The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-12


nize the husbands, but neither will recognize
their own speech.
The directors of the great Forth bridge of
Scotland have announced that the bridge will
be completed sufficiently for railway purposes
| by October next. This is the longest bridge in
the world, the one spanning the Hudson river at
| PoughKeepSle being the next in size.
ONE BANKS, young man from New York
| city, fell headlong over one of the Kaaterskill
falls, in the Catskill mountains. distance of 80
feet He landed in pool of water, and was
thus saved from instant death. He was badly
injured, though, and it is thought will die.
ACCORDING to the Louisville Courier-Journal,
Kentucky has six counties Harlan Knott,
Perry, Letcher, Bell and Leslie-that have
| never had church within their borders during
the sixty or seventy years of their existence as
counties This fact is referred to The Home
Missionary Society.
THE DISCOVERY is reported of the remains of
an ancient city upon the right bank of the Volga
river in Russia. Tle ruins extend for two miles
along the rivers bank, and many coins and
other articles testifylng to high degree of
Civilization on the part of the inhabitants have
already been unearthed.
THE Spanish authorities intend to rigidly en-
force the decree recently promulgated. to the
effect thatall the theatres shall be lighted ex-
cluSlYely by electricity. The leSSeeS have en-
deavored to persuade the aut lorities to extend
introduction
of the light, but without success.
THE project of maritime ship canal to con
meet Bristol with the English channel is being
revived in England, and it is said a syndicate is
in course of formation with view to its promo
ton. The length of the proposed canal will be
forty-five miles. The cost of construction is
roughly estimated at 10000 per mile.
THE BELL BOYS in the big hotels tell their en-
poyers astonishing stories of the freedom with
which the average lady boarder behaves in
their presence. No matter what their attire
may be, it is common thing for women to
ring for these servants and then to bid them
enter the rooms and take their orders
New ENGLAND GENIUS wearing gay cooked
hat and trundling a wheelbarrow on which
stands an antique plow deck I'd with flags. is
journeying from Orange, Mass, to Carbon, Me.
He says that the plow IS the oldest in MaSSa-
chuSettS-over 3o0 years oil. He takes up col
lections from those who gather to see him and
the pillow. and thus lives well
HORSE at Birmingham, Eng. has taken upon
itself the task of protecting goat that has been
accustomed to Craze with it, a gang of young
roughs had habit of stouiuG the goat. When
ever the goat is attacked the horse runs to tn.
rescue, and a few days ago caught one young
fellow by the back of the coat and flung him
clear over a hedge into the road.
THE Panama Lottery was great scheme for
the projectors There were eleven prizes
amounting to Sl2S,OO0, The company drew SIX
prizes. amounting to Sl22,S00. and the bond
holders drew five prizes, amounting to S. 200
Fifty bonds were also drawn for Reimburse
ment at 500 each-tue face value being $50.
OF these the company drew twenty-eight and
the bondholders twenty two.
The Athen@um Library, Bury St Edmunds,
has a biography of man named Corder which
is bound in a piece of human skin. Corder muir
dered his sweetheart and married some one
more to his liking. Having been detected and
| hanged, the doctor who obtained his corpse
sent piece of his skin, properly cured, to the
publisher, and copy of the dead mans life
was accordingly bound up in his skin.
| EVEN 5foot iron fence didn't cause a run
away Washington horse to change his course
He was attached to a heavy coupe rockaway,
| but nevertheless he jumped the fence. and
| nearly succeeded in carrying the vehicle intact
| with him. AS it was, the coupe was bat slightly
| damaged Will the fence was torn away for i
| distanc, Of several feet The Infatuated b aast
| continued on its mad run. and, after knocking
| down a horse, was captured.
| AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER was found dead this
week at his gate, in Brazil, Ind. lie had an TN
| comfortable mania for stealing wonen's shoes
and no less than fifty pairs were found in his
hut. His popularity wasn't of recent devotion
ment, either Several years ago he was arrested
for the theft of shoes and large number of
them recovered from cave where he had bid
them. He sent to the penitentiary and
while confined there his wife obtained a divorce
Afterward he lived alone.
A FAMOUS French lady the Count sSs Pellegrini
Boy. has just died in Italy The countess was
the daughter of Gen. Boy, who fought in all the
campaigns of the revolution and the empire
and she married Count Pellegrini Of Parma
one of her fathers aides-decamp, in 1911. After
the fall of Joachim Murat the count and his
wife returned to Parma, where the former died
some years ago. The countess, VINO was born
in October, 1880 lived in the utmost retirement
and to the last remained grande dame of the
eighteenth century.
WITHIN a radius of sixty miles of Nashville,
Tenn, there is to be found a tree that is said to
be the shittim wood of ark fame Celebrated
botanists from all over the country have
examined the trees, and agree that they grow
nowhere else on the GLOBE. They have decided
that IL is the shittim wood Of which Noah S ark
was constructed, mention Of which is made
several times in the Bible. The tree is medium
sized with very dark, smooth bark, and the
wood is of a bright gold color. In early spring
the trees are laden with long. white blossoms
closely sembling great ostrich pumes. There
seems to be no doubt about the identity Of the
trees, and it is remarkable that they are found
only in this small area, and SO few at that
MAINE historians say that over 100 years ago
wolves came down from the north and devoured
most all the deer in the colony. Some of the
deer swan to the island along the coast and a
remnant was saved. The wolves. having no
deer 10 ca { turned to the domestic animals of
the country, snd gave the settlers great trouble
The Indians, too robbed of their meat supply
by the wolves, were for a long time IN a starv-
ing condition, and often those in the interior
went miles to the seaShore for food. The
wolves at length went northward and little by
little the deer increased until 1910, when there
was another wolf raid, and for two years they
played havoc with dear and cattle Then they
disappeared and have not since been seen much
in the state. Deer are again increasing, both
because OF the absence Of wolves and because
of the stringent game laws of Maine.
A DISPATCH from Omaha says: Farmers in
the vicinity of Red Cloud, Neb.. were recently
swindled by couple of sharpers who intro
duced themselves as representatives OF a firm
in Blue Rapids, Kan. They claimed to have
patent cyclone cable by which houses and barns
could be anchored. Ia connection with this was
feature by which every house with cattle ut
tachment was to be insured against cyclones for
ten years free of charge. They informed the
farmers that under the state law before an in
surance policy could be issued a certain amount
of money must be deposited with the state
treasurer as guaranty for a certain length of
time. when IL would be refunded. Taey secured
considerable insurance money and sold several
township rights for the cable before the siIs-
picions OF their victims we're aroused. Then
the men were arrested, but effected a settle
ment by surrenderng all the notes and money
rccelved