The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-15
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man in England named

| THERE is a clergyman in England named
Straight whose curate is named Crooked.
GEORGE DAVIS, a colored man of Chicago, will
| allow barrel of -four to fall on his head and
| shoulders from distance of three feet for 81 a
| drop.
| IN BALTIMORE it is proposed to put letter
boxes on the streets cars. This will bring a
| letter to the post office from any part of the
city in half an hour.
AT religious meeting in Portland, Me-, an
| Englishman led the services, a Frenchman
| offered prayer, Irishman conducted the
| singing, and Russian was tae leading speaker.
| A Boston MAN who was in an Indiana town
to build big factory and lay out million dol
| lars found COWS and hogs monopolizing the
| sidewalks, and he left the town in disgust with
out investing nickel.
IT is SAID that several thousand natives of
Manila and vicinity have signed a petition to
| Governor General Terrero requesting the sup
preston of the monasteries and the expulsion
| OF the secular and regular clergy.
HEN owned by W. S. Farquar, Of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. laid an egg the other day about
the the size of goose egg, which contained a
perfect yoke and white, and also an ordinary
| hens egg fully developed, shell and all.
A New YORK BROKER made S42 900 in two
| days. He put $4,000 with it to make $4,000
in three days and lost the entire sum in six
hours turn of the market. In the morning he
lived in palace In the evening he was out
| looking for apartments.
The latest style of cane is owned by Port
land physician, who uses it for three purposes
| as cane, as protector and for professional
purposes. 1t consists of bamboo rod, into
which hts long steel receptacle, shaped like
half tube, in the concave side of which are
springs holding In place small walls of ammonia,
morphine, and needles and surgeons thread,
and in fact all antidotes and surgical appliances
necessary in cases of emergency.
Two YOUNG LADIES of South Chester, Pa
went into store where there was a galvanic
battery, and the proprietor asked them to try
1t. Each grasped pole of the battery, and
| wondered why no shock was felt. The pro-
| prietor suggested that they kiss each other
| They did so, and then there a shock indeed.
one OF the young women shrieked and fell over
backward. The other made sound, but
| tainted. Cold water brought them both around,
none the worse for the kiss
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY at Mount Pleasant.
| Ia, has some enterprising girls among its stu
| dents. Thirty-flve of them appeared in chapel
| the other morning clad in very pretty uniform
consisting of a short skirt of navy blue cloth,
| with blouse waist, skirt and waist being elabo-
| rately trimmed with gold braid and brass but
| tons. natty red Zouave cap capped the eli
max. The girls propose forming a military
| organization and have hired an old soldier to
| teach them the manual of arms.
/
York by the revival of bazar establishments is
| followed, or seems likely to be- by a bazaar
| race of laborers. One professor advertises him
| self as ready to report in any one or more of
| the following capacities Sexton, Joiner,
| builder, undertaken, painter and grainer white
| washer and paperhanger, plumber and glazier,
| whitesmith, locksmith. gasf1tter and bellhanger
| carver, glider and picture frame maker, watch
| and clock repalrer and wheelwright.
A SINGULAR PRACTICE exists, to a limited ex-
| tent, among some OF the very poor of Philadel-
phia. During the severity of winter being def
| cient in comforts they prevail upon charitable
| people and put their small children in institu-
tions just for the winter, storing them as it
| were, and then taking them out in the spring
| The recent fine weather has brought out into
| the small streets and alleys many children who
! have been cared for in this way during the past
| winter. Some of them have been afflicted and
been cared for in hospitals.
SECRETARY FAIRcHILD has approved the de-
sign of the new $40 silver certificates, and the
notes will soon be put into circulation. The de-
sign includes fine portrait of ex-Secretary
| Manning, supported by figures in relief repre-
senting Labor" and Prosperity" This Wig
| nette occupies the centre of the face of the
note, and is set off by artistic lettering geo
metric lathe work, etc. The Bureau of Eneray-
ing and Printing is engaged night and day in
| printing 81 and 50 silver certificates, and to
date has finished SEC, 100000 and $17 600 900
twOS.
| 1t, d reHarkaDle cat uled at Putnam,
Conn, last week. The animal had seven legs
and two tails. Her strange deformity enabled
her to do many tricks ''she was able to walk
| at any angle without turning. and whenever
| the perpendicular walls were near enough
together she could go I'D them as easily as she
| could walk the floor, while it was her
| favorite sport to climb tin pipe to the roof of
| the house" She was placed in a triangular
| black walnut box with the simple inscription
ut, and many of the villagers attended the
| burial.
A BANGOR FAMILY has very bright and know
ing parrot, which the ladies' have taught to 90
through the act of kissing in response to the
| request kiss me, Polly" One of the male
members of the family is in the habit of
paguing the bird little One day recently he
| took Monsieur Parrot in his hands, and after
| stroking his feathers until he imagined that
| the ''talker" was in the happest mood, he said:
| Now kiss me, Polly AT this the parrot made
a furious grab and tore away a large part of
the mans nose. They never speak now as thew
pass by.
| PROMINENT RESIDENT of Nueces County.
Texas, by the name of N. Blunzer owns in the
| shape of a cow the greatest curiosity of the
nineteenth century. This COW is five years old
and has four horns on each foot and two on the
head. All the horns are fully developed and
| measure about fourteen inches long. The cow
| in order to eat grass has to get down on her
| knees and push herself along on her breast
This cow has 1-year-old heifer that has the
same number ofhorns. The horns are not vet
| fully developed, but there is every reason TO
believe they will grow as large as the mothers
THE CHINESE of New York and vicinity had
their San yueh San, " or the planters Jubilee
feast, yesterday. This feast consists of a GER
| tain species of very glutnous grain called Shoe
mixed with five different kinds of fruit seeds To
represent the five principal grains wheat corn
| inlet, rice and shoo-planted by the ceebrants
| who then pray to joss TO look after the rest of
| the job This shoe rice and quintet of seeds are
| wrapped up carefully in bamboo leaves and tied
| securely with strings when the whole is boiled
| in slightly sweetened water. They are eaten
| cold with brown sugar A mouthful of this
dainty dish is almost enough to bring forth
dyspepsia to any Christian.
A wILD-LooKINa MAN carrying a rifle went to
the house of H. NJ. Gddings, near Seattle. the
other day. Mrs. Giddi ngs was alone with her
two children, girl of ID and boy of II, and
| alarmed at the appearance of the man. locked
the back door and tried to escape by the front
| door. But the man met them there and struck
at them with the gun. He followed up the at
tack, swinging the gun savagey but was
| stopped by the boy, who got his fathers rifle
| and sent ball through the mans leg At this
| he made of, and lay down on the beach, where
| he remained so long that Mrs. Giddings and the
| children went down to him, and found him inst
breathing his last. He had bled to death.
THE Paris letter about ad vertising, to Mr.. s.
r. Niles, OF Boston, from the largest retail es.
| Establishment In the world is n Handsome toa+,