The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| CIGAR DEALER in Mannheim has q rooster
which can unite shoe strings. The other day,
IL Is related, the bird added its reputation by
pecklng at cigar which a customer WIS smok-
| ing ana nnaily running away with it.
| HOG CHOLERA Is again working havoc among
! the herds in Fayette county, Ohio Judge
gregg and other farmers in the neighborhood
| or his farm have lost recently over 200 head
All efforts TO find an effective remedy for the
disease have proved failures.
In the clothing trade there are 2H manufact-
urers in New York. of whom 234 are Hebrew
| nrms. Over coo, 100000 cigars per annum are
! manufactured in New York by Hebrew firms,
| employing over 5000 tauds, and whose yearly
| transactions reach SIS, 100000.
WENHAa, MASS, has a monument to the
memory of a cat that lived to the good old age
OF 20 years and months It is plain shaft of
Rockport granite II inches high. square aad
vel proportioned the top pointed like the cap
stone of Bunker Hill monument The name
OF the cat beverly is inscribed upon the base.
THE longest white pine sticks that were ever
cut in Michigan, probably were recently manu-
factured in a mill at Cadillac They were six
IN number and were Go feet long and 10 by II
lncheS in diameter. A stick of timber was
sawed at the Hastings mill Puget sound re-
Gently, that was 100 feet long by ~ inches
square.
REGULATION has been adopted in the Michi-
gan state prison by which hereafter convicts
may earn the right to wear plain gray suits in
stead OF the prison stripes. Men who obey the
prison prison; rules Tor six months may discard the
strlpes, put II after that period they become I'M
ruly again they once more don the Objectionable
clothing.
AN UNrUToRED EXILE, with "a phenomenal
voice. and who can make the upper with in
credible ease, has been discovered pursuing the
uneven tenor OF his way in the Siberian mines.
II tnOse VINO are interested in him can awaken
| the clemency of the st. Petersburg authorities
the nigh-toned but low born prisoner NAV vet
operate more lucrative mine
| The room where the court of appeals sits in
the capitol at Albany N. Y. is described as the
most gorgeous in its appointments of all the
! court rooms in the country. The woodwork is
| beautifully carved and panels are of mahogany
| ana onyx The carpet was woven to order
| across the water. Portraits of all the Judges
mat nave ever sat in the court are placed in
| panels about the room.
The etymology of the word honeymoon is
thus given by good authority: Among the
| northern nations of Europe there was an ancient
| practice OF newly-married couples to drink
mentheg1n or mead. a kind of wine made from
money (nydrome) for thirty days after marriage.
| Hence the term honeymonth or honeymoon
| Attlla, the Hun. drank so much mead at his
wedding feast that he died.
| WASHINGTON IRVING BISHOP. the mind reader.
| has held seance for President Diaz and wife
| He astonshed the former with the bank note act,
| ana certainly captured the fair lady by playing
| which she had thought of in obedience to his
| order to think of an air from any opera with
| which she was familiar meanwhile placing her
hand on Bishops forehead.
ARMY RECRUITS are not of first quality now
a-days OF sixteen recruits recently arrived at
Livingstone, Mon, six are in the guard house
tor serious otfenses, three have deserted one
has been sent to Fort Benton for trial BY court
martial, and one was strung up by indignant
citizens and made to confess where he had hid
q gold oh a,,I
mad stolen from dead woman
A TRACT OF LAND in Wicklow, Ireland belong
ing TO the crown, is about to be worked for gold
by one Morgan, who has obtained tn necessary
license of the crown. The area of the land Is
fifty nine square miles, and it appears that gold
mines we're worked there formerly, but the
operations were stopped by the intervention
200 years ago of military force Morgan be-
leves that Welsh gold reefs cross under the
channel to Wicklow.
LAUGHABLE INCIDENT occurred during a cam
paign meeting in Pittsburg few nights ago
While the chairman was patiently awaiting the
arrival OF uniformed campaign club, the crowd
that had gathered saw the glare of torches in
the distance. Cheers filed the air and fireworks
were set on as the procession neared the
speakers stand. When it discovered that
the honors had been shown to O Cleveland Climb
instead of to the republican organization there
was number of Unlocking republican campaign
workers.
ONCLE Ian VINO Is conceded by the
| New Haven Union the credit of having built
| the first locomotive cab, is still living in Old
| Saybrook, Conn. He conceived the idea OF a
| cab after having run through a binding hail
| storm. which forced him and his fireman to seek
shelter behind the locomotives boiler ON
reaching the roundhouse be rugged up cab of
| rough boards and used it upon the locomotive
Minerva" which is still intact and was re-
Gently exhibited at an industrial exhibition.
ABOVE the pew where she worshipped in Christ
church, Hartford, has just been placed an ala
baster tablet in memory of Mrs lydia Huntlev
Sigourney, who died in 1855 II is over twenty
years since the raising of this sum of money for
a monument to Mrs. Sgourney was begun The
contributors are now all dead except two and
one of these is in Paris When Mr. Whittier
was informed of the project for tablet he
wrote: Il knew Mrs. SigOurney well when as a
boy, came to Hartford. Her kindness to the
young rustic stranger shall never forget
HENRY PENRoD lost an arm in a railroad acct
dent at. Carbondale, H.. four years ago. He is
now astonishing Chicago by his cleverness in
setting type with one hand. This is about as
difficult as running race with one leg. Penrod
devoted many months TO what seemed to others
the impossible task of becoming a useful type
setter with one arm gone. No one who knows
anything of a composing room can remotely
realize the difficulties he was obliged to over
come. Mr.. Penrod can now set 400 ems in
twenty minutes, a hard thing for a man with
two hands to do.
IT is ASSERTED in a London paper that the dis
covery made by Mr.. Hewett in the artificial
manufacture of quinine will result in the re-
duction of the price of that article to a few
cents per pound. The Importance of this dis
covery is rendered greater by the fact that
while hitherto dependence has been on the cul.
tivation of the cinchona tree for quinine the
bark yielding only about 2 per cent of the
same, the new process admits of the substance
being produced without limit from an article
which can always be got in abundance in any
part of the world.
THE Philadelphia Times says there exists a
popular deusion that the Quakers, at least the
old-time broad -brimmed, sugar-scoop Ouakers.
are dying out 1t is not so in Philadelphia Ten
or twenty years ago people said the same thing,
but the high backed benches in the meeting
houses are as full then. The truth is
that. after coquetting with worldly" ways and
fashions for season, the young generation of
Friends undergo reaction, and gradually fall |
into the same ways and the same austere life.
even to the plain garb, of their grandfathers |
and grandmothers.
THE Citizens Association of Boston is anxious
on the subject Of naturalization papers. Its |
executive committee has filed memorial with |
the judges of the United States courts asking |
that by rule of court or otherwise ali |
applications for citizenship be regl- |