The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

JAMES B. SMITH of Nashua IS the only man
who ever caught a weasel asleep. Mr.. Smith
caught it with camera.
A BRIrIsH COMPANY has been incorporated to
raise the French ships sunk at Aboukir bay by
Nelson ninety years ago.
A FARMER living near Emporia, Kan, owns
a horse IS hands and / inch high. 1t is years
old, aud Is well propOrtioned.
A BosroS COMPANY is trying TO INTRODUCES
wicker-work coffins They claim from a sani-
tary point OF view nothing can equal them.
ANAMATEUR vENTRnoouIsT IN Wheeling threw
cries of distress into load of hay. At once
the farmer owing it began to dump it into the
street.
one was applauding, little child exclaimed:
''oh, mamma, see all the big men patty
caking"
THE ELECTRIC FOUNTAIN at the Paris exposi-
ton is composed of thirty-three vertical jets
and fourteen parabolic jets, comprising nearly
300 Spouts.
IT is SAID that on the inside of a ring owned
in Atchison, Kan, is engraved the following:
IT and H., betrothed April, 1884; divorced
May. 1851
A LIVING MAN with three legs, living man
with two mouths, and living man turning into
stone, are among the curiosities announced in
New York museum.
D. AUGUSTUS VANDERvEER, who owns a large
vineyard at Manalapan, n. J., has put paper
bags over 10000 punches of growing grapes as
a protection against insects.
REDUCE your gas bills IS per cent. secret for
ST." read an advertisement which a Brooklyn
man answered. He received this reply by re-
turn Of mail: Burn kerosene
A TYRONE (PA.) TAILOR. who advertises as
serts that on the night the water was four feet
deep in his store man fioated all the way down
from Bellwood on door, and came padding
into his shop TO get measured for a wedding
suit.
RECENT DISCUSSION about the hight of trees
in the forests of Victoria brings from the gov
eminent botanist the statement that he had
seen one 525 feet high. The chief inspector of
forests measured fallen one that was ASS feet
long.
MISS HU KING Eng of Foochow. China, is
studying medicine in the Women's medical
college of Pennsylvania She is petite, plump,
intelligent, and is quite a favorite with her
fellow students
A YACHT was recently launched on the Thames
by electrical appliances which enabled all the
supports to be removed on the pressing of
button, and the vessel glided into the water
without the slightest hitch.
THE absurdity of applying the title of mis-
ter to all sorts of men, on all sorts of occa-
sions, is well illustrated in a recent issue of a
southwestern paper, in which it was declared
that the late Mr. Hank Brown was hanged
yesterday IN the presence of large and in
TereSted audience.
MOUSE attracted no little attention in
show window in Danbury, Conn. Toe little fell
low ran about among the goods, and climbed
up to the top of the large show. window and
curtains catching flies. He has made the win
dow his abode for several weeks, and keeps the
nles away in the most approved manner.
WHILE Julius Smith, an engineer on the Long
Island railroad, was packing oil and cotton
waste into hot box of the engine last week
there was an explosion and hot oil was thrown
into his face. 1t is feared he viii lose the sight
OF one eye. Investigation showed that a tor
pedo cap used as danger siynal on the road
had got into the waste and had exploded either
from the heat or from being struck by the
packing iron.
LEATHER COLLARS and cuffs are sold by the
swell London ladies' tailors. The collars are in
varying shades of brown, green, red and in
black and they are ornamented with fancy
stitching. The cuffs are about three inches
deep. From Paris, meanwhile, are coming dress
Travelling dresses are to be ornamented round
the edge of tae skirt with broad strips of black
gray, and brown leather.
SQUIRE JESSE R. JONES mentions Mrs. Goss,
who resides some miles east of Clanton, Ala,
as being oyer 90 years of age. He and Rev. Mr.
Smith, OF the Episcopal church, can recall that
about fifty years ago she was at the point of
death, and to crafty her supposed last wish
she was taken to church on a cot by her
relatives that she might hear her funeral
preached before she died. The funeral sermon
was preached and the object of it is still living
A. NJ. HoLBRooK of Newark, N. j., reports
that during recent thunderstorm several bolts
played among the trees in his garden in Park
street, one bolt entering the laboratory of Dr.
g. Holbrook and disporting itself among the
machinery and.chemicalS, visibly affecting the
doctors assistants; thence through the base
ment of the residence, where it expended itself
in a loud report like a small cannon, much to
the CONSERVATION of those present. The bolts
were like balls of fire, playing about from one
object to another until they exploded with a
loud report. One ball danced along within a
few feet of DR.. Holbrook. and striking an abut-
ment exploded
EVERYONE knows that the stork is almost
superstitiously beloved by the peasants of
Northern Germany and the Low Countries, and
that iron supports upon which he may build
his nest are set on cottage gables in the belief
that where a stork has his brood fire will never
come. Nevertheless, travellers are often sur
prised when they see how tame the great birds
become, following the agricuturist through
field and furrow and often sleeping on one tall
red leg close to where he is at work and within
sound of the rumble of the passing railroad
train. So fond is the Dutchman of having
storks about him, indeed, that he makes pro-
vision for its nests even in the center of his
bulb fields. Here one may Often see slender
poles some twenty or thirty feet in hight sup
ported by braces and bearing at the to- a small
round plat orm similarly strengthened On
these the storks build their nests, and here they
perch, like sentinels protecting the beautiful
crops.
SWARM OF bees took possession of East Main
street in Meriden, Conn. the other afternoon
and effectually blockaded traffic for an hour or
horses through the buZzing mass of bee flesh
but those horses which made the trip paid the
penalty of the folly of their owners. SeveraI
people we're Stung, and the neighbors were com
PEELED to keep their windows closed Even tn N
the ''pesky varmInts" battered against the
windows in vain attempt to get inside The
affair created a genuine sensation Prominent
citizens, whose dignity had never before been
impeached, turned up their coat collars and ran
to escape the fast becoming maddened swarm
Finally the queen bee sailed over into the Main
street Baptist lot aud lighted on low branch
of one of the evergreen trees. The whole swarm
followed, and the branch was buried knee deem
with bees in jiffy. Then the church ianitor
aud the gardener went to work to cage the
critters" A key was procured and placed at |
an angle under the limb. Allemever emf the |
limb off aud his assistant bravely shook it over
the keg. The queen bee went into the keg and |
the rest followed after few minutes. ali excent
a dozen or more, which were so exc ted thai
they couldn't see the key or the queen The
keg was taken away, but the dozen or more |
which were left had fun at the corner all after
noon.
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