The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

YOUNG FELLOW in Chicago, whose pet
amusement appears to have consisted in stand
ing near the entrance to a theatre and annoy
ing the ladies who passed by with impcrtinent
remarks, met his match the other evening. A
plucky girl, upon whom he thrust his unsought
attentions promptly struck him with her
parasol, and after breaking it into small frag
ments over his head, so It is related, she made
him pay her IS, the price of tie impromptu
weapon
AT II O'Clock at night in the avenue de
rOpera, one of the most brilliantly lighted and
most populous streets of Paris, an elderly gen
tleman was stopped near the Theater Franc lis
by two well-dreSsed, perfumed and polite high
waymen, who first asked him what play was
being performed, and then garroted him, pro
fuSaly apologizing as they did so third
member of the gang came up while they held
him and took his watch and money, after which
they released him and made off without being
arrested.
A DIAMOND MERCHANT Of New York is reported
as saying that when the African mines were
discovered there was very nearly a panic which
was averted by combination of large dealers
who banded together and bought a control Of
all the diamond mines, Two great companies,
the central diamond mining company and the
Kimberley company, practically control the
diamond market of the world and no new dia-
mOndS are put on the market except as they
permit; and the price is kept where it is by the
combination, and is not influenced by supply or
demand.
TALE about the value of backbone-especially
these campaign days-recalls sermon once
delivered ny a Tennessee preacher: Brethren"
SAID the preacher, don't put POntiuS Plate
down as a bad man. He wasn't a bad man; he
was only a weak one. He himself would rather
have released our Saviour but he couldn't re-
Sst the pressure of the scribeS and PhariSees,
and the hOwlings of the rabble. He didn't have
any backbone He wasn't bad, but he
poor, weak creature in fact there was nothing
to him. Brethren, if Gen. Andrew Jackson had
been in PontNiS Pilates place that trial would
have had different ending"
FRANK LIGHrHIzER, an employe of an Eau
Claire (Wis.l paper manufacturing company.
met with a peculiar accident lately He was
standing near one of the machines, when he
careleSSy leaned against slowly revolving
shaft. His clothing was at once caught there
on and almost as cleanly and neatly taken from
his body as though he had prepared himself for
plunge bath in the river Nothing whatever
except shoes and necktio, the latter having bid
farewell to his shirt, remained. The young man
saved himself from being wound around the
shaft by holding on to an adjacent wall and was
absolutely unnjured in any way
THE brutality with which newly-marred
people are treated by their testing friends is
constantly receiving fresh illustration. At n
recent Boston wedding a couple of sportive
ushers discovered the train on which the bridal
pair were to leave town and what baggage they
had. Driving swiftly to the station, they con
fded their plan TO the baggage master, and,
with his cOnnvance, they affixed to each handle
of the trunks of the bride and groom an
enormous bow of white satin ribbon If the
groom did not blaSDheme when he saw the deco
rated trunks deposited in the hall of the hotel
to which he went he may take rank with Job
for patience.
MARY REILLY, young woman who had just
arrived in this country from Ireland, left her
aunts house in Jersey City the other evening
to take n walk with two of her cousins As the
three girls were crossing the Pennsylvania rail
road tracks at Warren street a train dashed by
them. The cousins drew back, screaming, but
Mary disappeared. After looking in vain for
her body, so the story goes, the frightened
searchers went to the railroad station, where
they found the girl, who explained that, having
been hurled on the pilot of the engine, she
chung to it desperately until the train stopped
slight scalp wound is reported to be the only
injury which she received
AN OLD GENTLEMAN came into an Augusta, Me
marble shop last autumn with the marks of
affection on his countenance, and after explain
ing that one of his had died, sorrowfully
inquired the price of a tombstone After look
ing over the various styles and cndeavOring to
beat down the dealer, he remarked conhden-
tally with glance at.hS consumptive-l looking
wife who sat on the buckbOard outside that he
didn't think Marthy would winter and he
guessed he'd wait and buy two stones at once -
to get a r ductiOn. Marthy "wntered," but
she didn't spring and few days ago the
old man appeared again, shipped couple of
tombStOnes home, and went on his way
QUEEN VICTORIA recently, it is said. desired
to inspect detachment of Ceylon rifles that
were in England. None of them knew any
English When they were paraded in the grand
corridor at Windsor the queen passing
among them, asked one: Have YOU been
long in England?N The answer was in Dura
Cingalese, and the queen, without betraying
any embarrassment, answered: oh indeed -
and dropped the conversation. All the soldiers
caught the remark and remembered it. and when
they went home repeated it to their comrades
and friends, and now in Ceylou the principal
English phrase heard is, oh, indeed'' which is
very important, because the queen used it.
A NOVEL STORY comes from Vanderburg
county A day or two ago a horse was standing
tied to a fence. A drunken man, seeing no one
around on whom to vent his spleen, deliberately
plunged the blade Of his pocket knife into the
dumb brute neck. The horse wrthed in agony,
| broke the hitChing rein and ran out of the lOf
and down the road until it came to a drug
sto owned byDenkins & Kyle The animal
| Stalked into the store and went as far back as
| the prescription case and set mp most pitiful
neghng The clerk was alarmed. but spoke
gently to the animal, and bathed the ugly
wound in cold water. much to the relief of the
brute. Mr.. Kyle then sewed up the wound and
tied band around the animals neck Sir. KYLE
points out the blood spots on the floor as proof
of his tale
FEW WEEKS AGO there app AIRED at an inn
in the east of France a traveller who said that
he was a Russian nobeman driven into exile by
the Gar, and anxious to convert the vast estates
Re had left behind into ready money. He ingra-
tiated himself into the friendship of the inn
keeper, and finally offered him the job of going
to Russia and selling the estate for him The
inn-keeper jumped at the chance and set off
quickly. When he got TO Russia he found that
the alleged noblcman was n fraud and the estate
a myth. He had just money enough TO nav
postage on a letter home telling the facts but
the swindler got wind OF the letter, and with
his wife and family left the place and an unpaid
bill Of $3.50 for board, incidentally taking along
oil of the nn-ke per clothes which he could
lay his hands on, and even his revolver
THE San Bernardino (Cal) Tnder tells of a
Mr.. Braunhart who has what is said to be the
identical knife with which the famous Apache
chief, Victoria. and the equally famous Gero-
nimo, removed the locks Of the unfortu ate
palefaCe who happened to fall in their re
spcctve ways. The knife is about fourteen
inches long, brass trimmed and steel blade
with carved irOn-wood handle. There are still
marks of blood upon the blade The knife was
taken from Geronimo In 1885, at the time Of his
capture, by assscOut who presented il 10 Mr.
Braunhart. sydney F. Waite described the
knife before it had been shown him and saws
that il is the same knife he saw in the posses.
sion Of Victoria twenty three years ago. II has
an interesting history, and If the CORY old blade
could only ~ ,ak what tale of woe aud blood
thirsty desolation Il would pour forth.
THE Vicar OF Midgham. Reading. Eng. re-.
Gently wrote TO a London paper: con Friday last
a man in my employment who was grass.
trimming IN my garden with hook. took
luder ,tt. tr,s flttripy "a h..o