The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ADRIAN, MICH, proposes to have "hatchet
concert soon. The participants ill all wear
clothes of the George Washington period and
try to instill love Of veracity, if possible, in
the town.
CHE lists tell us that a ton of coal contains
300 pounds of sugar. One would think by
the boosts that have been given TO the price of
coal lately that somebody had discovered that
every ton Of it contains 200 pounds of diamonds.
A REPORT has come from San Marcial, n. NJ,
to the effect that serpent, 100 feet long and two
feet thick, inhabits the crater of an extinct vol
| cano the town. The mescal that they
drink down in that country is awful stuff to get
/ in its work on man.
THE PISTOL with which Aaron Burr killed
Alexander Hamilton, at Weehauken n. Y, July
H. 1904 is now in possession of the editor of the
| RipOn wis., Commonwealth 1t is very old
fashioned, single barreled of French manufac-
| ture and more than foot long.
A Sioux CITY, IA, WOMAN entered the Western
| Union telegraph Office the other day and draw
ing forth a bird cage containing live canary,
exclaimed: Il want this sent to Kansas CITY at
| once" There has been suspicion all along
that prohibition doesn't prohibit in Sioux City
THE Dutch inhabitants of Little Chute, Wis.,
keep up the old hall and practice of dancing for
two days before Ash Wednesday. Usually all
| of the five or six halls in the town are filled
with merry dancers throughout both days.
| dancing
| morning.
WHEN an unusually cold day occurs in Parma,
Italy, the readers of local paper are left with
out their usual news. A recent issue announced
| editorially that lin consequence of the extreme
| cold the paper will not appear tomorrow. In
case important news should be received from
MaSsowah we shall issue an extra.
| jim WALDRoN, a farmer of Arcadia, ILL.,, has
| long observed with regret that wild cat famine
was threatening the country, He has, there
| fore. devoted himself to the industry OF raising
wild cats on large scale, and Possesses at
| present a cage forty feet long flied with these
| innocent and playful little creatures
MEDICINE can now be chucked into man by
| electricity whether he wants TO take it or not.
| The electrodes of battery are saturated with
the medicine and applied locally to the skin, and
| the medicine is absorbed What Is needed next
| is the discovery of a way of utilizing electricity
| to compel a mau TO be honest and pay his debts.
A NEGRO BOY in Independence, Tex, stole
| gun and was arrested His captOrs tried to
scare him by telling him that he would surely
| be hanged and they were so successful that the
| boy broke away from them and fled in terror.
| He hid under a haystacl and stayed there all
| night freezing his feet so severely that both had
| to be amputated
THE Car of Russia is so apprehensively sensi-
| tive that the site of an exclamation point makes
| him think of bomb. That is the real reason, it
| is said, why Russian law forbids the use of
| exclamation points in the newspapers. If the
Nihilists really want to scare their Car to death
| they might induce George Francis Train to
write MIN a brief ode That would do the bust
| ness.
THE old clock of st. Quentin's, in Mayence
has struck the hour correctly for five centuries
without being repaired 1t failed for the first
| time few weeks ago, but it is said, requires
but little fixing to render it serviceabe for five
centuries more. The people of those olden
| times didn't know much about some things,
perhaps, but they did know how to make
clocks.
PERSONS who suffer from chilblains will
doubtless be glad to know that W. o. Huckett.
| of Kansas City, has discovered sure cure. 1t
consists of prcking the bottom of the feet with
a needle until considerable blood runs out, the
amount depending on the size of the feet To
the initiated it would seem as if the sensation
| might be almost as pleasant as that of the chill
| blains
| SPANISH SUBJECTS are sometimes a little slow
but they mean well. The King of Spain has
| finally been presented by a Havana merchant
with 10000 choice cigars. The king must be
about year old now, and his having to go all
| this time without his post-lacteal cheroot has
doubtless caused him often to pillow his head in
despair on the maternal breast. All is serene
| now, however.
THOUSANDS OF BLIND CROWS were seen in the
woods and fields near Chattanooga recently,
and people had no difficulty in approaching and
Selling them. No one knows what caused their
blindness. A similar phenomenon was observed
there three years ago, when many blind
crows were seen around the city that the ground
was black with them, and thousands of them
died of starvation.
SOME MONTHS AGO a cat strayed in at the resi-
dence of Sam Hodges, of New Richmond, O.
The children took care of it and it became quite
a pet. This cat has curious freak. 1t has
been with the children great deal when they
were playing on the piano, and when one of
| them leaves the piano stool the cat will jump
up, sit on its hind feet and strike the keys Of
the piano with its fore paws.
LAS fine as a fiddle" means something to Mr..
NJ. ~ Hinant, of Morgantown, KY. He has a
violin made a. Bonn on the Rhine in 1895 1t is
still in good state of preservation and is fine
specimen of superior workmanship. On the
back is a beautiful picture of Bonn on the
Rhine, the bright rich coloring of which is pro-
duced by different colored wood sllillfuly
worked in, forming complete resemblance Of
fine painting.
A CAMDEN burglar entered house and pro-
ceeded to select such valuable articles as took
his fancy. Unfortunately for him, however, he
took an alarm clock, which went off with ire
mendous noise Just as he was about to take
his departure. The owner of the property was
awakened, grappled with the burglar, shouted
for help and the consequence was that the en-
terprising thief was safely lodged in the police
station few minutes later.
THE champion absent-minded man lives in
Portland, Me. His wife advised him to go to
his room to make some changes in his toilet,
about O'Clock the other night, as she expected
young ladys' whist party to meet with her
that evening He went but forgot his errand
and when his wife went to look for him, half
hour later she found him sound asleep From
force of habit when he got to his room, he
wound his watch, hung it in the usual place
disrobed and went to bed.
A LONDON SOCIETY JOURNAL publishes the fol-
lowing story of "a certain British peer who
suffers from kleptomania, " and whose name, as
well as his distressing malady is kept carefully
covered up. The other day bis Lordshp pur-
Joined his Countess false teeth and hid them
in his boot. His valet who empties the boot
every night and restores stolen property
thought the teeth belonged to another lady and
sent them to her with a politely worded note
which he had always used for similar emergen-
cies. 1t was not till the Countess had inquired
for her teeth, and the messenger was kicked bv
the other lady's husband, that things were put
right.
IT has been supposed that bustles, besides be-
ing conformity to the dictates of tyrannical
fashion, served a useful purpose, namely, in
breaking the force of the fall whenever the
wearer had the misfortune to slip upon an icy
walk. 1t seems, however, that they do not,
possibly because they are not worn low enough
A Rockford, Qll) young lady sat down on a
slippery tagstone tine other day, and the verte-
brae of the spinal column were driven together
Wit nah fs.Nr FhnW u.