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


that ten barrels OF the vegetable and fruit de-
sired were divided among the needy.
a CITIZEN of New Ulm Mimi, owns horse
which he considers an unerring weather prophet.
He can always tell when storm is coming by
watching the animals eyes. which change from
very light color to dark blue twenty-four
} hours before change in the weather.
WIN. LADUE, OF Toledo, o., with two compan-
ions, who were drowned, was thrown into the
river three weeks ago by the upse.tng Of a
J skill He was taken sick afterwards and now,
on recovering, his hair is as white snow,
though at the time Of the accident it was jet
black.
STORY comes from Nebraska to the effect
that there is a school house in Blaine county,
the roof of which is made of willows and sod
whenever an urchin meanders from the broad
pain OF virtue the teacher has only to reach up,
extract portion of the ceiling and proceed to
chastise the youth SO meandering.
A MERCHANT CAPTAIN, when rounding Cape
Horn recently, made observations as to the
height of the waves. By climbing to the head
or MS malnmaSt which, being in the center of
the snip, would be less affected by the motion
OF the water, he observed certain waves that
reached the enormous height of Is feet
A WOMAN, who, with her three children, was
sent to the almshouse, at Bellefonte, O., few
DAYS ago. escaped Tuesday night and taking
the wheelbarrow belonging to the institution,
loaded her babies into it, and walked and
wheeled them ten miles to her former home.
She is being commended for her pluck by her
townspeople, who propose to procure work for
her and assist her otherwise, that she will not
be returned to the institution.
WIEN the first electric telegraph was estab-
lished the speed of transmission was from four
to five words minute with the five needle in
sruments; in 1s49 the average rate for news
paper messages was seventeen words minute;
the present pace of the electric telegraph be-
tween London and Dublin, where the Wheat
stone instrument is employed, is 463 words; and
thus what was regarded as miraculous sixty
years ago has multiplied hundred-fold in half
a century.
THIEF in San Francisco who robbed man
who befriended him, was identified in a strange
manner: An intimate friend of the rascal's was
arrested, and afterward the crook himself
fell into the hands Of the police for attempting
suicide. He was taken to the station and while
passing the cell of the friend the latter called
TO the officer that his prisoner was the man
wanted for the theft. The prisoner confessed
his guilt and thereupon the friend was released
and the former put in his cell
The report of the superintendent of foreign
mails to the Postmaster General shows that
during the last year, there were carried abroad
by all steamship lines 260, 900 900 grams of let
tiers and 200, 600 900 grams of prints of which
! the North German Lloyd Steamship Company
carried 13O,275,OOO grams of letters and 500. 597
OOO grams of prints; the Cunard Steamship
| Company, G7, 26j, zoo grams of letters and 263
| O47,COO grams of prints; the Compagnie Generate
Transatlantque, IS, 10. 900 grams of letters and
, | %, ToO,OOO grams of prints.
AT A MEETING of the Medical Association of
; the District OF Columbia, in Washington the
: following regulation was adopted: In certif
Gates on account of illness given to employees in
the public offices, or others respecting absence
from official duties the disease shall not be
| specified neither shall the name or nature of
the disease be divulged by any written descrip-
| q nF1C civ to thn
| patient himself, nor by any specification of the
disorder, nor by any disclosure which may be
construed into an evasion of the meaning of
| this regulation"
THERE are 3 40 national banks in the country
with capital of $500 600, 600; surplus fund,
S1S5, O00,OO0 other undivided profits, 500, 900;
and the outstanding circulation against bonds.
S15l,fO2,0O0. The individual deposits amount to
81, $50, 1000. and the government deposits to
| $50 000, 600. The total number of new national
banks organized during the year was 1872.
| Fortytwo banks went out of the system during
| the year, of which 81 went into voluntary liqui-
dation and failed, making net increase of 90
banks. The net increase of capital in the year
has been over SD 900, and the net increase
of circulation nearly $17,000000.
The descendants of old Amos Benham, New
Haven, are having a lively row among them
for the possession of the store teeth of their
revered ancestor Amos, in his old age, went
to New York and purchased a full set Of false
| teeth with gold plates, valued at over 500 He
| exhibited them 10 his friends with much pride,
| and for years the teeth were the wonder and
admiration of the town. At last the old man
died ard the teeth were buried with him. Not
| long since Gilbert Benham, a nephew of the
deceased, announced that he was going to get
those teeth, and last week opened the ground
and secured them. The other members of the
| family are furious and lawsuit for the POSSES
| sion of the teeth is the result
ADMIRAL HENRY GRINNELL, a son of Henry
Grinnell, the founder of several Arctic expedi-
tions, is about to bring suit against the town
of Westport, Mass, for false imprisonment
Something over year ago Admiral Grinnell
| took up his residence at Westnort Harbor, and
this year he was taxed for $4,000 on his per
sonal estate On his refusal to pay the tax he
was placed in the jaii at New Bedford about two
| weeks ago, where he remained for two days.
AT the end of that time he took the poor debt
or's oath and was released. The admiral claimed
that he was taxed on trust funds. from which
he received no income He got his rank in the
Peruvian navy He has also held the rank Of
commodore in the United States navy.
CURIOUS PANORAMA is to be provided at the
Paris exhibition next year by the Compagnie
Generate Transatlantique to represent its feet
of steamships. The cyclorama is to be painted
by NJ Poilpot. The Compa gnie Transatlantique
cyclOrama is to be mounted in a circular build
ing by itself, and affords some novel effects
The spectator, on ascending to the stairs,
energies upon what appears to be the deck of
one of the newest and largest steamers of the
| feet, the Tourane, which is now in process of
construction. Around him are the masts and
rigging of the vessel and he can hold by the
| shrouds and look over the bulwarks at the sea-
which extends to toe horizon. On one side can
be discerned the red roofs of Havre and living
at anchor at different distances are the other
shps belonging to the company, while the il
fusion is heightened by the mists which obscure
the background.
MENTION was recently made of the costly
! coffin in which DIR. Hitler, rich manu-
facturer Of pills in Wilmington, Mass, was
; buried. The doctor, as was stated at that time,
employed his declining days in designing the
casket and preparing for his funeral. Now, il
is reported, his widow finds daily consolation in
overseeing a similar work Her casket has
been made in much the same manner, and
scarcely day passes that she does not rehearse
/ her obsequies. She dresses herself in an elabor-
ately trimmed robe Of the finest material
which sparkles with jewels. She is then lowered
into her casket, and views herself in a mirror
suspended above her She says the operation
: makes her long to die. Every morning she
visits her husbands grave and says, Good
morning and leaves a fresh bouquet of flow
ers, and repeats the same operation at evening.
The French papers have been narrating the
adventures of a body of French soldiers, $50 in
number, invalids almost without exception,
/ who left Saigon Undo China) on April 25th last
on their return to France. The troopship in
which they sailed ran aground at Colombo, and
as she was unable to continue the voyage, the