The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-25
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is "A years old is cutting his third set of teeth.
BARBER of Newburg, n Y, has invented
chair which registers the number of persons
who sit in it during the day.
Mrs. KARL SrRANDT, wife of German farmer
in Plato, ILL.,, died the other day from the kick
of a COW. received while milking.
AN ENGLISH NAVAL OFFICER estimates that
there are $500 900, 900 in gold and silver under
the sea which could be reached by good luck.
THE INDIANS at the Genoa Indian School
in Nebraska are becoming bald-headed as
| result of the change from seatherS to hats and
caps
MARTIN H. BovEE, the father and champion
of the law abolishing the death penalty in Wis
consin, died Monday at his home in Water
town.
SEALS are ravaging the salmon in Penobscot
Bay, and fl shermen, in turn, are ravaging the
seals. Thus fat ten of the latter have been
killed.
EUROPEAN NATIONS have already appropriated
about 6,5OO,0OO of the 100000 square miles
of Africa. That does not leave much for
Africa
PRINCE BISMARCK has a great fondness for
raw eggs On his birthday he received, as pre-
sents 101 plovers' eggs. He ate them I'm
cooked.
Mr. RUsKIN is figuring in new direction.
The most popular drink in London at present
| is milk and soda WATERFALL and half The
great art critic is the inventor Of this beverage.
A MONSTER STURGEON that measured more
than II feet in length and weighed 300 pounds,
was caught in a salmon net at Sauvie's Island,
Ore, recently. 1t was the largest fish ever seen
| in the State.
RESIDENTS of Ashland, Wis, are somewhat
worked up over the caving in of several acres
of earth. 1t has settled feet, and in the open
| ing poles have been run down 20 feet. 1t is be-
| leyed there is an underground lake.
I Two OFFICERS of the New York police force,
charged with drunkenness. proved by experts
| that they were affected by gas arising from
| blasting in an aqueduct shaft, the effect pro
duced being the same as that produced by
ardent spirits.
AN Austrian baron who desired TO commit
suicide consulted physician about compliant
| about his heart, in order to find out exactly
| where it was. He then fired five shots into his
body aiming at his heart, and they being I'M
successful, he blew his brains out with one shot.
THE STORY runs that kissing was introduced
| into England by Rowena, the daughter of
Hengst, the Saxon. AT a banquet which was
| given by the British monarch in honor of his
allies, the Princess, after pressing the Drumming
| beaker to her lips, saluted and astOnshed and
delighted Vortigern with a little kiss after the
| LnduueT OIL ucT OWL people,
| PUBLIC PARKS are recommended as a pre-
ventive of anarchy. A speaker in Philadelphia
1 traced the connection between a certain class of
virtues and open spaces. Riotous uprisings
never find their source in that part of the popu-
lation dwelling in the vicinity of parks, since
| Anarchists frequent thickly crowded quarters,
the alleys and densely populated courts.
| OF the original edition of the Sonnets of
William Shakespeare, published by George
Daniel, of London, in 1909, there are two per-
| feet copies. One is in the British Museum. For
| the other Dodd, Mead & Co., of New York city
| paid 5000 1t is little book about seven by
| four inches in size. somewhat hard-headed
clerk in the establishment figures that at the
| price it cost $3.50 an ounce.
THE missionaries of the Pacific have lost one
of their most devoted friends in the death of
Society Islands. For over fifty years this woman
| led a simple Christian life. When she was born
20 years ago, the missionaries had not made a
| convert in the South Sea Islands When she
| died more than 300 islands had been wholly
evangelical, and civilization is fast spreading in
all the islands of this part of the Pacific.
In 1890 will end the term of 100 years during
| which the cities OF Boston and Philadelphia
have each enjoyed the revenue from bequest of
$4,000 made by Benjamin Franklin. The money
| was to be loaned out to young married artficers
| and the trust has been executed, although the
lapse Of a century requires a new disposition of
the funds. 1t is significant that while in Boston
the $1,000 has grown to nearly 1923 900. in
Philadelphia the s., 600 has become only S70,000
NINE. VIcToRIN, who is known all over the
continent as 1.-The strongest woman in the
| world" and is sometimes spoken of as 1.-THE
female Hercules is of medium hight. with a
girlish, graceful figure, and nothing herculean-
| looking about her Yet she readily lifts 1000
pounds. Her strength is wholly the result of
daily athletic training since youth. A singular
thing is that she eats but little meat preferring
birds and fowl. Eggs are her main diet, and
| she drinks cocoa.
PROF. f. S. MORSE has set price Of 500, 900
on his collection of Japanese pottery, said to be
the best in the world not excepting any in
| Japan. But if Boston wants the collection she
can have It for $50, 900. Prof. Morse being will
ing to throw Off the $50 900 if the collection re-
mains at the Hub It is said to be marvel of
complete and systematic classification, cover
ing the ground historically from the earliest
| prehistoric pottery down to the work of living
men, by provinces, by Makers by forms, and
| by types of work
THE State of New York has sixty counties
| and thirty cities. The cities are Albany, Am
sterdam Auburn, Binghamton, Brooklyn, Buff
falo, Cohoes. Dunkirk, Elmira, Hornellsve
Hudson, Ithaca, Jamestow1A Kingston, Lock
port, Long Island City, Middleton, Newburg
| New York, Ogdensburg, OswegO, Poughkeepsie
| Rochester Rome, Schenectady, Syracuse TROY
| Utica, Watertown and Yonkers. The counties
|
| and Cohoes; Ohautauqua, with Dunkirk and
| jamestown, and Oneida, with Utica and Rome
Thirty -four counties have no cities within their
| limits at all.
HERvEY STEVENS, who recently died in Gin
ton, Conn, at the age of SO years, was, until a
few days before his death, a remarkably active
old man. Less than three years ago he sbingled
and painted his house, running up and down a
long ladder as ninby as young man Last
summer he was thrown i'll front of a loaded
wagon which passed over both his legs breaking
the right leg between the knee and the ankle,
He insisted upon setting the leg himself without
tue aid of physician, and did it so well that in
three months he was walking about without
assistance. He was one of nine children and
lived and died within quarter of mile of the
house where he was born
HAROLD Brown, of Newport, R. l., has Just
given 100000 for the missionary work in the
Episcopal Church. 1t will be used for the en-
dowment of the missionary episcopate of the
church, and the only condition is one that is
curiousy interesting-that whenever after the
date of the gift any missionary Jurisdiction
shall have raised within itself $1,000 or more