The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A CONNECTICUT COUPLE couldn't agree on a
physician to attend one of their children, ard a
squabble which followed now has its outcome
in suit for divorce instituted by the wife.
| ONE of the Baltimore theatres has adopted a
system of furnishing its patrons with opera
| glasses free of charge. No security is required,
only the name, address and seat number being
taken when the glasses are given out.
| HARTFORD has COW which satisfies its Ape
tite for apples by fastening its horns in the
! limb of a tree and shaking the fruit to the
| ground. When an insufficient quantity falls,
the sagacious animal repeats the operation
THERE is a granite house in Rowan county,
Va. built in 1865, and is still owned and occu-
pied by the descendants of the man who built it.
The fireplace is feet wide, feet high and 5
feet deep. The house is in good state of
preservation.
MAN heretofore regarded as truthful, down
in Prince George county, Virginia, swears that
he shot fifty-two squirrels before breakfast one
day last week. but negets to add that breakfast
must have been pretty well toward the 'Snank
OF the evening"
THERE are in North America about 100000
persons keeping bees. The amount of honey
product is about 100000 pounds, and its
value nearly S15,000,000. The annual wax
product is about 500, 600 pounds, and its value
more than 100000.
CHICAGO keeps up the struggle for the higher
civilization and is bound to get there eventually.
one of the means to this end Is an establish
nent that does good business in renting table
china to persons who want to make splurges for
particular occasions.
A MAN who died at Flint Mich the other day,
wrote his own funeral sermon, the hymns to be
sung at his funeral, and the words of consola-
ton to his friends and the eptaph for his tomb
stone, He believed that il man wanted
thlng well done he should do it himself
ONE BANKS, young man from New York
city, recently fell headong over one of the
Kaaterskll falls in the CatSkill mountains
distance of 80 feet He landed in a pool of
water; and was thus saved from instant death.
de was badly injured, though, and it is thought
will die
A FAMILY held reunion in Connecticut last
week and photograph was used to record
speeches from each of the members. The wax
cylinders on which the vocal impressions were
made were put away carefully, and the exact
words and tones of the speakers will be repro
duced at the next meeting of the family.
In one of the cantons of Switzerland the
public educational authorities celebrate the
approach of the wet season by providing each
OF their young scholars with pair Of slippers,
which the children bring with them in the
morning and wear indoors during the day while
their damp boots are being dried at the fire.
THE great fume which is to bring an immense
volume of water from the Cuyamaca mountains,
thirty-six and two thirds miles from San Diego,
Cal, and ends at La Mesa colony ten miles
from San Diego, where a storage reservoir is
established viii be completed in few weeks
it is reported and celebration of the event
will follow.
THE man eating shark it is said, has been
utilizing the Suez canal as by far the least tire
some route from the Indian ocean into the
Me iterranean, and has made himself so CON
spicuous along the Adratic shores as to brighten
bathers and disgust the landlords at seaside re-
sorts. The shark was hardly known in those
waters until after the canal was opened.