The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| PROFESSIONAL SURGEONS are, as rule. very
| superstitious. They believe snake ring is sure
| TO bring bad luck.
! LADY living in Castine, Me-, has a cat that
sits up to the table with the family and eats
| from plate as decorously as any child, but if
a stranger happens to be there and laughs at it,
| it will slip from the chair and cannot be coaxed
| back.
A BIG purple meteor startled the people of
Alma, Mich, the other night and now they
! have heard from farmer thirteen miles out,
| who has found the meteor, 1t had fallen very
| softly, didn't tear up the ground and started a
| brook of sulphur water.
Mrs. CHARLES E. WILLIAMS, of Westheld,
Mass, arose in her sleep the other night, went
to the window of her room, on the second floor.
| raised it, opened the blinds, and stepped out.
When she struck the area below she awoke, and
was considerably frightened but that was all
| the harm her fall occaSoned.
A RECENT DEER HUNT near Martin, Tenn. came
| to queer end. After the sportsmen had
.chaSed the deer for several miles and the hounds
were close at his heels, the frightened animal
! turned suddenly, and, running up to one of the
hunters, tucked its head under his arm as if for
| protection No one had the heart to kill the
pleading animal, and the hunt was abandoned.
WHEN the United States Fish Commission
| steamer Albatross was in the Straits of Magel-
Ian, where she spent a month making collec-
tionS, she ran out of ice. So she steamed into
Eyre Sound, where icebergs are often found
| floating, made fast to an iceberg, cut off big
blocks of the ice which was clear and solid, and
took on board six tons, which lasted until she
reached Panama.
AT wedding some days ago, at Ajaccio, In
| Corsica, the general hilarity was disturbed by
| the appearance of two gendarmes in the middle
of dan e. They came, they said, to arrest one
OF the dancers, young lady, who tried to
n rDft hn nffi
OF the law. But muSket shot disabled the
lady, who proved to be noted bandit, Camille
Ncolai, disguised in woman's clothes.
VoTELLo SANCHEZ, a Mexican living near
Pomona, Cal, was made the father of three
brown boy babies at one fell swoop the other
day, and the little fellows and Isabella, their
proud mother, are all doing well. NOtello named
the babies Los Angeles San Diego, and San
Bernardno, after three counties in Southern
California and the citizens of Pomona Clipped
in and made up purse of 100 gold dollars for
Mrs Sanchez.
HERE are three items of interest about women:
The Rev. Carrie J. Bartlett who used to be
Minneapolis newspaper woman, has been for
nearly two years the pastor of a Unitarian
church at Sioux Falls, Mimi, and under her
mlnlStratlon the congregation has steadily in
creased Edith Martineau the niece of Harriet
nlartineau, has been elected member of the
Royal Society of Water ColoriSts. Englands
leading woman doctor is Mrs Garrett Ander-
son. who has practice worth $4,000 year.
The ladies' leap year privilege" took its orr
gin in the following manner: By an ancient act
of the Scottish Parliament, passed about the
year 1928, it was ordained that, during the
reign of her blessed y-Margaret-every
maiden lady of both high and low degree shall
have liberty to speak to the man she likes. If
he refuses to take her to be his wife he shall be
mulct in the sum of 800 or less, as his estate
may be, except and always if he can make it
appear that he is betrothed to another woman,
then he shall be free.
DoMINIzIANo RoBERTI, OF GIoRNICo, Swtzer-
land, who has recently arrived in San Fran
cisco, tells remarkable story of adventure in
the Alps On Feb. rs last he was caught by an
avalanche and buried, and for four DAYS he Law
under the snow. A party searched for him for
three days, and on the fourth, as they were
about giving up the quest, one of their dogs
began paving at the snow and barking loudly
The men dug down, and ten feet under the sur
race found the young man almost dead He had
been without food, except a bit of tobacco
which he says saved his life.
JOSEPH DERILLEUP was recently buried in
well at Dourdan, not far from Paris. The well
had been sunk to the depth of sixty -six metres
when the side fell in, carrying the man TO the
bottom. By inserting pipes through the fallen
earth the groans of the man could be heard
He was in a cavity and they supplied food to
him through the pipes while they began dig
ging shaft at a short distance from the we'll
from which to make lateral passage, it being
found that to continue digging directly at the
well was causing further failing in. The man
died, however before he was reached.
THREE-YEAR-oLD Robbie De Forrest a Con
necticut boy fell head first into big post hole
the other day. There were several inches of
water at the bottom of the hole, but Robbie
held himself up by the arms, so that he didn't
get his face in the water. and the earth he
looSened in his struggles absorbed it soon; so
danger from that source was taken away. There
the young man remained, upside down, for
three-quarters of an hour, when his aunt saw
his feet sticking out of the hole and promptly
yanked him out. He was nearly exhausted
"Aunty," he said, Il heard you every time you
called but could not make you hear me. ~
THE teredo has for years been most destruc-
tive to wharf piles in San Francisco. Under its
work wharves have been completely destroyed
in an amazingly short time Scores of sup
posed preventions have been tried, with only
limited success, until now creosote seems to have
built up sufficient reputation to prompt the
Harbor Commissioners to decide uDOn the cree
ton of creosoting works for the treatment of
the ravaged piles. Some of the San Francisco
dailies look upon the scheme with an eve of
doubtfulness as to its success, and one of them
recalls that back in the sixties creoSoting works
were established there, but they collapsed,
which 1t regards as evidence of the creosoters'
failure to do the work expected.
THE following facts about the Bible NAV be
interesting: Verses in the Old Testament. % 241
verses In the New Testament, 1853: letters in
the new Testament, S38, 500; chapters in the
Old Testament, 629; letters in the Old Tesla
ment, 100; chapters in the New Testament
200; the word jehovah occurs g. 1855 times:
the middle book of the Old Testament is Pro.
verbs; the middle chapter of the Old Tesla
ment is job xxx; the middle verse of the New
Testament ls>ActS xxi, Y; the shortest verse
in the New Testament is John XII, IS; the long.
est verse in the Old Testament is Esther viii, :;
the middle book of the New Testament is |
Second Thessalonians; the middle chapter and |
shortest in the Bible is Psalm cxvii.
ROBERT STAINEs, 81 years of age, and in the |
employ of Thomas Robb farmer near LYNN.
England, was rolling field with a team. in. |
GLIDING a stallion, which was muzzled as il was |
in the habit of biting. Suddenly it turned |
round and making an attack upon the shaft |
horse, broke the muzze. Stanes went To ouiet |
the animals when he was knocked down and |
crushed beneath the stations feet 1t pucked |
with its teeth at Stanes' left hand and tore OF |
three fingers, caught his right arm in its mouth |
and broke and crushed il below the elbow. and |
disocated his shoulder Mr.. Robb had three
Of his ribs fractured in trying to get the horse
away from StaineS, and a lad who was render.
ing assistance had his arm bitten and some
sinews drawn out by the brute The horse had
been in Staines' charge for ten years, and was
Is years old ''
Now that California has instructed its deles
gates to vote for Senator Stanford, he is having
lots OF fun with the patriots who are anxious To
work for him 'and an appropriation" One
man wrote to him from this city that ba had
been sent over the United States nv Blaine
once. lust 90 see how fine land In 10