The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THREE SISTERS of the famous John Leech, of
Punch" having long supported themselves by
teaching school, are now in age in actual want,
| and subscription is being taken in England
| for their relief.
THE paper money in Chill is so deprecated in
value that guest at hotel ordinarily pays
| $500 day for his accommodation. At one
| time only few years ago calico sold for $4,000
ayard in these deprecated bills.
AcCoRDING to a frst-class authority horse
flesh is largely eaten in Alsace, Germany. Tie
choice cuts are retailed for about s cents per
| pound, and the ordinary, cents. large
quantity is used in the manufacture of sausages.
AMovEMENT is on foot to raise funds with
| which to provide home for Wine-mah, the
| Indian woman who saved the life of Col
| Meacham land the lives of many others, and
| also to erect a monument over the colonels
| grave
A 7-YEAR-oLD INCENDIARY has developed in
Jersey City. His first work was a complete
success the entire structure a barn. with the
contents. being destroyed. He explains that he
thing"
A TRAINED BEAR, which escaped from its
Italian master, has been demolishing small live
stock in the country about Lynne, Conn
Sportsmen with their loaded rifles have been
looking for bruin. but he sleeps with "one eye
open, and at last accounts was still at large
AT CAMBRIDGE MASS, a woman whose child
was run over by an ice cart, Tut not badly
| injured, became almost frantic for revenge
! She attempted to get it on the driver, but, he
| being the quicker runner, she returned to the
horse and plunged knife up to the handle in
| theanimafs flank.
| BROTHER Of one of the lady teachers who
| persisted during a blizzard in Dakota recently,
visited that section for the purpose of removing
| the remains to the old home in the east. In set
Ting up with the school directors where she
| had been teaching, they made him discount %
| per cent. of the amount due her, because she
! had not finished the term.
| COUNTESS CHENDoN DE BRIALLEss, known in
! Paris as n clever amateur actress has got her.
| self talked about by a recent balloon trip she
| made with her husband The cars werh too
| slow to suit this couple, and so they started in
n balloon from Paris FOR their country seat at
| Epernay. What is more, they got there safely,
| and descended IN the grounds of their chateau
| before their servants and furniture had arrived.
| A PROFESSIONAL TYPEwRIrING MATCH for a
purse of $500, between Frank E. McGurrin, of
| Salt Lake City, and Louis Traub, of Cincinnati,
| was won in the latter city by the first
named contestant The conditions Of
| the match were That each man
| should write forty five minutes from dictation
| and the same length of time from copy 1t was
| agreed that only legal matter should be used.
| McIurrin wrote 6, 100 words in ninety minutes
| an average of over 96 words per minute.
Traub wrote G93S words in the same time.
SEA. CLIFF, Queens county. New York be-
| came agitated over the destruction of her oaks,
| and sent to State Entomologist Lintner a num-
| ber of twIgs broken off by the wind. Upon ex-
animation Prof. Intner found the cause to be
| depredations by the beetle known as EIaphidon
| parellelum, or oak pruner. After the egg is
| laid on the tip the larva burrows itself in the
| wood, and at its changing period cuts around
| the section just beneath the bark, so that the
first strong wind breaks off the twig, 1t is said
the best way to kill these insects is to burn the
| twigS
JAMES KING. a foreman in foundry in
Birmingham, Conn, having been killed while
at WORK several months ago, it is now reported
| according to a dispatch to a New Haven paper
| that his little son Arthur has actually grevel
| himself to death in consequence. The child
was just beginning to talk, aud as the days
| went by he would constantly call Papa papar
| and he grew thinner day by day. Ten days
| since his mother took him to New York. hoping
that change of scene would effect cure, but
| it did not. On Saturday brain trouble set in
| and he died on Monday"
A CURIOUS idea to relative value is given
| by the publicat In the same issue of a St.
Paul newspaper of TWO local court items, one
| of which states that certain railroad company
has been sued for 5000 damages by the ad-
ministrator Of a citizen who lost his life, it is
| alleged, by the negligence of some of the COM
| pany's employees. Tle second item is to the
| effect that another railroad corporation has
been sued by an engineer who wishes to obtain
| $4,000 as recompense for the loss of his foot
| Wncn was Dadly injured while he was tempo
| rarlly acting as brakeman.
WORTHY PORK BUTCHER, sitting quietly in
his shop at the foot of a small hill at Evreaux
France, few days ago, was surprised to see a
| dragoOn in full uniform come sailing through
| the window and land on the counter at his side A
military wagon loaded with stores had been
| coming down the hill when the horses had run
away. and, being brought up with round turn
| at the foot of the hill, had projected the sol
der, who was part of the freight, bodily through
1 b1rtp
| another received serious injuries, and the
butcher is suffering from the shock.
| ''SoME TINE AGO" says Nature, ian English
| resident at Canton Mr. Pitman, bought a curl
| Gus monstrosity-a with six legs The
| front part of the body is simple-that is che
| animal has one head, one thorax and two front
| legs. Behind all the organs are double NJ
| Bezaure, the French consul at Canton per
| suaded Mr.. Pitman to let him have this strange
| creature for the Paris museum of natural his
| tory, where it may now be seen. 1t is white
| with great black spots, and appears to be in
| perfcct health. The separation of the two
/ tn seems to begin after the dorsaI vertebree,
| buu me animal is fat that this cannot be
| precisely determined"
GEORGE A. KNIGHT the 14-year-old son of a
| Cleveland tO) citizen, died last week from the
| effects OF what at first seemed a slight injury
Several weeks ago the boy was accidentally
| shot in the hand by blank cartridge in toy
pistol. Physicians dressed the wound and
pronounced it not serious. 1t was apparently
| doing well until one day last week. when Young
| knights mother discovered a piece OF wadding
| in the hand. On the following day the cords in
| The boys neck began to swell, and q doctor
| who was summoned stated that tetanus had set
| in. A council of physicians was held and
| everything was done for the sufferer that
| science could suggest, but to no purpose. m
CAPT, SHAW, the well known chief of the Lon
| don fire brigade, in magazine article on the
| protection of dwelling houses from fire, says
there is a great deal of faulty construction in
houses in consequence of architects being sell
dom employed. Cracked walls are almost sure
to give way in case Of fire. Party walls should
be carried al least three feet above the highest
part of the roofs. All roofs should be provided
with windows or openings by which the inmates
of house could escape in the event of the stairs
becoming impossible. The best materials for
stairs is wrought iron and the worst stone since
| the latter yields to an amount Of heat which
does not affect ordinary respiration. When
ever q house has both wooden and stone stairs
the inmates should, in Gaze of fire, invariably
make for the wooden stairs, as afording the
only hope of escape"
THE territory lying between Coomebarabran
and Cooah, Australia, is literally overrun with
mice. The pests came by millions and have
| hat To-