The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-04
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playing at killing pigs and, they said,
wanted TO see red, red blood"
GEORGE W. CHILDs of Philadelphia has just
received perfect copy Of the rare Saur Bible.
This rare work was presented to him by
grandson of the original printer Of the book.
II is as large as modern pulpit Bible, with
mosaic cover, and is strongly bound.
PoRrMAsTER HEWITT of Jersey City proposes
to visit the county almshouse on Friday and
turn out the able bodied paupers who have been
hvlng at the expense Of the city. A New York
paper reports him as saying that ''he would
nave taken this course long ago il the aims
mouse record had been properly kept
The English government has decided to aban-
don, for the present, the project of forming
companies of mounted infantry for the First
army corps from the regiment of Foot Guards
This determination has been made in conse-
quence of the difficulty experienced in obtain
ing horses suitable for men of the physique Of
guardSmen.
GREAT EXCITEMENT prevails in the vicinity of
Southbury, Conn, over the discovery of a six
inch vein of coal at depth of eighty-seven
feet, which is said by Pennsylvania expert to
oe superior bituminous coal. Owners of land
adjoining going into ectasies over the dis
covery, and fabulous prices are already being
asked for property.
jim CURRY, who has Just been sent to prison
for six years in New Mexico for murder is the
man who killed the actor, Ben Porter at Mar
shall, Tex, in 1879 Porter was travelling with
tne ward barrymore troupe at the time. Curry
inSulted a lady member of the company and
killed Porter for demonstrating with HIM He
was tried and acquitted.
A sUPERsTITIoUs car driver on the Indiana
avenue line, in Chicago, delayed a car load of
church goers Sunday morning. When he reached
the corner of Wabash avenue and Eighteenth
street There was big funeral passing along
WaDaah avenue, and he allowed three or four
cable trains to go north on the down trip with
out his car rather than break through the
funeral procession.
S. F. SHAW Of Dixon, Col. lost his way when
hunting for his COW, and was three days with
out food in very rough country. He became
so exhausted that he concluded he could not
llve longer, but managed to build a fire by
which he could lie down. He was then not
over 100 yards from the house of ranchman,
who saw the fire and went to it, surprised to
nnd starving man at his very door
A CROWD on a Paris street car were amused
| for some time by a scene between a meek
husband and a scolding wife, who upbraided
| the husband for having ogled pretty girl near
him. AT last the fellow, between the obiurga-
lions OF his wife and the laughter of the paSsen-
| gers, became desperate, and threw himself
from the top of the car, where they were sit
ting. his injuries were quite serious.
MANY YEARS ago. among the household
effects of Scotch farmer who died in Canada,
was an old portrait of Burns. which sold for
| little, and found its way to pawn shop in
Toronto. Some one bought it the other day for
~, had it carefully cleaned and was rewarded
by finding it to be an oil painting by Raeburn,
dated 1877. He values it at 81, 0O0 and will send
it to Scotland, where it will be exhibited.
NOVEL LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE is on exhibition
at Palmyra, Wis. Except the noise of its
wheels moving upon iron rails it is noiseless
and smokeless. The steam after use in the
engines. is condensed in new manner, and the
water at the boiling point is reused. All the
wheels of the locomotive are drive wheels be-
ing SO arranged as to give them easy control
OF the car on curves and on uneven tracks.
E. CoYKENDALL of Deckertown, n j., has had
four tusses with lightning. His parents were
killed by lightning when he was boy. fiftv
years ago. He was struck also and was found
unconscious. Some years afterward his horse
was killed under him by lightning. A few years
knocked to pieces by a bolt, and he was severely
wounded Recently he was struck while in a
haymow, and picked up for dead but he lives
for further risks.
RECENTLY at Santa Anna, Tex, while J. Tay-
Tor was sitting outdoors near his house. read
ing newspaper, gray squirrel sprang from
the top of the house and began biting Mr.. Tay-
lor He threw the squirrel to the ground but
it sprang back upon the old gentleman, biting
him more severely than ever. He was bitten
through both ears and on the neck and face so
severely that DR.. Matthews was called in to treat
the wounds. Mr.. Taylor finally killed the SOUR
rel There are some fears that the animal had
hydrophobia.
A PHYSICIAN has come to the defense of gum
| chewing. He says 1.-THE evils of gum chewing
are exaggerated by those who consider the
habit ill bred and vulgar. Women do infinitely
more harm to their spomachs with pickles, ices
| and hot drinks, and by eating between meals
| than by chewing gum. There are cases where
moderate gum chewing is positively healthful.
| Boiling ones food is the besetting national
weakness Bottled food goes into the stomach
without the necessary saliva, which can only
be had by working the jaws, and it is an excel
ent thing to chew a bit of harmless gum after
| the meal and induce the secretion of more
| saliva"
THE latest device for attracting the atten-
| ton of possible purchasers which has been
| adopted by several Paris shopkeepers.
says Paris correspondent. lis an 'immovable
boy. Outside clothier's for instance the
boy stands without moving a muscle. and
bears on his carcass the newest fashion bouses
or corduroTS Passers-by are easily attracted
by the remarkable figure, which they take to be
an eftigy in waxwork or a tGbieG u-UiUdnt. The
boy has been well drilled and lives up to his
work. He smiles not, neither does he wink nor
does he betray by the slightest sign, token or
movement, that he has anything in common
with the ordinary palpitating and effervescng
specimen OF humanity, the Boulevard boy"
The curious bank note owned by c. s. Upton
and exhibited in New York, printed on one side
as $40 bill and on the other as a 800 is not the
only one in existence. II has been stated that
only four of this class of bills were printed and
that only one got into circulation Gen George
NJ. Guon of Seneca Falls. n. Y, has a bill eX-
actly similar, except that il was issued by a
different bank. Uptons bill was issued by the
Second National Bank of Springfield while
Gen. Guion's note issued by the National
Bank of Middletown. VT, and is dated July /.
1864. 1t was received over the counter of the
First National Bank of Seneca Falls over
twenty years ago by the cashier, the late L. G.
Partridge, whose widow presented it to Cen
Guion. The bill is we'll preserved, and the
general values it highly.
A CURIOUS AIR SHIP has been built at Phila
delphia, Pa, by Charles Augustus Kinsel. a
young German, and this week he will attempt
TO ascend in it to the clouds and navigate the
air. Kinsel has utilized four cared skiff as a
car. fitting it with rudder and wings The
whole is to be buoyed up IN the air by means of
three balloons, containing 80 900 feet of gas
The air ship is surrounded with heavy wooden
framework, above which are heavy iron stays
and beams to which an iron frame is fastened
The balloons will be attached to this SUPER
structure, which rises about six feet over the
boat car. Kinsel has been at work on his
invention for eight years, and is confident of
success. He has applied for patents covering
every portion of his apparatus. and has for
warded a working model to Washington along
with his application.
DIR. WILLIAM A. HAMMOND writes in the Spr-nr
field CMass) Republican: Not only do our
schools begin too early in the season and too