The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-02
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have been dying at the rate Of twenty day.
Al. the SCHOOLS are closed, and panic occurred
among the inhabitants.
AT BRussELs. an elephant attached TO a cir
Gus. becoming enraged at an attendant. seized
him by the Leg and dashed him against a wall.
Death was instantaneous. The unfortunate man
| had been teasing the animal.
TIE THISTLE at the antpodes seems to attain
most vigorous growth. It's root penetrates to
depth of from - to 90 feet, and this root,
even when cut into small pieces, retains
vitality eacl piece producing new plant.
a TRAIN struck man near Rye, Y. Y, Mon
day. The engine halted, and the baggage
master started bac- with a stretcher. On his
arrival the man arose and walked away, ap-
parently none the worse for his experience. He
was workman on the railroad.
AN AFRICAN TRADER has so trained young
gorilla that it follows him around like dog.
1t recently accompanied him on tramp Of
twenty miles The animal does numerous
tricks, and is SO docile that its master doesn t
hesitate to allow it TO sleep with him.
In RICHMOND. Me-. young lady s stockings
began to blaze while she was warming her feet
plunged her feet into wash-b bowl half full Of
water that luckily was near, but not until two
feet Of hose had been burned to a cinder
A SECTION CREW on the Wisconsin Central
railway, when about three miles east of juno
tion City, ran down a large lynx, which threw
the handcar from the track The animal then
CHARGED the crew, who were armed Only with
shovelS After quite a desperate fight Foreman
Bates succeeded IN dispatching the beast.
The grandeS st railway station in the world is
said to be the terminal station in Bombay
India. of the Peninsular railway known as the
Victoria building, which was completed in May
last and named in honor of the empress of
I7gto fha aa1fa
years and the cost is estimated at SIS, 500, 900
The total length Of the principal elevation is
over 800 feet
A LONDON PHYSICIAN is Of opinion that tur-
pentine bath is good for rheumatism, govt, in
somnia, laryngitis and bronchitis and recon-
mends the following method of preparing it:
Make saturated solution of six ounces of yell
low soap and add to it three or four ounces of
oil of turpentine Shake well and then put it
into the bath, which should be filed with warm
water. After fifteen minutes immersion the
patient should be put to bed.
IT has just been discovered that the shrewdest
New York bootblacks aim to become the owners
of several complete boolblacking outfits. They
can not. of course, use all of these themselves
but they lease them to other boys, charging
usurious rates therefor. If he rents his brushes
to one boy and his box and footrest to another
he exactS from each One-quarter of his daily
earnings. If he rents the whole concern to one
boy, that boy must give him half of his gains
every day Not infrequently the thriftiest of
the youngsters make as much as SO per day by
this scheme.
CHICAGo's WIDESPREAD REPUTATION as a d-
vorce town causes some queer things to come
through the mails to her lawyers. Not long
ago one of the most noted attorneys caught this
| from Rising Sun, Ind: Dear Sr-IGclosed
find s., for which please mail me a divorce from
my wife. I'm sick and tired of her John
Smith. The same attorney received this one
finn A.FrvE
wife's name IS Jean. l must have divorce at
once. Send it c. o. D. Money is no object
VERY INTERESTING DISCOVERY was recently
made in the vicinity of Cambridge, Eng. A
field was being leyeled at the back of St. Johns
College, when the workmen cut into a Saxon
burylng ground. For several days no notice
was taken of the matter, and numbers (the
wOrkmen said hundreds) Of skeletons and urns
were destroyed. The excavations then went on
for six weeks under the supervision OF members
# the antiquarian committee, and as a result,
a number of skeletons, about 100 urns and
large number of weapons, urns aud ornaments
have been placed in the Antiquarian museum.
ANYTHING to save time is New York's motto
The newest thing is a shop where men and
women may have their shoes mended while
they wait. Customers see the latest shoemak-
ing machinery in the window and behind the
machines row of lasts at which men preaare
the work for the machines. A woman goes in
has her shoes taken OFF, put on the lasts
trimmed of all tatters and shreds. fitted with
new heels and soles put into a sewing or nail
ing machine, and made good as new almost half
as quickly as it has taken to write these words
Patching is the only work that is done in the
oldfaShiOned way. Entire new shoes are made
to order by the pair in two hours.
WHILE heavy train was pulling I'D grade
near Carlisle station recently it parted, leaving
but three cars attached to the engine. which,
of course, increased in speed considerably, and
thus the accident was discovered. When they
had connected the train and started I'D again
they passed car lying alongside the track and
the conductor remarked that some fellow must
have had an accident the night before 1t was
not until he reached Du Bots that he found out
that the car was one Of his own train, which
had become detached and fallen over when the
tram parted: 1t seems strange that car with
forty tons of ccal could es ape from the middle
OF train and nobody find it out.
A SPECIAL from Graham, Tex, says:-Boone
NARROW, who murdered Sheriff Wallace Of
Young county Dec. IS last, was killed last
Thursday in the Indian Territory by Martin
Beavers and John Derrickson. They traied
hlm 10 MS hiding place and when he refused to
throw up his hands they fred at him The re-
ward or $500 offered by the citizens Of Young
county was at once paid to Beavers and Der
rickSon. 1t was the escape of Boone Narlow
that incensed the citizen mob to attack the iail
in which his four brothers were held az accaSso-
rles 10 the murd4 of Sheriff Wallace This is
the seventh death resulting from the murder
while three men have been seriously wounded
A CHICAGO WOMAN named Jane Trover lives in
fiat with no companions but cats few
nights ago Herman Sindler who occupies the
floor above, became so enraged at the howliqe
OF the feline colony that he captured one mem.
her OF it and pounded out its brains with a club
To square matters Mrs Trover on the next
evening piled pots kettles, chairs, tables, ETC.
on the stairway and when Mr.. Sindler sailed
FORTH clad in bis finest rament, he tripped over
skillet, and. plunging into the lot rolled down
an almost interminable stairway, kettles, chairs
etc. bruising him he went The magistrate
before whom Mrs Trover was then taken pro
nounced th" joke very funny, but placed the
Joker under heavy bond to keep the peace
He also decreed that the cats must go.
MISS PHEBE CoUzINs, who succeed the late
Maj. Couzins as United States marshal of the
western district of Missouri, has published an
address TO the odd Fellows of Missouri, calling
upon them to remove the stigma on their order
ars ng from the refusal of the Odd Fellows
MUTUAL AID Society TO reinstate her father be-
fore his death, or pay his life insurance ST. 000)
aitrr MS deatn. she states that she would have
PAD her fathers assessment when he was on
his deathbed, had friend Of the family ard
one OF the officers Of the society not Of
fered TO do it for her. He neglected it, and her
father was suspended and the society refused
TO reiDstate him. He had been an odd Fellow
forty years, died in the order. and was one OF
the founders Of the society. He was once chief
OF police or st. Louis, and lived there ffty
years
The RAT catching squad in the home of Mrs.
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