The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-10
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utes to spare.
A BERLIN paper chronicles the 5 0O0th appear
ance Of an actor at one and the same theatre.
Paul Debuke made his debut at the Royal
Theatre in Berlin in 1853, and on Dec. he
reached the number Indicated The occasion
was, of course, celebrated by his colleagues.
The 2-year-old son of Aleck Clark, of Dry
Greek, Cal, fell into a well thirty feet deep the
! other dav Mrs Clark Jumped in after the
| child, and standing waist deep in the ice-cold
| water held the baby in her arms three hours
| until her husband came home and rescued
them,
ALBANY, n Y. has originated the cruelist
deception of the holiday season, and one calcu-
lated to evoke mild profanity on the part of the
| victim. A paper sack is filled with shavingS,
and pair Of turkeys legs are then tied in the
mouth of the sack and the seductive fraud sent
to the victim 1t is funny, but exasperating.
Col. j. o. CHURCHILL, of st. Lous, recently
received from Capt orion IngerSol of Arkan
sas City, a valuable sword which he had dropped
and lost when wounded at the attack on Fort
| DonelsOn. Capt. Ingersoll picked the sword up
| in the field at Donelson, carried it through the
war and home with him when he retired to civil
life.
In the sleigh of James Rankin, which was
! found near Broken Bow Neb., were his remains
with the reins held firmly by his right hand
| He had gone hunting, and his gun having
/
| load entering his heart The flash had set his
clothing on fire, and it was all burned off, with
| the exception of his overshoes and the feet of
| his felt boots
A GRAvEDIGGER in the chief cemetery of Val
| enciennes has just been condemned to fine of
S. for having disinterred dead body from
| grave. He was asked by woman to get for her
| the gold ring of the first wife of her husband
| that ornament having been left on the finger OF
| the deceased person when she was buried: The
/ alar1F
| yard one night and found the ring, but the mat
| ter was brought to light through the indiscre-
ton of the instigator of the crime.
THE battle for high license is to open promptly
| on the assembling of the New York Legislature
Mr.. Ernest II. Crosby, who is again member
thinks he has prOfited by the lesson of his fail,
| ure of last winter, and has prepared bill
| which is free from the ohjectiOuS on which Gov.
| Hill based his veto of the measure passed by
! the preceding Legislature, and which is accepted
| as satisfactory by the Church Temperance So
ciety, the Society for the Prevention of Crimes
and the Citizens Committee on High License.
A MALTESE CAT belonging to a farmer in
| Genesee county, Michigan, for some strange
reason was led to share the nest of a hen which
was trying to hatch out half dozen eggs in an
| old shed. The hen resented the intrusion and
| had many a fight with the cat before she be
| came reconciled to her. The two are now fast
| friends and have by their united efforts, despite
| the cold weather, succeeded in Matching two
|
| her feathered companions and seems to enjoy
| their company.
FIVE Anarchists went into Paris restaurant
and ordered and devoured a fine dinner. When
the bill was presented they told the proprietor
| to look to the rascally capitalists for his pay
He sent for the police and the Anarchists cursed
them for having carried out capitalistic behests
| but went along In the Police Court the mother
| of one of them appeared and paid the complain
ant for the five dinners, but her son shouted out
that she silly, that he and his friends had
| gone in for free dinners on principle and would
| do it again every chance they got. They were
thereupon sent to prison for three months and
! fined,
| IT is quite likely that new college for wom
en- will be established in Worcester, Mass, with
an endowment of 100000 besides land and
buildings The man who offers this conditional
| benefaction is the Rev. Eli Fay, d. D., a Uni
| tartan clergyman now settled at Los Angeles,
| Cal, but formerly pastor of the Unitarian
church at Leominster and of the Charming
church at Newton. On his way to the West,
| twenty years ago, he left a small sum of money
in the hands of friend in Color ado for invest
| ment. 1t was put into mining stock. and before
| long DR.. Fay realized $4,000. He didn't know
what to do with this sum, but finally invested
| it in land in Southern California, and thus made
| his fortune.
THE largest man in the Chicago Board of
Trade is John Teufel He is over six feet tall,
weighs over 300, and isn't particularly fat. He
arose from place in the stock yards a
butcher to the prOprietorship of a big packing
| house, and is very wealthy One morning when
| he went down TO his office he found strike on
! hand. 1t was a very general strike I'VE must
| lie still, - said the foreman; we cant get any
| hands" I've can't, eh?' said Teufel. you
| yust start dem fires" The fires were started,
and as the black smoke began to pour out of the
chimneys the strikers began to hurry in. They
| thought Teufe had somehow secured hands,
and they rushed to get their old jobs before it
was too late. That ended the strike.
| The latest London rogue's device is to drive a
| handsom, and from that elevated position to
| pick out from the roofs of four -wheelers such
articles of luggage as seem most promising
| These he places on the roof of his own cab and
| drives away with them, presumably to some
| railway station. The proceeding is of the
neatest kind, and every precaution is taken that
| forethought can suggest. In order that the
| spectacle of luggage on an empty cab should
| not excite suspicion temporary fare is pro-
| vided, called buck; he mas nothing to do
but to look as if he owned the property over his
| head, though in reality he knows nothing about
| it and is specializing in his mind as to
whether it is carpetb bag or portmanteau.
WHEN the poet Scheffel was staying in Italy
for the benefit of his health he received letter
| from friend in Germany-an mfranked letter
| containing nothing but the words: 81 am
well. With kind regards. Yours etc" An
noyed at having 10 pay double postage for such
i
| termined to serve his friend out. He procured
| a large stone of immense weight, packed it in a
| box, and sent 1t to his correspondent. Carriage
collect" The latter, in the belief that the con
tents of the parcel were valuable. gladly paid
the heavy charge for carriage, opened the box
and found to his horror nothing but an ordi-
nary stone, bearing a label on which was
written: "On receipt of the news that you were
in good health, the accompanying load rolled off
my heart"
The salt mountains of Nevada the salt island
in Louisiana, as well as various other deposits
of chloride of sodium in different parts of he
world, are almost absolutely pure chloride of
sodium. OF p % per cent. of salts found in
Great Salt Lake the remarkable proportion of
20.19 per cent is found to be pure chloride of
sodium, and yet many of the streams running
into the lake contain vastly larger quantities of
other salts some of the water is so heavily
charged with nitrates and Sulphates of soda
and potash as to be unfit for animals to drink
and all the potash salts in the lake have diSap-
peared. The peculiar character of these phe-
nomena have long been studied by biologists
and chemists, but no one theory in particular
seems to be applicable to all the facts presented
in the localities named.
A PHOTOGRAPHER sued in London court for
payment for pictures of Mrs. Pearson, supplied
at her order. Two photographers testified that
the pictures were good Gkenesses, although the
negatives had certainly been touched ,ip'' to
make the woman look as good as possible that
being the custom of all photographers it was
said. Mrs Pearson testified that she did not
want to be "hattered and tittiyated I'M ~ and