The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-08
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sold 900 snakes this season, ranging in prices
from $50 to $500 each.
IT is said by an eminent physician that half of
the supposed mad dogs have nothing the matter
with them but the toothache.
AT Douglas, Kan, the other day, in sinking
| the well for the sugar works at that place, a
strata OF live frogs was struck at 80 feet.
AT PRESENT there are over zoo, 900 people out
of employment in the United States. In New
| York alone there are $1,000 men and $4,000
| women who are idle.
DEALERS in hard work furnishings say that
| sycamore wood is rapidly coming into use. 1t
| WORKS well makes an excellent finish, and is
| much cheaper than birch. maple or oak.
Miss LAURA WEBSTER. of Santa Clara county,
| California, is awakening from nine months
| trance, during which time the only nourshment
she received was forced down her throat.
THE word Birmingham, so common in naming
| towns and cities, is compounded of three words,
| which together mean ''the hill which is the
nome OF the broom, small English tree
ONE of the luckiest real estate investments
ever made in Chicago was that of J. R. SAKE
| who paid $500 few years ago for a lot in the
south part of the city that is now worth $50, 000
| CHICAGO has had seven of the national con-
ventions of the two great political parties, Gin
| cinnati four, Philadelphia two, and St. Louis
| two. New York, Baltimore and Charleston lave
| had one each.
| GEN. BoULANGER reiterates his exclamation
at the recent speech he made prior to his cleo
| ton: IF wished for war should be>a mad
! man; if L did not prepare for it l should be
worthless wretch"
| A KANSAS sHooLMA'AM has introduced a new
| feature in her school. When one of the girls
| misses word the boy who spells it gets per-
mission to kiss her. AS a result the boys are
| improving rapidly.
AN INDIANA LAWYER, who has been looking
up the matter little, finds that there are 800
dead laws on the statute books of that State,
every one of which can be taken advantage of
by smart lawyer.
IT is SAID that the Chinese remedy for small
| pox is to make the patient beat drum. If he
can do it he is all right. Formerly they used to
| beat the patient to cure him, but civilization
progresses even in China.
SHAM CONVENT has inst been discovered in
Paris, and an artful alleged Mother Superior,
| two ex nuns, and fortysix girls who partici-
pated in the Swindle by posing as nuns have
been locked up to await trial.
THE introduction of American watches into
England has reduced the number of gold cases
| marked at the London assay Office from "a S44
in 1876 to 20 416 in 1885, and of silver cases from
| 1884 in 1876 to 95, 70S in 1886
THE day the Emperor died there were sent on
from the Berlin telegraph Office 29, S78 messages,
| aggregating 799, 1926 words On the following
| day this record was beaten with 36615 mes
sages, aggregating 1,1l5,551 words.
IT Is SAID that the expiration of the copyright
| on many of Carlisle's works is to result in the
republication of many magazine articles which
| he would never allow to be reprinted but which
have been unearthed in the library of the Brit
| iSh Museum.
In the Paris prison of detention recently
person, committed as a man, 81 years old, after
! being locked up was found to be woman. 1t
was found that she had put on male clothes
| twenty years before and had worn them ever
| since without being discovered
A CORRESPONDENT of the London Standard
says that the Russian Nhilists, having failed to
make the desired impression upon the peasants,
have for the past few years devoted their at
tention chiefly to the army and navy and with
startling success. II Is suspected that if Russia
becomes engaged in another war the Revolu-
| tionists will not permit her triumph IF our
armies emerge victorious from a coming war"
say the Liberals, the abomination of desola-
| ton will be naugurated in our country and will
| last indefinitely"
A sCHooLMIsTREss In Maine, being poor, was
content to sport lover who was not rich him
| self, though he was given to speculation in a
| small way. To show his good will, he invested
| a few dollars q few years ago in some one or
| two townships of California desert and made a
| deed of the same to his lady love- A boom
| came and the lady sold her land for $256. 200,
and she immediately ent the sack to the young
| man. saying she did not wish to marry a mere
| fortune-hunter. She suspected that the young
| man loved her for her wealth only.
THREE years ago Bernard Liebowitz a young
Russian Jew, appeared in New Haven with a
| boot backing kit and began business. He sold
| newspapers in the morning, BACKED boots in
| the afternoon, and attended school in the even
| ing. After awhile he established a paper route
and secured enough regular customers to en-
able him to &C to day school. He worked so
| hard and ambitious that he got more
! than usual aid from his teachers and made
great progress and Rabbi Keeberg became in
terested in the boy, who now, through his help,
has entered an academy at Cincinnati, and will
study for the Hebrew Church.
AT THE CASINO, in Montpelier, France, a
singer pleased party of young cavalry officers
SO that one of them flung on the stage bunch
of violets that he had in his hand She smiled
and bowed and, picking them up, stuck them In
her corsage which so pleased the young soldier
that he sent his cap after the flowers The
singer misnterpreted his enthusiasm, became
indignant sulked pouted, and left the stage
with gesture intended to ridicule the one who
had offended her. The audience began to storm
and refused to be comforted, even when the
manager made the orchestra play Returning
from the Review" Finally the gendarmes had
to be called in to clear the theater and prevent
a violent avenging of the insult the singer had
offered to the uniform q
INTERESTING FACTS concerning ancient cities.
Nineveh was Is miles long, wide and 40 miles
around, with a wall 100 feet high, and thick
enough for three chariots abreast. Babylon
was 50 miles within the walls which were 81
feet thick and $50 high, with 100 brazen gates
The Temple of Diana, at Ephesus. was 400 feet
TO the support of the roof. 1t was 100 years in
building. The largest of the pyramids is 461
feet high and 653 on the sides; its base covers
II acres. The stones about 80 feet in length
and the layers are $50. 1t employed &c, 600 men
in building. The labyrinth, in Egypt contains
800 chambers and $50 halls. Thebes, in Egvnt
presents ruins q miles around. Athens was 25
miles around, and contained 250, 900 citizens and
400 900 slaves The Temple of Dephos was SO
rich in donations that it was pundered of $500
600, and Nero carried away from it 200 statues
The walls of Rome were ID miles around.
In Maine village housewife whose reputa-
ton is of thrift, and whose wits are as keen as
the razors edge issued cards not long ago, it is
said, for an afternoon party at her home, term
ing it 'whang" A "whang" is an unknown
term in that vicinity, although they had heard
it applied in a metaphoric, or symbolic, or nv |
periodic, sense many times to the country iubi
lee of various kinds. The good ladies who were |
summoned didn't know what to do or how To |
dress, but they went just the same full of curl
osity and in their most stunning toilets The |
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