The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-02
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fective non conductive covering for steam pipes.
The price is high, but the demand is very great.
THE first stone dwelling at the famous Eureka
Springs is now being put up for a Baptist
minister, and stone from Lord Byron's grave
and another from the owners birthplace in
England are to be built in the walls.
FOREST FIRES, at last accounts, still ragged in
Arenas county, Michigan, and many farmers
had to turn out and battle with the flames in
an endeavOr to save their homes. No rain of
any consequence has fallen there in three
months
LITTLE Arthur Herberts of Chicago, is
marvel of erudition for his years, Although
only 10 years old he has read through the entire
"Lad" Of Homer in the original Greek, and
can translate passage from any part of 1t
accurately and without hesitation.
The editor of temperance paper at Effing
ham. ILL.,, publishes every month list of the
men seen drunk in the streets of the town. A
citizen whose name appeared in the list denied
that ne was drunk and sued the lady, who was
fined rs by justice of the peace. She APP
pealed.
THE sum of 800 was deposited in a Hartford
Comm bank in 1924 and never drawn out,
while the person who placed it there had been
dead for several years. The heirs TO the money
who only recently learned Of its existence will
receive, besides the principal oyer 81, 800, repre-
senting the accrued interest.
SAN FRANCISCO newspapers are discussing the
wonderful strength of Hans Hansen, seaman
on the revenue cutter Corwin now in the barbor
there. For raising disturbance on board ship
he was put in irons, but giving his wrists a sud
den wrench he snapped the tough steel bracelets
as II they had been made of paper.
JUDGE II. CLINTON CowIEs, who has Just died
in Empire, Col, was famiiarly known in the
west as Trail Blazer" He was New Yorker
Dy blrth, apd was the pioneer man of law" in
the unsettled territory. He was the favorite
Judge of the old-time miners, and no one
thought of appealing from his decisions.
In 1910, Henry Mogel father of County Treas
urer Mogel, of Reading, Pa, caught turtle on
his farm and cut into its back the initials ''H
NJ, 1Sl0.N 1t not again until
few days ago when the county treasurer dis
covered it alive and well not more than 10 feet
from where his father had found it seventy
eight years before.
A YOUNG LADY of St Louis, who has inherited
a beautiful suit of red hair, is about to enter
tain her friends in novel manner. None are
to partake of her hospitality whose heads can
not show the desired tnge. Even the attend
ants are to be of the redheaded order, and
carriages drawn by white horses will be at the
service of the guests
BY watching where doctors visit, and then
playing with vigorous industry in front of a
house or near it until somebody sends them
some money and a request to move on some
organ grinders in New York have been doing
thrifty business; but there are many signs of
popular revolt, as complaints to the newspapers
indicate. Grinding fate, all round.
THE first accident of the season in the Aus
TRAN Alps is reported 1t was not as usual due
to foolhardiness, but to the breaking of bridge
on which the victim, young Vienna merchant,
Herr Reinisch, and friend were walking
Both tourists were preciptated fifty feet to the
stream below Herr Reinlsch was drowned but
the friend succeeded in saving his life
AN Indifferent actor, who bitterly resented the
German journalist Saphir's criticisms, revenged
himself by chalking on his door the word lass 3"
Saphir, who recognized the hand, dressed him
self very carefully the next day and returned
the call. You were kind enough to paw me a
visit yesterday he said, las 1 saw by the
name, so permit me to return the civiity."
THE dead Cinnamon are buried in the same
manner as American people-in the earth-but
the bodies are put down deeper to keep them
out of the reach of the evil spirit. who is sup
posed by the Cinnamon to stalk abroad at night,
counting the tombstones Of his victims, No
ornaments are placed over the graves so that
the evil ones attention is not attracted to the
spot.
WHEN people pirate of novelties found only In
Paris, confound them by stating that the tall
lamps which decorate fashionable drawing
rooms are unknown to the conservative Partisan
households. Two of these piano lamps" as
they are sometimes called, were carried over as
gifts in June and set up in one of the most
elegant apartments in Paris, where they in
instantly created a sensation. French taste has
been forced to admit that American taste is to
the front In the matter of lamps at least.
THE famous Bahia or Bendego meteorite was
landed in Rio de Janeiro June IS, and is now
in the collection of the Brazilian national
museum. The transportation of this great mass
of iron, whose weight was variolisly estimated
from SIX to nine tons, and which has been found
to weigh 5,36l Kilograms, was rendered possible
says Science, by the recent completion of a line
of railroad passing within 115 kilometers of the
Bendego creek where it has lain since the nm
successful attempt to remove it to Bahia in
1885
A NEVADA LAWYER recently defended China
man who was on trial for some misdeed. He
told the jury that the Chinaman was a lone and
helpless stranger in strange land: that he
should be dealt with lenientlv: that he mad
parents and family in distant Catbay who
would weep their hearts out if he were con.
victed. He embraced the Chinaman; he put
his arms around his neck>in the open court and
wept tears OF bitter agony on his blouse The
jury acquitted him. The Chinaman in his graf
itude came up after the trial and shook hands
fervently with the lawyer.
THE American ship A S. Ropes, en- route
from New York to San Francisco has nut into
Providence, r. L., for repairs On July 49, while
the vessel was in latitude 800, longitude &C., the
top spars suddenly began falling to the deck
AT the time, Capt. Rivers says: I'VE we're sail
ing along with six-knot breeze from the east
northeast heading southeast by the wind
There was no perceptible change in the wind or
atmosphere either before or after the accident
and the only way can account for it is that
whirlwind passed in the upper air, Just high
enough to strike the spars~
PROF. F. w. CRAGIN of Washburn college dis.
covered at Downs, Osborne county Kansas, the
petrifled remains of huge fossil. Prof. Cragin
pronounces it the most remarkable specimen
found since 1877. He thinks il belongs to either
the lchthyosaurus or the mosasurlIs species
probably the latter. The animal complete was
little over 1G feet in length. The Jaws meas.
ure feet inches, the mock is between and 4
feet long, and the bodyiabout feet long and q
or feet through. II had immense teeth about
inches in length, and each pair worked inde-
pendent of the rest like pairs of hooked shears
The animal was of such gigantic proportions it
would have been able to crush a horse in its
massive jaws and must have been king of the
water 1t had tiippers quite similar to a SEAL
and It's feet, two iii number, were short 1t is
plain that 1t was an aquatic animal of the rep
lillian age.
STORIES about Old Put are in order since the
erection of the Putnam monument. A CORE.
spondent of Connecticut newspaper tells this
one, which he says he got first hand in 1889
from Samuel Greene, revolutionary pensioner
then living at Bernardston, Mass. The veteran
served under Putnam in the battle of BROOKLYN
Heights. He represented Putnam as a man
who used vigorous lnnOuava on ocoaSiop