The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-10
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returning verdict that ''This jury do hereby
| agree to disagree"
ABOUT forty petrified bodies were recently re-
covered from the Mike coal mine, in Japan.
They vera those of workmen buried alive in
the mine several years ago.
LIQUOR dealers who give credit in Vermont
| cannot legally collect the amount of their
bills. The courts have officially declared
whlskey not to be persona grdtd in that state.
| The liquor law is being so vigorously en-
forced in Manchester, N. H., that dealers are
| compelled to carry their stock in their pockets.
| where it is safe, as the law does not admit of
| the searching of a person
| GEN. JOHN NJ. PALMER of Illinois estimates
that he travelled more than 1000 miles and
made more than 100 speeches during the cam
palgn Tor the governorShip Such work by
| man OF az ought to have won, but it didn't.
AN ASSISTANT to a Connecticut plumber
| poured small quantity of water into pot of
hot lead, in order to satisfy doubt in his mind
| as TO what the effect would be. He wasn't ser
lousy injured, but is likely to a reminder
| OF the experiment to the grave with him.
The sale of the hull and fittings of the steamer
| Great Eastern realized over $4,000, the copper
bringing 1880; the gun metal, etc. "a 48O;
brass ca $780, lead, 81, 1876; outer iron plates
t12, 800; inner iron plates, beams and rivets
ZIG, $50; and anchors about $780, The breaking
M OF the steamer will commence on Jan. l. and
WHAT is thought to be the largest tumor ever
known to Pennsylvania physicians was removed
from Mrs. Hannah Littre, the wife of John
Lttre of White Hall on Thanksgiving day 1t
weighed 100 pounds when removed After the
operation the lady weighed about ninety five
pounds, or five pounds less than the weight of
the tumor itself. She is improving in health.
THE costliest calves in the world are those
which have cost some Iowans $4,000 Their
original worth was S45, but that was in 1877
They have probably become beef long before
this, but the litigation over them will probably
lated until what was originally stubbornness has
now become desperate fight to avoid heavy
loss.
THE Paris project of police, by decree lust
issued, forbds sandwich men and advertising
vans to appear on the principal bouIevards on
the ground that they obstruct traffic and
brighten horses. In the other streets fancy cos
tunes for sandwich men are prohibited while
Illuminated vans and advertising carts are to be
restricted in size, and are not to be drawn by
more than two horses
A. b. DoLBEAR, fur collector of Pennington,
Me-. during recent hunting trip, obtained a
beautiful skin of the silver-gray fox The speci-
men is handsome one and perfectly marked
and has long silken hair. Skins of this species
are rare, Mr.. Dolbear himself having obtained
only two or three during his long experience
The fox shot on the Sunday river in the
northern wildS of Maine.
THE editor of territorial weekly recently re-
ceived a number of letters from his subscribers
urging him to publish his paper bi-weekly He
did SO. but when they found that this meant
only once in every two weeks, they looked in
their dictionaries and decided that q semi
weekly was what they wanted 1t is an inter
esting fact that while "biweekly'' means once
in two weeks, ''tri-weekly" means three times
week.
ACCORDING to american Notes and Queries
in one of the cellers of the Rathskeller at
Bremen, there are twelve large cases of wine
each case containing 1.-The celebrated 'Rosen-
vein, which was deposited there in 1924 One
case of this wine, containing 204 bottles cost
500 rix dollars at that time. Taking all ex-
penseS into account and compromising the in
terest, single glass one-eghth of a bottle
would cost about 100000, or about $500 a
drop"
THE case of NJ. Chauffat. a Frenchman, is at
tracing medical attention in London. On one
occasion last year he slept continuously for
thirteen days and half and, at the latest adj
vices from England, he was lying asleep at the
Alexandria Palace having fallen into a sort of
trance six days before His appearance is gen
orally normal, but at times his limbs are set in
uncommon rigidty. No respiration is percept-
IDLE, and there is a constant twitching of his
eyelids.
SOME idea may be had of the magnitude of
| the London and Northwestern system of rail
| roads in England from the fact that it has a
working capital of $3.50, 900 000 that its annual
revenue is $50, 100000; that it carries annually
100000 passengers and 100000 tons of
freight, and that it employs 5000 people. The
Pennsylvania system of this country carried
last year 35, 1S5. 169 passengers and So 033 296
tons of freight. While the London and North
western has larger capital and a larger in
come than any system OF railroads in America
it operates only-e ,555 miles Of road.
A GLADE RIVER wv. Va special says: About
four miles from this hamlet on Glade mountain
resides family Of condolences The father
and mother were married on Oct ID: they have
had nine children, all of whom were born on
Oct. II; five of the children ara dead, and all
ceased to breathe on Oct. IA. The name of the
head of the family is Joshua Franklin. He SAYS
he was confederate soldier, that he was cap
tured twice by the yankees and that he lost two
brothers in the war and that all four of the
nshaps or misfortunes of war occurred on the
memorable Oct. ID. In the neighborhood the
Franklin family is regarded with superstition
and not a human being can be prevailed upon
to stay in the house or on the premises on Oct
Il.
TREASURER BUCKLEY, who presides over the
box office of the Boston theater, says that the
biggest receipts at that theater this season
were taken by the Howard Athenaum COM
pany. Nearly $4,000 were taken for one per-
Torrance, the largest sum ever taken for a
single performance at regular prices in this
country, Doci1stader played to $4,000 during
his weeks stay in Boston. Thatcher Primrose
& West played to $4,000 in a single week in this
city. Next to minStres and variety companies
come the stars. Fanny Davenport is the reign
ing satellite. She had big reception and the
advance sale was large, and her receipts some
thing enormous. II takes great many people
TO fill the Boston thcater, but when it is once
full the till at the box Office contains hand
some sum.
TWINS triplets and babies in tours and skies
are apparently becoming startlingly common.
yet there is lack of statistics in this country
to show whether or not they are more common
in proportion to the increase in population than
they were some years agos A prominent ply
stefan says there should be some record kept Of
these multpeX visitations. In the old coun
tries, for instance, 1t has been ascertained that
twins are borne once out of ninety births while
trpletS are as one out of $780, This we can
scarcely believe Ii does not seem possible that
twins are us frequent as one TO ninety but il has
been found to be the case In census after census
just in the same way trpets seem to be more
numerous than one to $3.50 but that they are
not has been equally well proven. Here we
know what the birth-rate is compared to the
population but we cant tell whether We have
az many double and triple births as they do in
the old country.
THE question whether Americans are taller or
fairer or darker Completed" or thinner than
they were 100 years ago; whether they live
longer are broader chested or can lift heavier
weights while they live, is for the present laid
aside in view OF the important matter to be de-
cided in New York before the last day of April
comes round. The immediate problem now
exercising the clerical arrangement committee
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