The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


TO observe infinitely every act and motion of
the patients aud attendants in the wards of the
first and second floors.
A CIScISSATI NAN went fishing, first promis-
ing his friends supply of his catch. He fished
all day, but didn't get bite. SURPRISED at this
ne examined his tackle and found that there
were no hooks on his line. When he returned
he bought several dollars worth of hsh and sent
them around to his friends. That night at the
cIuo ne began boastin2 about his success and
was iauehed at. The same men who received
the nsh had cut the hooks from his lines.
A CURIOSITY in the shape of milk pumpkin
can be seen on the farm of O. n Hamburger,
a few miles southwest of Anderson. Ind. The
vine upon which the pumpkin grew was partly
covered with loose dirt when in bloom. At the
points where the dirt covered the vine small
roofs grew out. The vine was lifted up and the
IoOIs carefully placed in a pan of milk, which
was rapidly absorbed. The pumpkins on the
VINE grew to enormous size, and one weighs
l25 pounds
IN the steeple of the Congregational church
at Bingham, Somerset county, Maine there
hangs an ancient bell that has been swinging in
various belfries 100 years or more On its outer
surface is stamped E'Revere Boston =" and il is
supposed to have been made by Paul Revere.
VINO, after the peace of 1888, established foun-
'ry IN Boston, where he cast the first cannon
ana bells manufactured in Massachusetts, The
old Dell has good tone, and seems likely to
I1SU another century.
A SINGULAR FEATURE of the past fortnight,
following the recent heavy storms in rural
southeastern New England has been an cpl
ueIhlc OF men hawks, which has extended along
the coast from Cape Cod to Long Island The
farmers In many towns where a bounty is paid
LOT naWkS heads, are making neat sums at
shooting them. One town last Wednesday
pad out $40 25 to two young men, the same
oelng the 25-cent bounty on 1877 hawks which
they shot within three days.
A LARGE QUANTITY of ivory from the upper
Congo is nov being received by every steamer
from Banana. This Jason is the first in which
any considerable quantity of ivory from the
upper Congo has reached Europe by way of the
west coast, as most of it has heretofore been
taken to Zanzibar by Arab dealers on the backs
OF slaves. The present movement of ivory down
tne congo Is the result of the influx on the
upper river of white traders, who have esuab-
ilsned themselves in unexpected large numbers.
No MAN has paid larger tribute to the dead
peat element on account of his presidential as
plrations than General Russell Alexander Alger
Ii one-haIf the stories reported from Michigan
gre true. Alger must have thrown away over
S.O,Ooo last year on worthless tramps. In this
connection it is said that an alleged newspaper
man wrote couple of verses about Alger and
sent proof of them to him with the statement
" have drawn on you for $500" The pnern was
tne worst kind of doggerel, but it is said that
AIger paid the draft.
BEANS ISLAND. an uninhabited piece of land
lying in Frenchman's Bay, off the coast of
Maine, would be paradise for cats 1t is in
tested with rats, and how they reached there
no one can tell 1t is the general suppoSition
tnaC some years ago a coaSting schooner must
nave been wrecked in the bay. and that it had
rats among the other valuable portions of its
cargo. The rodents are there by thousands
anu they fairly swarm over the island ANY.
one VINO is not fond OF them does well in giving
the place a wide berth, for they know no fear
| Interesting Wis OF
the island is low and fiat, and is 50 perforated
with their holes that it reese nbles a vast sieve
how they live is a mystery. No one knows of
any fresh water upon the island, so the rats
must have been the sole discoveries of some
hidden spring.
In 1884 Sergt Malloy, who acted as police
sergeant at the soldiers home at Togus, Me-,
was shot while in the discharge of his duties
He owned a large Newfoundland dog, which
was an inseparable companion. and was with
nm at the time of the shooting. The dog would
nave torn the muir lerer in pieces but for the in
reference of other inmates, and ever since the
animal has displayed peculiar symptoms at the
time OF funerals. Whenever a burial is to take
place at the home and the band begins to play
the dead march, the dog will hide among the
bushes until the first volley of musketry is fired
over the grave, when he will rush upon the
hrlng squad with every symptom of madness,
ana III Is with the utmost difficulty that he can
be kept off. No matter what the weather. the
BIZ Newfoundland attends every funeral at the
nome, and he has not missed one since the
burial OF his murdered master ia 1894.
A PATHETIC STORY is told of Bottesini con-
corning his last concert at Parma 1t was a
rainy evening, and the managers had forgotten
to send carriage for the veteran, who set out
on loot, and hlI gone some distance before
passing friend perceived him and made him
enter bis carriage. Ar. ived at the concert
room, Bottesini tuned his instrument and BEGAN
to rub Lis bow wi b rosin. The rosln crumbled
hands tn hi9 fri ndo
haf-Sad smile, he said: See. 1t is so that Bot
teSlni, too will break up" Then he grasped his
loved instrument and drew the bow across the
strings, but instantly stopped with wondering
look, for he felt something strange in the tone
his touch was answered less readily and Ger.
tainly than of old. Once more he tried and
once more Stopped-thiS time with a smile saw
ing only, 1t answers no more" His audience
perceived nothing unusual in the performan e
which they applauded as warmly as ever hur
Botteslni seemed to feel the shadow of death
On the following day he was stricken with i'll
ness, and soon after the wonderful hand was
sted forever.
PRoToGENEs. the Greek painter. was an i'm
patient mau. In painting picture of a tired.
painting dog, he met with satisfactory success
except that he failed in every ATTEMPT to inni
tate the foam that should have been seen on the
dogs mouth. He was so much provoked over
1t that he seized the sponge with which he
cleansed his brushes and threw it against the
picture with the intention of spelling II IT
happened to strike on the dogs mouth and pro-
duced, TO the establishment and delight of the
painter, the very effect that lie had labored so
perslstently to initiate Paul Veronese like
many other painters, was given to eccentric
moods and odd habits. On one occasion he ac
cepted the hospitality of a family at their
beautiful country villa. He assumed great
| liberties during his VISIT claiming absolute DO
session OF his room, allowing not even a servant
to enter He would not suffer the maid t
make his bed, and the swespiags of the room
were left every morning outside of the door for
her to remove He slipped away without bid
ding the family good-by. On entering the
room the servant found the sheets of the bed
missing, anu at once reported that the painter
must have stolen them. After careful search a
roll was found in a corner, which proved to be
a magnificent picture of Alexander in the
Tent of Darius 1t was painted on the missing
sheets OF the bed, and the artist had chosen
TINS curious way Of recompensing his hosts for
their generous hospitality.
ONE of the rising men of Montana is ex-Iov.
Samuel T. Hauser. says the New York Press.
He is a democrat, and viii be United States
senator if the legislature is democratic. He is
probably the richest man in the new state. a
banker and railroad promoter. He was an
pointed governor of the old territory by Mr.
Cleveland. When Andrew jackson Sparks en-
tered upon his policy of expressing homestead
ers Gov. Hauser rebelled and denounced the
governments land policy as infamous He was
notified from Washington that he ought not to
oppose his superiors in Office in their policies
and promptly replied that if officeholding de,
stroyed his right to his opinions he would i'm