The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| CAPT. MARX GRIFFIN, of Shelter Island. N Y,
while cruising just east of Fire Island, a few
days ago overlook school of fish and sue
ceeded in capturing 100000.
| A CHICAGO NEWSPAPER makes the statement
that the net profits of The Henrietta" this
| year have amounted to Si25 900. of which Rob
| son and Crane will receive 30 per cent
! BURTON O., man sllspecting that one of his
| fowls had stolen her nest, watched her and found
that she had appropriated a hollow apple tree
and built nest ten feet from the ground
ALEXANDER RosToFF is the name of a labor
ing man in Bridgeport, Conn. who can speak
Russian, his native tongue, and German, dun
! gsrlan, Hebrew, Latin, English and Italian
NUMBER OF society girls III Mobile recently
organized themselves into q minstrel troupe,
| BACKED their facss donned the professional
wigs and gave q performance for the benefit OF
| a charitable society.
i JOHN J. CARMAN, merchant of Bay Shore,
i. L. is the proud possessor OF a hen which, 1t
is alleged has laid an egg nine inches long
| Half the width was well proportional, while the
rest tapered to point like handle.
| DAKOTA has the latest wonderful old couple
Mr., and Mrs. Salisbury, who are respectively
| 30 and 81 years old-who have lived in wedock
/ for seventy seven of them and are to-day hale
| and happy in their far Western home.
|
presidential years, immigration shows an in
crease over 1887 the comparative figures being
| for the ten months ended May l, last year and
| this, 1874, 06S in 1887, and BIZ, 900 in 1888.
A CERTAIN CAR No. 145, of an Indianapolis
| street railway company, has had so many per
sons killed or wounded in, or by it, that the
drivers have signed petition asking to have it
taken off and either demolished or generously
presented to some other company.
In the old church of San Miguel, in Sante Fe,
is bell that was cast in Spain in the year 1856.
It was broughtto Mexico by Cortez, and after
the fall of MohteZuma Indian. slaves carried 1t
to Santa Ee. Three of tho altar pieces In the
the ancient church are more than 400 years old.
TEN MEN working at draining a small lake
near Jeffersonville, Ind, have been driven from
their quarters, in an old brick house, by an
alleged ghost For a number of nights the
noise Of people walking over floors grooming,
clanking. sudden flashes of light, made sleep
impossible. An effort to find the causes failed.
THE finest private collection of old almanacs
in America is said to be owned by one Of the
Justices of the Supreme Court of the United
States. The rareSt almanac in the country
probably is one published by William Bradford
in 1886 1t is in the collection of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, and is valued at $3.50.
A LAW has been passed in Waldeck, Germany.
forbidding the granting of a marriage license
to a person addicted to the liquor habit The
Austrian Government has introduced into the
Rechsrath strong measure for the prevention
of drunkenness. The reason alleged is the
alarming deterioration in the physique of young
men enrolled for military service
A FARMER in the neighborhood of Corinth,
Me- having been annoyed by a number of
hawks and crows which made their headquart-
ers in one of his trees set trap on the end of
long pole which he fastened to the tree in such
a manner that the trap was little higher than
| the topmost branch. The result at last reports,
was the capture of nine hawks, three owls and
one crow.
THE five stones erected to mark mason and
Dixon's line" between Maryland and Pennsyl-
yania have lust had their annual visitation by
commissioners, who report one in good condi-
ton one lost. one broken. one diSlodged by
mining operations, and the fifth, which bears on
one side the arms of Pennsylvania, on the other
| those of Lord Baltimore, badly damaged by
| vandal relic hunters
PARTY of fishermen had great luck fishing
in the Penobscot river recently. One of their
number says; I'VE caught eighteen salmon
within twenty-four hours, weighing about 229
pounds. Four or five fish hooked at once, with
others jumping for me-a sight never witnessed
on afishing ground beforel' The sportsmen are
bowling with joy kilograms are hailing the
fishermen even from Chicago. -or
MRS JOHN FLYNN's 2-year-old son went into
the house at Cadillac Mich, last Sunday to
| bring some article to his mother. The boy had
| been gone but few minutes when scream
told his mother that something was wrong.
| She fastened around to the house to look after
| the boy and met him coming toward her as
| sunny as ever, though he had fallen to the
ground from second story window.
A CITIZEN of Chicago with time to spare has
carefully studied the reports of the many mis-
sionary societies, and from them computed
what 1t costs in dollars and cents to convert in
dividuals to Christianity. According to his
| figures it sometimes costs as much as 1894 %
| to rescue an Illinois sinner. To make AIetho-
| dist of him costs S25. Baptist $50, a CoDgre-
gationalist S45, a Presbyterian $50, while it
| costs as high as $500 TO get him into the Episco
pal Church, and $3.50 into the Catholic Church.
In Africa it costs S14 to convert in Italy S42 in
| Spain S55 in the East Indies $50. A Japanese
costs $50, Chinese 500, and every Christian
| lied Jew costs S2,6O0.
THE latest thing in London clubs is the
| Gardenias, which has just blossomed out 1t is
| organized simply for the purpose of having a
good time, and is to consist only of men who
care about nothing much else. Ladies are to be
| admitted into the club under certain restric-
tionS, and musical attractions are to be a great
| feature. One such already announced is the
| engagement of VieDnese band of Hungarian
| girls, carefully chosen for their good looks to
| be dressed IN smart cavalry uniforms including
boots and breeches. They will play while the
| GardeniaS are eating Tomorrow night the
| GardeniaS will have their first dance as soon as
the clock strikes Monday morning.
| PASSENGERS on the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
road in Kentucky were treated to q novel race
between an express train and a 3-year-old colt
! The colt stepped on the track in front of the
engine, and when the train started the colt
started also, keeping some distance in front of
| the engine until large trestle was reached AZ
! the next stopping place, a distance Of "a miles
| from where the race began. The colt started
| over the trestle but fell down, and the race
| came to an end. The engine stopped ropA
was attached to the colt, and it was removed
| from the track. In the race, which was made
| in the short time of II minutes the colt iunlped
| several c0Wgaps, crossed numerous small
| treStles and ran around one or two BRIDES
| And the strange part of IL is that the colt was
| entirely unhurt and able to be used for blowing
| the next day.
OF GEN. JOE JOHNSTON as he now appears a
Washington correspondent says: "He is begin
| ming to look old 1t is time, for he was born in
1905 He goes to his office regularly and works
steadily, but cannot carry quite the load of re.
| sponsibility younger man would take on Cen
| Johnson's grandfather was born in Scotland lob
years before his own birth. In 1727 the grand
| father came to America TO settle iu Virginia
Johnston's father was born when this first
settler was 3d. and Johnston when his father
was 80. So Joe Johnston S father served in tho,
revolution running away to enlist in Light
Horse Harry Lees Legion at the age Of II, and
received the thanks of the General before the
whole army for his bravery at the assault OF
Fort Watson. In 1929 Joe Johnston aud Robert
n Le graduated together from West Point