The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A TOPEKA SOCIETY LADY recently issued in
| vitations for breakfast" and three-fourths
OF the guests were on hand before she was out
of bed.
4 CLOUD BURST in Nevada the other day
dropped enough water on a region two miles
square to form lake Of ten acres in extent and
10 feet deep.
len YEARS AGO man near Lexington. Ky,
had t"enty-four sheep bitten by dogs. Since
that time he has poisoned and shot over 800
| work.
THERE is woman in a West Of England
town who makes good living BY killing cats.
She afvertises that if people who are about 70
% away for the summer viii send their cats to
| her she VIII Kill them with chloTofOrm.
Eighteen Cincinnati grocers offer their Gus
toners per cent. discount if they will carry
home their purchases. They can afford to do
| even better than this, as soneof teen have TO
Keep as many as eight horses, wagons and
drivers.
An OLD MAN has been bothering the Muskegon
| tMich9 police for the past three weeks, asking
them TO shoot him, as he was tired, sick and
hungry. They haven L dens 1t yet, but if he
comes around much more they think they can
| accommodate him. =.
PETER MACON, a Scotch sailor, feli. overheard
|
| was ported drowned but after two wears hobs
| up 70 ella n 5 % 900 legacy and to-Fep0rt thai
| after floating two days he YES picked ia by
Russian vessel AMI carried around the world.
a FOND PARENT in Massachusetts wishing t.
assist his little son to make up a purse for the
| Fourth, agreed TO pay him l cent for every po-
| tato bug he would CAPTURE At the close of the
| first day The child had GAO bugs. The father
| paid the So ~. but the contract did not con
| tinue.
| ALL Is NOT JOY and sweet content even at the
| seaside resorts. Here is a note culled from an
eastern paper: The saddest summer resort in
| Maine this week is Higgins beach, where II
dead whale came without any. invitation and
| occupies altogether too much of the air to suit
| other summer visitors.
! OUTSIDE Of those in public Office, there are
four persons in the United States according to
| the New York IForld) who are emit led to send
| and receive mail mat ers free of postage They
| are the wild rvs Of Presidents Polk, Tyler, Gar
| field and Grant The privilege is granted by
special act of congress.
A CURIOUS walking match took place at Ports
mouth, O.. the other morning between a mer-
! chant formerly Of Cincinnati and clerk 1t
was to decide which should wed fair young
| lady to whom both gentlemen had been paying
attention. They walked five miles, the mer
| Chant winning by fifty feet.
| PETER LANG, 10i years of age. has just been
admitted to church membership in Elgin, Scot
! land. Apropos to this incident the Hartford
| Co1uGrf says: Bishop Asbury, in his Journals.
speaks of exhorting q man over 100 years ole 10
| give his heart to God on the ground that he had
| very little time left. The man answered: But
| my father lived to be 1922"
NEW WAY to scatter a crowd has been dis
covered. A man who found himself henmed
| in by dense thrOng near the corner of State
and Washington streets, while circus process
! sion was paesnS, pulle a bottle Of ammonia
| fr I'M his pocket and spilled the contents pro
| mlscuously about. He had the entire sidewalk
to himself in less than minute
some PAPERS do not like the English habit Of
emitting the article the" before the names of
yachts, especially in the case of yachts named
after women The omission does seem uufortu-
nate when ii makes sucl statements as these
possible: Cora proved slow in her stays"
Oracle ran her nose in the mud, " and Alice
careened and staggered under her heavy load. o."
THE first street railway was operated in 1892
! from New York to Harlem. 1t did not aDnear
in Boston until 1856. The first horse car" line
was opened on the Baltimore and Ono line
| prior TO e Introduction of the steam engine
but was not designated as a street railway
From a comparatively recent be inning q vast
enterprise has sprung up; to-day there are
% 900 cars in use in the streets of cities in the
United States, requiring the services of 10000
horses
THEATRICAL MANAGERS usually grapple sue
cesstuily with certain Unforeseen difficulties
During a recent performance of 81 Elisir OAR
more at Her MajeSty's theater London, the
rain found its way through a weak spot in t
roof of The stage, and eventually the drops
became so numerous that the curtain was run
down. When it rose again there was a fountain
on the st }Se, hiding by its painted front the
| cloths and buckets VIII CHI had ben set to catch
the rain. The plash OF the rain drops added not
a little to the realism of the fountain.
WHY YALE WINS" is the heading given the
following by the New Haven Courant The
| athletic mel of Yale sat down to banquet at ?
o'clock last Saturday morning at the New
Haven house. The banquet lasted until nearly
| Z O'Clock. Not solitary person was under the
influence of liquor. The wine and cigar bill for
| 10 ty me was less than $50. and not story
was tod that the lady friends of those present
might not have heard. The men spent I reir
time in sinEn = CHI sering and exchanging
views for the further development of Yae
athletics.
QUEEN VICTORIA is in the habit of keeping
rooms which have been occupied by deceased
relatives locked w, The apartments at Clare
mont in which Princess Charlotte died more
than seventy years ago are close !, and nobody
is a owed to use them. Prince Aloert's apart
mrnts at Win .sor Osborne and Balmorai are
are ell kept pr Cisey az they were when he was
alive, and on the wall of the room in which he
died there * tablet with an inscription record
ing TIE fact that this apartment was e scene
Of his demise" J I'm Browns rooms at Windsor
have also been closed since his death.
A GENTLEMAN recently from the Congo. who
was in New York last wee elk, told this story of
an American missiona y on that river. He did
his level best to induce the natives among whom
he had settled to wear clothes like white folks
Finally the missionary told them he had come
there TO be one OF them. and if they would not
! conform to his standards he must descend TO
theirs. The next time he held a meeting tie
natives were INN 'nsely aStouished t. Sc the
wiite man appear among them W airing nothinf,
but treech clout. Some white men, waO han
pened along few days later, persuaded the
gentleman that ii would conduce to his comfort.
and he would do just as much good if he re.
sumed his customary Sarb.
A NEW nautical distress signal has been sue.
cessfully experimental with in England. the
notable features ofthis device being that no stick
is required and there is no back fire. the roc ct
taking the form of a met al cylinder in the base
OF viii h is the propelling charge above this
being charge of tOnite, and above this AGAIN
a star composition. The propelling charge is
fired by simply pulling a la yard, and the sig
nal IS propeH upward at one ir2pulse until
the rocket has reached the maximum higot
which is 600 feet The stars ar. thrown ont
givin brilliant illumination, and the tonic
charge then expodes, the noise of the explosion
beng equal to tle firing OF six-pound gun
but being high up is heard at g great distance
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