The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NEGRO who was on trial in a New York po-
lice court, on being asked if he was man of
family, declared that he was the father of 80
children.
! A MATHEMATICAL GENIUS has figured that if all
the bustles now in use were heaped in one great
| pyramid it would be large enough to completely
cover mp Rhode Island.
! 1t is the custom in Turkey to have one ser
want in the house attend to nothing but the
pipes of his master. He keeps them clean and
sweet and thoroughly rinseS them after each
| smoke.
| CHARLES SPRISGLoRN, who was in Jail at Da-
! kota City on the charge of grand larceny, has
received word of the death of his father in Ger
many, and that he will at once come into
! possession of $4,000, his share of the paternal
estate. He is charged with stealing fat steer.
Ex-senator TABOR, of Colorado, has an in
come of over S. 900 a day from his Vulture
mine, near Tucson, Ari He recently received
| from the mine gold brick weighing 633 ounces,
| and valued at $4,000, which represented the
| product of the mine for little more than
week
| NOVEL LIBEL SUIT has just been decided by
the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. A citizen of
Arcadia, in La Crosse county, called another
man skunk through the columns of the local
! newspaper The jury awarded a verdict of
| $1,000 and costs. The case was appealed and
| the decision affirmed.
| SUMNER HOWARD, formerly Speaker to the
| Michigan House of Representatives, and now
| lawyer with fine practice in an Arizona town,
accepted few shares of stock in an undevel-
| oped mine last fall as a retainer in q murder
case. A few days ago he was offered $35, 00O for
the stock, but declined to part with it.
Two ILLINOIS FARMERS, living near T,lscola,
went to law over So pig more than three years
ago, and the case was appealed until it reached
the Circuit Court. That court has just decided
that of the itigantS shall for the
and the other pay the costs. Altogether, in
costs and attorneys fees, the pig has cost the
two men 81 $50.
In WHITEwooD, D. T., the other day, a ranch
man got bowling drunk and was arrested. The
authorities, for lack of better place, locked
nm up IN an empty box car. Sometime in the
night train picked up the car, and when the
ranchman woke up in the morning he found
himself fifty miles from home and without a
cent. He intends to bring suit for damages.
The FELLOW that painted the end of log
| black to catch rabbits is not far ahead of a
genius who catches ducks by stratagem in
| Montcalm, Mich. He says he cuts out chunk
| of sod, sprnkles hooks baited with corn upon
it, wades out into some lake with the sod on his
| head, has strings to the hooks which he holds
| with one hand, and when the ducks alight and
| swallow the corn he jerks the strings, and they
| fly and carry him to land.
THAT giant monopoly, the Western Union,
| has so effectually cornered electricity in this
| country that man, it seems can't utilize that
subtle agent to cure his rheumatism without
| being interfered with. A rheumatic man near
| Wabash, Ind, cut railway telegraph wire and
| carried the end into his house in hopes of being
able to take the stiffness out of his limbs, and
was getting along nicely when one of Jay
| Gould's linemen sWooped down on him and put
| a stop to it.
| AN old playful of the Kilkenny Theater
Royal has been discovered, announcing the per
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naly written and composed by the celebrated
| Dan Hayes, of Limerick, and inserted in Shakes
| peare's works" Now unless Mr.. Dan Hayes
| put his trademark on Hamlet in the shape
| of cipher confession that he wrote it. and can
| induce some one to discover it, Mr.. Ig Donnelly
| will surely unload the honor on Ben Jonson-
| that is if he can replevn it from Mr.. Shakes
| peare.
AT CLEvEs, O., a young colored man named
| Turrell, fatally shot himself in the jail right
| before the jailer who sitting outside the
| bars. A few evenings before the arrest of Tur-
| rell, the jailer and his wife were awakened by
| the unmistakable sound of the explosion of
| pistol in the cell which was vacant. An inves-
| LEGATION found nothing, and the strange occur
renee had passed from the laier'S mind until
| the fatal sound which ushered the negro into
eternity. Turrell was formerly a Jockey and
! it is said that clatter of horses hoofs is heard
| about the jail and mounted figure dimly seen
| flying along the street.
| A OHlCAGO MAN has lnV6UUSu a corset thQt
will register hugs. He thinks there will be
great demand for them at the watering places
| this summer. Directions for artistic hugg.ng
will go with each corset. From a galley proof
of them it is learned that this ecStatc pastime
! should be made intermittent, perfection being
| dependent on keeping perfect time with the
| natural palpitating of the lady's bosom Should
| the conversation drag and be uninteresting the
! lady will breathe languidly And at times as
| for instance, when declaration of love- genu.
inc hOpns is in her tuilIc
and go at rate much faster.
| MOUSE caused the postponement of a we'd
ding at Kansas City recently. The guests were
| all assembled and the ceremony was about to
| begin, when a scream from one of the ladies'
| caused general cOmmotion. A little mouse
| was seen scaInpering across the room First one
of the ladies and then another declared that the
| terrible beast had taken refuge in her clothing
| In the excitement several valuable vases and
| other choice articles of bric-a-brac were broken
| the bride tainted and the bridesmaids fed across
the street to the house of a neighbor. The fright
| left the young lady who WAS about TO become a
| wife SO i'll that it was decided that the wedding
| must be deferred
| The Police Commissioners of Baltimore have
received a letter from a man in York, Pa who
writes that he was formerly physician and
pension attorney in Baltimore and is now a
| blacksmith. He accuses a family in South
| Baltimore of having bewitched him in July.
| 1885, since which time he has been in station
houses, Bayvlew and insane aSyumS. He calls
! upon police and citizens to hang the members
| of the family one of whom changed from black
| to white before his eyes He hears voices in
! the air tormenting him and utteriug bias
| phemies, ont he declares that he is not insane
| and doubts if there is to-day any policeman or
citizen in Baltimore who has a better brain
| than his
CONNECTED with the Dead Letter flee is a
| sort of museum, where curious articles that
| come in the mails and cannot be returned to
owners are placed on exhibition. In the cabi-
nets which extend round the room are shown
articles nnumerabe and varied, many Of which
have histories. There are pictures and TOYS and
| jewelry without number. Several Indian
| hatchets which were unclaimed give to one of
| the cabinets an archaeological appearance. and
a pair of Indian pipes of red sandstone cross
each other in truly peaceful style. One of the
| rare curiosities is o sheet of parchment on
which is pinned the Lords prayer ia ffty-
| four languages 1t is said TO be a duplicate
! Of parchment which hangs in ST. Peters at
| Rome.
IN JAPAN the people have a queer way of
showing their appreciation of fine acting. They
throw portions of their clothing on the stage,
and after the performance redeem the articles
! al scaled prices, the money going to the actor
| or actress who has excited their admiration
| In that country, where, as Carter Harrison SAYS
/ yOung ladies' Sit around while man tairas