The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-23
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that is gone almost before its duration is real
lied.
A HOTEL KEEPER of Rhode Island, who is an
Englishman by birth, has paid $1,000 for a copy
of the famous painting which shows Lord Mel,
son dying on the deck of his flagship at the bat
tie of Trafalgar. 1t adorns the lobby of his
hotel.
Mr.. JOHN FITZPATRICK of Clifton Me-, is prob
ably entitled to rank as the champion bear killer
of the pine tree state. During the past spring
he killed three large bears, making a total of
ffty-four which he has slain during the last
twenty-five years.
A NEBRASKA editor thus describes the effect of
a stroke of lightning: "A stray streak of light
ming was fatally wounded in Mead lately. 1t
dashed into butcher shop, struck a boarding
| house beef steak and hobbled through the win
dow shrieking with pain"
GEN. SHERIDAN has never stopped growing
since he has been sick. He calls his peptonized
milk internal stuff, ~ and his chicken broth
chicken slop." Nothing suits him. Every
| thing has to be changed, and that Immediately.
He wants roast beef, claret-everything that he
ought not to have, and pitches into the doctors
right and left the instant he can hold his head
up from the pillow.
CATERPILLARs are proving great pests in Lin
coin, Me. Many trees have their leaves entirely
eaten off, and some houses in the village are so
covered that passing in and out is decidedly dis
agreeable to those people who object to cater
pillars on their collars. crew of forty men,
| engaged in cutting poplar somewhere here,
| were driven out of the woods and one train, a
| few days ago, had hard work to get through or
| over body of them moving on TO fresh
| grounds.
THE new Typographical map of Massachu-
sets, which was begun in 1884, under the direc-
ton of the federal government in conjunction
with the state authorities, is almost completed.
1t will comprise fifty-five sheets, each of which
| is 10 of latitude and longitude square. The
| field work is already finished, and the draught
| ing of the remaining sheets is now being done
in Washington. The map shows the streams,
towns and streets, 20 foot contours, wood lands,
marshes and swamps.
OF the current season in California, CORE
| spondent at San Francisco says: st has been
phenomenal, with long drought in March and
rains into the middle of June. The hot weather
| in March injured wheat and barley, and hurt
| some varieties of grapes. In the latter part of
| May came light rains, which did some damage
| to hay Warm rains last week spoiled large
quantities of hay, as California ranchmen make
| no provision for rain at this season. Consider
| able damage also was done TO grain, feed and
| fruit"
THERE appeared last week in the obituary
columns of the Philadelphia Ledger notices of
the death of II persons, s men and women,
\ who had lived to or beyond the advanced age of
so years, to wit: Charles T. Haines, Sr., Eliza
beth Cope, 80; Marry Cussack, Isabella K.
Young, So; James Downward Mary A. Ross,
| Mary w. Lundy. SO; Stacy Taylor, Jopathan
T. Morris, "a; Toomas Newbold, James Pass
more Smith, James Moore, Elizabeth Kennedy,
| IS; Edward Marion, Elizabeth w. McCleland,
Eliza R. Turner, 50; Susan Aldrich, 90.
LITTLE WILLIE LEONARD, a 6-year-old boy,
started off from Pittsburg last week on a 1000
mile journey all alone. His ticket was bought
| for him though to Anthracite, small mining
village on the Canadian Pacific road in British
| Columbia. The boys father left Allegheny
about one year ago and went to the west and
| since that time Willie has been living with an
aunt in Allegheny. Last week his father sent
| for him, and Thursday the child was placed in
charge of the Fort Wayne conductor, with
orders to be passed along until he reached his
destination.
JAMES ROBINSON and Howard E. Barnes.
aged IL and 10 respectively, who while playing
| In a boat, we're carried out to sea from Rocky
| Point, L. l., last week. have been recovered
Their little craft was sighted off Rye Neck by
| the captain of the schooner Florida of Rock
| land, Me-, who at first thought it was a pilot
boat He put off toward it, however, and found
one of its occupants sick and asleep, and his
companion on the lookout for a sail. The
youngsters were returned to their homes. They
had been tossing about at the will of the waves
| for almost two days and nights.
UGLINEss or repeling habits are enerally no
| concerned. Some have been known to share
| their bed with an iguana which is the most re-
| pulsive looking reptile In Brazil. 1t is we'll
known that Byron, among the pets who accom-
panied him in his travels, possessed bear and
Edmund kean kept a South American lion as
his constant companion. More extraordinary
pets might be quoted, such as young wolves
| leopards, .jackals and snakes. Even frogs
lizards and hedgehogs have been petted by men
of repute. Wosey bestowed his affections on
familiar old carp, Cowper on hares, and Cir
John Lubbock wooed the favor of Syrian
wasp
A Boston Globe reporter, in an interview with
a Boston shoe dealer, learned that the feet of
the women of that city are becoming smaller
Continuing, the dealer said: I'VE used to sell
tours and fves; now we sell threes and tours
| think the average is about four. know of ~
least a dozen good-sized women who wear n1In,
Der twos. 1t takes less leather to clotbe the
Boston foot to day than it did ten or twenty
years ago Corns are not more numerous than
years ago The Boston foot is of good shane
and perfect in every respect. It can walk fass
well and dance as sprightly as ever and looks
much better. The superfiuous flesh and bone
have been eliminated, and all the usefulness
still retained"
A YELLOWSTONE PARK letter says the "HaIf
Acre. is the name applied to one of the boiling
lakes, whose waters, like a great caldron. are
ever boiling and bubbling and giving off depsa
volumes of steam. In its middle a column ~
ten feet in diameter is thrown into the air To n
hight of fifteen feet at short intervals II would
be impossible to ascertain the depth of tbis
natural caldron, but the water is as clear nc
crystal. and one can look far down into its denth
and see the rocks far, far below On one side n
stream as large as an ordinary country mill
race flows out and rolls, boiling cascade. into
the Fire Hole river. Some of the most wondar
full effects of color are produced by the SIM
shining through the clouds of steam unon tha
tinted sulphur formations in the bottom Of
these lakes.
THE vice presidency is, according to most
politicians, the most inconseduential office in
our government Yet four men elected vice
president have been made Presidents tbrouob
the death OF the executive with whom thew were
chosen. Daniel Webster, though always desir
ing the presidency, twice missed it through his
unwillingness TO take the lower office ThIrlov,
Weed urged Webster to take the nominntior
under Harrison, and again when TAYLOR wos
nominated, but he refused, beneath his dignity
Then, in each case as when the vice president
was promoted by the death of the superior ofa
Ger, Webster went into the cabinet as secretarv
of state, feeling probably that, but for his nrids
he might have been himself selecting the cab,
net, instead of being part of it.
A FISH of the sturgeon variety. about ~
inches in length, was recently given TO Mr.
Keever superintendent of the ice factory in
Parkersburg, W. Va. On Friday of last weel, ~
was placed in one Of the ice molds and Trojan
in the center of huge cube of ice This block
OF ice was put in public place, where the citi
zens could view the fish, frozen hard and fost