The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NoRvIN GREEN says that Jay Gould coulu
settle up and have 100000
NINE CABLES connect Europe and America.
Altogether there are now in use $4,000 nautical
miles Of cable.
RAFAEL LUNA and Petra Negrete were lately
married in Guanaiuato, Mexico The bride is .
and the groom 80 years Old
ssTHE great American deer stalker" Mr.. Win
ans. now controls 10000 acres of deer forest
and employs several hundred Keepers
Two East Jordan, Mich. hunters followed
deer track for six miles few days ago and tneh
found that it had been made by pig.
An immense hunting expedition is about to
start for Masailand, the ground of Ryder HaS
CARDS last novel, ALLAN Quartermain.
THE State Line Coal Company of East Pales-
tine. o.. has received a wire rope two miles
long from Liverpool, Eng, to be used IN us
mines.
AN OLD WOMAN at Phlpsburg, O., who
owned plenty of real estate and was quite
wealthy. killed herself with poison because she
was afraid she could not pay her taxes.
A SCIENTIST states that paralysis among rail
road engineers is increasing, on account OF the
rapidity with which trains are run nowadays,
the constant motion and nervous strain break
ing man down.
A YOUNG WOMAN of Bangor Me-, who had
been forbidden by a jealous sutton to go to a
dance with a rival had the jealous swain ar
rested and lodged in a cell, and she went to the
dance with the other fellow.
IT IS SAID that scales for Weighing diamonds
are brought nearly to that delicacy of balance
which would enable dealers to detect flaws in
the stones by minute variations in weight, lhey
weigh accurately the 640th part of carat.
The latest financial notion in London is an
Exchange" for dsposing of supertuous wed
ding presents. At last accounts it was believed
the exchange had 105, 672, $50 llver-plated ouI-
ter knives and 7G2 523, Gil pickle dishes on hand.
In HARRISBURG, PA, the other day goose
escaped from a farmers wagon, flew down the
street and alighted on an electric arc light wire.
The current was on and the goose dropped to
the ground dead. 1t weighed eighteen pounds
TURKEYS pay in Vermont-when everything
goes well A Green Mountain farmer made
net profit of $40 50 from single hen turkey
during the past season. That's better than
raising wheat or cattle-H you have enough
turkeys.
A RICH VEIN of pure Galena lead ore has been
discovered near Monroe, Wis Ten thousand
pounds of ore were taken out in three days, in
Guiding one chunk that weighed 800 pounds,
vast amount of ore is in sight, all OF the very
best quality.
Work on the Potomac flats S progressing.
About SOB acres have been reclaimed from the
overflow of the ordinary high tide, and about
6,150OO0 cubic yards of the 1900, 900 yards re-
quired to fill the flats to the required height have
been deposited.
ANOTHER INVENTOR comes to the front with
patent photograph holder to be attached to
tOmbstones. 1t is intended to hold the pictures
of the subjects OF the memorial tablets, and is
fitted with sliding cover to protect the photo
graphs from the elements.
DETROIT WOMAN seeing a thief making
away with her cothes-lines and the clothes
thereon, got hold of the fellow by the throat
and held on till a policeman captured him.
A plucky woman sometimes does better eXecu-
ton than a big man with revolver.
FIFTY.NINE SURVIVORS of Balakla "a attended
the annual dinner in London, few days ago, on
the thirty third anniversary of the charge; and
in other places on the same day there were ath-
letic games. sword contests. sham contests, and
other celebrations of the day by other surviv-
OrS.
TURKEY has joined the other European powers
in trying to make this country the dumping
ground for its pauper population. One hun
bred Turks landed at Castle Garden Saturday
in filthy and destitute condition, but they
detained awaiting the action of the Collector of
the Port.
FIVE NEGRO FoRGERS were arrested in Ian
caster and when brought together began quar-
relng violently accusing one another of treach-
cry. This suggested a mode of punishment,
and each was provided with whalebone whip
and compelled to intiict twenty lashes upon
every one of the others.
HALF DOZEN BOOK AGENTS were arraigned
before a Pennsylvania Judge for obtaining
money through false pretenses. The Judge
held that they had done no more than to tell
fasehoods in order to sell their goods, and that
the law would not warrant him in imprisoning
them for plain ordinary lying.
GEORGE RIEBALD, an Idaho pioneer and mine
owner, says that Joaquin Miller named the Ter
ritory Idaho, being a pure Bannock word,
meaning Gem of the Mountains" Miller him
self says that the word should be pronounced
with the accent on the second syllable, Idaho
the IA having broad sound.
The sloop Favorite which recently foundered
near Orient, L. L. was wrecked by beach wea-
sci which was loaded into the vessel when she
took on cargo of seaweed. Finding himself
confined in the hold, the weasel gnawed a hole
in the side of the sloOp below the water line and
the result was that the Favorte foundered.
A DIsTILLERY in Rappahannock county, Vir-
ginia, has tempted twelve stands of bees from
the path of honey and wax and made confirmed
inebriates of them. Before the diStillery was
started their owner woman, found the bees
very profitable, but their periodical visits to the
still have made them comparatively worthless.
A GIRL who is but 10 years old has been
noticed practicing the arts of the highwayman
upon the streets of Monroe. Mich, lately. The
child confines her attention to children of
course and lays particularly for little ones who
have been sent on errands, often robbing them
of considerable sums in cash or quite valuable
bundles of goods.
An ORATOR who recently addressed the Louis
lana Sugar Planters Association on the Great
American Mule" began his effort with these
words: Il do not propose to enter into the his
tory of the mule; he is with us and has come to
stay. Neither horse nor donkey, he is the mug
wump of the animal kingdon-by nature
kicker and never swayback."
ALABAMA is going ahead fast, according to the
reports of a correspondent, who writes that in
ten years the State has increased her tsxable
property from Sl25, 100000 to S215, 900, 600; and
i'll the past year Jefferson county, of which Bir-
mingham is the county seat, has increased 500
900, 900 in tax value. The total increase in the
State for the year was Sal, 69l ,703
THERE has always been suffering in Nebraska
and Kansas in winter, and but few years have
passed without the ice king claiming some vic.
Tins The present has been worse than usual
! because the population has been moving farther
West and thousands of people have settled in A
new country as yet ill-provided with railroads
and other means of communication
An old sea captain thinks he has a good
answer for the question: Where do sea birds
obtain fresh drinking waterl'' He SAYS that he
has often seen birds far from land that could
furnish water flying around and under storm
plo Of FOR a., c.II