The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-03
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| as suited his fancy. When arrested he had six
| suits of clothes on which he had stolen from
various rooms in the house.
Miss MARY ANN EMERSON received a verdict
| in her favor in an English court against Messrs.
Cooper & Co., brewers, in a suit to recover pos
| session OF public house which had been pur-
| chased by the defendants twenty years ago
| fr IN the PLAINTIFFS father will was recently
| found which left to the vender only life inter-
| est in the property, the remainder being to the
children, and under this will the plaintiff claimed
| the property.
YOUNG LADY in Dubuque, Ia, who is of a
| somnambuilstic habit, astonished some of the
natives the other night by walking into a
| saloon and ordering loo. worth of porterhouse
| steak. The saloon keeper, seeing that some
| thing was wrong, put her under the care of his
wife and later on the girl awoke to find herself
| in a strange house IN her night dress. She was
| provided with proper clothing and escorted
| home
OARS are coming into use in which the blade
is made from the best sheet steel highly tenn
pered and is alleged to be much stronger than
| the ordinary wooden one, and cannot be broken
| without undue violence; the handle fits into
! socket running nearly the whole length of the
| blade, and forming backbone of great strength;
| and the other oar being much thinner in the
| blade than the wooden one, enters and leaves
| the water cleaner. The handles are made sep
| arately, of spruce or ash.
| THERE are number of women studying medi
cine at the Belgian universities, wishing to OBJ
| tain situations in the apothecaries' shops. The
| pharmaceutical course is the shortest, and in
some respects the easiest, and it is far cheaper
| than all other courses. A number OF young
| girls, who have passed the pharmaceutical ex-
animation, have fascinated the hearts OF coun-
| try physicians, so that the husband prescribes,
| the wife makes up the prescription, and all the
| profits are kept in the family.
MOUSE on a telegraph wire, high above the
street, was the novel sight witnessed in San
Francisco recently. When he got 30 feet away
from the telegraph pole the mouse grew very
| timid, and scarcely advanced at ALL At length
| he grew bolder and finally made the perilouS
distance of over 300 feet to the next pole. a
| child explained the mystery of the mouse's
| queer journey by narrating how black and
| tan dog had pursued it, making it take to the
| pole. When the mouse had completed his dan
| gerous mid-air trip he climbed down the pole
and stepped on the hand of looker-on, who
carried him away in triumph. The mouse did
not object to the proceeding at all His spirit
seemed completely broken by the terrors of his
| jaunt.
QUINTlUs CURIOUS QUACKENBUsH, a native of
Leeds Eng, came to this country in 1880 and
| went to Illinois. He got so ashamed of the
many changes that were rung in his name, and
the authorizations that were made by vulgarly
| familiar people, that he had it legally changed
| to A. K. Bush. Word came from England last
week that he had been left legacy of 5000,
| should it be found he still retained his name,
(which, q" the testator declared, was the most
outlandish in the world, and entitled the unfor-
| tunate holder thereof to pecunlary reward.
| 1t was stipulated that if the name had been
| altered or abridged in any way, the proposed
| legatee should receive nothing but kick.
| Mr.. QuackenbuSh is melancholy and feels that
| the kicking is deserved.
THE monkeys which inhabit the iungles and
chaparrals of Tabasco, in Mexico, are formid-
able antagonists to the construct on of tele-
| They
their favorite diversion is to climb the tele raph
| poles and 60 through gymnaStic exercises on
| the wires. Linemen assert that often 100 able
| bodied monkeys may be seen swinging on the
| wire festooned, monkey fashion. by looping
| their tails. The continuous vibrations of these
forest gyInnastS start the iron nails used on the
| crOss-arms, and these often come down. bring
| ing the wire with them. And it Is not a safe
matter to undertake to disperse these robust
monkeys who play the dickens with the tele
graph lines in the sparsely Inhabited State of
| TabaSco Linemen have found that shoot
| ing monkey swinging on the wire they have
| been pursued by whole regiment of the an
| noying little beasts. .,+ 5
Ell TeleqrdnsnG, paper printed at Guadala-
| jara, Mexico, in the Spanish language, tackles
| the English tongue in late issue with the fol
lowing result: Mr.. E. H. Talbot, eminent jour
nalist United States sincere friend of Mexico,
whom mexican press indebted fine attentions it
was made object of in its representatives dur
| ing their stay In his country, arrived mornig
wednesday last in companyo of his distinguis he'd
| lady and dear countriman law yer Augustin
| Arroyo de Anda: Press of JoliSco, prompted by
| reciprocity and sympathy is doing its best to
welcome the illustrious guests at least, alas! by
properly doing house. Make yourselves at
home, dear Mr.. and Mrs Talbot and old friend
| Arroyo de Anda. And may you form a correct
and Just idea of GnadalajaS present state of
| things and civilization We make no doubt but
you will look upon lis as very sincere and cordial
| friends, but, must confess we do need be looked
| upon with truly lndulgent and friendly aye. We
| repeat: may your 'sejour' among us be as agree
able, comfortable and happy as our city can af-
ford No bad notions, but good impressions.
| Our best wishes!- r. r.
| LEXINGTON, KY, has theological school some
of the students of which have provoked a great
deal of criticism by attending the theater and
by publishing in their college paper the follow
ing racy description of the kind of girls they
want for wives The buxom, brighteyed,
sy-cheeked, fu-breasted, bouncing lass, who
can darn stocking, mend trousers, make her
own frocks, command a regiment of pots and
kettles, feed the pigs, chop wood. milk cows,
| wrestle with the boys, and be lady withal in
company is just the sort of girl for me, and for
any worthy man to marry. But you. ye pining,
moping, lolling screwed-up, wasp-waisted,
putty-faced, cOnsumptive, mortgaged, music
| numbering novel-devouring daughters of fash
ion and ideneSS, you are no more fit for matri-
| mony than pullet is to look after a family of
fourteen chickens The truth is, my dear girls,
you want more liberty and less fashionable re-
SJralntS more klIc0en ana less parIOr, more leg
exercise and less sofa, more pudding and less
piano, more frankness and less mock modesty.
more breakfast and less hustle Loose your
selves little, enjoy more liberty and less re-
| straint by fashion breathe the pure atmos-
phere of freedom. and become something as
lovely and beautiful as the God of nature
designed"
SOME TIME AGO gang of masked men de-
stroyed the fish weirs on Crooked river in Ok
ford, county, Maine Among the detectives en-
ployed by the State to obtain, if possible infor-
nation regarding the perpetrators of the mis-
chief was young LADY. She was sent to a vii
lage where some of the suspected parties live,
| and assumed the character of peddler of cor
sets She got acquainted rapidly and as she
was attractive, was shown a good deal of atten-
ton by the young men of the town One young
man, led captive by her charms, frequently
went walking and riding with her. and was APP
parently deeply smitten. one evening when
they were together the subject of the destroyed
fish weirs of the State was brought up, and the
young lady was enthusiastic in her defense of
the poachers and hoped none of them ever
would be found out. HerEcompanion fell into
the trap 50 bewitchingly spread before him. and
told her long and very exciting story of how
he was one of the mysterious gang. of their do
ings on that eventful night, and gave the names
of several members. Next morning the blonde
corset peddler disappeared and soon after the
youth was arrested The grand jury, however
did not find sufficient evidence to warrant hold
ing him for trial, and now the people are trying
to solve this conundium: Which was the worse
sold, the female detective or the boastfu
young mann