The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

FREDERICK HAGUE, Of Kittanning, Pa, owns a
cat that has passed its 10th birthday,
Mrs. SPRINGER, just buried at Bacyrus, O.,
was the mother of twenty-four children.
THE popular sizes of shoes worn by the Chi
cago girls are said to be fives and sevens.
THE Ameer, of Afghanistan is said to be med
itating journey to England, to call on the En-
press of India this summer.
STRAWBERRIES in England have been costing
Cd. apiece, peaches Is guinea, and cherries have
| sold at about their weight in gold
QUEEN VICTORIA Travelled through Europe
with so much luggage that it took an hour to
transfer it from the train to the boat at Flush
ing,
The receipts at the London Geological Gar
dens have decreased $4,000 in the past year,
! and the managers blame Buffalo Bits show for
the loss.
IT rs SAID that some clothespin box packers
can pack ", 900 day. They are paid 1c. for
packing box of four gross. At this rate they
make S. day
IT IS ESTIMATED that at least 500 counterfeits
Of the old masters each of which has been pur-
chased at big price, are hanging in the gal
leres of the United States.
A BROOKLYN YOUNG WOMAN has beautiful
| and most curious table cover in stripes Of white
and golden brown. 1t is woven of the shorn
hair of her St Bernard dog.
THIRTY women make living by specializing
on the open Board of Trade in Chicago, and
half that number do business through commits
sion firms on the regular board
THE Sweetwater dam just completed at San
Diego Cal at a cost of $500, 600 is said to be &c
feet higher than any dam in the United States.
1t lssO feet from its base to its crest.
APABIs JOURNAL asserts that an English ex-
no hoe haa b,.o A
ager for a lecture tour in the United States, and
is to receive $4,000 over his expenses
BARREL of Ohio river water which took the
place of a barrel of Cincinnati whisky, Travelled
geo miles and was kept in a storeh ouse seven
years before the fraud was discovered.
Rev. EDWARD HOPPER, of New York, was
found dead in his chair, with an uncompleted
poem before him, and the woman who found
him had to read the verses before she gave the
alarm.
JUST as the doors were about to be opened at
the Theatre de rAlhambra in Brussels the
enormous chandelier fell with fearful crash.
No one was hurt, but the performance had to
be postponed.
BARON DE HAGEMEIsTER, young Russian no
bleman, was in a Paris tailor-shop trying on
some clothes, when, as he stopped over pistol
I fell from his pocket and discharged The
bullet passed through his stomach and he died
Ill few hours
A WOMAN in San Jose has recovered conscious
ness after lying in state of stupor for nine
months. If some of the politicians should 90
to sleep for the same length of time what a Sc
ries of surprises there would be for them on the
day of their awakening
The new Inman steamship the City of New
York, is warranted by her builders to be I'M
sinkable. That is, one condition laid down in
the contract by the company was that she
should be unsuitable although she is made of
iron and has a capacity of 1880 tons
Mrs. FRALY GooDIN, of Sharpsburg, N. c.,
was poisoned in a strange way the other day.
She was taken violently i'll after drinking a cup
of tea, and an examination showed a dead
spider in the tea kettle in which she had boiled
the water for the tea. The poison in the insect
is supposed 10 have caused her illness.