The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| IcCtillsy dSSSTLtu lQaD l,UUO cnilOren are UuT-
dered in England every winter to obtain the in
| surance on their lives.
A MAN in Harrisburg whose spine was so weak
that he was unable to MAINTAIN an erect posi-
| tion has been furnished by a surgeon with a
! metallic backbone. He is now one of the
| straightest republicans in Pennsylvania.
| WINFIELD, KAN, butcher advertises scar
| lion stake among the attractions of his shop
which recalls the western justice, Peter Penn,
| VINO, when told to write his initials two P's
! seized pen and trembhngly set down too
| peze.
THERE was trouble in the editorial rooms Of a
| Cincinnati newspaper last week The journal
| has a department headed MEN and Things
! About Town, " and a new compositor set it up
! Mean Things About Town, " and it appeared in
the paper.
A RESIDENT Of Sioux City, Iowa, who for 30
years or more has g 'udgingly paid taxes on 20
very poor Jersey acres, has just sold them for
above S3I OO0 IN consequence Of the discovery
thereon of bed of fine clay for tile, brick and
pottery making.
SAN ANTONIO, out in California. boasts the
httlest baby ever born. 1t is the son of Alfred
Mcguire, a railroad brakeman, and when born
1t weighed only sixteen ounces. A pint cup
covered IL. The father and mother are both
well proportioned.
A PONY was recently lost for eleven davs at
a
conveyed water from colliery up to its belly in
mud and water. The culyert was too narrow to
allow the creature to turl, and the men had to
dig down several feet to rescue it.
A NOVEL ELECTRIC RAILWAY has been COM
pleted, running from the shore of Lake Lucerne
over bed cut in the solid rock to the summit
OF the BurSenstock, 1880 feet up. 1t has a
gradient OF from 81 to So per cent. The eiec
trcity is generated by water wheel in the
river Aar W
A WESTERN EDITOR has this bulletin on his
door: You can tell all you know in five min
uteS This is presidential year The editor does
not know who will be elected. The editor has a
loaded pistol He has shown signs of insanity
WITHIN the past few days Don't camp on his
shoulders. >"
DENVER, Col, will soon have one of the finest
Masonic temples in the west, costing not far
from $4,000. It will be seven stories HIGH
with frontage of 125 feet and a depth of 100
feet. Every girder and beam throughout the
oulluIng VIII De OF iron, not oven a wooden step
or staircase being used.
ONE RESULT of the street car strike in Chicago
mas been the formation of citizens committee,
which Will endeavor to force the PHILADELPHIA
syndicate to give Chicago proper facilities
inns commit sc is preparing statement show.
ing that when the North Side lines were sold
10 Ierkes there were 3315 per cent more
cars IN use than at the beginning of the
strike
WHILE at Homburg," says the Philadelphia
Times, Miss Audenreid was much noticed by
the Prince of Wales, who originated the dea Of
wheebarrow races, with a lady in each barrow
the lady and the cavalier wheeling her who
came IN ane2d TO receive a prize. The wheel
barrow containing Miss Audenreid won the race.
and thenceforth she a celebrity in HON,
burg. Miss Audenreid is very stylish and
pretty"
The House of the Good Shepherd in Denver.
a school for Chippewa girls, conducted by
Roman Catholic nuns, is doing good work for
the little squaws Twenty five have recently
gone to their homes in Northern Dakota after
lnlShlng three-years course. and thirty more
rave come to take their places. II is said that
tue parents of the girls are very proud when
ther daughters come home able to read and
write and verSed in many of the wavs of fine
pale faces. And the influence OF the girls is
conSl ierabe in chan ring the habits Of the old
folks and bring ng bout an era of cleanliness
htaerto unknown in an Indian tepee.
TIE block system, as it is now termed in rail
road parlance, is simply the division of a rail
way into certlin number of what are called
teiegraphic districts, the distance between
whic1 * determined by the amount of traffic
| and each block station has signaling instrll-
meuts ny which the signal man can communi-
cate with the box on each side of him. Now
when train enters any block a semaphore sig
nal is lowereds and no train is allowed to follow
until the one in front has reached the end of
the block, when the signal is raised and Mt the
same time lowered for the block ahead, etc
The block system in use in Europe and in this
country generally employ mechanical devices
for lowering and raising the outdoor signal but
these, II is thought, will eventually be replaced
by automatic devices.
THE Funeral Directors Association whose
members among the undertakers of the
United States and Canada, in their recent an
nual convention at Baltimore received a renort
from a committee n huri1Ic IF h. 4;
at sea, and Undertaken Laube on the commit
tee in the discussion that followed said: Il
want to call especial attention of the press to
this Steamship companies refuse to brinp,
corpseS to home ports for proper burial alIeg-
| ing superstition of sailors as an objection
| Against fearful protest of poor people their
| dead have been cast into the sea- but who ever
heard or this disposition of the rich and proui-
nent? At Baltimore, New York and Philadel-
| phia steamship companies have refused to listen
! to us, and We want the common people to know
| bodies can be safely brought home"
THE Plymouth monument is nearly comnleted
and will probably soon be finished. The statues
| and panels have just been finished at the Hal
lowell granite works. There are two statues
Freedom and Law" The former is ts1L
| feet high, and represents young man of mus
cuar frame, seated. Roman helmet is on his
head he wears coat of mail, and a lion skin
| is thrown over one shoulder. Resting on one
arm is a short sword, and in the left hand are
links of broken chain, of which part is held
Ia n IIYa
seated figure. 1t is covered with mantle and
the left hand grasps book. The panels for the
monument are four in number and are cut in
relief from marble slabs. They represent THE
Departure, THE Signing of the Contract "
THE Landing" and The Signing of the Treaty
with Massasoit."
"WAsHINGToN's summer tourists are now re-
turning to their loved and proverbialy beaut.
full abiding place says Mary Van Auken Mills
in the New York Home Journal. with what
exhiliarated pride one looks about as the drive
is taken from the station to ones home. I'm,
provements greet the eve everywhere Was
ever city so Immediately at?-trees 40 well
cared for? and parkins so trim and greene the
old homes so spotlessly neat-the new so at-
tractive, each model of chaste beautyY Few
summers at the capital have been so delight
fully cool and enjoyable-so full of real pleas.
ure as that just past congressman
have been compelled to remain here until
last Saturday and hundreds of familie.
preferring the society of relatives and friends
to that Of strangers and new diversions. have
remained at home, much to the regret OF keen
of fashionable hostelries at seaside and other
summer resorts. Few watering places were as
gay last summer as olr Washington Tho
wheelmen and wheelwomen especially have had
a good time, and the broad avenues were fire.
quently enlivened with the passage of parties Of
young men and women vigorously propelling
the silent wheel. This. of all cities Is consid
cred the wheelers paradise. Lawn tennis
boating, walking and equestrian parties have
also had their share in keeping our young peo-
pie delightfully."- occupied
GENTLEMAN from Illinois, who was in Bos.
ton recently on business says the Record left