The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

sHREwD GAMBLER took room at a New
Haven boarding house, gave the boarders to I'M
derstand that he was a clergyman, got ac-
quainted with a number of Yale students,
finally engaged in games of poker with them,
and skipped the town $500 or 5000 richer
BosToS has just received from Africa the
largest gorilla ever landed in this country. His
name is Jack, and he is five feet in height when
standing erect, and measures seven feet from
the end of one outstretched hand to the other
He weighs about l25 pounds, and exhibits enor-
nous strength, compared with which that of
man seems like a chids. He arrived in large
box made Of planking two and a half inches
thick, and when being removed from the ship
he tore large splinters from the hard wood
panks with as much ease as a child would
break a twig.
THE STORY goes that one of the Harvard pro-
fessors while walking near Boston, happened
TO hear gang of repairers on the railroad jab-
boring Latin. He thereupon began to jabber
with them and found them to be a party of Po-
landers, graduates of the University of Warsaw,
who had fled from prospective arrest by Rus
sian authorities. OF course our Harvard man
was deeply interested, enjoyed a good long con-
Versation IN Latin, while the picks stood idle,
then toasted them all in the language of Cicero
One of the gang having blue blood, he had
elected at once to college professorship.
AMONG unrepealed acts of Parliament in Eng
land stand the following gems: Persons tending
to use witchcraft, by law enacted under
George H.. are punishable by imprisonment
lnose practlcing palmistry are TO be treated as
vagabonds and punished accordingly By a
law enacted in the time of Charles I meetings
OF people outside their own parishes on Sundays,
Ior any sports or pastimes whatever, are pro-
hlolted, under penalty Of fine of 3s. and three
hours in the public stocks. Any person disbe-
heving the doctrines of the Established Church.
and refusing to have his children baptized, or to
p Partake r., OF the communion, may, by law of
queen Elizabeth, be committed to prison
ONE of the most frightened men that the
world ever saw, says the Buffalo Courier, was
Mr.. Charles Dickens, the other night The only
light on the stage when he made his appear
ance was from the chandelier over his head He
had just come to the melancholy point where
Mrs. Dombey' dies, when there was a fright
full cracking and blazing at Mr. Dickens feet
a A. sheet OF name shot into the air, and Mr.
most comical expression of surprise alarm and
terror came into his face. The alarm and terror
were for an instant shared by the audience but
the reader and his hearers were quickly nut at
their ease when they saw that it was only the
footlightS which had suddenly been lighted
The audience Uttered, and Mr. Dickens with a
flushed face continued his story of Paul Dom
bey."
AN OLD HERMIT OF Mound Valley, Nevada, has
been adopted by lot of jack rabbits The man
lives alone in a ranch, and devotes himself to
stock raising. AS he doesn't try to raise vege-
tables, the rabbits could do him no harm, and
so he has never tried to drive them away They
soon became very tame, and, as the lack rabbit
Is rather an affectionate animal any wav thew
kept making more ADVANCES and trials of friend
snip until they and the dtd man have become
quite sociable When he goes out after his cows
two or three dozen rabbits will come trooping
along after him, leaping around him running
between his legs and nibbling his fingers. They
orteh invade his cabin, leap on his bed, and
SklrmiSh around after something to eat He
has taught some of the more intelligent rabbits
number of tricks, such as jumping over a bar
or through ring, walking on their hind legs
and jumping over one another like leap frog
LITTLE FRANKIE BRYANT, of Russellville. XIV.
came near being translated to heaven the other
day in a way slightly different from that in
which the ancient prophet was carried from
earth, A number of citizens constructed an
enormous kite and determined to try it. The
flying machine gracefully rose skyward held
by $500 yards of strong broom Irvine. The
men played with the monster until they grew
thirsty, when they tied the rope to an awning
post and went into store for some Kentucky
soda water. While they were out of sight little
frankie Bryant passed along the street and
saw the big kite tied. He united the knot and
wrapped the cord tightly around his wrist Two
seconds after frankie discovered he had made
a mistake. The huge monster in the sky. cana
BILE of lifting nearly hundred pounds. starred
upward, lifting the boy from his feet and taking
him slowly heavenward. There WAS n cry ~
ance. Taking in the situation at a glance a
number of men rushed for the hook and ladder
truck, which was standing in the street, took
the longest ladder and placed il against a b1ild-
ing over which the boy was being pulled. One
rushed to the roof, and as the boy passed by
him he cut the cord with his pocketknife and
grabbed frankie by the clothes The little fell
low was badly scratched, but was otherwise un-
hurf