The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! THE City Council Of Leavenworth, Kan, has
passed an ordinance raising the license for prac-
ticing Christian science, or faith cure, to $500.
! President AND Mrs. CLEVELAND have been
'honored" in the Sank county wis., poor house
| by comforting the names Grover and
| Frances on twins recently born of an inmate
of the institution.
! A VALUABLE BULLDoG-that is, a bulldog that
was once valuable-tred to jump through a
swiftly revolving iy-wheel in-Racine the other
| day and partially succeeded part of him
| got through and the other parts went off in
| different directions.
| WILLIAM CRANK is a saloon keeper in Eagle,
| Wis His wife has demonstrated so success
| fully her fitness to bear his name that he had
| to get divorce and have her arrested and put
| under bonds to keep the peace. She developed
| an inclination to get full and use him for tar
! get.
A FUNERAL at Frogmore La. was recently
held lin pursuance" of nicely printed invita-
| tons which read: There will be a large flu
neral at Frogmore on Tuesday neXt-that of the
grandmother of Mr.. IS wife. You are cor
daily invited. Ice water and soda. Come one,
come all"
A CINCINNATI MAN who wears costly artificial
leg finds the member useful for uses other
than that for which it was intended. Being
given to gambling he frequently becomes finan-
cially embarrassed, and to tide him over he
pawns the leg. In its absence he gets around
ON crutch.
In the office Of the Recorder of Deeds, Phila-
delphia. is preserved Justices docket over 100
years old One of the entries in the volume is
as follows; Commonwealth agt. Stephen
Blunt, July "a, 1878 Charged of drinking Dam
nation to General Washington and all his army
Defendant held in &200."
Miss ETTIE CLEVELAND, Of Cassadoga N. Y,
school-teacher, has Just had removed from her
side rusty needle, which she thinks she swal.
lowed during her childhood She has been in
poor health for most of her life, which has
lasted IS years, and she ascTibes it to the pres
ence of the needle in her body.
BETWEEN 1872 and 1881 Russia had 9,4500O0
immigrants, and only 100000 emigrants In
commenting on the fact writer says it is
strange that more people enter Russia than
come out OF it. Bunyan. in Pilgrims Pro
greSs notes the same popularity of the terri
tory belonging to Giant Despair.
THE Poverty Dance" in Nevada City, CAL,
is thus described by a local paper: Invitations
printed on strawboard and enclosed in cheap
yellow envelopes are circulated. Tickets for
the ball are 49,, and supper 19c No gentleman
is allowed to participate who has less than two
patches on his clothes; the ladies are dressed in
calico, and refreshments are served on wooden
plates
LAST FALL Herbert Lord, of Lebanon, Me,
struck Willie Davis, of the same town, with an
apple in the temple. Davis died "A hours later
1t is said, from the result of this blow. After
several months inaction Lord has been arrested
and arTaigned for homicide before police jus
tice and held for appearance before the grand
jury in the next term of the Supreme Court of
York County. Both were mere lads.
A SAN Francisco LADY owned three canary
birds which were very much attached to each
other One of them died and was laid Temporal
rily on the window-sill. The other two flew to
the body and examined it carefully for several
minutes; then they returned to their cage and
refused to leave it or to sing note for a whole
month. At the end of that period of mourning
they became as lively and clipper as ever.
In some of the "east-shore" counties of Mary
land, where many primitive ways still prevail,
oysters pass as current money. One town has
weekly newspaper, large per cent of the
subscriptions to which are paid in oysters. The
editor and his family make away with two or
three hundred bushels a year received in that
way AS oysters are believed to be excellent
food for Strengthening the brain, that editors
paper should be ably edited.
IT is ESTIMATED that in this country no less
than five persons attempt to commit suicide
every day by taking the poison known as
trough on rats" And it generally fetches them
1t would be well to rechristen the stuff rough
on fools in view of the chief work it seems to
accomplish The appropriateness of its present
name is almost equal to that of the name of
the dog owned by the Dutchman, who said
Mine dog sh black all over except hish
tail und dot ish de same color; SO l call him
Spot
ANOTHER of the old timers in office holding
and craftsmanship, whom most of the present
generation that has ever heard of him thought
dead long ago, says the New York Press has
come to the front once more OF course it was
the appointment to an official position that re-
vivifed good old Beverly Tucker and has started
him around Washington with some of the same
that CharaptarizpI in tba
tal thirty five years ago. He has been hanging
on the outer edge OF the Third House in Wash
ington for ten years, where he and Col Dick
Wintersmith, of Texas have gathered i'm
an occasional "tennern for their aids to legis-
lation.
A SAN FRANCISCO PAPER prints the following
statement: Yesterday fragment of human
skeleton was brought into Carson, New, from
Pine Grove. near Genoa. The original skeleton
must have been fully 25 feet long. The bone
was a portion of the leg below the knee was
inches across and five times the usual size The
fragment was about feet long, splendidly pre-
served, and'weighed about twenty pounds. All
the local physicians agree that it is unquestion-
ably portion of the skeleton of the largest
human remains yet discovered. Parties are go
ing to Pine Grove to search for the rest of the
skeleton"
THE FLOWER FARMS of the country around
Nice yield as average yearly crop 1000 tons
of orange flowers, 1000 tons of roses, 100 tons of
violets, as many of jessamine flowers and lesser
quantities of other blossoms. The larger por-
ton of the oil or altar of rose comes from the
rose farms of Roumelia, in Turkey, and from
Ghazipur, in India. 1t is reckOned that 100000
rose blossoms are required to produce an
amount of the altar equal in weight to silver
rupee-about SOC. of our money-and worth $50
an ounce Large quantities of the oil of orange
peel and the oil of orange flowers known as ne
roll, are made in Sicily. Much of the oils of
peppermint, thyme, rosemary and lavender
comes from Surrey, England while in North
Carolina large quantities of oil of sassafras are
distilled, the business rising to the proportions
of a considerable industry.
A YOUNG LADY in Danbury, Conn, obtained
from Gypsy woman a recipe for the cure of
warts which is said to have proved effectual
whenever it has been tried She cut pieces of
paper in squares and large enough to cover a
wart. After wettlng them she plastered one of
them on each wart When the pieces OF paper
had dried she took them in the full OF the
moon and placed them upon the ground he
meath the caves OF building, where the water
could drip upon them. After they had been
thoroughly wet she placed them in an oven TO
dry, and finally she placed them in the shane
of triangle upon her hand and then thrust
her hand out of third-story window and blew
them Off to the winds. In three days the warts
had disappeared. She is so confident of the
cure that she recommends It to all her friends
A GENTLEMAN Of Albany. N. Y, undertook re-
Gently to put himself outside Of certain mum
Der of pancakes per diem. Not always the same