The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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A HIGHLY CULTURED and very popular pastor
of Harrisburg bears the singularly inappropri-
ate name OF Pfuhl.
THERE are 900 beetsugar factories in Europe,
France manufactures 800 900 tons of sugar, and
Germany 100000 tons.
A PAIR Of gold-enameled scissors and pen
knife. together with certificate setting forth
I that they were once owned by Marie Aptiunette
were sold at public sale in New York, on Mon
day. for $3.50.
HELEN KELLER, the S-year-old daughter Of
Capt. A II. Keller, of Tuscumbia, Ala, is blind
| and deaf but her mind is wonderfully developed.
! Among other things she has mas erred geometry
and demonstrates very difficult tAeoremS with
/ ease.
THE report of the State Treasurer shows that
944 bears were killed IN Maine in 1887. AS the
! bounty is S. for each bear. the total sum paid
/ the hunte was Sl.720. Greenville Piscataquis
/ county. leads the list % bears having been
| killed in that town alone.
JEFF MCDERMorT, of Rapid City, Oak, says
that only twenty-nlne years ago he used 10 hunt
jack rabbits on. the present site of the city of
! Denver Col There was hardly house in sight
on the prairie then, and the hunting was bad
because the sagebrush was so thick.
ELMER c. GUNNER was recently killed at Ca
dillac, Mich, by u locomotive that had been
named E. C. GUNNER, after it's unfortunate
! victim. Since the accident the engine has been
| retired from service to remain as a monument
| to the memory of the life it destroyed,
A MOUSE got into the money drawer of an
office in Tulare, Cal, and began gnawing away
at some valuable papers. He selected a prom
| issory note for 500, and attacking the corner
! on which the signature was written chewed it
| into thousand fragments, leaving the bo4y of
the paper intact.
| BUENos AYREs, in the Argentine Republic, is
| now the largest city in South America, the
! census of 1887 giving it population of 49,, 900
| The population of the entire country has
| creased IFS per cent. in the last twenty years.
| while that of the United States in the same
period of time has increased only 70 per cent.
ST. PETERSBURG CORRESPONDENT says that
| the actual Gar of Russia, the man whose or
! ders are irrevocable, is not Alexander Ill, but
| Lieut.. Gen. dresser, the head of the palace and
| member of the Privy Council. He is between
| 40 and As years of age, is a soldier by profess
| sion, and has been decorated many times for
| galantry on the field.
THE duties of the early Justices of the Ma
tional Supreme Court could hardly be called
| onerous. During the first twenty years of the
( court it had very little business From 1890 to
| 1851 the cases submitted to it averaged only
about thirty-hve year. After 1850 the dockets
| became crowded, and now a new case is ordi-
narily not heard for five years.
| A SINGULAR FREAK of nature, originally dis
covered in Western Australia. is likely to remain
unexplained. II consists of nine fine pearls adj
| herring together in the form of a Latin cross
| seven in the shaft and one on each side of the
| second pearl suggestion is that a fragment
of seaweed in the shell of the oyster formed the
frame on which the cross was built.
! AFTER repeated failures to establish regular
| Chinese theater in New York for lack of capital
an uptown theater has engaged six Mott street
| Cinnamon for ninety days, to Grill them to take
/ a~tG in in fN1aX xthT Oh fe
| been expressly written for them. They are to
| appear in regular Chinese theatrical costumes,
which are said to have been imported from
| China.
| A RECENT INQUIRY into the deadliness of Ger.
tain trades is interesting when the Registrar
| Generals report on the decrease of mortality in
| England is remembered. The latest statistics
show that drygrinders of forks live on an aver
age only % years, of razors 81 years scissors 30
years, edge tool and wood shares 30 years,
spring knives and files IS years, and of saws and
| sickleS 3S years.
| A SURPRISINGLY ignorant man appeared on
the witness stand in court at indianapolis the
other day. He admitted that be did not know
| the nature of oath andN could not II the
name of the county seat of his county,. He did
not know how to read or write, nor when or
where he was born. He Thought that four
| times nine are sixty-six, and sad that Grover
Cleveland was Governor of Indiana.
| AN ENGLISH PAPER states that the Captain of
an ocean steamer one day found on his vessel a
pigeon that had fallen from the air and seemed
| utterly exhausted He cared for it, and it soon
| recovered. becoming a favorite on the steamer
| On landing the Captain left the ship, land found
| to his greatest surprise, that the pigeon flew
| beside him wherever he went, and even ont red
a coffee house beside its friend. Nor did its
gratitude cool down, for It is still the constant
companion of the Captain. It'd. "'
| A GOOD SPECIMEN of chow English is wrote"
at Shanghai is the announcement which an en-
| terprising Chinanan has had printed on labels
| and affixed to all packets of his own special
| make of cigarettes: e Lee Sung, Manufactured
| & CO. revOlve the defrent mini j. FraDknense
| and Cigarettes and Finest Tobacco rolled all by
| big best class Pease regards to E. At Hong
| how Road. Shanghai" After reading this il
would be useless to dispute with those who
assert that English is to be the universal Ian.
guage OF the future.
AT Cincinnati few mornings since crowd
of several hundred persons were attracted TO
| the corner of Laurel and Linn streets by a large
| chicken hawk that had taken quarters on the
steeple of the Catholic church on that corner
and was making a breakfast on pigeons The
| hawk would sail into the air and return few
| minutes later with pigeon in its claws 1t
would quietly devour the unfortunate bird and
then make another trip. Four pigeons were
| captured and eaten inside of an hour, much to
| the amusement of the spectators, if not to the
| pigeons
SQUIRE w. J. ANDERSON of Xenia, o. has a
coat ll2 years. 1t was worn by his great grand
| father in North Carolina The coat is made of
| linen and cotton. which was spun, coored and
| woven bv the wife Of S former owner II is
| cut in the continental style and the buttons are
| round mods cut from a gourd and covered with
| cloth TIE suit to which it belonged was made
! expressly to be worn at ratification meeiing
held at the time of the Declaration of Independ-
| ence and was worn very little afterward. IL
! has been on exhibition at number of county
| fairs of late years, and relic hunters have cut
nearly all the buttons off
JoHN GLAcE. of Port Royal, Pa, after chop
ping wood all day on the Tuscarora mountain.
started for home in the evening taking short
cut through the woods. When passing along
hollow he was approached by a little dog which
! ner, and at times would run ahead a short dis
lance and then stop, apparently trying to coax
him to follow. Clace'S curiosity was excited
and he followed until he came to a ravine where
lay p body of dog that had evidently been
dead several days. The tracks in the snow
show that the living dog had been keeping
watch over his dead mate. When Glace turned
to leave the spot the dog would not accompany
him, but took hold of his feet and tried TO de-
tain him. When the man started away the
poor brute began to howl most pitifully and
gave evidence Of intense grief.
Mr.. WILLIAM KNOX of Santa Monica, Cal.
who has become rich through the boom out
there, wants a wife and sensibly goes to the
newspapers 10 help him. In letter to the San
Francisco Examiner he says that at night he
''WOuldu't feel 81 lOnpspTppf la had u,,n,a