The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-26

Ind, is 1903 years of age and has lived to see the
| seventh generation of ker kind. One of her
| brothers died at the age of 100, and another at
| the age of 95.
AN ALBANY HoRsEMAN was speeding his trotter
| the other day when the horse cast a hind shoe,
which flew with such violence from the hoof
that it went high in the air and caught on tel
egraph wire where it hung until some boys got
it down.
IT is A CURIOUS FACT that while Queen Victo-
| ria speaks German in her home circle, the pres
emit German Empress .disregards it in hers. and
uses English as much as possible. English is
the hreSide tongue OF the Greek, Danish and
| Russian royal families
THE oldest man in Germany, and probably in
the world, is named Wapnarek. He lives in the
| village of Hutta near Gnesen, in the province
| of Posen He was born in 1854. He is there
| fore 1874 years old, and still shows no sign of
| being in hurry to die.
| WILLIAM ROBSON, a convict of Portland prison,
| England, died recently from exposure while en-
gagged at light work out of doors in unseasona-
| bic weather, and scantily clothed. There is a
| scandal, and the prison officials are explaining
| that they didn't mean it.
julius EIcHBERG, the well-known violin
teacher of oston says that he finds that girls
| were there not so many young men viOlinists,
| there would Vbe a demand for young women in
| opera house and theater orchestras.
The BOYS on the training ship New Hampshire
publish little paper called the Naval Appren-
tice. recent issue says that 30 per cent. of
| the 1853 boys on the New Hampshire are of for
| eign parentage, and that the percentage of
| American-born boys enlisted in the training
| service is much larger now than at any other
| period
WILLIAM WINTERS, son of a prominent
farmer of Upton county, Indiana, disappeared
several days ago and no trace of him has since
been found. Some of Winters supersttious
neighborS consulted a witch, who informed
| them that the missing man would show up
| within four days, whereupon they abandoned
| the search.
Miss SADIE CROSBY, of Egin, IS said to have
made, during the winter. snow images of men
and four footed animals so excellently as to at
tract much attention. and to indicate that she
has much talent as a sculptor. 1t is to be hoped
that if she succeeds in this line of art she will
have strength of will enough to call herself
Sarah instead of Sadie
ANTHONY PARsLow, a colored resident of Cox
| sackie, N. Y, has a great capacity for what he
| calls ''vttles" The other day he ate forty-two
| corn cakes, then he went home aud ate supper,
and i'll the evening got the worth of his money
| at the supper at colored donation 1t is est
| mated that he ate 10 feet inches of corn cake
inches wide and inch thick.
ADoLPH OcHs, of Chattanooga, has shown
what enterprise and push will do, no matter
how discouraging the surroundings Twelve
| years ago he was newsboy. To-day he is the
| owner of the Chattanooga Daily Times. and is
worth quite comfortable fortune He has de-
voted his energies to building uQ the South, and
| his journal is one of the most influential in the
State.
THERE is very little nonsense about Hester
| Morris, of Wyoming Territory. She is the first
woman appointed Justice of the Peace in the
| United States. Justice Norris has a square jaw
| and determined phiz. Her corkscrew curls are
| judiclay severe in their lay and when she
| g1vesa decision there is no appeal. Anybody
| who kicks is Immediately fined $50 for contempt
| There may not be an extraordinary amount of
! law about Hester, but there's heap of justice
Col. VIsscHER, the humorous poet of St.
| Joseph Mo, was appointed mail agent on
Western road some years ago. but had hardly
entered on his duties when a money package
was stolen from his car, and he had some diff
Guilty in satisfying the department that it was
| not his fault. A few days later his train left
| the track and he sustained broken ankle He
| then sent in his resignation. with the words:
| II am tired of holding position where | have
| one foot in the penitentiary and the other in
| the grave"
A CITIZEN of Chicago bet $50 with Gleason
the horse tanner, that the latter couldn't Bride
harness. and drive certain big brown mare in
less than twenty-five minutes. She hadn't been
Dridled in three months and was a kicker The
| horse tanner within nine minutes from the time
| she led into the ring had bridled her, tied
| tin cans to her tail, hitched her to buggy and
| driven her. He turned the money over to the
| NewsboYs' Home of Chicago, saying that he
didn't gamble, but made the bet to show the
better that he understood his business better
| than the better did.
PROF. A. E. SoLoDER, of Calcutta, recently
registered at a hotel in Elmira N. Y. He had
| ~ q
House in that city, but had been refused by the
clerk who did not like his appearance. Prof
SOloder claims to be a native of the Fiji Islands,
and says that he was once a cannibal. He is n
| years of age, swarthy in complexion aud fan
| tastic in dress. Those who saw his quarrel
| with the clerk of the Rathbun House say that
| Soloder was angry enough to return to his can
| nibalistic habits Perhaps he knew. however
| that an American hotel clerk is not too tender
| as general thing.
Mr. MTLBuRN, the blind chaplain of the
Natotonal House of Representatives had
particularly weak voice when he was % years
of age. He was very delicate and it was not
| believed that he would not live many years
| However, he went through a course Of vocal
| training and developed his lung power so eff
| fectualy that he began to improve and now at
the age of 90 he possesses singularly musical
| and resonant voice, and his health is as pefect
as possible for a man of his years. Mr.. Miiburn
| is greatly beloved in Washington both in Con-
| greSs and in society.
SNAKE story from San Luis Potosi, Mexico,
| is as follows: "A family succeeded in catching
| a baby rattlesnake with forked stick and do
mesticating It. It grew to be fourteen feet In
| length and became tame and playful, never
| showing anger when handled by the children,
though never allowing any enetouoh its raft lea
| II followed its master like dog, Recently
| many OF the houses were struck by l2btpiue
| The snake seeing the bolts falling fast around
the home Of his infancy. determined 70 die for
its benefactors, and forthwith climbed 10 the
roof, and in perpendicular position standing
on its head shook its rattleS violently NJ the
heavens, defying the lightning The electricity
attracted by this living lightning rod reduced
to ashes the noble animal and the house" No
affidavit goes with this.
A. j. MoULDER, of Cincinnati, has remarka-
bly, intelligent cat which he calls "Ugo Talbo.
The other night Mr.. Moulder came home with
his feet wet. He couldn't find his bootiack. and
as his boots were a size too small he couldn't
remove them anyhow. While he was searching
for the boot-drawing appliance the cat came
into the chamber remained moment listening
to its masters complaints aud his opinion of the
missing implements spiritual deserts and then
withdrew. Leaving the house, the cat went di-
rectly in the garden of an adjoining house.
looked up at chamber window and exalted its
voice in a song of prodigious power. In few
moments the window above was thrown up and
something was hurled out with tremendous
force. striking the earth near the performer IL
was a bootiack and 'Ugo," without waiting TO
finish the note which he had inst ATTACKED