The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-17
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| Christian world 16 Al, $50 scholars, 1852, 167
teachers, making grand total of Is, 40O157.
A RoBBER got into farm house in Iowa with
out disturbing the sleeping people, but big dog
! tackled him and tore his throat so that he bed
| to death. He was identified as justice of the
peace.
MAN in Irvona, Pa, has just cut squash
which weighed 40 pounds. 1t was one of a
| family of thirteen all of which grew on a single
vine, and the smallest of which weighed liz
| pounds.
! A LINEMAN of an electric light company in
| Springfield, Mass, found in the glass globe of
| an electric light the body of small gray SPUR
/ rel burned to crisp. 1t is supposed that the
animal had been attracted by the brilliant glow
| to the top of the tall pole where the light was
and had fallen into the globe by accident.
| An ESGLIs H TRAVELLER told a Belize Honduras,
newspaper man that he had eaten a scorpion
pie" while in Mexico, and that he liked it. The
| natives told him that young scorpions were fire.
quently utilized for food for the lower classes,
| who dig them from their nests in hundreds, re-
move the sting, and make omeetS of them
| IT HAS been ascertained that an ordinary man
weighing 154 pounds has in his composition:
| Oxygen, 81 pounds; hydrogen, IS pounds; nitro.
gen, pounds: chlorine, , pounds; dourine,
| ounces; carbon. 2S pounds; phosphorus,
! pounds; calcium, 3 pounds; sulphur, ounces,
and potassium, sodium and iron. each ounces
On FEB. %, according to Spanish custom,
the girls may properly exercise the greatest
! freedom in showing their affection for their
| favored SWANS. To hug and kiss them even is
| considered good form. American boys have
4 not manifested any repugnance at the thought
| of the custom becoming prevalent in this
| country.
| For SPEED in making matrimonial matches
Dakota is in the lead. A young lady in Scot
| land D. T, named Louise Shock was married to
| a a rfA-
| ceiving an introduction to him. The match was
! not made through correspondence. for neither
| one had ever heard of the other until the day
| they married.
| The ACCOMMODATED, recently invented,
| not only records the distance passed over by
the vehicle or whatever it is attached to, but
also the course taken and the difference of level
! and topography of the ground. Women will
not think they have their full rights until they
! can compel their husbands TO carry autograph
| ometers on lodge nights
THE coolest place in the West is said to be the
town of Halleck, on the Central Pacific Rail
way. II is built at the very bottom of a valley
that extends due North nearly to the Arctic
| Circle. and railroad men say that this valley
| acts as great natural wind pipe which brings
| the coolest blasts of the North Pole straight
| down to the unlucky village.
| JERSEY CITY MAN who deals in second hand
| furniture found $500 in an old lounge which he
was repairing. He was honest so be sent word
| to the man from whom he had purchased the
| lounge. 1t turned out that the man who sold
the lounge had hiddel the money in it when he
| was drunk, and forgotten all about it. Their he
| had accused his wife of taking it, and the row
| that ensued broke up the family and caused the
| sale of the furniture.
! A TEAM became frightened while crossing a
bridge, near Mt. Clements. Mich, recently and
one of the horses leaped over the bridge rail
| The other animal didn't go over, but braced
| himself as 10
| didn't break. his fellow was thus suspended in
| the air. feet up and - feet from the ground
The owner cut the straps expecting the next
| moment to have an equine with broken back
! on his hands. but the horse turned like a cat.
| landing on his feet, shook himself, and was
| ready to resume business.
| AN old Lake Superior steamboat captain says
| that nothing is ever done when a man falls over
board on that body of water. The reason, he
alleges, is that the water of the lake is so cold
| that a man cannot live in it during the time it
| takes to stop rapidly -moving vessel and lower
! boat In twenty years he never knew but
| one man who fell overheard who escaped death
| Others were apparently killed by the shock
| produced by falling into such cold water 1t is
| said, too, that the lake never gives up its dead
| and sailors aver that no corpse was ever seen
| floating on the lake.
| A NUMBER of Rochester young men, who went
| hunting for rabbits near Pike, n Y, had a
| series of thrilling and chilling adventures. AS
| one of them was chasing a rabbit through the
! snow drifts be got entangled in a brush fence.
! While trying to eXtricate his feet large brown
animal came laundering through the snow
| The hunter thought it was bear and fired but
| without hitting the animal. Attracted by the
| sound, his companions came up and shot at the
| beast. but without any better success. After
| following the monster some distance they were
| considerably chagrined to find that it was only
| big brown hog.
IT was not until last year that the Moors
| dwellings, which have long been known to exist
some days journey southwest of the city of
| Morocco. This strange city of the cave dwell
| ers is almost exactly like some of those in New
| Mexico and other Territories which archaolo-
! gists have explored. The dwellings, were dug
| out of the solid rock and many of them are
| over 200 feet above the bottom of the valley
| The face of the cliff is in places perpendicular
| and it is believed that the troglodytes could
| have reached their dwellings, only with the aid
| of rope ladders. Some of the dwellings con
| tain three rooms. the largest of which is about
| 17X7 feet. and the walls of the larger rooms are
| generally pierced by windows Nothing is
| known as to who these cave dwellers were
THE speed attained by the bicycles and tricy
cles on good road is superior to that attained
| by fast trotter fer the same distance and as a
| speedy mode of conveyance is only surpassed
| by few OF the fastest steamships and the loco
| motive. Two riders recently rode tricycle. 20
| miles 715 yards i'll one hour, and rode twenty
| five miles in 70 minutes 1878 seconds or at an
! average rate of 2035 miles per hour The me-
| chanical construction of bicycle is well worth
| study. The requisite amount of strength is
| probably obtained with smaller proportion of
/ weight than in any other machine. and consid-
| ering the trying nature of the strains fair
| amount of durability and immunity from break.
| downs is obtained. The price, per pound (alIout
| So of the best and hghtest machines is consid-
! erably in excess of that of almost any other
| machinery.
| Tons OF SMELLS are being sent daily from
Bath, Me, to the New York and Boston mar
kets. The fishermen have erected village of
shanties on the ice in Back River, Arrowsic.
| The ice serves as flooring for the shanties
| which are large enough to contain two men and
| q stove small hole is cut through the ice
| and the fisherman plies his vocation indoors
! Some of the smelters who fish in the open air
are protected from the chllln blasts by screens
| of cotton cloth stretched between two posts
| When the weather is cold they build bonfires on
| the ice to keep them warm. Most any after
| noon from seVenty-five to 200 men and bows
make up the army of smelters and they are a
! ioval set. They get from &c. to Sc a pound for
| what they catch, and they earn from S. TO 81 a
| day each during the smelling season, which
/ lasts during the winter months
| BALLOONS destined for the Italian army in
| Africa were tried recently in the presence Of
several French and foreign officers and aero
nauts. One is to be used at night, and carries
| lamp equal TO seventy candles in power Each
! balloon with its appuFtpnauces iS cooled nm i'm a