The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| foot in Iowa, at the place where now is the city
bearing his name. The Old Settlers Assoca-
ton is preparing for centennial celebration.
WILLIAM YoUNG, while hunting in Chckasaw
county, Mississippi, undertook to chop pos
sum ont of a hollow log. He not only got the
possum but 1872 silver dollars which some one
had concealed there.
A YOUNG man in Davenport, Ia. a drug clerk,
| is well off for grandparents. His present supply
is nine: Two great great randtathers, three
great t-grandmothers, two grandfathers
and two grandmothers.
THE city of Naiyen, north of Ming Pc, China,
which was submerged 1000 years ago, has
Gently been partly exposed to view, and u
number of IS. plates, and other utensils Of
| the Sough dynasty have been recovered by the
natives.
HENRY L. MILLER, of Burlington, Ia, has
| German Bible that was printed in 1929 1t is
still in its original cover and in very good shape.
| The lids are of wood, covered with leather. 1t
| is said that only thirteen Bibles of its edition
were printed
PLUG HAT over 100 years old was recently
presented to a Michigan city merchant. The
account of the event gives no reason for the
| presentation, but it is supposed that it was be-
| cause the merchant offended his neighborS
| by persisting in wearing plug hat 200 years
old
! AT Chihuahua, Mexico, recently, bull fight
was conducted under the auspices of Sunday
| school, several teachers and members of the
Bible class undertaking to make it interesting
| for the bulls. The affair was very successful
| financially, and now the parish church has its
| interior decorated.
| NEW fashion in bookbinding is to have large
sets bound In leather of different colors. A
Boston man has just had Dickens bound in six
| teen different colOrs, among them red, brown,
orange, light and dark blue, lemon, fawn, ma
| room and black. Each novel was bound in an
| individual hue, the only duplication occurring
when story came In two volumes.
ALBERT Q. FLocKEN, who has just been sent
to the Massachusetts, State Reformatory for
embezzling $4,000 from his Boston employers
| for whom he was for years a bookkeeper, said
| that he never stole dollar until after he had
| been sent by member of the firm to get base
| ball returns when he became fascinated by
pools, and stole in order to bet games.
THE Chief of Police of Evansville, Ind, re-
ceived note, signed Emil Tedner," which as
serted that the writer was fugitive from JUS
| tice and was wanted for crime committed in
| st. Louis. He claimed TO be weary of hiding
and was ready to give himself up. When ar
rested and taken to the Central station he con-
| fessed to a number of forgeries committed in
st. Louis.
| SIR ROBERT HALL the Irish Astronomer Roy
| al, is an iconoclast of the worst sort In a re-
| cent lecture he said that careful calculations
| showed that the moon could not have been
|
| buried, and therefore that there is no scientific
| accuracy in the line of the poem, THE Burial
! of Sir John Moore" by the struggling moon
| beams misty light"
GOVERNMENT agent travelling in Alaska
says that the American citizens in some por-
lions of that country still pray for the Emperor
OF Russia In one town only one man was
| found who knew the name of an American city
and that was San Francisco. The report saws
| After laboring with them one man was found
1 uh hD aEsnxn- han ri ,.fI
| New York. Philadelphia and Washington were
unknown regions"
| The first crematory in New England is likely
to 90 up at Worcester. Some Boston folks tried
| to get up company, but the Hub WASH I ready
to burn its dead, and so its leading cremationstS
| have united with the Worcester association
| which is Incorporated as the Massa chusetts Gre
| nation Society, and they are raising $4,000
| Worcester has given $4,000, Boston $4,000
| Springfield 81 900, and Providence and other
| New England cities will doubtless add the rest
AMONG old Californians traditions of the
righteousness of Michael Reese are frequently
| related. He was born near Frankfort-o the
| Main. He went across the Atlantic to revisit
| his old home. The bones of some of his ances-
tors, whose graves he desired to see, rested in a
| cemetery to which admttance was only per
mitted on payment of fee. Rather than pay
the fee he attempted to climb over a high picket
fence, and received serious injuries from fall
Four YEARS AGO Addison Clifford of North
Rochester, Mass, went shooting. His dog
started a fox, followed it and never returned A
few days ago Mr. Clifford was out again with
| another dog which started fox and chased il
| to its hole Mr.. Clifford began to dig the fox
| out, and while at work unearthed the skeleton
| of dog, the collar on the neck of which showed
| that it was his own lost dog. 1t had evidently
! tried to dig the fox out, and got fast in the
| hole.
THE Pacific Ocean boundary of the United
States has greater extent of coast line than
the Atlantic shore. The aggregate of the shore
! line on the Pacific is 2734 miles, while on the
Atlantic 1t is 1850 miles, and on the Gulf of
! Mexico 6,S43. 1t was the annexation of Alaska
! that promoted the Pacific coast to a higher
! figure than the Atlantic, Alaska having $3.50
| miles of coast line If the late boundary iS
added it gives us a total coast line not very far
short of twice the circumference of the earth
A GHOST STORY made some sensation in To-
ronto recently. A servant, named Ascha, was
! said to have met the Spook of her sister on the
| landing CT the stairs. She told her mistress of
the incident, and, sure enough, the next day
came a telegram from Gaspe, where the sister
| a lighthouse keepers daughter, lived announc-
ing her death. The trouble with the story is
that the sister is still living. What object she
| could have in sending her spOOk all the way to
| Toronto, and afterward the telegram it is diff
cult to say.
| ABGG DOG belonging TO a citizen of ST. Joseph.
| Mo-, is a keptomaniac. He not only steals all
sorts of articles from the premises of his owner
| but felOnouSly enters the houses of his neigh
| bors and carries off things that he can have 30
possible use for. The other day he was stfn
carrying off something and followed He de-
posted the article in the corner of an old stable
where, upon investigation, were found water
pals, ropes, towels, articles of wearing apparel
rugs and all other things that had been missed
from the houses aronnd.
A SMALL QUAKER CITY BOY dropped his sled
rope through the slot of the Seventh street cable
road, sat down on the sled, and waited develop
ments. Pretty soon the cable caught the rome
and the small boy went whizzing along the street
1t was great fun. until he reached a curve. and
then the rope broke, and the sled and the how
brought up against lamp post, and the bow
suffered most AT the hospital the young doc
tors patched up his nose and reduced his dslo-
lated wrist. Il had dandy ride, - he said ''but
l never fought of de curve. Where me sleds'
THOUSANDS upon thousands of dead fish are
floating upon the surface and lining the shores
of Couch lake, in Oregon They are from to 8
inches in length and appear to be a species of
pike or perch. During the time the lake was
covered with ice bushels of these little 1sh were
caught at a hole made by throwing hot cinders
from the Northern Pacific roundhouse. where
they came for air, and were sold to the Chinese
It is supposed that the ice, by excluding air
from the water in the lake. which is very shall
low smothered the fish. The same thing han
pened when the lake was frozen over three years
ago