The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! denunciaton of the slaughter Of birds for the
manufacture of feather trimmings.
a YOUNG MAN of Randleman, n. c., undertook
| TO drink a gallon of whisky one day last week.
! He only lacked pint ana half Of finishing the
gallon when he died.
! GRocERYMEN are subject to a danger. 1t
lies in canned pumpkin one Of these cans ex-
/ plOded the other evening in a Norwich, Conn
store and covered group Of "setters with It's
| contents.
SOME furnishing goods stores now keep what
! they call bachelors undershirts These gar
! ments are named and derive their popularity
! from the fact that they are made entirely with
| out buttons.
'L'ANSEE ScANDALEUsE" is the pleasant title
given 10 the year 1887 in France. Scandals OF
all kinds, and among all classes and professions,
| simply abOundel last year. crowned at the
close by the Presidential scandal.
A RESIDENT of Shullsburgh, Wis, says that he
knows of an iron ring as big around as the palm
| of the hand being found in the heart OF COW
| that had been killed for beef. He doesn't at
tempt TO explain how it got there.
AN odd combination of wares is offered by
shop in the Italian city of Bari, on the Adratic.
A sign informs would-be customers that within
| can be obtained: ''Leeches, bread sold in slices
| or loaveS, and tuition in mathematics
AMONG the passengers by the Britannia were
several young girls who said they had come to
America to marry men whom they had never
| seen The intended bridegrooms failed 20 meet
| them, and the girls were detained at Castle
| Garden.
NEVER roll up an oil painting with the re-
verse side out" said an artist, recently. IF it
is raining or showing the wetting of the reverse
| side will make the paint in front peel of.
| Don't be afraid TO have the paint outside if you
must roll
| SEVENTEEN NEGRO FARMERS of Attala county,
| Mississippi, each year give prize to one OF
their number who raises the largest hog. The
| prize for last year was recently taken by Elan
| Meek. His hog was % months old and weighed
| 6l5 pounds. .t
CAPT BENJAMIN R. DIXON of Portsmouth, ve.,
went out hunting ducks and after killing thirty
discovered a shoal of porpoises that went ir
with the tide and got left on the ebb He at
| tackled them and killed five. The ducks and the
porpoises brought him $40.
REV. Mr.. HARTsoUGH of Sioux Falls, Oak,
has a greenback 81 bill which he received at
Point Lookout, Nd, in 1861, for the marriage of
| an ebony couple of contrabands The bill is
genuine greenbacker, and was the first one ever
| owned by the dusky bridegroom.
THIS important decision was handed down by
the Kentucky Court of Appeals recently:
Where one may kill in his own defense because
| of danger, either real or apparent, another may
| do SO for him, but one who interferes is guilty
of murder if the person in whose defense he
| acts was in fault"
The Pail Mall Gazette tells of unique kind
of torture in London shops In certain large
west end shops the female assistants are all
| doomed to a uniform size in waists, varying
from IS TO 20 inches. Tall girls and stout girls,
| all must conform to a measure inches at least
| below the natural size
A GERMAN named George Ruo employed as a
clerk in a Pittsfield CMass) factory, claims to
have discovered a process for the manufacture
| of copper from acids and scrap iron. He says
that he will be able to produce fine copper crys-
| tails at Sc. pound
PROBABLY one of the oldest meeting houses in
the world is the Bangund church, in Norway, the
| age of which is 800 years. The pagoda-ke
structure is covered with shingles and an inch or
two of tar. Runic inscriptions, interesting to
scholars, are on the building.
Dr. FAIRcHILD, of Last New Brunswick, n.
j.. has a collection of 500 alligators, all young
and from three to seven inches in length They
| were captured during a recent hunting "trip in
| Florida. He says he viii sell them if be can,
and if not will keep them to catch mosquitoes
| next summer.
! NEAR Iberville, La, bear was seen in a tur-
nip patch helping himself to vegetables. On
| being driven out he took 10 the railroad track
and met an approaching locomotive to which
| he would not yield the right of way. The re-
| suit was what he might have expected If he had
| had more sense.
A Troy tradesman at Peterborough, Eng, re-
] Gently noticing among his stock a pinchbeck
| Scarf-pin shaped like tiny ak remarked iok
| ingly to his son: Better send that TO the G.
| o. NJ The boy did so, and 10 by return mail
| came the inevitable postal card from Mr.. Glad
stone. bearing hearty thanks for the significant
and pretty gift"
| Az inf inc hos rfc Of
| greensboro, Ky The other day colored woman
applied at the court house for an injunction to
| prevent William Lewis from securing marriage
| license to wed another girl, and plead a prior
! engagement to herself as the cause of her com
| plant. The authorities decided that they had
| no power to issue a writ.
A WOMAN in Lewiston, Ne. was nearly fright
ened to death while alone one evening recently.
! bya series of mysterious and unaccountable rap
| pings in her room. When her husband returned
| he searched the house and in a farupper cham
! Der, found the terrible subject of the CHASTITY
| raps Ii was a little, baf-frozen, half dead bat
| clnging to the curtain fixtures.
| FoR over 100 years there has been in the CON
gregational church al Pittsheld, Mass, a sunrise
prayer meeting on New Years day This year
! the rector of the Episcopal church, a colored
| pastor, the Baptist parsOn and the Unitarian
| helped the Congregational minister conduct the
| services, and among the worshipers were Sena-
| tor Dawes and Congressman Rockwell.
| An ENGLISH HISTORIAN while writing, it is
said, smokes not only one cigar but several at
a time. To manage this he had to invent a new
! cigar-hOlder. This has the ordinary mouth
| piece, but branches off. so to speak at right
| angles at the other end. There are holes in
| these branches into which the cigars are placed
as many as four at a time being possibility.
IT Is SAID that the ambition of the life of
! Nine Boucicaut, the great Paris shopkecper.
was to receive the Cross of the Legion of Honor,
| but she always refused t. intrigue for il or TO
| buy it. hoping to earn il. The recent scandals
! showing how empty was the honor that she
| sought, were q great blow to her and she AT
once gave up her longing for the decoration.
BIG OWL boarded a train on the Boston and
Lowell railroad the other evening perching on
the front of the locomotive just under the head
| light. At Arlington the locomotive was shifted
TO the rear of the train, and there was much
| switching and bell-rngng and whistling: but
! the owl sat quietly through il all. and then rode
| to Boston, where he was captured and taken
| home by the fireman.
! PENNSYLVANIA CLERGYMAN says that severa
years ago, when he was preaching in a South
! Carolina town, the colored people of the town
were considerably disturbed by the building of n
! Unitarian church, which they called a nobel
! church" One night il burned down. aud there
/ was great rejoicing among the OFT ho3oy bratb