The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-01
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when they went TO supper thaC Jney HGdnI'
Bring some cold victuals.'
LINEN TROUSERS and straw hats were con-
spicuous features of the costume of party of
Cuban fruit importers who landed in New York
the other day. They lost no time in seeking a
clothing store and buying garments more sulta-
bic for the climate.
MANY PERSONS use the phrase sin trice"
who have no conception of its meaning A
trice is the sixtieth part of second of time.
| The hour is divided into sixty minutes, the
minute into sixty seconds anu the second into
sixty trices or thirds
THERE is climbing rose bush over the door
of Henri F. Gardner's home in Orange, Cal, of
the white La Marque variety which covers the
| entire front the house, surface OF oS4
square feet The main stem is 90 feet long ana
| measures 1919 inches i'll circumference
IT is said that the telegraph communication
between England and France is disgracefully
bad. 1t is an actual fact that London merch-
ants send their messages to Havre by way OF
| New York, and they reach Havre quicker than
| if they were sent from London to Havre oil
| rect.
A CINCINNATI elevator stuck midway between
the first and second floors and wouldn't move
either up or down. Experts were sent for and
| after long search. they found huge gar hsh
| wedged so firmly into one of tn valves Of the
| hydraulic pipes that it was no easy matter to
pull it out.
AN enterprising ranchman living on the Dor
der between Texas and New Mexico has been
engaged for several years in raising bufaloes.
| He secured a few of the Young animals and
| kept and bred them until he had herd mum
| bering nearly 800. which he sold lately for
| good round sum of money.
| MISSOURI GIRLS should take better care of the
| young men who go to see them. Lafayette
Dixon, while calling upon Miss Carley, at Her
| mitage, Mo-, one evening last week was shot IN
| the temple and instantly killed by a revolver
| which the young lady was e Aamining and which
| was accidentally discharged.
WILLIAM DEMPSEY, of Rondout, n. Y. received
| a quantity of smelts and pickerel which we're
frozen stiff. He put them in barrel of water
| to thaw out About three hours lster be went
to the barrel and found that the pickerel had
thawed back to hfe, but he could find no smelts.
The pckerel mad eaten them.
THE colored people employed about the Jail
at Birmingham, Ala, dozen or more in num-
ber all insist that every night at 1890 they see
the ghost of George Williams, who was hanged
there several weeks ago, and that at precisely
that minute he trap of the scaffod falls with
| great noise which can be heard all through the
Jail
\ PASSENGER TRAIN was delayed for an hour
near Morrow. O., for a singular cause In some
| way the whistle valve got open and would not
| shut, and a constant screeching filed the air.
| An attempt was made to run tine train with the
it was found necessary to stop until repairs
| could be made.
A SCHEME is under consideration in Mexico
for tunneng the volcano of Popocatapetl
through the wall of the crater, in order to reach
the immense sulphur deposits inside the noun
tain A narrow uage railroad will connect the
tunnel with the town of Amecameca. which. IN
| turn, will connect with the MorelOs road leading
| 10 the national capital.
A TENDERFooT who had been hired to herd
geese on Gen Montgomery ranch, near Chico.
Cal, became tired of ordinary methods of kill
ing the wild birds, and, satur8ting quantity of
| wheat with strychnine, scattered it about the
fields In the morning there were 200 dead
| geese lying about and their carcasSes com
| pletelv damned up Pine creek so that it over
flowed its banks
THE flag of the United States under which
Andrew Jackson and Winfield Scott fought in
the war of 1872 consisted of fifteen stripes and
sdfteen stars. The original idea was to add both
a star and a stripe for every new State; but in
| 1918 New York Congressman named Weudover
suggested that at the rate the United States
| were growing soon the talleSt pine tree in Maine
| would not make mast tail enough to hoist the
| flag upon.
| A GOOD STORY is told of Michigan citizen liv
ing near Detroit who had a baby IN his house
hold, which, being the first, was his pride ana
| 10Y 1t was taken to a photographers and it's
| picture taken; but when he father went to get it
there wa SOule llJtI' liStOn III tle gallery as
to the Identity of several baby pictures and to
save hi soul the happy father could not pick
out his own baby, They had to send for the
! mother to prove property.
AT Elmira, \. y, big cat that frequented
the Erie railroad shops was missed from his ac-
customed place last Monday. On Thursday the
| animal was found at Jersey City, somewhat re
duced in flesh, but still active. The cat had
crawled under the floor of a Pullman car that
was being repaired, the workmen had boarded
H. Ill, Ia a han,,
a palace car for three days. Its cries finally at
tracted the attention of the trainmen who re-
leased it.
A SPARROW was seen to commit suicide in
Detroit recently. A flock of the birds were
feeding on a car track, and when a car ap-
| reached all except one made haste TO get ont
of the way. The one sparrow sat still on the
rail His feathers were rough and his tail
dragged the ground He not feeding, and
he did not seem to care whether school kept or
not He appeared to be i'll and suffering On
Games car. closer aud closer He turned his
head disconsoaelF and looked at the approach
ing wheels, but did not move. In another
second the body of the poor bird was dashed
under the wheels and its lite's blood stained the
rails
The largest passenger engine ever construct
ed, says the Albany Argus, is now being built
in the Schenectady locomotive works for the
Michigan Central railroad and is calculated for
express and passenger purposes. 1t is a 10
| WDPel engine HdNlHE IJftt pairs OF coupled
driving wheels and 4-wheel truck The drivers
are 90 inches in diameter. The cylin-
der is 10 inches in diameter. with 24inch
stroke. The boiler is 50 inches in diam
eter and has 141 2-inch semisteel fiues The
fire box is feet long by 4236
inches wide, and like many re-
Gently built is placed above the frames which
gives increased width. The tank is carried
on two 4-wheel channel iron trucks The ca
pacity of the tank is 3 900 gallons. and the ten
der has capacity of eight TONS of coal.
THERE was a remarkable scene at an intended
marriage at the house of a Fredericton n B..
clergyman the other afternoon. At O'Clock a
young man, a weknown resident of CARDIGAN
and young lady belonging to Woodland went
| to the house of a clergyman residing on George,
street with the intention of getting married
The ceremony had commenced, and the rros-
pective b1de said she would accept the Young
man as her husband. The minister began to
draw picture of a marriage that had proved To
be unhappy. Without waiting to hear the
bright side of the picture she pushed her lovers
! hand away, declaring, II will not have Won -
The young man was thunderStruck but neither
| he nor the minister could induce her to change
her mind She seized her wraps and left the
house, and the marriage was indefinitely post
| poned.
MISS GERTIE JAFFE, of Oakland who was to
be married at noon last Saturday, aughingly
tried on her bridal veil, despite the protests of
superstitious friends Ten minutes later her
father came in with news that her lover, Solo.