The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

many as thirty-two having been killed there one
day last week.
SOMEBODY now proposes to kill off the Aus
tralian rabbits by introducing poisonous gases
into their burrows
A HANNIBAI, Mo-, MAN claims to have seen
leopard walking on the railroad track near that
city the other day.
NEWARK POLICE COMMISSIONERS, at a meeting
last week. voted to enforce the law against the
sale of cigarettes to minors.
THERE were 331 divorce cases on the court
calendar in Boston the other day, but it is ex-
planned that 316 of the parties were from Chi
cago.
ANARCHY evidently is spe ,ding toward obi
won in Boston. Its adherents there have been
forced to discontinue meetings because of non
attendance
A NEW ORLEANS LAD found valuable satchel,
and, upon taking it to the owner, who had ad-
vertised the loss, was made happy with a brand
new 500 bill
A BRIDGEPORT, Conn. MAN became impatient
at his dog when he hesitated to go down stairs.
The man in giving the dog kick lost his balance,
fell headlong and broke his neck Probably it
is just as well the dogs life was saved.
EIFFELL's TALL IRON TOWER continues to mount
toward the sky at Paris, where it is to be one of
the most interesting features of the coming
exhibition. There are those who predict it will
fall before it reaches its full height, but the con-
structor assures there is no danger.
THE skeleton of an Indian who was killed in
what is known as the "Kilburn fight" of 1903,
was recently plowed up in a field near Walpole,
n. H., where the fight took place. 1t was in
this famous encounter that two men, two
women and two boys defended themselves for
six hours against 400 bloodthirsty savages
MICHAEL P. BARR was a newsboy in Washing
ton not long ago and three years ago he en-
listed in the naval service of the United States
at seaman's wages-50 cents day. Last week
he WAS appointed master sailTnaker at $3.50
month, and his first act was to make over to his
mother one-haf OF his pay as fast as II acPrues
WEATHER PROPHETS will be interested in
learning that one Of the exhibits at the Jubilee
Flower Show in Vienna was tropical plant be-
longing to the order OF Mimosa, the owner of
which claims to be able to foretell storms aud
earthquakes forty-eight hours in advance by
observing the appearance and position of the
most sensitive leaves Of the plant.
AN interesting report of the death OF native
was recently made by a coroner's jury in India.
The native had had the misfortune to meet a
tiger, and the report says: "Pandu died of the
tiger eating him. There was no other cause of
death. Nothing was left of Pandu save some
fingers, which probably belonged either to the
right or left hand"
IT has been calculated that the sun is nearly
90, 10000 miles from the earth. and it is so
large that If number of worlds the size of ours
were held together like beads on a string, 1t
would require $40 of these to girdle it around in
one line. 1t would take 100000 of our worlds
to occupy space equal to the whole size of the
sun.
H. J. Brooks of Baltimore, Nd, has a re-
markable study in large block of ice. The
block was about 9Ox18 inches, and near its
center was q tissure that presented the appear
ance of a miniature fruit stand This stand
glittered like silver and the whole affair looked
as if carved out by some cunning handicrafts-
man.
NEAR GREENUP, KY, the other day, woman
annoyed by the thievery of her boys two pet
squirrels, shut them up tight in an upper room
while she went about her work. Shortly after,
the little fellows draggled and sooty beyond
expression, hoped in at the door-baving gone
up the chimney, then down the water spout
aud through the water barrel under it. to regain
their liberty.
NEWPORT, r. l., FISHERMEN are very despond-
ent, owing to the almost total failure of the
soup (porgee) season. AS usual at this time of
year agents of leading commission houses in
New York, Philadelphia and other places are
there buying all the fish brought in by the
seinerS, Soup always precede sea bass; but
now sea bass have arrived and all hopes of soup
have been abandoned 1t is said this means a
loss to Newport Of about 100000.
Contracts will be made this week for lighting
New York harbor by electricity. Six electric
| light buoys will be used, three on each side of
| the harbor, about !, 100 feet apart. The battery
will be located at Sandy Hook light station, and
the lights will be controlled from there. 1t is
expected that vessels will be able to enter the
harbor as safely at night in the ola time
The establishment of the system will cost
about $50, 0O0, and its maintenance about So 600
a year
AN experiment in cooperation will be tried
by the Knights of Labor of Genwood Springs.
Col, and will be watched with interest, if not
with entire confidence in its success. A tract
bordering Grand river to be settled and
turned into farming land, where fruits and veg
tables may be raised. Canning works and other
enterprises are to be established in time The
colony will pay its officers no salaries, and all
disputes are expected to be settled by the decis
ion of the board of arbitration without going to
law.
A COMPANY is now being formed in London to
bridge the English Channel from Dover to Ca
lais The bridge is to be twenty miles long. 100
feet above the level of the sea and the snan
between the piers is to be 900 feet 1t will
carry four lines of railway track, and the cost
is estimated at e32, 100000. 1t is to be con
structed entirely of iron in open WORK combn-
ing lightness and strength, and Offering the
slightest surface to the sea. 1t will require
100000 tons of iron, and can be built in six
years.
EUGENE HOPKINS, Of Plymouth has a five
year-old Jersey COW that is peculiar The other
day she shed one of her horns, leaving in its
place smaller, better shaped and glossy horn
that had apparently grown up within the old
one. The horn on the other side of the head
shows signs of coming off in the same wav. In
those parts it's unusual for cows to shed their
horns unless assisted by the hired man with n
club or q heavy milking stool Mr. HOnkins
says he would as soon expect to see a man shed
his knee-pans.
a'THE REV. ALBERT c. WHITE, of Amesbury
Mass, is the latest claimant to the honor of
being the youngest soldier who enlisted DURING,
the war of the rebellion. Probably his claim e
good, for he was but years and 30 DAYS old
when mustered in as drummer of COMPANY ID
Sixty. fourth Ohio Volunteers He saws thar
sometimes at the end of day s marcd at night
when he went the rounds to beat the ''taDs'7 his
father, lieutenant of the same company went
with him to keep him from falling asleep He
served nine months and was then mustered ont
BERLIN it seems, has gradually become the
headquarters of the carved wood industry SIM
planting Switzerland. Six hundred artists in
wood carving the same number of turner's. and
700 carpenters are engaged in manufacturing,
such articles as cigar cases newspaper and
picture frames, napkin rings, etc. The value of
the annual export of these articles is given as
5000, 900 marks, and this is exclusive of the
costly carved wood furniture, the manufactire
and export of which are assuming large propor-
tions.
JACOB king, of Hallowell, Me-, is Is years old
In the summer of 1886 he visited Massachusetts
and there met Mrs Mary Ann Weston n ,laoe;,,s-