The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


addressed to a person at salt Sent Mree,
Mikeagan, " and it reached the right man at
SGult Ste Marie.
THE British army authorities are pushing ex-
periments in military cycling. A regular bi-
| cycle corps has been formed, with 100 men, of
| whom eleven are officers.
In trying to reach for a shawl that had
| dropped from her shoulders, Mrs. Ensign, of
Dansville, n. Y, fell down a bluff near 80
| feet high, and was drowned in the water at It's
| foot.
THE Duke of Edinburgh, who is noted for his
stinginess, is in the habit of having his frock
coats made with removable buttons so that the
| same coat can be used either for uniform or
| civilian dress
Two enterprising citizens Of Glenwood
| Springs, Col, have undertaken to journey by
boat to the Gulf of California, via the Grand
and Colorado rivers. The expedition is intended
| as pleasure trip.
GLASGOW will soon be the second city of the
United Kingdom. It's boundaries are to be ex-
tended so as to include number of populous
| towns and it is estimated that it will then have
| population of nearly 100000
AT LAST New London, N. H., has emerged
from her wintry surroundings, the snow giving
place to a good growth of grass, in fact one
that would indicate the snowy covering was an
| advantage rather than otherwise.
IT only took 20 minutes in Topeka, Kan,
court TO decide that the man had no case who
wanted $4,000 damages because the Santa Fe
| Railroad would not carry him from Wichita to
| Topeka on a ticket that read from Topeka TO
| Wichita"
| WHILE digging under the ruins of the old
Sands Street church, Brooklyn. workmen dis
covered water-color painting of the original
church structure that was burned many years
! ago. The painting measured Is by Is and wSs
| In good state OF preservation.
Mrs. AzuBAH f. RYDER, of Orrington, Me-,
VINO is 104 years Old was one of sixteen girls to
| scatter flowers in the open grave at memorial
service of George Washington. She has large
and interesting correspondence with young and
old persons all over the United States
| A MAINE TELEGRAPH MESSENGER took a tele-
gram the other day to an old gentleman 20
years old who never had seen such thing be-
fore. The first thing he did was TO read the
printed regulations on the top of the blank, and
| it took him five minutes to get to the message.
VISITOR in the South of France writes &c
staticaly of miles of rose hedges and fields that
are pale yellow with the flowers of tea roses.
| The harvest of orange blossoms spreads about
| Cannes a delicious perfume almost too strong.
| Sheets are spread under the trees to catch the
| blossoms.
BEAN CURD is used extensively as food The
preparation is simple and the cost low. The
beans are reduced to -four, which is boiled until
| it attainS the proper consistency. 1t is much
| reliShed by the Chinese, and possesses the prop
critics Of nourishment to large degree. 1t
| contains large percentage of casino, and it
may be good substitute for milk.
AT Lone Pine, Inyo county, California, is a
rock that might easily be passed off for petri
| fed elephant A photograph of the rock shows
as like as possible to the photograph of All
elephant. The trunk. the eyes, the head and
body are all as well formed in the photograph
as if the camera had been turned toward a liv
ing animal. The wrinkles and folds in the skin
of an elephant and the color are all repeated in
the rock. The symmetry and proportions of
the living animal are reproduced in this re-
markable freak of nature.
IF this story, which comes from New Hamp
shire, is true the post Office department has
| chance to investigate. On the day after the
big blizzard of March, Mail Carrier Gage, Of
| HOpkiuton started from the village on foot with
| his mail bag on his back The drifts were so deep
| that he had to crawl on hands and knees much
| of the way until he reached the Concord line,
| four miles away, where he found team that
took him to that city. The Washington author
tiles said to have fined him 81 ~ for the de-
| lay which occurred to the mails.
Miss AGNES MURRAY, of Bridgeport, is an
| eccentric woman, to put it mildly. She is very
| rich and spends her money in odd ways A year
ago she bought fine house in Bridgeport, paying
S35 900, shut it up, and has since then allowed
no one to live in it. though several desirable
| tenants nave been ANXIOUS TO TENT IT, leF
country place is four miles from the railroad
station. and it is said that invited guests are
| permitted to walk the distance, notwithStand-
| ing that there are numerous horses and car
riaxes in her stables. Miss Murray was great
| belle in her youth.
WOMEN LAWYERS are becoming power in the
! land. Michigan University has already sent out
| twenty four young women holding the degree
| of LIB. This year young woman from the
| Sandwich Islands, Miss Alma Hitchcock, will
I A.. =, a.
| club of woman lawyers. 1t is mainly cor
| respondence club. yearly letters from the mem
| bers being printed and circulated Mrs. Belva
Lockwood, and Miss Waugh, from the Law
| School in Chicago, are among the members
| The motto Of the club is "All the allies of
| EACH
THE Berlin Homeopathic Society recently
| learned that it was the custom of many drug
gists to put up on homeopathic prescriptions
merely some simple compound and label it as
| whatever was wanted. To test this eighty diff
ferent burlesque prescriptions were written out
| in Latin and sent to as many different druggists
| Seventy -seven out of the eighty sws flowed the
bait, and put up what purported to be the dose
| required by the bogus prescriptions. The other
| three sent the prescriptions back, with the re-
mark that they did not understand them.
JAMES EUGENE HARVEY, aged IA. an office boy
was brought before the Lord Mayor of London
charged with embezzling S25. He had been
| sent to a bank TO get check caShed, and had
|
time ago | went to see Buffalo Bits wild
| West and from that moment l made up my
| mind to 80 TO America; and as soon as got the
! check cashed | started off, but not having
enough money to take me to America fol-
| lowed Buffalo Bill to Manchester, and have been
| at the show every day. | still intend to 20 to
| America, and, even if shall get ten years for
this orense, shall go afterward."
BEFORE her death Lady Marian Afford left
memoranda for her daughters guidance in ar
ranging for her funeral. Among other things
| she wrote: II think that in this short life too
much is given to signs of grief for the departed
| into happiness. | should prefer no mourning
| for myself. but should not like to shock any
| ones prejudices on this account, and wonld only
| set an example as restricting the matter to the
| smallest compass think that crane
| mourning is a cruel tax to the poor; it is expsn-
| sive and tawdry, and nasty the moment il
| ceases 10 be fresh and, therefore, | would wish
| you to set the example by not wearing it for
| me-" Consequently, no Grape was worn AT
| Lady Affords funeral
ALTHOUGH glass pipes of large diameter have
not as yet been successfully produced the opin-
ion has been expressed by those engaged in the
manufacture of glass on large scale that the
| time is not far distant when some method of
| casting such pipes satisfactorily and cheaplv
/ will be devised; and it is believed that. made in
similar form To the present caSt-iron pipes with
| some suitable mechanism for n 10 Mt and of
| malleable glass. voter pipe would thus be
formed to which there could Scarcely be an oh
1 lection. Strong, tough smooth and indast RIO