The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! MAN bearing the remarkable name of
Boomer Blizzard died recently in Newburg, n.
c. A. WELLER is noted Michigan trapper.
The other day in III traps set along the Grand
river he found 105 muskrats, mnks, skunks
| and COON
\ SIZE" in a coat is an inch; in underwear it
is inches in a sock, inch; in a collar u inch !;
| in Shirt u inch; in shoes, 1,6 inch; in pants,
l inch: 10 gloves "a inch, and in hats, u of an
| inch.
FRENCH BACHELOR advertised for wife A
! Typographical error changed his age from 81 to
| 81, but it made no difference. for he received $50
applications from ladies ranging from the age of
| 10 to 90, and all promising love and devotion to
the rest OF his existence.
GEORGE W NELSON. of Bruce, Mich, caught
! lately through hole in the ice of pond pick
erel weighing 16 pounds and 2 ounces and meas
! uring feet and inches. Several citizens have
had tussels with this king fish during the past
two years, but the fish succeeded in getting off
| the hook.
| Two NEW THEATERs about to be opened in
Berlin are named 'Theater of the Living" and
''Theater of the Dead" The theaters were
classical works are to be played will be called
the leasing Theater, y while the Grown Prince
Theater' will be the name given to the theater
reserved for the production of Give" plays.
ALBERT FLINT. of Birmingham, Eng was SEN
fenced TO only three months Imprisonment at
hard labor for throwing his child, 1! months old,
into the fireplace, and, when it was rescued
from there, throwing it on the floor. kicking it,
and trying to jump on it. having previously
offered sovereign to the child's nurse to make
away with it.
QUEER requests are made at the Pension
Office in Washington. There are people who
seem to think that the Commissioner is general
superintendent of things terrestrial The other
Nebraska letter asking
Gen. Black to have the schoolhouse moved to
the center of the school district, and an Ohio
woman requested him to send her a golden
crown to wear TO glory.
A RECENT ANALYSIS of the population of Kan
sas reveals the fact that Missouri has contrib
uted almost twice as many people t. that COM
monwealth as any State in the Union. Ohio
has sent 74,633 emigrants to Kansas, while Mis-
souri, which is the only State that exceeds that
number, furnishes 1856 rs. The New EnglanderS
IN the State number 1872 The total number
of persons of foreign birth is 60,218
Few PRISONERS are as accommodating as a
Maine man who was captured by a deputy
sheriff at Greenville the other day. As the
story is told the officer put his man on board
the train and then neglected to get on himself
letting the cars go off without him. The priS-
oner got off at Dover, went to the court house.
pleaded paid his fine and was at libertp long
before his captor appeared upon the scene.
A BEAVER FALLS man has rooster that is
regular John L. Sullivan for fighting A few
days ago a cat entered the chicken coop and
attempted to steal some meat that had been
thrown in to the fowls The rooster attacked
the cat and for few minutes hair and feathers
flew in the liveliest kind of way. The cock was
finally victorious and the cat rushed from the
pen and hid under the house most ingloriously
defeated. The rooster shook his ruff1ed plum
age, crowed once, then walked around looking
as if nothing at all had happened.
A LADY living in Findlay, o threw out in the
yard quantity of canned pears which had fer
mented and flock of chickens helped them
selves, and soon after became intoxicated.
Their antics ridiculous in the extreme.
The rooster had naturally mbbed the most,
and had three fights and got used up. He and
one of the hens became SO stupefed that they
became helpless, and were dumped in an out
house to die. In an hour or two however, they
revived. and in the morning were as bright as
ever The rooster crowed, and seemed to be
looking around for an eye-opener.
AT THE RECENT FIRE at the transfer house of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in
South Chicago. all attempts to remove the cars
from the transfer house had been abandoned
when suddenly the cry raised that several
cars in the burning building contained gtlnpow-
der. The crews of three transfer engines volun-
teered to attempt to remove the cars from the
blazing building and three locomotives at once
started toward IL. The engines coupled on and
in few seconds all the cars had been removed.
One car contained gunpowder, but was success
fully drawn out, it being itself in blaze at the
time.
AN ATTACK was made upon stage coach be-
tween Lyons and L'Arbresle recently The
driver had inside the coach valuable consign-
ment of silk and no passengers. While nearing
the hamlet of Chlcotiere the driver heard two
revolver shots, aud was surprised to see one of
his horses fall on its knees bullet had en-
tered the animals forehead The driver jumped
down off his seat and was surrounded by hiyh-
n. armed IN 10
He asked if he had any money or bank
securities, and, having replied in the negative
they went quietly away without disturbing his
cargo.
BARRELS are now being made of hard and
soft wood each alternate Stave being of the
soft variety and slightly thicker than the hard
wood stave. The edges of the slaves are cut
square, and when placed together to form the
barrel the outsides even, and there is a V
shaped crack between each stave from top to
bottom. In this arrangement the operation of
driving the hoops forces the edges of the hard
slaves into the soft ones until the cracks are
closed and the extra thickness of the latter
causes its inner edges to lap over those of the
hard wood slaves, thus making the Joint doubly
secure,
AT Paterson, n. j., mouse was discovered in
a schoo-room where a lady teacher presided
The teacher told the children to be quiet; SO
small a thing as mouse wouldn't hurt them
She, however, kept her eyes on the mouse, and
when she thought the scholars did not observe
she raised her feet to the rungs of the chair
Then a boy scholar offered to catch the mouse
He was given permission to do SO and set to
work with pail. The mouse made a run to-
ward the teachers desk. Her courage her doc
trines, her example all fled and the teacher
never got into the teachers room in a shorter
space of time. The tumut in the class room in
consequence of the precipitate flight of the
teacher may be imagined.
WRITER in one of the Munich Germany pa
pers institutes comparison between different
kinds of wood used by carriage makers, and in
favor of the home material as against the for
eign grown; and, while admitting the very great
excellence of hickory timber for the manufac-
ture of wheels in especial. on account of its
toughneSS and durability, yet. the basis of
repeated observations and experiments the
writer in question asserts that German timber
especially for SpokrS can be placed side bv side
and is equal, under the same conditions to the
American hickOry-the kind here referred to
being the acacia timber. This is less known in
northern Germany but in the southern mart it
is used in preference to hickory while in both
northern aud southern Germany hickory timber
is employed for all carriages OF the finer class
Both in Germany and Switzerland, however
many carriage builders discard hickory alto
gether; the toughueSs of the recently cut tim
Der is not questioned, but the quality of the
acacia timber when used for wheels and kept
dry always remains the same-the hickory hav-
ing the disadvantage. even when painted of he