The morning news., 1889-03-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


| are wanted to exterminate ground mice.
In 1880 THE Maine legislature fixed bounty
| Of 8 cents a head on crows. This bounty cost
| the state ,137 in 1882. Two years later the
| law was repealed.
| AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION of postage
| stamps is to be opened at Amsterdam. To give
| additional interest to the show there will be
| sketches of the various costumes worn by post
| men in different C JuntrleS.
THERE is haunted mill at Marshall, Ill. The
machinery is heard running at night, exactly as
if water were turned on. The people are un-
| able to explain the mystery and few are bold
enough to 90 near the mill after dark.
| JOHN X. RoBEsoN an old soldier, of Belvidere.
| N j., has in his possession what is said to be
tn ordinance of succession passed by the South
| Carolina convention, with the autograph sigma
| lure of all the members. 1t is written on large
| parchment roll.
| JOHN BENNETT of Santa Cruz, CAL, recently
| found a two headed snake, about a foot long.
The heads were distinctly separate and both
| were perfect The heads were little over an inch
| in length. When aroused the snake would throw
| a forked tongue out of each head simultane-
ously, as if they were one.
| MAN in Davenport, Iowa, recently slipped
down in the street, and a handful of loose silver
which he carried was scattered. First picking
| himself up, he then proceeded to pick up the
silver, and found that he had not only recovered
it all, but had an extra dollar, which, doubtless,
| some one else had previously dropped.
| AN OLD VOLUME of the Williamsburg Va.)
| Gazette, now in the possession of II. D. Cole, of
that city, contains the following wedding notice:
| Fairfield, Aug. %, 1775-Last evening was mar
| ried at the feat of Thaddeus BUR-, efq., by the
| Rev. Mr.. Elliott, the hon. John Hancock, efq.,
| president of the Continental Congress to miss
| Dorothy Quincy, daughter Of Edmund Quincy,
| efq. of Boston"
| THE PROJECT of building lighthouse on the
Diamond Shoal of Hatteras, eleven miles out at
sea- has taken definite shape. The Wilmington
| IN. g. Messenger says: The placing of pow
| erful light on the outer point of these fatal
shoals is the most important aid to navigation
| that the United States government has ever I'M
! dertaken to supply, and it is a work that should
be accomplished, if it cost S5000,0 900 instead OF
| $500 900.
| A TELEGRAM from Panama says: On the
whole this republic is pretty well advanced, but
| in some Of the interior provinces the shadows
! yet lie darilly enough. The NeuUG EDOcd of
| SOcorro, in Santander says that owing to two
| men having been murdered, it became neces-
| sary to value the loss sustained by their rela-
| tiYes, and the valuers placed the monetary
value of tn lives Of the two men who had been
murdered at $50
| A QUEER, but true story comes from Neshan-
mock, east of Sharon, Pa, where lived an old
lady g. who wanted to go to Iowa, bat was
| afraid to because she had never Travelled by
| railroad. SUe remarked 10 a IrleQQ at the sta
| ton that it would be her first and perhaps last
| ride on the cars. Several days ago friends in
! Iowa received word that she had actually died
on the train. The noise and excitement had
| been too much for her.
THE REV. w. E. JOHNSON, the rector Of the
| Episcopal church in Plainville, Conn, is mtat-
| ing DR.. Parker of London. Arrayed in his
| surplice he gives informal talks on religion
| every Sunday evening to number of men as
| semoled in dry goods store. In a pleasant,
| chatty style, he lectures on such subjects as
| Biblical inspiration, while the men listen and
| smoke. Mr. johnson believes that he can do
| much good in this way.
A JAPANESE, after twenty years of labor, re-
| search and experiment, has patented an nven-
| tion for walking on the water, a sort of shoe
made OF wood, of paper, of iron and of gum
elastic. It's shape is elliptical, and it is Joined
| with belt of salvage ana gutta percha tubes.
| 1t is not stated what makes the locomotion, but
it claims to go nearly league an hour. The
| whole thing does not weigh more than two
| and one-halt pounds, and it allows the voyager
to carry with HIM about twenty-five pounds of
baggage.
PROF. Poe, of Bridgeport, Conn, has in
vented an artificial pair of lungs which he uses
in restoring life in cases of drowning and as
phyxiation. He is experimenting on a pet rab-
bit, and has alre dy drowned it and rest ored it
| to life eleven times. The rabbit has also been
| sufocated by the fumes of burning charcoal
until all signs OF life were extinct. The prOfes-
!
mails mouth and forced oxygen into the lung.
| The returning suction drew out Jne deadly
| gases and the artificial respiration produced a
muscular contraction and expansion of the
| lungs until life was restored Prof Poe claims
| that his invention will save human beings as
! well as rabbits.
MANY thieves ply their business almost ex-
clusively at funerals. They come in at the front
door, explains New York detective, with the
| clergy, the bearers, or any respectable people
| with whom they may fall in Once inside the
door the whole house and every body in il are at
the mercy of their clever and industrious fin
gers. 1t is an easy matter for one of them to
| slip upstairs and rife the chambers while the
solemn services are in progress. Servants are
| easily persuaded that he is only the undertake
er's man, and nobody else would have sufficient
assurance or cause of suspicion to intercept
him. Then the crowded drawing-room or hall
offers the adept pickpocket tempting harvest
SAMUEL SNowDEN, who lives on the outskirts
of East Orange, N. j., tells a remarkable snake
story. He went to barn to get some wood
and in the woodpe saw what he thought was
dark and mottled stick of wood about two feet
| long. He drew it from the pile, but suddenly
| dropped it as if it hot The supposed
stick, he found, was torpid black snake about
| four feet long. 1t had crawled into the wood
pile and was frozen stiff. Mr.. Snowden picked
| up the snake by the tail and playfully shook IL
at his little son. To his surprise, the frozen
snake broke in two, and the head end fell to the
ground. For few seconds the tail end uuvered
| and then was apparently dead The head how
ever, suddenly thawed, aud exhibited remark
able activity, gliding back toward the woodpile
| Then Mr. Snowden recovered from his astonish-
ment and battered the life out of the head with
the snakes tail. Snowden has the two pieces
| of snake, and will have them stuffed and
| mounted
OF THE SECTIONS OF the prominent New York
city churches, the Tribune has this to say:
They are really important personages. AS a
rule, their salaries are liberal and their profits
from the business of undertaking are large.
Many Of them have made shrewd investments
| and out of New York would be considered
! almost wealthy Moreover, their social position
is quite as good as that of many who rent pews
! in churches which they serve, and there is
| tacit recognition of the fact on the part of
many of the worshipers Often in the porch of
| famous fashionable church in the city have
| been seen the digniied sexton surrounded by a
| number of young women and matrons who
! were chatting with him on terms OF perfect
| equality, and asking him questions They were
| lad es prominent in the most exclusive society
| OF the metropolis, too. The wife of this same
sexton is the tr aSurer of one of the most i'm
| portant charitable societies of the church. and
is lady of considerable social Importance AS
q rule, have found these Sext Dns to be men Of
| tact and kindness in the performance of their
! duties And they show great patience in deal
| ing with the many boorish and rude people to
be found among the great army of church
tramps.n
| THERE is one unopopoly that ,oono,, o.~-..