The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST

Ir was when the late Prof Proctor was an
| English school examiner that a little girl de-
fined tie difference between a man and brute
as tollows; "A brute Is an imperfect beast; man
is perfect beast"
Mr.. MARQUES of Rearing Spring, Trigg
county, Kentucky, has just, in the course of
ditch digging, come across some Indian graves,
| IN one OF which there is a perfect skeleton
nearly eight feet long.
The appearance of what is supposed to be
the famous English white bait in the Seaconnet
river, Massachusetts,. has excited fishermen
| thereabouts. About $50 barrels of the little
nsnes have been caught.
| ONE OF the horses used on the stage line near
Albany has heavy mustache. People who
have examined the horse and the remarkable
| growth OF hair on its upper lip say they never
saw anything TO equal it.
| MARTIN O'CoNNoR, known as the veteran mail
carrier of Lockport, y. Y, has resigned. He
carried the mai between the postoffice and the
| New YORK Central station for 81 years. He is
'o years old and in excellent health
The eloquence of a clergyman at Coldwater,
Mich met with sudden collapse the other
sunday when. to emphasize a point, he brought
ms llst down heavily unon the nulpit and hit
| upon needle some one had left there
JOHN STOKES of Philadelphia has lust been
awarded 500 damages against the man who hit
I
| another person. and thereby drew blood and is
said to have injured the sight OF Mr. Stokes.
THERE were found last week in the heart of
Dig red oaE, cut down near Hickman, Tenn,
the three chops wherewith the original sur
| Veyors OF the country blazed it, and over which
were me rings indicating seventy-five years of
| growth.
HERE is mine near Leadvie to which no
woman is admitted For every woman that
visited
tolowed, and the miners are now so ssllperSti-
tlous That II woman was admitted they would
| all quit.
IRRIGATION is making Nevada very produc-
tive state. A Nevada man raised potato this
season 50 large that when he sent it to a friend
! oy man ne mad to pay 50 cents postage on it.
| announcer Nevada man shows three potatoes
which respectively weigh nine, six and five
| pounds.
| PART of train going forty miles an hour
! ran on to a siding in Connecticut and miracu-
iouSly escaped with only slight damage. The
| engineer s nut off the steam the moment he
| telt the irregular movement of the cars and
| most OF the passengers did not know of the
| accident till the train stopped
The maximum enlisted strength of tn q
United States Amy is 81, 900 men, and, accord
| ing to the latest report as TO its government.
there have been no less than 1,730 courts martial
ana IT, 44l trials before garrison and regimental
a
| more or less serious character.
A CARRIAGE, containing the mourners. while
| returning from a funeral in New York Thurs
day, was overturned by the horses running
away and the occupants thrown out The nus
oand Oh the deceased was hurt about the head
ana tne arm of another person so badly broken
that 1t was amputated few hours after
MICHIGAN FARMER, who had lost three pigs
that bear stole from the pen, put his big boar
air MIA nd
came and attempted to hug the hog but the
boar used his long tusks so skifuly that, after
a hard fight, he got the best of tie bear and
rendered him so helpless that the farmer fin
ished MIN with an ak.
The COWBOYS of Northwestern Texas are be-
coming very proficient in Iassoing bears
Around Fort Davis the sport is extremely
popular, and last week b. o. McCutcheon the
champion roper, after lassoing a black grizzly
led the animal quite a distance. when he met
two other cowboys. They also roped the bear
and McCutcheon then dismounted and killed it,
NEARLY all the coachmen of Philadelphia
have peculiar disgruntled expression on their
faces. The cause of this is that their mistresses
bowlng to the dictates of fashion, will not allow
them to wear mustaches. The average coach
man is very proud of this hirsuit adornment
and it goes rather bard with him to part with it,
One coachman offered to work for IS less per
month If allowed to retain bis mustache.
THE vexatious bait question that has agitated
Gloucester fishermen for some time has been
settled by the discovery of new alurement for
Goldfish. 1t is found by good test that the cod
will bite at an artificial squid coated with ause
seed oil. The test was made at time when the
fish were least likely to bite, and good catch
was made. The bait is made of rubber and
Will be manufactured SO as to hide the hook
A MUcH-rRAvELED goat is aboard the United
States sloop-of-war Galena. 1t is pet of the
| sailors, and such has iourneyed up and down
| the Atlantic coast and among the West Indies
| 1t eats with the men and goes around among
| the mess chests and the mess tables as indie
| pendenty as would any officer 1t understands
the ooatswain's pipe as well as the sailors, and
whether swaying or squaring the yards making
sail or at drill, Billy is at the head.
| AN intelligent chimpanzee in the Geological
| gardens, London, has been taught to count up
| to five. He is exhibiting his talent for rnathe-
matlcs to the delight of many visitors by hand
/ ing them with great seriousness and accuracy
| the exaat number of straws they ask for up to
| that number. Evidences are accommodating that
| the family of which the late Mr.. Crowley was a
bright and shining member. are very good fell
| lows, with considerable latent capacity.
YOUNG MAN at Vinalhaven, Me-, who at
| tended the firemen's ball, put on the sheriff's
/ coat by mistake. While escorting home his
| best girl he found pair OF handouts in his
| pocket, and the yonng woman tried them on.
| Unfortunately they snapped and locked and
| the hands could not be withdrawn. The girl
nearly sprained her wrists trying to extrcate
| herself from her embarrassing position and
| did not succeed till the sheriff arrived with the
| key.
JAMES MCCLoUD of Lodi owns horse on his
Dakota farm which has eight feet. 1t is per-
fectly formed In all respects except that it has
| eight feet. Not until thu pastern or fetlock
joint is reached in the descent from the shoulder
| to the foot is there any apparent difference be-
tween the horse and any other. But at the
pastern joint or lower end of the shin bone
| the branch begins, and two perfectly formed
| feet are found, one on esch of the four logs
| The horse runs on the range the same as any,
| and is as fast as most of them, and all eight
| feet are shod or may be if desired. McCloud
has refused $500 for half interest in the curl
osity, but he wants $1,000 outright tor the whole
animal
| A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Transcript
| objects to the notion that n 'cat sucks away a
| chids breath" He says: The eats sucking
| away child's breath" is merely the expression
| erroneous in its form, of a physiological fact
| All the tettdOs possess poisonous breaths, in
| tended by nature 10 act as an annsthetic upon
| their prey. If any adult will inhale but once
| the breath, even of cat, he will at once re-
| cognize this fact. Watch a cat playing with a
mouse. The mouse does not suffer, but is
| stupefed as IL by ether Livingstone, tie
| African explorer states in his Life" that.
| when he was seized by lion and his arm
| broken, the crunching Of the broken arm gave
| him no pain, so benumbed were all his senses
| by the animals breath Now, cats like rest,
warmth, companionship and a soft couch
cat seeks the child, its soft bed, and the
warmth of its body. and lies down upon the
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