The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-09
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tae contestants.
The WILL Of the Indiana man who left s35 Oo1
TO found a home for old maids has been de-
clared invalid by the courts, the testator having
been OF unsound mind.
II has always been a characteristic of the
French TO increase but slowly in numbers. but
there were fewer births in the country las, yenr
than IN any year during the century.
GzAvEsToNE now marks the place where the
remains OF Mr. Bright were buried in the
Friends graveyard at Rochdale. 1t is Of white
marble, 2 feet inches in length and feet in
breadth.
JANE DETHERIDGE of Kensington. Jamaica has
refused thirty-seven offers of marriage lane
has 81 100000 and is an orphan. She does not
think she can afford a husband who cares only
for her money. '
Mrs. ELIZABETH WEBB. who died at Kalama
zoo last week, aged 81, is believed to have been
the oldest member of the Methodist church in
point of years or membership in the country
one mas been communicate for eighty two
years.
In the wonderful wine cellar under the Hotel
de Vile, in Bremen, there are twelve cases
of holy wine, each case inscribed with the
name of one of the apostles This ancient wine
was deposited in its present resting place 265
years ago
WILLIAM ARENDT and Miss Susie Iseley were
married the other day in the Dickinson county.
Kansas, poor house. The groom is 20 and the
bride 61 years old. 1t is comforting to hear of
wedding occasionally to which no suspicion of
mercenary motives attaches.
A RESIDENT of Murfreesboro, Tenn presented
ticket issued in 1855 on the Nashville and
Chattanooga railroad the other day, and rode
Ia palace car on the same bit of pasteboard
t tnaC would nave secured him passage in one of
the clumsy coaches of thirty four years ago
On fha ArCf
records we have are in the recently discovered
fossils of the post-tertiary period. These prove
that the turkey not only antedated Columbus
and even the NorSeman, but that in all proba-
blllty he was the original "odest inhabitant of
America"
ABOUT two months ago Mrs. Ed Vessels of
Frost, Glare county, Mich, moved to Tennessee
She took her dog with her, but lost it in Cincin-
hatL a rev days ago the dog made its appear
ance at the old home in Frost, a good bit the
worse for wear. but happy to get home. How
| did the dog find its way back?
AT CHARLOTTESVILLE IND, the other day, the
members of the city school board presented
Miss Nellie Constant with a handsome set of
| Iennysons works. Miss Constant attended the
Crawfords 'ille schools for eleven years without
being absent or tardy a single time, and the
presentation was made on that account.
TIE OLD GUNBoAr CONDOR, which under the
command of Lord Charles Beresford did such
efficient service at the bombardment of Alexan-
dria, has been condemned and sold. The Condor
VIII be broken up for the old iron that is in her
Lord Beresford takes command of the cruiser
Undaunted and will do duty in the Mediter-
ranean.
DR.. A. WoRDEN of Petoskey, Mich, has in
vented novel rat trap. 1t runs with a spring.
and as fast as the rodents are captured they
are thrown into a barrel or other receptacle
On trial trip the other night the doctors
slayer caught sixteen rats, and Petoskey folks
VIII now form a stock company and manu-
tacture the traps
ACCORDING to a German return, the number
of electric railways in Europe at the end of last
year was eleven, of which the Oldest the LIGHTER
1elde-Berlln railway, was opened in 1881, being
one and one-half miles in length with one
motor and car, and carrying yearly 100, 900 pas
sengers. The latest is that opened in Brussels
last year, with five motors and cars.
A YOUNG LADY of Augusta, Me-, has received a
bill amounting to 500 that tells little his
tory The bill came from Peter Clark of New
YORK. and IN it she is charged with % yards of
SILK dress goods, two gold bracelets worth $40
one diamond ring, hat and several other items
Clark was rejected sutton of the lady, who
claims that the above named articles were pres
ents from him.
A FREAK in the way of handwriting has Just
come under notice in England little girl of
years writes with her left hand and writes her
words backwards, as they are reflected in a
mirror from ordinary writing. Her friends
have TO read them by means of a looking-glass
The child was taught writing with sister, but
would do things in her own way, with the re-
suit that she writes fluently in this fantastic
style.
A CONTEMPORARY prophesies that the day will
come when every American millionaire will
have his game preserves and shooting-box.
Hunting is an ariStocratic sport and a kingjy
attribute. When the Corsican adventurer, Ma
poleon Bonaparte, made himself emperor of the
French he forced himself to hunt, not because
he liked the sport, but because it had been the
pastime of kings and potentates since the days
of Herod.
THE VALUE of cracker boxes, apple barrels
stationery boxes, etc, as a matrimonial agency
for persons engaged in packing them has long
been known. Eggs must now be added to the
llst Early last summer young girl at Sum-
mers de, Prince Edward Island. wrote her
name and address upon an egg, which found its
way to Boston. Mass. 1t fell into the hands of
young Bostonan, and a marriage has been
the result.
AT THE MEETING of the Society of the Sons of
the Revolution in New York city on Monday
the president objected to the use of the name
of the society by similar societies in other
states. 1t appears that some of the mem bers
of the New York society claim that theirs is the
parent organization, and that other state socie
ses should seek authority for their organization
from it. There is vigorous society in Pennsyl-
vania and another in Maryland whose members
will be disposed to ridicule the claim of the
president of the New York society, but nothing
they may say will be quite so severe as the
reply of one of the New York members to the
claim of President Frederick Samuel Talmage
The name of this protesting member is Ethan
Allen-a name with good revolutionary ring
to it-and he said that outside of New York
there were more real descendants of
revolutionary warriors than in it. With that
the discussion might well be permitted to rest.
WRITER in Chambers Journal tells of a
man who spent the greater portion of the last
ten years of his life by his wife's grave HE
went to the cemetery in the early morning, and
after removing any microscopic weed that
might have showed itself since the previous
evening, would light his pipe and solemnly CON
template the stones in his vicinity. He went
away regularly to his meals ard a regularly
took his afternoon nap on the grass by the
graveside. Shortly before his last visit to the
cherished spot he requested me to decipher for
him the dates upon several Of the gravestones;
and we conversed about many whom we had
known in life and who had passed away. re-
marked that the churchyard was very pretty
place, and his face lighted up as rejoined: All,
mester, I've always thought should like to be
buried here, for, looking around. you. see
there's such a splendid view from here. This
was uttered in good faith, and the old man
seemed convinced that neither coffin lid nor
churchYard clods would obstruct his view