The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

England with a view of ascertaining if coal
existed in TIE neighborhood The first bore
hole was unsuccessful. but IN the second hole a
large bed of salt was found at depth of about
300 feet. Its extent at last accounts had not
| been fully ascerrained, but il is reported to be
about 20 feet thick, half of it being in crystal
lied state.
How the wheel of fortune turns we want no
figures to show. Burke tells US all about it in a
curious volume. Some time ago the daughter
/ of a modest clergyman in Heightington, eng
/ land ira ed undOubteG descent from Ed
ward l, king Of England. and Eleanor, daughter
! of the King of CASTLE. A few years ago there
was a laborer in England named Plant, for
! short. and it was proved that he was among the
last Of the Plantagenets.
THREE HORSES had died myster;ously in a
| Madras training stable The owners. accord
| inglv, sent to Calcutta for doctor, VINO should
| be able to put a name to the disease, and taxi
| rneasur s to prevent it spreading any further.
However. as when the medico arrived the ma
| tIvas had already eaten the diseased animals,
! there was not much evidence for him to so
/ upon He is now awaiting the demise or the
! hppophagists, in order that he may make a re-
| port.
THERE has been a marked increase in the
number of visitors to the South Kensington
Museum, London, during the last year. the
numbers rising from 7sS, 412 in 1887 to s97 225 in
1888. The Increase was not confined 10 the
main museum, but extended to the separate
Museum. The numbers visiting the science col
lectons ncrea Sed from III 46j in 1897 to 25S 796
in 1888 while the visitors to the India Museum
increased from 1854 to 1891.
CAPT. L. c. OWEN of Vineyard Haven, Mass,
has prepared and presented to the committee
on commerce in Washington a chart of the
Arctic ocean, showing the location of the loss
of every whaler that has been wrecked in that
ocean. There have been 76 such losses and 50
of them were near Point Barrow. The chart
was prepared at the request of the New Bedford
board OF trade and OF certain San Francisco
firms. mainly as an argument in favor of
establishing house of refuge at Point Barrow.
THERE are some able romancers in North
Carolina or some very large trees From
Clyde station comes the story that poplar Tree
was cut there so large that it made plank
enough to furnish weathe boarding, celling
and flooring for church 80 feet long, SO feet
wide and - feet high. From the same tree a
fence was built on three-Guarters of an acre
around the church. There were three logs left
over, and the re 'naining three logs con aimed
lumber enough to build another church as large
as the first"
THE ENGINEER SroFFEL of Paris proposes to
build bridge for the mouth of the Tagus, at
Lisbon, Portugal, which will eclipse the Brook
lyn bridge as an engineering feat. 1t would be
nearly twice the length of the Brooklyn bridge.
while It's spans would be to those across the
East river as nine to five. or almost twice as
great There would be four spans altogether
resting on iron piers with masonry founda.
tons. The greatest difficulties to be encoun-
tered is the building of the piers, the waters of
the Tagus being deep,
A CALIFORNIA MAN borrowed a dog and went
cunning. The dog frisked about hither and
thther, but didn't find game. and didn't seem
to want to- At last quite tired out, the sports
man sat on log and reviled the dog who didn't
Sc I'M to care. but continued TO frisk aad NAV
Presently he be ian digging in the Ground IN a
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dark object. The gunner, who had been watch
Ing him in sheer disgust sauntered over to see
what the fool had found 1t was an oil
leather purse, and in it was $500 in gold and 81
in silver.
JAMES McCLoUD OF Lodi, Wis. owns a horse
on his Dakota farm which has eight feet It is
perfectly formed in all respects, except that he
has eight feet Not until the pastern or fetlock
joint is reached in the descent from the shoulder
TO the foot Is there any apparent diff 4rerce be-
tween this horse and any other But at the
pasrern Joint or lower end of the shn-bone the
branch begins, and two perfectly formed feet
are found on each of the four legs TIE horse
runs on the range the same as any and is as
fast as most of them, and a eight feet are
shod, or may be if desired. McCloud has re-
fused $500 for half interest in the curl
osity, but he wants $4,000 outright for the whole
animal
A YOUNG DELIVERY CLERK in West Chester
grocery attempted TO spark" a servant girl in
the kitchen the other evening. The Young
woman obi -cted, ami turning off the gas, went
into another part of the house, leaving the
would-be maSher in the kitchen in darkness
AS a mode Of revenge, he determined to kiss the
girl the next time he went to the house The
following day, after he mad emp'i led the basket
tho grocer Lothario seized the girl, and was in
fair way to get in his kiss, when a poll parrot,
who had observed the proceeding from his
perch IN cage overhead. cried out with sur
prlsing dIstinctiveness: Mistress, mistress. man
fvofr Nor =
let go in hurry and hasn't been seen around
that house since.
AMONG the heaviest locomotives ever built are
those recently put on its mountain division by
the Philadelphia and Reading railroad Their
actual weight in working order is l53 O40 pounds
and 1873 $40 pounds is on the drivers. They have
tractlve force OF III pounds per pound aver
age pressure in the cylinder Their cylinders
are - inches in diameter by 2S inches stroke.
driving wheels 90 inches diameter: boiler 6
feet IN diameter and 10 feet inches long over
tube sheets. The tubes are 270 in number and
21l inches in diameter The fire box is over IT
feet long inside by 42 inches WIDE and is placed
above the frames but not above the wheels
The heating surface in the fire box is 1856 square
feet. and the total heating surface 2,345 square
feet. The engine IS designed to burn anthracite
but not like the Nootten engines buckwheat or
refuse coal
A PARIS dispatch says that another eccentric
person has just died, leaving behind him an ex-
traordinary last will and testament He is a
wealthy gas manufacturer named Genin. who
departed this life at Nevers. He leaves $40 a
year to each of the eighty--ix DEPARTMENTS of
France. and special a lowance is set apart for
the Old Provinces, AlSace and Lorraine This
sum Will be either deposited at the ministry Of
war or VIII be employed in the purchase Of arms
until the Lost Provinces shah have been re-
conquered or restored. His furniture and rare
collections Of curlOsities he leaves to Grennobe
and BiarritZ, while his two chateaux he he
queaths to the poor, with a provIso that his di-
rect heirs can buy them at a certain price within
ten years. NJ. Genin, however. lea es but II 900
francs each to his gran iuephews who are his
heirs, SO that, if they want to buy the chateaux
they will have to make money fast"
A GHOST has caused divorce suit and broken
up once happy family in Biount county, Ala
bama. About five years ago James Martin mar
risd Miss Noel, one of the bellies of the county
The young couple went to live at the old Martin
home aud all went well until about a wear ago
Mrs. Martin, naturally very timid, heard a
ghost rambling through tle old house one
night and was badly frightened. She told her
husband about 1t, but he could hear nothing he
said. From that time IL became a nightly visitor
al the Martin home. Mrs. Martin wanted to
leave the old house at once but her husband
objected, declaring the strange no SEES heard
were made by rats. Several times Nrs Martin
so she says saw waite robel figure wandering
through the old house, and soon her nerves and
heatl began TO give way under the strain She
was finally Frustrated by her fear Of the ghost.
and went to the home OF her parents to recover
her health and strength. Fear of the ghost
tgv Az nHIf If.4f.a Of taal