The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

hours.
THE New York Chamber of Commerce is
the most prosperous institution of the kind
in the United States. 1t has now nearly 1000
| members.
| SAN FRANCISCO is TO have crematory. A
company has been formed, which owns a valu-
| able lot, and next month work will be begun
! upon the furnace and chapel.
| SWISS watch manufacturer has Just in
vented a watch for the blind, on the dial of
which the hours are indicated by twelve pro-
| jecting pegs, one of which sinks every hour
DANBURY. Conn, thinks that it has something
valuable in the Indian arrow and spearhead
quarry recently discovered near there. Over
| 100 heads in perfect preservation have been
| found, and apparently there are hundreds
| more.
| HARMONY, Me-. is excited over the report that
! Chesley Bean, who quit Harmony forty seven
| years ago, and has never been heard of since
| had recently died in Texas, leaving Sl1,0O0,000
worth Of property His sister and two nephews
are the only heirs known.
| PRESIDENT ADAMS, of Cornell University, and
President Hyde, of Bowdoin College, are said to
| be the only two college presidents who play
tennis. Maine folks claim that President Hyde
| is the better player. match to decide the
question would be very interesting.
| A LETTER received OF the Baltimore and Ohio
| Railroad Offices at Baltimore the other day,
and referred to the passenger department, was
1 from man out in Wyoming Territory. He
| wrote TO say that some years ago he stole rides
| on the road to get west, and that he has now
| experienced a change of heart, and wants the
company to send him bill for the stolen travel.
CATFISH weighing 90 pounds was caught on
trot line in the Marias DIES Cygne, near Rich
| Hill, Mo, the other day, by a young man
| named Nichols, living at the mines. Besides
| the hook on which his fishshiD was at last cap
| tured, five other hooks with remnants of lines
attached were found in various parts of his
| mouth, showing that he had heretofore tackled
| number of lines of insufficient strength to
| Withstand the power of his ''wiggle."
| LIEUT.. w SMYrH, of the British Royal Navy,
while on a journey through South America,
saw at Pachiza, on the river Huayabamba in
| Peru, gigantic SPIDERS web suspended from
| the trees. 1t was 25 feet in height and near 30
| feet in length. The threads were very strong,
| and II mad the empty slOughS of thousands of
insects hanging on it, 1t appeared to be the
| habitation of great number of spiders of
larger size than we ever see in this country.
A CHICAGO WOMAN arising rather later than
| usual one morning rushed to the breakfast
| table. Halfway through the repast she was
seized with the horrifying notion that she had
| swallowed her false teeth. She screamed, in
sisted that she could feel them lodged in her
| throat, and was carried fainting to her bed In
placing her upon it the pillow was disarranged,
| and there beneath it were the missing teeth,
|
A PECULIAR CASE of spontaneous combustion
| happened recently in Victoria, B. C. mer-
| chant named Gordon was in his Office one night
| when flame broke out in another part of the
| premises He rushed over to the place and
| found that an ordinary vulcanized rubber ring,
| which had been brought up from the cellar
| during the day and placed on an empty cracker
| box, had taken fire. 1t was quite alone, and the
| only tenable theory of the combustion was that
| 1t was spontaneous
THE Courier, of Hickman, KY, which ought
to know what it's talking about, has a lively
description of a Hickman girl chewing gum.
| 1t says: she keeps time to the music at the
| theatre; chewing hard and swapping her laws
| together when the villain is in sight, chewing
softly when the hero is on, but stops short at all
| love scenes, and gently poiseS the Black Jack
| and Tutti Frutti on her finger tips, but when
the orchestra strikes up it is thrown back into
the cavity, and gee whiz how her jaws fly"
MARION ERNsHwILLER and Frank Hedge, of
Montpelier, Ind, while hunting for jacksnipe
| in swampy place near town, were Mortified at
the sight OF INDUSTRIOUS blue racer coming for
them. Both OF them had double barrel Shot
guns, but had no thought of them as they ran
for dear life, until the retreat was about to be
cut off by the high fence of the fair grounds,
when Hedge brought his gun to his shoulder and
shot the snake, which was coming with head up
only few yards away. The blue racer meas
ured nearly seven feet.
In the Founders Day procession in New
| Haven, one of the "Lancasterian school bows"
led a yellow pony. Few knew the significance
| of the pony until it was explained that Mr.
| Lowell the old SchoolmaSter used to discinline
| his pupils by laying them out, face downward
on the yellow school desks, and applying raw
, hide where it would do the most good. This he
called riding the yellow pony" 1t is said that
the man who led the pony in the procession de-
served the honor, for he once, when a boy, rode
! the yellow pony twenty four times in one day.
THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER of Seymour, Conn,
says that citizen of that place recently drove
out TO Zoar Bridge to see the ice heaps still re-
manning. At the toll gate was a young woman
with strong attractions for a white horse" as
the editor puts it, and the citizen thought he
might safely quiz her a bit. She answered all
his questions demurely and with no apparent
thought of malice; but when, having had his
little joke, he asked her what it cost to go over
the bridge, the answer came back: IF YOU
could read the sign, you'd see for Yourself
Hog, one cent; jackass, two. Give us two
centsm
WARREN B. JOHNSON, Of Webster, Mass.
thinks that he can make an interesting book by
writing an account of his journey across the
continent On June 1, 1882, being then 81 years
old, he started for Webster from Eureka CITY
Cal, with horse, a wagon load of provisions
and cow. In his journey of 5000 miles he
took his time, stopping wherever the grandeur
OF the Rockies or the beauties of the scenery
attracted, sometimes staying for ten days in
one camp Two years later on June IA 1884
he reached his New England home, having seen
considerably more of this country than most
men who have gone over the same ground
SENATOR QUAY, of Pennsylvania, is the TWEEN
ty-sixth Senator to discard the time-honored.
square-seated, leather-covered regulation chair
of the Senate. Twenty-six of the Senators now
use revolving lean-back chairs, but hardly any
two Of them are of the same pattern Some
have cane seats. some have cushions and some
have perforated wood Each Senator as he
concludes to abandon the old chair goes to n
furniture store and picks out what pleases his
fancy. This accounts for the assortment SEN
ator DAVID DAVIS, of Illinois, was the one who
led the innovation and first substituted n mora
modern seat for the ancient style In his case
1t was matter of necessity. None of the old
chairs were wide enough, and he had a cane
seat made according to his measure The SEN
ators who have followed him, and adopted new
styles, plead comfort as the excuse for depart
ing from the old
TENS OF THOUSANDS Of Londoners," writes
the London correspondent Of the Manchester
Guardian, will breathe more freely for a GER
tain time every day of their lives if Sir EDWARD
Watkin succeeds in the long experiments which
In conjunction with an electricity firm he Is |
carrying out for the working of the Under |
ground railway engines The railway II is |
understood, is ready to agree Mt once with this |
ilrm II IL can be shown that the adapat of the
engines to electric force will not be more costly
than the method now in use: and sharp peonie |
IN the city who have an eve to the denressnd |
condition of the shares of the two underground |
companies are looking on apparently with a |