The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-19
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just completed the scientific course at Dickin-
son college. lie received high marks, but was
OF course Lo in his class.
] BosToN's ATHLETIC CLUB recently built superb
] quarters and now the Manhattan Athletic Club
OF New York follows with laying the corner
stone Of $4,000 building
| HANNIBAL HAMLIN, now in his S1St year, writes
to friend in Washington that his health was
never better and that he can walk with ease
| from ten TO fifteen miles day
A YOUNG CossAcK GIANTEss, nearly nine feet
| high, and weighing about 80 pounds, is on
| exhibition at Berlin. She is said to be very
pretty, and looks very charming in the Cossack
| costume.
IN FIGHT between a bull and steer, at
Richland, Wis, the former knocked the steer
| into an old well and jumped in after him. Tle
| well was about IS feet deep, and it took the
| combined efforts Of the neighborhood TO get the
| belllgerentS out.
LEWISTON PAPER says: A method of dis
| tinguishing the mushroom from the poisonous
| toadstoOl is said to be by sprnkling salt on the
| under side. If ii turns black the mush DOM is
I good If yellow, it is poisonous Time should
[ be given the salt to act.
ALBERT NORMAN, of Westerly, R. l., has
I very active and ambitious dog He got loose
| the other night, and in sixty minutes killed
forty sheep of flock Of sixty for JUDI % w. H.
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that eXpl 1t the dog will have cost hin very
nearly its weight in niczels.
In VILLAGE in New England the following
superstltlous belief is prevalent: During service
IN the church, if the church clock stri es while
hymn IS being sung, the belief is at some
paflShloner viii die within the week So strong
Is Ins belief that the striking mechanism of the
CLOCK Is always stopped during services in which
hymns are sung
WI-NE-MA the squaw of the Modoc tribe, who
saved the life of Col Meacham and nursed
other wounded soldiers at the time Of the No
doc war, is in illhealth and una lie to work,
and movement is on foot to provide for her
as memorial to Col. Meacham, whose devoted
wish TO permanently provide for her he was
| never able to- carry out.
The enterprising Austrian journalist who
went from Vienna to Paris in a cab would have
accomplished his feat day sooner had not his
! driver persisted that it would be unlucky to
terminate Journey on friday, and st pped
| Just outside the walls of Paris till Saturday
| morning, when the Vienna ''fiaker' rumbled
| fiumpAantly up to the gates Of the exhibition.
The citizens of Kearney, N. B.. which has
| population of 10000, have undertake n to raise
| S@3OOO0 as a subsidy for an eastern cotton
| manufacturing company to remove its extern
slve plant TO kearney. liz two days SIS! 900 was
| raised, and the remainder has doubtless been
secured. 1t will be Nebraska S first cotton MILL
| anu the KearneyiteS are enthusiastic over the
| prospect.
| To the record of great transforms this year,
| which is remarkable in several ways, must be
added the experience of the Island of Dominica,
| one of the Windward islands, In eight con-
| secutIve days 2S11 inches OF rain fell and the
| record tor the month of June showed over A
! inches of rainfall Hurricanes were frequent
! ana OF great violence, aad great damage was
| done 10 property of all kinds, particularly
| roads, hedges and plantations
A PIANO MAMIE Acyrr-Rrp of TTpivarsitv ylooa
New York, has pink cat which is quite a pet.
| The other afternoon the feline retired into the
cool recesseS OF the big safe i'll the Office for his
afternoon nap. When the safe was closed at
| o'clock the cat had not finished his sleep and
| nus whereabouts were not known until toe safe
| wa, opened at Socioc! the next morning, when
he leaped out apparently none the worse for his
confinement IN the safe over night.
GEORGE MCCLELLAN of n orwich Town, Conn.
was aroused from slumber at II O'Clock OF
Monday night by a hubbub in his henhouse
He tunbed out of bed got his gun stumbled
into the henyard, and though his eyes were
tlul or sleep aud it very dark he saw
clearly enough to knock over an immense
skunk with one shot. Then he lighted a Ian
Tern aud took an account of his feathered
STOCK. That skunk must have been fasting
for it had slaughtered thirty-six spring
chickens.
JOSEPH McMULHGAN, aged IS, an inmate of
the Soldiers home, and Mrs Anne izabeth b.
Wilson, widow, aged 49, were married at the
city hail Newark, a few days ago by Justice of
the Peace Lozer. The parties met at the lime
OF the war in Tennessee, when the bride was
girl. McMuiigan union soldier and be-
ing wounded IN skirmish, was taken to a
,elghDorlng farm house, where the girl nurSed
hlm. When he L covered he came north a d
dd not see her again until he met her in New.
ark.
THERE are some queer instances of transliter-
alton of names in the province of Quebec. A
suburb Of the old city of Quebec was originally
| named ShepAerdviile, after an English resident
| of the name Of Shepherd The French trans
| lated this into Berg erville, viii h the English
soon corrupted into Beggarville. Hope Cape
was turned by the French into Cape d'Espoir
| which the English then translated into Cane
| Despair. Point of Cliffs first became Ponte
des Mouts, and was then Anglcizsd first into
| Demons Point and then into Devils Point
Reindeer lake became Lac a la R4nne which
was soon COR upted by the English into Rainy
iake, ana then. strange TO say, was corrupted
by the French into Lac g la Plue.
A PORTLAND (AIE.) MAN last week placed three
pigs on a beautiful isle that is nearly in tie
middle of Big Pocotopaug lake his intention
being that the pigs should earn their own living
on the round little erasSy island Then he
rowed the sKlff In which he mad farried the pigs
to their new home back to his dwelling Fl
entered his home, and sat down and read e
paper thirty minutes when he heard three low
ful and triumphant Squeals in the back ward
The t1Tee pigs had returned from their lonely
Island home. Some who saw the ngs
coming across the wide lake said that they
s,eered as straight for their ancestral ppsty as
a mariner could have laid his course wi h n
compass. They swan abreast, breasted the
mimic pillows gieefutly, and as they came TO
port and saw the familiar old homestead
grunted salute every time they rolled upon |
wave
SALVATORE CANToNI. the New York banker
who has just been knighted by the King of
Italy, Is a self made man whose career has n
touch of romance in it. He was once it is said
a humble courier in his home in Italv Years |
ago before the Pacific railroads when Rem
Halliday, the originator of the Unconstitutional
pony express, was one Of the Richest men in the |
country, Mr.. Eal!iday's wife and family we're
travelling in Europe. YounS Cautoni was en-
ployed as a courier by Mrs. Halliday and |
proved himself intelligent and usetuI and !
such an accom- lShed Ii guist and gentleman
that Mrs. Halliday took a faacy to him and |
offered TO allow him to accompany her 10 this
country and give him an opportunity of better |
ing his fortunes. The young Italian was after |
ward taken into the employ of Mr.. Halliday ia |
san Francisco as his private secretary When /
Italian immigration to this country became so |
large, with the assistance of his patron Mr. |
Cantoni was established in New York in tha |
banking business. He has been remerkablv |
successful, and is said to have already ACQUIRED
fortune of about $500 900
ALLAHABAD QNDIA) PAPERS tell of search for
treasure believed to be buried in the Afford |
park, in that town. 1t seems that some wears
before the mutny the then prime minister of
the King of Delhi resigned his apDointment and |
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