The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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THE Manufacturer and Builder declares that
there are at present no less than 10000 electric
| motors in use throughout the United States.
Z. P. DUPLEX, a colored Justice of the Peace,
has been elected Mayor of Wheatland Cal. 1t
is said that he is the first of his race to fill such
a position on the Pacific coast
A MAN who has lately become prominent in
Detroit, more especially in police circles. is
alleged to have married twenty-one women at
| different periods Of his enterprising career.
ST. LOUIS BURGLARS robbed President-elect
| Patton. Of Princeton, of his coat and vest, and
| such change as the doctor carried with him.
Judge Breck enridge, his host, robed him in gar
| mentS short and stout.
| COUNTERFEIT FIvE-CENT PIECES are being cir
culated in towns along the Hudson river. They
are reported to be clumsily executed, and some
| OF them are So brittle shat they can be broken
! by the pressure of the hand.
THE Baltimore City Council has passed. an
ordinance that colored teachers shall be en-
ployed in colored schools that are hereafter
established in that city The new ordinance
VIII not AFFECT the present schools.
GERMAN who walked most of the way from
Texas to Boonville, Ind, where he was to marry
| young woman, was nearly six months in
reaching his prospective bride The couple are
now welded and have gone TO Kansas.
TEE GOVERNMENT is to undertake at the
| Brooklyn navy yard the construction on its own
account of t1rst-class armored cruiser at a
cost, excluding armament, not to exceed 81, 500,
w. The cruiser will be named the Maine
ALBERT Foss, New Hampshire man, bought
him tombstone and had the fact put on that
he died April 2, 1888. On April he took poison
ana tried TO die, but the doctors pumped him
out and now he has a useless slab on hand.
AN Albany lady had parrot that suddenly
became dumb She took the bird to a doctor,
found tumor in its throat, which had put its
linguistic apparatus out of order. The tumor
was cut out and polly is now herself again.
No MEAT for dinner, eh!" queried Jacob
Wall, as he sat down to his dinner in Troy
Very well-Ill go after some" That was one
day eight years ago, and he has not returned
yet. He is probably hunting for something
extra.
VERMONT man who moved out to Illinois
several years ago took a trip back last month
just to get an old-fashioned doughnut made by
his mother. When he got it he found it Just
( like any other, and little poorer than his own
wife made.
CoMPLAcENr BURGLARS who entered store in
Chicago and secured 81, 800 from a safe which
they forced open, did not waste any surplus
energy on the expedition, as they calmly rode
from the office to the top of the building in an
elevator before making their exit by the roof
A sToUT-LooKING TRAMP who stole COW from
farm in West Lampeter, Lancaster county
and who was arrested when trying to sell it. was
round 70 be the posseSsor of six coats and five
pairs of trousers, which he wore one over the
other. When he was diSmantled, so to speak
MS corpulency became thing of the past
JUDGE JOHN SoHoLFIELD, with whose name
rumor has been busy in connection with the
Chief Justiceship, is "a years old and is the son
OF a Penpsylvania Quaker. He started life as
stable boy, and paid for his schooling by doing
chores and odd jobs around a farmhouse He
was admitted to the bar at Marshall ILL., when
p years old.
A NEW POSTMASTER was appointed for a
country post office in Texas, and for several
days afterward the mail agent received no mail
from the station, and reported the matter to
the superintendent of the railway mail service
The latter wrote the postmaster, who replied
that he was waiting for the mail sack to get full
before sending it to the train.
BANANA GROWING appears to have descended
into an unremunerative occupation in Queens
land, Australia. The QueensIonder states that
in the northern half of the colony but one shil-
ling per bunch of twenty dozen is paid for the
fruit, at which figure only the Cinnamon appear
to thrive. This condition of affairs has aroused
desire to dry the crop, and. in fact one
grower has experimental to that end with an
encouraging degree Of success.
BALTIMORE is working up an exposition boom,
scriptions are coming in rapidly, and the ex
position is now assured. 1t will be held in the
fall and promises to be an immense success
This will be an exposition year. Baltimore
Richmond, Augusta, Atlanta and Columbus are
each to have one and the people of each CITY
are deeply interested in the work Is there not
danger however, that the matter is being a
little overdone?
To FREE CANARIEs and other birds of insects
the following method is recommended by one
who says he has successfully practiced it for
years At about dusk cover the cage with a
white cloth During the night the insects will
crawl from the birds on to the cloth, where
they may be seen running about when the cloth
is removed at daybreak. The insects may be
Killed by putting the cloth into boiling water
A repetition Of the process will soon clear away
the pests without injuring the birds
A New YORK MAN has made small fortune of
$4,000 in two months through an invention He
lad often noticed the trouble which school
children have in cleaning their states. and he
invented little tin box, in the bottom Of which
is small spongle saturated with water In
the center Of the box he placed piece of tin
drilled with holes, and on top of this another
small sponge. A pressure moistens the upper
sponge and the slate can be instantly cleaned
One firm OF stationerS purchased 10 900 gross of
the little invention, and the lucky inventor
hopes to become a millionaire.
MICHAEL BEGAN, a liquor dealer of New
Haven, Conn, who weighs 225 pounds, chal-
lenged James Brennan, farmer who had lust
brought in eight dozen eggs, to a raw egg
eating contest for $40 a side. The farmer con,
sented, and at o'cloc hey cracked the first
egg. Began swalloweHhis with sherry. while |
Brennan took his from the she'll At the TWEEN
teth egg Began succumbed, but Brennan kent |
on until So eggs had disappeared. Brennan has |
not been heard Of since He offered to bet |
Began that he could not sat five dozen eggs IN |
an hour and half, but the bet was not &C. |
cepted.
lGNATIUs DoNNELLY is in high glee. He has |
not been in London fortnight, but he has al !
ready secured fresh and convincing proof of the |
truth of his favorite theory of the dsreputable |
character of the Bard of Avon Proof turned |
up at bennington Borough Police Court last |
week in the dry, sodden and generally IN |
kempt form of one John Shakespeare John. |
who is sad to bear remarkable resemblance |
TO authentic portraits Of his great namesake of |
whom be claims TO be lineal descendant was |
sad 10 say. charged with being drunk and dis |
orderly. He was in truth so drunk that when |
placed in the lookup he threw decency to the |
winds and his clothes into the fire Il came |
into court wrapped in a blanket and presenting |
altogether the most deplorable appearance |
He was sentenced TO one months hard labor
ST. LOUIS EXCHANGE gives the following &C. |
count of an episode which was witnessed bv |
reportorlal eyes: Two young men, the escorts |
Of two plainly dressed, but sensible looking |
ladies, about 10 and 20 years respectively, occu. |