The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A MASKED BALL was given in Paris recently on
a Sunday night. 1t did not begin, though, until
u clock midnight had struck, and tney say
people had no business to be shocked.
EseLASD has begun the erection of a monu
ment over the resting place of a number Of Off
GERS and men who died at the battle Of Water
loo. Lord RothsChiid has contributed tlOo To-
ward the fund,
SEVEN YEARS AGO Mrs Riley of Brooklyn,
stepped on a needle, the point Of which broke
off and entered her heel. Last week she saw a
small tester on her thumb, opened it and TOOK
out the needle point.
A TOMBSTONE weighing sixteen tons, and cut
in the form Of tree with birds and squirrels
lodged In its branches. and ferns, flowers, an
open book and a scroll of music at the base, Is a
curiosity at MenOsha, o.
II Apologize, Ore, they have killed the goose
that was getting ready to lay the golden egg.
A housewife in that town, upon cleaning a
goose slaughtered to make an OregOnian holi-
day, found in the gzzard piece OF gold Oh the
value of SOC.
W. H. PRATT Of Davenport, Ia, once wrote
out the emancipation proclamation in such
manner as to have the letters group together
into a perfect picture Of Abraham Lincoln
The picture is now in the possession of the Iowa
Historical Society.
$MAN in Rocks county, Kansas, has been
arrested for stealing a school house. He had
removed the building to his own residence and
converted it into a kitchen. The people OF the
district. now being fOreWarned cherish the
hope that they will be able to prevent the
ground upon which the school house stood from
being carried away.
An EDIcT has been issued in China ordering
the sales Of office of honorary rank and prece-
dence, and Of certain degree and literary honors,
TO provide funds to repair the damage done oy
the Yellow river disaster. Petty distinctions,
such as feathers, are to be sold, but the princi-
pal revenue is expected from the sale of new
rank specially devised for the purpose.
AT WORCESTER SESSIONS, England, last week,
Magistrate Willis Bund passed sentence on
boy named Joseph SLATER, who was convicted
OF stealing TIRES eggs value threepehce OF
finenent in refornlatoiy. The boy bore a
good character, and the jury who tried the case
were scandalized but the Magistrate refused to
change the sentence.
CHINESE OFFICIAL recently discovered in
Japan a copy Of Hwang Kan's ''Confucian
Analects, over 200 years old, with all the
ancient commentator notes The work has dis
appeared in China for 700 or 800 years, and, as
the " hole history of the present copy is known,
the Chinese government has directed its Minis
ter in japan to borrow it in order that care
fully corrected copy may be taken.
AN ELhCIRlC DOtF-CAhI lot OIhlndIg TOdflS mas
recently been devised. The electric current
which drives the cart is supplied by six accumu-
lators, which, when fully charged, are good for
a six hours run, These accumulatorS are placed
slnder the seat Experiments made with this
electrically-driven cart show that on asphalt
speed Of nine miles an hour can be obtained
whereas on a soft macadam road only four miles
an hour are possible
THE President Of the street railway at Lewis
ton, Me- is an accommodating man. The other
evening a gentleman connected with a whist
club made arrangements for special car to
take the members Of the party home at a late
hour. The car didn't come on time and mes
sage was sent to the President of the road. He
sent back word that the matter had been over
looked, but that the car would come. \ few
moments later the car arrived, and on its return
trip the passengers were surprised to note that
the President was the driver. All the employees
of the company had gone home so he had
hitched up the horses and made the trip him
self.
A FRENcHMAN named Blanc recently left Mar
settles for Algeria, where he proposes to estab
fish a carrier pigeon service between all the
principal points in the interior and the coast
towns. He expects to raise his pigeons in Al
geria and to establish the service along five
different routes Some of these routes will be
over 200 miles in length. The birds will not be
required to fly over Seventy-fiy miles to reach
their home stations, and on the longer routes
there will accordingly be relays of birds to carry
forward the letters which other messengers have
delivered. By sending the pigeons only about
seventy-five miles. Mr.. Blanc expects to secure
swift and practically certain performance of
duty on the part of his actual mail carriers.
The year 1-17 is memorable in the history of
New England on account of the unusual guam
tity of snow which fell Feb. 20 and "a of that
year. In those two storms the earth was COW
cred with snow from 10 to IS feet deep Many
houses of one story wee buried and in numeT-
To
under the snow drifts. The visits made
by means of snow shoes, the wearers having first
stepped out of their chamber windows. One
Maine gentleman, wishing to visit his lady
love, is said to have walked three miles with
snow Shoes and entered her residence as he
had left his own, by the chamber window. He
was cordially received, as he was the first
person the family had seen from abroad for
week.