The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-26


CHICAGO PAPER says that if another great
| fire were to start in that city 10000 men and
| women would turn loose to commit robbery
and that it would take it least three full regi-
| ments 10 bring them under subsection. Poor
| Chicago
SAMUEL MORSE of Essex, Mass, has been hun
cry all the time for thirteen years. He drinks
three quarts of water per day and eats hearty
| meals every hour. His age is 81 years and his
| weight l35 pounds. His case is a puzzle to the
| physicians.
| Mrs CALLIE L. FRENCH, a Cincinnati lady.
and wife Of Capt. A. B. French. is the only
| female steamboat pilot in America. She is
| regularly licensed pilot from Vicks5urg to
New Orleans and the Atchafalaya river and its
| tributaries.
| L. C. BEEcHER Of Woodbridge, Conn,
planted a hill of pumpkins last spring. From
that hill he gathered seventeen pumpkins ag-
| greRatlng 6S6 pounds He has sold them all at
| cent pound. Gathering nearly 81 from one
] NIL beats anything the rich farming lands of
Kansas can show.
Foot BALL arouses tremendous popular in
terest in England. When the London and Mid
| lands fifteen went down to play the West of
| England the other day they were met by a
| local band, torchlight procession and the en-
| tire population of WeSton-super- Mare, where
the game was played, London winning.
E. D. SLOAN of Klamath Agency, found re-
Gently in a cremation mound on the Klamath
Indian reservation a Harrison badge of
| and profile view of Gen. Harrison show
| quite plainly. Probably these Indians got
| the badge from Gen. John G. Fremonts
| party when they travelled through that country.
| WHILE fishing near Slaughter Beach, Del, q
few days ago, several young men of Milford
| caught a veritable sea devil 1t was nearly five
feet in length, two feet six inches in width, and
| had an immense head Large fins grew from
each side, while its head grew long, slender
| I'm. The latter appendage was used bait to
eutice smaller fish when it buried itself in the
| mud.
| n. WORTH, the noted Partisan dressmaker,
gave each one of his employees $40 to spend
| during the last day of the Paris exposition, and
! closed his store at noon in order to allow his
! people al opportunity Of expanding their
| money. This act cost him over $4,000, but it
| was a small amount in comparison to the profits
| he received from the foreign visitors to the ex-
| position.
| A SOMEWHAT famous eiectment suit for a
piece of ground seven inches wide and thirty
1 feet long, situated in the village of Mlersburg
| Berks county, Pennsylvania, has Just been re.
vived. the plaintiff is Jacob Meyer and the de.
! tendant g. NJ. f. Rick. The land is worth per-
! haps S., but several hundred have already been
| spent in litigation. There has been a trial be-
! fore arbitrators one in the courts of the county
! and the case has been once to the supreme
| court.
| THE ITALIAN wine industry is in a most de-
pressed state, owing to the quarrel with France.
! Having laid themselves out to suit the French
demand. and adapted their wines for mixing I'D
with other Sorts, the Italians find it difficult to
! secure markets. One great fault of the
| wines is that they do not keep sound, and it is
| now proposed that they should be distilled into
| cognac or wine alcohol, which is much superior
| to the alcohol made from potatoes, beet root or
| molasses.
| LAST July well-dressed stranger entered the
| First National bank in Chattanooga, and pur-
chased one draft for "a and two of So each, pay
| ing for the same. The bank is now notified
| that the "a draft has turned up in New York a
| $4,000 draft. 1t seems that the swindler went
| to Philadelphia and purchased a soda fountain
| for 81 100, paying for the same with the raised
draft, and receiving $4,000 in exchange. The
| draft was thrown out by the New York CORE
| spOndent of the Chattanooga bank as q forgery
| The work was so well done that it can hardly be
| detected by an expert
| A MICHIGAN EXCHANGE gives this advice to its
| readers: IF a gray-haired woman of 60 in
| moderately respectable attire is put off the cars
in your town because she can t pay her fare any
| farther if she Immediately receives telegram
| urging her to come home the next train
| because her husband is dying, and if she tear
| fully and desperately, in a plenty loud voice
| announces that she is going to walk home 100
| miles, you let her walk. She and her confeder-
| ate, who sends the telegram have worked the
| dying husband racket in half dozen Michigan
| towns at a net profit, it is a figured, of SIS
| day.
| IT Is PROPOSED to light the whole of the car
| riages in the express trains running between
| Liverpool and Manchester. on the Cheshire
Lines railway, with electricity, and an experi
mental train run successfully last week
| The system adopted is Radcliffe's. The dynamo
! is placed in the guards van, and is driven by
| friction gearing from the axles; an automatic
| arrangement is fixed to enable the dynamo to
\ run always one way, but it is necessary for the
| engine to be travelling at the rate of twenty
eight miles an hour before any current is
generated. Accumulators of eight hours
capacity serve to illuminate the trains during
| stoppages
''IT may not be generally known" says the
| Northwest Magazine, that when exposed to
| severe cold a feeling of warmth is readily
created by repeatedly filling the lungs to their
| utmost extent in the following manner: Throw
| the shoulders well back and hold the head well
| up Initiate the lungs slowly, the air entering
| through the nose. When the lungs are com
petely filed, hold the breath for ten seconds or
| longer, and then expire it quickly through the
mouth. After repeating the exercise while one
is chilly, q feeling of warmth will be felt over
| the entire body, even in the feet and hands 1t
| is worth while practicing this exercise many
times each day, and especially when in the open
air. If the habit ever becomes universal, then
consumption and many other diseases will
rarely ever be heard of. Not only while prac-
be loose over the chest, but beginners will do
we'll TO remember, in having their clothes fitted.
to allow for the chests permanent expansion OF
one, two aud even three inches which will
follow"
ACCORDING to the Colonies and India q dis
covery was recently made on a Fiji plantation,
which will probably prove valuable in all tropi-
cal countries where the cultivation of bananas
is regarded as a settled industry. The banana
disease had for some time been causing much
havoc on a plantation on Vanua Lew and it
appears that the discovery of an antidote was
due to an accidental occurrence. On a fiat near
the seashore there was q patch of bananas
much diseased, and some time ago the sea
swept over it. and remained there for about an
hour. All the plants were killed as for as the
standing stems were concerned, but vigorous
young shoots came up freely from the roots,
and were not only quite free from disease but
soon began to bear much larger lunches of
fruit than the older plants ever did Upon not
ing this effect the planters determined to try
the exper ment upon number of badly dis
eased plants which the ga had not reached.
They cut down the diseased plants, and, having
stirred the ground about them, poured from
one to four buckets of sea water over each
The result was that, while the parent stems
withered, vigoFqils young shoots came freely
away without siga gf disease.
OF exquisite favor, pure and wholesome,
Angostura Bitters is a standard table deli
cacy. Sole manufacturers, DIR. ]. G. B.
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