The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


A HEYwoRrH, liz lady vas a crazy quilt
with y, 0C2 pieces in it, and Ter husband has
several shirts without any buttons on. He uses
shirt-Studs.
MANY Of the stylish portmonnies for ladies'
are made Of boa constructor skis. Hamburg,
n. j., has an establishment whre the skins
are prepared
FASHIONABLE walking sticks for mkt summer
will weigh five pounds, it is said. mis- is an in
dication that the average weight of he human
brain Is decreasing.
In Pekin, H., baptismal garment, known to
be 1873 years old, is still in use 1t is made of
silk of different colors, and is in an EXCELLENT
state Of preservation.
A FUNERAL PROCESSION at Chippewa, Falls,
Wis, when it reached the cemetery foundn the
open grave a tramp dead drunk He was ,esur-
rected with some difficulty, and then the fIheral
went on.
THE Sherwood (Mich.) Press says potatoessa IAN
not be had in that town at any price, and ten
generously offers to accept a bushel and quar-
ter of potatoes for one years subscription br
the paper
The rapdty with which AngloSaxon litera>
ture is pouring into Japan is Illustrated by tn.
fact that S., 600 English and 10000 American
books We're imported last year, an increase of
nearly 100 per cent.
j. D. HELToN captured four deer near Clifton,
Tenn, recently, after chasing them four or five
miles. The ground was so slippery that the
deer could scarcely stand, and quickly became
thoroughly exhausted.
E. HENDRICKS, of Applegate, Ore, cut down
large pine tree and within the wood found a
small cavity which was encircled by As rings of
yearly growth. In this cavity was foreign
copper coin, bearing the date 1890,
j. K PERRIMAN, who is under arrest at Grand
Rapids, Mich, for bigamy, puts in a very novel
defense. He says he is subject to fits of aberra-
tion of mind and that if he ever married more
than one woman he has forgotten all about the
matter.
J.'W JANUARY, of Minonk, ILL.,, when confined
in Andersonvie prison amputated both of his
own feet with large pocket knife He has the
knife still, and recently found his feet. DR.. w
Fl. Bradley, of Philadelphia, had them pre-
served in alcohol
A EoN-sPEAKIEG TELEPHONE is exhibited in
Pttsburg. A sensitive plate presses against the
larynx and glands of the neck and as the jaws
are moved in conversation, the motion sends the
words along the wire as distinctly as the tele-
phone now in use.
, REV ELI FAY, formerly the Unitarian pastor
at Leomnster but now in California, has Of
fered to give the Unitarian denomination $3.50
! 600 to establish female seminary IN Massachu-
Sets provided the denomination shall raise
enough to make the fund S1,000000
A SAN Francisco BOOK AGENT seems to have
found his match in a lawyer of that city. The
lawyer subscribed for copy of Shakespeare
plays In the meantime. having heard of
Ignatius Donnelys cipher theory, he refuses to
take the book until the agent proves that Shake
speare, and not Bacon is the author.
A GREENE COUNTY, Mo-, PAPER says that a
local stock dealer who was starting to St Louis
to take some cattle and hogs to market told his
wife that he would be home the following
dow ,saY,l aV.I d. ol,.
man heard the conversation and at The appoint
ed day was at the depot to meet his master,
A NUMBER of youths of Shelbina, Mo, have
organized themselves into an aid society The
object is to see that the poor widows of that
town have their wood sawed and placed in the
shed without cost. The boys go from house to
house after having finished their own work and
perform the mission for which they are organ
lied
A TRAVELLER in Japan was recently shown the
interior of native printing office He found
case" four feet wide by sixty feet long
where twelve compOsitors worked. They did a
wonderful amount of rushing about in search of
the types needed, for over SO, 600 different char
acters repoSed in the divisions of this vast CON
struction.
WHILE Morris Cummings, Of Summerville
Mich, was drawing logs his load tipped over
Both his legs were broken, and he was held to
the ground by the logs A friend came TO his
a
vain attempt to pull the logs from Cummings.
and then with an ak chopped the ground from
under him and freed him.
IT has been calculated that the quantity of
beer brewed yearly in the aforementioned
countries is about as follows: Great Britain.
1,Q5O 100000 gallons; Germany, 100000. 900; Aus
tria, go 100000; Belgium. 1S0.00O0O: Franco
10000 OO0 Russia, sc, 00O, 900; Holland, $1,000
900; Denmark, 10000 900; Sweden, 50 100000:
Switzerland, 100000; Norway, $500, OCO
For several nights large f1ocks of screech
owls have been lowering around the cornices of
high buildings in Columbus, Ind A dispatch
says an investigation was instituted and the dis
covery made that the owls a re catching and
devouring hundreds of English sparrows. They
drag them from their rs or roosting places
beneath the cornlces, carry them away and
devour them"
The Deadwood Times has the following item;
There is a heightened cuss on Sherman street
of socialistic tendencies who practices his politi
cal teachings. He has no wood, but a poor
woman in the neighborhOod has. She worked
and earned it, and he divides with her he AL
ways waits until he thinks she has gone to
bed before he makes the divvy, and carries his
part home We will give his name if he doesn't
quit"
Dr. MACALIsTER, Portland Me-, dentist no.
ticed one day, that dog was evid ntly suffer-
ing from tooth that had liberated He in
duced the animal to open its mouth applied the
fOrceps and extracted the tooth. During the
operation the dog sat quietly on its launches,
and stopped moaning, appearing to fully real
ize what the doctor about. After the tooth
was drawn the animal expressed his gratfca-
ton in many ways.
A MAN named Burdck, who removed from the
East to Kansas several years ago recently found
a tax receipt given to his grandfather in Allie
gany county, n. Y, thirty-five years ago He
picked up the paper on the prairie forty miles
from his own home and miles from any settle
ment. His grandfather never was in Kansas,
nor had the finder ever seen the paper before
Now he is puzzling his brains to ascertain how
that old receipt Travelled so far
ATCHIsoN, KAN, has club called the THE
Gilt-Edged Bricks" The club is sustained by
the fines imposed on members who
get drunk on anything cheaper than champagne.
The clubs life evidently depends on its ineligi-
edged bricks the club will die forwant of funds.
flourish, but it will cease TO be a club of
gilt edged bricks Aha! Atchison should
next have a club of total abstinence men. to he
kept up by fines imposed on members who get
drunk.
BILL GAINES, an itinerant peddler, hitched his
team in Holloway, Mich, and then proceeded
to enjoy himself on another street with some
convivlal companions. One act of their fun con-
sisted IN tying a can half full Of Single nails to
the tail of a yellow dog. Bill and his pards had
hardly ceased laughing at the CELEBRITY with