The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A MAN in Blossburg. Pa owns dogs, cats,
S canary birds ? white mice and amonkey, and
! still he is poor
| TEN CENTS an acre was all a farm OF 954 acres
| brought recently in Greene county, Alabama
when sold under mortgage.
MRS. SARAH P. BARTLETT. Of Hope, Me-, is
| 30 years old and has just taken her first spoon
FIJI of medicine. she has decided not to be a
centenaTian
An OMAHA PAPER alluded TO a number of
prominent and influential residents of the city
| as cid timers but the types got it "old ter
riers, and the editor had to apologize.
A LARGE COPPER MEDAL. minted in King
Georges time, and evidently worn by some
British soldier in the Revolution, ploughed
| up recently in a field near Monroe, n. c..
Oh primrose Day" this year all Lord
Beaconsfeld's novels, with the exception of
Lothian ana "Endymion, are out of copy
right. and it is expected that England will be
hooded with cheap editions.
THE first edition of Burtons Anatomy Of
Melancholy sold for .ee5 los. at a book sale in
Milton's "Lycdas" R84 Paradise Lost" SIS
and "Gulliyer's Travels" .e15 los.
A PERRY COUNTY tPA.) MAN who went to Ne
braska, wrote back to q friend as follows;
Offer premium at your county fair next fall
for the biggest fool in the county, and will try
to be there" He doesn't fancy billiards.
A DETROIT MAN bought what purported to be
tub of butter, but a test proved that it was
oleomargarne. He was mad when the fact that
he had been cheated dawned upon him, but he
raved and Swore when he found stone that
weighed twelve pounds concealed in the middle
Of the cleo.
A BLACK-AND-TAN TERRIER with a broken leg
forced itself on the attention of the house sur
geon In the infirmary at Bolton, Eng recently,
and made him at last understand what was the
matter. While the surgeon was setting the leg
the dog licked his hand and afterward would
not leave and is installed as one of the in-pa
TENTS.
LETTERS writtenIby Napoleon and by various
Kings of France and autographs of almost every
great man in French literature are to be SOLD in
Paris. There is an interesting letter by Sir
Walter Scott, written in 1914, and one from the
Duke of Wellington 1817) about an incognito
journey through the North of France, which
the King of Prussia was then about to under
take.
A CITIZEN of Springfield, Mo-, has horse that
be wants to SELL The other day the animal
kicked down partition in the stable got out
into the floor and kicked q $3.50 buggy to
smithereens, turned around and kicked eight
barrels of oats to pieces scattering the contents
over the floor. kicked his way into another part
or the building and thence out of doors, and
when discovered was doing his best to demolish
the gate of the stable yard.
A VERY UNIQUE ELECTION was held in MERGERS
burg, Pa, the other day. The question to be
decided was whether the cows of the village
were to be allowed to run at large in the streets
during the coming year or seek pasture else
where. By special act of the Legislature the
citizens of That place are empowered at every
spring election to vote upon the question,
and the ballots must be marked For the Cow"
and Against the Cow" There was a majority
of twelve votes against the COW.
AT WARREN, PA q man saw a rat in the
street and gave chase. In his eagerness to cap
ture the rodent he paid no attention to the road
he was travelling, and presently both the pur-
bank into the river. The cold water seemed to
the rat. and at once turned his attention to get
assistance aud at last succeeded in pulling him
The rat escaped
A WOMAN purchased in the town of Katrowitz
an alarm clock with other things and intended
to smuggle them into Poland. She told the
matchmaker of her intentions, and asked hirl
TO have his wife fasten it to her hustle under
her dress. The matchmaker for fun set the
alarm to so off at the time the train would land
at the frontier. The woman, arriving at the
frontier, passed the customs easily; but Just as
she was again stepping into the railway car
riage an awful noise burst forth. She was made
dIsmount amid roars of laughter to disrobe,
and TO pay the fine for smuggling.