The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-21
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THERE are said to be only four horses in
Alaska-three at juneau and one at Sitka-
THERE are in Vermont about 1900 school dis
tricts which have les than twelve pupils each.
! THE King of Sweden, whose pen name is
| oscar Frederick, has just published volume
| of verse.
Mrs. GEORGE GoULn has white ostrich
feather fan inlaid with gold and diamonds
which cost 81, 900.
| "CHEEsERINE' is the htest fraud in England
It has a suggestion of CHEESE, as American oleo-
| margarine suggests butter
INSTEAD of having a wooden Indian at his door
! for sign a New York cigar dealer has had
statue of himself cut in wood, and has set it up
! in front Of his store.
SENATOR EvARrs proposes to pay Judges of
the United States Circuit Court $4,000. Their
salary now, deducting travelling expenses, is
considerably less than $1,000.
BOY was born with two mouths in st. Paul
the other day. When he attains manhood he
will be able TO out-talk any Minneapolis man re-
garding the relative advantages of the two
! cities.
Mr. AND MRS JAMES GoLDsBURY, of Warwick,
Mass, have recently celebrated the sixty first
anniversary of their marriage. Mr.. Goldsbury,
though 81, goes to the barn daily and takes care
| of the stock.
THE Australian Minister of Public Instruction
has issued a decree forbiddng the use of small
printed books in public schools as the cause OF
the near-sightedneSs SO prevalent among the
school children.
TIE contest between Hogg and Golf in Congress
is to see who can introduce the most bills. Hogg
| led off with sixty odd for starter and. this
week Golf saw his sixty and raised him forty,
launching over hundred at once.
CATCH BETS are not recognized by betting
authorities If A says he can get thirteen &c.
stamps for 'One cent and a quarter and then
explains that by quarter in the above eX
preston he means 25c., he can not win
JACQUES KRUEGER, the well known comedian.
by the successful termination of suit in France,
becomes Count de Cartier de la Bots, and pos
SCISSOR of one of the largest estates in France,
comprising 10000 acres of land N Bruxelles
DINNER TIME at Paris has recently become so
late that the theatres have suffered in conse-
quence A number of ladies have decided to
keep punctually to the hour named, and to sit
down TO the table whether their guests are there
or not
BIDDEFoRD and Saco are fair samples of
towns in New England, and out of it, too, that
help to support lottery managers in wealth.
They invest at least $50 month in lottery
| tickets, and in the last two years the largest
prize drawn was $50
F. HUDSON, of Ventnor, Eng, gathered re-
Gently from his garden fully gallon of green
peas of excellent growth. The peas were
grown in the open air, without any protection,
and this was the sixth lot gathered since the
commencement of November
Mrs. TAYLOR, of Galena. spoke dsparagingy
Of Grocer SCOTS salt Goldfish. He said they
were not like boards and offered to let her hit
him on the mead with one for 25C. she planked
down the money and slapped him with the fish,
breaking a jaw and tearing off part OF one of
bis ears
THERE are fully fifty centerarians known to
be living in New England at the present time.
OF this number eleven live in Connecticut four
in Rhode Island, ten in Massachusetts, five in
New Hampshire, and five in Vermont The
oldest of all is Giles Benson, Of CaStleton, Vt,
l15 years OF age.
They are talking about establishing a Maple
Sugar Exchange in Vermont to guard against
adulteration. 1t is said that the widespread
adulteratlon of genuine maple sugar and syrup
is resulting seriously to the sugar industry OF
Che State. The annual product is about 1900
900 pounds, and it is thought the organization of
an exchange would increase it % per cenc
The Boston Transcript says that the study of
the Scriptures as a literary fad which was be
gun by some seekers after new things has not
I'developed the special interest that was eX-
pected; but one person is spoken of who, hav-
ing taken to the study of the Hebrew and Greek
Scriptures from the InereSt curiosity has devel-
oped new interest in the Oh. istian religion.
SENATOR STANFORD ssgift of $20O0O,O0O to es-
tabsh the university in California is one of the
| largest of the kind known to history. and this
gift is three times the size of the fortune which
stephen Girard left. Girard fortune amounted
to about 900, and of this he left S6O000O0
| to his university. He gave nearly all his prop
erty to the public, and out of his whole fortune
his relatives received only $4,000
T
trapped a rabbit the other morning and was so
delighted by the capture that be held the animal
up by the hind legs, saying, "Oh, Bre'r Rabbit
kiss Brer Jordan Bunnic resented the fani-
iarty and, Selling the darkey'S lower lip in her
teeth. would not release the grip until friend
of Little's had chOked the animal TO death. The
negro 5 lip was shockingly lacerated.
A PASSION PAPER tells of a remarkable wed
ding in London recently where the bride was
attended by a lot of little girls clad in black vel
vet frocks, red stockings, black Shoes red
cloaks and red three-cornerad hats, trimmed
tied with red and black ribbons. Somebody
said that they looked like a lot of little devils
a very good description, TO judge from the cos
tunes
A MAINE man has looked up the records of
thirty six boys who about fifty years ago went
to the little brown schoohouse" in Sanford.
All have become prosperous and excellent citi
ceSSful Boston physician. thirteen PROSPEROUS
merchants one wealthy Kansas farmer one
is Superintendent of the life Saving Depart
ment at Washington. one is an officer in tine
United States Navy, and five are bankers. Four
have been Mayors of their cities and seven. all
leading citizens still live in Sanford.
OYSTER CULTURE has enormously increased in
France. In 1876 the French beds produced only
about 60000000 of oysters. During the last
twelve months they have produded 600, OOO 900.
The exports OF oysters from France have in
creased proportionately In 1888 she sent abroad
310O0 900, but this year the expectations are ex-
pected to reach 50.O00,0m. Nor has the quality
been deteriorated by this great increase in pro
duction but on the contrary it is noticeably inn
proved Ten years ago only we-to-do French
men could afford to eat oysters; now they have
become the almost daily fare of the working
classes.
A sEEDY LOOKING MAN drifted into Washington
recently. He had nothing in the wide world
but an idea. He borrowed a decent coat and
then induced one or two Senators to believe
that they ought to have their heads phrenolog-
ically examined. They were new Senators and |
thought it was the correct thing, and when the
clever phrenClOgist fattered them for possess
ing so many good qualities, they readily paid
him the fee which he asked Since then if has
become quite the correct thing to have ones
head examined and the phrenol, gist has his |
hands full lie is making quite a neat thing |
of it financially and does not have to borrow a !
mans coat
TEE latest sensation in San Francisco was the |
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