The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-20
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band, therefore, deferred burying it. After a
lapse OF several days he placed it in a vault,
ana day or Two ago, on opening the coffin, the
oody was found to be still strongly suggestive
OF having life: There were no indications what
ever OF putrefaction having set in.
A NORWEGIAN wooDcHoPPER near Carson
City, Ney., ingeniously profited by an accident
He discovered leak 10 one Of the mains Of the
! water company, where jet was forced out un-
DER enormous pressure. After experimenting
ne found that this stream would cut wood equal
10 me saw, so he set to work and now
makes handsome brackets of choice woods
which find ready sale.'' Such is the story, at
least.
w. A. LYMAN of Milford, Conn, is making the
smallest possible specimen of an engine. II
will be made from silver half dollar The
boiler is to hold eight drops of water but with
four drops the engine can be worked several
minutes. When finished it is to be placed under
glass case three quarters Of an inch in dame
ter and ia inches in hight. Some of the parts
VIII be so fine and delicate that they cannot be
made without the use of magnifying glass
THE old trotting sire Volunteer died at Wal
nut Grove farm in Orange county, New York,
Thursday at the advanced age of "a years. His
| death was doubtless fastened by the approach
| OF winter, for the famous stallion was ap-
parently in as good health as he has been for
years, and gave no sign of his approaching dis
| solution. His teeth were good and he was able
| 70 eat ten quarts of oats every day. Volunteer
| founded family almost as noted as that of his
| sire, HSmbletonian, and his fastest colt st.
Julien (2:1l14), has a record six seconds lower
than Dexter. the greatest trotter produced by
Hambletonian.
| STORY IS TOLD Of Capt. Curling, who,
when master of a merchantmen sailing be-
| tween New York and Liverpool, kept on his
| ship as pets a buck and a doe, These animals
| always went to sea with the captain, and were
even allowed the privilege of his private cabin,
1 ne FTtrplr tab
front of his berth. 1t is said that he rarely al
lowed them out of his sight, and even when
discharging or loading cargoes on the big New
| York or Liverpool wharves, these strange pets
| followed him wherever he went, Not long after
| their death the captain retired from the busy
/ life OF ship master, not, however, on account
l of their loss.
| THE GRAND JURY of Shelby county, Tenn, in
! dcted the Bagging Trust some weeks ago for
conspiring, and Attorney General Peters asked
| for requisition for l. S. Warren, L. F. Jones,
| b. GratZ, Anderson Gratz and Joel Wood of st.
\ Louis The application was resisted, and the
governor has finally declined to issue the reuui-
| sitlon. The governor says: I'm thus disposing
| Of this application | have not, as has been as
| sumed, passed or attempted to pass on the ques-
ton of the guilt or innocence of the defendants
| The ground on which alone my action is based
is that the defendants have not fed from the
state, having never lived here, and are not fugi-
| tives from Justice"
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| girl OF II, who had been a chorus girl In an
opera company, was going about the city
| Wednesday night in a destitute condition when
i the police found her. The next day William
Waterton, stock raiser of Seneca, Y. Y, ap-
peared before the authorities explained that
| he had seen the girl Wednesday, was infatuated
with her, and that if she was willing he would
| marry her He was permitted to talk with the
| girl, who gave her consent. He then took her
/ to prominent dress aud cloak establishment
and gave her handsome outfit. He told the
police that ne was wealthy and would take good
care of the girl il she would become his wife.
| CHELSEA, MASS, has strong man named
Houston who isastonshing the town. He makes
nothing Of lifting barrels of floor into wagons,
| carrying barrels of sugar up two flights OF
| stairs bending crowbars, pulling up sapings
| six inches through by the roots, etc, but his
| crowning feat happened a few days ago. Some
| workmen were trying to hoist an iron girder
| weighing 1903 pounds to its place on the second
| story of a building. They got the ropes around
| it, but the tackling was insufficient whereupon
| Mr.. Houston shouidered the girder, carried it
| up the ladder, and placed it in position. at
| hurt my shoulder some, - he said whep telling
Of his performance. but other than that felt
| no Inconvenience "
| GAS is a great destroyer of fine leather book
| bindings, st. Louis librarian tells a reporter.
Take the sheep bound volumes that come from
| the public printing Office at Washington and
| place them on the top shelves of one Of our
book cases. and in five years the leather is
utterly rotten and lifelesS and the covers come
off where they join the backs. Hence we place
all such books on low shelves, where the hot air
cannot reach them. Red morocco is the only
leather we have found that resists the action OF
the dry atmosphere where gas is kept burning
constantly, and we have all our valuable books
rebound in half red morocco when the covers
come off. This keeps the lids and backs TO-
gether for twelve or fifteen years"
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, is to become city.
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place of 100000 inhabitants It has been
borough for fifty years. and now is ambitious
of title which, says the town clerk in letter
to the home secretary, is popularity supposed to
carry with it an accession Of dignity. What is
the difference between town and a city is hard
TO define with precision, observes the cable let
ter writer to the New York Tribune. Liverpool
and Manchester were made cities when they
had bishops created for them, but Belfast has
lately been made city, though it certainly has
no bishop. Leeds is not a city, nor is Sheffield
Only the Queen can transform a town into a
city, and she only does il petition of the
town.
AN ONsLow. IN c. MOTHER, who left her two
children, aged IS months and years respectively
alone at home while she went an errand, looked
around after going short distance to find the
building u flames. She ran as quickly as she
could. but reached the fire only in time to hear
the last wall of her younger child as it persisted
The poor woman was frantic She attempted
flames. The roof was about to fall when she
heard another cry. and discovered that the
older child was crouching under the house with
fire falling all around it. The brave woman
crept through tue fire and got the child out
safely, though its clothing and her own were
almost entirely burned. An instant later tle
house fell in ruins.
IL a diamond brokers' window on Fifth street
ST. Louis, there has been displayed for several
days one Of the most famous, and certainly the
costliest, of timepieces ever made in this couu-
try, and its brancy has attracted continuous
attention, The watch is nine ounces in weight
of lS-karat gold, and contains sixty.four blue.
white stones, the largest of which, valued AT
$3.50, is in the stem. The total weight Of the da.
mondS is fifty karats, and the intrinsic value OF
the watch is $4,000. 1t is a one fifth second fiy
back chronograph. with minute register. the
movement alone costing S149. The watch was
made for DR. Lighthall, better known as "DIa-
mond Dick" once famous street doctor who |
made his thousands as fakir and who died
some time ago in Texas The diamond broker |
who now owns the timepiece bought il for the |
brilliant diam nds IL coItniIis-lnd incidently |
lights up his window With IT,
OF THE 1000 or 10000 railway officials in the |
United States and Canada, the names of perhaps |
9j per cent are English. The proportion of |
other nationalites appear to have been much |
less than in almost any other kind Of business
The Smith family takes the lead here, as else
where, and scores 80 names. There are also 3 |
Smyths, but only Schmidt The Browns are |
second on the list, numbering 3D. Then come |
10 Clarks. with Clarkes, 20 Williams. 40 John.
sons, with JOhnstons, by way Of variation
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