The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

y SIGN POST Oh the boston ana Albany rail-
road at Springfield two years ago fell on Alloy
sus Fagnut. 17-yearod boy, and injured him
severely. He sued for $50, 900 damages, and in
the Superior Civil Court of Massachusetts a
jury awarded him S27 ,000
In BERLIN they have established an academy
for the teaching of the art of tailoring. Last
year 902 students. some even from Brazil and
| Japan, attended the institution. There is said
| to be special pr0fessorship IN the art of col
Letting bills for spring suits from fashionable
customers.
\ BEAR that was being taken from the cars
at Broad street station, Philadelphia, broke the
iron bars of its cage and sprang angrily upon
the platform. 1t created CONSERVATION among
! the passengers, but after some difficulty its
| keeper caught the piece of chain that hung
| around its neck, several porters came to his as
sistance and the animal was dragged back into
| its cage.
ALEX MASON of Sterling, Pa, saw a big eagle
trying to soar into realms empyrean with 70
pound sheep Alex resolved to put a stop to the
proud birds little game, so he seized his gun
| and fired. The eagle fell to the earth pierced
with many shot wounds and soon expired. 1t
was a good looking bird of the bald variety,
weighing twenty-one pounds, and its WINGS
when spread out, measured z feet.
AT WEDDING in Aroostook, Me-, the groom,
said to be worth $4,000, presented each guest
with bag of peanuts and few pieces of
| candy. This was considered in the light OF
| joke, and more so when the party was afterward
| invited to supper at the neighbOrng hotel, but
affairs took on another aspect at the conclusion
| of the meal when each guest learned that he
would have to pay for the victuals eaten.
AT the meeting of the Gaelic Societyat Stein
way Hall, New York, an address was delivered
which brought out many curious facts in CON
nection with the study of the Gaelic tongue
The best Irish drama it was asserted was writ
| ten in Berlin. and was the work of a German.
The best treatise Irish epics was written by
| a Frenchman, and there is enough Irish litera-
ture extant to make 1000 volumes of 1000 pages
| each.
CALIFORNIA BIG TREES will have to take sec
| ond place as botanical giants now that the
ocean has undertaken to beat the land in the
| size of its products. Capt. John Stone of the
| ship Clever, picked up a weed on the At
iantic, near the equator, that was 800 feet
| long. 1t was an alga, and has been identified
! as a specimen of macrOceptis pyrifera. Per
haps it is the kind of weed that the sea serpent
eats.
| LAST FALL a citizen of Ann Arbor purchased
a mustang mare from drove that was sold
there. The mare recently gave birth to a hand
! some little mustang colt. The colt was perfect
but peculiar feature is that when born it had
a perfectly formed counterpart of the brand
with which its mother was marked. That on the
| colt is the same in shape but of darker color
hair than the rest of its coat and does not have
the appearance of being burned there
A CAVE has been discovered on the farm of
John Totten, in Washington township, Law
renee county, Pennsylvania. The opening is on
the side of hill under a small cliff. A power
full current of warm air comes from the aper-
| ture, which is not more than three feet high
and eighteen inches wide. The presence of this
current is thought to indicate cavern of large
| dimensions, and effort will be made to en-
| large the opening and make an exploration.
Two MARYLAND INVENTORS have discovered
and perfected a substitute for the pendulum in
! -
ment, itself piston or punger that is propelled
upward and downward once in twenty four
hours through cylinder filed with mercury.
There is no noise except when the clock strikes.
| The invention supplants the discovery of
Calico and, it is claimed, will eventually revo-
| lutionize the clock manufacture, through cheap
ness and perfection.
THERE was to have been a wedding in high life
| at Tekama Neb., a few days since. wealthy
man aged GO, was to marry beautiful girl of
| 49, The company had assembled and the girl
| and the old gentleman were standing before the
minister, when the customary question was
| asked if she would take nm for, her husband.
She dropped his hand and, bursting into tears
cried mo, won't" She then ran up stairs to
her room. The old man left and the company
dispersed in confusion.
ACCORDING to careful insurance statistics on
both sides of the water the expectation of life
of American women at % years of age in 40s
years, and of English women precisely the same,
among American women exceeds considerably
that of English women up to AZ. After that
again English women have the advantage In
short between the ages of 20 and IS American
women are healthier and better, but after that
age fall behind the women of England in
vitality.
WHEN the schoolmaster, hearing of the birth
of Artemus Wards twins, said: 'Qute an cpl
sode." Artemus replied Eyes, two episodes of
the male persuasion and both boys" That's
L., l-fo in will % IL. n
differ The latter's twins are condolences and
of the male and female persuasion. First his
old COW gave birth to twins, bull and heifer;
a few days afterward the miller's wife presented
him with twin babies, boy and a girl; and on
the next day the house cat discovered a litter of
twelve kittens, and six of them were little Toms
and six were not.
THERE is dog in Xenia, O., that still has
vivid remembrance of the destructive flood that
visited that town in May, 1896. At the time the
animal was tied in a stable and could not get
out when the water came rushing in on him
But he was rescued by some of the bows after
| the water had reached depth of about feet
While the dog was being rescued the fire bells
rang an alarm to warn the citizens of their
peril. Many fastened from the city and took
refuge on a neighboring hillside, and the dog
went there also as soon as he got out of the
water Ever since that time, Rover, as he is
called, takes to the hillside Just the moment
the fire bells ring out, anticipating another
flood.
Mrs. ELIZABETH ANDERSON, of Oakland. Cal,
was married the other day to W. F. Delaney.
but before the ceremony was performed she
made him sign document in which he resigned
all interest and claim in law and equity TO her
property. Mrs Anderson, who is about 80 years
older than Mr.. Delany, explained that she came
to the Golden State in the early days. and had
acquired considerable property by hard work
She had seen three husbands laid in the silent
tomb, and wanted TO be quite sure that the
young man who wanted to be her fourth was
not marrying her for her money. Mr. Delaney
proved that IL was love that made his world 90
round, by signing the paper and having it duly
recorded.
AS bearing upon the question as to the dis
lance to which aerial pulsations started by can
nonading will extend, correspondent of the
Albany Arglls gives the following illustration:
AT the time Gen. Grant was besieging Vicks
burg, was in Northern Texas about or a little
over, 800 miles away in direct air line was
provided with a Smithsonian Institution stand
ard barometer. reading TO the thousandth of an
inch. One morning, about O'Clock noticed
the column Of mercury was vibrating II con
tinued trembling through the day, uuieting
down at night at the time of taking obserya
tons the next morning IL was quiet but began
trembling shortly after, and continued as the