The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A WOMAN who, like Charles Dickens Jenny
Wren, made her living by dressing and repair
ing dolls died in st. Paul last week. Hundreds
OF her little friends are mourning her loss.
AT TIE PARIS HIPPoDRoME the chief attrac-
tlon for the season has been the spectacle of a
hon taking equestrian exercise the animal
really mounting on the back of a horse AID
neing carried several times ound an inclosure
me receipts accruing from this novel perform
dnce are stated to amount up TO the pre- ent to
more than S500,0O0
WHAT is known as ''distiers' slop' has here
totore been sold in Chicago at cents a busheI;
put the Dlstillers' and Cattle Feeders Trust
mas Just resolved, owing to the immense new
; crop ol corn, TO reduce it TO cents in Chicago
: lor cattle feeding. One distiller in that city
says he has made S34 00J in single year selling
slop for this purpose
WILLIAM WALSH, a young cooper, is lying at
the San Francisco hospital suffering from a
fractured skull, the result of the explosion of
vaporzed alcohol In an old wine cask Walsh
was re-coopering old wine and alcohol barrels
yesterday. He partly filed one barrel with
boiling water and began to shake it, when there
vas a deatenlng explosion, the barrel was
olown 10 fragments and Walsh was found lying
as II dead IN cloud of steam.
FARMER at Scott Hill, Conn, who thought
the boys were stealing his melons, watched for
them at night with a loaded gun. About mid
steal
along among the vines and select big melon
INTO which she sank her teeth Then she began
70 claw the melon open and in few minutes
mad finished all but the rind. He did not shoot
the cat, and has since learned that she eats
apples, pears and other fruit
THROUGH inadvertently kissing pretty Gus
TONER George Winch, butcher at Sydney,
New South Wales, has come into a fortune.
The girl objected to the attention and had
Nlhcn taken up before the magistrates who
nned MIN. The local newspapers improved the
occasion by preaching several leading articles
on human depravity in general, and the mis-
conduct or George Winch in particular. He
woke next morning and found himself famous,
ana IL was then discovered, owing to the pub
ilcity given to his name, that he was a missing
heir. e
In ONE of the law courts of Helsngborg,
Sweden. a queer case of hypnotism has puzzled
the judges. young medical student brought
suit against practicing physician in the town
| for having hypnotized him Several witnesses
| appeared, and they all gave the most contra
ulcuory ana astounding testimony. Hereupon
a medical gentleman astonished the court with
the announcement that his confrere, the de-
| fendant, had hypnotized the witnesses and
made them say Just whatever he liked Finally
the court Adjourned the case and appointed
| commission TO see if the entire crowd were not
| crazy.
| ONE OF THE GREATEST DRAINS upon the forests
OF the country would be checked if the rail-
roads could find a satisfactory substitute for
the wooden tie. When one considers that at
least 100000 miles of single track in the United
| States alone rest on wooden ties at the average
rate of $500 to the mile, and that each of these
| contains two cubic feet of wood, it is easy to
| account for the rapid disappearance of the
woodland, especially as all these millions of ties
| must be renewed every seven years Many sub
stances have been tried in place of wood for
this purpose, but all have been found lacking in
| some particular.
THERE is a big army of sensible people in
| New York" said an officer of the mounted
squad, as he stood on the corner of One Hun
| dred and Sixteenth street, while his horse
| niboled some grass, "who understand that the
beauty OF drlvlng and riding is in the early
| morning. III you want to see pretty women and
nne horse-heSh your chance is Just as good in
| the park and on the road between and 10
/ O'Clock in the morning as it is In the afternoon
This is particularly SO with the people who ride
| Hundreds and hundreds of men and women
| come up as far as this for their morning gallon
| and they usually keep it up until about Dec l.
| They get health and pure air in big Doses too
for the best weather of the year In New York is
to be found In the early mornings of the spring
| and fall"
A SPECIAL from Pittsburg says: There are
| 1,DO people in Western Pennsylvania and Ohio
| VINO, for several years past, have considered
| themselves the heirs of Col. Henry Baker, a
Philadelphia revolutionary soldier. He was
| said to have died, leaving lands and money now
| estimated at $5OO,OOO,OO0, and an association
was formed and attorneys retained to look I'D
| titles and secure the fortune. The lands were
said to be located in Philadelphia, 200 of the 500
acres being in Paramount park. Rosy reports
were sent to the heirs. and about $40 900 was
paid to the lawyers in fees. Recently w 7
Jordan, an attorney of this city, and w r
Swoger and A c. Casebier, two of the heirs
searched the records at Washington, Harris
burg, and Philadelphia, only to find that there
had never been Col Henry Baker at Phjla-
delphia, and that there was no Baker estate
Philadelphia lawyers and newspaper reporter
are charged with foisting the scheme on the
public"
The WOMEN of the Salvation Army have taken
to visiting the liquor saloons of New York and
Brooklyn in order to sell the War Cru. the news.
paper of the army. Two of the very pretty
army girls we're in a notorious saloon on this
mission the other night. Leaning against the
bar were gamblers and pugilists and one or two
who have been jailed for using their pistols foo
freely. They seemed to be shocked at the ap-
pearance OF the girls among them. The modest
dress and the red ribbons on the ugly straw
bonnetS easily told them who the visitors wera
Several papers were bought, when strappine
pugilist strobe up and said: Young women IN
buy the whole bundle if you promise never to
| come here again." The proposition was NOT
considered for second. They said they he
Heyed 1t TO be their duty to visit such places,
adding that the nuns of the Roman Catholic
church old so. But, don't you know that
somebody might insult you," the big man almost
pleaded. NO, sir, replied the speaker of the
| Two, and in words touched with scorn she
added: No man will insult u.s. the REMARKS of
others would not hurt u.s." 1t was only Afr
persistent entreaty from the proprietor that the
| Jealous women were induced to leave the place
THE PRINCIPAL METHOD on the Delaware river
of catching sturgeon is calledl' 'giling.n An
| immense net from 600 to 1900 feet long is
stretched across the deepest part of the river.
| A system of floats attached to a line sunnort
| the top of the net at the hight of a man ,1ndar
j the surface. The lower side drags on the bot
1 tom. Surgeons, it Is we'll known swim near
| the bed OF river. The meshes of the net are
| eight inches square. Near high water one Of
/ these nets is paid out over the stern of a boat
AS the tide rises the net drifts up stream The
huge surgeons, failing to appreciate the oh
| struction, swim right into it, The imnetns
! carries their gils through mesh but there
| they stick. Their breast fins will allow tba;r
| bodies to go no further At slack water the
| fishermen. hauling in the nets from one end TO
| the other, find the monsters tangled in the NET
A deft dipping of the boat, a simultaneous Jerk
| of hand hook, and the fish has left his native
element forever. Sometimes four or five
| surgeons are caught at one haul. That maKes
boatload. The surgeons caught in the Della
ware average in rough weight from 400 To 600
pounds. They afford, however, but rs to $50
pounds of solid meat The roe of each stur
geon is worth nearly $40 for the making of
caviare.
A PHOTOGRAPH of the fam GUS LAFAYETTE Post
No. 40, of New York recently finished by An
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