The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-10
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become extinct.
THREE old ladies of Xenia, O., have met their
death during the past few weeks. in the same
manner Each fell and dislocated her hip and
died from the injuries.
MARIA ROBINSON, a colored woman, who died
Mt Bonneville, Ind, a few days ago, was said by
those who knew her history to be 125 years old.
She had passed 100 years in slavery.
A CONNECTICUT MILKMAN lost ten cows in one
night The flooring of the stable gave way and
the cows. which were fastened by halterS to up
right posts were hung by the neck until dead.
THERE is man in Yankeebush, Pa. who has
two eggs laid by Plymouth Rock hen, one OF
them measuring 50 inches long and So inches
round the other inches long and 69s inches
round
Mas. JOHN SHERWOOD, who is a mistress of de-
pertinent, repudiates the etiquette which de-
mands that lady should bow to a gentleman
before he can presume to bow. She says it is
an English custom, which has no rights that
society in America is bound to respect.
THE use of brown stone in building business
structures is almost entirely discontinued in
New York 1t is used for dwellings,, but its
chief employment is for window and door trim
mings. Wherever it forms building material, 1t
is massed with the utmost plainness and sim
plicity.
THR Chinese colony in Chicago consists Of
1000 souls of whom only two are women.
About 100 of them ara merchants, several of
whom have fortunes of 100000 to $500 900.
Four firms, dealing in tea, coffee and Chinese
groceries, have an aggregate capital. OF
100000.
THE water has been very high on the low lands
in some parts of Wisconsin this spring, and in
places the roadbed of the railroad was sub
merged. 1t is related that two residents of
Omro tied a Skiff to the rear platform of a train
Io,r rid 10
for miles.
FARMERS INSTITUTES have become an institu-
ton in Wisconsin. Eighty-two were held last
year in forty-five counties, and 80 practical
topics were discussed. More than 100 LECTURERS
and specialists impaired instruction, and the
State appropriated $4,000 to help the farmers
cause along.
The obituary of the greatest ship yet built ap-
pears in this advertisement: Tenders arc in
vited for taking out the paddle engines, shaft
ingS, paddle wheels, paddle boxes and sponsors
of the steamship Great Eastern, now lying at
the Tail Of the Bank, near Greenock. Good
references and security required"
HAWTHORNE in his English Note Book tells
the following incident concerning the May
flower, which carried the pilgrim fathers to
America: On her trip following that which
brought the pilgrims the Mayfower skirted
along the African coast and picked up a cargo
of slaves for the new colonies of America.
A DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS preacher has issued
circulars declaring himself TO be the Waterman
spoken of in the twenty-thrd chapter of Eze-
kiel. Among other assertions he alleges his
ability to prove that the Bible shuts out all I'M
married persons over 81 years of age from the
kingdom of Heaven, unless a good excuse can
be shown.
M. FLoQUET wanted NJ Goblet to be Minister
of Public Instruction and Fine Arts in the pres
ant Erpnnh Cabinet instead IF M;,;c
ter. But NJ. Goblet refused, because he might
one day be asked to sign q license for the per-
Torrance of NJ. Zola's "Germinal" on the stage,
and that he could not conscientiously bring
himself 10 do.
ELEVEN hundred miles of wire and G. 700 poles
are at present in use in the overhead equipment
of the New York fire department There are
CSC regular street alarm boxes, 25 special boxes
in city institutions and 1871 in public schools In
places of amusement and manufactures there
are 176 boxes and of duplicate special boxes a.
The aggregate number of boxes is .Q66.
THERE are in America over 1900, 900 farms,
large and small They cover nearly 2O,002 coo
acres of improved land, and their total value is
something like $10000000O0O. These figures
are not, of course, very comprehensive. They
simply convey the idea of vastnesS of area and
equal vastness of importance. The estimated
value of the yearly products Of these farms is
between S2OOO0OO,0O0 and $1,000, 100000
CITY ENGINEER NoaTHwAY, of Chicago, says
Lake Michigan will probably average foot lower
this year than last and last year the average was
SiX-tanths of foot lower than in 1886 There is
no explanation of the fact. The averages of the
depth of water in the great lakes run in cycles
of nine years each-that is, there is a down
shoot for nine years and then an up-shoot for
the same period We now seem to be near the
bottom of the down-shoot.
Il IS ESTIMATED that among the population of
the city of London there are 242S wives who
have left their husbands, 2371 husbands who
have left their wives ALSO divorced persons.
1871 ,023 couples that live. together in state of
incessant hostilitieS, 510512 couples that are
absolutely indifferent one TO another, 1850
couples that are apparently happy, 1,l02
complies that are happy To a certain extent, and
of couples that are really happy 6.
A MAN with sore arm went into Grand
Rapids, Mich, drug store, the other day, and
asked what was good for it, The druggist. who
thinks he knows thing or two about medicine
himself, took the man behind the prescription
case, gave the arm a critical examination and
mixed up healing liquid Then the man took
his arm and went away, and the learned aDOthe-
cary went to his till and found that over So Of
his good, hard money had been stolen The
man with the sore arm evidently had a pal
whose arm was not sore.
A FRIEND recently spoke to Louis Kossuth of
the hourshing condition of Pesth, when the Hum
garian exile said that it almost broke his heart
20 near Ol IHtG DeauIlIul CITY ana not be allowed
to see it. The friend suggested that he might
go there wearing blue goggles and a wig after
the style of Gen. Boulan ger mo" was the
reply, yet it is just possible that / may see
HUNGARY again. If Russia attacks NV country
will go without wig or disguise, and will
visit every village and every city and give NV
right arm in the service of my fatherland"
THE burial grounds of Aspinwal are situated
one and one-half miles from the town, on the
line of the railway which owns the cemetery.
and already, since 1852, fifty acres have been
filled with fever patients, and an addition of
fifteen acres was taken in this spring to provide
for the increasing, unceasing stream of endless
mortality The railway furnishes trains use of
coffin and grave for $40 gold, and the cemetery
is NJ small source of revenue TO the COMPANY
Az many az twelve bodies have been seen living
along the street, awaiting the return of train
collins, during one day.
HITHERTO it has not been possible without tho
aid of dynamo to use electricity for illuminat
ing purposes, but James II. Mason. a Young
Engshman residing in this country. having
substituted b ttery for dynamo claims that
oy reason or his improvement, any one DESTROYS
OF electric illumination may now have il Mt a
small percentage OF the cost imposed under the
dynamo system. The inventor claims that n
battery of twenty-five cells would furnish n
three story house with ten lights all burnine, nj
once, five hours nightly for two weeks. and that
the cost of this would be Just the same as pas
while the light would be better
BLOODY FIGHT occurred between an Indian
and panther, twenty miles south of Moscow.
Tex. A party of Indians from neighboring