The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LUMP Of pure copper, weighing more thar
eighty pounds, and showing traces of an at
tempt to work it with made tools, has just been
found in Michigan field quite away from any
place where such metal is usually found.
EDITH BRrNKHAM. young girl of Racine,
Wis., dslocated her neck while getting out of
bed in the morning Her screams brought her
family to the room and physician was sum-
moned, but at last accounts she was dying.
OWING to the low prices of Connellsville CPa)
coke this summer, it has been sent to regions
where it was hitherto almost unknown Mon
day an order was received for 1000 tons from
Newfoundland, which usually depends upon
England for her supply.
Col. GEORGE B. DYER of Kansas City, drove a
span Of horses from Burlington w. to Chicago
in 1885, The town then had a population of
1900 and he soon knew every person in it. In
184c he sold seven acres of Chicago land, near
the center OF the city, for 5000.
A GRAND RAPIDS MAN checked his gripsack to
Lansing. and it was lost. He thereupon put in
a lost baggage claim-duly sworn to-for $40 so
for the contents and $40 for the Inconvenience
Then the grip was found, and it contained two
butcher knives and dozen cloth aprons.
THERE are 100000 freight cars on the various
railroad lines in this country of which 60 900 are
the property of the Pennsylvania Central road
They range In value from $500 the cost of CON
structing fat car, to 81 800, the amount ex-
pended in building the average refrigerator car.
GEORGE J. KAIsTED, a painter while swing
ing ladder from the roof of house at New
burgh, N. Y, caught hold of the chimney for
support The chimney gave way, and the I'M
fortunate man fell 40 feet to the ground re-
ceivng a conclusion of the spine and numerous
scratches.
Rev. MATTHIAS DEsELAERs, rector of st.
BIichae's Roman Catholic church, Cincinnati,
has just celebrated his golden jubilee. He was
ordained to the priesthood 80 years ago in Ger
many, and later came to this country. For over
a quarter of a century he has had charge of St.
Michael's church.
THE Empress of Austria and the Arch
duchess Valerie, her daughter, have sent from
Gastein two wreaths Of Alpine roses, picked by
their own hands, to Berlin to be laid on the
tomb of the Emperor William at Charlotten-
burg, in pious memory of the many successive
years in which his late majesty visited
Gastein."
A FUNERAL in Mobile, Ala, last week, came
near causing another. An awning used to
shelter the assemblage caught so much wind
that 1t somehow pulled over the shaft of a
monument more than foot square, which fell
upon man in the crowd, pinnng him to the
earth, breaking his ankle, bruising his back and
putting him generally out of kilter
A CORRESPONDENT who recently spent few
days on the Dutch island of Marken, in the
Zuyder Zee writes that in many of the humble
houses occupied by the fishermen of the island
he saw carved furniture that would turn an
American collector green with envy, while in
every house the rare old Delft china was ranged
| in double and triple rows about the wall.
THE WILL of a wealthy lady recently de-
ceased at Halifax leaves to a relative a sum of
money, which written, may be read either
a. 900 or $40 100. The lawyer who drafted the
will has forgotten the amount, and cannot read
his own writing The opinions of experts are
about evenly divided as to which amount is in
| dfcated AS no settlement can be reached
| among the heirs, the case is to be carried into
court.
SEALsKINs, when worn by the seals them
selves, are very different in appearance from
those which have been fabricated into ladies'
coaks The fur is not visible, but is concealed
. by a coat of stiff overhair, dull gray brown and
| grizzed. This overhair has to be removed by q
| long, laborious process. and this work, accord
ing to the thoroughness with which it is DONE
| largely determines the value of the skin Skins
| from two TO four years old weigh from 51s
| pounds to ~ pounds.
WHILE Mrs. Collander of Chicago was
chatting with some neighbors in her parlor one
| afternoon she was startled by hearing crash
| in back room. The ladies, on running to in
| vestigate the cause of the noise, came upon a
| strange man, presumably burglar. who had
| Just dropped a vase upon the floor, and who, on
| seeing the women, tried to escape by opening
what he thought was a door leading to the hall
| way. He only got himself into a closet, how
| ever, and Mrs. Collander promptly locked the
| door on the intruder keeping him there until a
| policeman arrived. After the man was arrested,
| It is said. gold watch and other articles of
| jewery were found in the closet.
WRITER who has explored New Guinea de-
scribes the nutmeg region Upon a fine piece
/ of table land he came upon three houses erected
| in the very heart of the forest. These were
| used by the natives for drying the nutmegs
THE country was everywhere magnificent, and
the aroma of the spice. laden air delicious. Nut
| meg and other equally valuable trees were
| everywhere growing in great profusion. The
| fruit of the nutmeg In appearance resembles a
| pear, and when ripe opens and displays the nut
| covered with a beautiful red coating of mace
| The nuts are then picked and taken to the
| houses, where they are sked and placed on
| shelves. They are then partly roasted over a
! slow fire until all the moisture is extracted,
| after which they are cooled ana sent to mar
| ket."
| OK recent Sunday afternoon, as the excur-
| sion boat was about to leave the wharf at John
| son Shy the Sea, Islesborough, Me-, the crowd
| of passengers were surprised to see advancing
| toward them what at first seemed a walking
| bush, but what, upon nearer view, proved to
be one of the rIstcators, gaily decked out in
wild flowers ferns, grasses. etc. AS described
| by the Bangor Commercial, tall mnlleinstalk
| in blossom grew from her left shoulder; from
her right large bull thistle reached high above
her head, while the intervening space was filled
she wore wreaths of field daisies, ferns and wild
| roses; around her throat were twined punches
of live-forever; attached to her left breast i'm
| mense punches of yasrow, carraway and golden
| rod while the right resplendent with but
| tercups and ox-eye daisies, from between which
| glimpses of brilliant corsage bouquet Of sweet
| lIeas pinks and roses could be seen. From each
| side extended branches of cato nine-tails,
| reeds and rlIshes, and in her hands she held
| punches of sweet grass Nothing could be seen
| of the young lady but her smiling face.
THE Sulu people are almost amphibious.
They are also capital boatmen, and they use
two kinds of boats The dapang is a dug out
| canoe with freeboard heightened by planks,
but differing from the usual Malay model in
| having both bow and stern cigar shaped, the
| tops of the ends being bent upward These
| dapangs have large bamboo outriggers on both
| sides and can stand heavy weather. The praus,
| or larger vessels are strongly built; not very
| neatly, perhaps, but with a good deal of orna-
mental carving on the sterns. They range from
| ten 10 twenty tons burden, and are used for
| voyages to Borneo and the more distant islands.
! Mention having been made of carving, it may
be added that the Sulus are very clever and
tasteful at this sort of work. which is to be found
| about their houses and tombstones, as well
on their boats. Pearl fishing is followed here.
as elsewhere in the Malay archipelago, and the
Sulus are said to be the best divers in the world.
| They think nothing of depth of seventeen
| or eighteen fathoms, and Will swim straight
| down TO the bottom without any weights to
| help them. One celebrated pearl diver is said
| to have gone down in this way to depth of no