The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
ALREADY campaign poles are being planted in

Indiana
AN attempt has been made to have the his
toric gallows tree on Hampstead Heath cut
down
| 1T Is possible now to photograph bullet in
its fight, and all the time allowed for taking
| the picture is the one hundred thousandth part
of a second.
EMPEROR FREDERICK died within thirty feet Of
where he was born, and at exactly the same
hour of the day.
SALOON KEEPERS in Cincinnati propose to test
the constitutionality of the law requiring them
| TO close their places at midnight.
A sIx-ToN cab, carrying an electric battery
strong enough to run it forty miles, recently
made satisfactory trip through London.
RECENTLY disguised Oshkosh, Wis, jury
man offered to pay the sum in dispute if the
claimant would dismiss the case The offer was
refused
MORE than 800 school teachers sailed from
New York for Europe on Saturday. They be-
long to the teachers association which is max
| ing its seventh annual excursion abroad.
Mrs A. W. MINER and Mrs. George Gillette Of
New Haven, Conn. while driving, were caught
under the chin by lowered telephone wire,
thrown from the carriage and severely hurt.
A BALE of Egyptian cotton weighing 6Ss
pounds and one of East Indian growth weighing
400 pounds attracted much attention at the
| doorway of the New York cotton exchange the
| other day.
On OPENING an ice.laden car at Cincinnati q
tramp emerged and hurriedly made Off AS the
car had been locked three days before, it is
1 supposed that he endured the wintrY tempera-
/ ture all that time.
WHILE playing on float at Newport, R. l.,
the i1-year-old daughter of Lieut.. Niles, at
II &anl .aIs 49, - l. all
board. With great presence of mind her sister.
/ aged 6, caught the struggling child and assisted
/ her to the float.
| MAN was arrested in Waterbury the other
| day for insulting lady passing in the street.
| In court, after he was convicted, he' protested
that he merely said: "Ah. there-stay there.
| The judges reply was: We'll, you will get $40
| stay there"
| ALUMINIUM is coming into use as a material
for dental plates. 1t is nearly as light as rub
| ber but little more than one-eighth the weight
of gold; has neither odor nor taste; is not
affected by the elements of food or the secre-
| tions of the mouth, and costs, bulk for bulk,
about One-Sixth the present price of silver.
LIGHTNING played queer caper on ranch
near Buffalo, Wyo. T., recently. 1t struck
barb wire fence and for distance of 400
yards melted the barbS without injuring the
strands and pulled one end of the staples hold
| ing the wires to the posts. The extracted ends
were neatly turned into corkscrews and nickel
I plated.
jim BLEvIYs, living near White Rock, Tex,
| killed very large chicken snake few days
| ago, and noticing the snakes body was unusu-
| ally large and ill-shaped, made an incision and
\ found it to contain large cow horn and in the
horn prairie rat. 1t is supposed that the snake
| chased the rat into the horn, and to secure the
| rat swallowed the horn.
| DON'T judge man by the clothes he wears.
God made one and the tailor the other. Dol't
| Judge him by his family, for Cain belonged to
| good family. Don't judge man by his failure
| in life, for many man fails because he is too
honest to succeed, Don't judge man by the
| house he lives in, for the lizard and the rat
! often inhabit the grander structures.
| THERE are a number of warm sulphur springs
in Elsnore, Cal, and citizen of that town is
| utilizing them for incubating purposes He
puts tin pail full of eggs in spring whose
| temperature is 1922 and in three weeks the
| chicks come out. AS the temperature of the
spring does not uary, the eggs require no atten-
ton. This beats the patent incubator all hollow.
| THE sad accident on Newark bay, Saturday
night, by which five girls and one man lost
| their lives, win not soon be forgotten, and its
| most immediate effect will be to intensity the
1 feeling of insecurity which has long actuated
| every intelligent person who has sailed over
| this dangerous course 1t is only a wonder that
more yachts have not come to grief in like man
| ner. AT high tide no sign of the dixie is to be
| SEEM and a steerSman not thoroughly familiar
| with the locality naturally goes directly to-
| ward it.
| THE prediction that the present summer
| would be a cool one was on the verge of veri-
| fication when the hot spell set in. Now the
/ scientists say it is going to be terribly hot and
| they give as their reason the theory that heat
| follows the practice of the hard times and
| comes at regular intervals. The summers of
| 1867, 1874 and 1881 were unusually warm and if
excessive heat really presents itself every seven
| years 1888 should be Scorcher. It is wonderful
how easy it is to argue in favor of any kind of
/ weather.
THE explorer of the Fayum, Mr.. Petrie, has
discovered "a splendid fragment of the second
| book of the Iliad, written on papyrus in the
| finest Greek hand. before the rounded unciaI or
| cursve scripts came into use. This precious
| document was found rolled up under the head
| of a mummy, which was buried simply in the
| sand, without the protection of a tomb. II
| measures, apparently, from 316 to feet in
| length. The date of the manuscript is about
the second or third century. 1t will be edited
| by Prof. Sayce."
MOSES G. Nolan, while county clerk at
| indianapolis, on June IS, 1885, issued a mar
| rage license to David d. Rankin and Olive &
| Lowe. Ny return was ever made on the license
until a'few days ago, and inquiry revealed the
| fact that the contracting parties were married
| recently Dy squire JuuklnS. IL mad been exactly
| three years since the license was issued Mr.
| Rankin told the squire that he aud his he
| trothed had arranged to marry the day after
| the license was obtained, but some unforeseen
circumstances had caused the ceremony to be
postponed.
THE British consul at Mollendo, in Peru. re-
Gently reported to his government that a linn
tied liability company has been formed there
with capital of about fs, 900, called the Com.
pana Anonima Exploradora de las Hucas daI
| Inca with the object Of searching for antiou;
| ties and valuabes in the old Inca burial proIpdS
| in the district of Cuzco, a concession bavin,
| been granted TO the company by the govern,
| ment for the purpose. The consul says there is
| no doubt that many valuable curiosities and
| probably deposits of gold and silver, exist in
these ancient tombs.
AT CANTON, Me-. pair Of robins and a pair NJ
sparrows, each had nest and brood of younp
in the shrubbery near Nahum Moore's front
door crow destroyed the young robins and
the mate who defended them, leaving the
| mother robin disconsolate and in pitful mourn
| ing. Soon after, il was discovered that tha
robin mother was broodiug the young sparrows
| bestowing upon them the tenderest care whiie
the elder sparrows bring food and guard the
home. Thus these happy relations seem To
continue without a jar, as though the three at,
| tendants were a common necessity in rearing
the family.
WHILE at q neighbours few days ago Mr.
George w. Fisher, Of Independence. Kan. heard
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