The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-15
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cattle in year than were formerly hurt by
accident in a dozen twelvemonths 1t is no OBJ
stacle to straying of herds, and it is nuisance
! TO human beings
! ALL the steel marking and canceing stamps
used by the various post offices throughout the
/ country are made in the little machine shop of
! Col Benjamin Chambers, at Heathsville, Va.
! Heathsville was one of the first towns es-
tabished by the settlers in Virginia.
AMONG the legacies of the late Gov Bodwell,
of Maine, is said to have been an insurance
policy for $4,000 payable to sundry young
men who have been connected with his business
| operations, the policy having been taken with
| the condition that it should remain a secret
until his death
| THE ubiquitous office boy has discovered
new use for old business letters, which he now
sells to various firms at from 1Oc to 5Oc. hun
dred. The buyers them for the addresses
contained therein, which are duly copied and
in turn sold to sewing machine and patent
medicine men, who use the lists in sending out
circulars,
A TRAINER of animals in Paris gives the fol
| lowing account of the way in which he trains
cats and rats to live on friendly terms Taking
| a cat and rat each by the back of the neck,
he brings their heads nearer and nearer to-
gether, accustoming them gradually to each
other until finally their noses meet. This prac-
tice at length seems to please them.
PROF. G. F. WRIGHT in his recent visit to
Alaska discovered a queer passage in the
Twenty Psalm as translated into the
language of the natives. The missionary who
made the translation found some difficulty with
the first five words, The Lord is my Shepherd,
because in Alaska there are no domestic sheep
and no shepherds. But he thought that he had
got over the difficulty until he heard an Indian
read the passage, and then he found that he had
made it read THE Lord is a tirSt-claSS noun
tain sheep hunter"
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ran away from his wife, leaving her in destitute
circumstances. She heard no more of him
until few days ago. when letter from the
State Soldiers Home at Quincy said that her
husband had died there after being an inmate
for two years; that before he died he made ap-
plication for pension on account OF injuries
received in the war; that the pension had just
been granted, and that on presenting proper
proof she would be entitled to it. Mrs Vogt
thinks that her husband was of some account
after all.
THE FRENCH ACADEMY has awarded the Mont
you prize of virtue, $500, to Jean Adolphe
Delaney, a Calais pilot who has twenty-one
times risked his life in saving shipwrecked
crews. Once twelve English sailors in feboat
attempted a rescue and were all lost, but Delan-
noy and six comrades succeeded in reaching the
vessel Just as it was going down and took off
two of the crew He already had the Cross of
the Legion of Honor and lot of medals, and
the academy now proclaims him the most heroic
and devoted of Frenchmen.
JOHN BECK, druggist of Pttsburg. has been
the victim from time to time during the last
seven years of systematic and mysterious rob-
berries. The thieves were discovered last Sat
urday. They were rats. At the back end of
the money drawer an opening about two inches
from the top of the counter ana through which
any small sized rat could climb was found. In
it was a bed or nest made of pile of green
backs and other small articles. and in it were
eight small rats, which were too young to make
their escape Several hundred dollars is sup
posed to have been lost in this way
THE same precautions against fire are
taken in Moscow and St Petersburg to-day that
were in use a century ago Scores of fire towers
are everywhere seen. They run up about IS to
100 feet, are built like lighthouse, with wind
ing stairway, and have platform all around at
the top, where the Waterman patrols day and
night. If a fire is discovered a signal is given
and the fire department turns out. 1t was only
recently that st. Petersburg, the capital, with
hundreds of millions of government property,
secured a steam fire engine, and that is a poor,
old-faShioned affair. The hand engine does ser
vice there yet, and in most other cities of the
empire.
AT meeting of the California State Board of
Silk Culture in San Francisco the other day,
this paragraph was read from a letter from the
Secretary: Mrs Potter, of New York, who has
for a long time been assisting needy women,
intends forming a colony, buying 900 acres of
land near Nacaville, and bringing out many
women. She has received quite a large sum of
money from rich men In New York In aid of the
enterprise. She is now working up the colony
in both New York and Massachusetts. and she
will accompany the movement and superintend
the colony herself" MIR. Moves desired books
on silk culture forwarded to Mrs Potter which
the board decided to send.
The FACT that fifteen to twenty-five steamers
a month are now arriving at the mouth of the
Congo illustrates the growth of commerce in
that region since Stanley showed the importance
of the great river. One ocean steamer has al
ready assembled the river to Bona, fifty miles
from the sea, and the best channels are being
marked by buoys, so that deep-draught vessels
may safely navigate the lower river. Little
hotels for the entertainment of travellers have
been built at Banana and Bona. One reason
why The whites on the lower river enjoy far bet
ter health than formerly is said to be because
they have discarded canned meats and now
raise their own beef. Cattle thrive finely at
Bona, and it takes steer every three DAYS to
feed the whites who are now living at that sta
ton.
A CHINESE MISSIONARY says he thinks that it
will be many years before railroads can be built
in China because of the superstition of the PEG
pie China, he says is one vast graveyard. On
every side there are to be found the mounds of
those who have died The Chinese will not
allow these mounds to be disturbed under any
circumstances Their superstition forbids the
removal of body or the interference with the
grave OF any person once buried with the
proper ceremonies. Twice year they visit the
graves o. their ancestors in the spring with
offerings of the first fruits of the season, and
in the fail they repair to the graves and burn
incense. If a railroad should attempt to enter
the country some of these mounds would have
to be removed or else the rails would have to
wind IN and out among them.
A CHICAGO LADY had rather an unpleasant ex
perience few days ago. Having received a
sealskin sacque, beautiful knitted silk purse,
and some other articles which she was exceed
ngy anxious to display she decided to 90 down
town shopping. There was nothing she needed
from the stores, but in Chicago ladies do not
stop at home for a little thing like that AS she
was ready to start she found that she had no
silver for her purse, and as the showing of that
purse was one of the objects of her Journey
woman wit quickly found substitute for the
silver she didn't have. On the train she met an
intimate friend, and as they sat chatting the
friend. unobserved by the other, playfully
opened the purse and took out stack of red
white and blue poker checks! In second that
end of the car was in litter, and the owner of
the seal Sacque and knit purse bit her lips and
wished she had stayed at home.
GRAVE PHYSIOLOGICAL QUESTION is now agi-
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