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


HARRY SPERRY, while oepipysters at
Lukens' restaurant, Morrison, found
handsome white pearl VIII darnarkingS,
| which he Will have mounteA
MATHEW WELcH, of nea Burgetpwn, Pa,
| was disturbed the other mint by drSing that
his sons horse had died. he arosetly, went
| to the stable and found th animal d.
A WEDDING PARTY at PIT Huron ch., had
to wait in the churctuntl thetorgetful
| groom" could drive Ink madmt to the
| County Clerk and procuia marriag4cense.
| SAN FRANCISCO is shortf sailors. Ttoasting
| trade is so brisk that aphe seafarinAen who
want jobs can get then and the resS is that,
| at last accounts, twentshipS laden VII wheat
| were waiting to find crgs. III
| Two prominent St. luis men havetngaged
in litigation over the cnershlp of dis valued
at rs cents. The preliminary suit ma. costs,
| in addition to attornefees, $4S, and pw the
case has been taken tShe Circuit Cour
SOME Australian pasites that are waanted
| to kill fruit pests haveeen received in, iaifor-
mia and are being tri by orchardists 1t is
claimed that these liz bugs, no large than
| fieas, feed on fruit pLS and rapidly AStroy
| them.
BLIND HORSE belosing to an Ohio tirmer
was sold last winter a man IS miles lway.
Inc OUneT Jay ne UuBu up at Ile OlQ SUMO III
| good spirits, havinghen two weeks on thFoad,
but having come alG as safely as if hl had
| two good eyes.
THE Emperor FreFick, of Germany, has di-
rected that hereaft, In the services Of, the
Lutheran Church, hshall be prayed for, not in
the old form, as * Imperial Majesty, the
| Emperor Frederick but as THY sernnt
Frederick the Empor."
VIXEN the memoir tablet to Rev. George sC.
Haddock was unveil in the Sioux City Meth.
dist church, the othiday, the pastor said thai
in August, 1886 wheMr. Handbook was mut
dered 100 saloons we running in the city
Now there was not angle saloon open.
PARIsHIoNER std up in St. Georges
| church, Bolton, Engla. recently, and forebade
the banns of coupltntending to be married.
Fhe oblector was Quief requested to go to the
vestry at the close ohae service when it was
learned that he ground his opposition on the
alleged fact that the mn was in debt, and con-
sequently not in posiin to be married
A NEW HELMET for f1rlen has been invented
in Bremen 1t consistorincipally of a copper
mask. which is very lig. The wearer's nose,
mouth and eyes receivelrough an india rubber
tube a constant stream pure air, which leaves
the helmet by an openll opposite the eyes and
prevents the entrance smoke. The helmet
has been practically tesd and is to be used by
the Berlin firemen. it iSsid.
A. CHRISTIAN CHURCDomposed entirely Of
| whisky dealers would a novelty indeed, yet
| that is the result that tbatens to come from
church row in Louisve, Ky. Two of the
wealthiest members o. the First Christian
| church there are whiskyealers, and the church
| says they must give up leir business or suffer
| dismissal from the societ The whisky men of
the city are very muclenraged, and declare
that if the church carrit out its threat they
will organize a church of Aeir own
In 1865 Jenny Lind in edinburgh visited a
music sellers in Prince stnt The attendant,
young man, asked her ikhe had ever heard
Jenny Lind. The singer relied in the afflrma-
tive, and herself asked ifle had heard the
Swedish nightingale" II replied that the
very high price of the tickle kept them far be-
yond his income. She aske him to play an ac-
compartment to the song Mich she held in her
hand. He did so, and at te close the singer
saying, Now you have hard Jenny Lind, -
walked out"
THE 4-year-old child of WStringer met with
strange death at Hitchcock Ark. Mr.
Stringer is something of a chicken fancier and
kept half a dozen game cocksn his back ward
His little son started to pla there and sooT
found that chasing one of the rame cocks wa,
an exciting diversion. Suddenly the cocl
turned and attacked the little Fellow furiously
knocking him down and gaffin him about tn,
head. The boy was cut and piked in a horrible
| manner before he was rescued and died of con
| vulsions in a few minutes.
CHARLES BEvER. one of three eonvicts sent +
the Jail at Jeffersonville, Ind, from Orang
county, who Overpowerei the Shelf and woulC
have broken Jail but for the Sherf's wife, VIII
| held them in check with revolvr, has, sine
| his confinement in January, developed mani
| to cripple himself. A month ago pierced hi
| hands with tamping iron. Two weeks ago h
| attempted to crush his wrist with asledge Tn
| other day he broke from the line Il convicts
| rushed into the machine shop, SEIZED a chise
and chopped off three fingers of his right han
| before the guards could prevent him He wi
| now work no more.
| In the London Standard is an account OF
| German doctors Investigations as to the size G
| mems and women's hearts. The masculin
| heart weighs more and is larger than that DO,
| sessed by the fair sex. heart, it would ar
| pear, grows more quickly during the first an
second years of life, and between the secon
and seventh years it doubles in size Unit
| after the fiftieth birthday the heart still grow
little. In childhood the male and female hear
are the same size; but after manhood the ma.
culine heart develops much more than the f,
male, and ends by being two square inche
larger than the latter.
NAVIGATING TIGERS have become so numerou
along a certain road in Malacca that panic ha
seized foot travellers, and they will not go alon
it unless they can do so in company with
string of carts. The number of people killed b
tigers in Sungei Ujong during the last ha
dozen years must be enormous, for as many q
three men a day have been taken off along tn
twenty-fOur miles of the principal road On
brute has for the last five months taken his tw
or three men week regularly, and another ha
done the same at another place for thre
months while at five or six other spots on tn
road men are frequently taken off.
ONE of the most interesting features c
modern progress is the influence IN ,,odao =
warfare exercised by scientific discoveries TIL
bicycle has been utilized in Germany for mount
ing troops and now we hear cf an electri
sword. 1t will be seen at once that the latte
is an essentially shocking weapon Strangel
enough, II was invented in Shanghai The wal
rior using such sword has battcry-that is
OF course, an electric battery-concealed at hi
waist. Insulated wires run from the battery T.
the sword. When the point of the weapo
touches an adversary the latter is paralyzeC
The wielder of the sword can be said to have a
electric charge.
n WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT Of q Chicau
newspaper writes that back of the Logan hous
in Washington is a ten-acre lot, lying idle II
plated into lots, but only one corner of it yield
any revenue to the owner This corner, whic
is less than a quarter of an acre is directl
back of Mrs. Logan's yard, where she has
flower garden. A gentleman who visited Mrs
Logan was invited TO walk out among tn
flowers. As they stroled about she pointe
over to the other plat of ground and said
There is my vegetable garden" Does tn
land belong with this property" asked he
companion. mo" she replied, II rent it.
pay SIS year rent for it to Senator John Shel
man
The English are incessant in their endeavor
to open trade route from India to China. On
of the preliminary steps to reach this object
the establishment of railroad from the vale