cairo is for
the curious to take the morning train for Ziga-
gag, returning at night in order TO witness the
grand ruins at BabaStis which Naville has dis
closed. THE Pharaoh of Joseph" attracts
hundreds of Moslems, who venerate the ancient
Prime Minister and marvel at the statue of his
Pharaoh.
In a libel suit brought against the Baltimore
Sun, it was decided that the headline of n
newspaper article, being intended to give the
purport of the news of the article and not in
tended to be an independent assertion of the
paper, is not hbelous if it be fair comment
upon the body of the article and made with no
improper motive.
MAI. SINCLAIR, who is in charge of the Mount
NCIhOh dlldOhS, <AltDduld. udS III MS care 2OU
Apache prisoners, formerly belonging TO Ger
onimo's band. Under Snclar's management
they are becoming partially civilized They
have learned the use of brooms and washtubS
ard a few of the more progressive squaws even
iron their clothing.
Mr.. AND MRS JOSIAH FOSTER, of Salem.
Mass, and Mr.. and Mrs Jonathan Thayer. of
South Braintree, Mass, have journeyed to-
gether for a considerable distance on life's
path. The former have just celebrated the
sixty-frst anniversary of their marriage, and
the latter the sixty-nnth of theirs. They all
stand good chance of celebrating their dia-
mond weddings.
JAMES CAss, of Prairie Grove, Ark, picked I'D
an old bomb on his farm the other day, and
threw it into brush fire that was burning near
by The bomb had lain there ever since the
Prairie Grove battle, twenty five years ago but
II was in good condition and exploded scatter
ing missiles in every direction. No one was
hurt but several people narrowly escaped in
jury from the missiles.
CHINESE nightingales are the fashionable
drawing birds on the Continent now, and
friends Of the little creatures are protesting
against the cruelty of their being transported
to market from their distant homes by railroad
with no other care for their comfort than a
sign, "DOnnez q bore" on their wire cages
If the railroad men don't give them the drink
then very likely they die; but if the railway
men are charitable. the birds live and bring six
shllings apiece when they get to the great cities
Many people suppose that artificial incubation
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