The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-19
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seven grandparents living. She has one great
grandfather, two great-grandmothers, two
| grandfathers and two grandmothers.
Two New Orleans young ladies who find II
necessary to work for a living have opened
dairy and sell milk They have little cart;
and every morning may be seen driving DeIllnu
/ their bright tin cans and pals.
BALTIMORE has many weuto-do negroes
among its citizens. There are nineteen whose
aggregate wealth is $4,000 OF these, Joseph
| Thomas boss stevedore, is worth $4,000, and
James L. Bradford, grocer Is quoted as worm
| $4,000
! A MARINE ANIMAL about the size of a large
dog attacked Mr.. Angus Mcintyre or the shore
at Tignsh, Prince Edward Island, few nights
| ago. His cries for help brought the lighthouse
| keeper to the rescue and the animal took to the
water again
THE abreviations of California and Colorado,
"Cal. and col, " look so much alike in ordi-
! nary handwriting and letters have so often gone
wrong in consequence that Californians are
| beginning to abreViate the name OF their state
| thus: Calf
| Mr.. GUIMARAEs, a Portuguese inventor, is
said to have made new repeating gun called
! the Archimejes, which requires neither powder
| nor compressed air. 1t is a clever arrangement
| of extremely powerful springs and is said TO
carry quite as far as any ordinary army rifle
! A sTRANGE-LooKING COUPLE were in Boston
the other day The man was feet inches tall,
and very slender. weighing but 100 pounds. The
woman was feet inches tall and weighed JUST
what her husband did: They said that they
were buying winter clothing TO" their eight boys
| and eleven girls.
| DE BRAzzA, the African explorer says the
upper Congo region teens with ivory. He
| found large quantities of tusks in some of the
villages, and they we're often offered to him for
| small quantities of beads. While he was hoat-
| ing down the river he saw IN eight days Ioo
| elephants along the bank
| In CoNsTANTINoPLE considerable Indignation
is felt because President Carnot of France threw
overheard the name Sadi to sign only with re-
publican simplicity the neater name OF his mus
| triOus ancestor. The Turks feel as If shght
| had been given TO the peculiar poetry and Aslat-
| ic splendor OF their Oriental favorlte.
| A CINCINNATI PREACHER has invented an in
genious device to boom the matrimonial market.
| The love-sck girl who gets tired waiting for the
| vital question is advised to confront her lover
| with q proposal from a man of straw and ask
his ideas about accepting the offer. The net re-
| suit is an early marriage certificate and lee
| for the dominic.
THE great spread of instruction in the English
| language in Japan has naturally led to a grow
| ing demand for English books. Over 5000
| English books of all classes were imported last
! year as against 10000 in 1853. The import Of
| American books, that Is to say, OF the books
/
| 1885 to $4,000 in 1886.
| A CHICAGO CIGAR DEALER says that if he had
no other way of reckoning time he could tell the
day Of the week by the kinds of cigars he sells
to those of his customers who are clerks. Early
in the week they come in proudly and call tor
| two for quarter BY Wednesday they ask
| for 10cent straight and when Friday comes
| along their formula is Gimme u good five
center"
IT Is REPORTED from Paris that a jeweler
there lost a magnificent pearl weighing 1913
grains, and valued at $1,000. He advertised lib
| orally, and a month afterward a ragpicker
brought the gem to the store. She said that
! she had three weeks before gathered up the con
tents of an ash box in front Of the jewelers.,
! and when she came to sort them over she found
| the pearl.
| A MASSACHUSETTS MAN has pair of owls which
| he keeps on his piazza summer and winter. He
enjoys the strange noises which they make at
night. and instead of attributing them to weird
| influences assumes that they are due to hunger
| or indigestion on the part of the birds Of wisdom.
! At all events, he claims that by supplying the
| owls with raw meat and Jamaica ginger they
| rel pse into silence for the night.
THE EXPERIMENT of giving halfpenny dinners
at the Birmingham England schools has been
| so successful that farthing dinners have been
| tried and nearly succeeded. Two hundred and
| twelve thousand farthing dinners were given
last year at a cost of less than 39l0J of penny.
| Inc attendance at Une SCnOOlS mas Deel greatly
increased, and the good effect upon the temper
of the children has been astonishing.
] WHILE two horses were being taken across the
| Muskegon river on a raft the fral structure
| parted and left the animals struggling in the
| water. One of them easily reached the shore,
| but the other swan to a high bluff where it
| could not make landing. Ihereupon dog
| sprung into the water, seized the horses halter
in its teeth, and dragged the laundering beast
| to a spot where it could get out on the shore.
For SOME TIME PAST there has been a growing
hostility in the colored Baptist church at Ligan.
| La TO the pastor on the part of a portion OF
| his flock The other day he was requested to
| hand in his resignation. This he refused to do,
| and party of about 200 men called at his
| house and administered a coat of tar and feath-
ers. They then gave him six hours TO leave the
county. He left before sunrise the next morn
| ing.
RECENTLY James Harrington, of Decatur, H.,
received complaint from his brother, a resident
| of Hardin county, Ohio, that he had not re
| ceived letter from James for thirteen years
| and would like to hear from him. ThereupOn
| all the family relations took a hand in writing a
letter, which, when completed. was Just IS feet
| 3 inches in length, cut and pasted in a single
| strip. Mr.. Harrington estimated the number of
| words in the letter at 6,OO0
A TRAMP got aboard a coal train near La
Junta Col. and gave brakeman Soc to carry
him to the next station. AS soon as the brake
| gun heavinG coal out of the car, and strung it
| along the track for three miles. A wagon drove
| along after the train and began picking up the
| coal, and when the station was reached the
| tramp got of and went back to tine wagon.
! He had thrown off two wagonloads of coal
THERE is a convent not very from the heart
of New York city which has always had select
| Jewish patronage, the young ladies paying each
| 81 coo yearly for board and tuition The good
| sisters not only keep their own holidays. hlt see
! to it that their Jewish pupils observe the Jewi
! festivals You need not attend recitationS to-
| morrow, said a sister once to her Jewish
students 1t is one of your holidays" The
| girls were amazed. The only holiday their
parents kept was Yom Kippur and now after
| severe reflection, they realized that they were
| requested to observe Purim.
THE ANNOYANCE which creaking hinge can
give is something whose remedy is neglected till
| the nuisance can be endured no longer. and
then the sweet oil is poured out and feather
| is hunted up and grease spot is probably made
on the skirts by some overflow, and on the
carpets afterward by drip from the deposit in
the hinge and hands have to be washed after
| the deed is done, and more or less fuss generally
| is made by the feather and its oil The whole
| trouble can be obviated by the use of a black
| lead pencil of the softest number, the point
| rubbed into all the creviceS of the hinge re-
ducing it to silent SmoOthnesS Us if by the word
| of command.
| HERMosILLo, the renowned Spanish bull
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