The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-09
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take a sea hath every day in the year, remain
ing in the water about fifteen minutes
Az ELEPHANT lately died at bombay in the
30Jth year of his age, and naturalists figure
from this that any elephant of regular habits
Will have no trouble in pulling along for at least
30 years
JUsr for a Joke Des Moines man put an old
clay pipe in his store window and labeled it
"Marcha Washington's pipe" Within half an
hour patriot called and punched lis head and
broke the PIPE.
A M1ssIssIPPIAN boasts of having had the
agle for twenty-seven straight years with only
one break of three weeks. He set out 10 beat
,he shakes at their own game, and there ara 100
pounds left Of him yet.
I. z. HUTCHINSON. the millionaire grain specu-
lator of Chicago rarely spends as much for his
lunch as his clerks are accustomed to spend.
He may frequently be seen in a cheap reStaur-
ant making q meal of a sandwich ana cup OF
coffee, at total cost of 10 cents.
SPR1NG WEATHER hasn't been lingering of late
around Salmon City, 1. T., as the following,
from the 10. al paper, will show: The weather
for the past twelve days has been the coolest
sver known for the same length of time, the
mercury ranging every night from 20 to 20
below zero
A NOVELTY is reported from Hastings, Eng
land. in connection with the performance Of
The Yeomen Of the Guard" at the theater
The stage has been connected by telephone with
various private houses and hotels, so that
numbers of people are nightly hearing the
opera without seeing it.
A CONVICT, who was lately released from the
Joliet Penitentiary after serving six years sen
tence, took with him 1881 which he had earned
by stOne-cuttng as over work. The man
knew nothing about that industry when he en-
tered the prison, but he soon became skilled in
he n "
tered into it.
A DISPATCH from st. Paul, Mimi, dated Feb.
3, says: "A most peculiar case came up yester-
day before Judge Lochren. in this city. Louis
Waller. while conveying the body of his young
son in a carriage to the grave. was run into by
a team oNned by Reidell & Nelson. The coffin
vas thrown out and broken and the body ex-
posed to view. Waller sued for S., 900 damages"
ONE TRAVIS of Detroit some time ago insured
himself in several accident insurance compa-
MES Afterward he received a gunshot wound
IN the hand and the member was amputated.
He was paid by the companies, but didn't hand
over any hush money" as agreed i is said to
a neigh5or, and the latter now charges Travis,
in an affidavit. with having plrposely shot hi m
self to swell his pocketbook. Travis is under
arrest.
SOME TIME AGO Bert Conversion of Barnesville
Kan, Witnessed an interesting fight between a
blue racer and hawk. He saw two hawks ap-
parently fighting in a field, and approached
them without difficulty. With a poe he killed
them, and upon turning one of them over
noticed the head of the snake striking out from
the hawks wing. Upon investigation he found
that the snake had wound Itself about the
hawks neck and was choking it t. death. The
other hawk Is attacking the blue racer in at
temptS to release his mate. The hawks were
big fellows, and the snake OF medium size. If
lelJ al ne it would have undoubtedly killed both
OF the birds,
THE QUESTION of the future home of the En-
press of Germany is not likely to prove the
mere consideration of convenience that many
people imagine. Since I informed my contem-
PORES that the empress hau the very strongest
desire to buy an estate in this country, says
a writer in HdHity Far, there have been many
opinions and mucu controversy in Berlin as to
the political significance of such a probability.
l have reason to believe that IN the highest
circles something more than verbal protest
would succeed such a course of action. 1t is in
a measure to initiate against this hitherto Sc
cret and OminOuS SCENE that the empress,
contrary to the wishes of the Queen, will return
to Germany for u while during The ensuing
month. For the last few days these overtures
with which the empress was recently occupied
for the purchase OF an estate IN Eng .and-haVe
been withdrawn nor do think thai there is
any imme late probability of their renewal.
ANOTHER HOTEL MOVING" has taken place at
Coney Island. This time it was the Ocean house
which was given "a lift" This large hotel was
erected twenty years ago, and, at that time,
s. GOD about 600 feet back from the surf The
m any changes in the beach since then have
washed all the land in front of it away. The
hotel was placed upon piles Two years since as
the indications that 1T any time the foun-
dationS night be washed away. This proved
true for last year the ocean had reached the
MOTEL, but no immediate danger was feared, as
the piles were twenty feet long and firmly
beddei in the sand This winter, however, dur
ing heavy easterly storm, another slice Of tie
b ,ach was removed, and when the storm had
subsidized the hotel was left quite alone in the
Atlantic, some fifty feet from shore standing
on piles. There was a probability of the sand
cutting away and leaving no support for the
piles and also the danger Of floating logs or ice
batterlng them down, and 1t was decided to re-
move the building. The work was successfully
accomplished and the hotel now stands some
300 feet back from the beach.
For the past three years, says a New York
contemporary, Jonas Fletcher of Bloomfield
n. j., has entertained a pair of humming birds
in his garden during the latter part of each
spring season, the whole Of the summer, and
the carly days OF autumn. TIE little creatures.
with rainbow hueS in their pluma-e. fitted
from bush to bush, and, dipping their beaks into
flower alter flower were Things of beauty and
Joys as long as the warm weather lasted. They
were moi in the least frightened at tie presence
of Mr.. FletcheTs children. who watched them
ueghtediy, and they seemed quite ready to
fraternize with the family. They disappeared
as usual, about the middle of last autumn. and
Mr.. Fletcher supp se1 they had one into win
ter quarters; but a few days ago they returned
10 Che garden in Bloomfield and flew diSconso-
lately around the beds in a vain search for
flowers. They were PROBABLY induced by the
sunny weather to Hnger somewhere in the
vicinity OF their summer feeding grounds and
finding that warm glow remained in the al
moSphere, they fancied that spring was at
hand, and innocentIy flew back to Bloomfield,
"A YEAR AGO. says the Electrical World.
there were barely a score of electric roads in
this country and about another score were pro-
iected To-day there are over fifty roads, aud
nearly seventy more are building or under con-
tract There IS still plenty of room for i'm.
provement in TIE methods adopted, but tue
roads WORK and are certainly good enough to
advertise the method as a success We may
well apply to this the language that Prot
Bryce. in his recent noble work on the Amer
lean Commonwealth uses about some of our
political conditions: The Americans surpass
ali othe" nations in their power Of making the
best OF BAL conditions, getting the largest re-
suits out of SCantY materials or roug h me hods
Many things in that country work better than
they ought TO work or could work I'm any other
country After al. there is no better way Of
reaching perfection than through experiment
and failure. an every one of the successes in
electric railruadug IN this country has been
won by the very finest qualities Of grit, self
help aud shreWdnesS Our motor engineers
know something now about electric roads and
have laid the toundat ons Of an enormous indus
try by their genius and perseverance.
FATHER DAMIEN who has been dsvoting him
self to the lepers eXiled at Molo6ai in the sand
witch Island group, is actually giving his life to
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