The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-28
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going to get married, but they are only rumors
He is now growing bald, though his hair and
mustache are still jet black.
ONE of the curiosities found in Maine is pine
tree near Hallowell that smokes. column or
vapor as large around as mans arm rises
from the very top of the tree and extends for
several feet into the air. The phenomenon is or
periodical occurrence and no one is able to ex-
plain it.
Robert Montgomery, who was recently al
judged insane at Washington, imagined that he
had just returned from a trip to the planet
Venus. where he established telephone com
munication with the earth. While on MS trip
he saw Clay, Calhoun, Webster and other fam
GUS men.
The great white marble palace which Wilbur
F. Storey of Chicago, built, and which is one of
the features of that city, is again offered for
sale. Although still unfinished, more than
5000, 900 has been spent on it, while II Is DOUBT
full If one-quarter of that amount will be offered
by purchaser.
Miss A. MARY F. ROBINSON, one of the most
active of the younger generation of English
ersemakers, is about to marry Prof. BARNES
teller, who has done her poems into French.
Evidently the translation was SO excellent that
the professor came to be regarded as the au-
thor's other self
PROF. LEHMAN of the Berlin university has
published three hitherto unknown essays by
Frederick the Great, entitled, Thoughts on the
Political State of Europe written in 1883;
''Rehec.ionS on the Financial Administration of
Prussia, written in l164, and Politics" writ
ten Ill the same year.
PETER THELAN, a Greeley county farmer, had
completed arrangements for moving his barn.
A summer evening breeze happened along while
he slept and carried the barn to within few
feet of the int nded site. team of horses
were hitched in the building, but their halters
broke and they had to walk.
slid into Dundy county, Nebraska, recently. 1t
carried chime of nineteen rattles. Oscar Cal
Than and Sam Forsythe dispatched it and sere-
naded the town with the bells. The reptile was
feet long at last accounts. hut the measure
ment promises to improve with age.
IT is estimated that 1850, coo fire-crackers
are exploded in this country each year. A box
of fire-crackers costs Csc. in China, each box
containing $500 crackers, neatly packed and
Subdivided, all ready for the retail trade. a
million of these boxes we're imported by the
trade for last season, and all were sold.
INDIANS in the United States last year cult
waited 221 265 acres of land, and raised 724 ,958
bushels of wheat, ,g1c bushels of corn, 512,-
1877 bushels of oats and barley 524, 90 bushels
of vegetables and 101 1928 tons of hay. They
also owned 356, 1874 horses and mules, III ,4Q7
head of cattle, 40,471 swine apd 1,1l7,%73 sheep.
NOTWITHSTANDING his years, George Bancroft,
the historian, is strong and robust, and he still
takes his daily rides on horseback, generally in
company with some friend. Age has improved
rather than detracted from his personal appear
| ance. His mir, which is snow-white, is thick
and abundant, and affords fine contrast to his
dark eyes and rudy complexion
BosToNs biggest Unitarian clergymen, Drs.
Hale and Bartol, has each a daughter who has
skill as a painter. Miss Hale has painted her
fathers portrait Miss Bartol has done
the same by her sire, and Miss Clarke
the daughter of another late famous Boston
Unitarian clergyman has just completed a
good likeness of her late illustrious father.
DoG-swIMMING RACES are the --latest" addi-
ton to Boston sports. Floats are anchored at
given distance off shore, and from these the
CANNES start, preceded by their handlers in
boats, who urge the animals to do their utmost
by holding tempting morsels of food at an I'M
reasonable distance. Recently the winner of a
half-mile contest for dogs, over 100 pounds, fin
ished in nine minutes.
THE LICK OBSERVATORY is soon to have a rival
in Colorado, placed at an elevation of 5000 feet
above sea level which is 1000 feet higher than
Mount Hamilton. H. B. Chamberlain of Den
yer provides the fund, and the main instrument
will be a twenty-tnch telescope. The new OBJ
servatery will be attached to the University of
Denver, and its director will be Prof. H. A.
Howe, formerly of Cincinnati
CATHERINE vErLAND, who last week celebrated
the 1O2d anniversary of her birth, has been re-
ceiyed as patient at Bellevue hospital, New
York The Tribune says that two years ago
she sustained an injury to her arm and right
side, and since then has gradually broken up.
Symptoms of mental alteration became more
and more marked, until at last it found ex-
pedient to remove her to a hospital"
SOUTH LONDON is TO have q new underground
railroad 1t is being built 60 feet under ground
Passengers are to reach 1t by hydraulic ele-
vators. to carry fifty persons at once The tun-
mel is being driven by the use of q steel shield,
slightly larger than the iron rings of which the
| tunnel is TO be constructed The steel shield
has a knife edge, and Is to be driven forward at
| the rate of IS feet day by hydraulic rams
| worked by hand
ALFRED ENGLISH broke the glass over fire
| alarm in London and sounded an alarm that
| soon had Capt. Shaw's forces on the ground
| His explanation was that he had heard voice
| from above saying that London Yves to be
| burned down that night, and he wantod to warn
| the city of its danger. Since then he heard a
| voice saving thirty days" and he can scarcely
resist the conviction that IL Is more powerful
voice than the other.
WHEN Dion Boucicault married Louise Thorn
dyke In Australia, his daughter Nina, left him to
| earn her own living, and she has done 80 ever
since. At the first performance of "a Legal
Wreck" at the New York Madison square thea
| ter the other night the heroine was PLAYED by
| MISS Nina BoucicaVlt. In a front seat sat Dion
Boucicaut and Mrs. Louise Thorndyke Bouci-
cault. They applauded the young actress
A RECENT EXAMINATION of certain particles
found In meteorite which fell in Siberia in 1885,
seems to prove them to be diamonds This may
assist in solving the vexed question of the orr
gin of the diamond, since il Is clear that they
do not originate, IS long supposed, in the tacol
unite or flexible sandstone in which they usu-
ally occur. The diamond bearing kiInberite of
South America resembles meteoric stone both
in structure and composition.
THE SPEED CONTEST of stenographers for the
Graham prizes at Lake George, N. Y, was
entered by but four writers-al from western
cities. Each contestant worked alone, his
competitors being excluded from the room,
for five successive minutes, and the same copy
was dictated to each man. The best average
per minute was made by Frederick Ireland 261
words; Isaac s. Dement, came second, 257 3-5,
followed by Edmund Daniel. 253, and A. z.
Nicholas 204.
A SCIENTIFIC sharp declares that the constant
jar of walking on city pavements can be largely
prevented by initiating nature. 1.-THE human
heel is covered with an elastic pad Now, as
to walk barefooted would be out of the ques-
ton. it is suggested that we replace the hard
bootheel with one made of elastic rubber. 1t
would cost but few cents n month to keep in
repair, and would have the additional advan-
tage of lesseuing the noise of hurryinR feet, and
preventing. to an extent, broken bones in the
winter"
AN Orange, Mass. man has set out to make
record for himself in rather unusual way.
His purpose is to see how quickly he can wheel
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