The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mas SARAH BARNETT of Lafayette, Va, took
to her bed forty years ago and has not left it
since. Her appetite is good, as well as her
general health, but she suffers from an injury
of the spine.
j. H. Moss of Coldwater, Mich. has raised
1000 pounds of horse radish this year, and ex-
poets to raise five times as much next season.
He runs factory, where the job Of grinding
and botthng is performed.
THERE are in New York city with its /, 900, 900
population only 10000 members of christian
churches. There are in all 355 evangelical
churcnes, or to every 4.500 inhabitants, while
there are 10000 saloons or to every 100.
AN ELEVATOR in New Hampshire factory
stopped suddenly, the engineer having shut off
the steam, and the lad who was riding Oh it be-
came so frightened lest it should fall that he
was attacked with heart disease and died
A TENNESSEE SALESMAN has been cut out by
his father, a widower, who has married the
girl to whom his son was engaged There are
many occurrences that more readily excuse the
quotation of that phrase about the most I'M
klndest cut.
For the first time since the death of her hus-
band, King Alfonso, in 1895, the queen regent
went to the opera in Madrid on Nov. 49, in COM
pany with Queen Pia of Portugal. After long
and sore trial, Christina is very popular in
Spain and her temperance was greeted with
great satisfaction,
PROGRESSIVE JOURNALISM has opponents in
England. The Newcastle Chronicle on recent
day, when it appeared with two blank spaces in
its leading columns explained: I'VE are mo-
mentarily expecting Mr.. Bright to die, and we
leave these open spaces as typographical graves
IN which to insert the news without the loss of
moment
BRITISH REFORM has brought to light for
gotten parsonage known as "Chaff Wax" His
real title should be chafe wax, and his duty was
the preparation of wax for fitting the wrts
issued from the court of chancery and for the
official seals. He has long drawn salary for
doing nothing but has at last been found out,
and will be abolished.
KATIE JOSIE, remarkably fine looking Bos
| ton girl, has fallen in love with Sam Kee, q
Chinese laundryman of that city She first met
him at his laundry, and it was a case of love at
| first sight. They are going to New York this
| week to be married in real Chinese fashion,
after which Sans pretty wife will preside over
| the financial department. of her husbands Bos
ton laundry.
| EDwAN A. BARBER of West Chester, Pa, who
| is an antiquarian, has just procured Chinese
| bank note of the fourteenth century 1t is a
note of the Ming dynasty, made of fibrous
paper of a grayish color covered with Chinese
| characters Mr.. Barber says that there are
| only two specimens of this note beside his in
existence, one being in the imperial museum at
| st. Petersburg.
THE Winnemucca New Silver STATE gives the
| following instance of Piute surgery: Piute
| Charley, who attempted suicide by shooting
| himself in the head few days ago, is reported
| out of danger Matches, who has had much ex-
perlence IN Piute surgery. sucked the bullet out
| Of the wound. The bali struck the right cheek
| bone and plOwed its way through the front part
| of the head, lodging under the eye in the left
| cheek.
GEORGE HEAN of Rangeley, Me- set a bear
trap near Spotted mountain, and one morning
| the trap and clog were gone. He followed the
| trail easily, for the bear that had got caught
was so strong that trees of considerable size
| were bent aside or chewed through when they
| were in the way. Finally Mr.. Heath came to
| the trap, but there was no bear. He had gone,
but ne left in it the largest bears foot that Mr..
| Heath ever saw, and he has caught many bears.
IT has been estimated that an average of five
feet of water falls annually over the whole
earth Surprising that condensation takes place
| at an average height of 5000 feet. remarks Gen
| Strachey. the force of evaporation to supply
such rainfall must equal the lifting of 80 900 00O
| pounds OF water 1900 feet in every minute, or
| about 800, 900 horse power constantly ex-
| erted. OF this great energy a very small part
| is transferred to the waters that run back
| through rivers to the sea, and a still smaller
| fraction is utilized by man: the remainder is
| disslpated in space.
| THE INBRED politeness which springs from
right hes rtedness is of no exclusive rank or sta
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| a young Edinburgh blood with whom he was
| walking. for recognizing an honest farmer in
/ the open street. Why you fantastic gomer-
| ell" exclaimed Burns. 1t was not the great
coat, the Scone bonnet and the Saunders boot
| hose that spoke to- but the man that was with
| them, and the man. sir for true worth, would
| weigh down you and me- and ten more SUCH
| any day" There may be LONELINESS in exter-
mails, which may seem vulgar to those who can
not discern the heart beneath. but TO the right
minded character will always have its clear in
| sigma.
| SOME MEN digging in an old road in Lowell.
| Me- came to a peculiarly reddish spot in which
they found three sharp chisels and gouge, all
Of stone They sy pointing one way, and
| Of the Penobscot tribe of Indians. Interesting
relics of these Indians are constantly being I'M
| earthed. There is point of land on the Penob-
| scot river, opposite Mattawamkeag, where I'M
numbered spear heads and arrow heads and
stone axes have been found; and it is said thai
on that spot the Penobscots fought a great
battle with their old enemies, the Mohawks
utterly routing them, and thus ending a long
series Of wars for the mastery of the hunting
grounds of that country.
"JARNpYcE VS.. .TARNDYcE" sinks into COM
parative insignificance, says the New York
| World, beside the patent infringement suit of
the Webster Loom Company against Messrs
Higgins. the carpet manufacturers. An &C
| counting has been rendered on the INDIGNANT
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| S300O0,000, and they have been awarded-noth-
ing One of the defendants, both OF their
original counsel and one who was called into
the case later, the patentee of the infringement
and two inventors who improved upon it and ali
the defendants original experts. are dead. The
president of the plaintiff company has sunk his
fortune in the suit and the inventor OF the in
frinRed mechanism finds sixteen years of en-
deavor come to naught.
THE RECENT SALE of Frank f. Daggett's share
in the Amulet Silver mine, near Prescott. Ariz.,
recalls the manner of its discovery. In June,
1886 Daggett was climbing the side of Lynx
G r. elk mountain 9TH prosvector's outfit on
his shoulder He was on his way to a gold
bearing quartz claim on the other side Of the
mountain. Half way up he stopped TO rest.
| and after nap picked up his tools and was
about to start. Just then his pick slipped from
| his grasp and in falling struck his leg hurting
| him extremely. He grabbed the pick aud stuck
it into the earth with all his strength swearing
| th7t il might stay there forever After a
while the sharp pain ceased and Daggett
changed his mind and thought he'd take the
pick He pulled IL from the earth with difficulty
| and with it some shining metal He had suck
the pick into blind ledge. VIII CHI is now the
Amulet mine. and from which thousands OF
dollars OF ore have been shipped.
PRESIDENT ELIOT. of Harvard is the victim
OF practical joke, for which some mis-
chievous students were doubtless respon
sible The other day it reached Pre-
sident Elot's ears that many cards had
been issued to people OF all classes of
society, inviting them TO a reception at his
home. He dumfounded, and hurried 10
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