The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST


AFTER a hard fight few days ago near
| Delta Pa n rabbit prevented a crow from
eating her little ones.
A JoHNsTowN PA, firm on Saturday received
postal card from Bolivar, Westmorelagntd
| county, Pennsylvania, postmarked feo' 20 Ao0f'
| THREE HUNDRED London cabmen recently
struck against paying guinea day for their
| cabs. and succeeded in having the price reuuceu
| to 16 shillings.
| AN IMMENSE swarm Of bees took possession or
Samuel S Browns house, in North Point, l.. l.
| The family were driven out and the bees PAD 10
| be smoked out.
| WALTER COOPER, prominent English gypsy,
died recently. and his body was drawn 10 the
churchyard by q favorite mare. The mare was
| then sacrificed.
"KoLLARs AND KuFFs" is a specimen Of the
spelling on laundry sign, which can be seen
along the Bowery, New York, according to
Gotham journal.
| THE London and Northwestern railway has
decided, lin Difference to the prejudices of its
| American customers" to institute the system OF
| checking baggage.
CALIFORNIA is going in for silk culture with
| enthusiasm. The state board Of silk culture
sent 16 900 mulberry trees and cuttings to SIX SIX
| cutiYators, and this season will put out 5O,OOO
more.
Two DOGS have been decorated for bravery
| and fidelity by the society for the prevention OF
cruelty to animals in Paris. One saved its mis-
| tress from burglar and the other its master
| child from drowning.
| THE FRAHCIsCANs have bought the ground in
the Rue Haxo. Paris, in which the massacre of
| the hostages took place during the commune.
| The historic wall will be destroyed next week TO
make room for memorial chapel -
AN OBSERVER on a Hyde park Qondon) corner
| reports that between IL and O'Clock in the af-
ternoon nine-tenths OF the girls that pass have
| their faces painted their eyebrows and eye
| IaShes darkened and their lips Redeemed.
wELLKNowN Belfast, Ne, firm recently re-
| ceived carload of white wood from Tennes-
see When the car was opened hen was
| found inside nearly dead. After some care
| biddy came to and is now all right. The car
| was between two and three weeks in transit.
| FROM paltry 75 cents worth of iron ore may
be developed S. 50 worth of bar iron, $40 worth
OF horseshoes $3.50 worth of table knives. Sc. 800
| worth of fine needles, S29 $50 worth of shirt
| buttons, 100000 worth of watch springs or
S25O00O0 worth of pallet arbors used in
| watcheSG
BOX of firecrackers cost IS cents in China,
each box containing 1850 crackers neatly
| packed and subdivided, all ready for the retail
trade million of these boxes were imported
| by the trade for last season and were ali sold.
| No doubt the same amount-that is, $50, 900 900
| frecrackers-will be cracked away this year.
THE Chinese frequently place little metal
| idols within the shells Of molluses, removing
| them several years afterward covered with
| substance resembling pearl; they also lay
strings of small pearls separated by knots in
side the Shells and, on taking them out, after a
lapse of some years, obtain large and costly
pearls.
ACCORDING to a New England exchange 1.-THE
skeleton of an Indian, who was killed in what is
| known as the 'Kilburn fight in 1855, was re-
| Gently Moved I'D in a field near Walpole n
H., where the fight took place. 1t was in this
| famous encounter that two men, two women
| and two boys defended themselves for six hours
against 400 savages."
AT Lynchburg, Va, woman accused her
neighbor of having poisoned all her ducks, and
brought suit before the mayor for damages
The defendant admitted the ducks and the dy
ing hut swore that in her opinion they were
| paralyZed by the passing of railway train, -
and as his honor accepted her view, got seattle
| less out of the laws clutch.
THIS is put down as the latest swindle, in con
nection with sharper: The farmer objects to
giving his note and having it discounted for
cash. The sharper says: "Oh, Wen keep the
note" and writes across the face, mot trans
| ferable" In a short time it is found in the
hands of another party with an ''e" added to
the Not" which makes it read Mote trans
ferable."
LARGE bull snake got into the house Of
| Lewis Clifton of Hooptown the other day and
getting into the bird cage, killed a bird The
family had gone to bed, leaving the door open
and the light burning, intending to close the
door when the house had cooled somewhat
They heard a racket in the bird cage, when they
got up and killed the snake which measured
about 51b feet in length
|
Constantinople before the Sultan's harem. AT
ter his aria from the "Huguenots, voice
arose behind the screen, where all the ladies'
we're hidden, and in genuine Italian style it
| sang the song of valentine" which follows
the tenor's aria. The singer proved to be the
| daughter of high official in the Turkish court
who had studied in Rome, but who had been
forced into the sultan's harem on her return to
| Constantinople.
| A WOMAN who had refused to speak for some
five or six years stood in the spelling class at
the Poughkeepsie insane asylum in line with
the others The teacher pronounced word to
her when her turn came, as he had to the other
members of the class, never dreaming that She
| would respond. Imagine his surprise when she
| promptly and clearly pronounced the word and
spelled it correctly. Since that time she has
conversed as freely as other women, and great
hopes are now entertained Of her ultimate re-
| covery.
ported from Kimball, Neb Some six weeks
ago Louis Richards sold lot of horses to J. O
| York, and among the number was black that
had been owned by him half a dozen years No
sooner had the horse changed stables than he
began to grow sick, refused all food and was
| thoroughly ill, but when allowed to 90 free
| scampered back to his old stable, apparently as
| we'll as ever. The horse is now in the past ire
and is gaining in flesh, yet has not regained all
that he lost.
| AT CANTON, China, some 100000 people live
continually upon boats and may never step foot
on shore from one years end to another. The
young children have habit of continually fall
| ing overheard and thus cause a great deal Of
| trouble in affecting a rescue, while in many in
| stances this is impossible and a child is drowned
China is an over-populated country and the
Chinese have profited by this drowning procliy
ity in reducing the surplus population They
attach floats to the male children so that they
can be fished out when they tumble into the
| river. The females are without such protection
and are usually left to drown.
A BERLIN merchant, who advertised for
wife lately, received 277 answers. OF these
eighty-seven were widows varying in age from
25 to 81; forty-two Of them had no children ana
twentyone possessed fortunes entirely under
| their own control Of from $500 to $50 900. Four
| ladies who had been separated from their huS
bands also wrote TO express a desire to try their
| luck at marriage for q second time-one Of them
for third time. OF the remaining 1856 onig
two gave their age as over 80; eighteen az tba,1
| professed TO be just turned &C. Seventv.ona
| photographs were inclosed and thirty-one az
| them said ooriro1 ~, "