The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ment in chasing Geronimo are reported TO be
robhng and numbering thirty miles east OF Gal
lup, \. NJ.
SEVEN different kinds of campaign badges
have already been sprung on the public by New
| York manufacturers, the trnkets costing from
to 10 cents each.
IT IS REPORTED that several of the oldest and
most respectable London clubs are in want OF
both money and members The new clubs are
| so numerous, and possess 50 many fresh attrac-
tons that the old ones find it difficult to com
pete.
AMONG President Cleveland's callers the other
day was John Winchell of Detroit, aged 81, who
had come personally to urge the passage of a
bill to pay him arrears of pension granted in
1894 for wounds received in 1914 at Lundy' S
Lane.
A COMPANY is being formed in New York to
supply opera glasses to theater gOers on drop
a-nickeln the box plan; only the nickel is to be
/ quarter of a dollar. Three thousand opera
glasses have been ordered in Paris for the pre-
liminary test of the plan.
y JAMAICA (N. " YOUNG LADY for some time
past has placed her engagement ring in the toe
of her shoe every night for safe keeping. A day
or two ago she took the shoe to a cO6bler for re
pairs, bnt did not miss her ring until the honest
| shoemaker restored it to her.
Thus FAR the attempts to stock the streams
of California with Holsters bears evidence of
success. The Holsters sent from Woods TIol
| Mass, after few days rest revived from tine
| fatigue of the journey and about one-haf of
them have been liberated in Monterey bay.
AN OREGON CITY (ORE.) CLERGYMAN got lost in
| the woods while en- route to Arthur : Prairie,
ten miles distant, to marry a couple, and not
until after the lapse of fortY-eght hours did he
reach his destination The bride and groom,
together with the invited guests, waited all the
while.
NARRAGANsETT PIER Or. ~ drops the pier"
this season from it's name, having been set off
from the old town of South Kingston into a
district by itself The state assembly has given
| the new town permission to issue bonds to tn"
amount of 100000 With this fund improve
mentS are to be made.
THEsalmon appear TO be growing exceedingly
| obliging in some parts of Maine. Ona we gh
| ing twenty pounds jumped on to the boat slim
| at Orrington, Wednesday, and was captured by
a man who waiting for the arrival of the
| boat The waters of the river are said to be
| fairly swarming with them.
HENRY HErH, of New Albany, Ind. has a
powder horn, a relic of the campaign of "Tppe
| canoe and Tyler too" 1t has carved upon the
arms of the United States, a picture of Gen
Harrison on horseback, and a female figure
representing the goddess of Liberty The old
relic has been in the Heth family since 1911.
| NEAR EUTAw, ALA, an engine struck COW
almost reducing the poor beast to pulp. In
some maccountable way her tongue, which
! had been completely severed, got into the loco
| motives ash pan where it was found cooked
! later on in the day by the fireman. He and the
| engineer made a meal of it. Such is a story
| going the rounds.
| As the annual local consumption in France
! of brandy is Il, 100000 gallons and the yearly
product only 10, 900 900 gallons. American lovers
OF eau de we are wondering what the stuff is
which comes across the Atlantic labeled as
French brandy. Scientific experts say that
most of it is cheap German spirits Favored with
cunningly devised extracts and cor1ials,
OSCAR MUSTARD, of Polk county, Nebraska.
liked a girl whom his father didn't hut agreed
to give her up if the Old man would give him
horse. The old man carried out his part Of the
programme. and the girl nearly went crazy
Now Oscar has found out that he loved the grI
better than the horse, and he has returned Che
the animal to his father and married his
inamOrata.
The Bangor (Me.) Commercial says the towns
on theupper PenobScot are suffering severely
from the ravages of caterplars. The fences
from Lee to Lincoln are reported alive with the
pests In Chester, Ne, they have stripped or
chards free and clear and are now paying at
tention to the forests, and literally clearing the
poplar and green hardwood trees of their
foliage. Similar reports come from other Maine
towns
MEDAL, supposed to be the one given to Vel
lepet, chief of the Indians at Walula in 1906.
by the explorers, Clark and Lewis, has been
found near the old Indian burying ground at
the mouth of the Nalla Walla, W. T. on one
side is the inscription, Peace and Friend
ship" with clasped hands and pipe and torna-
hawk crossed. ON the other side are the face
of Jefferson, and the words: IT. jefferson
President U. S. A, 1901"
A GREAT SOURCE of discomfort to the dwellers
in Paris flats, especially the ground floor
tenants, is the heating of carpets ont of the
upper windows and then knocking the dust ont
of them with stick The municipal authorities
forbid the beating of carpets after 10 O'Clock in
the morning; hut il is bad enough to be com
PEELED TO put up with it even before that hour,
as the dust deScendS in thick clouds, not only in
the regions Of the ground floor people but ON
the heads of passers by.
AN English clogmaker named Greenwood
made bet that he would stay und er water
longer than anybody in Hereford He swan
out into the river and disappeared while friends
on the banks held their watches to time him
| When he had beaten the record thcy became
alarmed, went after him, aud dragged out his
| lfeless body. He had won the wager in one
sense, for the doctors decided that he had not
drowned, but that death had resulted from the
sudden immersion after heavy meal
THERE grows in Mixteca, Mex, plant which
the natives call THE Herb Of Prophecy" 1t is
said that whoever partakes of the herb in n
few moment. sinks into a sort of sIaen or
rather hypnotic state, in which, while annar
emily insensihle, he has a kind of pronh1tic
Gift, or double sight answers questions that are
put To him. and becomes SO under the viii of
another thAt NJ ubeyN any command even TO
taking his own life. When the effects of tba
herb wear of ne remembers nothing of what he
has done.
NJ. Gugnard, n working mechanic living in
St Ouen, just outside Paris has Just inherited
through his wife, who was made the sole legatce