The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

preparing to SOW 16, 600 acres with grain thi
winter He IS to use sixty eight eight hors,
plows, it is said.
The eccentric bachelor of Ann Arbor, Mich.
who three months ago was wlled 100000 OF
condition that he marry within five years ha
since been flooded with proposals They cam,
from women, young and old, in nearly all part
of the country.
SPuRGEoN FERRY. once a popular Congrega
tional minister of New Jersey, and who made ;
fortune of nearly St,O00.0D0 out of patent meii
clnes only to lose it in ste uiaUion, was recen.l
sent TO the almShouse at FlatbuSh as O pauper
lie has been living for some time past in Brook
lyn. He is 50 years old.
| GLASGOW CLERGYMAN who has been as
tonishing his congregation by the brilliancy o.
many of his sermons-though he was remarka
ply prosy in eXtemporizing prayers-is con
nearly all been preached III this country before
| they got in the way of his unconscious 40
| Sorption."
The new law relating to presidential elections
likes the second Monday in January as the day
on which the electors shall meet to cast thel,
| ballots FOR President. Anothe' change REQUIRES
| the governors of the states to forward to the
| Secretary OF State at Washington the vote cast
Tor each elector certified to by the state board
| OF canvassers.
AN ARABIAN pony belonging to John H.
| wilson of Norristown, was kicked in the law
py a stable mate on Sept. II, and his jaw
| pIoken. by careful attention the wound was
healed, but from the day on which it was in
| hlcted until last week the pony was fed with a
| spoon. Last week he had sufficiently recovered
TO De allowed small quantity of cats.
THERE arrived at Minneapolis last week a
| queer load of cattle in the shape of herd of
eighty.three buffaloes. The heard is the famous
orc ralsed since 1871 by Warden Benson, of
! stony mountain, y. w. IT. The enimals have
| been bought by c. J. Jones, of Garden City,
| NAN, who has Tor some years been making a
| special study of the buffalo, and who has at
| present herd OF about fifty his ranch in
| Kansas.
REPORT has been made to the central board
of health of Melbourne, describing an outbreak
| of diphtheria, the cases occurring almost stimuli
| taneously in the neighborhood of Dalesford
One child died. but the others are progressing
| Iavoraoly The local health officer has fur
| nlShed report pointing out the strong priDl0
| IGcie evidence that the children contracted the
dlSeaSe from cats numbers of which are diving
| In the neighborhood.
| MAsoNs will be interested IN the invention by
| an eastern man Of two kinds of plastering com
position That to be used for the first coat con-
| ssts of sand, sawdust plaster of paliS slaked
| lime, sugar and carbonate of soda while that
| Tor the second coat is made of cream of tartar
pumlce stone. sugar, lime and plaster OF paris
| each composition being compounded and applied
| IN proportions and after q manner described
| Both compositions have been patented.
FRED MATHER, the ell-known fish culturist.
has been making some very interesting exneri
mentS with the microscope, which prove that
there are 100000 eggs in an eel How and
When these eggs are Matched has already been
and still is, q mystery All that is kno-vu de,
tnltely is that the Old eeiS run down to salt
water In October, and that in the spring
sWarms OF young ones, the size of darning
needle and about two inches long, ascend the
rivers.
A FOX climbed a tree near West Chester.
Pa, the other day to escape the hounds. and
when discovered was psrched among the
branches forty feet from the ground The 'tsjv
one" rushed at a lad who attempted to dislodge
It, and afterward jumped over him to the
ground and made OF Il was finally run down
stuffed, inasmUch as it is thought to be the only
toX ever caught i'll Chester county which had
climbed a tree.
THERE are probably very few people who
know the name of the inventor of the Wheel
barrow. That sculptor, painter, architect.
engineer-in fact, many-sided genius and
universal scholar, Leonardo da Vinci of Italv-
the man who painted the original picture of
The Last Supports the inventor of the
wheelbarrow His fertile brain conceived the
idea about the year Columbus discovered
America. 1t is hardly possible to think of
man who was touched with the highest order of
the divine art of painting bringing himself
down TO the dlametrically opposite study of a
case says history.
A COAL DEALER in the suburbs of Boston re-
lates the Budget, was called upon at his office
by poor, hard-working woman, and requested
to send basket of coal to her house. 1--WE do
not deliver less than quarter of ton" But
l cannot pay for so much, was the pitiful CON
fession, "and have left my little children at
home in a freess room What am to dog''
WELL" returned the dealer, a kindlier light
oeaming IN his eye cannot depart from my
rules as 10 the quantity" Then, turning to
his clerk, he continued John, have a quarter
of ton of coal sent to the woman's address as
soon as possible" But | cannot nav for so
much she expostulated. Il already under
stana mat you can't, SO will charge it to the
children. Give yourself no more uneasiness
about the debt than they will be liable to do.
Good morning
''CLERGYMEN in New York are beginning to
lose their grip" said the correspondent of a
famous English newspaper yesterday I'm the
Hoffman house. 81 have boon cabling across
the wafer now for fourteen years, and I hive
had to watch the drift of public opinion very
closely. For long while New York could he
depended on TO fly into furry ut almost any
time when ministers began to talk Last week
however. half the clergymen in town uttered
the most fierce and bitter diatribes against
dancing. and yet no. the slightest bit of public
attention was attracted by it. l do not think
that this shows that the hold of the cergvmen
has become less strong upon the people as much
as it indicates that New York is CROWN IL,
size. IL is becoming more of metropolis and
less OF a town. The fact is, tn. Sc indications
are the strongest that one can suggest"
THERE is lady now living in Cleveland. @
upon whom an electric shock has left the most
remarkable traces. Some fourteen years ago.
during thunder storm, she was so shocked as
to be partly paralyzed for some days. and since
then, whenever there is a storm though she
suffers no pain and retains speech and con.
seriousness. she loses all muscular power mud
only regains it when the weather cTows cain
She feels sharply the difference in a storm con
fined to the upper currents and one that stirs
all the aerial deeps In a mountainous breezy
region she says, the electric influence is not so
strong as in one where the land is level and the
air measurably calm. The only preventive she
has is to go indoors and shut herself in n room
darkened and lit with gas. Even there if the
storm lasts few hours she is overcome BY H.
though the fall or absence of rain makes but
little difference in her condition
TIE foreign ministers at the court of Morocco
seem to have few genuine grievances The
sultan regards them as very undesirable persons
and compes them 10 remain at Tang err several
hundred miles from his court His plausibIe |
excuse Is that as he has three capitals and keens
travelling around. IL would be very inconvpnient
and undignifed for the foreign represen ~ atives
to be constantly bringing up in the rear of the |
royal procession. Then they complain Tint the |
sultan's foreign minister is a hopeless barba- |
rian who knows not hing of foreign affairs and |
who seldom degns TO reply to diplomatic com |
munications unless they are accompanied NV |
SlO ior the minister privy purse. The foreign |