The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

slight injury to themselves and serious hurts to
| the tricyces.
The accounts of the corporation of London,
which have just been published, reveal the inter
esting fact that the festivities which were given
| In the city to celebrate the jubilee, cost more
| than S5S000.
THE champion fat boy of Virginia is Mel
| bourne Grubb of Wytheville, who is 10 years
| old and weighs 21U pounds. He is feet inches
tall and measures a inches around the waist,
a around the chest and "a around the thigh.
Col. FoNTAINE of Canton Miss has trained
| pair of pet bears so that he drives them
double to a buggy. He occasionally appears
on the streets with them. soaring the horses
half out of their wits and amusing the small
boys greatly The bears amble along at pretty
falr sort OF pace.
WEYHAM MASS, has a monument to the men,
DRY of a cat that lived to the good old age of 20
years and mouths 1t is plain shaft of Rock !
port granite, fourteen inches high square, and
well proportioned, the top pointei like the cap
stone OF bunker Hill monument. The name of
the cat (Beverly) is inscribed upon the base.
SAMUEL B. HALE, of Samuel B. Hale & Co.,
bankers, has just died at Buenos Ayres He
leaves fortune of $4,000 900 to his daughter,
Mrs. John F. Pearson of Boston Mr.. Hale was
born at Groton, Mass, in 1904, and went to the
Argentine Republic in 1924 His fortune was
amassed In trade, banking and cattle raising.
HORSE met his death in an odd manner in
Ohoctaw county, Alabama. He stepped on the
end of short pole that was in the road, when
the other end raised and stuck in his abdomen
Becoming frightened, he then made iunge
forward, and in doing so drove the stick
nearly through him." causing death in few
minutes.
DIR. BENING, a German government official.
processes to have discovered new derivation
for the name England, or the English The
hn Rhnta
Angles, or from the district of AngeIn, in
Schleswig, but from the Engern a numerous
and very powerful Saxon race, formerly living
near the banks of the Weser.
Mrs. JOSEPH KNOWLES. wife of Stourbridge
shcpkeeper, went to London few mornings
ago, and was in great state of excitement lest
she should miss the train by which she intended
to return home. She was about to enter the
train when she exclaimed. "Take me some
where to sit down, or | shall die" She was
helped to seat near, and died at once.
The silk mandatory of Northampton,
Mass, has the deepest well in this country; that
is, it is g. 700 feet deep and inches in diameter
but at the depth of $50 feet from the surface a
sedimentary sandstone was struck which CON
tinued the whole depth. and water was never
obtained. At st. Louis there is a well 310S feet
deep, which yields an abundance of sulphur
water
THE Connecticut state prison at Weathers-
them, Jake Brown, who has been In prison only
year has gone crazy breeding over his crime.
The other, thirty-two years ago, held his wife
under water until she died. He seems to enjoy
the life that he has been leading for thirty
years, grows fat on prison fare, and is vigor
GUS man of 60 years.
A SPECIAL DISPATCH to the Lincoln (Neb) Call
from Wahoo, Neb., says: Mrs, Adoiph Scion
met with peculiar and painful accident yes
terday. Some sand burs had caught on her
gloves, and she was picking them off with her
teeth and inhaled breath of air when Just in
the act of taking one of the burs off the gloves
and sucked it dow her throat into her left
lung 1t is likely that tracheotomy will have
to be performed to extract the bur.
PRIVATE BIRMINGHAM of the Second Bedford
shire regiment on duty in India, strayed from
a path one dark night and fell into we'll at
Hindoo temple. 1t was two hours before his
cries were heard, and when at last he was pulled
out he fiercely assaulted those who rescued him.
and had to be handcuffed and carried to the
hospital. The doctors said that the long strain
had made him temporarily insane. He soon re-
covered, and had no recollections of his actions
WHEN eight young roughs were arraigned on
charge of murder in an English court a few
weeks ago, the Judge announced that after dill
gent and conscientious effort he had been ut
terly unable to read the records of the lower
court upon which the charge was based and
that the trial would therefore have to be post
of the record. The same complaint has since
been made in another court under similar cir
cnmstances, and the judges recommend that
competitive examination in handwriting pre-
cede the appointment of clerks in the lower
courts.
GEORGE W. SWEET, a lawyer of Minneapolis
has offered for record a quit claim deed from
one Oscar Swanson of Livingston, Mont, to
Sweet for quarter section of the town site of
Bismarck, or what might be called the east half
of the town, the consideration being only $780,
The register of deeds refuses to record the deed
on the ground that it is a bold and inexcusable
attempt to cloud the title of $500, 900 or $500 900
worth of property, including half of the court
house. SwanSOnS claim is absolutely nothing
but once recorded 900 people will be obliged
to commence explaining it or buying quit claims
from Sweet.
THE buffalo bug of New England is the latest
pest sent to afflict the housekeepers of that
fair country. The buffalo bug is a swell He
never comes down stairs to the dining-room
The parlor and boudoirs are good enough for
him. He revels on Rough on Rats and keeps
| on boring tiny and beautifully-edged holes in
everything that you hold dear. Moreover he
is aristocratic and artistic He loves bright
things, and like the maidens the poet speaks of
is attracted by glare. His first home was in
| the Turkish rugs and, strange to say, for other
| folks besides New Englanders have rugs, he
hasn't popped up anywhere but in New Eng
| land.
The strange spectacle of a mouse catching
flies in the window of a saloon in Portland, Ore,
the other day, attracted quite crowd The
| mouse paid no attention to his audience, but
galloped briskly backward and forward in pur-
suit of the flies, occasionally standing on his
hind legs to reach for one. In a short time he
caught dozen or more, which he ate with evil
dent relish. When he caught large one he
would skip in among the bottles and decanters
while he ate it, and then come out and renew
the chase. Whether all mice are fiy-catchers,
or whether this one has been depraved by his
surroundings is not known. OF all who had
stopped to watch the mouse none had ever
heard of such thing before as mouse catch
ing flies.
WHILE shepherd was crossing prairie near
Perderales creek northwest of San Antonio,
not long since, he felt a sharp substance pierce
the sole Of his heavy shoe and stab his foot.
Thinking that it was an unusually strong thorn.
he stopped down to remove IL, and found that
the body OF the instrument was buried in the
ground. Digging down for some inches he I'M
earthed stilletto, or dagger. The blade was
Ia inches in length, with an exceedingly sharp
point and edge. 1t was buried in a perpendicu.
lar position, point upward; the handle was
inches long, making tine entire weapon measure
1S inches long. 1t was all handle and blade
nodded of one piece of exceedingly finetem-
pered steel The handle and four inches Of the
blade were heavily inlaid with pure gold.
MILAN SOCIETY is scandalized over the exhibit
ton of picture recently painted by the artist
Scanzoni. 1t was announced to be portrait Of
Mile. Frizzi, premiere danseuse at the Scala.
Clad In the scantiest of skirts, the dancer