The morning news., 1888-08-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| prompted the sea serpent to be more active IN
| its travels. Last week it visited Canada while
| during three days of this week the curio ap-
peared at as many points on the New England
| coast.
THE death of an aged resident of Indianapo-
lis, sign painter by trade, revives story that
one of the first pieces of work he ever did was
| for cabinetmaker named Caleb Scudder whose
| sign he made to read "Kalob Skodder, Kabbi-
net Maker"
| A WOMAN PASSENGER on the Union Pacific rail
| road, near Cheyenne, lost her bonnet out of the
window and jumped off the train to get IT, She
| escaped with no broken bones, but received in
| ternal injuries that will probably prove fatal.
The bonnet was ruined.
LAST WEEK at Lancaster, Pa, Planter trot-
! ter OF local renown, became frightened on the
| training track, ran away, leaped the fence and
| some hurdles with his sulky still attached, and
| in the end was so badly cut and scared that he
must forfeit all engagements in the fall circuit.
MRs. ANN HARDIN, the first woman married
in Texas after its annexation to the United
| States, has just died near Hillsboro, in that
| state at the age of 80 years. She first
cousin to Gov. Rector of Arkansas, q well as of
Jefferson Davis, and was known all over the
state as Grandma" Hardin.
THE longest tunnel in the world, it is believed,
and which is now in a completed state, is that
which drains the Srhemuitz mines in Hungary.
1t is about ten and one-fourth miles i'll length,
or about a mile longer than the st. Gothard,
with hight of nine feet ten inches and
breadth of five feet three inches.
ONE of the hotels at fashionable resort has
for guests the family of a celebrated Pennsyl-
vania oculist Father and mother and the five
children, young men and women, all wear
glasses The fathers profession and the fact
that he and all the family wear glasses has
given the veranda gossips much fodder.
WEST VIRGINIA, it is said, is overrun by
strolling gypses and much interest has been
excited by the death of a beautiful child, about
10 years old, whom some good woman bought
from the band for few dollars, for she was
evidently stolen, meaning to find and restore
her, If possible, to her home and friends.
AT recent meeting of workIngmen in Eng
land. held at the suggestion of officials of the
Established church, for the purpose of discuss
was suggested that while the clergy preach the
| gospel of Calvary. they should hive the gospel
| of Galilee and bishops with f15,000 year
| salary wero declared to be hindrances.
WITHIN the Antarctic Circle there has never
| bet n found a Towering plant. In the Arctic
region there are 762 kinds of flowers Fifty of
these are confined to the Arctic region. They
are really Polar flowers. The colorS of these
Polar flowers are not as bright and varied aS
our own, most of them being white or yellow,
as II borrowing these hardy hueS from their
snowy bergs and golden stars.
THE Castle of Hapsburg, seat of the founders
of the present Austrian dynasty, is owned by
the state of Aargau, in Switzerland and the
government has just refused to sell it to the
Austrians. II is true, the Swiss said, that the
castle is the ancestral seat of the imperial
house of Austria, but it is also a monument of
swiss history, having been conquered by the
Berne republican soldiers in l415, when they
wrested Aargau from the Hapsburgs.
CAPT. SAMUEL MOORE, of Portsmouth, o.. has
in his possession the original copper plate from
which were printed the invitations to the inau-
guration ball given in honor of President Will
lam H. Harrison. The plate is adorned with
fine medallion picture of President Harrison;
and among the seventy six managers of the
ball whose names are printed is that of Daniel
Webster, although, as he himself once sail, he
never had sense enough to learn how to dance. -
BEITULLAH, a Turkish bandit, has married
| Aishe, beautiful girl whom he had long wooed
and whom he finally won by force, carrying her
off in a raid upon Guebzeh, where she lived.
The ceremony was duly performed in the pres
ence of his followers, and on its conclusion the
| bridegroom wrote to the officials of GuebZeh
| informing them of the wedding and requesting
them to properly register it. He threatened
| them with terrible vengeance if they failed to
| thus legalize his wedding.
THEY are laughing up in Vermont at a Ken
tuckian who was at Montpelier recently with
Col George W. Hooker. The blue grass gentle
| men had heard good deal about Ethan Allen
| the famous horse, and had great respect for
| him; but he looked surprised when Col Hooker
pointing to the equestrian statue of the hero of
| Tconderogaa, said: There's the Ethan Allen
| statue" Il say colonel" said tho Kentuckan
| we think mighty heap of horses in Kentucky
| but we have never erected a monument to one
| yet"
| THE largest dam in the world is to be built
| across the upper end of the San Mateo canon
about four miles west of the village of San
| Mateo. The dam will consist of a solid wall of
concrete from hillside to hillside. the measure
ments being 200 feet long, 175 feet high 175 feet
| thick at the base, and 20 feet thick at the top
| The vast reservoir which will be formed by the
| construction of this dam will have the enor-
| nous capacity of 100000 gallons, and at a
| future time will be connected with the San
| Francisco watershed by tunnel of five miles
| long.
| IT is only during the last twenty years that
| barmaids have become common in Germany,
but now there is hardly a restaurant in Berlin
| and its suburbs where there are no female
| attendants. Their number is given as at the
very least 10 000 nearly all of whom are offered
| only board and lodging. although they are
| compelled to wear pretty and fashionable
| clothes and work from early in the morning till
| late into the night In the great majority of
| cases. saysa writer, the barmads not only re-
ceive no pay at all but every glass of beer
| every slice of meat they may take during the
| day they have to pay for at the same rate at
which it is served to any visitor. Their only
receipts are the gratuitieS given to them by the
VISITORS, ana IL is LnSTeIOTe JDelr CleI enQeaVOr
| to attract and detain as many of the latter as
possible.
| THIS says the New York Sun, is not from a
paper of century ago, but from one published
| in this city last week: "One hundred dollars re-
ward.--The boy, --- , having left my
| employ without cause, and being bound to me
until he is 81 years old by law, | will give the
above reward to anyone giving information
| that will lead to his recovery. And also warn
| any person from hiring or harboring him, as |
| will prosecute any one to the extent of the law
for so doing The boy is ID years old, feet
inches high; weighs 81 pounds, can ride at SO
pounds: has light blue eyes light hair and of
an Irish cast OF countenance; had on when he
left q bluish-looking suit of clothes, congress
Shoes and yellow soft felt hat. He has deep
scar on the top of his head from hurt. He Is
tall for his age, and in walking is round
shouldered. - -. Race Track, Sara
toga."
A CORRESPONDENT of a London paper at Paris
writes: "Gen. Bouanger has not been fairly
dealt with in the accounts of his duel with NJ
F1oquet, being accused of having dashed in
upon his adversary. Now, there was a very
good reason for the general wishing to get TO
close quarters He has several times been seri-