The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A wooDEN-sHoE factory at Freeport H., turns
out $50 pairs Of shoes a week

coffin with her So the Undertaken says.
WILL MowBRAY, of Spring Creek H., has an
extraordinary dog, which has mania for candy.
The animal will eat pounds Of it, and whine for
| more.
EIGHT,YEAR-oLD FLOYD TuET, Of Westvile,
Vt, is good chunk of a boy. He weighs l25
pounds, is as strong as he is big and shoulders a
two-bushel bag of shelled corn.
The Berlin beer drinkers are the fastest in
Europe. In a certain saloon there is a mechan-
ical lion roars when new cask is tapped, and
that inctes every one to finish his glass and
order a new one
THE London Lancet doubts that persons who
perish in burning buildings suffer so much as has
been popularity supposed. The victim is gener-
! ally made faint and pulseless by the carbonlc
acid or carbonic acid gas, and becomes insensi-
bic before the fire reaches him.
MARTIN SoRtNsoN, of Knox county, Nebraska,
stepped into an air hole while crossing the Mis-
| souri, river at Yanton, Oak, but continued his
way home without drying his boot. When he
got home his leg was frozen TO the knee and
| amputatOn was found necessary.
Mr.. GUIMARAEs, Portuguese inventor, is said
to have made new repeating gun called the
| Archimedes, which requires neither powder nor
compressed air. 1t is a clever arrangement of
| extremely powerful springs and is said to carry
| quite as far as any ordinary army rifle.
| IN some parts of Kentucky it is believed that
| if a maid, Immediately after the midnight hour
which ushers in the new year and before she has
| spoken word TO living soul, will tie a yellow
| ribbon around the leg at the place where the
garter ought to pc she will be wife before the
| new year ends.
In BOLOGNA there is an organization Of work
ing women numbering 800 which has its loan
fund, its benefit system and cooperative store
MOST OF the women work in the government
powder and tobacco factories and get just the
same wages as men, or about double what S
PAID TO women outside the society.
WILLIAM KAUFMAN, a young man living near
Braddock, Nd while watering horses in creek
on his fathers farm, discovered the edge of an
iron pot sticking out of the bank. Digging the
vessel out he discovered that it contained S575 in
gold and silver coins. How the money came
where 1t was found is not known.
SARA BERNHARDT's reputation for keeping
tigers and other dangerous pets in her apart
ments fills her visitors with apprehension. The
other day in Paris gentleman called on her,
and on taking seat produced a revolver and
carefully balanced it on his knees The actress
laughed heartily at his precaution
RECENT EXPERIMENTS with the Nordenfeldt
submerged torpedo boat were highly success
full At night she approached boat that
expecting her to within 400 yards the agreed
distance, without being noticed. Then she dived
| and rose within 100 yards of the ship with
snort like a whale and then disappeared She
was regared as great success.
AN organized society of female thieves has
just been broken up by the police of Vienna.
The society existed for a long time and flour
lshed audaciously. 1t was composed of pretty
shop girls in league with their pretended pur-
chaSers and the tracks of their operations were
covered cunningly. But at last they were dis
covered. Fifteen of the beauties were arrested,
and more are expected.
IT IS alleged that in a fashionable seminary
near New York an old tombstone was used for
a kneading board in the kitchen, until the girl
students objected to having fragments of an
inscription to the memory of some woman i'm
pressed into the bottoms of their loaves of
bread. The forms of daily paper in town
near New York were for several years made up
on the smooth side of an old tombstone.
A COLLECTION of over 200 original drawings by
Hablot X. Brown, the "Phiz'' who illustrated
the Pickwick papers and others of Dickens
works. were recently sold at auction in London.
They included Mrs Barde faintng in the
arms Of MIR. Pckwick." THE fat boy discover
ing Mr.. Tupman kissing Rachael Nicholas
NIckleby nstructing Smike in the art of act
ing, and II make myself known to my aunt"
from David Copperfield.
MANY valentines which are a combination
of laced and silvered paper, sprigs, notices.
lunches of colored flowers little mirrors and
the like. are made in London, in a factory
where the WORK goes on the year around. Much
of the work is done by hand and women are the
most expert at it. They Use a good deal of
mucilage in constructing these affairs, and in
variaby use the third finger of the right hand
instead of muclage brush
HENRY FAcKLEMAN, an old miser, who lives
alone near Paris, Ark, was robbed of s., 200 by
a gang of six men. They came to his house
about midnight and awakened the old man,
fastened him in his chair, and began shooting
to see which one of the party could come
the nearest to his ear without hitting his head.
After having both ears shot into he was so
frightened that he disclosed the hiding place of
his money, which was all taken.
A MEETING of hunters was held in England
recently to protest against the use of wire
fences. 1t was asserted that great danger had
arisen in the rapid spread of wire fencing
which endangered the lives of all sportsmen
and led to acts of cruelty to horses and hounds
The meeting was told that wire fencing was 90
per cent. cheaper than wood and that wire was
much used in some parts of the country that
hounds had been literally cut to pieces The
meeting unanimously resolved to request land
owners to provide their tenants with timber for
fencing.
CRUISE RoDERIQUEz, a Mexican, who had
served vigorously in half dozen revolutions,
was convicted at Uvalde, Tex, of calling at the
house Of Pancho Garcia, one day in 1885. and
shooting Pancho down in cold blood. He made
two requeStS-one that his execution might be
delayed for few days until his sister had time
to arrive from Mexico and the other that he
might he shot instead Of hanged. Both were
refused and he was hanged few days ago He
refused to wear the black cap saying he was not
afraid to face death with his eyes open. He
protested his innocence to the last.
AN intelligent Chinaman in Oakland, Cal.
says; Cinnamon hate to have the bodies of
their friends go to the morgue. They will do
almost anything rather than have a body laid
on the morgue slab and left in charge of the
Coroner. Frequently their actions lead to sus-
picion where there is really no ground for it
This fact is accounted for by a peculiar belief
current among the less intelligent Chinese |
have been assured many times solemnly that
the Coroner when he had taken the body to the |
morgue, poured over it some sort of magic |
lotion that had the result Of causing all the fatty
substances of the corpse to run off in oil This |
is bottled by the Coroner and sold to American |
doctors, who Use it in medicines and magic |
charms. In support of the theory they will !
point out that the Coroner will only take out fat |
Cinnamon to the morgue They say he never |
takes lean ones
YOUNG BROOKLYN MAN, who is engaged to be |
married to one of Brooklyn's fairest daughters. |
was puzzled as to a suitable Christmas present |
for his fair one. At last he hit upon plan |
VIII ch was ingenious, and which ought to have |
worked successfully, but il didn't. He went to |
a fancy bric-a- brac store and bought a ing of |
rare majoica, which had been broken The |
jug, when intact, was valued at 500 but in its 1
ruined condition he secured it for S. He or |
dered the jug sent TO the home Of his inamorata |
On calling TO see her the next evening her |