The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

PoRT Huron (MIoH) UNDERTAKEN has had
! a large tent made. Whenever he has funeral
| on rainy day he will place the tent over the
| grave so that the service may be held with but
little inconvenience.
EARN HARRIS of Port Jervis is a bootblack and
a gentleman, too; and that he wants others to
be gentlemen is evident from his inscription on
bis box No ungentlemanly. drunken or disor-
| derry persons boots or shoes will be polished
| Earn Harris"
A WOMAN capable of teaching chemistry well
| can get good job at the Women's Medical Col
lege of Pennsylvania. The trustees have left the
| profeSsorshp of chemistry vacant and APP
| pointed lecturer for the present, hoping to
! lind woman for the place
GEORGE F. JONES, the chief telegraph opera
tor of the Postal Company in the Philadelphia
Stock Exchange, is a great-grandson of John
Hancock OF Declaration of Independence fame.
he was born on Independence Day, 1858. and
| served in the war a drummer boy in the North
| Carolina Mountain Guards
SNAKE STORIES continue to come along. re-
cent one from Alabama tells of the finding of
| two-headed snake near Winvlle. The extra
nead was at the tail end of the reptile which
was OF the cotton mouth species aud measured
three feet in length. The curiosity was killed
curing the struggle attending its capture.
WILLARD Brown, an aged resident of Chicago,
paid Postmaster Riley, of Cincinnati, visit the
| other day and told him how he used to carry
tne man from Cincinnati to Piqua, Ohio on
horseback In 1921. He received 81 a month for
| ms services There were only three employees
OF the Cincinnati post office in those days
FEW DAYS AGO New York was the scene of a
courtroom fight. and now Jersey City has been
distinguished in the same manner Instead of
the lists. though, the Jersey belligerents used
chalrS. but 1t appears few if any, blows were
struck-perhaps owing to the fact that one of
the principals fell to the floor from en- attack of
heart disease.
DR.. GAIT, sometime surgeon of the confed-
federate Alabama, and now a country practi-
TONER in Loudoun county, Virginia has watch
lnscrlped, Monsieur lie Medicn Gait, Napo-
leon Ill, Emperor" which was sent in recogn
tlon OF his services to the crews of two French
men-ofwar lying of Norfolk during the yellow
fever scourge in 1871.
LEvoToHKo, Russian peasant, has, after ten
| years work, discovered a treasure upon land
| that formed part of the estate of Prince Os
tersky, whose ancestors were plundered and
driven from their homes by the Tartars long
time ago. The discovery includes manuscripts
and other articles of value besides the gold
The peasant gets one-third and the car the
| rest of it.
OF Prince Bismarck it is related that, while
! inspecting the harvest work on his fields not
| long since, two of the reaping women. following
an old custom, seized him and bound him with
| bands made of straw. The Chancellor sub
united with good grace, and extricated himself
oy paying liberal ransom. He rode away in
his carriage with the straw bands still fastened
| round his arm.
MRS. MARGARET KILLxAN, of Prospect. Me-
who, if she lives until April 2 next, will be 100
years old is still vigorous and able to walk out
| and visit her neighbors." She has never been
| Ill in her life; has borne eleven children the
Oldest of whom is 7S years old: has never Jour
neyed In cars or steamboats,. nor has been more
than two miles in stage. OF her ninety-for
descendants seventy-one are living
GREAT many English newspapers and a
large number of their correspondents are ear
nestly condemning Egyptian tobacco and the
doctored cigarettes made IN Cairo and London
| therefrom 1t is commended that a large num-
| Der OF cases of mouth diseases have resulted
from the use of these cigarettes and the discus
| sion, which is becoming hot and interesting will
very likely result in serious injury to the East
ern tobacco trade
A NOVEL lottery scheme has been proposed in
| Russia. The chief conditions are these:
| young woman of excellent moral character
and noble birth is the chief prize; her name is
| to remain secret until after the drawing: the
| total receipts from the sale of tickets amount.
| ing to 5000 rubles areto form her marriage no,
| ton; the holder of the lucky ticket is to marry
| the young woman and thus receive the dowrV-:
but If she won't marry him she must pay 2,5g0
rubles.
| The AsroR LIBRARY contains among its his
| toric relics copy of letter of Columbus of
| which only six are known to be in existence
One of these copies sold for 800 at an auction
sale in London in 1872. This letter was written
| by Columbus at Lisbon, and is addressed to
Raphael Sanchls, treasurer to the King of
Spain, Latin version of the lett er was priated
IN Rome. The letter is descriptive of his traVe,s
and discoveries. 1t was presented to the library
| by W. W. Aston.
| FEW years ago a well dressed fiue-looking
stranger called on Prof. Packard of Bowdoin
| College, and asked permission to look over the
| college buildings. The professor courteously
| showed him all about the institution. and when
| the stranger went away he left his card on
which was the name Henry Winkley. A Short
| time afterward the college received Mr. Wink
ley s check for $4,000 with which TO found a
professorship of Latin, and now upon his death
| the college receives $50 900 more.
THREE LADS at Drummond, England. aged 10
II and l. years. were caught by the police see.
| ing how near they could come to killing each
| other with a shotgun without doing it, The
| boys took turns standing against sand bank
with mark over their heads, and the others
| fired at the mark. The boys liked the sensation
| of hearing the shot whistle near them Before
this they had laid their hats and coats in a bean
! and fired into them until they were riddled
with shot holes. The queerest part of it was
| that the youngest boy had an official gun
| license.
ONE of the oddest-fashions of the summer was
introduced by Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger, who
brought it back from Russia with her It is to
wear fur boas with summer dresses She
showed at a garden party the other day in a
black lace gown with a low-uecked underbodice
and around her neck was long boa of snowy
Persian lamb. She was great success in
Russia last spring was petted by the car and
czarina and went to court balls, and was enter
tanned by TolStoi, the novelist. She has intro
duced a number Of Russian fashions since her
return.
The French steamer La Bourgogne, which
reached New York on Sunday, encountered a
severe storm in longitude 400 and latitude 4So on
Wednesday last. 1t lasted Sc hours Can't.
Frangeul says that the weather during the
storm was the strangest he eyer experienced
There were acres of mist, but very little rain
and the stars shone at times with startling brill.
fancy. The waves seemed 10 rush at the
steamer from all directions. During the storm
there were no accidents to passengers or crew.
but strangely enough, when the weather was
fair and the steamer was off Shnnecook n
sailor. named Mansee, who was aloft fell and
striking she raj, toppled over into the sea
boat was at once lowered and all possible effort
made TO save the man, but no trace of him was
discovered.
THREE years ago e. B. Holcomb, of Plants
vile, Conn, found something was eating his
melons and squashes. and he finally discovered
that a big land turtle was the cause. He car
red the turtle over by the old canal and in a |
few DAYS IL was tack again in the ynrfan