The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

drank ten glasses Of beer each in twenty even
minutes.
An OHIO MAN has been charged with making
love and becoming engaged to three sisters all
at once.
ALREADY those who are popularity supposed to
know everything are saying more people Will go
! TO Europe next summer than ever before
DEADwooD d. T., has an anti-fat society, the
members Of which pledge themselves to abstain
from eating anything that will add to their cor
| pulency.
A BIT of Chinese philosophy runs as follows
observe not the stranger in thy melon patch
| too closely Inattention is often the hlShest
form of civility."
In one of his earliest works Prof. Asa Gray re-
marks that he has examined, in pursuit of his
| botanical researches, more asterS and golden
rods than any other living person.
RESIDENTS Of Rapid City, D. T., have sent for
a lot of quail for the purpose of stocking that
region with the birds. 1t is believed they VIII
withstand the rgors of the winter.
AN Irish terrier belonging to George GaSkin,
| of Babbacombe Beach, England. watches for
mackerel from a high bluff near the hotel, and
banks and points when school appears.
AT the mouth of the Congo there is a remark
able submarine valley. Just at the mouth of
he river it is 425 feet deep, and it can be dis
| inctly traced for hundred miles out to sea.
FRANK BRIaGs, 70 years old, was drowned
Tuesday Jan 3, at Wincendon, Mass, and the
| body was found Wednesday evening by use OF
| an electric light which was put under water on
a pole.
A FARMER near Reedsville. Pa, recently killed
| two deer at one shot. His weapon was a single
| barreled rifle, with which he put ball through
| the neck of each deer at distance OF seventy
| five yards
| SCIENTISTS agree that blue eyes are the most
frequent in the Anglo-Saxon race, are the hand
soonest, and at the same time the most useful.
They say nothing, however, about the black
and-blue eyes.
HUNpREDs of English sparrows are being
dragged from their nests or roosts beneath the
cornices of the high buildings in Columbus, Ind,
by large flocks of Screech owls that carry them
away and devour them.
FOG is an excellent cosmetic. To it is due
much of the beauty of English compilations,
and those who live in hot and dry climates must
be douby careful to guard against their desic-
eating effect if they would escape the appear
ance of mummies.
A LOCOMOTIVE of a ballast train crossing
Horns bridge on the Pictou branch railway in
Canada, broke an axle. and the wheels dropped
either side to the bottom of the ravine, ninety
feet deep but the engine settled down and re
manned on the track.
A CONNECTICUT WOMAN has embroidered the
words and music of Home, Sweet Home" on
a linen sheet which is on the ''spare room bed.
Her guests have not decided whether the hostess
means to indicate that they must feel at home
or had better go home.
IT is REPORTED that Peter Herdic, who ten
years ago kept Wlamsport, Pa, humming by
the magnitude of his enterprises, and who failed
for large amounts, is on the high road of pros
perity again, and is planning great schemes
that will take thousands of dollars to execute.
FIVE PARIS FIREMEN on a lark captured a
countrymans wagon-load of hay on public
street, and, after turning somersaults and going
through other athletic exercises upon it, began
to throw the bundles of hay at one another and
| at others. The police arrived about this time
and ended the fun.
For the fifth year common crow has come
with the first snow to the home of correspon-
dent of the London Field. He will take piece
of fat from the hand There a heavy fall
of snow on Dec. II, and the bird then appeared
for the first time this season, received his break
fast, and departed. He returned again with
the first severe weather.
A MONTANA paper recently contained this re-
markable notice: Mr.. Charles johnson and
Miss Fanny West were married by Rev S. Hills
on Wednesday. So far no trouble has resulted
and those best Informed as to the situation say
there will be none The next day the editor
apologized and explained that part of an item
regarding an incipient strike had got in the
wrong place.
| SPEAKING with young lady, a gentleman
| mentioned that he had failed to keep abreast of
the scientific advance of the age. For in
stance he said Il don't know at all how the
incandescent electric light which is now used in
some buildings and in railway cars is procured"
"Oh. it very simple said the lady You
Just turn little button over the lamp and the
light appears at once.
ACCORDING to the provisions of the high
license bill, no liquor can be sold in places of
/ -.
the Academy of Music have just made the dis
coveTy and members of societies who give balls
very much excited Ii would be hard work
to get license for ball room, anyhow and
besides, no applications for liquor license I'M
der the new bill will be considered until next
March, and no license will be granted.
THE youngest of the thirty eight living widows
of revolutionary soldiers is Nancy A. Green of
Versailles. She draws pension. but then there
are those who question her right and for this
reason. She was born in 1918; the Revolutionary
war ended in 1888 If her husband was q years
old when he was mustered out, he So years
old when she was born; and if he married her
when she was is years old, he then man
OF a, But stranger things than that have hap
pened.
A PAPER made by Herr Ladewigg, Germany,
will resist the action of both fire and water
The manufacture is accomplished by mixing
twenty-five parts of asbestos fibre with from
twenty-five to thirty parts of aluminium sui
pddle, inOlSJeIlHg Ine mixture with chloride of
zinc and thoroughly washing il in water 1t is
then treated with solution of one part of roSin
soap in eight to ten parts of a solution of pure
aluminium suphate after which it is manufac-
tured into paper like ordinary pulp.
THE Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com
pany of Boston proposes to have a great time
next summer, when it will celebrate the two
hundred and ftftieth anniversary of its Organi-
cation a lot OF persons are expected to come
from England there will be trip to Washing
ton, to Mount Vernon, and TO Gettysburg: of
course there Will be a trip to New York and
sail around the waterways and up the Hudson To
West Point and then all will 20 to Boston TO
amuse themselves as best they may.
FRENCH DANDY went to photographer to
get his picture taken, When the job was done
he refused to pay, on the ground that the pic
ture did not look like him, and he left the estab
lishment. Next morning he PASSED by the
place and saw his picture hanging in tie show.
case, and under it were the startling words i'm
big letters: The biggest fool in the whole
town He rushed into the store and abused
the photographer But, my dear sir said
the latter ''since the picture doesn't resemble
you. what in the world are you complaining
abOutG'
A PHILADELPHIA GROCER advertised to give
every thirteenth customer the amount of his
purchase free. The plan seemed success at
first and business thrived, but one day the bows
put up job on him. Twelve of them walked
into the store, and each made a trifling mr.
chase the whole bill for the dozen was less