The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-19
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SAND TO keep them through the winter.
| A JEwELER at Warsaw, Poland, is making a
golden bust of Bismarck. which is to be presented
to the Oldest German inhabitant of that city.
BENJAMIN BARDLEy, a colored man who died
| at Denton, Md, last Tuesday, was noted for his
| immense strength. He had on occasions walked
| through the streets with go pounds or iron on
| his shoulders.
SOME remarkably fast time was recently made
on the Illinois lines of the Wabash railway, sew
eral trains attaining a speed of seventy-five TO
| eighty mics an hour for short runs of from ten
| to twelve miles.
A JERSEY CITY Sunday school superintendent
has organized brass band in connection with
| the services of his school, and it has proved a
| drawing attraction to everybody excepting the
| citizens III the nelghborhood.
In suit for scandal in Chicago one woman
swore that another called her thief, liar, hypo-
critic, swindler tramp, robber, backbiter, Cos
siper, gadder, slOven SLOUGH, lazybones and pro-
faner, and all in five minutes.
CHICAGO MEN are said to mark their entrance
into the inner shrine of the temple of culture
by saying luncheon instead of lunch" IN
Kansas City the same stage is marked by the
use OF the word 'victualS" instead OF grub "
BACHELORS CLUB organized at Bentonville.
Ark, is t. impose heavy fine on members I'M
married at the end of 1885, excepting those who
can give satisfactory evidence that they have
proposed and been rejected three times during
the year.
THE ELEVATOR of the Washington monument,
at the national capital, has been kept busy
since it began running last Tuesday. On Wed
nesday almost 60 people were carried to the
top of the monument and many more, becC NJ
ing tired OF waiting their turn went away.
MANY HUNDREDS of British authors have re
Gently appended their names to an address to be
presented to Mrs. Hodgson Burnett, expressing
appreciation of her spirited action i'll contestlng
the right assumed by dramatiSts of adapting
novels Tor the stage without the authors con
sent.
THE swell restaurant in San Francisco was
started by a Frenchman, who named it lie
Pouet d Or CThe Golden HEM This was too
much of iaWbreaker for the natives, who
have called it THE Poodle Dog" by which
the restaurant is known all over the Pacific
coast
THERE is an old lady by the name of Nancy
Brown, living close to Birmingham. Ala who
has never been in that town, and who has never
ridden on a train in her life. She has lived there
for forty-seven years, and is 20 years old. She
is well off, but dresses with the greatest sim
plicity.
IT WAS so cold at the race meeting of the New
York Country Club recently that a young lady
on the grand stand. who wore vanished boots,
she attempted to stand up, found that owing
to the cold and dampness her boots had stuck
together, and she was helpless until her feet
were PRED apart.
A SPARROW with white wirgs was seen in
Rondout, n. " the other afternoon. 1t led an
army of nearly 100 brown sparrows for several
hours, When the euro alighted the others
would alight, and when it circl I'd about or flew
in straight line they would Immediately fol
low suit, keeping always, however, at most
respectful distance"
THE parasites recently imported from Aus
tralia by the California state board of horticult
ure to destroy the fruit pests known as the
white cottony scale, survived the long voyage,
and are now thriving in their new home, in San
Mateo county. These parasites which propa-
gate with great rapidty, dig into the back of
the scale bug and finally kill it.
ABOUT 100 volumes were stolen IRON Nor
witch, Conn, library. The thieving was done
on the instalment plan, aud, it is supposed, by
rogue whose conscience began to bother him,
since all the works, nicely packed in a box
were found on the librarians desk when he re-
turned from dinner the other day. 1t is not
known by whom they were put there.
THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, in view of the vice and
destitution existing in the lower quarters of
London which has been brought to public at
tention lately on account of the Hhitechapel
murders, are considering the question Of erect
ing an immense public laundry, which would
provide work for these classes, and intend to
establish lodging houses for their protection
and support.
WHEN you see man carrying book bearing
on the cover the title Great Expectations, - or
''Our Mutual Friend, don t rush to the conclu-
| sion that he is going to read Dickens Many of
| the dainty volumes so labelled are hollow, ex-
cept thatlthey contain a halfpin whisky flask.
| By touching a spring the mouth of the WHISKY
| flask springs into view, all ready for nip"
SO popular are these TASKS that a New York
firm offers them for sale under the name OF
Temperance book TASKS.
A New HAVEN special says: "Out in the Sound
over the Oyster farms the star fish are creating
sad havoc. So much so that the oystermen say
that unless the sea pirates are killed or at
tracted elsewhere the present oyster crops are
virtually going to be ruined. The stars have
attacked everything from seed to 5-year old
stock aud are now creating more disaster than
for long time previously. Oyster beds along
the north shore of the sound are troubled the
most"
Book STEALING seems to have been elevated
into regular trade in Paris, for, according to a
return drawn up by the prefecture of police. the
number of persons prosecuted for this offenSe
within the last two years has been 145. of whom
only five have been acquitted. while ninety
others have been sentenced to fine or imprson-
ment and the remaining fifty are still awaiting
their trial. The amount OF bail lodged and of
fees paid for hearing has exceeded G3,000 these
sums being exclusive of counsels fees and other
legal expenses.
BEAR visited the hog pen Of Michigan
farmer three nights in succession, each time
carrying off shoat. After the third theft the
soil-tiller moved a large boar to the pen to well
come the bear on its fourth visit. The boar
possessed long tusks and pounced upon bruin
the moment 1t appeared. The bear attempted
to hug the enemy, but the porker was too cute
to allow this, and. after taking numerous blows
from the bears huge paws, If with relish,
ripped the intruder open with its tusks Pres
entity the farmer came up with lantern and
an and chopped bruins head open.
AN ENGINEER on the Wabash railway, whose
run is between Danville and Springfield has a
cat which he would not part with for love or
money. 1t be onged to his wife, who is now
dead, and for "a year past it has been his con-
slant companion in the cab Ordinarily il sits
perched up IN the cab window before its master,
but occasionally it strolls out to the pilot,
where it viii! ride for hours at a stretch wink.
ing knowingly at the dogs which bark at the
train as 1t thunders by the cross roads. Some
times when the train is approaching a station
the adventurous animal climbs to the top
of the sandbox and calmly roosts there
undeterrei by the Shrek of the whistle or the
claug of the bell. The engine has had good
luck ever since the animal became an occupant
of the cab, and the trainmen look upon il as a
mascot.
L. D. DEwERT of Portland, Ore, who accom-
panied the recent expedition to Crater lake,
taking views Of charming bits of scenery &C
complished one thing which he did not look for
the photographiug of his own shadow. He
stood on Nid@ cliff, 1000 feet high, and had the
al af hn laln In tha lfgta