The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| THE monk 81 that set fire to Wakefield, Mich,
cannot lee ure. but will shortly appear in fifteen
| dime mus sums at the same time.
KAL lMAzoo, Mich, is acquiring quite an
envlole reputation for its celery, of which this
| SO son 20 10000 punches were shipped
The New York Mail and Express thinks that
| Miss Amele Rives has more TO learn and I'M
| learn than any writer that the South has pro-
duced.
A 7O-YEAR OLD MAN has been convicted in
WATERFOWL, Oak. of assallltng his l2-year-old
granddaughter and sentenced to ten years IN
the penltentary-
KING OSCAR of Sweden, who has come out in
the ranks Of royal authors with a volume of
poetry is a middleaged blonde, and the last
royal man in the world one would pick out for
poet.
A MEETING was held In Boston the other night
of persons Interested in Relations with Cana
ds" Quite large gathering could be had in
Boston of persons who have relations IN
Canada"
AN Indianapolis newspaper says that the
first soldier to suffer death for desertion in the
war was Rober, Gay, an Indiana schoolmaster,
who had enlisted from the southern part OF the
State, and was shot at Camp Burnside, Indian
apolis, in 1868,
The concluding lectures in Huntington Hall,
Boston, by Mr., James r. Gilmore edmund
Kirke'') in the Lowell course promises to be I'M
usually interesting In them Mr.. Gilmore will
relate some very important, but hitherto little
chronicled events in early American history.
A PECULIAR Feature Of Long Lake in Wex-
ford county Michigan, is that it gradually rises
| and subsidies once every few years. 1t has been
rising for the last four or hve years, ana the
Grand Rapids and Indiana railway has been
obliged to abandon its old railroad along the
shore.
In New Jersey an effort is making to have
| beer sold to the retail consumers by weight,
whereby would not be charged anything 10
speak of for the froth. 1t would sound funny
to ask for pound of beer, instead of pint-so
| funny that no one in this generation is likely to
hear very much of it.
PROF. BLACKIE, when asked to name three OF
the best books for young men, included his own
work on Self Culture" candidly admitting
| that he knew nothing better. Prof. Blaekle
| seems to agree with Johnson, that ''modesty IN
man is never TO be allowed as a good quality.
but weakness, if it suppresses his virtue and
hides it from the world.
Mr. RrsK1N was in London a fortnight ago,
! and devoted some of his time to visit to the
| Turner water-color room at the National gal
lerv. He intends. it is said shortly to publish
| a final appeal TO all whom it may c 'nceru
| against the decree of Punishment to basement
| which the nation allows to be enforced against
| the most valuable collection of drawings in the
| world"
| in which is involved the question of womans
privilege to kill husband who has been I'M
| faithful to her The world has agreed to
| acknowledge a justification Of homicidal hus-
| bands who find their rights invaded IN TINS way
| Here is case where woman, lmpeLed bY a
similar righteous rage, infiicts summary punish
ment upon the offender.
The latest thing in printing is an electrical
machine which stamps matrices, that can then
be dried and used to cast stee 1type plates there
from Perfect as this machine may be, how
ever. it will not, and can never correct the IN
evitable human errors of writer's and compost
tors. and until inventors can give TO their iron
fingers the intelligence of the human mind, all
careful publishers will continue to employ men
| as type settlers.
THE Blue Book of Great Britain for 1886 shows
that the United States has purchased f,173
horses during that year, which is IS per cent. of
the : 1926 horses exported The value of horses
exported in 1885 is given at e409 045 as against
4363, 368 in 1885. The total value of all stock
exported in 1896 is e537 OS7 as against 4471 1856
| in 1885 The English Lire stock Journal says
the increase is chiefly in horses which has saved
many a farmer from ruin.
LITTLE BOY and his sister came home from
the closing exercises at one of the public
schools in Toronto the other day. The certifi-
| Gates for regular attendance and good conduct
| had been distributed and the girl was the
| proud recipient of one of them but her brother
| had failed TO qualify. 'Didnt you get a certih-
| cate, Tommy" their mother asked Nom"
| was the reply; but l would have got one if
| there had been enough to go round"
On the night following the battle of Hatcher's
| Run, Va, Robert c. Cair, of Mill Hill, Pa. was
| on reserve picket duty. During the night he
heard a wounded soldier, who lay without the
| lines. moaning and calling for water. 1t was
very dangerous to attempt to aid him, but at
| length Clair tried it. He reached the man and
brought him safely within the lines. The
wounded soldier was Thomas H Hinton, of
| Marblehead, Mass, and when he died recently
he left all his property valued at $4,000, to the
man who had saved his life,
GRADUATE of Vassar some years ago mar
ried, and went to her husbands home. where it
was suggested by some friendly relatives that
| she should begin by making John some shirts
! The first shirt was unsatisfactory, and indeed
| the sewing was picked out three times. When
| however, the young bride showed a check for
| $50 for magazine story which she had written
| and in another week check for $50, the wise
aunties meeky enl generously acknowledged
at once: Yes, Mary, Perhaps 1t will be as well
for you to give out the sewing"
A SOUND issuing from a fog gives no trust
worthy indication of the direction of its source
A recent writer gives two cases in his own ex-
perience near Newport when the sound from a
fog horn at Beaver Tail seemed to come from
several directions each ten or fifteen degrees
apart, and there is well-known case where
transatlantic steamer bound to New York 60
ing direct Out SLOW, ana sounding her whistle.
finally picked up a pilot who declared he had
heard the blast for half hour and that the
steamer had been sailing around him in a circle
LOUIS DUMoNT, of New York, received an in.
vitation from a friend in Bound Brook, y. j.. to
go cunning with him. On his way to Bound
Brook he met man on the train who advised
him 10 get off at Dunellen and strike across the
country and he would probably get some game
on the way. Dumont did so, but ten minutes
later he arrested by his adviser, who told
him he had violated the game laws, although
Dumont says he had not shot any game He
was taken before Justice Cole, of Dunelien who
committed him to Jail. The man who arrested
him and whose name is unknown took him to
New Brunswick His gun and dog were con
fscated. Dumont was afterward discharged
from jail by another magistrate.
A CORRESPONDENT in London Noies and
Queries referring to a curious passover custom
in Algeria, says that ''the painting of a hand on
the houses in Tunis, Algiers etc. is not a Jew.
sh custom, but is common to the natives of
these and other countries. 1t is always an EN-.
bem of good luck, and is in Syra-aiso in Ma.
peS-a charm against the evil eve. The hands
arranged IN the form of a branch are merelvan
esthetic form of the charm. The reason Jews
put it on their walls at passover is because nj
that season of the year their houses are reno.
waited inside and out. Capt. Condor remarks
that the hand was in use as q charm by the
Phpncians and occurs on votive stees at Car
thage-the site of the modern Tunis-whence il
doubtless spread to neighboring States. He
also relates that the hand is painted on walls,