The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


saws that more than S12,OO00OO of American
| capital is invested in gold mines in that coun
| try.
OF 2,194 prisoners admitted to the Detroit
House of Correction last year 2,016 admitted
| that they were addicted to the Incorporate use
OF intoxicating drinks.
A MAINE clergyman's donation party netted
S.. The stuff that the guests devoured cost the
| poor preacher S2S Now he prays earnestly tc
| be delivered from his friends.
A MAN in Richland couny, Ohio, climbed tree
| forty feet in pursuit of coon. He didn't reach
| the coon, but a limb broke and let him fall 70
the ground, breaking his jaw and his left arm.
WOMAN who saw Napoleon while he was on
his retreat from Moscow, died in Chicago the
other day at the age of 10; years Her name
was Rachael Loewenberg, and she was a native
of Breslau.
HALF PECK of potato bugs were found in a
hollow tree near Quincy, Mich. last week. They
were all alive and kicking. Another liar in the
same region says he has a hen that lays three
eggs per day, Sundays included.
SOME people have queer superstitions. The
other day man got out of an elevated railroad
car because canary bird began singing on the
train. The bird kept right on, however, and
finished its song, then sang an encore.
The heirs of merchant of Monson Mass,
received the other day 3Oc. sent by a man in
Pennsylvania who wrote that they were to pay
for four apples that he took from the merch-
ant s store when he lived there forty years ago
A SIGN POST of the Boston and Albany rail
road at Springfield two years ago fell on
Aloysius Fagnut a 7-year-old boy, and in
jured him severely. He sued for $4,000 dam
ages, and in the Superior Civil Cont of Massa-
chusetts jury awarded him S21 200.
A RICHMOND, Mich, WOMAN lost her watch
few days ago. She could not find it, but
wherever he she went she heard that watch tick
Ihis nerved her on to greater efforts, and she
turned the house upside down in her search
and then found the watch in her hustle.
THERE is tailoring academy in Berlin at
which public examinations are now going on
and which was attended last year by 912 stu
dents of all nationalitieS, including Japan.
Medals and prizes are awarded to those who
contrive to give the most artistic shape to
trousers or waistcoasts.
THE fashionable world at Brighton, Eng, re-
joices just now in the possession of four ladies,
each of whom is devoted to show in horsehesh
and has secured fame through marriage. One
welded Turnkey, another a cabdriver, the
third a stable boy who could ride beautifully,
and the fourth her hairdreSSer the latter perhaps
with view of combining economy with happi-
ness.
HERR FANG. the eminent Vienna journalist
VIM bACu a iCN uogS dSO uttu dlIdlutu Jlo aye
of 81, and he left fortune of upward of 81 OOO
600. He had a theory that every line in a newt-
pa per ought to be paid for, and he often pre-
dicted that the day would come when Queen
Victoria, Of England, would have to put down
state money for the insertion of her speech
from the throne.
ADAM SUITS, of Carlos City, Ind, celebrated
his Tooth birthday on March 1. He was born in
North Carolina, was blacksmith by trade, and
boasts that no man ever laid him on his back
1t is said that this is the first birthday for sever
al years that he has not celebrated by chopping
cord of wood. The inclemency of the weather
prevented but he says that he'll do it yet. His
sight and hearing are unimpaired.
A NORTHUMBERLAND for one of the railroads at
Dubuque says he saw a ghost the other night
He saw the shadow as it passed and thought he
recognized young woman who died some
years ago. The hair was loose and falling down
the back. The supernatural stranger walked
beside him for the distance of half a block,
seeming to glide along. His hair stood erect,
and he felt the cold cbillS running down his
back. In about five minutes from the time he
first saw the strange apparition it disappeared.
THE sEAHoRsE is curious little creature It
is not an animal, but fish. 1t is bony, has
tufted gills and belongs to the pike family. 1t
grows from six to eight inches long The Snout is
prolonged and the head elevated posteriorly
very much resembling the head of horse the
ears being represented by spiny coronet on
the occiput. The tail is long and whip-like and
without fin. 1t is with the tail that these fish
suspend themselves to Seaweed and other sub
marine objects, The eyes are prominent and
can be moved Independently of each other and
in opposite directions. In swimming these fish
always assume an upright position.
A CURIOUS SUPERSTITION was brought out dur
ing the performance of the marriage ceremony
in a justice S Office in Omaha. The magistrate
had commanded the contracting parties to
ct a nd hafOra oh
ceremony, when a woman rushed in and ordered
the judge to stop moment. The woman. who
proved to be the brides mother, looked at the
carpet on the floor, and said; Judge 7 am
little superSttiouS; which way do the cracks
run in this tiOorE' This was a puzZler for the
judge, but being of an accommodating spirit he
ripped up about two yards of the carpet be-
meath his feet and found that the seams of the
floor ran crosSwise Of the feet of the young
couple he was about to unite. The position Of
the bride and groom was changed. The old
lady gave a sigh of relief and the ceremony
proceeded.
LEADING DRUGGIST in Lynn, Mass tells
curious story of his fathers adventures. The
fathers name was John Colcord, of Sanford,
Me-, and he was a sailorman. Years ago he was
wrecked on one of the Sandwich Islands. and
being a true son of Maine set I'D as manufec
turer maker of gods for the natives making
the idols from the iron cast ashore from wrecked
vessels. These indestructible deities BECAME
u.
native girl. One day in Honolulu he met
Maine sailor who had also been wrecked The
man proved to be an old schoolmate of Colcord
He brought Colcord's four children to this
country to be educated, and they all afterward
went back Colcord, after the deaf. of his wife
came home TO Maine and married again and
the Druggist is one of the children by the last
marriage.
MOVEMENT with which many American stu
dents will sympathize is going on in Vienna to
suppress the Hausmeister The latter is an in
dividual more oppressive than the French Con
cierge. He is allowed by law to close the door
of the particular house in Vienna over which he
watches a. 10 O'Clock; to refuse latch-keys and
to collect 10 kreutzers from whoever comes in
later than 10 The result has been that people
wisely economical have gone home at TO- while
students and Others, to many of whom even 10
kreutzers is consideration, have made it Gus
tom, once out after the appointed time to stay
out until 5, when the HausmeiSter is Obliged 10
let them in for nothing. Restaurants and coffee
house keepers declare that their trade suffers
through loss of respectable patronage and a
movement is on foot, started by them. to do
away with the Hausmeister dictatorship
THE Lost Louisiana Mine at Bear Citv Ark
has romantic history connected with it. Stories
of this mine it is said, reached the ears OF
Columbus and the early voyagers and stimulated
many hardy spirit to renewed exertiop The
mine was worked for many centuries nv tbe
aborgines, but 1t is doubtful whether the Span
iards ever penetrated the secret paths that con
Quoted to 1t, as every precaution was taken To
lead them astray DeSoto lost his life and WINS
buried in the Mississippi river as the result Of