The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

WHEN MS Allce 0ood, OF Covert, Mich
wants game dinner she shoulders her gnn and
goes into the woods, returning shortly with a
mess of squirrels. She Is a good shot.
SENATOR PIERCE of Brooklyn has been adopted
| BY the Cayugs Indians as a member of their
] tribe His Indian namesis "Hah- Yah Nah Shaw.
Mace, which means tine Island Law-Maker
A SAND PUMP near Boise City, Idaho, recently
brought up flint idol from a depth of 800 feet.
| 1t is claimed to be the Oldest mark of human
life on record by Prof. Wright, Of OberIin Col
lege, Ohio.
PROBABLY one OF the largest bicycles ever
known has just been finished in Peru. Ind. and
| is the property of John Ward, a man weighing
over 200 and over six feet tall. The frame is of
/ iron and steel, with wheel 60 inches in diam.
eter.
POLICEMEN FERDINAND KEADISe and John
Hayes, Of Detroit, make affidavit that the pick.
erel they caught in the river Ratson weighed
| forty-tive pounds. They also declare that be-
fore they got it into the boat they were willing
| TO swear that 1t weighed ton.
In THE CASCADE MOUNTAINS about seventy
five miles from Jacksonville, Ore, is to be found
the Great Sunken lake, the deepest lake in the
world 1t is said to average 1000 feet down TO
the water on all sides. The depth of the water
| IS unknown 1t is about Is miles long by Az
wide.
IT Is STATED that Chicago woman of un-
| certain age has embarked on an Atlantic liner
| bound for the Isle of Jersey to make an offer of
marriage to Gen Boulangsr. She is wealthy
and eccentric, and the friends of the general are
little worried over the peril their leader is
shortly to be placed in.
A oNE-LEGGED MAN whom the Seattle, Wash,
police were after the other day, took refuge in
a cellar, barred the door and defied the whole
force. The fire department was called out and
tne cellar pumped full of water. When it got
up TO the mans chin he surrendered. Since
then he has escaped three times from jail.
AMONG A LOT of unclaimed articles sold the
other day at the New York custom house were
anumber of photographs of the Duke Of Marl-
borough and various rooms in Blenhem Castle
which the duke had sent to Mrs. Hammersley
from England. 1t was considered tritie odd
that Mrs. Hammersley took so little interest
IN the duke as not to take the trouble to
call for the pictures of the man she afterward
married.
TIE FAMOUS GOLD MINES of the Province of
Caraboya, in Lima, which were formerly
worked extensively by the Spaniards aud Por-
tuguese, but were subsequently, Abandoned are
nov exciting great interest. Many quartz and
placer mines are being taken UP. as, with the
advance of civilization and improvements in
the roads, enterprise is taking rapid strides in
that district, where there is immense mineral
and vegetable wealth.
THERE are ten gentle churches in Salt Lake
| of the leading denominations The Methodists.
| the Presbyterians, the Baptists and the Congre-
gauonallstS-through the New West Educa-
tional ASsociation-all have mission schools
| the Methodist being boarding school. Ham
mond Hall, the gift of Charles G.. Hammond of
| Chicago, is the Oldest school of the New West
which has beside it two or three ward schools
| These various mission schools seem to be full
| IN A WESTERN TOWN the other evening play
was given by amateurs in which one of the
scenes represented the standing army of the
United States, consisting of an officer and five
| soldiers sitting on bench. You see before
you our noble standing army exclaimed the
hero to the low comedian. That's where Won
| are of, replied the low comedian, for it is
now sitting" And the audience applauded him
for five minutes and called out the author of the
| play.
| So CONFIDENT, it is said, was Mr.. Campbell of
his election as Governor of Ohio that on learning
how odds of two to one were being offered in
favor OF Mr. Foraker's success he at once in
trusted a roll OF bills to friend with instruc-
ions TO lay every cent of the amount on his own
chances. Not content with this, he wrote q
check for 81 900 more, which was invested for
him by one of his Dayton friends in similar
manner on the day before the ballot took place
Thus in addition to securing the governor
ship of his state, he has So for every dollar
which he put up.
Our OLD FRIEND, the Pigs in Clover" puzzle.
has turned up in London and is now all the
| rage. 1t has changed its name to 1.-The Sham
1
work OF mental destruction so ably begun in
America. The last issue of Punch devoted two
principal cartoons to the new English fad -
one representing Mr.. Gladstone trying to solve
political problem by its aid, and the other a
society sketch. by Du Maurier, depicts fash
| ionable afternoon tea in which a room full of
people are pulling their brains over the
mighty intellectual task of getting the pigs in
\ the shamrock.
ANNIE PUsHKIN, the granddaughter of Rus
| 10 in
prison of st. Peter and ST. Paul, at St. Peters
| burg, on charge of completely in Nihilist
| conspiracy. She is IS years old, beautiful and
| talented; and her arrest effected during the
recent absence of the car, is said to have been
| caused by the Grand Duke Alexis. The car,
| since learning of the details of the affair is
| furious against all concerned in it, for the
name of Pushkin is exceedingly popular
| death of the poet, who fell in an unfair duel
| fifty years ago. is regously observed, while
the name OF his murderer is abhorred.
| THE best selling photographs to-day" said a
clerk in a Broadway CNew York; store that
makes speciality of selling the photographs of
local and foreign celebrities, ''are those of Mrs
| Langtry, Mrs, Potter, Mary Anderson, Jane
Hading, Edwin Booth, and Maurice Barrymore
| Mrs. Harrison's photos have never sold well,
and the sale of Mrs. Cleveland's likeness fell off
one-half early last fall. The demand for the
| pictures of Mary Anderson and Mrs. Langtry
Il
| seven or eight years. Mems tastes are much
| less tickle than women's. For instance, the
| photographs of popular actors vary in their de-
| mand as much as the styles in spring bonnets
| A few months ago Kyrie Bellows photos sold
| better than any others in that class. Now there
| is hardly any demand for them at all. Since he
| began playing with Mrs. Potter his female adj
mirers have deserted him. Maurice Barrymore
| is the present feminine idol, and his popularity
| only began when he was given chance to play
| a romantic and heroic part in Capt. Swift
| THE INSECT HOUSE at the London Geological
| Garden contains an interesting little bird which
| might, foreign writer relates, be easily passed
over by the visitor on account of its resemblance
! to an ordinary pigeon. This resemblance is In
no way deceptive, for it is a pigeon which has
| acquired certain amount of fame, or rather
notoriety, on account of its supposed near rela-
| tionship TO the. Dodo. This kinship has not.
| however, been admitted by recent authorities.
| and so the name Ddunculus has been got by
| false pretenSeS. although the alliance clai n ed
for the bird is by no means a noble one But
this little pigeon is interesting for the ingenious
way in which it has defeated the Vaccinations
| of that enemy of the bird tribe, the cat Dl-
/ dunculus lives in Samoa, where there were
1 original y, of course, no cats These were in
| troduced, and made short work with the Mann
| mea as the natives call the bird killing NOT
| only the adult, but the chicks in the nest Owing
to its habit of nesting upon the ground the bird
| nearly became extinct; suddenly, however, it
/ took to building its nests upon the tree-tops.
where it could bring up its youngsones in peace,