The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-04
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make a tour of Europe on bicycles, sailed from
New York for the Old World the other day.
FAIRFIELD CENTER, Me, is a village that must
be popular with book agents. There is not a
uog owned IN the place. nor within mile OF 1t.
HIS FRIENDS say of William Shirley, of On
tario, that he fought under Wellington at
Waterloo, that he walks two miles to church
each Sunday, and that he is l03 years old.
Mr.. DAWSON, of Marion, Ind. began marrying
in 1892, and now at the age of rs has just mar
| ried his seventh wife. None of the seven was
over 81 years old when she became Mrs. Dawson.
AMONG the Japanese engravings which are
now exhibited in London is one in which is
shown little boy exposing his body to the at
tacks of mosquitoes, so that his parents may be
spared the bites.
LIVE OAK LODGE of the Knights of Pythias at
Oakland, Cal, is said to be the richest lodge in
the world. 1t has over 300 members, and the
| aggregate wealth runs high in the millions
One of its members, VINO died recently, left the
| lodge $500, 900 and his widow. who died soon
after Wllled it an additional 100000
SEVERAL weeks ago the physicians of Marys-
vile, CAL assured J. o. Cousins of that place,
| that he was undoubtedly afflicted with leprosy
| He said if that was so he didn't want to live
| longer, and, though carefully guarded by his
friends, he made five attempts to kill himself,
and at last succeeded with a bottle of lauda-
! mum.
|
shape of Maltese cat. When one of the firm
opened the money drawer on Tuesday morning
out jumped a cat belonging to him. From the
cash were missing $50 note and two 81 notes,
! and other notes were damaged by the cats
| teeth Tabby is accused of having appropriated
the money.
A BUFFALO MAN, who draws pension for
wound received during che war, is very con-
| scientious. About three days before the time
comes around for time to draw his quarterly
| allowance, his leg gets in very bad shape. and
| so continues until a week after he has received
| his money. At other times he walks as web as
| other people.
| GEORGE CROwMAN, a German farmer, who was
for fifteen years preacher and worked in the
vicinity of Armsburg, near Jackson, Mo, re
| Gently at the close of one OF his meetings be-
came insane and raised a great row IN the
church Crowman had been drinking hard
| cider, and that, with excitement over ghost
stories, is said to have upset his reason.
WHITE MALTESE CAT, known as "Dottie,
belonging to Miss L. Danfeld, of Reading died
the other day. 1t was feline curiosity, and
| its antics were of the most amusing kind. The
cat was beauty, and weighed twenty pounds
1t could play ball, roll marbles, turn somer
saults, perform on the trapeze, shake hands
! ring the breakfast bell, and leap through iron
| hoops.
A BIG BONE, which local physicians of Carson,
New, say is portion of a leg of a man below
| the knee, was recently found near Genoa New
| 1t was feet long, and at the point where it
Joined the knee was inches cross, or fine times
| the usual size. If the man who owned the bone
was built in proportion he must have been about
| % feet high. An active search is being made
| for the rest of the skeleton.
SONG BIRDS being very scarce in Oregon, a
| number of German citizens of Portland pro-
pose to import from the Fatherand number
OF nightingales,, skylarks, bulfnches, chat
| finches, goldtinches, greenfinches, black and
gray thrushes, linnets, starlings and other sing
ing birds, in all between 600 and roo which will
be turned loose on their arrival A fund of
over 81 900 has been raised to further the pro-
ject.
AN INTERESTING MANUSCRIPT is alleged to have
been discovered in the Treves Library 1t is a
fragment of an old French poem the author of
which, according to the notes at the bottom of
the teNt, was no other than Richard Coeur de
Lion. The title is 'Sainte Norma ct son fills Saint
fDevey, and It was written during the Kings
famous captivity in Germany, on his way from
the Holy Land, where the bard Blondel dis
covered him.
A YOUNG LADY of Atchison had a very curious
experience recently. A young man of whom
she was very fond died several weeks ago. and
the other night, while sound asleep, she arose
from her bed, dressed, and went out to the
cemetery When she awoke she was living on
the young mans grave and she was so fright
ened that she jumped the fence and ran to a
farm house in the vicinity. The farmer hitched
up a team and took the young woman to her
home
THOMAS MORROW killed large black bear
with his good ak near Bad Axe, Mich the other
day. The bear, who was taking his winter sleep
in hollow log, was awakened by the fuss
Themes made in loading some logs near by and
stuck his head out to see what was the matter
Thomas happened to be looking that wav and
to have his weapon in hand, so that the bear
didn't have time to draw in his head before
he died. and probably never knew what hit
him.
CHICAGO has thrifty street car conductor
who has been raising mushrooms in his cellar
and selling them to the several large hotels for
the past year. The man is a sturdy Young Irish
man and he learned the trade of a gardner in
Dublin. Last March he raised four pounds daily
to every square foot of bed aud sold them at a
good price He was seven years in solving the
climatic problem, but at last succeeded and
now raises product far superior to foreign
grown mushrooms.
f. c. CULVER of Madrid. Pa, celebrated his
59th birthday, which occurred recently, bv in
viting twenty-seven ladies' and gentlemen of
Boone county whose ages ranged from 20 to OK
years, the 95th anniversary of the oldest being
on that same day. hall was hired in which
dinner was served, and about 800 people came to
see the old folks, who told stories of pioneer
days, and William Ketchum. aged SO years.
sang song, and Miss Mary Sturdevant
aged IS, sang sacred song.
A SYNDICATE proposes to build a winter bridge
across the river at Detroit, with three draws
and to he torn down, so far as the slIperstruc
ture is concerned at the opening of navigation
in the spring bill giving the necessary char
ter has already passed the Canadian Parliament
and Congress will be asked to have thu United
States engineers examine the scheme and PASS
on the question whether it would be an obstrIIc
ton TO Navigation or not. II has always heen
a hard matter to get into Canada or out of IN ar
the Detroit straits.
JUDGE FOSTER, of the Maine Supreme Court
who lives in Bethel, Me, was awakened nv a
large crash in his kitchen the other night He
hastily and scantily dressed and ran into tbe
kitchen, 10 find the dishes and other things dis
arranged and some broken. He looked around
to ascertain the cause of the trouble and saw
the dog IN one corner of the room trembJine,
with fear. Judge Foster immediately seized
him, administered a severe thrashing and then
retired to bed again. The next day, when tha |
Judge went down street everyone he met asked
him if he felt or heard the earthquake last NIGHT
and on comparing time he found it was nre
cisely the time the dog was whacked for nm
setting things.
AT MEADvIDLE, on Sunday morning. a coon Of
Antwerp carrier pigeons, sent there from Phila
dephia TO make flight the length of the state
were set free ut o'clock. In less than two
minutes after gaining their freedom the birds
had taken their direction and started on their
long journey to their bone in the "Ovoker |
City" A telegram received from Mr. Stein ono
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