The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE Masons of Nebraska propose to establish
| home for the care of orphaned children OF Ma
| SONIC families
The Utah supreme court has decided that the
| laws passed by the legislature after the consti-
| tutional hour for adjournment are valid.
BURGLARIEs are becoming so numerous in
| Helena, Mon, that the governor has offered
| reward of $500 for each burglar caught and con-
| victed.
AN Alaska Indian, sentenced to prison for
ninety-nine years for murder, interrupted the
judge by asking if the government was going to
| keep him alive long enough to serve the whole
| term, or would they let him out when he died
ESSEX, Mass, is proud of a certain venerable
peartree which still bears leaves and blossoms,
| and occasional fruit, and which was planted by
| John Coggswel, who sailed from BRISTOL Eng,
May %, 1875, and settled in the northern part of
| the town.
DURING recent funeral at St. Etienne, France,
some one suddenly produced red flag, which
precipitated row in which men and women
| struggled with one another about the tomb in
| diSgraceful fashion. The communist faction
i was finally defeated and driven away, and the
| burial was completed.
| JOHN ROLL, residing in Redmon, ILL.,, is the
| owner of horse that is 20 hands high, weighs
$500 pounds, and is said to be the largest horse
| in the world. 1t is : years old, never was off
| never been shod. The blacksmith at Redmon
| is afraid to shoe the horse.
| EDWARD SCoLEY of Santa Rosa, Cal, whose
| uncOmmunicable nature caused him TO be
| known as the silent Man" was found dead in
| bed about week ago. He lived the life of
| recluse. and though he had been six years in
| Santa Rosa, it is said, not more than half a
| dozen people knew his name.
| On one day last week at the Brighton Beach
races there was consumed 1900 pounds of fowl,
| so dozen of spring chickens 40 sets of beef ribs
! $500 pounds of Holsters and Is, 600 sandwiches
together with vast amounts of vegetables. To
| wash this down required 237 kegs Of beer, bar
| relS OF whtSkey. 200 cases of champagne and
| 600 boxes of soft drinks.
| THE Salvation army are having great success
in India according to all reports They are said
TO live on 20 cents a week per capita, and submit
to great privations uncomplainingly, and it is
| also said that Commissioner Tucker, their
| leader, recently resigned a government place
| worth $4,000 year to join the army.
FIVE years ago Lord Winchelsea, a sporting
| peer, made a bet that he would find thirty mis-
| prints in six numbers of the London Times
| The stakes were $780, with $50 additional for
| every blunder, more or less. Six numbers were
| taken at random and only three misprints were
| discovered. Lord Winchelsea lost nearly
| $4,000.
| RAILWAY companies in Australia, after ex-
| permenting with various kinds of quick fenc-
| ing for railways, especially with a view to keep
| ing out snowdrifts, y have settled upon hedges
| of the Rose of Providence" 1t is said that a
fence 6l6 feet high and 314 thick will check
snowdrifts. The blossoms are salable and so
the fence is profitable.
The San Francisco Bulletin says: Sacramento
| is virtually city without laws. In a trial yes
terday the fact brought out that the ord-
nances now used, and which appear in book
| form, were never ordered or accepted by the
| city trustees, or appeared, as required by law,
| in any newspaper, and there is no record to
| show that they were adopted.
THE horribly brutal speeches to invalids that
are made by visitors apparently friendly and
apparently sane are inexcusable Some of
| them are so horrible that one must laugh at the
| very remembrance of them. To a dear ole
gentleman who had been confined to the house
for some time was put the cheerful inquiry:
| Does the grave look pleasant to you, Mr.. -"
ROBERT L. RAYNER, who arrived on his wheel
at New York, from Chicago, Monday, left We'd
neSday for Saratoga. Sunday he pitched his
tent near Poughkeepsie. Early Monday morn
ing he was awakened by the sun, and found
that some impudent thief had literally stolen
the roof from over his head. The journey from
Chicago was made in IS days. and at a cost of
| about Sl5.
| In New York sagaciouS man, with diligent
regard for the safety of his fellow beings. has
invented globular rubber tip to go on the
| points of umbrellas and canes to prevent their
improper intrusion into the eyes of human
beings, The tips are on the same plan as the
rubber guard on foil. They hurt the appear
ance of stick, but on an umbrella they are not
so disfguring.
| A YOUNG WOMAN on her way home from church
in Mentone, Ind, the other night, was caught in
a thunder shower and struck by lightning 1t is
| reported that though terribly frightened, she
managed to reach home. On examination she
found that he fluid had bent two of the hair
pins on her head and actually melted one but
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! jured particle.
| THE letter head of a Storekeeper in Walling-
ford, Conn, is comprehensive and indicates
catholicity of occupation on his part 1t runs
thus Confectionery, toys, ice cream tobacco
| cigars, pipes, news room, stationery, blank
notes, drafts, blank books. temperance drinks
bread, pies fruits, tea, coffee base ball goods
fish hooks, etc. Agents Anchor line steamers
| Drafts on Europe for sale"
CHARLES Brooks of Washington, is the DOS
SCISSOR of a fouregged chicken. The fowl is
weeks old, and is as sprightly as a kitten It is
curious malformation. It's extra legs are well
formed, but not of much use to his chckenship
Prof. Hornaday says that the chicken is more
than likely to live out the allotted time of its
kind, and Mr.. Brooks will, no doubt, present it
to the professor if it dies, to be stuffed and
placed In the national museum.
THE Russian government has Just made a con-
tract with NJ. Kozell, the engineer for great irri-
CATION works in the recently acquired Murghab
Valley koze was commander of a battalion
of Polish insurgents in 1868. aud was taken pris-
Oner and sentenced to death. He ESCAPED to
France and became famous as an engineer
After the Franco German war, in which he
fought against the Germans, he returned to
Russia and was pardoned, but sentenced to
serve as private in Cossack regiment for four
years.
DRs j. ELLIOTT CHAMBERS and s. B. Houts of
st. Louis recently grated chicken skin to the
face of a cancer sufferer The wound on the
cheek was about an inch wide, nearly twice a;
long, and oneeighth inch in depth II was
covered entirely with the chickens skin which
was taken from beneath the fowls wing The
operation is said to have been without pain to
the patient, and there are strong hopes by the
physicians that most if not all the gratis will
take root in five days, Notwithstanding the man
is 50 years old.
| The popular idea that razor needs rest occa-
sionally has scientific foundation in the case
of fine razors. The grain of the best Swedish
| raZors runs in a diagonal direction from the
upper end of the outer point toward the handle.
Constant stropping will twist the steel until the
grain sets up and down, and steady use draws
| the grain still further over When it gets into
this condition 1t cannot be kept sharp, but il
| laid away and left alone for while the grain
Will resume its first position, and the razor be
| as good as new again
THE new clock just placed in the tower of the
Glasgow university is q tremendous affair. The