The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-06
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AN EASTERN SPORTSMAN lost his gun in an odd
| manner. wounded bird, in falling, STRUCK
the weapon as the owner was taking aim, and
knocked IT into the water.
| On MONDAY runaway horse dashed through
large plate- glass window on Fifth avenue
| New York, carrying its rider along. Both the
| man al q the horse were badly hurt.
SHERIFF Love, at Lawrence, Kan, while
plastering room twenty three years ago, lost
a valuable watch chain. The other day the
! store was torn down. and the chain was found
! in the plaster.
! THE CHINESE GARDENERS of Phoenix, A T,
! have taken a hand in boycotting. They sup
ply all the vegetables used in the town, and
| have refused to sell to restaurants which will
| not employ Chinese.
CAPT. A. C. P Haggard, brother of the
| author of she" is about to appear as novel
lst also. He is a British officer, stationed at
Meerut, and has already published divers diaries
| OF military expeditions.
The Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria has
| been earnestly invited to visit England by the
Prince of Wales, and has promised to do so
next summer The crown prince will probably
remain in London for month.
AMONG her diamonds Mrs. Mclean, wife of
the editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, who
mostly spends her winters in Washington has
| the finest of the collection that formerly be-
| longed to Adelaide Nelson, the actress.
CALIFORNIA WIDOW had plans made for a
| $4,000 monument for her late departed, but
| when the lawyers got through fighting over
the estate the widow was doing homework at
! 81 a week for the man who designed the monu
ment. -
AT Central City. Col, the other day. retort
containing $4,000 gold was placed in bank
| for safe keeping. The gold was all produced in
| he 10 t,a
greatest ever taken from any mine in the same
| length of time.
| IT is said that the first thing Washington
territory Indian buys is huge trunk. Then if
he has money enough. he fills it, This trunk
| acts as storehouse for trinkets long as the
| lock holds good, then il is turned into a cradle
and when the owner dies he is buried in it,
THE obelsk to be erected on the summit of
the Ortler in commemoration of the fortieth
year of the Emperor Francis Joseph's reign. is
| nearly ready for removal from Vienna II will
| stand the highest point of the emperor's
| dominlons-over 1900 feet above the sea
| level
MEMPHIS LAWYER created a sensation by
| saying in his speech the other day: You can't
get me between Skilly and Carrpeus." He is
| probably related to the Texas orator who fer
vently said: IF depart from these principles
| may my tongue forget its cunning and my right
right hand ceave to the roof Of my mouth
| HENRY MARKLY and John Adams two brick
| layers of Newton, Kan, recently entered into a
| competition to see who could lay the most wall
| IN given time. Each man was given an allOt-
| ted space OF square size and $50 was put uD as
| an inducemeuJ Markly was the lucky man
| finishing in little more than day AMI half
NEW USE has been found for photography.
! A day or so since row occurred IN New York in
which one of the combatants was badly bruised
| He had his wounds photographed before they
|
| came up he was on hand to show the extent of
| his injuries at the time they were actually re-
| ceiged.
The total number of women studying for the
medical career in Paris is now III, of whom
ninety Russi ms mostly of Polish origin)
| twelve French eight English, one Aust rian one
Greek. one Turk and one Auerican-MIs
| Klumpke, the only lady who has hitherto filled
! the post of house physician in the Paris hos.
pitfalls.
THERE are only two carpenters in New Bos-
ton, Neb, town which is small. but growing
rapidly. One OF them was taken sick a few
| days ago, when the other man promptly gave
| it out that he would lend his services to the
| highest bidder. Something like an auction was
| held, and the lucky carpenter dropped the ham
| mer at So 50 a day for job OF three weeks.
OLA CITIZEN of Loudou, Conn, who died last
! week a. the age of 81. 1t is related that he mad
always lived in that town and la never ridden
| on a railroad. By occupation Hr was a wheel
| wright and with the exc aption of once driving
| in his own team 10 Ncwburyport Mass, to visit a
| sister, he never had been further away from
home than Concord, a distance of about nine
| miles.
THE last two of the revolutionary soldiers who
we're allowed pensions under a general act
| were according to the commissioners report
| William Hutchins of PenobScot, Hancock
county. Me, who died May 3, 1866, aged lC2
| years, and Samuel Downing of Saratoga
| county, n. Y, who died February 49, 1867 aged
| 10l years. Hutchins born 4. D. 1864 and
| enlisted in 1870.
| MORNING LEAGUE has been founded by some
Of the more sensible of the ladies' of Paris They
| are of the opinion, and very rightly So that the
| customs of society as regards the hours of
| social gatherings, are opposed to the laws of
| health. The members Of the league suggest
| that all balls shall commence at o'clock and
end at midnight Dinner parties are to be dis
| couraged, and luncheonS to be given instead
AN ODD TERMINATION to an accident is related
| in an Iowa paper. 1t states that two Sundays
ago, as the minister of the Presbyterian church
| at Lyons was opening the minutes of bis sermon
| to begin his discourse. the stogepipe fell down
| With rare presence of mind he quickly stepped
| from the pulpit and assisted in bearing the
| pipe from the room. a pewholder, seeing
| some paper on the floor. put il into the stove
| where it was burned. Unfortunately it was the
| sermon that went up in smoke. and the service
| was consequently abbreviated.
|
| civil service commission has not sent him in
| formation as to the relative number of repub
| hcans and democrats employed at present in
| the government departments He wanted the
| information, he said, to decide a bet. The COM
| mission replied, through its secretary, that il
| had no other means than that possessed by any
| intelligent American citizen of deciding the
| question: and such an inquiry was beyond its
| province. In reply the New York man refers
| t. the answer being Unnecessarily impolite"
| The records kept by the civil service commission
| give no indication Of the political faith of ap-
| plicants for Office.
| GOOD STORY is gradually leaking out in Bath
| Me- society circles ut the expense of a we'll
known Bath lady, who was very recently mar
| ried. The ceremony occurred in O church. and
| the BRIDE that she might not soil her slippers
white hose before leaving the house. Arriving
| at the church. in the excitement peculiar to
| novices on such occasions, the bride forgot
| about the socks in which her feet and slippers
| were encased, and walked to the front Of the
| church entirely obiyiouS OF her forgetfulness
| However. all went well until the pair knelt at
| the chancel. Here it was that the keen eyes of
| the audience got in their work, aud there were
| few, among others, who laugningly espied
| those white socks in close proximity to the shiny
| soes of the new boots of the groom, and these
| thought the joke too rich to keep, and so tbs
| society people of the town are quietly smiling
| in private over the incident.
| JOIN BoURRALI, the French steward of the
| Orange Club, at Orange, n j., who was bitten