The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THE pride of Kingman county, Kan, is bull
that weighs 1850 pounds.

DR.. HEPBURN, of New York, has just com
| pleted a japanese version of the Old Testament
| and a translation of the same books into Telugu
| will shortly appear.
| CAPT. HUGH MELLEN, of Sing Sing, N Y,
caught 53-pound striped bass at the mouth of
| the Croton river the other day. This is the
| largest bass caught in many years
| A MARYLAND MAN who drew $75, 900 in n lottery
means to do penance for his luck by running for
! Congress- and it is said has already spent twenty
| of his thousands in fixing the delegates.
A.MARYLAND WIDOW named Halets set bear
| trap at her smokehouse door, and the first catch
| was who counting her He had
packed up 100 pounds Of bacon TO carry OFF.
UNDER the laws of Iowa railroad passenger
who sticks his head out Of a car window and has
| it knocked off by a switch bar is guilty of mis-
/ demeanOr, and can be sent to jail for three
| months.
| THE King of Portugal ordered, in London,
| thirty tons of fireworks and fifty tons of NOR
tars and other pyrotechnic machinery for use
| at Lisbon in the royal reception to the King of
| Sweden.
THE largest tree in Ohio is near Clyde, Seneca
county. 1t was planted by Oliver Comstock in
| 1923 and now measures ~ feet Z inches in cir
| conference and covers a space of ground 20
| feet in diameter.
| Francis MURPHY, the temperance revivalist,
attributes much of his success to the fact that,
| while speaking, he never permits himself to say
| harsh or unknd word about the drunkard or
about the saloonkeeper.
ELECTRIC RIFLES are the latest. Instead of
the ordinary percussion firing device, dry
| chloride of silver battery and a primary coil
will, it lately stated before the Ameri-
can Institute, fire the rife $4,000 times without
recharging.
PROF SCHMIDT, of Gatz University has hit
upon the plan of cutting off pieces of living
sponge and planting them in a suitable place in
\ the sea- as if they We g willow twigs. In this
way he has succeeded at the end of three years
III producing 1900 sponges at cost of S45.
The hard soda soaps are preferable to the soft
| potash soaps for toilet purposes. as the quality
of all soaps depends upon the character of their
constituents and the thoroughneSS of their
| specialization. Good soaps must not contain
| free alkali or any foreign irritating substances.
ONE of the most remarkable mechanical
| changes of the day is the setting aside of steel
and the readopton of iron for some of the most
important parts of locomotives on many rail
roads. 1t is only comparatively a few years
| since the change was made, on most roads,
| from iron to steel
THE Turkish government has q suspicion that
Russian pilgrims, who just now are arriving in
| great numbers at the mOnasteries at Galata and
| Mount AthOs, are really come to spy ont the
| country, and have given orders that the pill
| grims be closely watched and hustled along as
| rapidly as possible.
JOHN E. BURTON, a successful autograph
hunter of Milwaukee, has in his collection the
| autograph of every President of the United
| States from Washington down to Cleveland.
| He also possesses q note given by George Wash
| ington to pay for his pew rent in the church
that he attended at Alexandria.
| A PHILADELPHIA DRUMMER astonished the peo-
| pie of Omaha the other day, by wearing a live
chameleon as a watch charm. The curious
| little lizard was attached to a chain by a thin
| band of gold wound about its neck and nestled
| in the creaSeS of the drummer'S waiStcoat with
every indication OF contentment.
THE oldest merchant vessel, with one excep-
ton, now in actual service is the schooner
Good Intent. She was built by Clapp & Loring
| in Braintree, Mass, in 1913, aud was originally
a sloop, with square stern and no figure
head; her length, 4S feet; her BREADTH l6 feet;
her depth AZ feet, and her measure, 90 tons
| The home port of the Good Intent, according to
the list of 1885, was Camden, Me.
THE Judges of the Liquor License Court of
Philadelphia rendered their decision on Mon
! day in the cases of applicants in the twenty
| ty fifth and twenty seventh wards. Out
| of 531 petitions for license only
1s2 were granted. In these five wards
there are at present 1,024 saloons. The court
will complete its labors this week, and the new
licenses will go into effect June 1.
THERE were $50 competitors for the prize
offered by an English journal for the longest
twelve-word telegram, and the winner put In
the following. which was accepted by the teIe-
graph officers for transmission for 3D. the
regular rate: "Administrator-General's counter
revolutionary intercommuncations uncircum-
stantiated. Quartermaster-Ge Generals dispropor-
tionablenesS enthusiastically contra-uiStn-
guished unconstitutionalstS' incomprehenshli
ties"
A PORTION Of petrifled tree was discovered
in solid sandstone rock quarry at GAINESVILLE.
o., the other day The tree is about the thick
ness OF telegraph pole, has well defined bark
and roots II was found while blasting or i'm
mediatey after n blast, fully 60 feet below the
top of the hill, and was in solid rock Over il is
the earth formation, then a species OF shale.
then limestone strata, followed by a conglomer-
alton of stone, then some 40 feet of solid sand
stone, near the bottom of which is the petrified
tree.
ALLsPICE is not all spices at all, but one spice,
the product of the powdered berries of the
pimento or Jamaica ginger Pimento trees are
small evergreens, and the flowers grow in clus-
ters and are followed by small aromatic berries
which are gathered before ripening and spread
upon platforms, to dry in the sun. The trees
are never planted but grow wild from seeds
scattered by birds, and are thinned out and
looked after by the farmers. strong honor
IS made from the berries by the Jamaica
HERE are some curious statistics concerning
the French Canadian population Of Maine. In
seven years it has increased 20 per cent in
Waterville and 50 per cent in Lewiston and
Auburn. But the French Canadian family is
decreasing in size. In 1881 the average was
BIB, nearly as large as the average Maine fam
lily of 1850. In 1892 it fell to 5 06 in 1888 to 4 on
in 1884 to 400, in 1SS5 to Ass. in 1886 to g. in
1887 to 4S2, aud in 1888 to 4S0 The average
Elaine family has decreased from 5.64 in 1870 to
AS in 1880.
WILLIE PULLMAN a 9-year-ol boy, of Nash
vile, Tenn, with two other boys, went to the
river to drown a cat They walked out on the
raft to point where there was break between
the logs about feet wide and II feet long Az
the boy attempted to throw the cat into the
mole the cal caught his coat sleeve with her
claws, which overbalanced him and threw hin,
into the water. He arose 10 the surface once
but his little companions were too much
frightened TO assist him. and he was carried nm
der the raft.
OFFICER LEWIS, of the Chicago police. saw
an animal several days ago which he said was n
wolf. 1t was Looping down the alley in the rear
OF the poles station house. When the officer
stopped TO gaze at it, the animal raised erect
upon us mind legs, stood paving the air for n
moment, aud then fled. Lewis was laughed nj
whea ne told the story in the station The next
hight, however, Sergt. Beck saw the wolf and
added his testimony. Since then many Others
claim 10 have seen it, aud dozen people are
trying TO fnd its hiding place.
DoNNELLY's CIPHER" and his coIleoted No.