The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-02
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AN in0ldna woman VINO nau a beautiful nehu
OF hair sold it and with part Of the proceeds at
once invested in complete set of switches"
and front pieces"
The roof seats Of coaches on Fifth avenue
New York, are supplied with rugs to wrap
about the knees of passengers who care to
brave the cold for the sake of the view.
AN INEBRIArED FELLOW was drowned in a
street gutter at Stockton, Cal. He fell to the
sidewalk and then rolled off into the gutter,
which contained about inches of water. He
was found O few moments later, but life was
| extinct.
=ANoTHER BIG FORTUNE is to be distributed
Christopher Meyer of New York, who is sup
posed to have been worth 500 ,00O left a will
and cOdicil in such shape as to provoke con
test, well dispute between the executors
The lawyers now have the estate well in hand,
as it were.
MEMBERS of a church at Adrian, Mich, have
been supporting old widow there for two
years. The other day she went on Spree
when she boosted that she had been saving the
money received from the church for that pur-
pose. An investigation showed that she pos
sesSed 500.
The whaling bark Josephine NOW at San
Francisco caught two whale killers" in the
Japanese Sea. The killers are exceptionally
rare, and not a member of the Josephine's crew
had ever before seen one Both fishes were
easily captured and the head of one OF them
was brought to port. 1t shows a row of large,
savage.looking worries, numbering forty flour.
When discovered, the killers were engaged in
an attack upon.a whale,
JOIN HARRIS, Waco TEX boy, started from
Senator Richard Coke's farm, below Waco, on
the Brazos, on horseback, carrying quarter of
beef intending to deliver it at a point on the
other side OF the river. After he reached the
widest OF the route the wolves, attracted by the
smell of fresh meat, gave chase and the boy
was compelled TO drop the beef to save himself.
After eating the meat they pursued the boy
again. but having feet horse, he escaped.
A MOBILE PAPER incites the people there
abouts to set up crab farms a source of reve-
nue., and shows that it is both possible and prof
table by reference to the animals history.
Four times in year does he shed his shell to
grow a bigger one, and while the new one is
hardening he is that morSel for gourmets, the
soft shell. The plan is to inclose reaches of
sandy beach with a tight fence higher than
high tide. They will put into this all era bs when
caught, and market them when just at the
right season.
THE wave motor, which was begun at Point
Lobos, Cal, about three years ago, is nearly
completed, AS described by San Francisco
paper, it is a machine for utilizing the dashing
in of the waves by turning their power into
practical use, such aS furnishing water Tor
sprinkng the streets, flushing the sewers, and
even driving cable cars. Only one piston has
been put in as yet. This pumps at the rate OF
from eighteen to twenty hours per day,
and if the wind and tide are favorable can be
worked throughout the whole twentY-fou
EIGHT more Indian skeletons have been I'M
earthed In Winthrop Mass. near the place
where several were found some weeks ago. Five
Of the skeletons were found Saturday in group
by themselves and were apparently the re-
mains of a brave and his squaw and three pap
pooses. Near these were found a small roll of
copper, evidently worn as an ornament and
part of an earthen vessel Within five or six
feet lay solitary skeleton under the skull of
which portions of wampum we're found, and
near by quantity of beads. These were about
three fourths of an inch long and an eighth of
an inch IN circumference.
A TRAVELLER tells the following seemingly in
credible story to Illustrate the insensibility of
Maoris to pain: My friend had given a Maori
pair of boots, but they were too short for him.
For some tsine he endeavored to force them on,
but this was impossible SO he seized a small
tomahawk. and cut off his large toe. to the
length of his other toes, and then applied some
juice of the fax plant C''Phormium tenax') to
the cut to stop the bleeding, and pulled on the
boot, which was not removed until the toe
healed He put on the other boot after a SINH
lar operation. ] have known several instances
which appear to prove that the Maoris are less
sensible to pain than Europeans.
FROM the report of the Japanese railway
bureau for the past year it appears that rail
an unusual number of difficulties. owing to the
physical geography of Japan. One line OF POS
miles in length involves the construction of ten
tunnels. 5000 feet long, and the bridging of
eleven rivers. One Of the latter, so it is as
serted, has velocity iD time of food of q feet
per second, and in another the brick piers have
to be sunk to depth OF 80 feet. A range of
mountains is crossed at hight of ! ,46S feet
Part OF another line ascends to hight of g. IA
feet and during five months of the year work
is rendered impossible by the snow.
THE SIAMEsE APE is stated to be in great re-
quest among Siamese merchants a cashier
in their counting houses Vast quantities of
base coin obtain circulation in SIAM and the
faculty Of discriminating between good money
and bad would appear to be possessed by these
gifted monkeys in such an extraordinary de-
gree of development that no human being
however carefully trained can compete with
them The cashier ape medltatively puts into
his mouth each coin presented to him in bust
ness payments. and tests it with grave debera-
ton His method oftestng is regarded in com
mercial circles as infallible; and, as matter of
fact, his decision is uniformly accepted by all
parties interested in the transaction.
THAT marvel of modern engineering the
Eiffel tower, on the Champs de Mars, Paris
which was expected TO be one of the ornaments
Of next years exposition, is said to be. in point
of architectural beauty, a dismal failure A
letter from an American in France is pro
nouuced in its condemnation of the great iron
in Paris but that tower, which is now 500 feet
high, worried me out of my plan. 1t haunts
you. You caunot help seeing it, and the more
you see it, the crazier you get. am now 200
miles from Paris, yet the first thing see when
] get up in the morning is that awful tower 1t
is a terrible bore. When it reaches its full
hight. one will be able to see it, guess, all over
France. shall then go to Africa
THE majority of deaths from lightning occur
in the level open country-trees, villages and
thickly built up towns and cities, by their pro
jections in the air. serving as conductors and
thereby protecting the inhabitants from direct
stroke. The loss of life annually throughout
the world is very great. In European Russia
from 1870 to 1877 no less than 22l0 persons were
killed by this cause. In Austria during the same
time ], 200 persons were likewise killed. In
Prussia it is reported that 20 persons are an
nuaily killed. Ten thousand persons are re
ported as having been struck during period Of
nine and twenty years, with 2,252 deaths in
France. while in the United States during 1870
alone 202 deaths from lightning were recorded