The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The bronze statue of Sir William Wallace, I'M
yelled by Lord Lorne at Aberdeen, is seventeen
feet high and weighs nearly five tons.
BENJAMIN LEIGHT of Altoona, Pa, was made
deaf and dumb by lightning stroke, and re-
manned so for more than twelve hours.
| AT Walhngford, Conn. big pointer dog was
caught trying to bury alive his rival-a small
! spaniel-of whom he was insanely jealous.
FREIGHT handlers at Scranton, Pa, the other
day. had fine fight over fifty pound wildcat
that by some odd chance had got among the
empty barrels of a car.
SAMUEL DICKIE, chairman of the national pro-
hibition committee declares that the Chicago
nominations show the republican campaign is
to be one of pedigree and pocketbook.
AMONG the innumerable fish stories on the
rounds is one to the effect that an experienced
fisherman was pulled overheard and drowned
in attempting to land 250pound catfish at
JefferSonville, Ind.
The French are acknowledged to have the
finest guns and projectiles in Europe. Their
Fermuy shell has been shot through an armor
plate 20 inches thick and come out with its
steel poin uninjured.
MRS SIDNEY SMITH SWAMI, the wealthest
woman in Maryland with the exception of Miss
Garrett, has sued her husband, Donald Swami,
for divorce on the ground of unfalthfulnesS.
Mrs Swami inherited S20, 100000.
ACCORDING to certain statistics the cotton
mills at Nashville, Tenn, now afford employ
ment to more than 800 persons and use yearly
about 1900 bales of cotton, whose finished
product is double the value of the raw material.
a PITTsBuRG FOUNDRY is making for the
American emenste company a cannon which
will be used to demonstrate the value of that
new explosive. The cannon is expected to
throw 6-inch shell with emensite ten to twelve
miles.
SPEAKING. Of presidential candidates, Benja-
min means fortunate" Levi means ''associ-
ate" Allen isn't Scriptural and Stephen means
crowned 1t is also noticeable that all the
candidates except Mr.. Harrison are sons of
preachers.
BISHOP COKE of Western New York, in a let
ter to Mgr Richard, archbishop of Paris, inter-
cedes in behalf of Pere Hyacinthe's followers,
praying for their church recognition, and de
claring his purpose to minister TO them unless
informed by the archbishop that he has dis
owned them.
A YOUNG MAN named Jim Clark, recently at
tempted to swim the Red river at Grand Forks,
Oak, and was drowned. Just as he jumped in
one of the byStanderS shouted IN bet you 81
that you'll drown" Clark shouted back: IN
take you" 1t was his last bet; he never reached
the opposite shore.
A WIDOW named Alice Mcdaniel living near
Lafayette Ind, recently appeared before Judge
Vinton of the circuit court and declared her in
tention of becoming citizen of the United
States. The belief is that this is the first in
stance on record where woman has been made
a citizen of Indiana.
A BTDDEFoRD (1fE.) family had beefsteak for
supper the other night, and while saving away
on piece that seemed tougher than usual one
of The family found an army and navy cent
firmly imbedded in the meat. 1t is supposed
the cent was shot into the OK and that the
wound had afterward healed.
CINCINNATI now proposes falling in line with
those places destroying their garbage in fur
naces. In one of the Western PENNSYLVANIA
cities using that method, it has cropped out
that attache of the furnace sorted out the
potatoes from the garbage received for incinera-
ton and sold them to the neghboring poor.
Two perfectly pure white birds, which were
caught in Galena, ILL.,, have been examined by
local ornithologists, who pronounce them
genuine robins. These exceedingly rare speci-
mems of the feathered tribe are about two-thirCls
grown, and were taken from nest known to
have been built by robins of the ordinary red
breasted variety.
JAMES WILSON, a colored barber, living in
Perrysburg, suburb of Toledo. is turning
white. He says that about IS wears ago he dis
covered white spot on his left shoulder. and
since that time he has been slowly turning
white. During the past three years the trans
formation mas been more rapid, and now the
greater portion of his body is quite white
COLLEGE BOYS are receiving parting gifts
from their classmates. The one who never won
a prize receives a big wooden medal the bow
who is always late gets alarm clock, the
baby receives a wooden spoon, the most i'll
humored member bowl of sugar and other
members are as consistently remembered II
is doubtful whether the world will be more
just
I ~
at the age of ~ years was a penniless. nm
schooled orphan; at 20 an illiterate pilot or the
Mississippi, and even at 30 he was entirely IN
known and had written very little; while at a.
he was famous. He is of slender figure, with
a very noticeable face and head. His gray hair
is thick aud curling. and his very heavy eve
brows arch over keen gray eyes
THE New York game law has a clause reIat-
ing to gall mules" OF course, "gallinules'
was meant. The Michigan game law has a
clause about ''muffed grouse while the Ohio
game law legislates about ''rufled grouse " the
p oper adjective in both cases being ''ruffed :,
The New York law also forbids the transpOrta
ton of wild deed, wild DEER being meant.
IT'S to find the person to whom the honor or
dishonor, whichever it is, of being the Oldest
criminal that some of the newspapers of tba
country are now bothering. For time the
youngest soldier in the civil war attracted
attention, and afterward the most aged Mason
There a large number of both hut II is
hardly likely there will DO a flood of apnlicants
desirious Of placing themselves on record as
the Oldest criminal"
AT LAST the mystery surrounding Eau Care's
wis., yelled woman has been lifted. She
proves to be insane and to have a home in Mil
waukee. About two weeks ago she reached Eau
Claire, and since attracted attention by her
queer actions, which included the continual
keeping of lighted candles in her windows DIR
ing the daytime. She seldom went ont of doors
q night Onlu go
piazza, all the while keeping her face heavily
yelled.
THERE are some smart old gentlemen down in
Knox county. Maine. Timothy Dyer So years
old, who lives on Dyer's island, went out to sea
10 miles IN an 1S-foot boat, the other day
and caught n halibut and half a hopshead ~
fish, which Melted him s. for his DAYS WORK
DR.. r. b. Baynes OF Rockand who is Oh wears
old, missed the stage and so walked two miles
beyond nth Hope to fill an engagement did
his work and walked back the next day South
Hope is seven or eight miles from Rockland
THE Indians in Buffalo Bills Wild West are
eating more dogs since their return from Enc.
land than before. AS they become more civil.
LIED they grow fonder Of dog, apparently. II
was the custom previously to have dog feasts
that their appetite for canine deicacy has in
creased enormously since they were brought
into contact with royalty on the other side and
Col Cody and Nat Salisbury find il exceedingly
difficult to corral enough material ON Sta7en
Island TO satisfy the demand of their red
brothers.
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