The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-16
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WOMAN has been arrested in Elizabeth, N
j.. for highway robbery. She knocked down
her victim, anG held his HANDS while a con-
| federate robbed him of his watch and money.
RECENTLY number of miners of Matthew'S
Station, N c., on completing grave for one of
their number, who had been engaged in gold
mining all his life, struck vein of rich gold ore.
STILL another victim of tobacco. He is a
Chicagoan, aged 81 and has smoked an aver
age of one pound per week for many years.
HIS reasoning powers are completely shattered.
No WONDER Ohio men make famous office
holders One of them, the other day. climbed
bee tree, fell sixty feet and broke fourteen
bones, yet, it is said. will soon be around again.
AT Belleville, Canada, Jerry Murphy, aged 20
years, died the other morning as he sat in his
chair smoking his pipe. He had been on the
street ten minutes before and made no COM
plant to his wife.
CHARLES HOWARD, of Milwaukee, a widely
known Masonic dignitary, but in moderate cir
cumstances has fallen heir to $1,000, 900, left
him by an aunt in England from whom he ran
away when boy.
Miss CARRIE L. Couch, of Center Lisle, n. Y,
recently shot a woodchuck with rife at dis
lance of $50 feet The hunters up there call
this big shooting" but it is not an exceptional
shot for Carrie. her friends say.
IT is SAID that railroads in this country are
ASNACh NNACA
senger coaches. The Providence and Worcester.
and the Philadelphia and Reading roads are
making the change. Experience shows that
yellow outwears any other color
FRANK SoLIcK, the boss bootblack of Chicago,
is able to boast of bank account of $4,000 A
few years ago he was a newsboy. He saved all
the money he earned invested il in a boot
blacking stand, and now stands every chance of
having modest fortune before he is 80.
New YORK BUSINESS man has novel
method Of refreshing his memory When he
has something important to attend to the next
day, ne writes himself postal card, reminding
| him OF the matter, and finding the card among
the mail the next morning, attends to it the first
thing.
A WEST MoRRIs( Pa. )boy was arrested last week
for shooting an eagle contrary to the law. He
was in a fair way to be fined or imprisoned when
a commission composed of a clergyman. q JUS
tice of the peace and an editor sat on the dead
body Of the bird and declared it to be a fish
hawk.
IT may be interesting to the young ladies to
know that to receive the highest price for the
skins of birds worn on the hats of the women
they must be skinned alive So the hunters
and traffickers are trapping the sweet songsterS
and skinning them with half a song in their
Threats.
SOME LADS who discovered birds nest under
| the roof of a railroad bridge in Findlay, O.,
| found that it contained not eggs, but silk
handkerchief in which were wrapped three
dozen plain gold rings. The jewery was given
to the chief of police so that he might If POSI-
bic, discover the owner.
The smallest circular saw in practical use is a
tiny disc about the size of British shilling
which is employed for cutting the Sits in gold
pens These saws are about as thick ordi-
nary paper. and revoves some 1900 times per
minute. The high velocity keeps them rigid,
Notwithstanding the thinness.
SEVERAL enthusiastic Boston gentlemen have
invented a new method for using the surplus in
the United States Treasury. They propose to
abolish usury or interest by having the govern
ment establish depositaries of money at all
necessary points, to loan money without inter
est to all who can give security.
MISS JANE DUTToN, who died In Oakland. Cal
few days ago, at the age of SO years, was a
Forty miner. She went around the horn in that
year, and established a boardinR-house in San
Francisco; and when she died she was worth
over 100000. She was a New Hampshire
spnSter and her property will go to some rela-
tives there.
GEORGE GRAY of Plymouth, Me-, was per
forming on the cross bar of the big barn door
the other day, and as he hung head downward the
bar broke. His head in the fall went between
the door sill and log and had he not been
caught by man standing near undoubtedly
his neck would have been broken. AS it was
his spine was injured in such way that he can
not Sit up, nor move his head, except with his
hands.
A New York BACHELOR. over 20 years of age
recently visited Maine, fell in love with damsel
less than half his age, was accepted and went
home to prepare for the coming of his bride
When all things were in order, instead of coins,
after his betrothed himself, he sent his Younger
brother. The younger man was pleased with
his future sister-n-law, so pleased that he per
suaded her to marry him before starting for
New York.
The Popular Science Netos reports that Medi-
cal Officer Russell, of Glasgow, says that during
the last ten years over 600 900 articles of cloth
ing from persons affected with every kind of
contagiOn known in this country have passed
through the Glasgow laundry, and that in that
time he has never known a case of intercbanged
disease, although the women engaged in the
laundry have occasionally suffered from hand
ling the linen before it was boiled
The 17-year old son Of John Page, of Wash
ington n. c., was told not to visit among the
neighbors until he was entirely recovered from
cutaneous disease. The boy disobeyed and
when Mr.. Page scolded him gave him an i'm
puden answer. At this the father struck the
boy who instantly sprang upon his father cut
severe cash IN his throat, threw him down
and was in a fair way TO kill him, when his
mother and sister saved the fathers life
SHo NEmoTo, a japanese student in the Uni.
versity of Vermont, gives some interesting
IdclS dpOut HIS country lne Japanese, he says,
read more American than English books. Last
year 200 English and 10000 American books
were imported. Until recently all the editors
of all the newspapers were men, but in March
last temperance paper was established in
Toxic by Miss Asa and Mrs Sasaki the lSecre-
tary of the TOXIC Womens Christian Temper
ance Union.
Two large walnut planks were on view in
New York last week before being shipped to the
Brussels and Paris exhibitions. They were
Pinch black walnut planks, 40 inches wide and
y feet long. each one weighing 600 pounds
They were cut in Evansville, Ind, a fortnight
ago. one is perfect, without single flaw
while the other has one small knot in It, about
one inch in diameter. They will both be oiled
and packed, ana the one for the Brussels exhibit
ton will be shipped on Wednesday.
GEN. HENRY RONALD McIvER the kind of man
you read about-in "A Soldier of Fortune Under
Fourteen Flags" of which he is the hero-is
living in New York. He is said to have fought
eight duels not to speak Of more than that
many love affairs The flags he served under
according to the narration, were those of the
East India Company in the Sepoy rebellion,
Garibaldi, Southern Confederacy, Macmillan
Brazil Argentine Republic, Crete Cuba. Egypt
France, Don Carlos, Herzegovina, Servia, and
Greece.
A FISHERMAN, while on Plymouth beach last
Friday, captured a large gray sea gull in a
rather peculiar predicament. Firmly pinched
upon the birds bill was a sea clam about the
size of the palm of mans hand The clam
weighed enough to keep the head of the p1ll
hanging downward. and thus effectively pre-
vented any long fight, while 1t was evidently
nearly exhausted in trying TO escape from its