The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-27
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allowed to drink out of the same glass
In the town of Orizaba, Mexico, there are
three papers, the names of which signify The
Rat" THE Cat" ana THE Beetle" 1t is
noticed that Tine Cat is all the time trying to
catch THE Rat"
ROYAL MARRIAGES are evidently infectious.
When the royal marriage took place recently at
Turin over 100 couples wished to be united at
the same hour. and the force of officials at the
municipality had to be increased.
LAST WEEK q conductor on the West Shore
road was importuned by a woman passenger to
stop and back the train in order that she might
look for the false teeth that had fallen out
while she was mapping on the window ledge.
CHESTER POLICEMAN who undertook to con-
fiscate flock of geese which he found running
at large flercey attacked by one of the
number-a gander-and finally fed, leaving the
will.
TwENTY-oNE APPLES picked by New Holland,
Pa, farmer completely filled a half bushel
measure. The smallest weighed exactly one
pound, and the largest one pound and five
ounces. The entire lot tipped the scales at
twenty four pounds.
SIX YEARS AGO all the carbons burned in the
electric lights of the country we're made in one
room in Boston by ten men. There are now $50
TONS consumed daily, and of this number 100
TONS are turned out in the twenty carbon
furnaces of Cleveland.
MILLER. who operates mill near the dam
of the New Market lake, N. j., emptied the
lake on Friday, ostensibly to make repairs to
the dam The lake is a stocked stream, fostered
by the government and tons OF bass and other
hsh escaped down the stream.
THE London academy speaks enthusiastically
of the merits of James Whtcomb Riley's book
of poems, "Od Fashioned Roses" It saws
among other things, that ut can hardly be
denied that the average of American books of
verse is higher than the English"
Tony HART, the actor WHO'S an inmate of the
Worcester asylum for the insane. is well enough
| to umpire tie base ball games which are played
| every day by the doctors, attendants and milder
patients. IonyS decisions are said to show
good Judgment and great knowledge of the
| game.
| PERSEVERANCE is not always rewarded as it
deserves. Mrs. Sorrenson, of Manistee, Mich,
| sat in rocking chair across the path of the
| tracklayers for an obnoxious railway, for more
| than a day and night, only to be arrested and
sent to jail in the end for obstructing the march
| of improvement
A NOVEL CONTEST that will take place shortly
in New York is a counting match between two
| rapid money changer One has bet the other
| $500 that he can beat him counting, piece by
piece $4,000 in silver coin of all denominations
The wager has been accepted, and the match
will take place at Cooper Union.
In what months do people marry? A country
minister in New England has married ninety
eight couples. OF these seventeen were married
in December, fourteen in September nine in
January, eight in June and October seven each
in March, April, May and November, six in Au-
gust and four each in February and July
THERE is an old superstition among farmers
that the date of the month added to the num-
| Der of the month in the year when the first
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for the winter If this be true, then there shall
be thirty SHOWS this winter, the first snow
having fallen on the twenty ninth day of the
ninth month.
THE first opera concert given by the Russian
| National Opera Company in Albert Hall, Lon
| don, to O very thin audience and was pro.
| nounced painfully slow. The orchestra of
| pianos, twenty four of them being played upon
| by forty-eight young women produced some
| surprising effects in the novel character of the
| tones produced.
A REGULATION has been adopted in the Michi-
gan state prison by which hereafter convicts
may earn the right to wear plain gray suits in
| stead of the prison stripes. Men who obey the
| prison rules for six months may discard the
| stripes, but if after that period they become IN
! ruly again, they must once more don the OBJ
| jectonabie clothing.
| A REMARKABLE DoUBLE-HEADED CHILD was re-
Gently born to French family named Reoul-
| bault in Manchester, Me. The heads are both
perfect, and are Joined to the body by two short
| well-shap ID necks. 1t uses its mouths and eyes
| apparently at will in eating, crying, winking
and even sleeping. The parents were much
| shocked at the appearance of their baby. and
| went at once to Montreal to avoid the notice OF
their neighbors. The child is likely to live.
THE SULTAN has requested the Prussian gov
| eminent to permit number of sub-officers in
the Prussian army to enter the Turkish service
| in order that they may act as instructors and
| drill officers The request has been complied
| with, and the officers who accept positions will
| have the privilege in case their new occupation
| proves too irksome, of resuming their stations
in the Prussian army. Some years ago leave OF
| absence was granted to several high officers to
| take service in Turkey.
A GIANT locomotive is being constructed in
| Boston 1t is for use on the Atchison road, and
has two cabs, one over the boiler for the engi
neer and the other in the usual place for the
| fremen. The driving wheels are of paper with
| steel tires. Economy in fuel is accomplished by
| pump which utilities the exhaust steam t.
heat water, and by large combustion cham
| Der which burns all the gas. 1t is expected the.
engine will make eighty miles an hour. with ten
| coaches on an ordinary road.
JOHN JAMES was running a Spanish monte
game in the new town of Casper, W. T., the
other night when half drunken cowboy played
| against him and lost few dollars. he then
wanted to stake his six-sbooter, but James re-
| fused to accept 1t. Whereupon the cowboy
| cooked the weapon, threatened to kill the first
| man that moved, filled his pockets with about
$500 in gold and silver that was stacked on the
| table, backed out of the room, mounted his
| horse and made off unhindered.
SETH ALLEN, aged II, OF Columbia Falls, Me-. ,
| is likely lad and will make his way in the
world When he was years old he picked
| bueberries enough to buy pair of steer calves
| in the fall. He broke them That winter and the
| following winter hauled laths from the mills
and thus earned enough to pay for wintering
| them. Last winter ne hauled wood with them
| and did other jobs enough to pay for their keep
| ing and now has well-grown yoke of cattle
| worth S75, which he proposes to sell. He will
| then raise another pair Of calves.
PROF. SAMUEL DIcKIE, chairman of the ma
tional prohibition committee, has just returned
to New York from an extensive tour through
| Michigan and Ohio. He expects from 81, 900 10
10000 votes for Fisk and Brooks In November.
| In 1884 the prohibitionist vote in that state was
| 22207. Ia Ohio he thinks the prohibitionist vote
| will reach 81, 900. In 1884 il was 20 S. The
! prohibitionist vote in New York, he SAYS will
reach So. 900 this year In 1884 il as rs 900 and
| in 1887 IL was II, $50. Gov. st. John is more
| hopeful as TO New York than Prof. Dckie and
places the coming vote of his party at 60, 900.
A GANG OF THIEvING BOYS was broken up at
Corinth, N. Y, recently, and the police got pos
session of copy Of the oath which bound them
together. Each boy was required to take the
oath with his right hand placed on a human
skull, and his left band clasping dagger The
| oath reads as follows: II do solemnly swear by
| my LIES forfeit that [ will never reveal the,