The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-07-28
SELECT SIFTINGS.

! The brood OF single fly IS about
COO.
The inhabitants of Borneo, will carry
none but American umbrellas
The pride of Kingman County, Kan,
is bull that weighs 1880 pounds.
A young woman in Rochester On. W
goes into trance and sings in five diff
ferent languages.
A calf was born on the farm of
Michael Gibbons, Cambria County,
Penn, without the remotest sign of
tail.
The other day, it is chronicled, the
schooner Romeo and the schooner Juliet
were anchored side by side in the harbor
of Belfast, Nc.
A woman in Perry County, KY, has
a circular hole in one of her eyelids,
through which she can see when both
eyes are closed.
The Bank of England is the most ex-
tensive banking institution in the world.
1t employees over 1000 clerks, and its
buildings cover s acres.
Near Wabash, Ind, during the storm
of Sunday night, lightning melted the
hairpins on young woman's head, but
did her no further damage.
1t has been determined that an Amer
lean ship builder constructed the first
sea-going steamer that ever crossed the
Atlantic, the Royal William.
1t may be interesting to chess players
to know the origin of the word "check-
mate" 1t is literally the Arabic es cheik
inaat, the sheik (king) is dying.
A Nevada ranchman shot, trapped and
poisoned 1900 rabbits in four months,
and then figured up that about 5000 new
ones had come to fill their places.
A New York State man is making a
kite large enough to draw buggy, and
he proposes to be drawn around the
country in that manner this summer.
Out in Missouri, the other day, col
ored man was sold into servitude for six
months for the offence of vagrancy.
He was knocked down for six dollars
and a half
Lawrence, Jesse and Thomas Ham
mond, brothers all, of Greecastle, Ind,
are exactly II years old-the only in
stance known where. triplets have at
tanned to that age.
In pumping out the stomach of
would be suicide i'll Des Moines, Iowa,
the other day the doctors brought up a
three-cent piece, two buttons, forty
cherry stones and marble He was an
ostrich tramp.
When Philip Cassiday, of Omaha,
Neb., was buried the other day, his pet
goat ran along beside the hearse, bleat-
ing pitcously, and was with difficulty
kept outside the cemetery while the
burial went on.
The albatross is the most devoted lover
and mate. Even when the female is on
the nest he will stand by and go through
the most eXtravagant motions, and ut
tering curious shrieks, which sound like
laughter, in return for which the female
gently careSses him with her bill.
The King of Siam has conferred the
order of Chulachonclao on his dentist, a
Frenchman. The decoration is he least
important of the four orders of Siam,
and it involves the wearing of cone
shaped hat of great weight on all public
occasions Recipients of the honor are,
therefore, not always as grateful as they
might be,
A farmer in the neighborhod of
Corinth, Me, having been annoyed by a
number of hawks and crows which made
their headquarters in one of his trees,
set a trap on the end of long pole,
which he fastened to the tree in such a
manner that the trap was a little higher
than the topmost branch. The result, at
last reports, was the capture of nine
hawks, three owls and one crow.
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