The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Is GERMANY successful efforts have been made
to photograph bullets fired from gun. the
air waves caused by the bullets are clearly
/ shown in the photographs.
POSTMASTER Klaus, Of jamestown. OAK tells
the story that ne once bargained away for
bottle of champagne a business lot IN the town
that recently sold for 3 ,OOO.
HyRE is a most remarkable Alternative coin
cidence: An Englishman named John Halght,
who lives at Haight Carroll county, Md, will
be IS years old the eighth day Of the elShth
month (August). 1883.
An investigation OF the list of persons in
France who have the decoration of the Legion
| OF Honor has revealed that more than two hun
dred obtained it by bribery or improper means
Their names will be stricken off
Miss SADIE CROSBY of Elgn has fashioned
from the snow in the dooryard of her fathers
residence a number of statues of men and
animals which have attracted great deal of
attention on account of their perfection.
A SINGAPORE missionary says that the deadly
cobra of the Indian archipelago never exceeds
the length of five feet. The hamadryas, a
snake often COMPOUNDED with the cobra. attains
the length of Is feet, and is very fierce. The
python sometimes grows to be - feet long.
THE cross-eyed man has found his province at
last. 1t is lovemaking on the sly An Indiana
farmer. whose daughter ran away with a cross
eyed farm hand. declared that he never could
tell when his hired man was looking at his
daughter and therefore he didn't suspect him.
A PLANT has been discovered in India which,
when chewed, obliterates absolutely the sense
of taste for the time being. Waking ND with
bad taste in the mouth will soon, doubtless, be-
come a thing of the past and the occupation of
spreading carmine paint by starlight will have
lost one of its terrors.
EAST SAGINAW, Mich, has a Thirteen Club
composed of young men. part of the initia-
tory ceremony consisted in having the NOUS
tache shaved off. Death has no terrors proba-
bly,. for young men who could voluntarily make
such sacrifice, and will most likely ignore
them on his annual rounds.
ELEcTRICITY has done much for civilization,
but its possibilities, it seems, have not been ex-
hsusted. An electric birch" has been invented
by which refractory school pupils can be pun
lshed TO nicely and no marks be left 1t is
suggested that Edison or some one else will soon
| invent process of converting sinners by cleo
| tricity.
YORK RIVER is the largest and deepest water
way penetrating the Atlantic coast of North
America. Sixty mites from its mouth. at the
| junction of the Mattapony and Pamunkey, the
two rivers which form it, it is 40 feet deep, and
| opening down toward its mouth, approaching
| the Chesapeake bay and the capeS it is largely
over 100 feet deep. The river is really an arm
| of the sea.
In paper on the strength of different kinds
of wood for building purposes, Prof. Johnson
calls attention to the fact, as now demonstrated,
| that many cheaper kinds of timber may prove
valuable for structures than more more eXpen-
sive varieties, which have been supposed to be
| stronger, and, therefore, more desirable. Thus,
| pine supports or pillars have been found
stronger than oak ones, when tested in large
samples.
HENRY STAYAB of San Francisco, is declared
by one of the papers of that city to be con-
structed upon the dual principle of Dr. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde. For whole weeks it is said, his
complexion is of a light yellow, resembling that
of an ordinary Spaniard. Then suddenly his
skin will turn to an Ethiopian black. that his
| friends cannot recognize him except by his
| clothes 1t has been noticed that when wearing
! the light complexion he is jOvial and fond of
| society, but when black he pulls his hat down
| over his eyes, becomes morose, and seeks to
avoid recognition by his friends.
NEAR Egypt, in Chatham county, N. c., while
| James Gilmore was operating his cotton gin it
suddenly stopped He was puzzled to account
| for this sudden stoppage. On careful examina-
| ton he found negro, one of the employees
lying under the Overshot wheel, his head
wedged between the wheel and rock in the
| bed of the stream. The negro while riding on
| the shaft of the wheel, had been thrown from
| his balance. his head striking under the wheel
| Gilmore pulled him cut in an unconscious state
! and went for doctor. On returning to his
| great surprise, he found the negro walking
| about. The adamantine skull OF the negro
| saved his life.
THE great deer range of the country is in
Northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota
| The Indians slaughter great numbers of them
but the deer still continue numerous A St
| Paul paper says: You might as well talk
| about eXterminating the ducks, cranes, g1Ills
| pecans and all kinds of water fowl which
breed up in the Peace River country, 500 miles
| northwest of Winnipeg. There are about 20 900
saddles of venson handled here year. Some
| times this amount is exceeded, as in 1873. when
| the prairie fires got into the timber and drove
| the deer into the settlements. One firm here
| dresses five or six hundred deerskins year The
| deer fur is of no commercial value, but the skin
| is made into mOccasins and into the buckskin of
| the stores"
| DoLPH RICHARDSON, of Bloomington H. was
| an inveterate politician, and spent the greater
part of his time saving his country, or at least
| his own ward Meantime his wife worked hard
| and late, in a brave effort to make both ends
meet but found it discouTaging business, and
| finally grew very tired One day her patriotic
| husband rushed in with the declaration that he
wanted his dinner instantly, as he must be back
| to the polling place inside of five minutes He
| sat up to the table, and moment later his wife
| placed before him glass of water and platter
| heaped up with election tickets. Mr.. Richard
| son was not SLOW Co perceive the grim humor of
| the thing, and abjured politics as business,
| since which time his larder has been filed with
| something more edible than ballots.
Mrs. ANN FIELDS is an aged lady living near
| Harper's Ferry with her husband, who is old
and infrm. Her principal means Of support is
| by keeping dodgers Recently, a man. supposed
| to be tramp, called at her house and informed
| her that he had overheard a number of men
| planning to rob her late that night. Mrs Fields
| at once prepared to meet the robbers. The doors
| and windows were barricaded, and she put a
kettle of water on the stove. She then cleaned
| an old musket that her husband had carried
| through the war, but it was found that there
| was no shot in the house and but a very small
| supply of powder. She equal TO the occa-
sion, however, and substituted well-seasoned peas
| for shot. About II O'Clock a number of men
went to Mrs. Fields to get a nights lodging
| and, finding the doors locked and the windows
| fastened, although a light was burning within
| suspected that something was wrong. After a
short debate they resolved to burst open the
| few open Mrs. Fields let fly a bucket of hot
water at the supposed robbers, which caused
| them to yell with pain and beat hasty retreat
! Her husband followed up the advantage by
| firing off his musl1et at the backs of the in
| truders, but the peas did very little damage It
was some time before the men could make Mrs
Fields believe they we're not burglars.
| Col j. L. CULBERrsoN, Of Edwardsport. Ind.
tells this story of his experience in 1854 or there.
| abouts, the time of the great migration of
squirrels from the East to the West The
Evansville Courier, which publishes the story,
says that the Colonel is a gentleman of nm
| questioned truth and honesty" lie was a
young man then, and one day took his rifle and
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