The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
WILLIAM Il. ABLE is a farmer near Collins
Station. Pa, and for some time one of the
| water pipes on the place was clogged. He did
not feel IKE cutting the pipe, so ne caught an
/ eel p e II IN ire pp-. and next morning was
! grained TO find the eel in the trough the end
OF the pipe, and the water r.nniag freely
HERMAN PETERSON and his wife, the former 50
aud the latter G. years of age arrived in Phila-
! delphia the other day, having walked from
! Plttsb irg. They livei in Nebraska, and
! manage TO ct transportation as far as Pitts
| burg. They are on their way to New York aud
want TO get to Germany, where they have two
children living.
TEE great organ at the Catholic Cathedral in
Louisville was out of tune for several days.
| The organist, Prof. Joe Chase, searched for the
cause, but could not discover it, Then Mr.
| FHcher, the orEan builder. was called in to see
@nat was the matter After short exam ma
/ tlon ne found the metallic ID" pipe out of
| ofder. he had the pipe, which is ten feet in
night, removed. and found that a sparrow
! lodged IN the middle of it. The sparrow was
| renoV ID and the pipe replaced, ana the organ
IS now IN good order 1t is not known how the
ord could have got into the pipe.
CEYLoN cats are curious instance of what
evolution has accomplished in the way of
! adapting creatures to environments. They
! nave no tails, and are able. BY lack of that an
zen Tgduage' 70 initiate rabbits, and so get them
|
caIShers, and as such are valuable beyond all
| Gtler cats III Australia. They have been intro
qucei INTO TINS country, but whether for their
HuuIlhR propensltles or not is not stated The
! cat FAMILY has never been utilized by man az il
might be. Rat and mice catchers can also he
rections. ' N'N0' "a
W. S. WELLS of wilkes0arre, Pa, is the pos
! SCISSOR Of beautiful black and white cocker
SPANIEL which for intelligence perhaps is not
cad
hIoraIAg, as sool as Boss" hears his master
SURFING, ne brings his slippers after which he
sca'nper5 TO the front porch for the mOrniDe,
paper Always being careful to close the door
q teI MN. BOSS never thinks of retiring for
tIe night without first saying his PRAYERS. He
places ms front feet upon a chair bows his
tead reverently closes his eye; and nothing but
Amen pronounced by his master will inIucO
h4h 10 cease his devotions
CITIZEN GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN is talking of
organizing in New York a church of the
| fsychos Mrs. Josephine Pollard has offered
we use OF her parlO SIS a place Of organiza-
Clo1. After that q church will be established
anu am. the citizen will preach every Sunday even
5nS under the title of the Rev George Francis
ram A gentleman writing to the citizen sevS.
me IDEA o the Rev. Train holding regular
S S,iIt services on Sunday will excite such a
| oufst or general laughter as has not been heard
since Notaire poked fun at all the clergy from
| his coy retreat IN Switzerland -
ONE OF the most important national conyen-
uons OF the Catholic Total Abstinence Union that
mas oeen held for number of years will con-
Nene 10 cleveland on Aug. 9. AT this meeting a
| consonqatIon OF the union with a European
| SJISioGy huoWh as the League of the Cross of
e4 81 Iaru1nal Manning, is the head will be
| yynecteu- Inc league has branches ali over
| EUROPE, nut its stronghold Is in Great Rritain
| and4reland In the latter country it has for its
! e6& itc officer, rclhishop Croke The
| Bishops of Dublin, Armagh and other Irish
| preiates are also connected with the organjzs
| tlon. lie Rev. Father Conaty, national ore i .
! ueh1 OF the tholic Total Abstinence Union of
| tyir cou TRY, is now on his way home from
| europe, where he was consulting with Cardinal
| manning, Archbishop Croke, and other digni-
| tares of the league.
| MAP-MAKING is hard work, as Dr.. Wilhelm
Junker the distinguished explorer. has been ex-
planning, remarks foreign exchange. When
| on the march he wears a coat of his own design
ing with numerous pOcGets for his no,e books
MS watch and compass. From q button hang
Pehci'S OF dItierent colorS-red for his route
me, que TOT the streams and black for noting
me time, direction of his course and Incidents
throughout ms recent journey on foot of up
waru OF 1000 mills in Equatorial Africa on
Starlng IN the morning ne would enter in a
DOCK the time OF his departure and afterwards
at the end OF every five minutes of actual
marching the direction by the COMPASS in
Whlch ne was going also indicating by various
signs the breadth aud depth Of streams the
erection or their currents, and the character
Y. n
lnSs OF the aneroid and thermometer
As ALASKA will be more and more visited
every summer. and as every tourist yearns for
souvenirs from new places we might as well
understand what one of the best Alask n
trophies is. 1t is thus describ d by tire Snokane
rams heciep: Totem poles are of two kinds
WOODEN ones erected outside of the houses
many OF them 30 feet high, and those of stone
when are set up as household gods and are the
FenateS and LareS of the hearthstone These
poies are covered with the coat-of-arms of the
ram y, the genelogy tracing from the ma
ternal side of the house, the oldest dauphter
oelng the heiress instead of the oldest son.
man $ power and wealth are reckoned bv tn,
length of the pole he can have made and yvhan
they are set up a great feast called pot latch'
is given, and the family is often baggared nv
the number and costliness of the prese,Its th y
are given away and the number of people that
are entertained"
A STORY is told in a Buffalo police station If =
small gray kitten which belongs there Three
prisoners were brought in one night and locl,e3
up. Two of them were women and one was
man. The cell room is a large square anart
ment, the iron pens placed in the center. wi, h
openings facing the walls The women wara
on one SIDE ana the man on the other Soon
alter they had been locked I'D the women tried
10 relieve their feelings by preparing to smol,4
cigarettes, but they had no mate es The man
on the other hand, had marches but no To-
bacco. While debating in their minds what -
do the kitten came in the woman's anartmsn+
ana warm friendship Immediately spranp M
between them Then came the idea Of t1r5incy
their new-found friend to some practical nc
The women took some tobacco and twin IL in
small bundle, fastsn d il to the kittens mol
and the man on the other side called the TttIe
animal, which Immediately ran to hin, with ire
burden, wnich was removed and Some Of ~
matches were placed about its neck and a 90
I ON the women brought the feline hack to
them. '"0N "
CAT broke up the trading in the Chicaeo
Board of Trade one day last week. although
business was in full flow at the time She
marched out Of her quarters CARRYING n
kitten by its neck in her mouth She walked
very dgnf1edly up the hall, and a dozan ar
more OF the members who saw her sto med 70
watch Then the word spread and when she
mad put the first kitten in the new home end
started BACK for another there was a great
crowd formed IN two lines looking at her Tbap
she came forth with another kitten in her
teeth, and the boys gave her a cheer In an
other minute the whole crowd was formed in
two lines, between which the cid cat n,archa5 "a
slowly and with i'm reSsive mien 9lear 70 ~
other end. The pits became deserted and trsd
was suspended. Every time she would annaar
at the south end OF tae line with anotber titt =,
in her mouth tue boys would give her a ronSinr
cheer, and, when she had deposited it az the
other end. they woulC cry 'Ah-h-hr, in
chorus. Finally her eight kittens were al
moved and the boys went back and whooped m
tie MARKET
PEOPLE living at Lambert's Mills N. J.. a vii.
lage about three miles from Plainfleld on the