The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


| ANimmense pipe of baked clay, that probably
belonged to some distinguished mound-builder
of prehistoric days, wa recently dug up near
| Purdy, Tenn. 1t weiH IS four and one-half
| pounds and is in the shape of an eagle, the
! bowl resting on the eagles back, and measures
nine inches IN length.
DR.. ANNIE PoMBERGER of Philadelphia bears
the envable distinction of being the first
woman in America who was granted the de-
| gree D. D. S. by a dental college. She looks
| hardly older than 2o Is thoroughly womanly
| in her ways and earns an annual income Of
| $4,000 by her profession.
THE Oldest person in Southern Ohio is Mrs.
Annie Rousch of Pomeroy, who has passed one
year beyond the century mile post, She looks
rs if she we're not more than rs, and does not
wear glasses, having received her second sight
twenty years ago. She has many interesting
"reminiscences of the pioneer days of Ohio
AMERICANS have the good habit of going to
college. tits said that as to the learned nations
that in this COUNTY man In every 200 takes a
college education; in Germany in every 213;
in England, in every 500; and in Scotland, in
every 600. The grade Of general intelligence is
higher in the United States than in any other
country on the globe
SOME years ago Franklin Miller of Sugar
Creek township, in Pennsylvania, agreed to
the understanding that at their death he should
inherit a farm of eighty-SiX acres owned by
them. After their death, which occurred five
years later, Miller discovered oil on the farm,
and has already received $4,000 in royalties
1 from it.
A NOVEL instrument was filed the other day
at Springfield, Mo-, by George Schmidt, in the
shape of deed adopting Maggie Brown, the
3-year-Old daughter Of Julia Brown. In CON
SidpratiOn Of RI the nOthA rplinuuiCh
all legal rights and privileges over her child,
and the foster father agrees to properly sup
port and maintain her, to treat her humanely,
and properly feed, clothe, shelter and educate
her
SCXNDALoUs scenes occurred lately in the
parish church at Ivry. near Paris, during the
burial Of the old rector, the Able Collas The
priest not being on good terms with the local
mayor, the latter declined TO allow the police to
keep order during the funeral, and some of the
riotouS characters in the neighborhOod re-
manned outside and insulted and hustled the
bystanders to such an extent that friends and
mourners were compelled 10 resort to vigorous
measures to protect the coffin when borne out.
BY means of recent improvements made in
the manufacture of rifles, as many as 1870 bar
res can now be rolled in an hour by one
machine They are Strengthened cold and bored
with corresponding speed. and even the riling
is done automatically, so that one man tending
SIX macnlIleS can TURN Olit Sixty or seventy bar
res a day. With the old rihing machine twenty
barrels was about the limit of a days work; but
the improved machines attend to everything
after being once started, and when the rifng is
d" ,''''''"' 90 e bell TO cal the attention of
the workman.
NEBRASKA lightning Is cutting queer capers
these days, but appears to have lost its grip.
Since the campaign opened it has spanked a
baby in Perkins county, killed an Iowa man in
Broken Bow, assaulted doctor in David CITY
but escaped through raised window and fell
grooming with mortal wounds in q PattSmouth
butcher shop. During the storm last Monday,
a bolt struck the residence of N. d. Jackson in
Neigh, tore off the plaster. splintered the fur
niture and melted the stove. 1t also struck Mr.
Jackson in the jaw and received a fatal chill
Mr. Jackson is lawyer.
AN English paper alleges that "a new STYLE
of bonnet trimming has now it appears, can
tured the female heart in the United States.
and, as it makes victims of peculiarly noxious
species of creature the determination of which
no one would regret, 1t is not so objectionable
as the stuffed bird craze. Baby alligators have
become the fashionable garniture of the ladies'
hats and bOnnets in the southern states. The
Young alligator used in this way is from inches
to 10 inches in length; they are stuffed provided
with bright glass eyes and are arranged so as to
appear to be crawling up the front trimmings
of ribbon bows"
CoNNECrICUT's only electric street railway
at Ansonia, still causes a good deal of trouble
and frequent accidents, often ludicrous. though
none Of them serious. Owing to miscalcula-
ton the freight motor refuses to go around
curves, and the trucks have been returned to
he manufacturer to be TeadiuSted. 1t often
happens that passenger finds his watch almost
stopped by the magnetism it-has collected on
the trip, and it costs 50 to put it in running
order again. One person whose watch was SO
highly charged as to collect Plus and all metal
lie scraps in its way, buried it in The earth and
it is said, found the electricity was conducted
off in that manner Several others are follow
inq, his pyonDle