The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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A SCHOONER has brought to Boston a fish
| weighing 175 pounds caught in deep sea fish
| ing, that one can name 1t is almost as broad
! as long, bright red and covered with silver
| spots.
| PogTIAC, Mich, will provide gold rings, mar
| rage license, minister, hacks and two pairs of
shoes to the unsophisticated pair who will agree
| to be married on the county fair grounds next
| September.
YOUNG ENGLIsHMAN is said to have written
to his fond uncle the following encouragin let
| ter: Dear Uncle-You have often said that
! you could die happy if | could pass the final
examination for the bar successfully You can
| die happy. Your dutiful nephew
| THEODORE ANDERSON was elected from the
! Highland house, Cincinnati, recently for per
| siSting in wearing his hat during the perform
| ance of NanOn' He thought he had as much
| right to wear his hat the ladies had to wear
| their GaineSborOughs. There is a prospect of a
| lawsuit in the matter,
AT one of the schools for negroes in the south
| the girls learn housekeeping practically by be
ing placed four at a time and for a month at
| time in a cottage, where they live and have
| complete control, under the oversight of a mat
| ron. They keep strict account of their expendi-
! lures, practice economy, and sweep, cook, wash
| and iron.
JUST what punishment ought in justice to be
/
| Mo, is a question. He has been arrested for
| shutting up his l0-ycar old boy in box four
| feet high, and making him stand bent over in it
| for five hours; also for tying the hoy to plank
ana Smedrlng mOaSSeS over his face as to at
| tract flies to torture him.
THE discovery of the pool of Bethesda is an
] nounced. Nothing was known of the pool until
quite recently, when certain works carried on
| by the Algerian monks laid bare a large tank
| or clStern cut in the rock to depth of 30 feet.
| The cistern is 55 feet long from east to west,
| 1214 feet in breadth. and lies under a church.
sister pool lying 60 feet long adioins the first.
THE National Womens christian temperance
| union is preparing to celebrate Frances f.
Wizards 5lst birthday, which is close at hand,
| in an enthusiastic manner. After the company
are sufficiently wound up on green tea, there
| will be toaSts addresses. eulogiStic poems, be
| sides songs and instrumental music. The good
| lady is well worthy of all these honors, and
more.
| AS A RULE, donation parties are a terror and
an everything apprehension to pastors, but
| Rev. c. l.. Fisher. of Reno, New finds himself
an exception just now. Fifty of his parish
| toner's came to his house recently with pro-
visions sufficient, almost, to tide him over next
| winter, and in addition. they left behind them
on table deep glass dish filled with gold and
silver
81 AM glad to learn" says Oscar Wilde, THAT
mourning is gradually going out of fashion in
| London. Few wear it longer than six months
| for the nearest and dearest relation, excepting
perhaps widows and they not always. In fact,
many never don it at all now regarding the
observance of such law as heathenish | am
| truly glad the fashion is dying ont. To my
| notion there has always been something repul-
| sive in it.
KIND deeds never die" An old lady in vir
ginia goes into her orchard every evening and
| turning her face toward the north prays fer
| ypntly a
| seems that during the war her son. a confeder-
ate soldier, was the recipient of some acts of
kindness at the generals hands while prisoner
| within the federal lines. The boy was badly
wounded, but lived long enough to tell his
! mother. who had come to him, how huunanelv
| he had been treated and this the old lady has
| never forgotten.
THE mouse pest in Australia is much worse
than the rabbit pest. The climate is SO soft
| that they have thrived enormously, and there is
said TO be hardly residence or store that is
| not pestered by the plague. In some places
they are 80 thick that, in order to get the stock
| properly fed men have to watch while they are
eating their provender The week before the
! COoah races the vermin got in the boxes at the
| stations, and actually ate the bandages off the
| horses legs, while from every side come tales
of crops devoured so rapidly that many fields
| have had tobe abandoned, what was left not
| being worth reaping."
TIE customs division of the treasury depart
|
medicines as exported from Hankow and the
other Yangtze ports. which comprises such
| preparations as tigers boneS, ground blood
| asses glue tree bugs, elephants gall,
| bears gall, fossil crabs fossil teeth, fowls siz
| yards, insects of nine smells Jobs tears COW
hair, glass rhinoceros horns cows knee puff
| balls, dragons teeth, straw, hedgehog skins
| dried silkworms, snake skins, crabs eyes horse
tails and centipedes. " This list is an interest
| ing one, and indicates that the Chinese ph v
| stefan ministers not merely to bodily but tc
mental and moral weaknesses
| THE Prince Of Wales recently attended the
church of St. Botolph Without onlTrnity Sun.
day, and the result of his visit was an expendi
ture account by tho Parish authorities of e23G
! los Cd Among the items were: Prayer and
HYMN books to order; renovrting prayer book
and Bible, Els. - -Four book markers 81 IS q
| "NiOlet cloth frontal embroidered and fringed
| 80 los. 6e." Ribbons and silk for ditto, CT Os
| Id Cupboard for ditto. "a l5S " Paid DO
! lceman for taking man into custody, los; paid
! policeman for taking woman into custody 2S
Sd The bill was allowed in spite of opposition
! rather than permit an Improbable scandal -
| But why do Engllshmen have to pay policemen
| for arrests
A TALL slim, dyspeptic looking youth, but
not altogether ill-favored witbal, is James G.
Blaine Jr., who spends most of the time nova
days lounging about the corridor of the Fifth
| Avenue hotel. New York generally listlesslv
| reading papercOvered novel Perhaps he will
| be less indoent IN his way when he fills out and
| his eye has something of the sparkle that his
| fathers used to have. But he dees not impress
one as OF sturdy stock or likely to make q mark
! in the world through energy. One of the odd
| things that Miss Justice in this town of ours
| sees is how rarely the sons of great men amount
| TO much or the descendants ofthe rich continue
| to be- rich Perhaps it is just as well for the
country, taking everything by and large, for it
/ il prevents any possible invasion OF the heredty
| principle in the management of our affairs
! PRoF CsRTIUs, who was an intimate friend
| of the Emperor William l.. recently told this
| anecdote in Berlin: when William was king
| of Prussia but an exile in England. he witnessed
| the tremendous enthusiasm displayed by all
| London in front of buckingham palace after the
! welknown attempt on Queen Vctoria's life.
| when she slightly wounded, and he was
| present the same night IN the queens box at
! her ma jesty's theater, when the ovation of the
audience on seeing the queen enter knew no
bounds. Struck by his own anomalous position
an exile at the hands Of his own subjects and
his kingdom on the point Of destruction
king could not restra his tears; but the dtIeen
seeing his great emotion seized his hand and
with true womanly instinct divining its cause
said in an affectionate and sympathetic voice
Your majesty will live 10 experience n similar
demonstration toward yourself from your own
subjects
THERE Is something at once entertaining and
instructive about tho way In which the Bou-
hanger Floquet duel is treated by the religions
press. That dueling is wicked all agree; but in
this particular case, there was something so
dehciously appropriate IN the finale. such a