The morning news., 1888-11-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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undertook to carry a 103-pound Deer keg
distance of seven miles. After walking six
| kill himself.
| BAR HARBoR PAPERS seldom get left" in
! the way OF announcing distinguished Wis
| ltors. One of them has already selected a cot
I tage for President-eect Harrisons occupancy
next summer.
| WELL AUTHENTICATED STORY is told of a Wat
erbury cat. which died OF grief over the death of
a mistress for whon it had a remarkable
| affection. AS soon as the animal saw the face
| OF the dead 9Rl, 1t fell dead with groan.
DARING ROBBERY was committed in Hous-
| ton, Tex. The thief entered jeHery store
| and, walking up TO the safe, helped himself to
| S2,OOO worth OF diamonds aud then departed.
The owner had gone out, leaving the establish
| inent IN charge of friend whose office op aned
| into the store.
THE LAW regarding the employment of chill
dren in mills, passed last winter by the Maine
! legislature, has very materially increased the
! scoool attendance in the ma1ufac urnG towns
| OF the state. At LISBON Falls the increase is
| ABOUT 10 per cent. at Auburn and Saccarappa
about per cent.
CURIOUS INCIDENT brought out durirg
| the counting OF tue votes at Randolph, P-
| There appeared a set Of tickets, which had been
regularly voted, the same as were used four
years ago. IL probably came about by the per
son VINO voted them wearing, for the first time
since, the same vest that he did four years ago,
and thereby the tickets became mixed and the
wrong set voted.
Two nuggets of gold recently found in the
Raeburn district of vi st arn Australia, weighed
$50 and 103 ounces respectively. The smalle
one was found near the surface. and Vas at
first kicked away by it's Gfscoyerer At Bendipo
they are digging for gold 2400 feet under
ground, the greatest depth to which the gold
miners in Australia have yet pushed their
search for the precious metal
GEORGE NJ. WOODRUFF of Litchfeld Conn.
who carved his initielS thirty-five years ago on
the limb of an apple tree, found the souvenir
| going into the fire. Mr. Woodruff has often
| loo ked for the initials, &c. ~ w" but thev
had disappeared from the su face. short
time ago the tree was cut down, and the let
| ters, as found, must have been about four
inches from the surface.
HERE is remedy for cramps, suggested by
! DR. r. w. st Clair of London: Let the patient
provide himself with g good strong cord and
keep IL always by him. A long garter-the
| l15 yards Of good stout knitting that supported
the hose OF bygone age-will serve the pur-
pose well enough. When the spasm comes on,
let MIN wind this cord around the affected part
take an end in each hand, and give them good
sharp pull. it will hurt ittle-it is useless if
IL does not-but the cramp VIII vanish at once.
AN INGENIOUS FELLOW, VINO sold large num-
in this way: He carried on his back an old soiled
carpet bag filed with the pipes He would fill
one of them wib tobacco. and when well under
way approach man, or group of men, and
strike up trade at 81 for the pipe He told
| them the pipe was genuine meerschaum and
ne wanted to sell that one, the only one he had,
in order to get money to pay his fare to Port
land He sold over iorty in Auburn.
| Miss ANNA BLAKELEY, saleslady OF Lima.
| Ohio, met with a singular accident while wait
l s-,rr ~, ,r.-N~- L. -
| pointed scissors suspended from her belt by a
| stout rubber cord, and in turning around the
| scissors caught and the rubber cord was
stretched to its fu! limit When the scissors
| released themselves the elasticity of the cord
caused the scissors to rebound with great force
| and striking Miss Bakeley in the back, they
| penetrated the flesh over an inch, making ser
| iOus wound
An ECCENTRIC woman has found her way to
| jail in San Francisco for being concerned as it
| is charged in a blackmailing scheme She
| strictly refused to take off her bonnet and
| shawl on reaching prison, arguing that she
| would be released III an hour two. and fter-
| ward when remove to a cell sne declared she
world not eat q morSel while in the institution
| At last accounts she mad lasted for four days
| She purchased meals regularly from outside
| restaurant, looked at them for short time and
then hat them taken away.
MAYOR He WITT claims that President Cleve
land received more democratic 20 es in New
This is the way he figures it: Harrison re-
celved lU5,OJO votes and Erhafdt but 10000 so
| that there were 5000 republican votes for
mayor that went to the democratic candidates,
| If they went anywhere. Now Grants vote was
| 1il,000 and mine 1900; total. 1a2 600 Deduct
| the 35, 900 republicans and it leaves AZ OO) as
| the democratic vote for both of US, while Ceve-
land received 1G2 900 Sc lie got more democratic,
| votes than Grant and together and don't see
| yet where he got them from"
A SPECIAL from Louisville, Ky, dated the
| 21st says: Four brothers married to four sisters
| by the same minister was the record furnished
| this afternoon. when George Rothenberger was
| married TO Miss Louisa Wieglieb by the Rev
Adam zimmerman Of st. Johns church The
| parents are German Lutherans of Zimmerman
| congregation. Thirty years ago they settled
upon adjoining farms, ten miles from the city
| and their families have grown up together
| Two years ago the first couple of brothers and
| sisters were married. There remain three girls
| of the WeElieb family but there are no more
| Rothenberger boys. The couples already mar
| ried are living happily in this vicinity.
TIE British surveying ship Egeria, under
| command Of Capt. p. Aldrich, has, during a re-
cent sounding cruise and search for reported
banks to the south of the Friendly islands OBJ
tanned two soundings of 4,295 fathoms and i, 4,O
fathoms respectively, the latter in latitude
24o 81 S, longitude i?5' w. the other about
twelve miles to the southwark. According to the
81. James Gazette, these depths are more than
1000 fathoms greater than any before obtained
in the southern hemisphere. and are only sur
passed, as far as is known, in three spots of the
world-one of 1856 fathoms off the northeast
coast of Japan, found by the United states
steamship TuScarora; one OF 4.415 fathoms
south of the IadroHe islands by the Chal-
lenger. and one of 456t fathoms north Of Porto
Rico, by the United States ship Blake
MISS MAUD MELVILLE, the daughter of the
famous explorer aud hero of the Jeanette ex-
pedition. says the Philadelphia Times of Friday.
made her appearance in public last night in
a concert. and surprised even the few who we're
aware of her natural musical talent by the quail
ity of her voice. as exhibited TO advantage in
suitable selections after short period OF train.
ing. She was quite nervous when she first came
out, and showed it in her singing. but as she
gained confidence people who know what a good
voice is and who can tell good singing when they
hear it applauded loudly Miss Melvilles voice
is sympathetic, very sweet. strong and n xhls
and capable of much expression and feeling
Miss Melville was assisted by Mr. Orr, Miss Ever
est Mr.. Everest. whose banjo solos captured the
audience, Mrs. A. r. Flemming a auartette
from the University of PENNSYLVANIA and her
two younger sisters, Elsie and Meta Melville
FoR weeks past two dogs have howled cha,-
lenges AZ each other from OF posite ends Of the
railroad bridge which spans the Passac river at
North Newark, N, j. The bridge is of the
skeleton pattern, and neither of the CANNES
would venture TO cross IL until few DAYS ago.
Then both started off on the ties, and at about
the center of the structure the belligercuts met
and instantly began to settle their long stand