The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-26
ITEMS oF INTEREST,".

! Is not 10 be outdone in matter or Formally.
NEWS comes from California that the Chinese
| of that state have leased numerous large farms at
| Fresno, and are building a packing mouse at
| Selma This is an endeavor to head on the
movement to supplant them with boys in pick
| ing and canning ftut.
| THE farmers near Colfax, Wis, raised such
| an enormous crop of potatoes this season that
| they do not know what to do with them. The
| best price o5tainable is 10cents per bushel One
granger offered to give visitor wagon load
| Of choice potatoes if he would send a team for
| them. "
''YoU'D be surprised" says a New York safe
manufacturer, lat the number of sham paste
| board safes in New York, and they're made 50
| well that any ordinary person would be de-
| ceived They have business like appearance
and give an office thrifty look, all for IS 81,
whereas the real article would cost something
| like Sl00."
The people of Evanston, ILL.,, have hit upon a
| device for rendering church socables more
| pleasant. Each person is given a card on which
dozen names are written, and is required to
talk t1ve minutes with every one whose name is
on the card AT the expiration of five minutes
bell is struck and a new partner is sought. By
this plan wall flowers are eliminated everybody
receives attention and cliques are broken up
The fire drill for schools demonstrated its
worth in Salem, Mass, the other day, when
more than 601 pupils were marched from
burning building without the slightest dlSOr
der. One of the school rooms was filed with
smoke, and al ugly looking fire ragged for
time. After the children were gotten to place
or safety the teachers returned to the school
and fought the flames until the fire department
arrived.
PROF WAYLAND, dean of the Yale law school,
| recently shot two venerable horses that had
been in bis service for twelve years. The ami
mails had passed their usefulness and held too
high place in his esteem to be given away or
sold. While one was shot near an open grave,
the other watched the proceeding, ana nothing
would induce the animal to come to his grave
when it was his turn. He was shot in his
tracks,
In Berlin heavy wagons are not allow ell on
certain streets In Paris any CARLOAD of rat
| Ting material must be fastened till it cannot
| rattle Munich allows no bells on street cars
| In Philadelphia church bells have been held q
| nuisance in certain neighborhoods by judicial
| ruling. Steam whistles are forbidden in nearly
all the larger cities in this country and Europe.
| Mlkmen and bakers not allowed to use
| bells and horns in some cities In others the
abominable yelling and bowling of hucksters
| for which there is no excuse at all, are pro
| hiblted,
THE Earl of Southeast, while hunting in
Saskatchewan not long ago, hal an experience
with fox which shows the remarkable in
| stincts which that animal sometimes possesses.
| The earl says: After chasing him number of
| miles, on sudden he made an active spring
| and disappeared headfOremost into the snow
| Down we leaped to secure him Behold a gap
| ing badger hole! By what instinct could tie
fox discover the exact position of that hole? No
| difference on the smooth shining surface was
visible to us, vet the fox, in all his fear and
| peril, could light exactly upon the entrance of
| this concealed and apparently long unfre-
| quented burrow.'
A RoNDoUT, On. Y.,) FOX caused a big eastern
| ice firm considerable trouo ole last winter. The
manager Of the company had had some diff
| fculty in procuring experienced men to cut ic
| for bis company. He therefore put on a gang
! of 600 green h9n1S. One af6ern jon toward the
| last of the season, and at time when every
| moment counted fox ran across the ice
| Instantly his entire force ran after the fox,
| while the distracted manager yelled after them
| in vain. Twenty minutes afterward they re
| turned and 70 md him figuring out how much
! he had lost by their absence. He had figured
| out that the fox had cost him 800 and he
| promptly deducted it out of their wages
| AN OLD SMOKER says that sit is remarkable
that people smoke so much tobacco, in its vari-
Gus forms, that is impregnated With deadly mic
| otine. when by a simple method which would
| not detract one whit from its good quality, but
| would remove all that is obi ctionabe, the to
| bacco could be made free from this poison.
| Merely soak the tobacco day in a shallow
| trough and then lay it in the sun, if feasible if
not, dry by the most convenient means aud the
weed is robbed of all odoriferous properties
| and of nicotine. IL is then so sweet the fumes
would not offend the most sensitive lady be-
| cause it has no fumes. Besides, the vessel in
| which it is bui nod does not become strong-a
| valuable thing for man who prefers a meer-
schaum pipe to cigars. "
THE haunted" schoolhouse near Vcnanyo
Neb, still proves a source of terror to residents
thereabouts. The ghost" seems to be of a
rambling disposition, for. according to n recent
| story, while boys were tire h1g gr ill., they
| heard a strange noise. PeerIng cautiously
around and looking up in the air, the workers
| saw something that looked like a turkey
| buzzard. Some said, Look it is coming
| down Hold on to the teams. 1t is a man
| without a head" 1t was clothed in white, and
| as quick as q fash darted for the machine
| passing thr )ugh the concave and out upon the
straw stack. The boys took fright and Jumped
| of the stack, and those below ran to their
| assistance. 1t looked as large tour comm l
| men 1t took its course for the schoolAouse,
| and when it came to the cross roa IS it Gsap-
| peared.
A CHINESE TIGER STORY: In a wild region near
Kaiping is the village of Takang Tsun. In a
emple of Wu-t there stays at night man, not
a priest Two small holes in the door allow him
to look out. The tiger came and crouched out
side the door long time. Then he put his paw
| through one of the holes and cawed around
| Then he put his tail through and felt about with
| it for the man. The man cut the tail off with
| an AK The tiger butted the door until it was
| knocked from its hinges, and fell over on the
mao, who had been trying to prop it from the
| inside. The tiger sprang over the door without
| finding the man under it, and Selling one of the
| losses which was in the form of 8 man. ran
| away with it. Next day some grass cutters on
| the mountain, good distance off. found the Joss
| lying on q lonely hillside, where it had been
abandoned by the tiger, and took it back TO the
village.
In various parts of China there is belief that
the souls of very atrocious criminals who have
either been executed or died in prison are sent
back from hades by Yenlo, the judge there, to
undergo further term of Imprisonment, one
death not being enough to expiate their crimes
| When the second term of Imprisonment is
| Judged to have expired the district magistrate
| Deseeches the tutelary deity of the city to ac-
| company him to the prison in order to acquaint
| the ghost with his release The order is sup
| posed to reach the imprisoned by burning it, a
| ceremony which is solemnly carried out in the
| Jail On Aug. 10 last the district magistrate of
| the city Of Soochow had placards pc ted up in
| viting subscriptions OF imitation money for the
ghosts then in the city jail This was all duly
| burned, and thus converted into currency,
| which 1uld be useful TO the ghosts ON the long
journey before them.
| NIEUE, or Savage Island, so called by Capt
| Cook on account of the hostility Of the natives
to his expedition. is to receive the protection OF
| Great Britain. 1t is about thirty-six miles
round and 1900 feet high, is practically huge
coral reef, broken here and there in places so
| as to form convenient inlets. The place is con
veDiently situated, being midway between
| Panama and Brisbane. and not far out of the
direct line from Auckland to San Francisco.