The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE surface of the Dix river, in Kentucky,
was literally black few days ago with new
lights that had swarmed into the stream from
Kentucky rivers People VINO saw the enormous
shoal of fish when it passed HaTTodsburg. say
tnat one blow OF an oar in the water would have
Killed dozens of them.
A FEW DAYS AGO Mr.. Cont of Richmond,
Va. noticed that his infant son was covered on
the neck and arms with a number of red spots,
and he subsequently discovered that the child
mad been bitten by a large spider. From that
tlme the infants limbs began to swell, and the
little sufferer died in great agony.
MOSES WILLIAMS of Brooklyn wrapped
newspaper around s.. 900 in greenbacks, and
left the parcel on chair in New York hotel
for three hours. Those who noticed it seemed
TO think 1t was an old shirt, and several persons
were quite put out when Moses rushed in and
told what it contained.
AS THOMAS DoLAN of Boston was crossing
street, the shaft of a passing vehicle slipped
under his watch chain and whipped out his
timepiece. He jumped back to avoid being run
over, and Immediately after searched for his
watch, which had been distracted from his
pocket in so remarkable manner. The time
piece, however was not found. 1t was valued
at S75.
AN ENGLISH BUILT COLLIER, expected shortly
at Rochester, N. Y. is looked upon as a dan
gerous competitor for the honor of being the
Her hull is OF iron and she has a capacity of
from 1000 to $500 tons of coal She will ply
between Charlotte, Detroit, Chicago, Duluth,
and other points on the upper lakes in the coal
carrying business.
WHILE one of the workmen at Plate Glass
City, Pa was excavatiug near the main build
ing. few days ago, he unearthed a copper
medal, which is supposed at one time to have
or namented the neck Of an Indian chief. II was
british medal and CONTAINED on one side the
O. Rf nnaO f no fitch l-iper upA tb.a
other the picture of an Indian shooting at a deer
with bow aud arrow. Tho surface was so
corroded that the date could not be deciphered.
THE city counsellor of St. Louis is engaged in
testing the.validity of the ordinance making it
misdemeanor, punishable by fine Of not less
than $50 nor more than $780, for any telephone
company operating in that city to charge more
than $50 per annum for telephone service. In
order to bring the question to an issue, he has
instituted a prosecution against the officers of
the Bell telephone company, charging them
with violating the provisions of the ordinance
by refusing to furnish a certain citizen with tel
ephone service at the rate of $50 per year
j. B. PERRY, of Toronto, Canada, has invented
a novel attachment for anchoring carriage
horses, doing away entirely with hitching posts
and tie straps. His device consists of simple
strap buckled at one end to the reins and pass
ing through between eccentric rollers, and a
slot in the bottom of the carriage is attached at
the other end to drag weight. When not in
use the drag is drawn up to hug tightly the bot
tom of the carriage, and to anchor the horses a
small lever is touched and the drag drops TO
the ground, holding the horses direct from
the bit as naturally and safely as if held by the
driver.
AT LEAST HALF Of the saloonkeepers in Pitts
burg who were refused renewal of their
licenses are going into the restaurant business
according to the prediction of the Commercial
Gazette. One of these unfortunates in the
GIx-th ard hn 10 he wall inf ,,nl
estimates that about ten of the eighteen appl-
cants refused in that ward will soon be dis
pensing eatables, ice cream and cigars. He is
himself opening out on rather extended scale
and estimates that it will cost him $500 to fur
nish his establishment. The enormous compe-
tition which will result causes him some
anxiety, and he predicts that ere long most of
them will be closing up their restaurants"
A CHICAGO paper tells how Mrs James Brown
Potter and Kyrle Bellew presented The Lady
of Lyons " with stage cat accomplishments, "
in that city the other night In one Of the most
pathetic scenes of the play "Claude's" return
rom the war. the stage cat, measly, moldy-
looking creature, dirty and paint-bedaubed,
scampered across the boards, first in one direc-
ton and then in another. Becoming alarmed
at the frantic gestures of the stage employees
behind the scenes, pusS jumped down in the
orchestra and took refuge in the audience. 1t
is almost needless to say that the cat brought
down the house, and even Mrs. Potter was
Obliged to give way to smiles through her prop
orty tears.
The Washington EUening StGr says edito-
rally: in Mr.. Edison's own opinion the per-
fected monograph is going to have an impor-
tant effect on the progress of journalism, ena-
bling correspondents and reporters to talk their
copy into machine instead of painfully writing
it, and enabling conlpOsitorS to grind it ont
afterwaTd and set ii in type as it were from die
tation. BIT why, since the inventor is suggest
ing possibilities still far in the future, may not
he go a step farther and represent the coming
newspaper a printed in sound waves instead of
in types? Who knows but that the Star of the
twentieth century may not be delivered to its
readers daily in the form of a scroll, which be
ing slipped into a monograph and gradually
unwound, will reel off the news of King Albert
Edwards health and the dongs of congress, the
Anglo Russian war and the unbroken record of
victories of the Washington base ball nine the
messages of the Prohibition President and the
latest congressional grants of the parks of
Washington to the local steam railroadsg