The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-31
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| carefully, had it carded and spun.
Fred Gibson, living four miles from Carroll
ton, Nd, killed a large eagle near his house;
| 1t was so loaded down with sleet that it could
| not fly.
1t is stated that a half dozen young men,
! graduates of Yale and other colleges, are at
work, learning practical mechanics in the rail
| road shops at Aurora. III.
man was tried at Muncie, Ind, last week
! for disturbing a religious meeting. His offense
| consisted in reading a newspaper during the
| services. The court could not see the disturb
| ance, and the defendant was acquitted
! A POT OF TREASURE was found recently by
negro who was blowing in a field near Pass
| Christian, a suburb of New Orleans. The money
was of Spanish, American and Mexican coinage,
| the dates ranging from 1920 to 1899. The value
| o. the whole was nearly S25O.
SANDUsKY CITY, o., school marms believe that
cleanliness is next to goodness, and daily make
| tour of inspection armed with soap, water,
| basin and towel. Any youngster found with
| dirty hands or face is compelled to submit to
| scrubbing before the whole school
Two BROTHERS living near Harrodsburg, KY,
| look very much alike. 1t is said that one of
them joined the Baptist church and was about
| to be immersed, when he found that he had no
| clothes suitable for the occasion, paid his
brother 10c. to be baptized in his place.
| lazy chambermaiGs in California. An Elko
county grand Juror left his pockeCbook, con
| tanning So 900 in currency concealed in bed in
an Elko hotel. 1t remained there undisturbed
| for three days, although two strangers occupied
| the bed in the interval.
THOUGH workers in copper seldom suffer any
| illhealth from their work, yet the particles of
| the mineral enter their system so as to com
petely saturate them in process Of time, Some
Old coppersmiths have had their hair turn green
instead Of gray and their bones have been
| found green after death
IT will be news to many people that there is
| an Indian colony in New York city. The colony
| includes men, women and children. They are
all of the Iroquos tribe, and all of them come
| from Canada. They live in Blocker street, near
South Fifth avenue, and are fairly intelligent.
| The women make bead work, which the men
sell
THERE is lad in Belfast, Me, who will turn
up in State prison or in Wall street if he doesn't
| mend his wavs He bought gun at a store for
So and told the clerk to charge it to his father
and make the bill for 81. Then, when the
| father paid the bill, the boy called and got the
extra dollar and expended most OF 1t in ammu-
milton.
ALEXANDRIA, in Clark county. Missouri, was
once a famous Gretna Green of the West, where
hundreds of young couples from Iowa, Illinois
and Missouri we're united without license ami
without question Justice Gillian, now an old
resident of Alexandria, was most in demand to
tie the knot tor the clipping couples, and reaped
a rich harvest for his pains.
THERE are two Diamond Joes" in Chicago
one of whom gets his name from his habit of
carving diamonds around in his pockets as a
boy would marbles The other is J 1e Reynolds
who owns nearly all the steamboats, on the
Upper Mississippi. All of his boats wharves
warehouses and stationery are marked with
red diamond, containing the word ''Jo' in
black.
AT CARLYLE, I'LL, young lady conceived the
idea of issuing invitations to a unique sleigh
ride Before sending out the cards, however,
she secured five large pairs of oxen These
we're hitched to stylish cutters which were
| loaded with the representatives of the beauty
wealth and culture of the town Throngs of
| people were attracted to witness the novel pro
| cession as it moved through the principal
streets.
Two AEARs AGO a young woman of Attica,
| Ind, was courted by two young men, each
wanting to marry her. She quarreed with the
| one she loved. and for spite married the other
| fellow The mari iage was not a happy one,
| and a divorce followed. The other day the
| young woman married the old lover, who mean
| time, having become helpless paralytic, had
| to be held up in q chair while the ceremony was
performed
| AT BUcYRUs, O., a woman took four rolls of
pale looking butter to firm of grocers and sold
! them for cash They laid the butter away IN
the cellar and later on sold it, with another lot,
to a shipper. The shipper, in cutting the stuff
| up, found that the four rolls were not butter,
| but the most ordinary kind of mashed potatoes
| She had nodded the potatoes, frozen the rolls
and smeared them with butter TO give them a
| genuine app earance.
| THE Maine ice crop this winter promises to be
an excellent one, Most of the ice is cut on the
| Kennebec river where there are ice houses with
| a capacity of 100000 tons Five thousand
| men are now employed daily gathering the ice
| harvest from the river The Philadelphia
| Knickerbocker Company does the largest ice
business on the kennebec. They have s. 900. 900
| invested in buildings and the appliances neceS-
| Sary to carry on the work.
THERE died recently at Glenwood Springs
| Cal, a most remarkable dog. He was a New
! foundland and St Bernard, very large, weigh
| ing lT5 pounds and was lS years and months
| old when he died He used TO carry his master
| his dinner a distance of two miles, and his
mistress vouches Tor the fact that for three
| years before he died he kept the wood box filed
| with wood all the time. He had great faith in
| the hot spring, and would daily go for drink
| of hot mineral water
"O1D joe LOGAN" died at Mackinac Island
| few days ago. Ho was in the employment of
| the American Fur Company at the BEGINNING of
| the century, and used to travel along the
shores of Lake Michigan as far as the swamp
which is now Chicago, in a large open rowboat
| gathering furs. "Old Joel died on the day he
! had completed his 92d year. For the last few
years Ct his life he lived in a small wooden hut,
| and spcnt most of his time rocking himself in
a chair and grooming snatches of old French
voyageur songs.
| THE week begun so gayly by the Vanderbilt
ball ended sadly enough Saturday with the
| funeral of Mrs. Rives There was no one person
| in New York society whose death could leave
| such gap. There seemed absolutely so far as
we mortals can see, no proper escape for such a
| joyous, happy spirit which has so long pervaded
| the soclahility of the town. Mrs. Riyes spent a
| lifetime IN making others happy. No one could
do it so well as she for to her intelligence was
joined a patty with the young that kept
her apace with the times and 10 her loving
kindness was added dignity which made her
slightest wish law. Mrs. Fish. Mrs Astor and
now Mrs. Riyes are gone Where, then, may we
look for those elderly matrons who held and
maintained the principle of noblesse obige?
Mrs AzUBAH FREEMAN RYDER, of Orrington,
Me-, is a woman worthy of her New England
origin. She was born in Massachusetts in 1854,
and has lived in Orrington ninety-nine wears
When she 16 she was one Of the sixteen
girls who represented the sixteen States of the
Union at the funeral of Washington In 1906
she was married. Her outfit of wooden, cotton
and linen garments, table linen and bed clothes
and her white linen wedding dress were all mazda