The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a POLICE OFFICER OF Los AngtleS, Sal-, car
ries lasso, and it ably assists him to perform
his duty.
A MAN has been arrested in National City,
Cal, for publicly wearing on his back card
stating that a companion had refused to pay
him debt Of $50.
ST. LOUIS HOTEL CLERK claims TO have
made the discovery that tall men sleep later in
the morning than short men, and that people of
a dark complexion invariabe require more rest
than blondes.
CHARLES SHENETT, Of Mansfield, Mass,
voungster not old enough to talk plainly is an
expert harmonica player. Neither of bis
parents is 3 musician, but the boy is able to
play any tune after hearing it once.
A RECENT TRAVELLER through the Chinese pro-
vince of Manchuaia says that besides having a
reverence for animals the rustic Manchus wor-
ship diseases, and particularly the smallpox,
which is represented under the form of repul-
sye idol.
THERE is surely nothing new under the sun.
II is now learned that the gambling game in
which the players place coins on the ground be-
fore them aud bet on the probability OF ny
lighting on particular coin has been known to
the people of Central Asia for centuries, and is
probably heritage that they have received
from their prehistoric Aryan ancestors.
GEORGE HERRIcK, of Logansport, in watch
ms Shc Oiu DutulIE All tAlteO ivy
recently, saw a clay pipe imbedded in brick.
Curiosity led him TO break the brick and secure
the pipe, Of common white clay 1t must have
been lyinRin It's cOntented bed for nearly fifty
years, and was put there by some worker in a
brick yard. The building was erected in 1S47.
A RESPECTABLE industrious married woman
canned Northwood, living at Ampthiil, Eng,
who has four children, one in arms, was charged
with damaging trees that grew in her cottage
garden, the damage being estimated at IS. The
husband was out of work. aud there being no
fuel, the poor woman broke off branches to
make fire for her shivering children. The
woman was sentenced TO pay fine of 25s. and
los. costs or to undergo a months imprison-
ment. She was in Bedford jail for several days,
and III the meantime her children collected the
money to pay the fine.
A NOVEL school commencement was held at
the New York Trade schools the other day One
hundred and twenty bricklayers were given
diplomas, 1S plumbers, each armed vi h
eheepSkin, were set loose upon the community,
together with fifteen stone cutters, thirty-eight
painters and twenty eight carpenters. This
school has been in existence over seven years.
and is designed to teach all manual trades. 1t
VIII be queer state of things, but a satisfactory
one, for the plumber of the future to have to
produce his diploma, like the doctor, before he
is allowed to exercise his professional skill.
SOME smart chap tried to fool Cambridge,
Mass. professor by sending him from Mexico
two curious specimens of ancient native copper
work, one being in the form of grotesque idol
and the other bearing some resemblance to a
ia ntastically decorated vase. Upon a minute
examination he detected an ingenious swindle.
lie found single black wiry hair from an In
dams head projecting from the part most thor.
Oughly carbonized and deeply imbedded in it,
and, as no hair could have grown in solid mass
of crude copper n chemical examination was
made. This revealed the fact that a compound
of resin and some other substance formed both
the carbOnjzed matter and the whole inside of
the articles.
EMBALMED GEESE, turkeys with painted legs,
and diseased chickens, instead of healthy, I'M
tainted poultry, are sold extensively in the
Paris markets. A market porter recently died
from blood poisoning from the bite of an insect
which was battening on some turkeys The
practice of embalming long demised birds is
comparatively of modern origin, but the paint
ing of turkeys legs is old. Pere Chapeleier
made a fortune out of il He found that fresh
killed turkeys had black, shiny legs, but later
they would turn to dusky brown color. He in
vented peculiar varnish and his services were
requisitioned in every market. The effect of
his varnish was so conclusive that it deceived
experienced cooks and housekeepers. who often
bought tainted fowl in preference to newly
killed.
A FEW DAYS AGO gentleman from Fresno reg
istered at one of the principal hotels in San
Francisco, but as there were no rooms vacant
At the time he was told to return In the after
noon. His luck was no better on his return, as
more rooms had been engaged by telegraph
than hotel of double the size of the one in
question could contain. He was a little indig-
nant, and told the clerk at the desk that he
would stop there anyhow, and offered to back
his boast with 800. Among the guests of the
hotel was young lady from the same town as
the gentleman, and for whom the would-be
guest of the hotel had liking He went to the
young lady, told his predicament and determi-
nation and asked the young lady to marry him.
She consented, and together they went TO the
parson and were married 1t is sufficient TO say
the gentleman made good his boast.