The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

CO.. S-E~ART q Nevada City, las provided
in IS VII tasr MS body he cremated and the
ashes dumped INTO the river az Midnight.
Wv YoRz crowds 5000 inhabitants into
. p 1ln houses. while Philadelphia has 70 have
. L. 30 houses 70 accommodate SO 900 people
( ISCAzso-L COMFY. NV HAMPSHIRE, con
s55=rlcI- number OF forest men, tired OF wait
i-- fo- snow have been hauling timber on
w1aes-
TEE Euzl 81 villages are diminishing il popu-
. la-ion. owing 70 the exodus Of the unemployed.
who are 6ocsing INTO the towns az the rate or
90 90 20 1000 year.
TEX N4L-EsE cat in a Poughkeepsie. y. Y.
drug sore. suddenly develop an appetite for
l=-coes and while tie druggists back was
tur1e- ale thirty Of them
FAx1LY Of five in Dakota subsisted for three
weeks OF five pounds Of PORK and bushel Of
care - md there is no US IN any young house
keeper trying TO beat that record
\ SPECIAL Train VII leave New York next
month for TIE scene Of great bull fight some
where in Mexico. Twenty wealthy young New
THERE is q discrepancy between the state
nents Of George Waterman and the authori-
tiss OF Io-ensterg. Kan. He claims to have
stolen ~ horses, and they declare the number
q be 81 This trifIug difference may get him
into state prison.
NRs JANE MCCARTHY Of Louisville, walked
into 6 gang Of loafers with sleeves rolled up
ard knocked five Of them down by right and
lett han-ers before they could get away. In 50
dong she mashed a knuc ale, which doctor
mended free Of chSrge.
IL order 70 ascertain the probable depth of
one OF tie Portland, Conn, sandstone quarries,
E diamond drill was started down from the bot
tom q &o0-feet level. The drill i Is reported.
was driven down g. feet without reaching the
final strata Of the deposit.
4 l5TEAR-oLD BOY in Kansas City attempted
to steal ard carry away saw nil one day last
week He first stole a horse and wagon. and
was b1sily engaged in taking the mill TO pieces,
preparatory TO loading i upon q be wagon, when
me mil owner appeared on the scene and gath
cred him 10.
WEILE saving a log that had been chopped
down couple years ago, Y. S. Wnitemore Of
Bestrice, Neb.. struck a stone as large as his
two fists that had grown solid in the heart of
the tree. The tree was sufficiently large 10 in
dictate growth Of perhaps twenty years or
more around the stone.
TIE new American navy, when completed,
will consist Of twenty-five vessels. ranging from
the armored cruiser Maine. carrying al men,
down 20 frst-claSs torpedo boat, carrying four
office and eighteen men There viii be 8 IS
men on board the twenty two v-sselS-500 Off
GERS and 5,2s6 sailors and marines.
TOBACCO should be credited as a part Of the
discovery Of Christopher Columbus. When he
first met the Indians they were imbibng the
fumes Of tobacco in the shape of a cigar 8"
Tn cigar was not wholly Of tobacco though
1t was a stalk or straw tube filed with this
weed. But the Indians smoked pipes chiefly.
They are still peyying away at the Cape Cod
ship canal, which was begun nine years ago
The contract requires the work TO be finished by
June ~, 1921, but as there are seven miles YET
to be dug, and a. during 1883 there was only
about seyeven Fights OF mile opened, the pro
spects are not good tor the fulfllment of the
contract.
A CAT owned by a farmer who lives near Nor
wich, Conn, has developed fancy for stealing
clothes-pinS. While the animal is never known
70 touch clothes pins of its owner. it brings
home all it can find lying round loose in tie
nAghbOrs' yards. Within the last three months
twenty eight dozen have been brought home in
this way.
THE TWO ELM TREES cut down in Lunenburg
Mass, few days a 20, were more than a cen
fury old. According to Massachusetts papers.
they were planted by Capt. John Itch on the
memorable dark day, May 10, l 80, when it was
50 DIRK that people could not see to read at
midday, and many persons supposed the day
Of judgment had come
JOHN DERoNE of Easton. Pa, must give I'D
$40 to a wicked small boy or go bald-headed
During the cyclone Of last week Mr. Derone h d
his hat and wiz blown off while crossing the
Southeastern Suspension Bridge The wig and
hat were found by an enterprising youngster
VINO. undismayed by the AGENTS threat of a
lawsuit, refuses TO surrender his find until the
owner pays him $40 for them.
A CONTEMPORARY tells of DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, that, discovering he had never re-
ceived the degree of A NJ. from the Harvard
authorities, he wrote TO them aud penned for
NAL application for that honor, signing himself:
Yours respectfully,
OLIVER WENDELL. HOLMES.
AN OLD OFFENDER, who appeared in the Wash
ington Cd. @ police court the other day,
charged with being drunk and disorderly re-
mar ed to the judge: Il am going to stop
drinking, but l thought, before doing so,
would 70 on one good drunk. Now am done
| have paid nearly 3 ,000 in fines in this court
and lost about 81. 600 more by the loss of work
when arrested. The court i'm posed a further
fine of s..
SINCE the passage of the stringent LIQUOR law
in Vermont. saloon keepers there have been
seeking some mode of revenge, and those at
Burlington believe they have found one They
propose to resurrect all laws enabling them to
create a state Of stern Puritanic rule They
say they will stop the running of horse cars on
Sunday close livery stables and in short do
away With all SUM ay travelling, except from
necessity or Charity
THERE was a poplar tree at Clyde station.
Haywood county, North Carolina so large that
it made plank enough to build church so feet
long and 80 feet wide. II feet high. and supplied
weat erbOarding. ceiling and flooring From
the same tree a fence wa built on three
quarters of an acre around the church aeI
there we're three logs left over The remaining
three logs are enough to build another church
OF the same dimensions as above
The latest nickel and slot device is a sort of
big stereoscOpe which has been invented and
manufactured in Paris. You drop in vour
nickel and apply yOnr eyes to a pair of protu-
befances like the eye pieces Of an opera glass
Pictures are then disp aged in rapid succession
one picture lasting seven seconds until the CON
tents Of the box are all exhibited The pictures
are shown in the glare Of an electric light
which Is extingulshed when one has had his
cents worth.
4 BIG LEOPARD on exhibition in Boston acted
queerly for several days, and, as it seemed to be
in great pain an examination was made, which
revealed good sized piece of wood wedged
between two Of the animals teeth. The silver
penetrated the gums and BostOn's dog execu.
TONER was called into service to remove il He
la'soed tine beast, and after quite an effort sue
ceeded by the aid Of a pair of forceps in remov-
Ing the wood. The leopard soon improved and
at last accounts was as well as ever.
The Connecticut State Historical Society. at
its annual meeting in Hartford, arranged for
the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the
adoption Of the first definite draft of a state
constitution. This draft was made by the three
plantations OF Connecticut including Hartford
Methersheld and Windsor, Jan. IL, 1889; but by
the new style OF measuring true the observance
OF this event should fall on Jan a. The 2JOth
anniversary OF the event was celebrated in 1870
and Noah Webster delivered the grafton