The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-05
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KANSAS WEATHER PROPHET is already out
with his predictions for 1882 He believes that
the summer in the northern states will be hot,
but that the mean temperature for the whole
year will be below the normal
THREE twelve-pound cannon balls and one
four FOUNDER were found in Rutland, Vt. by
workman engaged in excavating for the
foundation of new mill They are supposed
to be relics of the Burgoyne campaign in IN.
The PARIS project of police has bought a
wooden horse, harnessed, and all candidates for
cabmen must show that they know how to
harness and unharness it, and pass an examina-
| ton on whatever other tests the project may
impose.
Boston WOMAN received an electric shock
by striking her umbrella against the iron frame
of an awning. The current was impaired to
the frame by stream of water running over a
light wire and down the outside of water con
ductor to the awning.
CHICKEN OWNERS In Poughkeepsie, n V, are
excited over the wholesale slaughter of their
fowl by two mysterious animals Not night
passes without numerous chickens being killed.
| The depredatorS are believed to be ferrets, and
armed men, at last accounts, were searching
| for them.
COMMISSIONER MILLER reports that the Ameri.
can people consumed more than 70, 900, 900 gal
Ions of whisky last year. beside "a $50 81 barrels
of beer. There is no cause for the people to be
alarmed for fear the supply will not hold out,
| for there are over $4,000, 900 gallons of whisky
| on hand at present in the various warehouses
| throughout the country.
IT may interest operatives in our cotton mills
| to learn that the workers in the Indian mills of
| the Bombay presidency work from daybreak to
| sunset. nearly fourteen hours, in the summer
| time. with twenty minutes to half an hour for
| meals, and only free Sunday about once
| mouth, they being required to clean the ma
| chimes on the other Sundays
SAMUEL w. Down, who recently died in Madi-
son, Conn.,, at the age of 80, was one of family
| of five who combined ages were $50 years Some
| yearsaago the family moved from the old Dowd
| homestead to new house, and they took with
them fire from the old fireplace, transferred it
| to the new, and it has never been allowed to go
| out.
Two young Englishmen who recently passed
| through Chicago on their way around the world
informed a reporter that they have been max
| ing collection of samples of the water of the
| great rivers of the world. The samples are bot
tied as soon as collected, ami the bottles duly
| labeled, are sent to their homes in England by
| express.
PLAYING at Jack Ripper is recognized as a
new British game. The receipt is: First get
drunk, backen your face and put on a woman S
SKIRT, then shout out in some public place that
| you nave done for woman in Whitechapel
and Will rip up anyone else. Four London play
| ers recently engaged in this game in a single
| day, with the result Of adding four more to the
Jail list.
| AN expert has computed some statistics of
| the lyric stage in the chief cities of Europe
with the conclusion that opera is going to the
| dogs There is no good singer in Berlin At
Dresden, Malten is the only good one The
saxon chorus singers are detestable. Vienna
| provides nobody worth mentioning. and things
| are worse in Italy than anywhere for the great
| operas cannot be given there for lack of
| singers.
SEVEN MILES from Yankton, ..Dak, is farm
| ing community where several young home mis-
sionaries labored off and on, aud finally gave it
| up as bad job. Father" Nichols, Congre-
| gatlonal clergyman over 70 years old went out
there year ago. and the result of his work
was that few weeks ago q neat brick chanel
entirely paid for, was dedicated, and he was in
stalled pastor over a congregation of twenty
five church members, not one of them of Con
gregatlonal antecedents.
A DIFFICULT PROBLEM is presented to French
women desiring to conform to the fashion of
wearing flowers by the way in which certain
flowers have become attached to political ideas
For example, the violet is the symbol of the
Bonapartlsts Boulanger claims the carnation
The corn flower is recognized as German, and
the rose has been appropriated by the
Orleanists. The suggestion is made that neu-
trality can be indicated only by bouquet of
all the flowers or none at ALL
AN EXCITING SCENE occurred in a school at
Stockport, England. Screams were heard in a
CltoS IODul 10 WHICH some Clll0ren had been
sent, and on the master going to ascertain the
cause, he found a snake yard long crawling
along the floor The reptile was Immediately
secured and placed in box A coniurer had
visited the school a fortnight before and while
IN the ante room preparing for the trick of
turning q rod into a serpent. the apparatus was
disturbed and the snake escaped.
A REMARKABLE STORY is told by the Beatri, q
(Nebraska) Democrat of the killing of 30 pigs
by turtle F. NJ. Pethoud who resides some
H.. IN
missed his young pigs. one or two going each
day thorough search threw no light upon
| their mysterious disappearance until one day
the hired hand saw the hogs considerably dis
| turbed by something, and hearing a young pig
| squeal he rushed down to the edge of the creek
and there saw large turtle with a young pig
in his mouth. The turtle had killed the pig and
was eatlnT II. The man killed the turtle, and
| 1t measured nearly two feet across the back
| and had head as large as his two hands
| THE women suifragists of Boston have been
| critciSing Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell severely
| of late She cannot vote on the school question
| as other women may. because she will not use
| her husbands NAME and her sister suffragists
| call her stubborn. But Lucy stands by her prin
| cpe, which is that a womans name should be
her own, married or single, and that she should
not be required by law TO take her husbands
| name if she does not desire it. Miss Lucy Stone
married Mr.. Henry Blackwell many years ago
and the couple have daughter who calls her
self Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. Her mother
| the young girl very sensbly added her fathers
name to her mothers.
From the Detroit Free Press: A lady rushed
breathlessy into the postofflce and I'D to the
stamp window, Have you a sale of stamps
to-day she asked excitedly. I'VE have
| sale Of stamps every day in the
week. and for one hour on Sunday
answered the stamp man, pushing his hat
| back little further on his head. But heard
| you had special sale to-day, and that | could
buy them at the rate of 10 two-cent stamps for
| two cents and quarter" 80 YOU can
ma am " said the stamp man. calmly. you
can always buy ID two-cent stamps for two
cents and quarter-of a dollar"' She gave
him n half-dazed look, turned and ran out of
the postoffice The stamp man feels sure that
| IL was put-up job by her husband, and that
she hurried home to get even.
New JERSEY FARMER says the New York
Tribune, brought TO a friend who is a commits
sion merchant in Reade street, one day last
week, white sweet potato which the enter
prisng Jerseyman had grown in the rich, black
soil OF the Hackensack bottom. 1t was nothing
more nor less than the "buneato" or white yam
of Cuba, which the farmer wished to demon
strate to his neighbors could be grown on Jer-
sey soil, and he did so. Now he predicts that in
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