The morning news., 1889-04-26
ITEMS OF INTER REST,

many funerals that llyerymen were unable to
supply the demand for carriages.
OF THE Coz STUDENTS who have graduated
from the Yale Divinity school. the Boston
Transcript learns that l,l20 are living.
JoaN F PRICE, confined in a Colorado peni-
tentiary for horse stealing, has fallen heir to
$4,000 He formerly lived at Crcleville, o.
A CHICAGO NEGRO put in an hour in cold
storage room to see if it was what it claimed to
be. His frozen nose and ears are proofs that it
! was.
TIE seemingly incredible statement is made
in a Washington territory journal that the
Chinese have entirely disappeared from Ia
| coma.
ACCORDING to the Methodist Recorder there
are 421. 7s4 members of the Wesleyan body in
Great Britain the last year showing an increase
| of 5000.
A REWARD of 800 has been offered by the
New Haven Historical Society for the return of
the sword of Admiral Foote stolen from the
| Connecticut state house.
! A BUFFALO BACHELOR has a memorandum
book in which he keeps the name of every girl
he has ever kissed. He had 923 names on the
| list the last time counted up.
A NEwLY-BoRN INFANT that was found in an
ash barrel on Marshall street, Philadelphia, re-
Gently was taken to the Sheltering Arms, where
it was christened Marshall Ash
CHANG Eau MoAR, the int rpreter attached to
the Chinese legation at Washington, is de-
scribed as gigantic blonde Chinanan with a
profile as regular IS Greek statue
A THIEF entered the house of Rev. Mr. Coissart,
OF Tilden, Neb., and stole $40 The curious part
| of the transaction was that the roll of money
| from which he took the bill contained 500.
CYRENUs ARTER of Youngsville, Pa, went
| to Sugar Grove to attend the funeral of a
| brother who had been accidentally killed.
was taken i'll there with grief and died in few
| days.
DEER AND ELK are being literally massacred
| in Wyoming and Western Colorado by wealthy
Englishmen who come over to enjoy the sport
The great herds are rapidly depleted by the
| useless slaughter.
| IN KINGSTON HARBoR the other day a shark
| was captured, and, on examination, his stom-
| ach was found to contain two straw hats, a
| cows head two hoofS and three horns, a large
kerosene can. basket and some sardine tins.
| WILLIAM H. HARRISON, a Haddonfied IN J }
| grocer, dreamed night or two ago that money
was concealed in an ancient house near his
store He Investigated and found ST so in
continental! currency, back of an old mantel
! piece.
THE largest pine tree ever cut in Michigan
! was felled recently near Hobart 1t measured
dL Iub OutI o Iteb III ulaneUeT anu ScaleQ 1851
| feet Of mercantile lumber. In the fall the top
was broken, destroying about 800 feet of choice
| lumber.
AN EAsTPoRT MAN hopes to keep his lawn in
fine condition this summer. He recently dis
tributed $500 bright new marbles of assorted
colors among the boys, in consideration of a
promise that they would keep out of his grass
this season.
IL the town of Bessbrook. Ireland where
John g. Richardson employs 1900 people in the
manufacture of Irish linen, no liquor has been
sold Tor forty years aud as a result there is
neither policeman, prison, pawnshop nor pauper
IN the town.
Two SISTERS in Franklin, Ind, becoming
angered at a young man because he deserted
one of their family with whom he had been
keeping company followed him to his new
girls house, and there on the doorstep gave
MIN sound thraShing
A MOST INTERESTING EXPERIMENT has recently
been made in taking photograph by the light
of the Cuban FREELY After various trials of the
/ insect 5 power, the experiment of photograph
ing by its light was successfully carried out A
copy or family portrait was made. the insect
peing held within an inch oil the original, and in
such way that the rays fell perpendicularly
on the negative. The time of exposure to bug
Hgnt was about thirty seconds. A living speci-
meA of these tropical insects was recently pre-
sented to the bridgeport Scientific Society. 1t
is about 115 inches long and bears upon each
SIDE OF its body oval spots, resembling eyes. In
the dark these spots emit a greenish light
resembling tiny electric lamps in fun glow.
AT Bangor, Ne, native went to a fish dealer
to purchase salmon. He saw a fine large fish
marked 30" He had been living in Oregon.
where salmon are comparatively cheap. and he
thought that was the price per pound 1t
wasn't, but it represented the weight of the
hsh. With patrican wave of his hand toward
the Penobscot twenty FOUNDER. he care
SnnnkpaDpF
That's rather a decent fish; / guess
II take it home to my family The
fish was wrapped up, and the returned Ore
gonian handed over $50 gold piece, and stood
waiting for about S16 change, when the shop
keeper said $40 more please" The would be
purchasers jaw fell, and he grabbed his gold
and departed, followed by roars of laughter.
HUNTERS in Berkshire county, Massachusetts.
have adopted ingenious method of cap
turing rattlesnakes, whose oil is there believed
TO be a cure for deafness, and as such COM
mands big price. They go about on warm
days carrying long fishing rod and line and
sharp scythe and when the reptile is discov-
cred, usually asleep near loose ledge of rock
1t is prodded more or less gently with the pole
Like any other sleeper suddenly Interrupted
the snake wakes up angry. makes dart at the
nearest irritating object which is the fish hook
dangling near his head from the eni of the
pole, and very accommodatingly allows the
sharp tines to penetrate his jaws. The man
with the pole holds the entrapped reptile at a
safe distance, while his comrade moves up and
sewers the snakes head from the body The
latter is then deposited in a bag, and the
hunters go in search OF other game.
A CORRESPONDENT writes the Boston journal
as follows from Sctuate, Mass: Reading in the
Journal the interesting account by the Hon
Gideon Haynes on remarkable longevity brings
10 my mnta case that probably has no parallel
The Hon. Samuel A. Turner Of Norwel now
living al the age Of 81, well remembers Ebenezer
CODb OF Kingston. who was born in 1894 and
died al the age Of l07, who remembered the
1924, that the public road was obstructed by a
deep snow, the body had 10 be brought from the
family residence along the sea 'hore t. the spot
where his father (ex-GOv. Bradford) was
buried. Mr. Turner has two lives between
hlm and the Pilgrims, whose ages comDinei
reach 70 within four years OF the landing at
Plymouth whereas the combine ages Of Elder
taunce and Deacon Spooner. mentioned in re-
lation to the late Sidney Bartlett. reach twenty
six years later
CAPT MOORE Of her msjesty's ship Rambler
lately described, in a paper read before the
China branch Of tue Royal Asatic Society, the
appearance and effects Of the remarkable
bore which often occurs in Hangchow bay
This dangerous visitor is the result Of the strug-
gle between the advancing tide ia the great est
uary aud the Curr9ut of the river Can't
Moore and his officers on several occasions OBJ
served the progress OF the wave and their in.
veslgations are summarized as follows: The
rate at which the bore travels vares from ten
70 about thirteen miles per hour. The hight of
the bore rarely exceeds twelve or fourteen feet
in tyh oh