The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ = TUscoLA COUNTY. MICHIGAN. man has, dur
Ing the past eIeTen years, been tapped 134 times
/ for dropsy. and 2,590 pounds Of water taken
( from his body
/ A POSTAL cAR0, mailed from Olympia, Wash
/ 7. on Nov. =. reached Tacoma. wash T., its
! destination. on Nay I1-jlst I33 days in travel
/ ing ffry-fOUr miles BY rail, Or two and a haI
/ days 70 each mile.
NJ SASsES. q well known Norwegian athlete,
s about 70 make the attempt Of crossing the
| vast STOW feds OF Greenland On snow-shoes-
| A wealthy Danish merchant has supplied the
! money for the unique enterprise.
THOMAS EsGLEsroS has Just died a. Spurlock-
Vile ". Va, at the advanced age Of 1l2 years.
| There was never day since he was Is years
/ ord that be was without his pipe and he said he
fully believed that his life was prolonged by the
use Of tobacco.
! A BIRNISGHAk, MICH, man was so afraid Of
catching the measles Of his sick relative that he
would not 20 home, but went somewhere else,
! and got married-and then he caught the
| measles while on his wedding trip, and had EN-
| very bad too.
Il may be OF interest TO sportsmen who spend
a week in a vain endeavor to get half dozen
| shots at wild game TO know that the beautiful
| Gongolian pheasants, recently introduced into
| Oregon, are multiplying 50 rapidly as almost 20
| become pest
| IHE most yOut0Iul Oalk PRESIDENT III Lnls
country if not in the world is J. " Bailey, Jr.,
| who has recently been made President Of the
| Minnehaha National Bank, at Sioux Falls, Oak.
He is an Illinois boy, barely out Of his teens.
| and mas already shown capability as financler.
The people of Fort street. East Detroit, Mich,
are in a state of horror and CONSERVATION about
| the appearance Of ghost OF a colored woman
who committed suicide because her lover de-
| serted her. They aver that the spoOk wanders
| around the Streets near her late residence, Civ
ing utterance to dismal groans and heart broken
| walls.
WHILE two men were fishing in the Hudson
river at Nyack, Y. Y, on Saturday, they found
a cheese box floating on the water In the box
| was hen setting on fifteen eggs. They took
| the box UP and carried il to the shore. Iester
| day the eggs Matched out, and the result was
| thirteen pretty chickens and two dimlnutive
| seq glllls.
SPEAKING Of Shakespeare's use Of words, the
Milwaukee Sentinel classes 'renege," in the
sense Of deny among those wholly obsolete.
Yet the word is still current among card p ay
| ers in many placeS-where the player who
| trumps a trick or throws away upon II, when he
had suit, is Immediately told: You reneged,
you reneged.
A FIRM of pyrotechnists in England have at
their factory a Newfoundland dog which posi-
lively revels in fireworks. He rlshes into
| shower of sparks with much delight as into a
cold bath, and on a lighted squib being thrown
within his reach, he will run after the smolder
ing stump as if it were bone and trample it
out with his paws.
The latest Maine romance comes from Bidde-
ford. where an honest, awkward farmer who
had been pestered for years with a suit for.
sending indecent letters to the girl he loved, has
just been able to prove that their author was
none other than her raScally brother. who
hoped. by preventing her marriage, to keep IN
divided their joint estate.
AN improved railway passenger coach is so
arranged that if it falls of a bridge into the
water, the side panels. roof and ends Of the car
become disconnected and float about as life
RATS. Air cushions attached to the various
parts to insure greater buoyancy. This might
do very well if accidents were certain to occur
over water, but unfortunately they are not
THERE was great wolf hnnt held in Berea
Wis, some daye ago Three bundled and
thirty whine inhabitants of the town turned out
to kill the wolf, and after two days hunting,
succeeded in capturing that ferocious beast.
When killed it weighed twenty-three pounds,
and the coroner's inquest over the remains
brought in a verdict of death from fright.
THERE was very peculiar suicide in Laney
Park, Elmira n. Y, the other morning. A
robin redbreast, deserted by its mate, sought to
| drown its misery in death. Taking long string
which he had picked up to put into its nest he
swung it around a bough, and then wound it
| around his neck and expired. The body hung
in the tree all day, and many pedestrians gazed
at it curiously.
AT Ypsilanti, Mich, recently, as gentleman
named Blackmore and friend were driving their
horse became frightened, threw them out and
| jumped from a railway crossing bridge upon
| the track below, a distance of nearly 40 feet
The buggy, being much attached to the animal
| followed him, and one thill was forced entirely
| through the horses body, while in addition to
this the misguided steed fell upon the tools of
some section men who were earning their wages
near by. And yet it is thought the horse will
| live to run away some other day.
Mrs HUNTER, wife of Sheriff Hunter, of Ieb-
anon, O., prevented a burglars escape from
Jail during her husbands absence Her atten-
ton was attracted by noises, and, suspecting the
cause, she despatched her son for the father,
while she began an investigation. She found
one of the desperate inmates had escaped from
his cell. and, having burrowed a hole in the
| prison wall was about emerging to freedom
She held him under cover of revolver until her
| husbands arrival, all the while the maddened
thief showering vile epithets upon her for inter
fering.
A GREAT PRODIGY of memory was Daniel Nc
Cartney, who died in an Iowa poorhouse last
winter He could repeat 200 hymns verbatim,
and remembered what he had eaten for break
fast, dinner and supper for forty years back.
| He could raise any number under forty to its
sixth power instantly. And even if given a
number above forty, as for instance eighty min e.
he would give its sixth power, 496, 951 800, $751;
! in a very few minutes. What a boon such a
man would be to Gov. Hill in calculating how
many votes veto Of the high license bill would
affect one way or the other
REPORTS from Havana indicate that the leaf
tobacco market is still dull An exchange says
that the fashion for light coored cigars is
likely to cause peril to the trade in clear
aavanas, and many tobacco men are CON
demning the fashion insane one. Whole
crops Of tobacco have been ruined, they say in
the endeavor to supply something that nature
would not produce, and the cutting of the crops
before maturity has injured the quality When
nature produces tobacco light in color it is
unsuited for cigars, and the pale cigars are
made out Of tobacco that is sick and unfit in
richness and aroma"
FAIR HAVEN, CONN, is In queer predcament,
if story on the rounds is true. 1t recites that
There is lot of land there for which no one
has ever been taxed and to which the city has
no title. The assessors and officials have spent
much time and money in efforts to find the
owner, and now have begun to unwind a ball of
rel tape to gain possession. The city has
ordered a sidewalk built opposite the land and
will then advertise for the owner to come and
pay for it, lien can then be placed on the
property, which. in the course of time, will
come into the citys possession. A tradition
have had possession If they had stayed long
enough"
TIE EMBLAZoNING Of crests upon eduipages is
said TO be an active industry in Newark, N. j.,
where one firm make specially of the business.
THE selection Of the crests, " according TO one