The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A CABLE across the Pacific from New Zealand
to British Columbia, via the FIJI and Sandwich
Islands, is nov talked Of.
COLUMBUS, n. j., has ghost that is making
things lively in that village. The ghost has no
head, but it finds its way about the town with
out difficulty.
DAVID CARNEs, OF Linn county, Oregon, is lO4
years old. During the past winter he split 1900
fence rails. He was born in Washington coun-
ty, Pennsylvania.
A FARMER near Flint, Mich, is mourning the
death of two geese that he had kept for 5oyears.
They quit raising goslings % years ago, and
after that he kept them to help take care Of the
breeds Of other geese.
A SHARP Maine constable opened a cement
barrel the other day on suspicion. He found
1t packed solidly with sand wet down. and in
the middle of the barrel was twenty-gallon
keg Of whisky.
A MAN named Findley is wheeling barrow
from Glasgow to Rome by way of Paris. He
proposes to walk from Italy back to Glasgow.
His motive for undertaking the walk was want
OF employment.
DEBENTUREs and other stock payable to
bearer, worth at the present rate Of the stock
market f12000 fell out of an old stone filter
that had belonged to a man named Meyers, of
Paris. He had no relative, so the money went
W Ine CJhJe,
A LITTLE Philadelphia girl years Of age, was
running with the mouthpiece of a toy balloon in
her mouth when she fell and partly swallowed
the balloon. She soon strangled to death. An
ME Forster, Brooklyn girl, died short time
ago under similar circumstances.
NINETEEN of the twenty-five walters at the
Hotel del Monte, in Monterey, Cal, struck last
week rather than wear dress coats, in which
garb the proprietor had ordered them to APP
pear. They walked out of the dining room at
the dinner hour and their places we're filed by
bell boys.
THE wolves in different parts of France be-
came extremely bold owing to the recent cold
and snow. Two cavalrymen quartered at Joigny,
while exercising in the neighbOring district,
were attacked by wolf. The rider used his
sa6er, but the animal instead of turning tail
showed fight. The appearance of peasant,
who handed the soldier gun, enabled the pair
to ride back to the barracks in triumph with the
carcass, and to secure the reward of $40 prom
iSed to any one who makes away with wild
animal which, as the phrase goes, has thrown
itself on human beings"
A CONNECTICUT MAN tells this story of a re-
markable exhibition of nerve by profess ional
sneak thief: 'One day he walked quietly into a
bank, took off his hat and coat, hung them on a
nail, put on an Office coat that hung there, and
walked into the rear room which contained the
vaults. The directors were holding a meeting,
and one sat in front of door, blocking the pas
sage. The thief politely asked him to move,
and when the obliging director did so the man
went through the door, picked up two of the
largest bags of gold in sight, coolly walked out
with them, and thief and gold were seen no
more there"
MRs. JENNIE B. BROWNE, of New Haven, is a
woman of nerve with no nonsense about her.
She was crossing a street the other day when
two runaway horses dashed around corner.
and were upon her before she could possibly
get out of the way. She faced them squarely,
threw up her arms quickly, and sternly shouted
Whoa The nearest horse tried to obey,
reared on his launches, and then swerved to
one side. carrying his mate with him. and then
they dashed by so close that portions of the
harness tore the bangles from her hat and the
lace from the shoulder of her wrap Mrs
Browne walked to the sidewalk, and with
hardly a change of face said to friend who
had looked on: 1T was narrow escape. Good
afternoon"