The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE 1-yearold daughter of s. D. Duval OF
Owenton Ky, the other day completed the task
of eating one partridge day for thirty con-
secutive days Her father gave her S25.
A SCHOOL TEACHER, at Ferry, Mich, beat a
pupil with a club and then paraded around the
room with a revolver to keep the big boys under
subsection. The courts are to investigate his
| conduct.
FRENCH BEADLE, while attending funeral
officially, caught sight of hare in the cemetery,
and after chase killed it with his baton, and
was fined 30 francs for killing game with pro-
| hlbited arms"
| AN English company claims to be able to
make one ton of pure tin from thrty-three tons
of scraps and waste tin, and figures out profit
of $3.50 ton for the business, counting pure tin
at only $500 ton.
THE Russian sculptor Opekucshin has just
commenced statue to form part of monu-
ment to be erected in the Kremlin by the Car
| to his fathers memory. The complete cost is
| TO be at least 100000.
Two lumbermen of Lycomng county, Penn
sylvania, while driving TO their work in sleigh
the other night pursued for several miles
| by wolves, one Of which attempted to jump into
the sleigh but was shot.
A PORTLAND, Me- WOMAN has read the Bible
through eighty-five times; she is ~ years old
and began when she was T. She reads from
the same book with which she first began, and
has read it at least once every year.
PROBABLY one of the oldest meeting houses in
the world is the Bangund church in Norway, the
age of which is so years. The pagoda-like
structure is covered with shingles and an inch
or two of tar. Runic inscriptions, interesting
TO scholars, are on the building
THE old idea of importing bees into Australia,
to fertilize clover blossoms and so make psssibe
the growth of that grass on the continent is to
be carried out by way of Kentucky. Joseph
Mcdonnell. of Lexington Ky. who sells stock to
Australians will next summer try to fill an or
der for $4,000 worth of bumble-beeS to be sent
there.
Dom PEDRO H., of Brazil, is a student of He
brew, Greek and Sanscrit. When he in
Brussels short time ago he attended the Ser
vice of the synagogue on Friday evening and
Saturday morning, and stayed for two hours,
from the beginning to the end of the service.
He also had scroll of the law brought before
him and fuently read portion
FEMININE HAIRDREssING in Paris now strictly
follows a code according to the color of the
tresses Fair hair is to be turned back loosely
from The face, 50 as to form golden aureole;
dark locks must be parted down the center and
smoothly arranged; chestnut tresses may be
piled high on the head in Japanese styles, with
few curls Straying over the forehead.
AN ALBANY CLUB has curiosity in the shape
of the first Republican ticket ever cast for State
officers in that city. 1t voted at the fall
on black background, showing that the voters
of that day had fondneSs for the name BLACK
Republicans bestowed upon them by their op-
ponents. The ticket has been framed and pre-
sented to the Grant Club.
SOME experiments have been made on the
Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville road on
the use of natural gas on locomotives. The gas
under the natural high pressure, $50 to $50
pounds to the square inch is stored in cylndri-
cal steel reservoirs and carried on special car
Ia } a.Nft rn 10 Nal
natural gas, however much compress ed is enor~
mously more bulky than coal for an equal heat
ing power
A YOUNG WOMAN up in Redwood canon Col,
not long ago was walking through pasture
when bad bull ran believing at her. She flung
herself face down on the ground feignng death,
hoping that the brute would not touch her.
But he charged all the same, and thrusting his
horns into her new hustle. tore it from its
anchorage and cantered away with it on his
head while the young woman made fast time
for the fence.
TIE only son of a tradesman in Paris was
playing in his fathers room when he perceived
that the safe was open. In a spirit of boyish
fun he got into it. Presently the father came
into the room, and before leaving his days work
locked the safe, the child keeping silence the
while. Soon the little fellow was missed; the
police was called in and hue and cry raised
Next morning the father opened the safe to find
his son corpse.
IHE construction of railroad through the
mountains Of Kentucky has been stopped by a
man with rife AS is noted by a paper of that
State, there is probably no place on the Ameri-
can continent where this could occur but in the
mountains of Kentucky. A man named Asher
didn't want the road built through his land, and
when the wOrlImen began grading on his land
he appeared with a cooked rifle and threatened
death to the man that lifted a shovelful of
earth.
GEORGE ARNOLD OF Battle Creek Mich was
sentenced the other day to thirty days in the
county Jail for larceny. The court officers were
too busy to take Arnold to Marshall where the
jail is, and SO he said he d go alone They took
him at his word. gave him railroad ticket, and
started him off. He reached the Jail all right,
and reported to the Sheriff who was so snr
prised that he would not believe Arnold's story
until the court officers, by telegraph, assured
him that George ought to be locked up.
A BARBER in London has recently performed
rather clever feat. The shop was full of GUS
toners, and one of them was undergoing the
operation of shaving when it was noticed tina:
the barber had his eyes closed, though he still
kept passing the razor over the face of his
visitor. AT er some time, and when the opera
tion was finished, what was the surprise of those |
IN the shop to hear the barber exclaim: oh no.
not yet" at the same time opening his eyes 1t
then became evident that he was fast asleep |
and had shaved the man while in that condition. |
THERE is at the old iron works on Chucky
river, eight miles south of Jonesboro. Tenn, a |
ganier of much notoriety Something over |
twelve years ago he took ND with Dr. ] K |
White, who sells goods and runs a ferry and |
has been very intimate with him every since |
He goes to church with him ano remains on the |
outside till meeting is over and then returns |
with him. He also accompanies Dr. White to |
the post-otfice, a distance OF Il mile and half |
He seldom goes to the water alone but when |
DR.. White is ferrying he swims blythe side OF the |
boat. Three miles and a half is as far as he
ever was known to accompany him. He doesn't |
keep the company of any living thing save Dr.
White to whom he seems entirely devoted
c, o. D. KELLY, an octogenarian Mexican war
veteran now living in San Francisco has lust
heard that he is entitled to $40 acres Of good
land in Texas, as veteran of the two wars of
1885 and 1916 In a recent interview he gave
graphic details of his adventures as bearer of
the tidings of the Alamo massacre
TO New Orleans and New York. He
also claimed to be the sole survivor of Gen
sam Houston's spy company, that served In the
war OF 1875. This interview was coped into
several papers in Texas, and caught the eve of
John L. Groom, of Wharton Tex who wrote
and informed Kelly he was entitled to a section
OF land as veteran. Kelly is not well off, and
this windfall in his old age will be of great help.
The report Of the Fresh Air Society, of Port.
land Me, tell some pathetic incidents connect.
ed with the little city waits first visits to the
country, and other Incidents not pathetic. One