The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
NOAH WEBSTER was acquitted in Maryland re-
Gently of charge of violating the oyster law.

appropriately, Jonas Lie
Miss MoLLIE LocKHARr. of Socorro. New
! Mexico, has porrot that sits on its perch and
sings "Molie Darling" all day long
WILD CAT, or catamount, 516 feet long, and
weighing sixty pounds, was lately caught in a
trap on Aarons creek, in West Virginia.
THOMAS H. MILLS, of Perry county, O., has
entered upon his 102d year. He was born in
Frederick county, Maryland, March Z, 1857.
| ONE of the young Indians in the school at
| Carlisle. Pa, has sent home description of the
ear gloves" he has seen pale faces wearing.
! THE principal liquor seller in a Southern town
is named Vermilion, and he offers bargains to
! those who conte mplate painting the town red.
YOUNG MAN in Maine is accused of having
voted thirteen times at one election, and he is
! IN falr way TO be convinced that the number
is unlucky.
| A SWISS WATCH MANUFACTURER has just in
vented a watch for the blind, on the dial Of
which the hours are indicated by twelve pro
| Jecting pegs, one of which sinks every hour.
A BIDDEFoRD, Me, MAN advertises fol- a wife,
and offers to the lady who will take him an
| active, promising, good looking young man 40
| years of age, a good home and two Jokes of
| oxen"
| WoMAN's SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM has been
| opened in Detroit, where girls are taught type
| setting, shorthand, proof-reading. revision of
manuscript and reporting-so far as it can be
| taught.
The wife of fireman in a St. Louis iron
foundry has invented a simple continuance,
which, placed in the slots of drop letter boxes,
efrectually prevents the theft of mail matter by
means of wires.
The Pilgrim wharf at Plymouth has been used
for coal yard for years. The lease expires
| soon, and the Pilgrim Society proposes to make
some radical changes Plymouth Rock is at the
end of the wharf.
A BLIND HORSE belonging to an Ohio farmer
was sold last winter to a man seventy eight
miles away. The other day he turned up at the
old stand, in good spirits, having been two
weeks on the road, but having come along as
| safely as if he had two good eyes
NJ. BAPsT, Paris jeweler, in a recent lecture,
alleged that the sacredy guarded sceptre of
Charlemagne is nothing more than musicians
baton, and that underneath the red velvet sur
rounding the handle are engraved the words:
This baton is my property -, singer in
Notre Dame, 1890"
[ GYPSY MUSICIAN in Hungary going from
| one village to another, through the snow, was
| followed by a large wolf. A happy thought
struck the musician, and he began to blow his
| instrument with all the energy of despair. It
had immediate effect; his unwelcome attendant
| squatted down and howled like dog at music.
The gypsy reached the next town uneaten.
ALTHOUGH there is an old saying that
| lightning never strikes twice in the same place
| an old walnut tree near Baltimore Md has
| been struck five times The first time it was
| struck ten sparrows that were taking shelter in
1t from the storm were killed. In the tree was a
nest Of three crows, and they were saved only
because their nest was blown out just before
the tree was struck
THERE is in Wilmington a man named Ameri-
/ l.. n
list. about IS years of age and while he admires
the patriotism that inspired his parents to thus
christen him, he never writes his name in full
His ntimates call him indie - and the directory
sets MIN down as Independence Another pa
trlouc father who once lived IN Delaware had
three sons named New Castle, Kent and Sussex
after the three counties. Sussex is a lawyer.
AT the big rabbit drive nine miles from
fresno, Cal, the other day, 1900 persons were
present. Five hundred men and boys formed
the line of the drive, and, starting four miles
from the corral, slowly swept down to it, The
wings were half a mile in length and the corral
proper was IS feet in diameter and inclosed
with a wire screen. Into this Enclosure were
driven and killed 1000 jack rabbits, and 1000
Others were killed in the drive and outside.
ACCORDING to n. Blavier's theory, the great
earthquake disturbances of 1855, 1884 and 1887
are to be associated with the abnormal accumu-
lations of ice about the North Pole. He sup
poses such accumulations TO have caused a de-
Election of the Gulf Stream away from Europe
producing great climatic changes and slight
disturbance of equilibrium in the sea bottom
followed by possible local fracture along the
line of least resistance.
A Boston young man failed to receive an in
vitation to a surprise party to which many that
he knew were specially invited He brooded
over it awhile and then stole the march on all
the others by inviting the young lady in whose
honor the party was to go with him to the thea
Not of 10TH
gladly accepted, and after the performance he
suggested lunch, thereby making the other
party, kept waiting for her return literally one
of surprise.
Mrs. ANNIE LOUISE CARY RAYMOND went ont
to Falmouth, Me-, the other day. to visit old
friends. Between the station and the house
was creek which rose so high that when thew
came to go back the family horse absolutely
refused to cross. Mrs. Raymond showed her
old-time energy and decision. She sent the
driver to the nearest farm house for yoke of
oxen and cart, and, standing in the cart was
driven across the muddy creek and reached
the station just in time TO take the train
A DEyILFIsH OR OCEAN VAMPIRE was accident
ally caught, near Tampico Mexico, in a fl hing
seine recently. Ropes were thrown around the
monster, and by the aid of horses it was drawn
to the shore 1t weighed tons and when
spread out on the beach dead, presented every
appearance of an enormous bat or yampire II
measured 10 feet long and II feet wide from the
edges of the PICTORIAL fins and its mouth was
feet across. number of them had been seen
for some time, but all efforts to catch one had
proved futile.
MISS MCCUTCHEoN, of Socorro N Mex. has
parrot that sings to the accompaniment of n
piano almost perfectly. party of friends
were recently gathered at the residence of this
young lady, when for the amusement of the
| circle, the parrot was brought into prominence
| The bird. as soon as it was brought into the
| room, commenced TO whistle popular time II
| whistled this tune over aud over again until
one of the party suggested that the tune he
| changed, whereupon the parrot stopped Quick
| ly and casting look of contempt at the younp
man who made the suggestion, cried: Chest
nuts"
A RESTAURANT KEEPER in Rockland Me at
temped to play joke on two of his customers
the other night Noticing that the men were
| slowing away their suppers in the shortest DOS
sible time from evident over-anxiety lest tle,
might loose the Boston boat, which was waitingy
at the wharf, he suddenly thought what q funnv
thing it would be to frighten them a little Ac
cordngly, he went into his back shop and pava
a perfect imitation of a steamboats, whistle
The men heard il and stood not on the order ~
their going. The perpetrator of the Joke could
hardly stand for laughing until he happened To
think that he had frightened the men away he.
fore they had paid for their suppers
AT AHMEDABAD it is the custom that when
native government officers have to present
themselves before their European superiors