The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

HAMMoNTos, n. J., has shipped 100000 quarts
| of blackberries this season, or nearly S3OOOO
worth, for the picking of which poor persons
| have received over S. 600 An Italian has made
| S2,OOO from fruit, and off poor soil.
| A HUMANE lighthouse keeper has supply of
perforated pasteboard boxes in which to keep
birds that have manned themselves in flying
against the lighthouse tower. AS many as 46l
| birds, dead or alive, have been entrapped in a
| single night.
| THREE OR FOUR HUNDRED GIRLS will be enter
tanned this season at Seashore cottage Long
| Branch They shop girls and other women
| who earn their own living. and owe their vaca-
ton TO the thoughtful charity of some New
| York women.
| DAILY is said to have cleared nearly So, 900
| during his three months season in London, and
| he has achieved a seat (along with Mary Ander-
| son and Edwin Booth on the governing board
| OF the Shakespeare Memorial corporation at
| Standardization. @
TOBACCO is to be shut out at the Chambers
burg Pa.) academy. No boy will be admitted
who uses it in any way. Boarding and day
| pupils will be treated alike. The ground taken
| is that tobacco produces baneful effects on the
| minds and health of the students.
| LIGHTNING FLASHES, according to a recent
computation of kohlrausch, the German cleo
trician, have comparatively little energy. He
estimates that the energy of from seven to
| thirty-flve flashes would be necessary to keep
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| PHILADELPHIA is said to be backing up new
match factory at Clinton, la. large stone
| building will at once be commenced in which to
make FySon's fuse matches, now only obtain
| able from Europe. The capacity will be 1885,
| 600 matches daily, giving employment to many
| hands.
| Mrs ANN O'BRIEN, who lives with her son in
Brooklyn, N. Y, is reported to be lost for the
| third time since June. Her first absence was
| Tor a week, the second for one day, and this
| time 1t has been more than three weeks since
| she was seen. She is so years old, is very deaf
| and is said to be weak minded.
JUBILEE" JUGGINs, the English plunger, has
| reached the bottom of his pocketbook. His
| horses are to be sold and the bookmakers refuse
| to take his bets. He has been losing S., 900 q
| day since he took to racing. He has squandered
| a large fortune III as short time as the most
| ambitious spendthTft could desire.
A MODERN French custom at baptisms is that
| of presenting all the guests with a donation of
| sugar almonds in a bonbonniere. which has the
| appearance of a roll of parchment. On this
roll are inscribed the names of the child, of the
| parents, god-parentS, the date of the birth and
christening and the name of the church where
| the ceremony was performed
| CAPT. THoRoLD of San Francisco Cal,
| shipped eleven sea lions captured at the Far
rallones to various museums east They will
make the trip in tanks of sea water. Fourteen
| sea lions in all captured by the sailors
| under the captain, but two escaped at the
wharf by diving off the schooner when released,
and another was killed in fight with a fellow
seal IN the hold.
THERE is now on exhibition at the Alexandria
palace a stea n lIfeboat built of steel 1t is alb
| solutely unsuitable, is uncapSizable worked
with twin screws placed in a position where
they will not be lifted out of the water and can
be raised instantly on coming to shore. The
| engines and fires perfectly protected, and
| the draught of the vessel with fifteen men on
| board is only IL inches
A SWISS ENGINEER has proposed a scheme for
supplying Paris with water from Lake Neuf-
chatel at an estimated cost of EGO 0OO, 600 The
| aqueduct required would be 312 miles long,
| twenty-five miles of which would be a tunnel
| through the Jura mountains. AS the lake is
1920 feet above the average level of the streets
| of Paris, the scheme includes plan for using
the surplus head to furnish power
AN OLD BACHELOR in Oakland. Cal, being well
conditioned, welded. After week he and his
| wife agreed to divorce. They had not quar-
| relied, but i'll his single days he had kept bach
| elors hail, and still insists upon doing all the
| homework, because he likes his own way best
| AS the lady understood that part of the work
to be in her contract, she IS determined to dis
solve a partnership which promises her a life of
inactivity
AT AN OSTRICH FARM between Pasadena and
Los Angeles Cal, mischevous dog frightened
the birds and they broke out of their pens and
| ran in all directions with the speed of grey
hounds The ostriches were finally caught
with lassoos, after a desperate chase and strug-
| gle. One of them struck dog and killed him.
| A Mexican grabbed another, and the bird
kicked him in the stomach, it is stated, infct-
| ing serious injury.
THE castle of Hapsburg seat of the founders
of the present Austrian dynasty is owned by
| the state of Aargau, in Switzerland, and the
| government has just refused to sell it to the
Austrans. 1t is true, the Swiss said, that the
castle is the ancestral seat of the imperial house
| of Austria, but it is also a monument of Swiss
history, having been conquered by the Berne
| republican soldiers in 1415, when they wrested
| Aargau from the Hapsburgs.
LABoUCHERE remarks, apropos of the English
aristocracy 1T has been suggested as an ar
| gumeat in favor of the retention of our peerage
| that it is the means of attracting much American
money to England, owing to transatlantic heir
esses marrying peers. There really is some
thing in this, but the heiresses would be as
their legislative functions, provided that they
| were allowed to retain their titles"
A LARGE NUMBER of commission merchants of
| Chicago have addressed petition to the freight
agents of railroads running into that city asking
| for the adoption of new system of weighinf,
| potatoes by the car-lot. They want the car
| weighed upon arrival and weighed again after
| it has been unloaded, freight to be paid On the
difference between the two weights. They think
| this method will induce the receivers to unload
more promptly than heretofore, and do much
| to prevent shrinkage and waste.
| GEN. NATHANIEL ?. BANKS, for the first time
| in many years, holds no salaried position. His
| place at Waltham, Mass, constitutes his whole
| property, and that is not without encumbrances
| The Fifth district of Massachusetts Will proba-
bly, elect Gen. Banks to congress this fall. Ii is
remembered by his admirers that he resigned
| $1,000 position as a railroad president to 20 to
war. A subscription is now being taken up in
| the Fifth district among republicans to defray
| the generals election expenses.
1--WE may be fond of our dog" said Buffalo
| lady the other afternoon she chopped the
| animals meat, because, as she said his mouth
| was SO tired with barking at the neighbours cat
| that he could not chew comfortably. I'VE may
be fond of our dog. but we don't make such a
| fool of him as our friend over the way does with
| his 1owser. on one Of those awfully hot nights
| we've had lately, our friend got up in the mid
die of the night to give the dog cold bath, be.
cause the animal could not sleep on account Of
| the heat.
CHINESE ADvIoEs state that memorial pub
shed in the Picking Gazette throws a new light
upon the Yellow river floods, as 1t appears that,
| although Honan suffered most disastrously
| yet Anhui did not escape, and that over 400, 900
| people of the province are destitute in conse-
| quence. The waters, at lost accounts, were
4 rising fast and were nearly at ordinary summer
! level AS so much Of the low lands of Honan
| are under water, there are reasons for fearing
the foods will soon spread over the lower dis