The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-10
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carried on according to this principle from a
single central station, tne compressed air being
| conveyed under the streets by means of small
pipes,
| GEORGE HAWKINS of Chicago is said to be one
OF the few men who ever made AMI sept any
great amount of money gambling He is now
a years old and has been a gambler all his life
he is understood to be worth 81 900. 000 and ne
has house on Michigan avenue that cost him
| S130,000.'
PREPARATIONS are being made in New Yorl
for pilgrimage to Rome and the Holy Land
the first ever undertaken by body of Catholics
in the United States. Nearly fifty persons have
| already Joined the movement and they vii
start on Feb y next, in order to reach Pales
| tine by Good Friday.
Two LADS met Maine man in Salt Lake City
when one of them said. This boy is my brother
and he is only one day younger than l am. "
| rOh, said the stranger, How can that be
| You must be twins. We'll, you're about halt
| right. said the lad. I'VE are not twins on ON
| mothers side, but we are twins on our fathers
| side"
| WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN of Albany. Ore, has q
tomato vine that was planted May 10 by him
| which has now attained the prodigious hight of
| nearly ID feet, and is still growing. The main
| vine Is nearly D inches in circumference, and
the branches cover an area of 20 feet. On the
| vine can now be seen ripe and green fruit and
| blooms.
MILTON BENNER of Trumbauersville Pa
while out cunning, saw fox squirrel mount a
high tree, and fired at it. 1t fell, followed by
blacksnake six feet long, which caught itself on
limb. He called his son and they killed the
snake by giving it another shot. The snake
was not seen until after the first shot, and was
In the act of devouring the squirrel when killed
FARMER digging ditch near Higgins lake.
Roscommon county, Mich, was made almost
| del rious when he unearthed an old iron kettle
nearly full of stun that looked like silver dol
! lars His joy was short lived, however, for the
| CONS proved to be counterfeits, and such bad
| ones that the fellow who made 'em had evidently
buried them because they couldn't be passed on
| anybody.
| CARRY penny in your vest pocket. II may
| save your life as one did that of NJ j. Hogan.
| Hogan is a Chicago contractor, and John Hop
klns, a discharged employe, shot at him. But
| the bullet struck the bronze head of the God
| deSs of Liberty on the coin and was DETECTED
| Beyond bruising the goddess face and by force
| OF the impact knocking the contractor down,
| no harm was done.
| Two of the most ingenious of modern story
| tellers, Brander Mathews and F. Anstey of
| Vice Versa fame, have combined to write an
| intern ational story. An American and an
| English boy are to be the principal characters,
and their national peculiarities to be pre-
sented In an amusing and, we may suspect,
| whimsical, light. The story is to appear in the
|
SARAH JANE McILRoY, 17-year-old girl of
| Kingston, Ont, two toughs assaulting a
citizen a month ago. Instead of faintlng, she
| laid her parcel on the sidewalk, screamed
| murder, grabbed one of the aSsailants by
the neck and hurled him aside, and gave the
victim an opportunity to handle the other
foe. When she modeStly told her tale in
court. she was given round after round of APP
plause.
THE Baptist congregation at Appleton, Wis,
has decided not to take up any collection
hereafter at the evening preaching service,
believing that 1.-THE grace of God should be
free for every one to partake of at least at
one meeting during the Sabbath" After
the decision was arrived at, a gentleman
stopped the pastor on the street. commended
the new order, and without solicitation handed
him $50.
Down in Maryland the other day when DR..
Fulton married Miss White the ring used was
made of gold button that was on the wedding
gown of the bridegrooms mother, and mar
veously tattered shoe was sent by an old darky
along with the information that it was one of
the last pair that 'marster," the brides father,
bought for him in slavery times and so he
wanted it flung after young mistress to insure
her good luck.
A SAN FRANCISCO grocery firm were in the
habit of putting the residuary cash at night in
a bag and deposting it in the oatmeal barrel.
The other day a small boy called early for oat-
meal and one of the firm served him. giving
him along with the meal about $40. Since
that time the San Francisco newspapers have
been printing advertisements, offering liberal
| reward TO the boy if he would call at the store
at last accounts the boy hadn't called.
MRS. BURTON HARRISON, the wife of jefferson
Davis former secretary, is of Virginia birth
Few literary women in New York are better
known and liked than She and few better I'M
derstand the fine art of entertaining. Mrs
Harrison first attracted attention as a writer on
nuhlicafiOn n told lpd
Golden Rods which was shortly followed by
a more ambitious work, Helen Troy" and then
by a third tale called bar Harbor bays
A CURIOUS breach OF promise suit was tried
at Baltimore on Wednesday. Miss Henrietta c.
Brandt and Frederick William Koenig, Jr, were
engaged, and after the invitations for their
marriage were out they discussed the question
of the ceremony. Miss Brandt desired brilliant
reception, Mr. Koenig objected. A quarrel en-
sued and the engagement was broken Not
long afterwai Koenig married another girl.
The jury has given Miss Brandt $500 damages.
AMONG the novel election bets in Hartford
Conn, the following made on Saturday:
Two bachelors, well known in political circles
have agreed-one to the effect that if Harrison
is elected he will get married If possible, within
six months after the election; the other that if
Cleveland is elected he will get MARI d, if pos
sible, within the stipulated time. The persons
who are acquainted with these parties are of
the opinion that the one who loses will be sure
to go back on his wager.
WHERE is the modern paradise? At Colts
island, Maine. Let a correspondent from that
place answer the question he claims that this
favored isle harbored neither trampS rats nor
mosquitoes. No rum is sold there, neither is
there any mud, He has nov,r seen an intoxi-
Gated person on the island, and but one house
was burned for over 100 years. The people are
not afraid of thieves ana seldom fasten their
doors at night, except in cases of gales of wind
And there Is not dog on the island.
THE medical men of Boston are Just now
puzzled over a strange case of Justification or
petrefacton that has come to their MOTTO.
This freak is man Of 90 years Of age, iona
than Bass by name, who, during the latter half
of his life, has gradually wasted from sound
flesh to bone, until his body is one rigid mass
with no more fexibility tnan q log of wood
While unable voluntarily TO make the least
move MIR. Bass intellect is keen and his diges-
ton unimpaired. A number OF well-known
physicians have made study of this remark
able case, and all admit that it surpasses any
thing in their experience
THERE are many curious copies of the Holy
Writ In the various collections OF books in the
world, but there is considerable doubt il there
is one as rare as that owned by DR.. Williams a
London physician. II is written entirely in
ort-hand, and is on exhibition in its owners
library on Clifton street TITS volume for the
amount of reading matter it contains, is re-
markedly small, and the characters are ex-
quistely written. 1t is said to have belonged to
an apprentice, who. suspicious Of James H.
intention regarding Professionalism, wrote the
whole for himself fearing that he might be de.
priyed Of his printed copy.