The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


| Creek, Mich. claim that tho shores are grad
ia ly coming together. ami that in few years
/ the lake viii b. dry land No one knows Of any
I inlet TO it. and there Is a constant drainage Of
1 several hundred thousand gallons daily.
! The FEAT Of lowering large house intact
/ from an undesirable location on a hill 50 feet
/ high, 10 the street. was accomplished in San
} Francisco lately. the cost being 500. The
: building before removal. brought on account of
Its poor location, only $50 at an auction sale.
] ERNEST CosDwIcK. aged years was killed
| the other afternoon at Wichita, Kan, by be-
! coming entang ed in an electric wire which had
/ Deem loosened from the gear Of the suburban
/ electric railway. The BOYS hands and stomach
! were burned to crisp where the wire had come
/ IN contact with them.
AT TIE CONCLUSION Of a church service in
I Cameron, No. on Sunday night member of
/ the congregation arose and announced that he
| was agent for very fine brand OF hair oil He
then delivered quite a discourse on its cool
! qualities and after he had finished the congre-
/ satlon was dismissed with the OenedictiOn-
IL reports be true Emma Abbott has had made
the costlest dress known to the modern dress
maker. 1t cost $1,000. This is more than three
| times as much as sarah Beruhardu's best gown,
/ winch cost 81 200 and nearly seven times as
!nucn as Nine. Doche paid. $500, for all the cos
| tunes she used IL creating The Dame aux Ca
melaS."
The London Times, a herd of 100 wild elephants
has been captured in Mysore The same CORE
sponde u states that there were 5000 deaths by
snake bites in the northwest provinces last
year In Madras 'O,09j cattle we're kille by
WIZ animals, and the loss of human life by
Snakes and wild animals was 1,l42.
PARIS JOURNALS announce the promotion of
Mr., Henry Vignaud, Secretary of the United
states Legation 10 France, to the rank of
hhlght Com membership of the Legion of Honor.
Is There not law upon our statutes which rem
ueVs IL msdemeanor for any one in the diplo-
mallc service of the United States to accept
any order, distraction or any other kind of gilt
from foreign governments?
ALL the great transcontinental railways have
secured space at the Detroit exposition and
| viii exhibit tAe products of the regions through
| which their lines pass. with view of attract
| ing lmmlgrat on. The Northern Pacific wi
| eXllolt tne mineral, vegetable and animal prod
! ucts OF the sta es and territories from Lake
| Superior to the Pacific ocean. Another leading
| feature of the expo ,ition will be an exhibition
| OF fruits and flowers.
THOMAS MoNAHAN, an Irish millionaire, who
lived in Melbourne for half a century, died re-
Gently. He was one of the 800 poor Irish mmi-
y ants VINO sal ed for Austria ia in 1899. and the
snip was IN such a terrible sanitary condition
thaU ninety OF them died on the VOYAGE Mona
nan Shrewdly invested his little earnings in land
around Ne bourne, with the result that blocks
|
! now worth t25J, 900 each. His aggregated
wealth Is estimated at 81 00Q,000
The famous Schiller archives, which were
| long Kept at Castle Greifensten, were presented
| recently to the Grand Duchess Sophie of Sach-
| sen Wemar by the nephew of Schiller the Fret
| Ger- LudWlg or Gleichen- Russwurm. The
dIand duchess immediately paced them under
| the management of the guardians Of the Goethe
| archives in Weimar. Hereafter these two col
| lecuons of nementoS aud manuscripts of the
Two greatest German poets will be exhibited
! together.
MISS BoLE, the pretty girl blacksmith who is
| said to be making quite pile OF money in
Frisco, has already rival in Alice Wilder. a
Tall ana not unattractive brunette who makes
credltaDle horseShoes IN a little shop un der an
elm tree in the suburbs of Br ,oklyn. Miss
Wilder is 20 years old. and has dark oriental
looking eyes, and short. curly dark hair Her
form Is slender bur well knit and she has been
accustomed to help her father in the smithy
ever since she was child.
PARTISAN who had grievances against his
wife took advantage Of the new law and obtained
divorce Then be thought he might at the
same time suppress the pension legally agreed
TO IN favor OF his mother-in-aw at his Diarriape
pat that lady resisted, aud the question went to
the courts. There it was proved that NJ Ma
quet law was detective, for it as decided that
although the divorced man had no longer a wife
he had not been divorced from his mother-in-
law, and must continue to pay her pension.
PAT" SHEEDY, the noted sport, recently broke
faro bank at Saratoga. He began to PLAY
early in the evening, and made more losses than
gains at first. Finally he became interested
abandoned his careless manner, threw aWay his
cigar ana went to work in earnest He never
smokes when he is playing to win In very
snort time he began TO beat the bank AT mil
1lgnC ne was a big winner, and at 2 O'Clock the
dealer turned down the box Sneedy had won
5000. Sh5edy recently broke four banks in
Louisville, KY.
SEVEN YEARS AGO Bridget Miller of Saratoga
obtained divorce from her husband. She paid
Saratoga lawyer $75 for his services in CON
neGtlon with the case One day last week she
GaIed upon the lawyer at his office with the
ulV9rce pap5rs, requesting him TO take them
PACK and refund the money which they cost
her: she even offered to return them at
nan ma price, as sne had no further us9 for them
When asked for her + ason she said her hus-
oand, from whom she had been divorced. was
DEAD The lawyer refused to buy them.
LOOKING BACKWARD. Year 509-Extract from
Science.-Prof. Huxley Darwin, who for some
time has been investigating a singular twist 70
the wrist bones of American men and women Of
The year 1852, has made an interesting discovery
from some winnings of that year he has learned
that constant rain storms prevailed in tha
summer, and that people were in the habt Of
carrying over their heads remarkable strnct
ure, known as an umbrella" From this hehit
long continued, he suspects the wrist homes
became deformed, as we now find them
A MERIDEN CONN AUTHORITY declares that
street musicians are serious thing to a mann
featuring company in that town. A gypsy girl
who played tambouriue recently passed THAR
esta llshment, and it is estimatei that She
cost the company about $500. very employe
IN the factory tew to widow, and work wa
sspended for fully Is minutes all over the hia
Shop. Every circus parade costs every one Of
the large manufacturing concerns hundreds of
dollars. 1t costs them fir IN SIS to ESQ everv
Time minstrel brass band marches by"
OREGON has woman mail carrier. Her name
is Miss Mimic Westman, and she carries TTncla
Sans mail from the ho4d of navigation on
Sinslaw river over the coast range mountains
Following up the river to Hale's postoffice sta
ton, within 1ifeeen miles of Eugene CITY Her
route is twenty miles long and is situated rio +
IN the heart OF the mountains where ali The
dangers and adventures incident to such an oc
cupatlon abound. She carries the mail right
and LETT md fears not ing. She rides horsehack
and carries trusty revolver.
On July p the Last Mans Club," comnosed
of survivors of Company of the First Ree
ment of Minnesota, celebrated the 2Sth.anniver
sary of the battle of Bull Run. When the rI11b
was organized there were twenty-five members
ana now there are twenty-one. Tut TWENTY-FIVE
plates are lad at each banquet, and will CON
tnue TO be until the last man is seated alone ot
the table, who Will partake Of b title of wine
which was presented to tie club at its fornna.
ton. This is placed on the table at eacS han