The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

New YoRK retail merchants find the dogs
which are led by chains by fashionable women
such nuisance IN their stores that many have
put up gilt SIGN reading: Dogs are not ad-
mltted here unless IN arms.
A MAN intoxicated and poorly dressed was
taken to New York station house the other
day On searching him the officers found bank
booFs in has ragged coat which showed That he
had upward of $4,000 to his credit.
SAYS an imaginative statistician: IF Texas
were circular lake and France a circular isl
and, the island could be anchored centrally in
the lake out of sight of land, twenty-five miles
from any point on the encircling shore.
PRINCE PEDRO, Of Brazil, grandson of the
Emperor Dom Pedro H., who visited the United
States two years ago, is to marry the Princess
Henrietta daughter OF the Count OF Flanders
and niece Of King Leopold of Belgium. The
Princess is only II.
The Wash o Indians OF Nevada, have found
new amusement. They pit their squaws
against one another in prize fights No rules
are observed, aud hair pulling, scratching, fight
ing and kicking are permitted The sport see ms
TO have the same fascination for the untutored
savages that pugiIism mas for civilized white
men,
LADY in Greenwood, Mass, gave cat to a
friend living in Somerville, nine miles distant.
The cat was taken at evening, put in box,
which was placed in a buggy and covered With
a horse blanket and carriage robe. The cat was
put in the cellar of its new owner, but escaped
the next day. On the following day 1t turned
up at the old home.
MOUND that was opened near Paris, KY, re-
Gently, contained three skeletons. The remains
lay with their feet tapping together around
small circle. Pieces of mica and large war
club were also found. There was large oak
tree growing from the center Of the mound,
showing that the place must have been used as
a N ri nj tppf nd hun rlrD.fG rfU ~ "a or
A 55-YEARoLp-woMAN was a stowaway on a
steamship that lately landed at New York. She
concealed herself on the vessel previous to it's
departure from Bremen and did not reveal her
self TO the officers until the ship was out hum
dreds of miles at sea. On account OF her age
she was treated kindly, and when she landed
looked well and happy She lived in America
thirty-siX years but for two years had been
visiting the fatherland.
ANOTHER bulk oil-carrying steamship, named
the Chester, built at Greenock. has sailed for
Philadelphia, to load petroleum for the CONT
nent of Europe. Some idea of the vessels size
and capacity can be CLEANED from the fact that
she can carry over 100000 gallons q cargo.
The craft is 80 feet in length, 10 feet beam
and p feet depth of hold, and registers 1851
tons. About dozen similar vessels have already
been built in Europe, especially for carrying
petroleum.
THREE MEN of Chilicothe, o., are about to be-
KIN IDe Dl&nuIaCtufe OF mover scale Tor winch
they hold patents. Instead of weighing in
pounds and ounces it indicates the value of ar
JicleS weighed. For example, if man buys
butter a. 3Dc, a pound an indicator is placed at
30 This so adjusts the scale that the lower in
dlcator shows the value of any weight of butter
at that price that is put on the scales The ma
chimes on this principle will be manufactured
to weigh up to tons.
AT PORTLAND ORE, marriage license was
granted for Burt Kingsley, aged %, and Lizzie
Caldwell, "A years old. Both are deaf and dumb.
John Sherman, who made an affidavit that
there was no legal impeachment to the marriage,
is also mute, and tod his story to the deputy
clerk with his fingers. He claims to be a cousin
OF John Sherman, of Ohio, who is named for
the Presidency. He has wife and two chill
dren, one years and months old, and the
other Il months They. too, are deaf and dumb.
A PATRoLMAN of an imaginative turn of mind
thought he saw a ghost in the graveyard of
Trinity church, New York, the other night.
"He raped for assistance, and he and his side
partner climbed the railing and advanced npon
the ghost with drawn clubs and cooked revol-
vers. Tue ghost was a drunken aqueduct la
borer, calmly sleeping on a grave. Failing to
get the laborer out over the fence, the police
men woke the janitor of the church. We nave
found dead man sleeping on tombstone
said one of them, and cannot get him out
The laborer is now doing time on the island"