The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24
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years az o, is now on exhibition in Bennington
THERE are $500 members of the Michigan
Anti-Horse Thief Society. and during the past
year they have not had cents worth of prop
| erty stolen.
| NEW HAMPSHIRE WOMAN has set out to count
the kernels of corn on $1,000 full-sized cobs. and
| at last reports she had got through with 3,00C
cobs and was not discouraged
FOX being chased by party of hunters rar
through the farm of John Patterson of West
Goshen, Pa, few days ago, and as he ran he
| seized chicken. With the bird in his mouth
| he disappeared over nil before the dogs came
| along.
| AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT, consisting OF
the loaning of books to passengers at a small
| fee, is to be tried on Austrian and Hungarian
railways next spring. A deposit covering the
| cost OF the work will be exacted from each
| reader.
| ALMOST A PANIC was caused in a Washington
theatre on Monday night by the high wind
| tearing off portion of the roof. Cool heads
| restored quiet and after a tarpaulin had been
stretched over the gap the performance pro
| ceeded
| A ST. LOUIS SPORTSMAN recently procured in
| Oregon trophy that is one of the greatest
curiosities of its kind in the world. 1t consists
of large and perfect pair of caribou antlers,
which are entirely covered with fine, close
| growth of hair.
LAST YEAR there were 5,315 divorces granted
in France. The demands were largely made
| by the wives, and those who had been married
| from five to ten years were the most numerous
in seeking release from matrimonial bonds.
There were two divorces granted in the cases
OF couples who had celebrated their golden we'd
dingS.
BLACK LOON was shot in Washoe Lake,
Cal, recently. Such a bird had never been
! IxNN
been driven out of its course by a storm while
migrating south from the Arctic regions. The
bird measured feet inches from tip to tip of
its expanded wings, and feet 3incheS from the
point of its bill to the end of its tail The bill
was nearly foot in length.
A LUDLOW MAss) HOUSEWIFE who dreamed
that she put a tramp to flight with her son's
shotgun. the next morning resolved to see if
she could manage the weapon in case she
needed it. Accordingly, she raised the gun and
began lingering the trigger, when off went a
heavy charge of shot. tearing panel out of the
door, Kidding the jacket of the parlor stove and
destroying two portraits on the wall
FAMOUS MAIDSTONE is owned by Chi
cagoan. He declares it is more than century
old. 1t has been in his possession eighteen
years, and he says that during that time it has
been successfully applied to innumerable dog
and other bites. He used it upon himself some
years ago after having been bitten by a rattle
snake. he relates. The wound, though painful
healed up and he was not bothered afterward
by it.
AFTER THE EXECUTION of his brother Maximil-
ian, the Emperor of Austria, according to the
London Globe was extremely 10th to sign a
death warrant For ten years he never did
sign one, but even his clemency could not hold
out against the terrible crimes which were per-
petrated, ana he had to revert to the ordinary
practices. Persons who believe that the aboli-
ton of capital punishment would diminish
crime will please note"
A BRITISH COLUMBIA PAPER says: This is the
veritable land of the giants of the forest, and
one of the first things that strikes strangers is
the enormous size of the trees. But in spite of
their Explanations of wonder very few of them
really comprehend how large the trees really
are. A stick of timber was cut the other day at
the Hastings mill which was LOG feet long and "a
inches square. There were sawed out of the log
1900 feet of cedar lumber, weighing 30 tons. !"
For generations a certain japanese family
had box into which they put percentages
Said one of than: IF want to buy garment
that that, costs 81 buy i for 80 cents; or give
build house for 500, build it for $50, and put
the balance in the box. At the end of the year
we meet open the boxes and give the contents
70 the poor. 1t costs us some self-denial, but
we are always prosperous and happy" They
call this worshiping 1.-THE Great Bright God of
Self Restraint"
THERE is horse in the town of Sprague
Conn, belonging to Allen Williams that has to
be put to bed to be shod AS blacksmiths do
not have beds in their shops for the accommo-
dation of such eccentric animals Mr.. Williams
has to carry mattress and pillows to the shop
where his horse is sho1. The horse does not like
to go to bed, and as il takes good management
to throw him down to the mattress, and get
him into a mood and a position to have the
shoes put on his hoofs, few blacksmiths like to
undertake the job The horse is thrown down
and held on the mattress by straps across the
body, and his owner insists on having the horses
head bolstered up in comfortable position
with two pillows while the work is being done.
Il WAS TALKING with an American author
who had recently returned from Eng land +" says
writer in the Critic "'Do you know, he asked,
what strikes me with more force every time 1
revisit London? IL is the American invasion of
England. As the years 20 by there are more
and more American plays in English theaters,
American books in English shops, and American
magazines on English news stands. Hdrper's has
circulation in England of over 30 900 copies
month. far more than that of any English
magazine selling at the same price.
believe that it is only question of time when
all the leading American publishers viii
have branches in London. the Lilo
pinco.ts and the Appletons have agencies now;
the Putnams have store where they sell not
only their own books but those of Houghton,
tliffiin q Co, whose English agents they are.
The Harpers keep Mr.. Osgood ia London. and
sooner or later they will see that IL is TO their
publishing their own magazines themselves
and their own books, too. and bidding against
the English publishers for the best books OF the
leading English authors"
A STRANGE OCCURRENCE, near Reading Eng
land, last month is thus described in the Lon
don Times by two spectators AT a time as
near O'Clock as possible the tens of thousands
Of sheep folded in the large sheep-breeding dis
tricts north, east and west of Reading were
taken with a sudden fright jumping their hur
dies, escaping from the fields, and running
hither and thither; in fact, there must for some
time have been perfect stampede. Early on
Sunday morning the shepherds found the ami
mails under hedges and in the roads, painting
and frightened as il they had been panic
stricken. The extent of this remark
able occurrence may be judged when
we mention that every large farmer from
WallinZford on the one hand to Twyford on
on the other seems to have had his sheep thus
frightened. and it is also noteworthy that with
only two or three exceptions, the hill country
north of the Thames seems to have been rim
cipally affected. We have not heard, nor can
any Of the farmers give any reasonable explana-
ton of what We have described. The night was
intensely dark, with occasional flashes Of light
ming, but we do not think either circumstance
would account for such an effect being produced
probability of slight earthquake being the
cause"
HAROLD p. BRows, an electrical engineer of
New York, writes to the Tribune concerning the
relative danger Of alternating and ontinuous
electrical currents. The letter is in reference to
a communication 10 which Mr. Westinghouse
attacks the results Of experiments conducted
by Mr.. Brown. The latter saws: Mr.. w STING